Vampire Pussy...Cat

Short Story

Chapter One

"No, absolutely not." Cass shakes her head to emphasize her position.

"Aw, come on, Cass, pretty please with sugar on top. It will be so much fun," I argue.

"How is it you insist on pushing the envelope, despite the number of times you have been in trouble with the High Council? If I am to be your mentor for what now seems like all of eternity, why do you never listen to me?" Cass asks.

"Oh, another slang. Cass, I am so doggone proud of you. Ooh, look at me using doggone instead of damn. Aren't you just a little proud of me, too? Who taught you pushing the envelope? Vic? Sara? Lisa?"

"Nicky, you need to take this sanction seriously. How can I help mentor you if you never listen to me?"

"What? I listen. I'm cleaning up my language, aren't I?

"You are not doing that for me, and you know it. You are doing it because Annie asked you to and for the welfare of your future child."

"Hmph. Okay, you got me there," I acquiesce.

See, I'm a Newling. That's a new vampire, and I kinda live on the edge sometimes. Some people, like Cass, would say I have no respect for the vampire code. And that is why I break all the rules sometimes. I believe the vampire code is stuffy and outdated.

Unfortunately, most of the High Council does not agree with me. So, the High Council sanctioned Cass to mentor me—probably for all of eternity. It could be a lot worse. I admire Cass, even though she is a tight ass. She's one of my best friends, and I know she would do anything for me.

I dig out my iPhone and prepare to text backup for my perspective.

"What do you think you are doing?" Cass asks me.

"I'm gonna text Lisa and Juno. I'll bet they will agree with me."

"You will do no such thing. I said no, and I mean it."

I grin at Cass and start texting. I never listen to her.

Need backup. Cass has another stick up her ass.

B right there.

Since I've been working on my language, I try not to swear out loud, but all bets are off in text messages, and I can definitely think all the profane words I want.

Lisa and Juno fog into the den of the Athena House, where Cass and I are talking.

We all live in Athena house—Cass and her wife, Vic, and Annie, my wife.

Lisa, my old roommate from college, who is also a Newling, takes one look at the scowl on Cass's face and starts laughing. "Okay, Nicky, spill. What do you want to do now?"

"Well, I thought that since Halloween is just around the corner, we should just go au naturale. All we'd have to do is get a few black capes and then show our sexy fangs to all the kids who come to get us treats. We'll scare the shi...oops...poo out of them. It will seem so real. Ha, ha—because it is. I remember loving being scared at Halloween."

"I love it. What an epic idea. What do you think, Juno? Are you in?" Lisa asks.

"Sure, why not," Juno answers.

"Are you all out of your minds? Frankly, Juno, I am quite surprised you would go along with this sophomoric notion." Cass points her piercing blue eyes at all of us.

"Cass, it's Halloween. No one will ever suspect they are looking at real live vampires. What's the harm? Personally, I would love to come out of the closet, so to speak, for one night out of the year," Juno offers.