School for Vampires by Conlan Quinn

Author:Conlan, Quinn [Conlan, Quinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-12-30T04:00:00+00:00

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As soon as I resume taking the Glints, I notice an immediate impact. I feel flatter and calmer. It’s not a bad feeling. In fact, each time the pills first kick in, it’s a positively great feeling. Plus, they do help me sleep better. But there’s a certain sharpness that goes from me. And, sadly, there are no more dazzling diving board displays.

By mid-week, I’m allowed back into my own coffin. The problem with airing it was that the smell would have gone through the bedroom and affected everybody. That was the genius of the Penties’ prank. So Kate had to put in a request for a special garlic neutralizing spray. It’s expensive, and it had to come from above ground. But when it arrived, it did the trick nicely. The bathtub came up good as new. The only loose end that refused to be tied off was Jason, who couldn’t understand Kate’s no-retaliation approach.

Not that it seems to dampen things between them. The kissing rumor has well and truly swept through the five Houses by the end of the week. There are a handful of steady couples down here, mainly amongst the Senior ranks. But it’s a big deal if a Senior hooks up with a Junior. It certainly gives Jason cache, not that he needed much help in that department. He’s been adopted as an honorary Senior, well and truly trumping my own nervous social forays. Since Kate’s group has taken Jason in, I find myself keeping my distance. They invite me down to hang out in the Mess a couple of times during the week, but I tell them I’m buried in homework.

Jason is well and truly back to Blake-baiting. His favored maneuvers are flicking my ear as he walks past at the lockers, kicking the back of my chair in Fables, and terrorizing me with a fake blood dart he swiped from Combat. These pranks infuriate me, but deep down I’m glad. It’s funny how my first real friendships with boys involve a lot of tomfoolery. Between Jason’s antics and Garret’s frequent verbal goading, I’ve clearly got a preferred mode of interaction with the opposite sex.

Saturday badminton comes around again, although I’m not sure you could actually call what us sporting misfits do, badminton. We start devising our own rules, in the misfit spirit. The most popular rule involves the shuttlecock being allowed to rest on the ground for five seconds and still be in play. It finally allows for some rallies.

As busy as I remain, my mind stays fixed on my dad the whole week. By Monday, I’m positively beside myself. As a final insult, my timetable informs me that I don’t have Skill Sets til last period. Actually, the final insult is that the preceding lesson is a Vampyrric double. I get down and dirty with an old Vampyrric ballad that we have to recite at the end of semester. It’s the foulest sounding ballad I’ve ever heard, but the translation’s nice enough. Lots of stuff on the call of the fullest moon, the blood beasts fear to shed, and so on.

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