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figured if I could be a badass vampire, I wouldn’t miss my old life so much. It was nice having someone to distract me from wishing I could call my mom or kiss Jeremy one last time.
    Plus it was sort of exciting to have someone be that into me. He couldn’t keep his hands offme, no matter how many times I threw him into a wall or nearly broke his fingers. I admired his persistence.
    On the other hand, it got harder and harder not to bite him. You have to understand, the blood we drink every day to stay alive comes out of a jar in the refrigerator. It is the very definition of gross. Vampires are designed to drink from living (or very recently dead) people; that’s what we’re hungry for. Olympia was trying to teach me to exercise self-control, but I wasn’t learning nearly fast enough to keep up with my relationship with Zach.
    After three months, I started thinking about the future. By that point, I thought Zach was pretty hot. I figured it was almost definitely true love forever. And wouldn’t it suck (ha ha!) if I stayed sixteen and he got older and older? Wouldn’t it make more sense to turn him into a vampire while he was still my own age? Then we could really be together forever. Awesome, right?
    But I still don’t think I would have done anything on my own. I would have waited at least another three months to be sure that I liked himthat much. I mean, I’m not totally crazy.
    Unfortunately, it was only a month later when Zach spotted my teeth sliding out during one of our make-out sessions—this time in a closet that was apparently not dim enough.
    “Whoa,” he said, stepping back. “What’s wrong with your teeth?”
    “Uh—nothing,” I said, covering my mouth with one hand. I turned away from him, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me around.
    “That is so weird,” he said, which was a much calmer reaction than I would have had. He reached out and touched one of my teeth with his index finger. A drop of blood immediately appeared on his skin, and I panicked. Was that enough to turn him into a vampire? That wouldn’t be fair! I hadn’t intentionally bitten him!
    At the same time, I couldn’t stop myself from licking it off. He took his hand back and we stared at each other for a minute.
    “Okay, yes,” I said. “I’m a vampire.”
    Zach let out a bark of laughter. “That’s impossible,” he said.
    I let my teeth slide all the way out and heldback my hair so he could see the marks on my neck. “It’s not impossible; it’s just lame. Here, check for a pulse, you’ll see.” I grabbed his hand and wrapped his fingers around my wrist.
    I knew he wouldn’t find a heartbeat on me, but we were close enough to each other that I could hear his own heart speeding up as he held my wrist and stared at me some more.
    “Don’t worry,” I said. “I don’t bite. Ha ha.” I took my hand back, prying off his fingers. I was about to walk out of there and straight home to tell Olympia we needed to move again, when he finally spoke, in a wobbly, I just saw a pterodactyl kind of voice.
    “What if I wanted you to?” he asked.
    “Wanted me to what?”
    “Bite me,” he said. He took my wrists again and pulled me closer, shaking back his hair to expose his neck. “Do it. I want to be like you. I want to be a vampire, too.”
    “Yikes, dude,” I said, trying not to look at his neck. “Care to think about that for half a minute? It’s kind of like proposing to me, only even more eternal.” I thought that would scarehim off, but it didn’t. Which maybe should have been a warning sign, but at the time I found it endearing. So sue me. I was in love…or at least I thought I was.
    “Exactly,” Zach said. “I love you. I’ll always love you. I want to be with you forever.”
    I didn’t say yes. Not even with his neck right there waiting for me. Some little corner of my brain was going, Wait! Think! This is not a normal reaction! Run away! Unfortunately that little voice wasn’t yelling loud