I've started the revised version in request from a reader. I thought it a good idea. I actually needed another TOFB not just for myself but for the readers. I have cut so much out I feel that I am responsible for it feeling incomplete. So this is my less rushed and rightfully paced version of the story. This is the better interpretation. Look at the other one as the directors cut and this as the final cut. If you find yourself interested you may appreciate and understand this and the characters far more.

Notes: This is optional! Not for the people who hate change (lol) It's only for those who would like to see the story more in depth. It's here for you to refer back to, that is all.

Warning: Much darker, stronger violence

Same characters, same story with extended scenes, more explicit plot and higher ratings.

F -Taste of Fresh Blood –N

Revisited-I

"You know that dude is a vampire right?" Ed being watchful, told Charley who wasn't even paying him any attention, while his ex friend stared only at Amy's ass as she walked away from their house, right when Jerry the next door neighbor was pulling up into his driveway.

"Charley! Him right there, entering his driveway and then stepping out of the car and into his dark fucking cavern so he can suck more blood from innocent victims, Amy probably going to be one of them if you don't answer me this fucking second!" The nerd tried shaking Charley to snap out of whatever it was he was occupied with. And it was obvious.

"Stop bugging me Ed, just," Charley sighed desperately, towards the geek. "Leave me alone and go home. You are clearly high on something."

Ed squinted wondering if he was even listening to him at all. "I was just talking to you. Did you hear anything I just said?"

Charley finally gave the attention his old friend was dying for, once Amy took off down the dark neighborhood in her little car after blowing him a kiss. "Actually I wasn't. Later." He was being meaner than usual. They had a history. A big one.

Charley again shooed Ed away before turning to enter his own home. He couldn't even think of any reason why Ed was there…at his house…to begin with. He couldn't think of anything more annoying. Why was he ever friends with him?

'I'm telling you Charley, that man" Evil Ed pointed noticeably over to Jerry who was eating a bright green apple before stepping out of his truck and waving formally towards them, "your neighbor is a fucking vampire."

Charley shook his head chuckling. "You're nuts man."

"I'm being serious. I've been watching him."

"Really, Ed, let's ask him. Hey Jerry?" Charley called out his supposedly blood humping neighbor who was just about to enter his dark home.

Jerry stopped before his door. He had already overheard the conversation before he even pulled up. "Yes Charley." The charming neighbor with wiry black hair smiled smoothly almost leaping from the door and over to the two kids standing stupidly in their driveway. The man was excited that Charley just might give him access into his house and for some reason only Ed found that highly creepy and noticeable.

"Hey I'm trying to get my friend here," Charley paused not wanting to sound stupid himself asking, "well not really a friend, but he thinks you're a vampire. Can you tell him that you aren't so he can sleep at night?" Charley mocked as if they were never friends to begin with.

"Ed." Jerry turned his eyes calmly at the kid. "A vampire? That's heavy. But sorry to disappoint. I'm not." The dark eyed man then gave the nerd a demonic smile while it looked to Charley just one of empty politeness. He saw absolutely nothing unusual.

"See Charley how in the shit did he know my name!" Ed backed away skittishly behind the browned haired teen who only wanted to go inside and fall upon his bed covers and close his damn eyes. "I'm watching you! People are going to know what you are!"

"Ed let it go." Charley couldn't believe it, and he figured his neighbor must think them both crazy. He rolled his eyes tiredly before apologizing to Jerry for his friend being a complete spaz and dumb fuck.

"It's okay." Jerry turned down the apology seeing to be without any worries. "Vampires are ah… a common topic I suppose." he nodded coolly and then offered them both a goodnight before taking off into his oddly dark home. "Have a good night."

"See Ed, good fucking night." Charley assured. He was surprised himself that Jerry was okay with how his friend went off like that.

Ed got into his face before taking a second glance over at Jerry's front door. "I'm sorry I disturbed you while you were engaged looking at your girlfriends ass cheeks for the fifth time this week but let's not kid ourselves, there are more important things that we need to look out for. I will prove to you he is a vampire and then you're going to believe me. We can stop this guy."

Charley was already in the house, slamming the door on Ed's face before he ended up hearing more crazy shit come out of his mouth. He waited awhile by the front door until he heard no more of Ed complaining and knocking on the front door like a stalker, and when he peeked out the front window to the house he watched Ed sprint off down the road towards his home like someone was going to chase him any second now. Charley sighed and shook his head. "Crazy Ed." he murmured to himself thinking the whole situation ridiculous.

He then entered the living room glad to finally be home, and looking forward to some good resting. He saw his mother sitting on a couch reading a book.

"Hey mom." He said tiredly letting her know that he was home before taking off up the stairs towards his room not giving her a chance to talk about how his day went.

"Hello Charley." She shouted up and then followed by his door closing shut. She shook her head flipping back through the book. "Goodnight Charley."

She shrugged it off not knowing what type of mood her son was in this time. He always went from gloomy to in high spirits day after day and it was tiresome just acknowledging it. It was unusual but he had been like that since he's met his new friends and since his father left. It was a mothers job to care but Charley would never let her in. He's went from three therapists in two years and he refused to speak to any of them. They, including herself, eventually got fed up and gave up.

Charley flopped onto what seemed like a glorious bed at the moment before closing his eyes. This is exactly what he needed he thought. School life was always stressful. Trying to fit in was far more difficult than his math homework and having a girlfriend who expected different things of him was the reason for most of his stress. She wanted sex. A lot. He was on the opposite end of the scale. He just wanted to know that someone as pretty and popular as her could love someone like him for being who he was but that didn't go as planned. Instead he decided to fake being cool and popular.

X

Time ticked.

The moon was already high in the midnight cool sky and normally the neighborhood was quiet during this time but for some reason this night was an exception. Charley woke up abruptly as he heard screaming coming from outside. He rubbed his eyes awake when he hopped out from the bed and looked out his bedroom window. "What the fuck?" he quietly whispered seeing a teenaged girl limping her way down his sidewalk as she screamed for help. It was more like a deadly screech as she cried and pierced her way through the dead neighborhood. She looked as if she had been attacked. No one responded, all lights in the homes still remained off and Charley didn't know what to do or even what was happening. It was a full moon and people did act crazy at times but this was…unusual.

He couldn't figure out what she was running from because from the look of it no one was chasing her. The block was dead quiet and she appeared to just be another weirdo. There were a lot of them in Las Vegas.

He thought to himself whether to go down there and help her or just stay put like all the other people in the neighborhood seemed to be doing as they ignored her evident pleads for help. Which sucked ass, because it put more pressure on him to do something. He wanted to do the right thing though.

Another cry when she started to bang on his door, begging for someone to answer. She must have seen him from the window. Charley didn't consider her desperation any longer and booked it from his room and down the hall towards his mother's room. He knocked on it first even though it wasn't worth that because he busted in seconds later before caring about a reply. "Mom, call the police, there's a girl running around the block! I think she might be in trouble…"

He was talking to himself. His mother wasn't in her room. "It can't be that early." he said to himself wondering why his mother wasn't asleep yet. The kid went over to the alarm clock on his mother's night stand and the time read exactly twelve o clock. Something didn't seem right and he turned out of the room and he ran down the stairs. Maybe she fell asleep on the couch. For some reason he was in a panic. All this talk about vampires and the screaming girl suddenly wasn't putting his mind to rest. This was obviously some serious shit.

He stopped himself right before entering the living room where he heard the static of the TV while the radio was on quite low but still somehow was heard over the TV channel.

"He's a good man, in a bad time…" The radio was playing something quite upbeat something of classic rock and Charley blinked a few times before peeking inside the room. He took a deep thankful breath when he saw that his mom was actually passed out down stairs with a cup of wine in her hand and on her lap the remote. This calmed him a bit but he instantly jumped when he heard the screaming and the banging on the door grow louder. He moved closer to his mother and spoke lowly to wake her up. "Mom?" He said. Could she not hear this? He attempted to shake her. She still didn't wake. He shook her rougher and the glass of wine fell from her limp hand and splattered all over the rug and floor. Charley backed away and his eyes widened in shock when he realized that his mother just wasn't going to awake anytime at all. Now everything seemed off balanced and too eerie for his liking. So eerie and unexpected that it couldn't be real. He shouted his moms name again but she still didn't respond.

A small tear fell from his eye when he scanned over two black holes on her pale neck. They looked like bite marks from a….He didn't want to admit it, but a vampire. Was Ed fucking right about the existence of vampires? He questioned on the verge of tears while not fully understanding what was going on. His mind started to race in the same rhythm as his heart was starting to beat. Silence was gathering until he heard one last final scream from the girl outside and this time it sounded as if someone actually found her.

He ran over to the phone and dialed 911 and typically when something bad was happening, no one picked up. Bravely he then snatched a knife from the kitchen drawer and ran towards the front door and opened it ready to save her life if it wasn't too late, even though he had no clue what the hell he was doing but he decided he needed to do something. He didn't see it coming but then hit something extremely hard and fell back onto the floor of his house, while the door was left swinging open.

Charley slammed the back of his head hard and his vision went blurring. He hissed at the pain and tried to focus his aching mindset spinning full circle, on what was approaching him. He heard loud heavy footsteps meeting the hard ware flooring of his house. "Charley, it isn't nice to run into a man and not say sorry about it. That hurts."

The boy knew that voice. It was dark and oddly relaxed. The steps came nosier and whoever it was, was coming towards him.

The man bent over Charley, who couldn't help himself up from the ground, and Jerry smiled with teeth so sharp upon him. "How's your mother Charley?"

The boy flinched when Jerry reached out his cold hand and ran it through his short soft hair. Charley couldn't breath right or talk and the vampire, his neighbor smiled sweetly but threateningly at him. "Listen to me carefully Charley. I am going to drain you of your life." He scraped a long finger nail down the side of Charley's cheek making the boy shiver in fright. "But first you have to let me get some of that fresh blood of yours. What do you say…you up for that... guy?"

Jerry exposed his full growth vampire teeth before taking a chunk of neck from Charley.

X

Charley threw off his covers from his bed and almost pissed the bed himself until he realized it was morning, the sun was up and that was just a dream. He promised himself to kill Ed, if he kept talking about all that twilight vampire shit. It wasn't fucking with his head until now.

"Charley you are going to be late for school again if you don't hurry your little behind up. Amy is outside waiting for you!" His mother shouted up the stairs and he has never been so relieved to hear his mother's voice and school in the same sentence. He hurried and threw on some old clothes, snatched up his bags and left the room.

"Took you long enough." His girlfriend winked at him before he hopped into the front seat still looking timid from the nightmare but still trying to act relaxed. It would be embarrassing if Amy found out he had a crappy nightmare about vampires. Especially the neighbor she had a die hard crush on.

"Sorry, couldn't find my…math book…yea." It was a lame excuse but an excuse that would have to work for now.

"Wow you don't look like you slept at all." Amy asked with concern, only a girlfriend would have towards her man and no one else.

"Yea, well I kinda stayed up all night working on homework." Charley refused to look over at his neighbor's house still being a bit skeptical.

"Aw poor baby, sounds like you." she smiled before kissing him. "Let's stop and get a smoothie. You don't mind if we're late for school do you?" she pushed down her sunglasses from her head.

"Uh..."

"Charley come on don't be a loser." She pouted.

"Okay sure. Yea let's get a smoothie." He agreed easily when she gave him an innocent expression.

And then she smiled in excitement and they took off.

An apple core was tossed gently to the floor of his house rolling by his foot and Jerry walked away from the window as he watched Charley and his girlfriend Amy go down the road.