Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever. by Caissie St. Onge

Author:Caissie St. Onge [Onge, Caissie St.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction, General, Mothers and Daughters, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues, Humorous Stories, Humorous, Family, Vampires, Schools, School & Education, Parents, Girls & Women, Self-esteem, High Schools, Popularity, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Self-Esteem in Adolescence, Alternative Family
ISBN: 0375868917
Publisher: Ember
Published: 2011-05-10T00:00:00+00:00

nine

No matter how many times I would ever walk into that stupid cafeteria, I knew my stomach would never fail to do a sickening flip. When you’re not considered hot or popular or … normal … the classrooms and hallways at school can be difficult enough, but for some reason, when kids are let loose in the cafeteria, they behave like monsters. Don’t think I don’t know how ironic that is, coming from me. I cautiously navigated between a tableful of lacrosse jocks playing keep-away with one poor mathlete’s soup thermos and a gaggle of student-council girls selling red-and-white PLHS buttons. Between the boys and the girls, I was more intimidated by the girls. They looked like if they didn’t raise enough money and school spirit, they’d take all of us down somehow.

Truthfully, even though I hated the caf, I was looking forward to seeing Eli. After the roller-coaster day I’d had so far, I would be happy to just sit and work for a little while with someone who, I was realizing more and more, was always utterly dependable even if he was probably still mad at me. I scanned the tables looking for Eli’s broad shoulders and the top of his gingery brush cut bent over some books. At first, I didn’t see him, but when I looked around again, I spotted him in a far corner of the room, sitting down, looking up into the face of a girl, smiling and chatting. That flip my stomach had done just a minute ago was only a warm-up. Now it was going for a round-off–back handspring with a full dismount. Even at this distance it only took one flick of her gleaming chestnut waves for me to realize the girl he was talking to was Astrid.

We learned in biology about the fight-or-flight response that’s triggered in animals when they are threatened. Right then, I wanted to get the first flight to anywhere else like you wouldn’t believe. I certainly didn’t feel up for a fight. Maybe in vampires, a third reaction exists in which you stare daggers at another vampire and see if they get the hint to go the hell away. I guess I was about to find out. I smoothed my own dull brown bangs down over my eyes as I walked reluctantly toward them.

“Hi, Eli. Thanks for meeting me,” I said.

“It’s lunch. I would have been here no matter what,” Eli responded in a monotone voice, without ever taking his eyes off Astrid. I could tell right away that she’d been trancing him a little because although she had a coat draped casually over one arm, she was touching his shoulder with her free hand.

I pulled out a chair and sat down. I had to get him to look at me, so I picked up his hand and held it in both of mine. It was really big for a kid’s hand. I wondered if he was still growing or whether he’d just stay the same size from now on.

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