Vamped by Lucienne Diver

Author:Lucienne Diver [Diver, Lucienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Young Adult, Vampires, Fiction, Fantasy, Adult, Romance, teen fiction, teen, fashion, teenager
ISBN: 9780738714745
Publisher: Flux
Published: 2009-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

15

I got back in the same way I’d gotten out, though I had a heck of a time finding the secret passage from the outside end. I ended up rapping on the ground of, like, a square mile of woods before I finally got the passage to open. By the time I did, my spankin’ new threads were nearly as filthy as my old. I wanted a long, hot shower to wash away the dirt and memories.

All of Team Alpha, which wasn’t out on maneuvers, crowded around me as the trap door slid back. It was like a balm to my soul.

“Where’s Marcy?” Pam and Vanessa asked in unison.

“Safe,” I answered, struggling to keep my bag of new duds clean in one hand, while pulling myself up the ladder with the other.

“Safe where—at the mall?” some boy asked, looking at my haul. I didn’t recognize him from school, so I was thinking junior or sophomore. His dark hair was buzzed perilously close to his skull.

“Yeah,” I said wryly. “She’s playing mannequin. Hiding in plain sight.”

I despaired of him completely when he accepted that for an answer. As the trap door shut behind me, Cassandra leaned in.

“Where, really?” she asked quietly.

I was spared having to answer when the double doors burst open and Thing One and Thing Two, also known as the beefcakes, stood in the entrance.

“Gina,” Thing One called. Just one name, like “Pink” or “Madonna.”

The folks gathered around me stayed put, not fading back out of the way as they had before. They might even have tightened formation.

“What do you want with her?” Cassandra challenged.

Things One and Two exchanged a look, at which the latter huffed and said, “Relax, she’ll be back.”

And I would, too. I’d beaten death and a hell of a scary psychic already. Everything else was cake.

“Thanks,” I told Cassandra quietly. “I’ve got this. Watch these for me?”

She turned, looking completely unsure, but took the clothes I handed her.

I stepped gently past my protectors, touched that they’d stood between me and Melli’s goons even for a second. I felt like the Grinch—not in the Seussical green and wrinkly way with bad teeth and no pants, but in the sense that it felt like my heart grew three sizes. I had real friends, people willing to shield me from the big bad. Maybe this new life didn’t entirely suck rocks, despite Melli-noma and her merry band of misfits …

Who all seemed to be waiting for me in what must have been a combat training room, all padded walls pocked with cuts and bruises. Bobby was standing wild-eyed in the middle. There was a chair there too, a single, gunmetal gray folding chair, into which Thing One pushed me.

“Don’t move,” he ordered.

I glanced at the guys looming behind Bobby: Hawkman, who was looking completely psychotic and intensely focused, testing the blades of the knives strapped across his chest like Rambo’s answer to the pageant sash; and Larry, who was holding a sword and looking weirdly comfortable with it, like maybe he conducted mock D&D battles on the weekends.

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