I don't own True Blood

It was 8 o'clock when I parked in Merlotte's after a long drive from Shreveport. It is custom that every Friday after school, or a sorority event, I come to Bon Temps to spend the weekend. The only few exceptions were if a sorority event was in the weekend, then I had to stay in Shreveport.

The first thing I hear when I enter is Lafayette yelling at John to check the catfish. What a nice welcoming…

"Look who's here! Is my little visiting all the way from the Ivy!" Dawn said as soon as she sees me. Then she comes to give me a hug, completely forgetting about her orders.

"Dawn, just because is a private university, doesn't mean is Ivy League" I whispered to her when she pulled away.

"I know that, but they" referring to the costumers. "Don't" Then she grab my hand and led me to the bar. "Lafayette! Get some fries for my sister!" Lafayette is the cook, and a great one at that. He's also gay, and wears more makeup than I do. He's great.

"Yeah! Get some fries for her sister" I drawled while sitting on a bar stool.

"I'll be right back, I got a tray with my name on it" Dawn said to me and left to do her work. That's when Lafayette came out of the kitchen with my fries. Or I hope those are my fries.

"Honey Child, aren't you supposed to be having pillow fights with the rest of your 'sisters'?" He said while setting down the fries in front of me.

"We do that Wednesday nights. Besides, I wanted to spend time with my favorite people In the world" I said looking at him with innocent eyes;

"Mmhm, I think you just missed my cooking" And then he went back to the kitchen.

"Can you blame me?" I called after him. Seriously, if it weren't for Dawn, I would eat here everyday. As long as Lafayette keeps cooking, that is.

Then I heard it.

"Make sure you do, and before it's too late, because every year you wait, you just get more and more stuck here. Believe me, I know." That's Sookie Stackhouse, as in Jason's sister. She's also a telepath, Jason told me like six months after we came here. He told me it was because of her telepathy that she couldn't finish college. And I completely understand it, I mean, it's already hard enough, then she has to add the thoughts of everyone around her swirling in her head 24/7. Ouch.

Sookie then walks away on makes this face, as in pushing the thoughts away, which I guess she does. Then she comes to stand at the end of the bar.

"Can you block them now?" I asked her. She turned around, surprised to see me there, or maybe because of the question.

"Adrian, hi!" She then turns her head to see if anyone is listening. The closest person is Sam, who is behind the bar, and talking to a costumer. "Yes, I'm fine. Anyway, how is that fancy college of yours?"

"Oh, you know… fancy. But I'm doing well"

"That's great, your parents must be real proud of you" I looked down.

Even after six years, I still can't take someone mentioning them. What can I say? My memories of them haven't been very pleasant.

Sookie having read my thoughts, or seen my face, started apologizing. "I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to…"

"It's alright, seriously. Don't beat yourself about it" She started to say something, but the phone rang. Sam came to answered it.

"Evening, Merlotte's."

Silence

"Hey, Tara."

Silence

"Yeah, she's right here." Sam hands the phone to Sookie.

"I'm so sorry, Sam. She knows not to call me at work." Sookie said, covering the phone.

"Sookie, it's OK. You don't abuse a privilege like Arlene does."

Arlene, who was passing by with a tray said. "Hey! I heard that."

And Sam says. "Well, I wish you would hear that!" which Arlene answered.

"Please, Sam. I have kids" Then Sookie started talking on the phone with Tara.

Just another day at Merlotte's.

Then Sookie hands over the phone to Sam as Dawn walks up to the bar and ruffles my hair. No matter how old I get, she will always sees me as her little sister.

"Mack and Denise Rattray are just about to sit down in your section." She says to Sookie.

Sookie and I whirl around and see the couple near a booth. Denise adjusts the bodice of her top while Mack smacks her on the butt. To which Denise says. "What the fuck?"

What a lady.

Then Sam says to Sookie. "Don't let 'em get to you, chère. They're not worth it." Sam has a really big crush on Sookie.

Sookie turns and walks towards the booth.

"Two Tecates Sam" Dawn says. While Sam goes for the beers, she asks me. "How are things at the white house?" My sorority house is white, and is the only sorority or fraternity house painted this color.

"They're OK" I said with a sly smile. My sorority is Omega Kappa, but we like to call ourselves OK. So every time any of the sisters say ok, is like an inside joke. "Especially now that the pledges are here" Oh the fun I shall have.

"Didn't you say that if you became a sister you wouldn't make the pledges do the things they made you do?" She asks as Sam brings the tecates.

"Yeahhh, but I changed my mind. Now I want them to suffer just as much as I did" What can I say? College does things to a girl.

Dawn laughed and went to serve her tables.

Then my focus goes on to Arlene who is talking to one of her children on the phone.

"Honey, if René tells you you're too young to watch a scary movie on HBO, then I'm siding with him." Sam walks up behind her, Arlene turns and catches his perturbed look. "I know he's not your daddy, but your daddy does not want to live with us anymore. Remember?"

Things after that were kind of normal. Lafayette talking trash to my sister and Arlene, I only caught Arlene saying something about peaches and cream. Then Tara came to the bar and complain about her life.

"My life sucks" Then Sookie came to put some sense into her.

"Tara, don't you be feeling sorry for yourself. That's just lazy."

"Why can't I keep a job?" Maybe because she can't keep her mouth shut?

"Maybe because you can't keep your mouth shut." Sookie responded.

"Bitch, who asked you?" Then Tara winks at Sookie and smiles.

"Is just that they can't handle you" I said.

"Damn right they can't handle me. Fucking racists" And she took a swig of her margarita.

Then Sam came over and started talking to Sookie.

That's when the vampire showed up, all dark and mysterious. Well, the only dark he had was his hair, but when it comes to vampires, I always see them with some kind of dark aura surrounding them.

It's fucking weird.

Even though he's on the other side of the place, he and Sookie get into a staring contest that seem to go on forever. Then Sookie turns around looking very excited.

"Oh, my God! I think Merlotte's just got its first vampire!"

"I think you're right." Sam says.

"Can you believe it? Right here, in Bon Temps? I've been waiting for this to happen since they came out of the coffin two years ago!" Then she hurries over to the vampire's booth.

She's been waiting to see a vampire for two years?

It's obvious she hasn't been to Shreveport.

She and the vampire seem to hit it off, that is until the Rattray's decided to make their presence known. Then Sookie came to the bar.

"What a bitch! You ... really think that ... she's gonna let him bite her?" She said when she reached us.

"I hope not, you don't know where she's been" I said, which cause Sookie to smile. Then Tara ruined the moment

"You know how many people are having sex with vampires these days? Sometimes those people ... disappear."

"No. He's not like that." Sookie defended him. No offense Sookie, but you barely spoken to him. Tara seem to voice my opinion.

"OK, OK, you spoke to him for, like, a minute! You don't know how many people he sucked the blood out over the last however many centuries he's been alive!"

"She has a point" I said.

"But he's so not scary." Am I the only one who sees the dark aura surrounding him?

"Sweet Jesus in heaven, Sookie! He is a vampire!" Tara really wanted to get her argument to win.

"Yeah, but the synthetic blood has everything..." Poor, naïve Sookie.

That's when Sam decided to intervene.

"Are you willing to pass up all your favorite foods and spend the rest of your life drinking Slim-Fast?" Well, it depends…

Sookie rolls her eyes at Tara and looks over at the vampire's booth. After a while she heads to the booth.

"I think she likes him" I mused out loud.

"A fucking vampire" Tara says.

That's when I decided it was time to leave, so I went outside and made a beeline to my car. Only to turn around, because I just remembered I had to park on the back because the parking lot was full.

When I reached my car, I was about to head in when my phone rang.

'Light pink, dark pink, we make the boys hearts sing, OK!'

My ringtone is my sorority's chant. Sue me, I have school spirit.

"Hello"

"Adrian, is me, Jason"

"Hi Jason, what's up"

"Are you in Bon Temps?"

"Yeah, I'm actually at Merlotte's"

"Good, here's the thing, your sister and I may need the condo for ourselves if you know what I mean" And after years of experience, I do know what he means.

"I thought she was mad at you because you didn't call her"

"Well, let's see about that. But if you wouldn't mind…"

"Alright"

"You're the best" And he hang up.

The good thing is that we already have a system when this happens. Meaning that I stay over at Sookie's for the night.

And speak of Sookie and she shall appear.

With a chain attached to her neck.

"Adrian, what are you doing here?" She asks when she reached me.

"Going home. Or more likely, to yours" I said sheepishly.

"Jason?" She guessed.

"Jason"

"Are you going to explain that?" I said gesturing to the chain.

"When we get to the house"

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