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Oh, the madness! :oP

Onwards!

If You Can't Convince Them, Confuse Them

I informed Arlene that Sookie was taking me to dinner just as she pulled up on the driveway.

"I'll see you later!" I shouted.

"Bye!" Arlene, Coby and Lisa all shouted in unison. I ran out of the front door and clambered into Sookie's car. She beamed at me and then started down the road. I had decided to wear a black and dark grey dress that ended just above the knees, with my familiar black converse and black knee high socks.

When we arrived at Bill's house, Sookie parked her car and seemed to be even perkier than usual. Bill's house was old and crumbling. The paint was cracked and faded and everything about it was old and falling apart. It just screamed, 'Vampire Bill lives here!'.

Inside was slightly better, although it was pretty bare and needed some paint and a paintbrush. I suddenly had a thought. "Hey Sookie, will it just be me, you and Bill's daughter eating dinner, since Bill is a vampire?" I asked, just as a lively red-headed girl blurred in front of me. I was slightly startled, but not scared.

"Bill and I will be havin' TruBlood. And Bill is not my father." She answered my question.

"So your a vampire too huh? That's pretty awesome." I smiled at her. She was very pale, as all vampire's are, and wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt that said 'Fangtasia' on the front. I was sure I'd heard that somewhere. Just then, Bill blurred into sight.

"Bill!" Sookie said, and he walked over to her and they began to kiss. I couldn't hold back my distaste, and a 'Ughh' sound came out of my mouth.

"I know," the red-headed girl said, "It's so gross. I'm Jessica by the way."

"I'm-"

"Alexandra." she finished.

"Alex." I smiled.

"Hey, do you wanna play tennis on the wii? It is soo cool." She asked.

"Sure." I replied and I followed her into the sitting room. There was a large, old looking sofa, a small table, and a huge plasma TV.

Jessica and I played on the wii for a while before Bill came in to see us.

"I'm afraid that my cooking appliances are not working so we must go over to Sookie's house for dinner." he said. Bill had dark brown hair and dark eyes to match, and he was pretty average looking guy, except for his old fashioned sideburns. He began to speak again but was cut-off by Jessica. "Come on Alex!" She said and threw me onto her back, and then we were moving. I could distinguish that we were in a forest of some kind, but I couldn't see much else, it was all blurry. I guessed Jessica could keep up with it all, because she didn't hit one tree. It was pretty exhilerating, going that fast.

We stopped outside what I assume was Sookie's house and then Bill and Sookie showed up a few seconds afterwards. Bill starting arguing with Jessica about how she shouldn't just run off like that, but thankfully, she shrugged him off.

The night went well. We had dinner, spaghetti bolgnese, TruBlood for Bill and Jessica, and then I asked Jess if she wanted to do something tomorrow night. We agreed on just hanging out somewhere, and then Sookie took me home.

I had just gotten changed into my pajamasand was about to go to bed, when Arlene came in my room to see me.

"Hey, what's up?" I asked her.

"Oh nothing much, just came to see if you had a good night is all."
"I was great, I got to meet Bill's, um, daughter, and we are sort of friends now." I smiled. She didn't seem to be pleased.

"Bill was there?" she questioned.

"Um, yeah." I replied.

"You do know Bill's a vampire, don't you?"

"Of course."

"Is his daughter a vampire too?"

"Uh, yeah."

Arlene put a serious face on. "Listen, I know it's not up to me, but I prefer that you didn't hang around with them anymore."

"Arlene!" Don't tell me she was prejudiced against vampire's.

"Please?" she asked.

"Arlene, it's my life, I can hang around with who I want."

"Fine. Just don't come crying to me when you find out their bite is worse than their bark!" And then she slammed the door shut on her way out. I decided to just let the whole issue pass me by and tried to get some sleep. Unfortunately, my thumb chose that particular time to start tingling again. I looked at where the sprite's had bitten me, it was glowing slightly. "Holy crap!" I shouted, and sat up in my bed. I was going to have to talk to Rose about this.

The next day had the same routine, Coby and Lisa went to school, Arlene went to work, and I'm left sat in the garden with nothing to do. Except today was slightly different, because I'm wasn't on good terms with Arlene. Fortunately, Rose showed up. Today, she was wearing a long pink dress with little silver bells on the bottom. Bare feet again.

"Hey," I said.

"Hi." She sat down next to me.

"Rose, the sprite's bit me yesterday and now my thumb keeps tingling and it was glowing last night. What's going on?" I asked her. She started to smile widely.
"They have blessed you," she told me, "They think you are special. Now, their magic runs through your veins, it's only a small quantity, but it will protect you from some things."

"Like what?" Okay, so the sprite's bit me and now they have their freaky little magic inside of me, I wasn't going to say think's couldn't get worse, because it always does when you say that.

"Their magic can protect you from, for example, being glamoured by vampire's or other mystical beings in general. It will only protect from another person's mental magic, it won't protect you from anything physical."

"Wow," was all I could manage to say, "I wish they had asked me first. Hey Rose?"

"Yes?"

"Did you want to hang out tonight with me and Jess?" I asked her.

"Jess?"

"Yeah, she's vampire Bill's adopted vampire daughter." I explained.

"Of course, I don't usually have anything to do. I'm glad you count me as a friend." she sang, and smiled broadly at me, revealing her perfect, white teeth.

"I don't know what we are doing tonight though, I wish I had some way of contacting you."
"It's okay," she said, "I'll ask the sprite's." I just gave her a look that said 'I dont want to know' and then we went for a walk in the woods. She blessed me with all of her knowledge on everything mythical, and I blessed her with no knowledge at all, since I didn't really know much about anything she was talking about.