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steps. �Why didn�t you say anything about Becky?� I asked when we reached the door. �He�s harmless. He falls for girls all the time and whines when they don�t fall back. I was surprised he didn�t declare his love for you.� Alexander fingered my belt loops and drew me to him. �Yeah, why didn�t he?� I asked, gazing up at him.�I�m sure he did,� he said, brushing my hair away from my face. �He just knows what I�d do to him if he did anything about it.� �You think he�d really like me?� For a moment, I too was as giddy as Becky had been. Not because I liked Sebastian but because I liked the idea of being admired. I spent so much of my life in Dullsville being ostracized, it was exhilarating to know that I might be attractive to the male species, especially when the male species was the vampire kind. �How could he miss the most beautiful girl in Dullsville�or the world, for that matter?� Alexander asked. �He�d have to be blinder than a bat.� My boyfriend stared at me, his chocolate eyes burning through me. He leaned into me and gave me a five-star kiss.5 Grave Situation The following morning, I was lumbering around my room in a towel and Jack Skellington slippers like a lost zombie, vacuously trying to figure out what to wear to school, when I heard Becky repeatedly blast her truck�s horn. I threw on the first thing I saw, a charcoal-colored T-shirt dress, and layered it with a ripped Wicked Wiccas tank, gathered my backpack, and haphazardly dragged myself out of my house. When I got into her truck, Becky was sporting an overblown grin. �What�s up?� I asked. �He texted me like a hundred times.� She blurted out the words as if she�d been holding them in for a decade. �Who?� I asked. But I already knew the answer. �Sebastian?� She tried to hide the smile that crept across her face by chewing on her sparkling pink lip and drove us toward school. �How did you know?� �A hundred?� I asked flatly. �Well�not exactly. But I�m going to have to buy more minutes.� �What did he say?� �He wanted to know what I was doing�what I liked to do�what were my favorite flowers.� Becky beamed. �Did you answer?� �I did until Matt texted in. Then I told him I had to go.� �You shouldn�t be texting Sebastian.� �Why?� �Why? Because you have a boyfriend.� �I know that. But it�s no big deal.� �Are you kidding?� Becky was as serious as she was naive. She was so amazed that Matt liked her, she couldn�t fathom that another guy might possibly feel the same. �Texting another guy? In some countries you could be jailed.� �Raven, I think you�re totally overreacting.� �Me? Overreact? Promise me you won�t text him anymore.� �He was just being nice.� �He�s not being nice. He�s dangerous,� I blurted out. �He�s a criminal?� Becky squealed. �Of course not,� I said, and sighed. Becky was being unusually stubborn. I knew it was because she simply didn�t think I wasn�t going to leave her in the dark anymore. I had to use all my ammunition. �He�s dangerous for different reasons than you think. He�s in love with you!� Becky almost slammed on the brakes. �You�re joking.� �No�it�s true.� �No one�s ever been in love with me. Not even Matt.� �What? Of course Matt loves you.� �Well, he�s never said it.� I was surprised. I figured Matt told her all the time, as Alexander told me. �Are you sure?� �Yes, I�m sure. I would have told you the minute he told me.� �I just assumed he already had. But clearly, he doesn�t need to. It�s written all over his face.� �You think so?� she asked with doughy eyes. �You know how I feel about him.� �Of course he loves you. That�s why you have to stay away from Sebastian. So you don�t spoil your relationship with Matt.��I�d never let that happen. But I don�t believe you about Sebastian. Truly, he was being