The question had been bothering Carly all day: Could Shelby Marx be a vampire?
Of course, at first Carly had tried talking to Sam about it, but Sam just shrugged the accusation off saying that Carly was just vampire obsessed. No matter what Sam said, the question still continued to plague Carly's mind. Probably because it made perfect sense to her: the way Shelby smiled, where it didn't show her canines, that fighting ability that seemed to come from another world, and the way just about everyone was attracted to her. Carly's mind had tried to come up with another explanation, but none developed. The only way Carly thought she was getting any peace, was to just go to the gym and talk to Shelby. Carly looked at the clock over her bed, which read 2:45. She thought Shelby was probably about down with practice for today, so she decided to head over to the gym to surprise her. As Carly was walking out the door, when she got a text message from Shelby.
"Hey, Carls, could you come by the gym? I wanted to ask you something."
Carly felt her heart about to jump out of her chest. This was just what Carly needed. Now she had an excuse to go to the gym. Just as Carly was opening the door, Shelby's trainer Juan came storming out, screaming what sounded like profanity in Spanish, and almost having a head-on-collision with her.
Shelby ran to the door, almost pushing Carly over in the process. She yelled at Juan to come back, but he was already disappearing into a huge crowd of people. Shelby turned back to see Carly, her eyebrows arched in confusion, and her eyes showing fear.
"Wow you got here fast" Shelby murmured, a smile on her face.
"Yeah, well I was already on my way over here when I got your text."
"You were already coming here, what for?"
Carly didn't know how to answer, that had been the question she didn't want to have to answer. Her mind speedily tried to figure out an answer that wasn't a complete lie, but not the truth either.
"Um, I just wanted to see how your training was coming along."
Shelby seemed to buy her excuse.
"Oh, well that was very nice of you! I called you here to ask you."
"You aren't going to ask me to fight you again are you?" Shelby laughed,
"No, nothing like that, I was wondering, if you wanted to go on a date with me."
Carly genuinely looked surprised.
"Um, sure you want to go see a movie tomorrow? 'Orphan' is showing at 8:00."
"That sounds perfect! How about you meet me here around 7:15?"
"Perfect, until then!" And Carly walked out of the gym, with a huge smile on her face.