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It was a chilly and cloudless evening. Typical weather for the start of fall. I glanced at my Hello Batty watch. It was two in the morning. I knew I had school tomorrow but that wasn't what I was worried about. Something evil was in the air and I could just feel it…
Just then someone grabbed my wrist and the next thing I knew I was at the bottom of a freshly dug grave. Someone must've thrown me in here because I hit my back smack hard onto the cold dirt floor. My whole body ached from the dangerous fall. It took my breath away.
Gasping for air, I struggled to regain my balance as I kneeled up to get a better look of who was doing this to me. Standing above the empty grave was Jagger, laughing menacingly.
I let out a high pitched scream of terror as Jagger backed away from the grave. Standing around the rectangular hole, all decked in black and holding hands, were loved ones and not so loved ones. My mother and father were there of course, along with Billy and his nerd-mate Henry. Aunt Libby was sobbing uncontrollably into Trevor's sleeve. Next to him was Matt with his arm wrapped around Becky.
And kneeling over the grave, looking straight at me…was Alexander.
"Alexander?" I pleaded, reaching toward him, figuring he would help me out of here.
But instead of grasping my arm and pulling me out of the grave, disappearing into the night with me in his arms…
He shook his head and backed away.
He was out of sight.
I screamed again and my tongue slammed up against my front teeth. Two of them were as sharp as a knife. I gasped and glanced at my arms, which were ten times paler than before.
I was a vampire. I was one of the undead.
"She was such a beautiful girl." I heard my mother cry. "But she got herself into this."
I looked at her with shocked eyes. "Mom?"
I repeated her name over and over again, and then tried getting the attention of any of the others. None of them responded.
Just as Alexander had just did, they all backed away. Including my parents and my best friend, Becky.
"Somebody help me!" I shouted. I tried climbing out of the grave but it was no use considering my unexplainable loss of balance and control.
I immediately fell back onto the cold, rocky dirt as Jagger came flying into the tomb, landing straight on top of me with a loud thud.
I tried screaming again but he was sitting on my chest too hard. He was sucking the life out of me just by treating my like a human couch cushion!
Or maybe a vampire couch cushion?
He pulled a wooden stake from his back pocket.
I had no energy.
No composure.
No way of stopping him when he jammed the stake through my chest, my heart. No way to stop him from my whole world going black.
"Raven!" I awoke to the usually morning sounds of an angry mother slamming on my bedroom door yelling over a blaring alarm clock. I slammed my hand down on the snooze button and lifted my head.
"Shut up!" I yelled and sprang out of bed, wearing only underwear and a Voltaire tee and hurried over to my door to assure my mother I wasn't late…yet.
I cracked my door open and peeked my head out as Sarah Madison sighed with relief. "Morning mama." I greeted her in an obviously fake tone of enthusiasm.
"You got ten minutes." she warned me and disappeared from sight. My goodness did she not just sound like the guy from the Domino's commercial?
I silently shut my door, retreating over to my closet so I could retrieve the day's clothes. I picked my first-day-of-school's best. A black ruffled tutu skirt, knee-high Rocky combat boots, a striped black and white tee and a studded belt falling just at the hip. Black lipstick and charcoal shadow completed my Gothic attire.
Becky's horn was honking nonstop outside my window. Feeling like teasing since she was oh so early (thirty minutes to be exact) I popped open my window and leaned my head out. She instantly noticed and jumped out of her pickup.
"Raven what the hell do you think you are doing?" she demanded. Just like my mother! "I have to meet Matt at the bleachers!"
"And I have to meet Trevor in the bathroom for a good kick in the nuts and a head dive in the toilet!" I couldn't help myself.
Then she started tapping her foot impatiently, glaring up at me.
"Aww, come on Beck." I pleaded. "It's senior year, stop getting your panties all in a twist!"
With that IU ran out of my room and trotted down the stairs, not even bothering to shut off my lamp or close my window for that matter. I grabbed a pancake from the stove and my bag off the floor and flew out of the house like a bat.
I got in Becky's truck and started on my flapjack. She gave me a strange look.
"What?" I asked with a mouthful of pancake.
"No syrup, no butter you might as well be on your way to chokingville." she said and started the car, headed for the one place I dreaded the most: Dullsville High.
"How was Summer?" Becky grilled me for information on Alexander, obviously. "Have you and Alexander done it yet?"
"Becky!"
"Alright, alright." she sighed. Just make sure that when the time comes you get yourself a pack of condoms. "I recommend Trojan Ecsta-"
I cut her off my putting my hand in the air and making a lout beep sound with my mouth. "Enough."
She sighed, obviously upset by the fact that I had nothing to say about my sex life.
"Can you believe it's senior year?" she said excitedly. "I mean we're seniors! After this we're free! Who knows what's next for us."
"I believe I know what's next for me!" I joked but she obviously didn't get it, probably because I was referring to the fact that I would soon be Alexander's vampire princess.
She gave me a strange look after she pulled into the school, parking the car as close to the soccer fields as possible. She looked at me through concerned eyes. "What do you mean, Raven?"
Just then Matt came running up to the car. Becky completely forgot our conversation as usual, getting out of the truck and jumping into his arms. I sighed and yanked my bag off the floor and got out of her truck, starting towards the building. At least I remembered my schedule this time. Taking one last bite of my breakfast I stepped through the glass double doors of academic dulldom.
First period was my least favorite class of all time. Chemistry. And I knew the perfect place for a beaker full of methylene stain…right down Trevor's pants!
I got the usual glares and stares on my Gothiness as soon as I stepped foot in the room. Including the teacher. I took my usual seat in the back of the room and plopped my head down on top of one of my books.
And then something hit me right in the head like a bullet. Can I at least try to do something this year?
Throughout the rest of the day I stayed awake through…well, most of my classes. I even took a few notes and filed all papers handed out to me neatly in my notebook. I have to say I am quite proud of myself!
I was at my locker grabbing some necessities like a few notebooks and my iPod and hanging up my annual band posters and a painting or two from Alexander. Just then the one I person I feared seeing the most was…well, right outside of my locker. You've guessed it…Trevor Mitchell.
"Hey baby where's my start of a new school year kiss?" he teased, smiling that super-sexy smile at me that I just loved so much.
"How about your annual nut slam?" I asked and he gave me a puzzled look right before I kicked him hard right in the crotch. Before anyone could catch me and ruin my well-behaved first day, I took off for the exit.
It was just too bad that my locker was far from the school doors this year because Trevor came running up beside me.
Then he did the unthinkable. He slammed me into a wall full of lockers and kissed me full and hard on the lips. Normally I wouldn't let him, but…I was kind of trapped here.
After her was done some horrid memories came flooding to my mind.
Trevor. The cemetery. The picnic. The breathtaking kisses.
Trevor was right. I did go out with him this Summer!
My eyes clouded with tears as I pushed through him without even looking back. I wasn't going to let him have that joy. Not this time.
All I knew was that I had to see Alexander. Becky was sitting in her truck and immediately hopped out to come over and comfort me. She wrapped her arms around me and I buried my face into the shoulder of her sweater.
"Becky was I going out with Trevor this Summer?"
She nodded and helped me into her truck, taking a soaking-with-tears-Goth-girl back to her home.
As soon as I said goodbye I warmed up a cup of cocoa and curled up on the sofa, remembering all of when I was with Trevor…
It just hurt so bad. Not even washing off my makeup, I grabbed my bike and headed towards the mansion. I slammed the serpent knocker shakily against the ancient mahogany door.
Jameson answered, just as I predicted.
"Miss Raven." he greeted me, noticing the upsetting state I was in. "Fancy seeing you hear so early. Alexander is not quite ready to see you yet."
"I know, Jameson." I told him. The nice thing was how he was always such a reliable man for comfort. He gave me a friendly hug. "I know."
I walked through the drawing room and up the grand staircase. I walked as fast as I could and into Alexander's attic room. Moving his comfy chair, I noticed that the door to his secret room was slightly cracked. I let myself in.
I pressed my right ear against the morbid black coffin and I could hear my vampire boyfriend's steady breathing through the wooden casket. I noticed the painting of me, a lit candle and my necklace he replaced with the vampire's kiss one a long time back on the table.
My heart melted.
I opened Alexander's coffin. This was obviously not my normal behavior but I needed him more than ever right now.
I lay on top of him and closed the coffin. I must have closed it a little too loudly because he stirred and opened his eyes, smiling at me. I was actually surprised he wasn't mad at me for intruding this way.
"Hey baby." I greeted him, lightening up on the tears a bit.
"Raven." he whispered, stroking my hair and trailing his fingers down my spine, sending shivers right down to my combat boots.
"Just keep sleeping." I told him. "Just sleep."
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