The Good Ghouls' Guide to Getting Even by Julie Kenner

Author:Julie Kenner
Language: vie
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Beth Frasier
ISBN: 9780441017041
Publisher: ACE CHARTER
Published: 2009-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

Austin is home to the University of Texas, and Sixth Street is where a lot of the UT students can be found. Apparently even on a Wednesday night.

And, I learned from Stephen, Sixth Street is where a lot of the local vampires hang out. (Interestingly, those bats I mentioned live only six blocks down at the bridge over the river. Talk about the right atmosphere for an undead convention.)

I wasn’t really interested in the local undead crowd, though. I was interested in Stephen. And Chris. And the other Waterloo High vamps. I mean, I’d love to say that I was all motivated to save my hometown from the evil scourge that is vampyre, but the truth was I was really only interested in saving me. Selfish? Maybe. But at least I’m honest.

Anyway, it didn’t much matter, because Stephen was in charge. We were in his BMW and we cruised through downtown, finally parking in front of a club on Sixth Street near the freeway. What used to be the seedier end, but now was considered cool, even with the tattoo parlors and walk-in body piercing storefronts.

“We’re here,” he said, his smile giving me chills. And not the good kind.

“Here,” it turned out, was a little club called the Night Light. The guy at the door looked at Stephen, nodded, and ushered us into a whole other world. Loud music. Lots of student-age kids drinking and playing pool and throwing darts. Lots of laughing and dancing.

Honestly, the place looked like fun.

And that’s when I noticed something really weird. Clusters of popular kids in the corners. Student council. Band leaders. More jocks. And a few kids I didn’t recognize, but who I guessed were college students.

Okay, that wasn’t all that weird. I mean, it’s no secret that almost every senior has a fake ID. But here’s the weird part: there, among the cool kids and the college students, I saw Richie Carter. And Tony Bart, a total math geek. And Deborah O’Keefe, who barely beat me out last year in a chess club tournament. And a whole slew of kids who normally choose staying at home playing video games or finishing their homework over hanging with the popular crowd.

But here they were, all standing around, looking like they were having a blast. Playing darts, drinking (Cokes, I presume), and mingling (with each other, not with the popular kids). And, I noticed, each and every one of them had a Band-Aid on their neck.

Whoa, Nellie.

I was, of course, immediately suspicious. “Why are they here? For that matter, why are we here?”

“I told you,” Stephen said. “Dinner.”

And that’s when I saw Tamara and Stacy. They were playing pool with a couple of college-aged boys, and flirting like you wouldn’t believe. Stacy was tossing around her oh-so-fabulous hair, and Tamara was leaning waaaaay over the pool table until she was about to fall out of her top. Melissa was there, too, laughing and flirting, which was really odd since she and Ennis have been attached at the hip for so many years.

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