Vampire Sweepstakes!
Arilline : PG-13
Chapter One: Congratulations!
"Happy Birthday!" Kelly fairly boomed in my ear.
"Ack!" was my truly witty response as I struggled not to topple over and out of my seat. Luckily my other best-est friend was right behind me and caught the chair in her hands; unlucky she must have been annoyed with me—shock that, best-est pals shouldn't annoy so easily—and righted my chair, and me with it, just a tad bit too jarringly.
"How many time do I have to tell you not to balance on the back two chair legs like that?" Reika asked in her clear, collected voice. It was a rhetorical question, that. I know, because last time I answered, "37?" she just looked at me and shock her head. The thing is it was the 37th time, so she just didn't want a real answer.
"At least once more, Miss Swann," I replied, quoting her favorite movie. That got a little smile out of her. Ha! See? Best-est Pals Forever!
"Dawn!" Kelly pouted, drawing my attention back too her.
"Yes?" I eyed her suspiciously, seeing as how she had tried to murder me just now. I mean, why else would she scream in my ear like that when I was tipping over the two back legs of my chair? Clearly she was trying to get rid of me, or send me to the nurse's office. She was always saying she wanted to sit next to Reika. Huh?
"Happy Birthday!" she proclaimed again, only this time I was ready for her and I smiled as she shoved a large floppy present my way. It was very messily wrapped and I took it gingerly, lest it unwrap by itself then and there.
"Ah, thanks, Kells," I said as I looked for the one piece of tape that held all the wrapping together. Yep, there is was. Wow, never really seen that before. I untaped the ONE piece of tape and it all fell away, and my present flopped helplessly onto the desk.
The three of us stared at it. Reika sideways, a small smile creeping onto her face; Kelly beaming down at me and I blinking down at the book that had slipped out of the wrapping paper, which I still held up above in one hand.
Inside I was scream with joy—like this: OH, MY GOD! THANKS SO MUCH KELLY, BESTEST PAL IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. MUHA! I LOVE YOU, SOB SOB etc.—on the outside whoever, I snatched the book off my desk and stuffed it, though very carefully, into my school bag. And said, "Thanks Kells, I love it." I looked around nervously, seeing if anyone had noticed the cover of the book. Lately, it seemed like is was a crime to like the book, everyone who thought they were smarter than the average bear said it was crap and the teachers were, ah, less understanding. A girl had been caught reading it last week and, well, lets just say she wasn't back to school yet. I hoped her hair still grows.
"It's totally cool, Dawn. The onset pictures are especially—" I cut her off with a huge hug, before she got us in a huge mess.
"I love it, thanks." Happy to see that she was beaming at having done it good job I sat back down and turned to Reika. "So...did you forget it was my birthday?" I asked casually.
Which is a laugh, let me tell you, because I forgot my own birthday. And with good reason, something horrible always happens on my birthday. Just last year, I confessed to Erick Windling that I liked him and he a) laughed in my face right then and there, and b) made a public announcement at lunch saying that he didn't like fat girls with orange hair, while he looked right at me the whole time. Yeah, I think a little piece of me died last year on my birthday. For one thing, no more human guys. Fin. I am done with them. From now on I am sticking with imaginary boys—preferentially the undead kind.
So, as you can see, I really don't want to remember that today is the one year anniversary of me getting my heart broken—then shredded. With good reason I think. But then, it was my heart, so I might be a tap bit bias.
"Well," Reika replied, opening her note book and flipping through it. "I didn't forget get, but I didn't really get you something er—concrete, like Kells. I got you a chance."
"A what?" Kelly and I both asked at the same time in the same kind of confused voice. Really best pals who get you like that are great—and rare. Kelly and I smirked at each other and then turned back Reika, who was holding a plain white envelope. The only adornment on the envelop was her graceful, loopy writing that proclaimed:
To Dawn
From Reika
I hope you win; Happy Birthday!
"Er," again, me with my witty remarks; I blinked at the envelop. "I have to win my present? From you?" As you can see I was very very very confused.
"Here. Open it and see." Reika slapped the envelop into my hand. Raising an eyebrow I turned the envelop and lifted the back flap, and pulled out a paper. It was a computer print out and looked something like this:
Win your own Vampire! Enter now!
Vampire Sweepstakes!
Enter now! You could win your very own Vampire! No purchase necessary. [Not responsible for loss of blood or broken hearts.]
Congratulations Dawn Charolett! You have been officially entered in our sweepstakes! Please keep in mind that many will enter but only one will win. Should you win, you will be notified via the telephone number that you have provided.
Thank you!
"Really?" I asked no one in particular.
"Well, I don't know," Reika said, pulling a strand of black hair off of her face and hooking it behind her ear. "But I didn't really know what else to get you. And, wouldn't you know it, while I was surfing around in the web I came across this ad and I click on it, and well, I thought it was pretty funny and, heck, it might even be true."
"What would I do with said vampire if I won?" I wondered out loud, reading the paper again.
Not surprisingly, no one knew the answer to that.
"Well," I said, folding the paper back up and sticking it back into the envelop. "I like it, thanks, Reika. I hope I win, who knows maybe it will be some actor who will act like a vampire for a day or something? Wouldn't be too bad, huh?"
Reika smiled and Kelly snatched the envelop out of my hands, and read it through herself, frowning down at it the whole time.
"Best. Birthday. Ever." I said, as the teacher walked into the classroom and told everyone to settle down. Then she said we were getting our tests back. "So far," I added under my breath.
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AN: Just having some fun, nothing too serious here. Review are lovely, though. Actually, they are more akin to crack, so... Review? ;)