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.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKlzn8rK3s
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9WRnb1RJ3g
"Am I still—"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkNiXEmnSBu
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBLfT5u1Lb
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfo6FnZQ8b
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi9q3vddzhz
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESwzHo5bJs
"No. It probably will be tonight."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWJYl7paMJ
"Key word: probably." I sigh.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ9AgCptMUr
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ycXtVAT2O
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWVhaJrkUVc
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsect2FJQZb
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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,379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoLV6QRF0a
"Where's your house at?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3rIH4OLin
"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."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzuhHlHRsI
"That's easy."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxzUpWAprRo
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRkxGPPTWrD
"Still easy." He grins.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMSzjuZY3A9
"You weirdo."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAJHZGSNBm
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3l7CUPtRxM
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUM7axc0Nsf
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQhlTSOPYb
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJ4FPoJBi6
"Oh, please. Don't."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWfuvPQ9gB
I sigh.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBpOJwQwtWQ
"What school do you go to?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnic1CIJUdd
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ilKR7M42T
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRxy8j7p6Y
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6aD1ntmfmS
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwcW673xR7A
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3SMiRNeQXK
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrMhYd6h1J
"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?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36yI8JEK3B
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5JxjBqOXZg
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmBjIozm6WD
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. 379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9UNBtRclaB
"What was that for?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPYnkultc7
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgBsULKqZV
"Maybe."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRVuAHJXVCM
"Ah, copycat."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0GfdMXGSXD
"Oh, shut up."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMS3zoXP71S
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlhcUYyRcir
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrvtDL7rqB
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUDaOobl6M
"Mine. You're mine."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbgpVUxE3C
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToh9IKOO3O
"Not anymore. You're mine now."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwszLJxTgUa
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSb1Ep3nDiO
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.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7k30KhfpPb
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLUOan7Qde
"Boo!"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMwBzZnnMJE
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡegYG5ckgda
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFmno67H0P
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTR9kvuRnX8
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPvt8Kro2s
"Yes and yes."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhM9OzaedrX
"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.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBW7sU9rblv
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn2mdtcePWz
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnsuakWFaWT
"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?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrkHGt20JX
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbo6G87QKH1
"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."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SSgukrNsY
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbRFsdNqO0w
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9M2iG3lPa
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TnX6XvRaE
"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."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBEMPsy4ru
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27NKFfa3Ey
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJC2eCty5zr
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIaMnLEhcl
"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."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGJq2ehMVr
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNwBteQpth9
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG0WmqD5MBH
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Dbji9jBTU
"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?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtW7QjXYD8p
"I don't know."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0qruYRIEQ
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlIpav4kh1
"Why?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRr1fvXcNHz
"Just come on."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLgpaq8iMY
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.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwMSZHUq2y
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.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3zMIhRrWn
"What's this?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmXNmYJ7Eyf
"It's a pregnancy test."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpzPnFZn6uC
"How do you use it?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNo0VrWVETg
"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."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIz6FgAvJI
"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."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVhxoGzY1sS
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.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm3JB2Qf8Tb
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQziDYpmkWU
"No!"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh6BAn3dicx
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?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWMbKtwwDEq
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTfsRBYQfmj
"That's true. Him most of all."379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc3VIKxVdyo
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.379Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIJG7jQyor
