Peter And The Vampires Volume One by Darren Pillsbury

Author:Darren Pillsbury
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Back in the kitchen, Mom shifted Beth from her left arm to her right. “Peter, I’ve got a favor to ask you.”

Peter winced. Whenever Mom said she had a favor to ask, it wasn’t a favor, it was a command with ‘please’ attached to it.

“I sent out my résumé to Charterton University.”

“What’s a rez-uh-may?” Dill asked as he unwrapped a second ice cream sandwich.

Mom ignored him. “The Legal Affairs department just called and asked if they could move up my interview from tomorrow to today – ”

“What’re you interviewing for?” Dill asked before licking the ice cream sandwich.

“ – so I need you to babysit Beth for the next couple of hours.”

“What?!” Peter shouted.

“Wha?!” Beth asked in almost equal shock.

“HA haaaaa,” Dill said to Peter, imitating the bully from THE SIMPSONS.

“No way!” Peter refused.

“Nunh-unh!” Beth bellowed. “No ba’ysit!”

“Guys, this job is very important to me,” Mom said calmly, but with a great deal of stress in her voice. “I need you both to be on your best behavior and help me out here, okay?”

“No! Let Grandfather babysit her!” Peter said angrily.

“Y – NO!” Beth said, quickly changing her mind. She hugged Mom fiercely. “I wan’ stay w’ you!”

Mom pried Beth’s arms from around her neck. “I’ll be back soon, sweetie. Until then, you’re going to be good and do what Peter says, okay?”

“Nooooo!” Beth wailed.

“Why can’t Grandfather do it?” Peter asked. Grandfather was the only one Peter had ever met who could keep Beth in line. She was so scared of him, she ran out of the room every time he walked in.

“I already asked him and he said no.”

“Why not?!”

Mom rolled her eyes. “He said he had something important to do. Like my job interview isn’t ‘important’ enough for him…”

At that very moment, Grandfather walked into the room, looking like he always did: fancy tie, suit vest, dress pants, and wild, unkempt beard. He retrieved his set of keys from the kitchen counter without looking at anyone else.

On cue, Beth stopped crying and watched the strange old man in quiet terror.

In normal situations, Peter would be afraid to challenge his Grandfather about – well, about anything. But he had fought dead men and little girl vampires in the last four weeks, and that had given him a bit more confidence. Besides, the threat of babysitting Beth wasn’t a ‘normal’ situation.

“Grandfather! Where’re you going?” Peter asked.

Grandfather looked first at Beth, then Peter. “I have things to do in town,” he said brusquely.

“Can’t they wait a couple of hours?” Peter begged.

“NO.”

“He just doesn’t want to babysit her, that’s all,” Dill announced.

Grandfather stared at him.

Dill tried to hid behind his ice cream sandwich. “Dude, I don’t blame you, man,” he said meekly.

“Oh PLEASE, you all act like Beth is so difficult,” Mom said in exasperation. “She’s NOT.”

Dill started snickering. “Yeah, right.”

Grandfather pointed at Dill. “For once, I agree with the idjit.” Then he walked out of the house.

“Mom – ”

“Peter, I don’t have time to debate this with you! You’re going to

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