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.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2MD3PpsaT
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjinIyaQUqF
"Am I still—"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVit2coMlBp
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXfnud6EeF
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7auG4csBPt
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJuJY1WW0h
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZYuSVhEcc
"No. It probably will be tonight."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn5I0L1WY8S
"Key word: probably." I sigh.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKWXV2I78B
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36S3zkCuvk
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeVZotnfEfH
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3k8duoxYN
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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,299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOA2wbqnadd
"Where's your house at?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIXMHVp5Bf
"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."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSXFe3I8gz
"That's easy."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUltU7G5Sj
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmLLbWe8as
"Still easy." He grins.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn9oRI75ezi
"You weirdo."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbipNvxdMmE
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pGM2LvL8T
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBetGWhx3O7
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjiA49YdNC
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3qTcCIgUyS
"Oh, please. Don't."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQyq58HZ51
I sigh.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfbDWKEV1s4
"What school do you go to?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuCP0prIT04
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaiHDMBGKkA
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2AM8ruxRP
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlNLNv3P0X
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB0fZVkyIgk
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6usrrmfS9f
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHpzdAYQAL
"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?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88oLCSG2dU
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXiWzfd9JLe
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ad8g1cXjr
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. 299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdG6pFtCOH
"What was that for?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0WorSSve75
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZWFKaaZWLq
"Maybe."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKbTxOrchex
"Ah, copycat."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs6lK1hqBTE
"Oh, shut up."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnRMFGOtjG
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMe8Si2uW3m
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyxCrPn0ae
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQGm4ejVnJ
"Mine. You're mine."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2GhiQ63H3e
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYR87CQkiSB
"Not anymore. You're mine now."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6nLkz2QHj
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcRqFi01jz4
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.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNorvVzaoud
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCuEDhGbt84
"Boo!"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIBhdCMiC0B
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgU1O6GVNk
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡctuUW4qDgt
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCK9e7IsCBj
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PDUYZPQUG
"Yes and yes."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoD1mTFQit
"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.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsweBSA8mW
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NMKdOwdgt
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aXEwU5nzQ
"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?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0BGOJuU49Z
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqERq5dvOwC
"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."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ59QcxjeB7R
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPLuH5GBine
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFgp3GSHfgh
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdUoMbVH2rx
"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."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVvXYsfuqlI
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKcEjM8mA5
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0K9AqZmv2c
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmFvFMTd1JE
"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."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjJnK8JMcjo
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXnWdCsmuW
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JP99CiqFr
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV3alqbjinh
"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?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0aeTOyCjFr
"I don't know."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhYb7S56BPj
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdofDjbnFp
"Why?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUl7DBldVbS
"Just come on."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbBgGU0B4Yg
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.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7Yuacesc0
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.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOSJRn8Iq9u
"What's this?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAogOuEaUz
"It's a pregnancy test."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQLZrJgchl
"How do you use it?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJYvSO4CrDH
"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."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLoiByZj1v
"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."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjxHStRM9z
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.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAR2vQvdgrU
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxqJYDS164
"No!"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoqmCsPj7ea
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?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQO8Gvv9ta3
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqIee4AT5pR
"That's true. Him most of all."299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkwba6bNdB
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.299Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHAcUOPEbR
