Suck It Up and Die by Brian Meehl

Author:Brian Meehl [Meehl, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-375-89716-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

44

The High Line

Friday dawned. Morning’s alarm sounded. He banged it off. The ceiling swam into focus and the day’s first thought dropped into his mind. Was it all a dream? From Birnam telling me about pneumabrotus to DeThanatos calling me a re-mort?

He pulled down the covers and took in the two hairs jutting from his chest. “Hey, gents. Sorry about the loss of musketeer number three, but if I keep re-mortalizing, reinforcements are on the way.” He rolled out of bed. “Yeow!” He’d forgotten the laceration on his left shoulder.

He grabbed his cell phone and called Portia. She answered, but she was in a hurry to get in the shower. He asked her to take a walk with him later that afternoon on the Williamsburg Bridge so he could tell her some “big news.” She explained that she and Cody were prepping for a film thing that night, and they had to finish a hidden camera Cody was working on.

“So let gizmo geek earn his death by doing the camera thing while you give me an hour.”

Portia laughed at his cockiness. “Okay, but I don’t have time for the bridge. How ’bout we meet for gelato at seven in the Village?”

Morning figured the exact location where he blew her away with his news and asked her to the End Is Upon Us Ball was less important than doing it before someone else did, like Cody. “Okay, seven at L’Arte del Gelato.”

“Got it,” she confirmed. “Then you’re not going to believe what I’m doing after that.”

“Try me.”

“Zoë got a date with a Leaguer at a secret bloodlust club. Me and Cody are going with her.”

“What?” he practically shouted. “I get Zoë, but why are you and Cody going?”

“If his hidden camera works, and Zoë practices what she preaches, we’re gonna get a consensual bloodlust hookup on film.”

He couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “So now you’re into blood pornography?”

“It’s not pornography,” Portia fired back. “It’s documenting what people have heard about but never seen.”

“Portia, she’s your best friend!”

“Believe me, I tried to talk her out of it, but she’s got her heart set on it, and best friends let best friends follow their dreams.”

Morning got her subtext: his disapproval was slamming her dream. He also knew arguing would ruin the news bomb he was about to drop on her. He kept his objection to a sigh and said he would see her at seven.

As he got dressed, he pulled something out of his closet he had hoped to never wear again: his Epidex. Someone had to be there to make sure Zoë’s vampire date didn’t pop his deuce, lose control, and overserve himself. Morning knew a thing or two about the dangers of diving into the forbidden well of bloodlust, and he sure as hell wasn’t going to let anyone flow all the way with Zoë.

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