Josie Griffin Is Not a Vampire by Heather Swain

Author:Heather Swain
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101595206
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2012-09-12T21:00:00+00:00

chapter 14

kayla clutched my arm and pointed. “That’s Bethany. From the shelter. The first one who disappeared. Remember I told you about her?”

I stood, dumbfounded. I had no idea what to think.

Kayla squatted beside the girl’s chair and spoke to her quietly. “Bethany, you know who I am. We shared a room. I lent you my clothes. Then you disappeared. Where did you go? What happened? Do you know where Rhonda went? I’ve been so worried.” She reached out and put her arms around the zombie girl’s shoulders to hug her, but the girl grunted and swatted Kayla away with more force than I would have thought given her skinny arms. Kayla stumbled backward and the zombie girl blinked her big haunted eyes then turned away.

“They did this to you!” Kayla said loudly. “Sucked the life out of you and turned you into some kind of monster!” Then she crumpled to the ground and wailed, “Did they do the same thing to Rhonda and Sadie?” An eerie hush fell over Buffy’s as everyone focused on the freak out. Tarren and I exchanged glances, but before we could come to some decision about what the heck to do, Johann swooped down. He scooped Kayla up in his arms and headed for the door, which shocked Kayla into a gaped-mouth, blinking silence. The whole thing was weird but it verged on romantic until Johann, the dorkiest dancing vampire ever, tripped. A collective gasp hovered in the air as he stumbled forward, tottering to the left then right, knocking chairs and tables to the ground while Kayla flailed in his grip.

“Ouch! Oh! Acht!” Johann hopped on one foot, clutching his left shin with his left hand and half-dragging Kayla across the floor with his right. She managed to get one foot down and hopped along with him as if they were in the worst three legged race ever. Avis, Helios, Tarren, and I ran, tripping over the chairs and tables left in Johann’s wake of destruction, trying to reach them before someone ended up in the emergency room. But a spilled soda did them in. Like a clown on a banana peel, Johann’s foot hit the puddle then he was airborne, one leg up like a Rockette in mid-kick, the other searching uselessly for the ground. Kayla flew, her mouth a perfect O. They landed, Johann on his back, Kayla splattered on top of him like a broken egg. Without a word, Tarren and I untangled Kayla’s limbs from Johann’s and slung her arms over our shoulders. Avis and Helios did the same with Johann. We pushed through the doors, carrying our friends outside, just as everyone in Buffy’s erupted into laughter.

Kayla curled up on a love seat on Tarren’s porch with Johann hovering behind her protectively. Despite his fall, only his ego seemed bruised. “Bethany was at HAG when I first got there,” Kayla said. “She went missing a few days later, but I just figured she wanted out of there.”

“Who wouldn’t?” I said as I settled into a big wicker rocker across from her.

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