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.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWyxEBZIfc
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7A9871nOOP
"Am I still—"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXNs3J946Z
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiv4ORckR5
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXYOfctgry
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8I0YYyxs2
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSknW0EDBs7
"No. It probably will be tonight."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg4GxhDzJE7
"Key word: probably." I sigh.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1iWyF9NTa
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNZg2kWZlg
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQywvJatGX
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡipGVKg6Wob
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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,412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1BbbP5QBV
"Where's your house at?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Zx4HKZlhM
"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."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjYw3P9SXk
"That's easy."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mlMXh8wVa
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKA68fvs4OE
"Still easy." He grins.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lJRQy75VO
"You weirdo."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgYCFV4fRL
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagBwnkJsnB
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5VX9kLRHCg
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyouJRK5Pgb
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDaDxqjn9sh
"Oh, please. Don't."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrctfb009Kn
I sigh.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwv66SBvquD
"What school do you go to?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGedCnwzOS
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCqrWJ3afIj
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ajs4pmK4x
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVPSfxDvlO
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaeQQAraNLE
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUL1pqfDXJ
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtiOn8IoVn
"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?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq8Nwa0q4Po
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4eS7aK5xO1
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OBXnvw9bY
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. 412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMucMcK9Whd
"What was that for?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzw4wPP4rf
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1tYoSEakb0
"Maybe."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUUOzEXcg9
"Ah, copycat."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SHSL3HtG9
"Oh, shut up."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡueAgOH4Ef4
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpMjzEAeQff
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5m8EmmoDVn
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCnZMKBqx9
"Mine. You're mine."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCzS7BJen9
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyq6tvHbFb0
"Not anymore. You're mine now."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHTbSb4mcYI
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCLoVdblXt
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.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcpKpCQ897h
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnvKLqusC4
"Boo!"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNxqjSLRmmO
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa387tiltAh
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0iyGJ9JU4
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9KrJYxGg8
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn0Tlu47NP5
"Yes and yes."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGw9TgozspY
"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.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfz9iTu5SC
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡioUCRdIH0s
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrqaZJbjN5i
"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?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzBzXkibuAA
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR5NxMOf9zv
"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."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWv2x61mEb
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCmOQthYse
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBTW0rZ4gt
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEjUS6YeeM
"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."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7402YNSTfj
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5o7XZOg8j3
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepnD74pOkL
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz1fdvQ1Kt3
"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."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BdfeV38e3
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuoh1SJ0eoE
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbLEGEwkCA
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRhEIfTaZSN
"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?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3wPamjXdPx
"I don't know."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHMY36VljB
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nkqao5gO0
"Why?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8TyGxH075Y
"Just come on."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxXD1NXtBw
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.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5zIM3WLUa
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.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkh5NmRjgHa
"What's this?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs85rbcXvkV
"It's a pregnancy test."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpVhfF5euD
"How do you use it?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7BXc3SVpGx
"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."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOKq7QCyPwW
"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."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7E6L73p7hG
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.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqJRVwJJfoe
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9jSf6pDNq8
"No!"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvhOzSmtaxM
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?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNymse1Q6Sx
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVYiLmIrThS
"That's true. Him most of all."412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwE9IXtIlN
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.412Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw0TXGpTH4I
