Under a Blood Moon by Zoë Fox

Author:Zoë Fox [Fox, Zoë]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

“Why is your brother being so secretive about his costume,” Meredith asked, joining her daughter in the living room.

Alex shrugged. “Toad takes Trick-or-Treat seriously.”

“Yeah, but I’m his mother!” She sat down dejectedly on the recliner next to the couch, where Alex had made herself comfortable. “He’s locked me out of his room.” She paused. “You know what it is, don’t you?”

Alex nodded. She’d helped him find everything he needed to complete his outfit. Last year he’d gone as the grim reaper, but this Halloween he’d really outdone himself.

“You’re not going to tell me, are you?” Meredith narrowed her eyes, glancing over at her oldest.

“Nope.” Alex lifted the remote and changed the channel on the TV. “He’ll be out here in a minute anyway.”

“Fine. Be that way.” Meredith continued to stare at Alex. Instead of wearing her hair down or pulled into a simple ponytail, she had plaited it into two thick braided pigtails. Alex had lost the thick black eyeliner she usually wore in favor of a subtler brown. Looking over the pink lady’s polo shirt Alex had purchased at the local Goodwill, Meredith realized she couldn’t remember the last time she’d see her daughter in a shirt of any color other than black or crimson. The first time Alex had come down the stairs in what was now her usual attire, Meredith considered protesting.

“You look like you’re going to a funeral,” she’d said.

“Thanks,” Alex had smiled in return. “That’s what I’m going for.”

Meredith shrugged, knowing that fighting with her daughter was pointless. If it was a phase she was going through, she’d outgrown it much faster if her mother ignored it.

Almost five years later, Meredith was finally willing to admit that it just might be Alex’s version of style.

“Okay, what gives?” Meredith asked, nodding pointedly at her daughter’s outfit.

Alex glanced down at her clothes. “It’s Halloween.”

“So, what are you supposed to be?”

“The one thing I’ll never be.” She explained.

“And that would be…?” She explained.

“Isn’t it obvious?” Alex rolled her eyes. “Normal. I’m dressed like a normal high school girl.”

Meredith laughed. “Okay, I’ll give you that. You’ll probably never be normal.”

Alex’s mind had been preoccupied all afternoon with the myriad of ways that night’s events could go wrong. She was about to take her six-year-old brother, her notoriously chicken best friend, and a vampire to the scene of a serial killer’s most recent crime.

“Oh, you have no idea,” She mumbled in response. No, normal was something that Alex could barely understand, let alone be.

Outside the sun had begun to set. Lucas was probably waking up as they spoke. The night before, he’d read Alex’s mind at an inopportune moment, while she was going over her plans to get inside the house without being caught by the cops. She, furious at his intrusion of her privacy, had refused to listen when he tried to talk her out of it.

“That’s it. I forbid it!” Lucas had both literally and figuratively put his foot down when logic, pleading and bribery had failed him.

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