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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdT0m19qZj
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUdbBtnDhv
"Am I still—"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeHwhMpAQo6
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnTOXq0StAQ
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7tKTFnWYkp
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7HmzijiFHg
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsp1bVsB0l
"No. It probably will be tonight."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89pMRIrHOb
"Key word: probably." I sigh.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzhN1jQhuii
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7SNmRkcAi
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMdusNZRQJY
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxIUSiLG4u
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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,331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1vC8CYiv0W
"Where's your house at?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3iOGMUh36
"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."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZV0OVzN4bp
"That's easy."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLlrGtoZJae
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWclZywXOx
"Still easy." He grins.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZwAmjV2K1
"You weirdo."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKId9b92sP
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi56xM6pTbx
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEXhlXddqG
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9eHfxaARvw
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv6CV4kNt5s
"Oh, please. Don't."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmy9ySHeiD
I sigh.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkAoV4CD8N
"What school do you go to?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMhuyPgkQNK
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD4ZDUVzBYf
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjK7WJezF9y
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCpo2s7nhuL
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcbz9EVzREc
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMkDOeY4bHU
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuObJJ0KC3C
"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?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ015l84QfYO
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOFPJ3Tstt
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurTEnHFCHg
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. 331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkz4en2ss1g
"What was that for?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXqYDYGlNn1
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJrK22gmyUU
"Maybe."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloE2yeGTgx
"Ah, copycat."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNYY64RutqP
"Oh, shut up."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLO1dPVvhe
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqK6hyxTTq9
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0eD8YyzHvH
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMk3l2AqWhk
"Mine. You're mine."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQRNiYx7NhV
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBUR2YmJRe
"Not anymore. You're mine now."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVzGlUk3pg
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2zFPZitBuE
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIB9vqnahzY
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzFvlXwTOb
"Boo!"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWuzZkECt8a
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFnZYCRy6Sl
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcjXUyMPoGY
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL23Yo4KSLI
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ytO2TS50Q
"Yes and yes."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGp97Lf7GbK
"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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo46dYtKvZS
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCd9WuEhe3u
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkvIbIHCsf
"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?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZ47PwS9JZ
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeohQXLKiLk
"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."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUj3ZQXGOE
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmI6ZkogJH
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdtwtubK7On
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWdKs9qpq2
"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."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNggf3IPPzi
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBLFIReZZ8e
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatQTdnXh19
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnV9DrLvx0
"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."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6XzUqlAUc
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHG7pZg3Ejd
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEtP1SsQCT
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc2leGjmKyR
"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?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bmF8BftRO
"I don't know."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRV6RrWGgjh
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhOqz87dUy4
"Why?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡflkVlYTWrd
"Just come on."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf1PQV4k8FS
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKCy7VqJ2u
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTeJ1RUrRv
"What's this?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiFXJ40Hfo
"It's a pregnancy test."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5si8ckqFrB
"How do you use it?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8wjhoIi9at
"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."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9GXwsZsKGp
"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."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOypR490GSH
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.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4xDETwMd6
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMWeSztnF0A
"No!"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQCFJryK9s
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?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7JONaaoEH0
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi89vGrimde
"That's true. Him most of all."331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2tbX2uVuC
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.331Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDu2JX5s6C
