Vampire 01 - Daughter of Darkness by authors_sort

Author:authors_sort [Andrews, V. C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: english eBooks
ISBN: 9781439155011
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2010-10-25T22:00:00+00:00

12

Who Are You, Lorelei?

If Daddy knew I had gone up to his suite, he didn’t come down in the morning to confront me about it. Mrs. Fennel said nothing to me, either. Only Ava seemed to sense something different about me. I could see it in the way her eyes followed me about this morning, how thoughtful and studied she was. Suspicion fell from her eyes like tears. Unfortunately for me, this was the one morning she had an early class, so she was there at breakfast.

“What’s wrong with you today?” she asked me.

“Nothing. I’m just a little tired, I guess.”

“We don’t get a little tired,” she said. “You have no reason to be tired at all, Lorelei. I hope you’re not still thinking about Buddy.”

“Who’s Buddy?” Marla asked.

“Never mind,” Ava told her. “Well?”

“No,” I said, but I was sure it wasn’t firm enough of a no.

“Right,” she said out of the corner of her mouth reserved for skepticism. “You let me be the one who thinks about him.”

Her words were like tiny knives sticking into my stomach. I avoided her eyes and hurried Marla along so we could leave for school, but my mind was never free of the thoughts she had deposited there.

“What’s Ava talking about? Who is Buddy? Why does she want you not to think about him?” Marla asked. “I thought we were sisters. Why are you keeping secrets from me?”

“It’s nothing, Marla. Ava is overreacting. He’s just some college boy I met when I was with her at UCLA the other day,” I said, trying to sound as casual as I could. “I made the mistake of telling her I thought he was good-looking, and you know how Ava gets when you mention a boy is good-looking.”

“As good-looking as you thought Mark Daniels was?” Marla asked. I glanced at her. Already, at her age, she could look as mean and angry as Ava.

“He’s different,” I said.

“Oh, you can tell the difference now? That’s a relief. I won’t have my life at risk because of your romantic notions,” she said. She not only looked more like Ava now, she also sounded more like her.

Why was Ava having more of an influence on Marla than I was having? I was the one with whom she spent most of her time. After school, she was usually in my room, not Ava’s. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so flippant with her when she started asking me more questions. Maybe I shouldn’t have been so eager to get her to go to Ava. I wondered if she thought I didn’t like her or want her around me. Now that I thought about it, she had been avoiding me more and more in the house. These suspicions were about to be elevated.

After a few moments of silence between us, Marla suddenly said, “Don’t look for me after school today.”

“What? Why not?”

“Ava is coming for me.”

“When?”

“Before the final period. She has permission to sign me out, you know. Daddy made sure of that.

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