Chapter Eight
Since it was a few more hours til six, I wanted to just crash. About two hours into my sleep, my best friend Claudia decided it would be nice to wake me up. So, she stepped on my side of the bed and jumped as high as she could. I woke up yelling. Wondering what the hell was going on. She jumped to the floor and laughed her ass off at me. She was almost rolling on the floor.
I swiped my hand out at air and complained, "yeah yeah yeah. It's not that damn funny."
"Actually, if you could only see the expression on your face, you'd be laughing like I am now."
"I don't, so tough shit."
She briefly stared at me. Why was she staring? I'm the same girl she has always known. She and I have been friends for over ten years. Ever since high school, she changed me. We are either creating trouble together or doing it apart and making people believe neither one of us did it. We always stood by each other.
Claudia had long, beautiful, spirally curly, blonde hair. It was all natural and all gorgeous. She had light brown eyes and a square face. She is also exactly my height, which is amazing. Another short person around me. She looks a lot like me except with the hair and eyes. When we were younger and my hair used to be blonde, our parents used to joke about us being twins. My mom used to say that she had twins, but she gave one of us away to Ms. Franchetti, which is Claudia's mom.
"So, Ms. Bitchy, what you wanna do tonight?"
"What time is it?"
She looked at her watch then back at me. "It's six-twenty. Now what you wanna do?"
"There's a place I wanna go to called The Downward Spiral."
"That's the place your parents hooked up."
"Yeah, but even better is the fact that the vampire that has my sister owns it."
Her mouth made the expression of an o. She already knew everything that was going on with my sister.
"Well, don't you think it's kinda early for a vamp to be out?"
"Yeah, but not this one. She's up at six everyday. She's special I suppose."
She smiled and tried to push me out of bed.
"Girl, get dressed. I wanna go see this bloodsucker."
"I'll try and hurry up." I got out of bed and went straight for the bathroom.
I finally realized I didn't have that much clothes. "Claudia.." I stuck my head outside the bathroom door.
"Yeah."
"You got any extra clothes?"
"Of course. What would you like?"
"I wanna dress normal tonight Claudia. Nothing too extravagant. I don't have that much clothes anymore. I think blue jeans on a woman at that type of bar would stand out."
"Alright. I'll look."
"Oh yeah, a guy I met today will be driving us there. Well maybe not. I'll drive us there tonight."
For some reason I didn't feel the same way about Shawn as I did this morning. Maybe it was something to think about to get my mind off Julie. I was never really fond of blonde headed guys anyway. Of course not. Brunette is my style.
"Whatever. I got a black medium sized skirt," as if knowing what I was about to say, "it's not too short and it's not too long. It's perfect Sara. I also have your favorite thing to wear. A white tank top, since I know how much you love those, black boots that you can zip up for your little knives, a black buttoned up thick shirt to cover your guns, and the crosses you asked for last night."
"Thanks girl."
"You are so welcomed. Now, what's his name?"
"His name is Shawn Timmins. He's twenty-six, 6'1, green eyed, dirty blonde hair. He's dark and handsome. He's just your type."
"Great," I knew she was smiling, "Sara's gonna hook me up."
"Claudia, do me a favor?"
"Yeah?"
"Shut up."
She started laughing. She didn't take me seriously which was really good. That's why she's my best friend.