I, Vampire by Jean Marie Stine & Forrest J. Ackerman

Author:Jean Marie Stine & Forrest J. Ackerman [Stine, Jean Marie & Ackerman, Forrest J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780681007987
Amazon: 0681007982
Publisher: Longmeadow Pr
Published: 1995-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

"It was a big nightmare. Nothing more," Mrs. Lafontaine assured Em as the household crowded at her door.

I pushed past Em's younger siblings crowded at the door. Mr. Andrews stood near his daughter's bed, looking troubled. Mrs. Lafontaine sat on Em's bed, holding her while she sobbed and gasped and sobbed again.

"Is Emily all right?"

"She's had a nightmare," Mrs. Lafontaine said.

Em flushed and settled back into her pillows. "Oh. I'm sorry I woke everyone. Really." She caught at my hand as I moved away from the bed, "Sit with me until I fall asleep."

"I don't know," Mr. Andrews frowned.

"Oh, surely there's no harm in it," said Mrs. Lafontaine. Mr. Andrews shrugged.

I drew a chair near the bed and sat down.

Em watched the door close, then turned her lovely blue eyes to me, with an insistent, pregnant look. "Kiss me again like before, Missy. I won't scream this time. I promise."

I was startled and rose from my chair. "Em! What are you saying!"

"Oh, I don't know how ... but I know." She looked away. "I've read books. I know what you are. Kiss me like that again, Missy."

"You don't know what you're asking." I moved to the window, gripping the ledge so hard my knuckles whitened.

"I do too," Her eyes met mine unafraid. "I'll never die, not really, and we can be together forever..." She halted and her eyes filled with tears. "Unless you don't love me?"

"Dearest Em. Of course, I love you." I returned to the bed.

"Then kiss me again. Any life is better than this living death."

It was an inescapable truth. Em had won and I had lost. I bent over her, pressing my lips to the great blue vein in her breast.

To Hell with my promise to Mama. She would have to do the accepting, for once.

Finally I couldn't stand it any longer. As I lifted my blood-rimmed mouth from her delicate breast, Em moaning weakly beneath me, I could feel her dying. "No, Em. You mustn't leave me. Do you truly love me, Em?"

Her eyes, glazed with weakness stared up trustingly "Forever, Missy."

With a sharp fingernail, I slashed my left breast and pressed her mouth to it. The blood flowed unheeded across her lips and for a moment, I feared I had acted too late. Then I felt her sucking, weakly at first, then more strongly. "Yes, Em. Yes, yes, yes. Drink, Em, my love. Drink."

Suddenly the door slammed open with such force that the knob shattered against the wall. Mr. Andrews confronted us, a large black gun in his hand. My back had been to him. He had not seen what we had been doing, only our embrace. I turned to move between Em and her father.

A normal woman would probably have felt vulnerable standing there in only a nightgown in front of a man with a loaded gun. I didn't.

"I thought so. You filthy pervert! I have been watching you." He gestured at me with his gun. "Now get away from my daughter."

"No," I said simply and stared at him, my lips drawing slowly, almost instinctively from my teeth.

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