AND...because I really wanna know what you guys think about my awesome line...(ok, so maybe it's not that awesome, and I've probably hyped it up too much...so here's hoping you guys aren't disappointed)...I am going to post the next chapter...which means, yeah, this is the chapter with the line I've been going on about...
Chapter 22
“What’s all the drama for?” Nick asked, bouncing into Joe’s hotel room, followed by Kevin.
“Joe’s being an idiot.” I said, walking into my own hotel room and slamming the door between them.
“I am NOT being an idiot. SHE is the one rushing off to get herself KILLED.” I hoped Joe knew what he was doing…his brothers were going to want an explanation.
“Wait, what? You guys were fine this morning…what happened at Baskin Robins?” Kevin asked. I tried to ignore their conversation, but I wanted to know what he was planning on telling them.
“She’s…guys, sit down.” I heard the bed springs shift as they sat. “I have to tell you guys something, but I need you to stay quiet till I am finished, ok?”
“Sure, man.” Both of them agreed, sounding concerned. Then Joe gave them a condensed version of what had been going on for the past year, including what had happened at Baskin Robins earlier.
“…And that is why Nisha and I are fighting.” He finished. I felt bad, that he was facing his brothers alone at this moment, but I wasn’t ready to talk to any of them about this.
“Boy, Joe. You’ve told some wild stories, but vampires? Come on.” Kevin said.
“I dunno, Kev. That would explain her not eating anything but those smoothies she drinks. It would also explain how they can always hear us, and seem to know what will happen before it does.” Nick sounded like he might actually believe his brother.
“Maybe. Can you prove any of this?” Kevin was still skeptical.
“Yeah.” I heard him shuffle out of the room into his bathroom. “Come here.” His brothers followed.
“Holy crap. You have no reflection.”
“Oh my god.”
“So, now you know. But no one else can know. Otherwise, I’d probably get staked in the heart by some crazy fanatic who thinks vampires are evil.”
“So, you’re not evil?” Nick asked. “Then who was it who put shaving cream in the whipped cream dish? And who filled my hair gel bottle with ocean water?”
“Ok, so I’m a little evil. But I did that kind of stuff before I became a vampire, too.”
“Wait, let me make sure I’ve got this…You and Nisha are both vampires, which makes you both immortal.”
“Unless we get staked in the heart.” Joe interrupted Kevin.
“Right. And Nisha is planning on a fight to the death with her sister who turned you. She doesn’t want help. But Samar has black magic on her side?” Kevin asked.
“Right.”
“Is she nuts?” Great, two mortals trying to control me, too.
“She says I’m not ready to fight. I’ve been a vampire for over a year. She’s been helping to train me for some of that…”
“Hold it…approximately how long have you been training?” Kevin stopped him.
“Six months or so. Why?”
“That’s around the time I started losing to you at EVERY video game. I think I smell a rat.”
“Hey, since you’re immortal, you really WILL go to the year 3000.” Nick said, absentmindedly.
“Guys, focus. Nisha, death match, possible end of the world???”
