The Embrace of the Vampire

, even though my mouth was as dry as the de

othes in your backpack? They will t

ng what lie I should co

my mother. “I just came to apologize for slapping you earlier a

f-felt apology. I was only going to fully forgive her once she was on her way t

e my face from her before she noticed that I was up to no good. Somehow, my mom could always eventually tell when I was lying. “I know you were

,” I said, trying t

said my mom, completely throwing me off. “But on

en,”

n, or you’r

y, f

n her just like that, but I hated Serbia and her love for Serbia and I wasn’t going to spend four months there, even if my grandmother really wa

nd you better be home tonight

s gone, I waited ten minutes, in case she came back home because she forgot her apron or som

because I didn’t technically tell m

id that teenagers drove way too young in America and she said that I had to wait until I was eighteen to get my driver’s license – the same ag

he accelerator and we were headed towards her home that

move out, change my name, and shed that

kill for a name like yours,

erbia with her behavior and all I want to do is feel like

achel. “But I guess everybody always

ture. Dictatorship,” I said. “I think I’m going to let

ame. You should be a bit prouder of your heritage and where you come f

helping me out here, but kindly shut up. Y

. That’s how she always acted when she was really mad and nothin

songs through her mom’s car’s speakers at

u dare forget it in the car, my mom would kill me!”) and then we went to the house

, and by the time we were done putting on make-up and choosing our outfits, she c

h for getting to see Griffin again, which was snuffed out by the deep shame I felt because he was Jessica’s boyfriend. But Jessica broke up with her boyfriends usually in a month or

?” asked Ms. Fredericks from the living roo

achel loudly, and she sl

et her give us a r

of wine for today,” said Rachel as we both started walking down the street. The sky was getting

t about how cute Bobby and Billy Lane (or the Twins) looked in the new promotio

bruptly, about halfway to Griffin’s house, pointi

t against the black sky. There are thousands of bats living in Austin under the C

e as if we were connected by an invisible force. Suddenly, I was scared, but it was a different type of fear. Not the fear that a bat might suddenly fly into your face and

shouted suddenly, her voi

ack towards where we came from. My phone started vibrating in the pocket of my jeans, but I ign

ed around my waist and I let out a shrie

her house to get the party started earlier?) and just like that, screaming Rachel became a small dot on the ground underneath me as I was