Read You Suck: A Love Story for Free Online

telling what they might do, the two of them, but he felt fear chilling his spine and he couldn’t make himself turn around. Perhaps they wouldn’t hurt poor William. After all, they had been sweet children in life, both of them. And even in her current state, Jody had shown a certain quality of mercy by waiting until now to turn Tommy. Still, he had a city he was responsible for, and he could not shirk that responsibility.
    It was a long walk to the Marina Safeway, but he had to reach it before the night crew left. As knavish as they might be, they were the only people in his city who actually had experience hunting vampires.
    B ite him,” Tommy said. He was standing over the huge cat guy, who had passed out again under the statue.
    Jody shook her head and shuddered. “He’s filthy. Don’t tell me you can’t smell that.” Since she’d become a vampire, she’d only experienced nausea when she tried to eat real food, but she was nauseated now, despite the hunger grating in her core.
    “Here, I’ll clean off a spot.” Tommy fished a tissue out of his coat pocket, licked it, and cleaned a spot on William’s neck. “There. Go for it.”
    “Yuck.”
    “I bit the cat,” Tommy said. “You said yourself that you were starving.”
    “But he’s hammered.” Jody said. She was taking little steps in place like a little kid who has to pee.
    “Bite him.”
    “Quit saying ‘bite him.’ I don’t think of it like that.”
    “How do you think of it?”
    “I don’t really think of it. It’s sort of an animal thing.”
    “Oh, I see,” Tommy said. “Bite him before some cops come along and take him away and you miss your chance.”
    “Ewww,” Jody said, kneeling beside William. Chet the huge cat looked up at her from William’s lap, then put his head down and closed his eyes. (Blood loss had mellowed him.) Jody pushed William’s head aside and reared back with her mouth open wide as her fangs extended. She closed her eyes and bit.
    “See how easy that was,” Tommy said.
    Jody glared at him without letting go, her breath rasping through her nose as she fed. She thought, I should have hit him harder when I had the chance. Finally, when she felt she’d taken enough to sustain her, but not enough to hurt the huge cat guy, she pulled away, sat down, and looked up at Tommy.
    “You’ve got a little-” Tommy gestured to the corner of her mouth.
    She wiped her mouth with her hand, came away with a little lipstick and a little blood. She looked at William’s neck. It’s was sort of a dirt-gray color, with a white spot rimmed in lipstick. The punctures from her fangs had already healed, but the lipstick sort of stood out like a target. She reached over and wiped the lipstick off with her palm, then wiped her palm off on the huge cat’s sweater. Chet purred.
    William snored. Jody climbed to her feet.
    “How was it?” Tommy asked.
    “How do you think it was? It was necessary.”
    “Well, I mean, when you used to bite me it was kind of a sexual thing.”
    “Oh, right,” Jody snapped. “I planned all this because I wanted to fuck the huge cat guy.” She was feeling a little light-headed for some reason.
    “Sorry. We should get him off ofMarket Street,” Tommy said, “before he gets robbed or arrested. He’s got to have some of the money left. That much alcohol would have killed him.”
    “The hell do you care, writer boy? You shaved and ate his cat. Or was that a sexual thing?” She was definitely feeling light-headed.
    “That was a mutual-”
    “Oh, bullshit. Bite him. See how sexual it is. Get a taste of that down-home human hemoglobin goodness, Tommy. Don’t be a wuss,” Jody said. Well, he was being a wuss.
    Tommy stepped back. “You’re drunk.”
    “And you’re being a wuss,” Jody said. “Wuss, wuss, wuss.”
    “Help me. Take his feet. There’s a sheltered alcove over by the Federal Reserve building across the street. He can sleep it off there.”
    Jody bent to take the guy’s feet,