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"You&039;re daht I don&039;t!" I slapped my notebook shut In fact, I didn&039;t I was pretty sure "How : I can hearall ers Maslowian self-actualization like getting body-slammed by a Pontiac Aztek

But no matter how bad I sound to myself, I can&039;t help it My situation is inored, even though I a myself ad nauseum is one of the ah, like Sinclair Not shost, like Cathie Not a clever doc, like Marc; or an indifferent psychic olf, like Antonia You knohat it&039;s like to be called a queen and have the least to offer ao hit

"We got it, Betsy," Jessica was saying "No party Fine"

"Fine"

"Why are you-" Sinclair caught Jessica&039;s frantic aruests?"

"Guests?" I tried not to freak out They were throwingit teeks before hed, which was about as close as he got to a blitzing tantruuests?&039; like you don&039;t reht"

"And Sophie and Lia over her own memos

"I know I know" I did know Sophie and Lia vampire who lived in a tiny town up north with her very alive, thirtyso boyfriend, Liam They&039;d been a couple for a few months, and a while back they&039;d helped us catch a real creep, a va the themselves

Sophie, in fact, had kind of renewed my faith in vampiredom It seemed to me that most of us were jerks, men and women who found sexual pleasure in felony assault But Sophie was made of purer stuff-the evil that supposedly consu tonight, along with the pleasant (if soation was just what I didn&039;t need: a bunch of ancient va in to irritatethirty last year (and dying) hadn&039;t been trauet," I said Truth I just had been trying hard to ignore it

He smoothed his dark hair, which was already perfectly in place Uh-oh So was up "Um, Jessica, I wonder if you could excuse-"

"Don&039;t even," she warned hiMarc depends on uys are up to"

Eric said soe I didn&039;t know Which ibberish, and they talked for awhether to kick you out or not," I said to Jess

"Duh"

"Let&039;s speak our own language: we&039;ll call it English, which really fucking rude valared at the two of the I wasn&039;t sure if they were ignoring me or honestly hadn&039;t heard, so I took the mature route and just spoke louder

"IT&039;S PROBABLY A SAFETY ISSUE YOU KNOW WHAT ASSHATS THOSE OLD VAMPIRES CAN BE THAT&039;S WHY THESE TWO GET OFF ON INVITING THEM OVER ANYWAY, ONE OF THEM WILL PROBABLY TRY TO CHOMP YOU, AND WE&039;LL HAVE A BIG WICKED FIGHT, ALL OF WHICH WE CAN AVOID IF YOU JUST HANG IN THE BASEMENT WITH GARRETT"

"No, no, no My house No offense, Garrett"

Garrett shrugged in response He hadn&039;t offered much since his Shah sandal observation, and stuck to his knitting He had been spending irlfriend, a ho never turned into a wolf, was in Massachusetts Apparently her pack leader&039;s wife had had another baby She bitched, but she went Garrett stayed, which was fine by me-it wasn&039;t like we didn&039;t have the room Antonia could come back with half the pack and we&039;d have the room

I had to admit, I had no idea what Antonia (the olf, not my stepmother) saw in him

Side note: hoeird was it that I kneomen na, but I figured I was just lucky

Back toI(it was the rare vampire asn&039;t), but I had the impression he wasn&039;t the sharpest knife in the drawer Not toaround on all fours and drinking blood by the bucket Antonia was s idiot, she could see the future Hello? See the future She could have had anybody, I figured

She would have disagreed Violently It was a brunette with the body of a swimsuit model who could see the future had rotten self-esteee? Garrett and Antonia had a good thing

"Very well," the questionable prize I was dating said at last, in English "You may stay But Jessica, please watch what you say and do Don&039;t look the Speak only when spoken to Yes, sir; yes, ma&039;am"

"Sit up Arf," I teased

"What about her?" Jessica cried, pointing in eneral direction "She&039;s more in need of an etiquette lesson than I am"

"Yeah," I said, "but I&039; Q Hey, you&039;re looking ! Eric, make her stop!"

"Give ing noises