The next day, I find myself waking up in the bedroom I fell asleep in. I feel someone rubbing my back. I look up and come face to face with Count Dracula. Then, I remember the night before. I moan.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAm9hdSDP4
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU5TvWct2tF
"Am I still—"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7WABl0XMDe
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb81A7hvNiI
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW90EH1wTZW
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcihmzhXZNp
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXhZfl8PzfA
"No. It probably will be tonight."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDCYDBZouVq
"Key word: probably." I sigh.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlF7e4vsbkl
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxpjFcGS25
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfovc0jEOBM
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNuED3D0uhi
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That night, at 7:17, after dinner, he takes me back to town. Once right outside the café, he asks me,381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdvf6MjI7Cp
"Where's your house at?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqQ06ex7q5j
"Go down this street, take a right, down that street, take the second left, and my house should be the last one on the left."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CjySWFh8e
"That's easy."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRkI82iwRZ
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb3pW3em7Bi
"Still easy." He grins.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgSN3r98S2V
"You weirdo."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJG1fkbaNb
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbz3kz3Qut7
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQT4yex6zK7
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgP8jdF8u7i
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡesEOpTOLsD
"Oh, please. Don't."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxGHfhapzW2
I sigh.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkczIMRBL1K
"What school do you go to?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6GfJKyBc0M
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEhOQzy4Cr0
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSj7PDmIUnS
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU34VSLbOEX
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwH5DmBrMiW
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTurJzHdpG2
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSq7t4OgLz
"I doubt it. She's probably at a party" I look at the empty driveway. "Her car's not in the driveway, so what do you think?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqFGFaX3E3
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tg5trFSza
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVaPCixiqoK
He leans in and pulls me into a kiss. He lets go and I kiss him back. I unbuckle my seatbelt and climb over the console. I sit in his lap with my back facing the steering wheel. 381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEmaqM9XS6
"What was that for?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0HTWVXiFh
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBKeMIGKdR
"Maybe."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxonkL4vOu
"Ah, copycat."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2JwGNHivYR
"Oh, shut up."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoajquvqHht
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzCu3xormrV
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudmkNsayNz
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKsw7BJSdN
"Mine. You're mine."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZJ2f1nu5X
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7CCewZartg
"Not anymore. You're mine now."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF7FpQe4vpG
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnCeUz0igN8
I moan and pull him closer. I feel him slowly open his mouth and I feel the indent of his sharp teeth on my sensitive skin. I pull him closer and he sinks his fangs into my neck. I cry out and feel him draining me. I go unconscious.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKBD8IWmMZr
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75VzWjbLLf
"Boo!"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo8Luk0hhsq
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2AyHfxCsQ
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKQ1QVOSLW
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEE1NmQKPZu
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjG3QFJsLne
"Yes and yes."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttShJNNdEr
"Oh, shoot!" I jump up and moan, rubbing my neck, remembering last night. The whole weekend really. I quickly get ready and head out the door with Charlotte, grabbing my things on the way.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2OYXHvHyKr
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAG0jdT6yF
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDABTTUDooe
"I went out on a date Friday night. He asked me to the Valentine's dance and I said yes. Then, on Saturday, we went to the dance. On Sunday, he went to, um, Bistritz and I went to the mall to shop, and … Yeah." She sighs. "What did you do over the weekend?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjwyfxYjJcS
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxWtnQcaDxU
"Then how come you weren't at your house when I went to see if you were going to the Valentine's dance and again to see if you wanted to go to the mall with me, but you weren't there."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCLV3hwfq1
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7OiyGS5RUu
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5PIH2BeWb
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aNOBwYTxh
"Oh. Fine. At the funeral home, we examined the body of Count Dracula that didn't seem to be decaying at all. My mom and the funeral director left to get some information or whatever and I stayed at the funeral home to watch the body. He came back to life and drank my blood. Then, I went unconscious. I woke up later and I was in Castle Dracula. Dracula picked me up and took me up the stairs. I fell asleep and he made me stay on Sunday, too. Then he brought me home Sunday night and I don't know anything else."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB57WoriGgr
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0zJXoeiCkT
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4zyJPbM63L
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcXufChmcrN
"Oh, alright." I pull my legs up close and rest my chin on my knees. I sigh. "Alright. Here goes. Saturday night, I had romance with Count Dracula. It went too far and we, um … I don't want to say it."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDLHEsSmyb9
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvrzMGGdxr
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡapzdmzqGIt
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1lWFbaaT1s
"I s-swear. I c-c-couldn't stop h-him. He was t-too strong. He's just so s-s-seductive. It's hard to r-resist him." I sniffle. "And he wants me as his b-bride."
"What? Your bride? Why?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOOiKuiL6a
"I don't know."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaK4w7WjmjM
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDo727M54aJ
"Why?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdFOu6reaBx
"Just come on."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyskp26Jks9
She stands up, puts on her backpack, and throws away her trash on the way back to the school. I get up and follow her, doing the same thing.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRxuBkFOZV
We get to the bathroom and we squeeze into the biggest stall. I set my backpack on the floor and sit down on the toilet. She sets her bag down beside mine and locks the stall door. She digs around in her bag and pulls something out. She hands it to me.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJwhw3iMtSO
"What's this?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB31cqLuoX7
"It's a pregnancy test."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh1IcXbz2gx
"How do you use it?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhLQ3KLD5v
"You urinate in something and put it in. You take it out and wait a little. Then you check it." She hands me a cup.
"Oh, gosh." I sigh and take the cup. "Alright. You're so lucky I have to use the bathroom anyway."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUThlk75vzn
"Okay. I'll stand against the door, so someone won't see the both of us and think we're doing something we shouldn't. We have about fifteen minutes till the bell rings for the end of lunch. So we should be fine."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8BfOG0qUC
I do everything she says and cover my eyes as I pull it out of the cup. I sit and wait a few minutes. I lift it up and peek at it. I shriek and cover my mouth, dropping it on the floor.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVuntA7zCw
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSr2o8lrRlD
"No!"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVHrUBnRjY
She picks up the stick thing and looks at it. She gasps. She slides down the wall and looks up at me. "Oh God. What are you going to tell your mom?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJlkJOSTfEM
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsJsVwsSwca
"That's true. Him most of all."381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6wlSozYXW
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.381Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7UZC1DSRH
