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from being outside in just the t-shirt!”
    David grabbed the throw blanket off the sofa and wrapped it around me. Then, quite disturbingly, he smelled me.
    “I didn’t get a chance to take a shower yet,” I hastily explained.
    “It’s not that. You smell completely human now. I don’t think you’re a vampire at all anymore.”
    “How could that be? I mean, obviously, I am glad the sun didn’t burn me up but how did this happen?” I asked. “Also, I can’t remember where I left my glasses six months ago. And I think I need to take an allergy pill.” 
    Then, another thought occurred to me, and I raced back into the kitchen and threw open the fridge. There was a giant, two-liter bottle of Diet Coke, and it was still half full. I poured a glassful, and took a long sniff. As a vampire, human food had made me vomit, but this smelled as good to me as it used to. After a hesitant sip, I downed the entire glass like it was a shot of vodka.
    My previously favorite beverage was as good as I had remembered, and I quickly poured another glass, despite David’s warning of “Careful, you could get sick.”
    I took a breath to say, “I have a lot of lost time to make up for.” Then I emptied another glass into my stomach, which hadn’t had any human food in it for a good half year. 
    Maybe it was the carbonation, but suddenly I didn’t feel so well, and I rushed upstairs to the bathroom. I could hear David laughing behind me. 
    About an hour later, I once again emerged from my room, this time showered, dressed, and feeling more human. I had to remind myself that feeling more human was an expected thing, since now I actually was human. After my shower, I had found an old box of contact lenses and put in a pair, restoring my vision. I also located an old bottle of allergy pills, which I now had to take in order to breathe around my cat. 
    By then, it was a little after five in the afternoon, and the sun was still up, so I put on my jacket and again went into the back yard, this time much less dramatically.
    There was an old cast-iron table and chair set in the middle of the yard, and I sat down in it, taking in my surroundings. I looked around at the yard and was surprised at how pretty the spring flowers were in the afternoon sunlight. 
    In the time I had been an obligate creature of the night, I had told myself I didn’t miss things like the sun and being awake during the day, but now I realized that I had been lying to myself. I sighed and leaned back in the chair and let my head fall back so my face was up to the sun. The warm sensation coupled with the not-burning to a crisp sensation was very pleasant.
    David must have heard me walk outside, because he soon joined me at the table. “What are you going to do now?” he asked.
    “I was thinking about ordering a pizza, since it’s been a long time since I actually ate anything.”
    “I wouldn’t say no to pizza, but I was asking in the larger sense. Like what are you going to do with your human life now that you have it back?”
    “I don’t know,” I answered truthfully. “Before I became a vampire I wasn’t really doing much. I worked at the freelance job I have now, but full time. And I was dating a loser. Not much else.”
    “Will you go back to working full time?”
    “I guess I could. I mean, I might as well,” I said. “But I still don’t know how this happened, or even if I’ll change back again just as suddenly.”
    At that moment, the door slammed open and Tammy came out. “You guys would not believe what happened last night....Em! What are you doing? Get inside now!”
    “I’m okay,” I told her, holding up a hand. “See? The big ball of fire in the sky doesn’t want to kill me anymore.”
    Tammy narrowed her eyes at me and walked in a circle around the table, examining me from every angle. I sat still and submitted to this, feeling slightly uncomfortable.
    The door opened again then, and Amy came out. “You’re normal!” she