Chapter Six: Decipher me or I'll devour you

After my second semester finals, I was ready to go into my third year.

I worked during the day, working in a store. In the afternoon I got fashion jobs, but only occasionally. At night I went to college. And when I had free time, I forced myself to go do chores at the Pink Mansion. And of course, I donated blood. My right arm was weaker than my left.

Spending that entire year in silence within the sorority was making me impatient. I thought about giving up, until one Friday the 13th I was called to a special meeting at midnight...

When I entered the premises I saw that the twins were now behind Ashley, now they were 'Friends', Solane was not there, she had graduated, the graduates who became Diva, could visit the premises, mainly at parties, but they only came at night...

Ashley, however, still ruled the sorority. She sat there in their midst. Imposing as ever.

"Decipher me or I'll devour you!"

Ashley said to me. I looked around blankly. It was a riddle. Now I guess I could talk:

" Give me a hint!"

" Guess what I am or I'll devour you!"

It was the final question to become a 'Friend'. I thought, and thought again. Until I found the answer:

"You only walk around at night...you raise pigeons in the backyard...you constantly need blood...and you have vibrators with Count Dracula's head...but you're not goths disguised as preppy girls...you can only be vampires!"

Then all the Divas sitting on the couch, began to show their teeth, and to stand up threateningly.

" Grab her girls! The dish is on the table!"

The twins came and grabbed me by the arm, holding them back. I was afraid for myself. I hadn't even brought garlic water or even cheap perfume to scare them away. Preppy girls hate cheap perfume, without a famous brand.

I was held by the arm. As the vampires approached me to bite me with their sharp teeth sticking out. However, Ashley started laughing and took a picture of my face.

"Your photo is going to the album of the scared ones!" He said laughing! I didn't understand at the time.

" Calm down, you silly girl, we're not going to bite you. We're not savages. We're civilized vampires. Biting necks is something Count Dracula would do. By the way, where did you see my vibrator? I'm looking for it..."

"I found it under the pillow!"

" Oh! You fool, why didn't you warn me before?"

"I was forbidden to speak!"

" Okay! Now you're no longer a Darling, now you're a Friend! You're allowed to talk and boss around the Darlings, but you can't say too much."

" Aren't you going to turn me into a vampire?"

" Of course not, you idiot! Vampires are only for Divas! Once a vampire, a vampire until the end, which can be long..."

After recovering from the initial shock, I asked:

" So do vampires really exist?"

"Yes! Didn't you just see?" Magically her canine teeth retracted back into her mouth..

'' And now what am I going to have to do?"

"Now you are a Friend, you will keep this secret as one friend keeps another, and if you decide to tell, think twice a thousand times! There are other vampires no less friendly than us, who protect our existence, controlling the media and the government, after all we don't want the population with torches wanting to burn us for their own safety, or attract vampire hunters, like Van Helsing, how I hate Van Helsing!"

" Does the hunter Van Helsing exist?!"

" No, you idiot, my ex-boyfriend's name was Van Helsing, I hated him because he ate a lot of potatoes and farted. I hated his farts. Sometimes I think he ate garlic too. Because the gases he released were horrible. I left him and he threatened to drive a stake through my heart."

"And did he succeed?"

"Of course not, he died before he could see his wish come true."

"What did he die of?"

"He fell down the stairs and broke his neck. They say he farted before he died." Ashley made the others in the room laugh. I was going to ask who was there at the time of his death to witness that he farted, but I let it go.

"So the legends are true? Stakes, crucifixes, garlic...?"

"No!" Ashley replied. "Stakes hurt, but they don't kill. Garlic is horrible. You don't need to be a vampire to know that. Crucifixes don't affect anything, but sunlight, that is our mortal enemy."

"That's why you don't go out during the day, and that's why you were so surprised when I accidentally left the window light open. So you get sunburned?"

" The one who burns is a toaster! We don't burn, we disappear... if a vampire stays in the sun for too long, she becomes transparent until she disappears completely. That's what happened to our little friend Roxele. She had turned into a vampire, but said she missed the sun, so she decided to go to the beach one day and when she came back we didn't even recognize her anymore."

"Where is she?"

"She's over there in the corner!"

I turned around and saw no one.

"I can't see her."

"It's because she's invisible, you idiot!" Ashley and the others laughed at me, then laughed at my idiocy too.

"I like you, you have a good style of clothing, and you're silly. I'm going to have a lot of fun with you. We're going to be great friends."

"Cool!"

"Then go home, get ready and come back in an hour."

"Why?"

"Because there's a party today, you silly girl!"