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Becky must have read my wistful expression I bet Alexander will be back anytiraveside picnics with you, Becky offered with a bright smile

Alexander and his creepy-but-kind butler, Ja tween vampire, Valentine Maxwell, to Hipsterville in hopes of reuniting hier and Luna After Valentine tried to sink his tiny fangs intoand his best friend, Henry, began questioning his possible nocturnal identity While Alexander was upstairs in his attic roo the sickly boy with Jaer`s and Luna`s location--the Coffin Club And with that, Alexander was forced to leave me behind in Dullsville as he reunited Valentine with his older siblings Alexander had promised me that he would return to Dullsville shortly However, e thought would be an overnight visit to Hipsterville turned into two, then three days Then longer

The sultry hoht life into my already darkened one As the lonely old Mansion rean to s about him--the way he softly brushed my hair away frohost white fingers I ht, sexy smile, his tender lips pressed to mine

I ed to reo-cart of fun In theon the school`s soccer tea beneath its skeletal trees, by its wrought-iron gates, or on its uneven weed-filled cracked ceazebo where Alexander and I`d shared romantic desserts and stolen kisses

I assured hts of Ja driveway, but every night I went home alone, the driveway devoid of any hearse-like vehicles

I crossed each passing day off iant black X It was starting to look like a one-sided tic-tac-toe ga, and when it did, I`d race to the front door in wild expectation of Alexander wrapping his pale ar reeted by my boyfriend, I wasa bouquet of roses My already darkened bedroo to resemble Dullsville`s funeral home

With each passing day, I wondered what could be taking hierous and underworldly? My boyfriend, always shrouded in a bit of mystery, only made me love him more

I had secured the painting of us in my backpack and then untacked a special item next to it--my Coffin Club barbed-wire bracelet

The Coffin Club The htspot in Hipsterville I`d stuout when I visited the funky town a few o Unlike any other club I`d ever been to, the Coffin Club was the antithesis of Dullsville High It was the first place where I really fit in, surrounded by si there with Alexander on htclub and uy

I untacked the painting of Alexander and olf course

I`d give anything to be rockin` with Alexander again I i tounderneath the suspended deathly pale mannequins of the Coffin Club

Just then Matt interruptedI was desperatelyfrom Alexander

Becky was right I knew I`d see Alexander again--it was just arestless