------- Hmm, haa, what to write now??? Well, this won't be one of the more exciting chapters, but it's here all the same ---------

When I wake up, the next morning, I can't remember what happened. It's like it was all a dream. After Max told me his secret, I fled from the restaurant. I don't know why. Isn't that what all girls dream of now? Not a knight in shining armer, but a vampire to fall in love with?

And yet I ran. Why did I run? Am I scared of him? I believe him. I do – for some unexplained reason, I do. Am I afraid?

No. No it's not that…I should be, shouldn't I? But after reading Twilight I'm just…not. I know it's lark, how Stephenie Meyer made them harmless. Critics are always going on and on about how she made vampires, "Nice, with souls, and utterly unrealistic!" I should be thinking back to before I read those books. To the vampires I used to know. To Count Dracula, the blood-sucking monstrosity who would lure in women before killing them. Max....sucking blood…killing people…

I sigh. The imagine won't come up in my head. Yes, Max has outwitted me – more than once, I'll confess to that. But being so evil it's just…impossible! And anyway, why tell me that? Why, if he had any plans to kill me, would I be told of his true form?

Maybe…he's a vegetarian, too? Maybe maybe MAYBE you're his 'blood singer'!!! A pesky little voice in my mind cheers. I groan. Yeah right. As if.

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I'm not sure, exactly, how Max will be acting when we get to school. But he's just…Max Kullun. Your typical Max. Annoying, persistent, and, in his odd way – charming.

He doesn't even mention the vampire issue. Or, ok, not issue exactly…but still. He doesn't even begin to hint at it. Instead, he just drops three books onto the table. I read the first title.

Czech Republic.

I look up at him and grin. Count Dracula or not, Max is great.

---- And that's the chapter! I kind of wanted her to play the guessing game like Bella had to do, but now everyone would guess vampire first – so that wouldn't work! Anyway, tell me what you'd like to see happen…I just may use it! -----