Vampire Kisses

Suspicions

I’m Alison, Ali for short. I’m 15 and I’m a sophomore. I’ve always been kind of invisible to everyone; maybe because I don’t have any popular friends. Like every other girl, I have a huge crush on someone.  His name is Zach. He is extremely cute and is the most popular guy at school, but obviously he’ll never go out with someone like me: non-popular girl, worthless and ugly.

“Hi, Amy, How are you?”  I said. Amy’s been my best friend since I can remember.  She has always been there for me. Last year, one of the popular guys, Riley McField, asked Amy out on a date. They have been together ever since.

“I’m good. Guess what? Riley told me to tell you that Zach told him that he was planning to throw a party and he was thinking of inviting you and me.” said Amy.

“What?! I can’t believe it! Why would Zach want to invite me? If everyone in this school thinks I'm ugly and worthless, then he must too.” I said. 

“That’s bullshit! I’ve heard you many times saying it, but enough is enough! Don’t believe that, you’re my best friend and I hate seeing you like that. You are neither worthless nor ugly. How many times do I have to say it for you to believe me?” Amy said.

“I’m going to believe it when people stop treating me like shit. Look, I’ve got to go. I’ll talk to you later.” I walked away. I could feel Amy staring at me. But what I said was the truth. I am worthless

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I’ve noticed that Zach has been distant with some of his friends lately; friends that he was very close to. I start walking to my locker and I stopped dead on my tracks. Zach’s in front of my locker staring at me.

“Uh, excuse me. You’re blocking my locker and I’m already running late to class. So, could you please move?” I said, dying of embarrassment.

“I'm sorry. Hi, Ali.” He knows my name. “I was hoping that we could talk. I know is weird ‘because we’ve never talked or anything. Um. . . I’ve wanted to ask you. Do you have plans for tomorrow night?” He said with a grin. Do I need to clean my ears or did Zach just ask me out?

“Uh. . . n-n-no, I don’t think so. Why?” I said. I could feel my voice shaking. I opened my locker and when I put my hand inside it I forgot I had put a needle ‘cause I needed it for Home Ec and I pinched myself. Blood started coming out of my index finger. When I turned to face him, I could tell that he wasn’t breathing and his face was hard. He had this weird look.                

“Are you okay?” I said probably with a worried look on my face.

“Uh, I got to go. I’ll call you later.” And on that note, he started running. I knew it was too good to be true for him to be talking to me. I started cleaning my finger from the blood as fast as I could because I hate the smell. It makes me want to throw up. It’s disgusting. Then I gathered my books and went to class. The class had already started, but the teacher didn’t say anything, so I went to sit beside Amy. She passed me a note saying:

Where were you?! I wanted to ask and tell you something very, very important!!!!!

I could see that it was important ‘cause of the !!!!!. So I answered back before she got angrier than she already was.

I was with Zach. He was blocking my locker when I got there. He asked if I had plans for tomorrow night I told him no. When I opened my locker, I had put a needle and I forgot. I pinched my finger and obviously blood started coming off of it. When I turned to face him, his face looked hard. I asked if he was okay but he just said he would call me later and then, he ran away..

When I gave the note to her, Amy had lots of emotions going through her face. She started writing so fast and with a smile on her face.

OMG! That’s what I wanted to tell you. Riley told me that Zach has a HUGE crush on you!!! And guess what? Zach’s party is on TOMORROW NIGHT! Maybe that’s what he wanted to ask you. About the blood thing, are you sure he was acting like that?

When I read what Amy wrote, ‘the blood thing’, something came to my mind.

1. Every time we’re working with blood in laboratory, he manages to get out of class, and so does Riley, even my best friend.

2. When Zach was talking to me, blood came out of my finger and he ran away, like if he didn’t want to smell or look at my blood.

Maybe all three of them are scared of blood. I know I hate the blood and the smell so maybe they could be feeling the same.

Yeah, but let’s talk later. I’m behind in this class. So, later. Okay?

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I changed a few things from this chapter and I will continue changing the rest of the chapters as well.