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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnITp1rEO4d
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNMZVcLrbqR
"Am I still—"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNy42M0VLG2
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF9bAfqWAzC
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCyPEjIXXE4
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4cZw3kM3G
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡigxM7J25T5
"No. It probably will be tonight."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4chwUpDDil
"Key word: probably." I sigh.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57EzJKOkbu
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkKHiCoOkbn
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl2DPRK49AY
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqtSrjuj1Cj
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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,498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Wjh2ddLG6
"Where's your house at?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk6nqOZggaW
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJUgFW2Owam
"That's easy."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkAyPKPxy1
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdmfq4OucL9
"Still easy." He grins.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOLnGzNl0qj
"You weirdo."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcLsEyIUm39
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRCLt1Dals
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOfYlrMUUSR
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7PBZOGH6p
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6wghPKSuB
"Oh, please. Don't."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQ7f4usnBL
I sigh.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJNvfUN24O
"What school do you go to?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmeFh906qnG
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0jJBNkGE1y
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OLdgYDLNy
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOtQmkKmtkh
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ064Pg9hYgx
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp3xvNtMQQf
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGAGwhJDeR
"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?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrUw9jrlm8
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIRVO5QLOO6
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGn6kSJrXU
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. 498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkgrjTvgIDc
"What was that for?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTeVvhkGIND
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8fqMxFWgJ
"Maybe."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhczX3suDl
"Ah, copycat."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWHl22K3M2R
"Oh, shut up."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1FAUs6jVd
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ORjeAQo6q
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxn6U2wJcnJ
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf3rpu9BaiD
"Mine. You're mine."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPU2IADUg0k
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0feXGfqCH5
"Not anymore. You're mine now."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlYdbNGUqG
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLKyBFx5e5d
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1JThNjkuKy
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTaQ0NsEV1
"Boo!"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwmOfCWD4t6
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGtEb0LrclB
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5b25qDSjH4
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskpa83rdR1
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXX9K3QE1A
"Yes and yes."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5t6qiaN87
"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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6bzCumhKAk
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE48OifGxyY
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CaJmtnufS
"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?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqUCUYxF38
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBQ8VajH72
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ZdL8nWbYI
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmVi6mK1dgO
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmrE66vQZn8
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaKntEykyxO
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhxAMvoL9S5
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcoZWFqacFp
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9siIRzf77
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡizSB6qGKCx
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEd5MloZOly
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSNDtndVI6K
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4e5pwTUFrm
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7fBL5xTmPI
"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?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSaGaZxRv4K
"I don't know."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKuly5d5PmN
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMeNtbRe0Qk
"Why?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3CDW83SbC7
"Just come on."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkyvRbuzr5
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLN2tkdLNv9
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGU9scriC4z
"What's this?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRZPhq4XEz
"It's a pregnancy test."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRYWrIvFlRH
"How do you use it?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPcU0g5xjCe
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfjXXJsCfgO
"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."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiuok3ZYP3
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.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZKWNu2FYX
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPiCxobgMM
"No!"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6TfiMuc1x
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?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvfoG3mfq3
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRs7jom0wx
"That's true. Him most of all."498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGSQZo9J5xv
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.498Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXp7n3Uq5qe
