the nerdy girls secret 🤓

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"so you need to like, not do that." i say with a frown. the vampire guy from the cave is sitting in front of me with his shiny skin sparkling under the fluorescents of the mall. he's wearing a black button down without any buttons buttoned. and let me just say—WOWZA!! he's a hotty for sure. ugh. it's so sad that he lives in a cave and gets his sustenance from human blood.

i'd let him suck my sister's blood though. oh, no i just remembered that she's dead :(

ugh i wish i still had a family. but it's just me and my alcoholic aunt. and her son who's name i forget every now and then.

"not do what?"

"u're face just looks kinda creepy?"

"oh" he drops the squirrel he carried in from his teeth and leers at me "is that better?"

"yes now never do that again and you're perfect"

"you're so smart, girly. what next?"

i look around the store. there are flannels and more flannels and lots of flannels by the big piles of black ripped skinny jeans and beanies. there are beanies of every color. because cole is rich, im going to make him buy one of everything. and then! we're headed to the leather jacket store across the mall.

a few people cower behind the front desk, trembling and pointing at something behind us. i glance behind me to see a kids train. the kids also cower, their eyes on the sparkling man before me.

wow, i'm not used to all of this attention. i'm too nerdy to be seen this much!! i must hide my face!!

"what's wrong?" cole asks, now breathing down my neck. i look into his eyes and blush bright pink. then, i glance around again.

"we shouldn't be here."

"oh, don't worry about the money," he says, pulling a sleek wallet from his pocket. he rips his black card out and grins, "i've got the bill, sweetheart-pumpkin-face-darling-cutie-pie-darling."

"it's not that! it's just...well...i'm-i'm not popular or pretty. and all these people are looking at you because you're so popular and attractive. not at all because you terrify everyone who comes within a 50-mile radius of you. i...we don't belong together."

he grips my chin so gentle-soft like charmin ultra strong toilet paper. his inhuman strength is nowhere to be seen this close.

"none of that matters," he growls. "you are radiant and all you need to do is...remove these"

he takes my glasses and crushes them to dust in his palm. i gasp. "now, look in the mirror."

i look to my left where a mirror hangs on a column and see that my hair is no longer scraggly but long and luscious with soft curls and golden highlights. my lips and cheeks are the perfect shade of pink and my lashes are thick over my gorgeous gorgeous eyes.

"wow" i breathe. suddenly, confidence wafts over and out of me like a sparkling fart. i turn to cole and grin. if he could breathe, i just know he'd lose the ability at that moment.

"okay so let's go"

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after leaving the leather jacket store, cole and i go for ice cream! i'm no ordinary girl so i get chocolate chip mint ice cream AND coffee ice cream with a big, fat triple bacon cheeseburger. i never eat that chipmunk food of leaves and fruits and veggies. no health for me!!! 🙅‍♀️

"wow, you sure know how to eat" cole smirks, munching on a fry with a big fat smirk.

"why are you here." a dark growling voice asks from behind me. i sniff the air and it smells citrusy and like lumberjacks and fresh cut grass and cinnamon. pure. male.