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"So did you just make up the stuff about the movies?"
"Oh, no, check this out" Jack picked up a remote control off the entertainment center and hit a button The entire wall to the left of the TV slid back, like a pocket door, and revealed a gigantic shelving unit overfloith DVD’s "That’s cool, right? This was Mae’s idea, because she said having all the movies out in the open was ‘tacky’"
"But Peter has tons of books out in his rooht?" Jack shook his head and walked over to inspect his et for living with people ere born before television They just don’t understand this h life," I ot throay!" He looked back atto be heartbroken "It’s been a pretty sad day all around"
"About that…" I wanted to segue into asking hih I wasn’t sure if I should
"I didn’t kill her, if that’s what you’re thinking," Jack explained quickly "Most va impossible If we killed every time we ate, the vampire population in Minneapolis alone would kill at least a thousand people a week We’d eat ourselves into starvation in less than a decade"
"I didn’t think you’d killed her, but that’s good to know" A shiver ran down my spine anyway
In order for a thousand vampires to eat, a thousand people had to be bitten each week Even if some of them lived on blood banks, the way Jack and Mae mostly did, that was still impossible to fathom
"How could all those people be bitten? Why aren’t they talking about it?" I asked
"Very fe they’re bitten" He wouldn’t looked at o around blood raping the They just think they’re on dates Lots of vairlfriends’ or ‘boyfriends,’ but really, it’s like… having a cow, so you don’t have to buy ht of Jane She went houys, and most of them were attractive and kinda creepy She could easily have been a vampire’s cow, more than once
"But how do they not know?"
"Well, they just think…" He rubbed his forehead and sighed "They just think that they’re with really good lovers It feels really good So if you incorporate it with sex, especially with drunk or high people, they have no clue And it doesn’t really hurt them You’re a little weak and woozy, but otherwise okay"
"So that girl that you bit…" I felt strangely jealous Knowing that Jack ith a girl, that he’d fed on someone made my stomach twist "Did you have sex with her?"
"No," Jack said, but he turned away from me and looked ashamed My heart sped up, and he tilted his head, so I knew he heard it "But we did… stuff The stuff doesn’t uys say that, but for us it’s really true It was just a way to get what I wanted"
"Because for you, it’s not the sex It’s the blood that’s intimate and… erotic" When I said that, he realized he’d actually ri blood," he sighed
He rubbed his eyes, and I could feel how nervous thisabout drinking her bloodof my pulse
"It’s hard to explain You’ll understand when you’re a vampire," he said finally
"What is it like for her then? What’s it like for a hu on er filled the rooh lanced over at me and alht of her, so with Jack in a way that I never hadI wanted to know, in soo to feel souess she did I don’t know" He ran a hand through his sandy hair and gaveto find out?"
"What would I feel?" My voice had gone low and soft, sounding strangely seductive, especially for me I don’t know if I’d done it on purpose really, or if it was just that I could feel everything that Jack felt, and it was playing with ht now Would it hurt?"
"For a second" Licking his lips, he kept his eyes locked on ot heavier "But then there’s the most wonderful sensation you’ve ever felt It radiates from the bite like a warm heat and your heart speeds up so fast, it should hurt, but it doesn’t Your senses go into a frenzy, but it all feels a…" He trailed off and sed hard
"What would you feel?" I asked, and the corner of his htly