Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

Author:Melissa de la Cruz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide
Published: 2013-03-12T00:34:49.790000+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Once the meeting was adjourned, Bliss was still reeling from everything she’d learned. She was a vampire, or as she corrected herself, a “vam-pyre,” which meant fire angel in the Old Tongue, a Blue Blood. One of the undead. So that explained the memories, the nightmares. The voices in her head. It was strange to think of her blood as alive, but that’s what they said—that they had all lived before, a long time ago, and were called into service when they were needed. One day they would be in command of all their memories and would learn how to use them. The knowledge brought a profound feeling of relief. So she wasn’t insane. She wasn’t losing her mind. What happened at the Met the other afternoon, when she’d blacked out before kissing Dylan, was probably just part of the whole process. That’s what Dr. Pat had meant. So she was normal. She was supposed to feel dizzy and sick. After all, her body was changing, her blood was changing. Maybe now that she understood why she was having them, her nightmares wouldn’t scare her as much in the future.

Mimi was grinning from ear to ear when the meeting was over. She walked over to Bliss.

“Are you okay?” she asked gently. She knew it would take some getting used to. But finding out about being a Blue Blood was like a kind of graduation or something. When she and Jack had been inducted, their parents had thrown them a surprise party at the 21 Club.

Bliss nodded.

“C’mon,” Mimi said. “Let’s go get some steak tartare.”

They walked a few blocks toward La Goulue, then took a table on the sidewalk. It was late afternoon, but it was still sunny and warm enough to sit outside. They ordered quickly.

“So, let me get this straight. We can’t get killed?” Bliss asked, pulling her seat closer so that no one would overhear their conversation.

“No, we live forever,” Mimi said airily.

“Like, forever?” Bliss didn’t think she could handle that. How could she live forever exactly. Like, wouldn’t she get all wrinkly and stuff ?

“Like, forever,” Mimi echoed.

“What about the silver stake through the heart?”

“Only if it’s from Tiffany’s!” Mimi cackled. She took a sip of her Pellegrino. “No, seriously, you’ve watched too much Buffy. There’s nothing that can hurt us. But you know Hollywood. They had to think of ways to kill us off somehow. I don’t know how we got such a bad rap.” She smiled sweetly, a beautiful monster. “It’s all created by The Conspiracy, you know. They like to mislead the Red Bloods.”

Bliss’s head swam. She still felt confused. “But we die after a hundred years?”

“Only the physical shell. If you choose. Your memories last forever, so you’re never really dead,” Mimi said, clutching the tiny green bottle of sparkling water and taking another gulp.

“What about sucking blood and all that?”

“It’s fun,” Mimi said, her eyes glazing over dreamily, thinking about her Italian hunk. “Better than sex.”

Bliss blushed.

“Don’t be such a prude. I’ve had tons of humans.

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