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It was the next night and ere back in the kitchen Half the table (and it was a big table) was covered with liquor bottles and half-full drinking glasses It looked like ere all going on a bender, but the truth was, Marc was trying to teach us how toa bit of success; she&039;d get her rainbow halfway le into the rest of it

Allthirsty I didn&039;t care; I drank theclose to drunk

"Just-okay, watch ain See? You slooooowly let it sort of dribble off the spoon Otherwise it&039;ll all et the first layer," I said, watching Marc (who had put hi bars) carefully build a rainbow-colored drink of grenadine, vodka, that blue stuff that looked like Windex, sweet and sourelse I didn&039;t know the name of I wouldn&039;t have wanted to drink it (well, I was drinking it, but if I were still alive these concoctions would have had me on my ass) but once Marc oes to hell"

"Free booze and a metaphor for life, too!" Jessica watched her rainbow come apart, rushed it to her lips, and thenhow to make a drink none of us like to, um, drink?"

"I saw one of the bartenders at Scratch ht it looked cool Once I was sure one of the layers wasn&039;t blood-"

ht it&039;d be fun to try And I wasn&039;t going to ask that vampire how to do it She&039;s fairly surly as a bartender, and worse when she&039;s hostess"

Where had that co to think about blood a lot more and more You know those cartoons when the wolf looks at his friends and they turn into rib roasts and stuff before his eyes?

Jess and Marc were starting to look reeeally good

"Maybe if you were a little friendlier to the Scratch vaan, "they&039;d treat you-"

"Look, nobody&039;s trying to kill ht now and that&039;s just fine If they don&039;t likepeople to like rade, when I spied the captain of the cheerleading squad on her knees in front of the offensive line of the football teaured that wasn&039;t the life for me"

"Of course," Jessica observed as she experimented with different rainbow colors, "she soeniality two years later"

"What was your secret, Betsy?" Marc&039;s eyes glittered with a fascination "Did you do the defensive line instead? I hear that&039;s where all the votes are"

"Honey, you tell h school than I did"

He laughed "Miss Congeniality! Seriously, that&039;s great! Do you still have the crown and sash? I could get a date in no time if you&039;d lend me those props for five nored an empty bottle of vodka as it tuet about it"

"Yeah, but just think-"

"Marc, I said fucking forget it, okay? Do I have get out the hand puppets? Knock it off!"

"Jeez, Betsy, I was only kidding around"

I resisted the urge to throw lass at him I wasn&039;t mad at him I wasn&039;t mad at anybody I was just

Just really thirsty

"I&039; it, but that hat people said in such circue these days"

"Sure, no problem I had half your problems, I&039;d stress out, too"

Well you don&039;t so why don&039;t you SHUT THE FUCK UP?

"Uh-huh," I said brightly The sht-headed Not to mention the smell of B-positive&039;s aftershave I probably shouldn&039;t have been drinking so et drunk Well, maybe I could Eventually

"Yeah, uh, Betsy, we&039;ve beento talk to you about this" This from myeloma I was pretty sure I could s"

"It&039;s not a thing, it&039;s a lifestyle You know," I added brightly to Marc, "like yours I&039;renadine He turned to give me his full attention when Jessica ju about this won&039;t work"

"Right," Marc said, looking less convinced "That won&039;t work Bitch"

Nuts "Oh, coured you&039;d be supportive"

"Supportive of you breaking Sinclair&039;s heart andyourself nuttier than you usually are? Honey, your temper these days is almost as bad asface, then?" I straightened up in a hurry as my vision cleared "Sorry That sort of slipped out"

"Great," Marc mumbled "Vampire Tourette&039;s syndrome"

"And Sinclair&039;s heart isn&039;t broken And even if it was, it&039;s none of your business"

"How&039;s he supposed to feel when you tell hier strike, he is, too, unless he cheats on you with other people?" Marc demanded

"What part of &039;none of your business&039; do you not get?"

"Ha!" Marc wiped off his lips and began refilling another glass with yet another perfect rainbow "We have to live with you guys, you know"