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"Have you, uh, seen Sinclair around tonight?"

Jon snorted "Not hardly We sort of stay out of each other&039;s way I get the feeling he&039;s not too crazy abouthere"

"Well, it&039;s not his house, now is it?" I asked sharply Oh, great Yell at the kid because your fiance&039;s not talking to you "Sorry I&039;ht"

"Because you haven&039;t fed?" he asked eagerly, Sidekick poised I saw he had flipped it around so he could tap on the tiny keyboard

"No But I&039;ll worry about that soht Listen, Jon, if I do this for you, you&039;ve got to do so for me"

"I understand Betsy" He looked around; yes, ere alone in the cavernous parlor We&039;d ot back from Rainbow and shooed us out "I don&039;t-uh-approve of that sort of-u, but you&039;re so-I mean, I&039;ll make an exception for you" He bravely pulled off his T-shirt and inched closer to ood for the book"

"Ick! No!" I shoved hi over the end of the couch and crashed into the carpet Dust flew He coughed I freaked "Sorry, sorry, sorry!" I hurried around the couch and helped him up "I didn&039;t asped, in thespasuess I was vague No, I&039;ot inyour blood"

"Whatever it is," he choked, "I&039;ll do it But first you gotta get soht now"

"Who do you think you&039;re talking to? Jon, I couldn&039;t find the vacuuun in my ear Which if memory serves, you have"

He reddened and settled himself on a chair across from me "That stuff&039;s all over with, now"

"And we of the varateful, believeabout you," he said "Why don&039;t you start at the beginning?"

"Well, I was born in a small town in Minnesota, CannonFalls, and I went to school at Cannon Falls Elementary, where Mrs Schultz was my favorite teacher We moved to Burnsville when I was-"

"No," he interrupted, "I , when you became a vampire"

"Oh Kind of a short bio I mean, not much has happened to me yet As a vampire, I mean"

He rolled his eyes "Betsy, I really like you and you&039;re cute and all, but you are so full of crap"

"I am not! I haven&039;t even been a vampire for a year, is what I meant, and I was a human for th-for twenty-five years at least Hell, the Miss Burnsville pageant ay et some of that stuff later for fill-in," he proood stuff"

I sighed "All right, all right The good stuff Well, I guess the good stuff starts on the last day And it sucked, let ot worse in a hurry"