Fangs & Fins:
Chapter 24: "An Invitation"
"Wow," Lily sank down into James's desk chair. "Just…wow."
"Yeah," James said quietly. He had just explained everything to Lily and he actually felt a little bit better.
Lily rubbed her forehead. "I think Lewis and I should go…"
She got up and collected her jacket from the floor before heading out of James's bedroom and back down the stairs.
Lewis and Constance were seated on the couch. Constance was showing Lewis a large stuffed animal penguin (Lily later learned that his name was Hugsy). Constance snatched a small brush off the table which she offered to Lewis so he could brush Hugsy. Lewis awkwardly brushed Hugsy's middle before Lily grabbed him roughly on the shoulder.
"Come on Lewis, it's time to go."
Lewis gave Constance Hugsy's brush and Lily waved goodbye to both Constance and Ben.
After Lily told Lewis everything James had told her, Lewis spoke up:
"Constance and I are going out for lunch on Saturday," Lewis declared cheerfully.
Lily grabbed Lewis's arm happily. "You should take her to that place where we took Rose for her birthday last year. The food was excellent, remember?"
Lewis nodded thoughtfully. "I guess I'll make a reservation tonight."
He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone.
"Let's see…I don't have the number…do you have it back at your house?"
"Actually," Lily whipped out her phone. "I think I saved the number from when I made the reservation last year…"
Suddenly a low growl escaped from a nearby bush.
"What was that?!" Lily exclaimed, just as a person – a vampire, Lily supposed appeared from the bush.
The vampire lashed out on Lily, tackling her to the ground.
"Lily!"
Lewis grabbed a huge stick that was lying on the ground and bashed it into the vampire's back.
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Rose was wiping away hot tears away from her eyes when there was a knock at the door.
"BYRON. ANSWER THE DOOR!"
A disgruntled Byron sauntered downstairs, his phone in hand.
"Okay, God…" He muttered, opening the door.
Rose went back to wiping her tears off her cheeks, when Byron came into the living room and dropped a package on Rose's lap.
"It's for you or something," Byron said, heading in the direction of the stairs.
Rose looked at the package suspiciously before ripping the paper off and opening the package.
Inside where two crisp, white envelopes. Rose opened the first one and pulled out the paper inside.
YOU HAVE BEEN INVITED:
TO THE 765th ANNUAL VAMPIRE BALL
HOSTED BY THE WOOD FAMILY
The rest of the invitation was composed of dates, times, and directions, as well as an RSVP number.
Rose read the invitation six times before opening the second envelope, only to discover that it contained the another invitation.
These must be from Constance, Rose thought. She flipped the envelope over and spotted Constance's return address in the corner.
James would most definitely be there, it was hosted by his family. Maybe she should go…
Rose grabbed the phone from the side table and dialed the RSVP number. A woman answered the phone and Rose RSVP'ed, hung up, and began to cry again.
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"Get off him!" Lily shouted, trying to pull the vampire off of Lewis (who'd been bitten on his arms and hands).
Lily franticly looked around. She grabbed a small branch and stabbed it at the vampire torso.
Nothing, the branch practically bounced off the vampire's skin.
She dug around in her bag, praying that she had one of the weapons Ash had leant her stored in there.
Yes! Lily extracted a knife with a wooden blade and stabbed.
A river of blood erupted from the vampire's back and the vampire screamed. He dipped his head down to Lewis's stomach but he couldn't seem to get his fangs to come out. Lily stabbed him again and again on his back, and after a few more screams, the vampire buckled down on top of Lewis.
"LEWIS," Lily pulled him out from under the vampire and hugged him.
"Lily…"
"Are you alright, Oh God – you've been bitten everywhere!"
"Lily, I'm fine!" Lewis assured her. "Let's just go to your house, okay?"
Lily nodded and grabbed his arm.
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Rose had successfully managed to make her way upstairs (with a little help from Byron, who had been raiding the fridge when he's spotted Rose dragging herself up the stairs) and had just collapsed on her bed when she heard the front door open.
"Rose?" Lily yelled. Rose could hear her trotting up the stairs (most likely accompanied by Lewis)
"What?!" Rose called back moodily.
"Rose," Lily panted, as she and Lewis appeared in Rose's doorframe. "We were attacked!"
"By who?!" Rose said, sitting up on her bed.
Lily looked at Lewis.
"I don't know."
Hi, it's Maddie! I am so sorry this is late, but I had a busy weekend. My friend's grandmother had a stroke and was in the hospital all weekend. So I volunteered to spend the weekend with my friend to cheer her up and I had no internet access (my friend and I mostly studied for finals which are next week for us, unfortunately. But then again we do get the majority of the week after off so I'm not complaining too much…). And then on both Monday and Tuesday (when I promised myself I'd write and post this chapter) Bones Season 2 episodes were on and my inner Hodgins/Angela shipper couldn't resist…
Anyway, Kelly and I are trying to get Fangbook running again, but for some reason Fangbook won't let either of us post new entries. I'm nearly done putting together the pdf files for the second and third volume of Fangs & Fins which I will post on Fangbook as soon as it's working again. Kelly and I also plan on posting a few spoilers for upcoming chapters as well. We're also putting a fanmix together and a few other things.
As for our contest, I'm compiling the entries and Kelly and I will discuss them very soon! We'll inform the winner in a couple of days.
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