Rampant [Little Goddess 04] by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction - Fantasy, Fantasy - Contemporary
ISBN: 9781450200103
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

BRACKEN

Little Deaths

Watching the vampires almost killed her fi guratively, and the abominable big-titted human almost killed her for real.

Of the two, I defi nitely preferred the vampires.

Dinner was much the same as it had been the night before. About fi fteen minutes before the vampires awoke, when the woods surrounding the lake grew thick and deep with shadows, a feast appeared, complete with a tablecloth on two of the picnic tables behind the cabins. Th

e tables were illuminated

by strings of lights in the surrounding trees, with one large lantern per table, including the one at which Nicky’s parents and their unwanted guest sat. Phillip, Marcus, and Kyle awakened quietly when we were all eating, and Cory stiff ened next to me for a moment, until we heard splashing down at the lake. She’d been keeping a quiet eye on Phillip for the last month. Gretchen’s deteriorating condition didn’t seem to be bothering him—until you saw how haggard Marcus was from caring for him. But that’s not why Cory was concerned now.

“Did they remember their trunks?” I asked her and she shook her head.

“No, but they will by the time they come up to eat!” She dug into her plate then—Lambent and I were eating vegetarian baked beans and salad, and she and the shape-shifters got some sort of sausage. Whatever it was, it must have been very tasty to carnivores, because they seemed to be enjoying themselves. I watched, though, as she stopped very deliberately after one serving.

“All done?” I asked, carefully.

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“All weirded out by wandering around in a bikini,” she answered, although she’d changed back into shorts and a T-shirt after we’d gone swimming and had yet to actually wear the thing without a T-shirt over it. I glared at her, but at that moment, Nicky’s mother came up and asked us if we wanted to sit with them for dessert.

We’d been expecting the invite, and we got up without ceremony to sit at their table—and honestly, it felt less awkward than sitting in a happy group while they sat alone, exiled by their own thoughtlessness. Th

ey had bought some kind of chocolate creme pie from a store, and I thought wistfully of whatever it was that Grace had sent over via the sprites, but dug in anyway. Th

ey’d better save some for me over at the next table. I was halfway through when I realized Nicky’s mother had asked me a question. I swallowed and then swallowed again—it had been a big bite. “What do I do at school?” I asked, feeling dumb.

“Yes, hon,” Terry said, bemused. “What classes do you take?”

I stared at her in the lamplight, wondering whether she was being dense on purpose. “I take whatever classes Cory takes,” I said through another bite.

Nicky’s father answered. “Well, son, that’s nice for kissy face and all, but it’s no way to decide on a living.”

I blinked and Nicky laughed. “You should see your face right now, Bracken!” he chortled. “It’s like they asked you how to split the atom!”

I grimaced at him.

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