Dance With A Vampire for Chapter 20

Above her I drew a bat with ocean blue eyes. A kindred spirit of sorts. I imagined her back in Romania, thrashing it up at an underground club, the flashing lights twinkling against her like tiny ghosts as she danced the night away, oblivious to the handsome clubsters surrounding her, and waiting for the perfect moment to stop and pick the neck she wanted to taste. Not only was she bonded to her brother Jagger, but someday she'd be bonded to another vampire for all of eternity. Luna had actually accepted me as a vampiress. She complimented me on my style instead of being repulsed by it. But our relationship was really built on lies. I had convinced her I was from the Underworld, and she had fooled me into thinking she desired Trevor when in fact it was Alexander she wanted all along. I guess in our deceit we deserved each other. I'm sure Alexander could paint the teen and tween vampires as precisely as a photograph, but I managed to capture their essence. The images stared back at me as if they were real. I closed my journal on the rendered Maxwells and looked forward to tomorrow, when Alexander and I might finally put an end to their invasion of Dullsville. 5 Treehouse The next morning, Dullsville High's hallways were decorated with posters for the upcoming prom. VIVA LAS VALENTINES signs with red, pink, and white hearts filled the walls and classroom doorways. I shoved textbooks into my locker as Becky began to tack up passport-sized arcade booth pictures of her and Matt. "We took these Saturday night at the movie theater. Aren't they cool?" I stared at the four posesone with Matt's arm around Becky, one with them blinking, one where he was kissing her on the cheek, and the last with a Teen magazine smileall of them reflecting a couple in love. I gazed at my lockertacked with magazine clippings of Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Ville Valoand vacant of the one guy who meant the most to me. "I figured by now you'd have a shrine to Alexander, " Becky commented. "I did, too, " I admitted. That was before I knew he was a vampire, I wanted to say. "He's actually quite shy around the camera. " "No way. He's so handsome, he could be a model. " I glanced at my best friend, whose normally cherubic fresh face glowed more than ever.