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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1jvYjMOJA2
"Ah, someone's awake, I see." He smiles.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQEs1eee6ys
"Am I still—"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7SUaEGrc1
"Yes, you are. I am too." He sighs. "I'm not worried about it."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSU6RX6LY4Y
I try getting up and fall back down. "I need—"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFHCmp1aXlC
"Oh, you'll be fine. I'll take you home when I'm ready."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3h9VkgjY8a
"When you're ready?" I groan. "That won't be until I'm a fricken undead."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIQe4AXazR9
"No. It probably will be tonight."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Rh8Yzbl4v
"Key word: probably." I sigh.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8hqGRAkwl
"If you don't shut up, I'll do what I did last night again."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjgqklg5vPw
I look at him horrified. "No. Uh-uh."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMq80UOdFYy
He chuckles. "Then shut up. Or I will."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFT9D4EfM3
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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,784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCFJ8BpuHm
"Where's your house at?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvNG4vAROWR
"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."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUpjp8sZ6e
"That's easy."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrXjwXYG8OH
"And I mean, last one, last one. Like, it's about two miles from the last one of the ones that are close together."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo3t6PQBe8E
"Still easy." He grins.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqdTEEYpmfu
"You weirdo."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ898HDKOQ7r
He laughs, obviously amused with himself.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJcxQKftRP1
"Do you realize that I don't find you even half as amusing as you think you are?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXDY1T76NfO
"Ah, come on. I'm not amusing to you? You don't think I'm jocular, perhaps?" He chuckles.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvshaxjOZH9
"No. You are not amusing to me and you are not jocular. End of discussion."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NgeaXajI6
"Oh, please. Don't."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoUwdCmgyBn
I sigh.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgyjIXXMNfr
"What school do you go to?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8JE3Ns01hO
I groan. "You're not going to shut up, are you?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqELVKhOlq3
He laughs. "No. Isn't that obvious to you?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9n74AsgIVp
I sigh. "I go to the Josef Haltrich High School. Happy?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg9xAzaJZXQ
"No. What grade are you in?" He smiles.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD872sCLTUV
"Right now, I've got to finish my Junior year. Then I'll be in my Senior year. Now are you—"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM1KOck9Y9H
"No. Definitely not." He pulls into the driveway. "Is your mom home?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡusXUHOjs5T
"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?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbzjgivYfo4
"She's not home. So …" He smiles.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTsYTUQTHhL
"So? I don't—what are you doing?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx14KDPWJxq
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. 784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtZYRTbumMi
"What was that for?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIK9rbcSArD
"I don't know." He smiles. "Does that matter?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEgoFz2AA73
"Maybe."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiCpmRaLRhx
"Ah, copycat."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQM8nB5sEu
"Oh, shut up."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvJk94d9Ke
He chuckles and his eyes glitter.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ668hMF90Rd
I lean in and kiss him. He pulls me closer and kisses my neck.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArPFJTKiDf
"My Lord, what am I doing? I can't help myself. You, a seventeen almost eighteen-year-old girl, is somehow irresistible." He moans.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVk3lRYQeD
"Mine. You're mine."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQYQh1YJCyt
"I don't belong to anyone but myself."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzeeYlvdIxY
"Not anymore. You're mine now."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq612l6O6I7
He shakes his head. "No." He kisses my neck again.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLWuUKy8n6O
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxSijT8IJQ
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The next morning, I wake up to someone leaning over me. 784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhlKEsWaOhI
"Boo!"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOwk37IPxJ
I jump up and fall out of bed. I groan. "Seriously?"
"Sí, señorita. Very necessary. We got school, idiot." She grins.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlTnyiAp8i
"Oh, it's you. I hate you, Charlotte."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5C2lyaKHZn
"You missed the Valentine's party at the high school on Saturday."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMvM66DcP0q
"Valentine's Day was on Saturday?" I gasp. "Today's Monday?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgHhrTNMTnq
"Yes and yes."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCawEfWM9h
"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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmcdYljgE1D
We get to school and head to our lockers, which are side by side. Thankfully. We get our things and head to homeroom.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4IMznThup2
Later, at lunch, we head outside to eat and she tells me of her weekend.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXLMg4uZSX
"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?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeTCiXH9Mr1
"Oh. Uh … nothing, really."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSrkDX43Hj
"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."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyaiASrrHQ
"Oh, yeah. I went to the funeral home on Saturday and that's really it."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuENsWRS23
"What did you do at the funeral home?"
"Oh. Nothing, really. Just help with some preparations. The usual."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnlTxu13yyi
"You aren't telling the truth, are you?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ12QFL5yOb4
"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."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH6aac4Kh1h
"You're leaving something out. I know you are."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1f61y06uVd
I moan and put my face in my hands. "I don't … want to."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡztBATVmroD
She puts her hand on my arm and gently squeezes. "Nikki, you know you can trust me with anything."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡguWUGCaKru
"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."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtpmxKjLSp
"You mean, you had 'you know what' with a centuries old vampire?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUeKuQ5QcAO
I nod, tears strolling down my face. I turn to face her, turn my head, and pull back my hair. 784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGciTLt5dwr
She gasps. "Oh my God." Her hands fly to cover her mouth. "Oh. My. God." She looks at me, horrified.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhxTYu2I7d
"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?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkrgDZ0IgPs
"I don't know."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFxdpYRdqZ5
"Oh. Hey. Come on. Let's go to the bathroom."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrzj51nDjqM
"Why?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhg3CRDlMC7
"Just come on."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS6Z9a3YX9F
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIWbCgJ8kUX
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSrAbRPnfVp
"What's this?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CtjFgxson
"It's a pregnancy test."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAKbVjImJz
"How do you use it?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwioDJS76A5
"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."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaas6dLo0SI
"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."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEyQXeOXK0
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA1bekc52CH
She looks up from her phone and looks at me. "You okay?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKixOd68Or
"No!"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8RFSesJiW
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?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoipjV6F65E
"I don't know. Most of all, what am I going to tell him?"784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRuA9n1GOf
"That's true. Him most of all."784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMyYVUgacc
Suddenly the bell rings to end lunch. We get up and get our things. We head to our next class.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlly3bi4CZ
and then Add to home screen.