Vampireville by Ellen Schreiber

Author:Ellen Schreiber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fables, Legends, juvenile fiction, paranormal, general, Myths, love & romance
ISBN: 9780061975653
Published: 2011-03-12T21:58:50+00:00

8 Gossip and Garlic

If there ever was a morning I didn’t want to get out of bed, this was it. After pressing the snooze bar repeatedly, I unplugged my Nightmare Before Christmas alarm clock and stashed it under my bed.

What I couldn’t unplug was my mother’s voice.

“Raven!” she called for the millionth time from downstairs. “You’ve overslept. Again.”

After a quick shower, I threw on a black-on-black ensemble. I dragged myself into the kitchen to gulp down some of the leftover morning sludge that Dad called “coffee.”

I found Billy Boy already commandeering the chair by the TV with our new house guest, Henry. The nerd-mates were glued to the screen, watching historic footage of battleships blasting their cannons and devouring Pop-Tarts and Crunch Berries.

With every crunch of the captain and boom of a cannon, I felt like my head was behind enemy lines.

“Turn that off!” I whined, and switched the channel to the Home Shopping Network.

A petite blond with a perfect french manicure was modeling bedazzling silver bracelets.

“Hurry, there’s only fifty seconds left!” I warned Billy Boy. “You could own one in just five easy payments. The blue topaz matches your eyes.”

Billy Boy raced to the TV and wrangled the control out of my hand. “Get off!” he said, switching it back to the History Channel. “If you’d watch, maybe you’d learn something. Then your report card could be framed in Dad’s office, instead of ending up in his paper shredder.”

I stirred cream and a pound of sugar into a java-filled Dullsville Country Club mug and poured myself a small bowl of Count Chocula. The gun battle and excessive crunching continued. I could barely open my charcoal eyelids wide enough to see the chocolate vampires floating in the milk among the marshmallow ghosts and bats.

My mom burst into the kitchen in her Corporate Cathy gear—a crisp gray DKNY

pantsuit and Kate Spade mules—and opened the fridge door. “Morning,” she said gleefully. “I thought you’d never get up.”

“I didn’t either,” I grumbled.

“I saw Mrs. Mitchell at the pharmacy last night buying Trevor some cough syrup,” she said, placing her Tupperware bowl filled with low-fat, low-taste premade salad in her Bloomingdale’s tote bag. “Trevor must have the same cold you had.”

“Yeah, he’s been out of school. It’s been the first time I only detested school instead of hating it.”

“Well, I think he’s on the mend. His mother told me a girl has been bringing him protein shakes and he’s feeling better.”

“You mean one of the cheerleaders, right?” I queried.

“No. Mrs. Mitchell made it very clear this girl is new to town and dresses—well, not very conservatively,” my mom said, grabbing a bottled water and closing the fridge door.

“You mean, like me?”

My mother paused.

It was Luna.

“Is it the white-haired girl Trevor was with at the Spring Carnival?” Billy Boy asked.

“It may be,” my mom answered. “I didn’t see them together.”

“I just saw her from a distance,” my brother said. “But a kid at Math Club swears she has a twin. They were spotted coming out of the cemetery.

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