Chapter Seven

There was a car horn honking. It brought me out of my dream. Chris and I got up, and headed outside. We had surfboards, and got in with Shane and his group. I saw a window move, and knew that Jillian, the nosy bitch, was watching us.

"You're sharking it, man, you're sharking it." Said Jon to Kyle.

"Who wants some?" Kyle asked, after taking a big drag.

"Now you ask?" Jon said, taking it.

"Where we headed?" Chris asked.

"Devil's Reef." Shane answered. "I hear it's firing right now."

"We're paddling out tonight?"

"Yeah, why not?"

It was nighttime, stupid.

"There's no moon, bet we're not gonna see anything." Chris told him. Everyone laughed. "What, you guys have night vision or something?"

"What kind of night vision fuck are you chatting about, boy?" Erik asked. He seemed to have something like a Jamaican accent. I couldn't place it.

"Can't you turn yourselves into bats?"

"Way too many movies, bro." Jon said.

"Yeah, we don't have night vision, Chris." Shane said.

"Bats, they don't actually have night vision either, they have, uh, sonar." Kyle said.

"You know what, Chris? You're half right. Like I told you before, we do see things differently." Kyle took a drink. "Kind of like you're about to." Kyle handed the flask to Shane, who took a drink. "After you have a little taste of this." Nicole took a drink, and then handed it to Chris. Chris took it, and then took a drink. Everyone cheered him on. Some even banged on the car. Chris handed the flask to me. I looked at it before I took it, and then looked inside. Closing my eyes, I took a big swig, and heard cheering going on around me. I swallowed the blood, and felt a change. A weird change. An awkward change.

And somehow, I liked it.

Everything spun for a minute, and then Erik said something. Chris and I smiled. Kyle and Jon laughed.

"You haven't seen anything yet." Shane told us.

"No, you ain't. You're not done yet." Said Erik.

"Wait till you see the girls we got waiting for us at the reef, bro." Jon said.

Sorry, I don't roll that way.

"It's gonna be crazy, bro. Crazy."

```~~~DEVIL'S REEF~~~```

We were surfing for a while, and then came to shore. Everyone was having a good time.

"Alright, my turn." Kyle said. He took something from the girl, and drew on her.

"Did you ever think of getting your own thing?" Erik asked.

"Did you ever hear of shutting the hell up?"

"You mind yourself, boy. Mister, ease off. Alright, enough." Kyle started cheering. "What? What, what?"

"Camera, please." Kyle said. Jon threw him the camera. He caught it. "Alright, girls. Show me something that I can't find on YouTube."

A girl stood, and lifted her top, flashing everyone.

"That's what I'm talking about." Kyle said. "What about you, sweet thing? You really gonna let her step you up like that?"

"No." the girl said, unzipping her pants. She pulled down her pants and her underwear, and showed him her ass. Jon kissed it. I wrinkled my nose, thinking that these girls are crazy. Next to me, Chris was sitting next to a really sweet blonde girl, and they were making out.

"Oh, yes, that's sexy, but still that's something that I can see on my Girls Gone Wild box set, so," Kyle said. "...I dare you guys to kiss."

"Double dare?" A girl asked.

"Double dare."

The girl kissed the one that lifted up her top.

"Oh, fuck, are you seeing this? Seriously, watch."

"Guys?" Shane said.

"Oh, hey." Jon muttered.

"We're out of here."

"Where are you going?" Chris asked, standing. I stood too.

"Back to our place, for a drink."

"We'll come with you."

"No, hang back, you two, there's plenty for you to do here. Well, maybe not Casey."

I glared.

"Besides," Shane continued. "This is Nicole's time."

The couple then left.

"Just have a seat." Kyle said. Chris and I sat back down.

"Attaboy. Attagirl." Jon said. We watched as Shane and Nicole left. "So, check this out. Do you know that salt water and blood are basically the same thing? It's true. There's a French biologist that did this experiment on a stray dog around the turn of the century. He drained all of the blood out of the dog, and replaced it with diluted seawater, and everybody thought that this dog was gonna die. Except the dog didn't. What they found is that all the missing blood had regenerated. The saltwater became blood. And after that, the dog was more alive and vibrant than it ever had been before. The dog went on to live a long and very healthy life."

They were passing around the flask again. He kissed the girl, and then handed Chris the flask.

"To long life, Chris." He said. Chris took it, and drank some.

"Let me try some of that." The girl next to him said.

"Oh, hey. I don't think you'll find it too much to your liking. You might wanna just stick with the beer."

Everyone laughed. The girl took a drink of her beer, and then looked at Jon.

"So what exactly was the point of your very long and boring story, Jon?" she asked.

"Basically, what he's trying to say is, we're vampires." Kyle said. The girls laughed.

"Ooh. Scary."

"No, but seriously." Jon said. He hid his face, and came out looking like an animal. "We're vampires." He said, in a demented voice. Everyone started turning, and eating the girls except for Chris and myself. The one girl that was kissing him was screaming, trying to leave.

"No, no, no." Chris said. Chris looked at the girl.

"Do it." Jon said. Chris and I fought back as we started vamping out. "Do it!"

"Run. Go. Come on." Chris said, and Chris, the girl, and I took off. Jon came, and knocked us down. He leaned over the girl, and Chris and I tried to get him off, but he knocked us away. The girl screamed, and Jon silenced her as I heard a sickening sound of a bone crack.

"You're fucked up." Jon said. "Shane's not around to save your asses, and I've pretty much had it with your attitudes." Jon went over to Chris, and began kicking him. "Guess you think I'm kidding you, bud," he said, as Erik and Kyle walked up. "But it ain't so. Where's Shane now bi—? Fuck." He said when Chris punched him. He leaped at him, and Chris shoved a branch though him. Chris and I looked at each other as Jon began vomiting blood. He fell, and white foam came out of his mouth. Kyle whooped after Jon was dead.

"Ain't got no fucking stick now, do you?" he said. Erik growled. "Come on, let's finish this."

"Hey!" we heard. Erik and Kyle turned as Chris and I looked up. It was Edgar. He had two stakes in his hands. "Who ordered the stake?" he turned the stakes to where the parts that went through the vampires were sticking up. Erik and Kyle took off. "Are you cool?"

"Yeah, we're cool." Chris answered.

"I said, are you cool? Show me your teeth."

"I said I'm cool." Chris and I said.

"And I said, show me your teeth."

Chris and I ran up there, and Chris had Edgar by the shirt. I stood back, baring my teeth.

"We. Are. Cool." Chris said.

"Yeah, I can see that." Edgar said, showing no emotion.

"We don't have time for this shit, Eddie. We have to get to the nest and get my sister before she feeds."

"That's what I'm talking about."

Chris let Edgar go, and we walked off.

"I hate fucking vampires." Edgar said, following us.