How to Live With Yourself.
A/N: so, I had three different versions of this written, and none of them worked in any way at all. So.
We get this instead. It's essentially a drabble focused on Milly. The enormity of her action has set in for her. Please read How to recover first.
Tamiya was bouncing up and down, like, literally.
"Did you hear what happened to that Yumi girl?"
Milly shook her head. She knew exactly what had happened. After she had gotten her under a tree, she had run off with the intent of calling for help. Too bad that hadn't happened. She ended up doubled over on herself losing her lunch into some bushes.
She knew exactly what her father would have told her. He had said; "Milly, this is exactly why you have to kill them immediately. The longer they're alive, the better they are at pretending to be human."
Tamiya snapped her fingers to get her friends attention.
"I said, we should go interview her. Get her story out, people will be really sympathetic, it's a great human interest piece."
Milly snorted at that. She felt like she was dying inside. Talking to Yumi, even seeing her from the other side of a camera lens was the last thing she wanted to do. Could vampires even be filmed? Why didn't she know more about these things?
"I don't think it's something she wants to talk about. I would think it was awfully embarrassing."
"That can't get in the way of a good scoop!"
Milly shook her head. "I don't feel right about it. I'm sorry Tamiya."
Tamiya pouted, but decided to go with her friend's advice.
She felt sick again.
After her third trip to empty her stomach, she wiped the tears from her eyes. God had she ever screwed this up. And the worst part was, she didn't have anyone she could talk to about it. Well. No. she could talk to Yumi. That probably wouldn't go very well though.
Oh well. She was going to be late for detention. On balance, she figured detention every day for the rest of the school year wasn't that bad. It seemed Yumi wasn't completely angry with her, or was at least merciful.
Delmas wanted to have her expelled. Yumi talked him into just a year of detention. It could have been worse. Who knew what the punishment for attempted murder was?
Her stomach was churning again. She had no idea how she was going to live with herself after this.
