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this time it was to bring my mouth to his.  Our lips met and suddenly 20,000 volts of electricity was pulsing through me.  There was something about kissing Jack that made me feel like my whole body was humming and glowing. Like a florescent light bulb. 
    It wasn’t a big intense kiss, just a slight brushing of our lips before he pulled away and laid his head back down, pulling his hat down over his eyes.  No, it wasn’t a big kiss, it was just enough to pull the earth off its gravitational axis for a split second, leaving me floating through the atmosphere.
    “Jack?”
    He mumbled back.
    “Thanks for rescuing me and not killing me after you saw the bite.”
    Pushing his hat up enough so one eye was focused squarely on me, he grunted.  “Remind me we need to investigate that tomorrow.”  He winked at me and pulled his hat back down, settling in to fall asleep.
    I lay my head on his chest with a smile, glad to have the chance to fall asleep in his arms, even just one more time.  “How was he planning to investigate my bite mark?”
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 3
     
     
     
     
     
    Something wet was running down my arm.  Groaning, I peeled an eyelid open long enough to see Chloe, Jack and Ty sitting in a circle around my arm with a bottle of peroxide and a Q-Tip.
    “What the hell, guys?”  I moaned as they poked and prodded my bite.
    “It’s completely healed…” Ty’s astonishment forced both my eyes to open as I struggled to sit up.
    “What do you mean it’s…?” My voice died out as I looked at where the bite had been on my arm.  It really was healed.  The skin surrounding it was still angry looking, but the bite itself had closed completely and new skin had already grown over it.  There was bruising, but it no longer looked like a bite at all.
    I looked up at the surprised faces around me, echoed back in my own expression.  Pulling my knees under me, I stood up, using the wall as a crutch.  My bones creaked in protest and my muscles were stiff from sleeping on concrete, but I didn’t feel like shit anymore.  I felt hot and my heart was beating out a fast staccato in my chest, but I didn’t feel bad…just weird.  Thoughts raced through my mind so fast I couldn’t snatch onto a single one before it flitted away, only to be replaced by a thousand more.  I was so… aware .  Not just the normal kind of awareness, but it was more somehow.  Like I could feel the molecules in the air and the vibrations stirred by the subtle movement of breathing from the people still sitting on the floor. 
    Jack stood and came closer.  He stared at every inch of my face like he was trying to memorize it and put his hand on my forehead.
    “You’re warm.  Hot, even.  Do you feel ok?”  There was so much concern in his eyes I wanted to smile, but behind the concern I could see the hesitation as well, and I heard his pulse quicken as he backed the tinniest fraction of a step from me.  He was scared.
    Why was he so scared ?  “I feel fine, a little warm, but ok for the most part.  Why, do I look terrible or something?”  My voice came out low and smooth and it threw me off.  I sounded so calm it was starting to freak me out; it was my voice, but somehow it just… wasn’t . 
    The 3 of them just stood there, staring at me.  I started to feel like an ant under a magnifying glass and it was creeping me out.  “Seriously, what the fuck, guys?!”
    Ty and Chloe had stood up and were huddled next to Jack, all 3 looking concerned and confused.
    Chloe stepped forward and ran her hand down my cheek.  “It’s amazing, you look like you, but different.  Not bad, but not good.”  The blood pulsing under her skin was singing to me to the point it was a loss when she pulled her hand back. 
    Wait, what the fuck?!  How was it that I could hear her blood?!  Starting to panic, I turned away quickly, rushing over to the door with the glass window.  My