Blood on Ice
By Julie Moore and Ashley Hessefort

Chapter 2

My name is Blue, and before I begin you should know. Number one: I am NOT a morning person, in fact is USUALLY don't see the light of day until well past one thirty. So you can imagine how excited I was when my "good buddy" Tips called at noon. NOON! I still had another hour and a half of sleep to get. Number two: I tend to get crabby when I don't get what I want, usually food (ramen) and sleep.

I didn't even bother to say "good bye" when Tips called because "goodbye" is saved to use with friends, and a person who is playing a noon alarm clock is NOT a friend...well not at that exact moment at least. I have known Tips for about five years and the rest of the LuLu's about four. After hanging up with Tips I "franticly" searched for Lemon and Cocoa's phone numbers. This entitled playing "guess the speed dial number" on my phone. After about three tries of dialing ex-boyfriends and the local pizza hut I finally got Lemons number, I was trying for Cocoa's. Oh well.

Lemon, like me, is not a morning person. Lucky for me her sister answered the phone! "Hello?" "Hi is Lem.....Megan there?" "Ummm she is still sleeping" she answered in that voice that can only be acheved by a five-year-old-just-waking-up. "Can you please wake her up for me?" "Yeah...hang on a minute." She sounded scared, I would be too. I waited. *WHAM* *CRASH* *SCRECH* *SLIDE* *BANG* *YELL* yup, Lemon was up. "Who is this?" *gulp* one thing was certain by the sound in her voice, I was not giving her my real identity. "This is...TIPS!" ha, ha pay back. "This better be good Julie." owe the real name, she's mad. "Ummm yeah it is there's a emergency meeting at Tiiiiii.....my house." "What time?" "Get there as soon as possible." "There? Wait a minute. Who is this?" *gulp* "BLUE I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!" "See you there!" I hung up, yes rude I know but I really don't need a headache too.

Now on to Cocoa. Easier, by far, she more of a morning person and well its now half past noon. If you haven't guessed already, LuLu's are pretty much vampires, well most of us. Okay three out of five are. The only hard part about calling Cocoa was again, the phone. This time instead of getting the ex-boyfriends and pizza hut I got, 3 old neighbors, 4 long distance phone calls to Hong Kong (I know no one there) and a partage in a pear tree, just joking. Not. I really called the local bird shop. I now own, axidently, six gesse (yes there laying), four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves and like I said before a partage in a pear tree. Then I gave up and just dialed the seven digit number. I know that would have been easier in the first place, but again its just past noon. With that out of the way I got dressed and left for Tips.