Hello again everybody! Mr. Pink here. Sorry about the wait. School really sucks, you know. I'm probably going to' fail Alg.II so I figured now's as good a time as any. Also, a review from Nox3 made me decide to get off my ass. Thanks. Anyway, most of the stuff in this story I don't own, please don't sue me. Thanks

Chapter 6

Interview with a Vampire

We went to the little clearing in the trees behind the school where me and Bruce would sneak off during Gym class to smoke a few. In the middle was a pair of rusted old lawn chairs I had snagged from my next-door neighbor. She never used them. Anyway, we sat down in the chairs, Kim had a bit of a time with her chair though, seeing how it's not really built for those of her anatomic structure. But after a short stint, she was relatively comfortable.

"So," I spoke, then cleared my throat, "who are you exactly? I'll buy you're a vampire; I've seen 'em before. But I know you 'aren't from around here. And I know we aren't related."

"Well duh! What would make you think we are?" Every time her lips parted her fangs would peer out for a few moments. It was kinda' cool looking. But I wasn't going to let the fact that she was really hot, no wait, EXTREAMLY HOT, get in the way of what we were discussing.

"MY last name is Boggs. YOUR last name is Boggs. And I'm pretty sure no one outside my family has that name, unless, I'm mistaken. Could you clear this up a little?"

She sat there for a few minutes, as if thinking. Like she had a deep dark terrible secret that she wanted to tell someone, anyone that would listen. Something boiling deep down in her guts like an ulcer. Then she spoke. "No."

"Aw, come on! Just like that, you're gonna' say "NO."?" I was actually surprised. Then it hit me. I'd give her a peace offering, something to show that, at the moment, I wasn't going to eat her. And it just so happened that your friend and humble narrator had just such a thing. Although earlier in the bathroom the joint that had caused the fire had been thrown away, I still had a little baggy of Mexico's finest Ludes in the secret pocket on the inside of my jacket. Luckily, I had forgotten about them whilst I was toking with Bruce. I pulled the baggy out and pulled out one of the little pink pills. "You want a Lude? Calm you down, huh? C'mon, whatdoyasay?"

She kinda' rolled her eyes and consented. "Fine, if you'll just shut up." She took the Lude and sure enough, a few minutes later she was a cool as an Eskimo Pie, and more than ready to talk.

"So, what's going on here?"

"Well, if you must know. But you can't tell nobody." She kinda' slurred when she talked. And she had started to rock back and forth in a gentle swaying motion. One of her darkened eyelids drooped slightly lower than the other.

"Okay, for now, I promise I won't tell nobody."

"Fine. I'm a human."

"I figured that. Most vampires are slightly human."

"No, I mean, TOTALLY human." Now this was a shock to me. A severe shock to me. But, I wasn't all too worried. As I said before, my old man worked at the factory and new a thing or two about humans, especially that they aren't toxic. So, I just popped a Lude and chilled. "You don't seem worried." I shook my head. "Cool." She mumbled. "Anyway, I ran away from home a couple of weeks ago. My mom left my dad last year and since then he's been a bastard. I remembered this place from when I was a kid and snuck in thru my little sister's door. Don't ask how."

"Okay, fair enough. So, you're disguised as a vampire?"

"Pretty much."

"So the fangs aren't real?"

"Yeah, they're real. Grew in after my baby teeth. Genetic quirk I guess. I think they're cool."

"Same here. Mine came in after the baby teeth too." I smiled, reveling my pearly whites. She giggled a little and I continued. "What possessed you to steal my name?"

"That's an interesting thing actually. After about a week of hiding in the alleys and eating what I could, I decided I needed a place to stay. Somewhere that served food on an almost daily basis. So, I came here. I signed in as a foreign student, gave 'em a sob story and they let me register. When I was writing all that shit down on the form I couldn't think of a name to put, that's when I noticed a sign on the wall in the office, something about "Problem Students", and there was your name, at the top. So I wrote my first name and your last. Then I …

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"Aw, shit, the bell!" I said. "C'mon." We both staggered back thru the trees, up the hill and into the crowd.

"ALL STUDENT REPORT TO THE ASSEMBLY HALL. I REPEAT, ALL STUDENT REPORT TO THE ASSEMBLY HALL!" The overhead intercom system blared.

So, in a yelling screaming hoard of students we proceeded down the hallway to the assembly hall. That's when I caught sight of Bruce. "Hey, Bruce! Over here!" I yelled. He looked over and smiled. He approached us, in the same staggering gate we were both walking with.

"Hey man, what's up?"

"Nothing much. Have you met my cousin Kim? Uh, long lost, twice removed cousin Kim?" I still, to this day, don't know why I said that. Maybe it was because I thought she was interesting, or because she was hot. But the important thing was that I had said it and there was no going back.

"Nice to meet you man, I mean girl," he said sticking out a hand to shake.

Kim first looked at me for a second, first in shock, then in delight. The surprised look on her face quickly melted into a smile and she look at Bruce, seizing his hand and shaking it vigorously. "Nice to meet you Bruce. I just transferred in here. It's nice to me a friend of my cousin…"

"Val," I whispered.

"Val," she said as loud as she could.

Bruce looked at me and smiled even bigger. "You never told me you had a long lost, twice removed cousin. That's cool." Then he got a look at her fangs. "Dude, and she's a vampire! That's totally awesome!"

Kim smiled and we walked into the assembly hall.

Now, here's the jist of what was said. Our principle gave us a talk of the many dangers of drugs, told us the fire was drug related, he'd be watching us, and because of the damage from the fire and sprinklers, school would be out until Monday. Now this was a big deal because it was just now Tuesday morning, not even noon yet. This meant that we would have a five-and-a-half day weekend!

I looked at Kim and Bruce and said, "You wanna' catch a flick at the mall?"

"Hell yeah!" They said at the same time.

"Hey, no talking during assembly you three!" Some bitch teacher yelled at us from the stage.

"SCREW YOU!" The entire room yelled at the same time. Nobody liked her.

I hope you guys really enjoyed this one and I hope to write more SOON. In the meanwhile, please leave a review or drop me a line, I love to hear from readers. thanks.