whipped one end of the candy into her mouth and tantalizingly drew it out. “I do believe I should take a closer examination at who this boy really is. We can never be too certain.”
“Leave him out of your games, Alexis. He’s an innocent football player who is strong and kind-hearted. He could have gotten himself killed back there.” She knew her sister was trying to challenge her again. It was a game Alexis never tired of. The moment Sadie set her eyes on a guy who was even remotely interesting, Alexis jumped in to make trouble.
“I just want to make sure he’s on the up and up. Maybe I should join this school of yours. I mean, academics aside, this could be fun.”
“No, you don’t. You just want to slither your way into another of my attempted romances.”
“Oh, so now it’s an attempted romance.”
“You know very well what I mean. I’m in school. You’re not. Leave me the guys at school and have your fun with everyone else. Besides, we’re simply here to get away from the hunters, remember? This isn’t the time to be building relationships with the locals.”
“If only you knew how to have fun with them, Sadie,” Alexis said as she grabbed another licorice and sauntered out of the kitchen.
Fuming, Sadie tried to ignore her sister’s exasperating antics. Adding to the pile of dirty clothes in front of the washer, she stripped out of her jeans and t-shirt and headed to the bathroom for that luscious bath.
The moment she reached the hall, Alexis strolled out of her bedroom with scented oils in one hand and trivial reading material in the other. With a shake of her shoulders and shimmy of her hips, she let her nightie fall to the floor at the threshold of the bathroom.
“If you need me I’ll be in a nice warm bath.” Alexis didn’t even look back as she entered the bathroom, leaving the door ajar.
“You know very well I was heading there.” Sadie stormed into the bathroom in time to see Alexis step into the empty claw foot bathtub and twist the faucet on.
“I’m bored silly, Sadie.” Standing there nude, in the tub she faced Sadie as she set to pinning her long hair up. As modern as Alexis had become, she’d not lost the ability to set her hair in a proper chignon when she desired it.
“And a bath is going to excite you?”
“No, silly. Irritating you excites me.” She settled into the water and sprinkled in scented oil.
“How fabulously mature of you.”
“Why did we come to this dead nowhere town anyway?”
“To get as far away from those hunters trailing you in Ireland, my dear sister. You’ve left a mess in Europe, and got me involved, too. Now it’s time to lay low and blend. Besides, it’s not all that bad. I’ve already come to like it very much here. The weather is pleasant. The people are kind.”
“And enrolling in school. Whatever gave you that idea? It ruins all the fun we could have. No one needs to know you're not an adult.”
“For one thing, I was turned when of adolescent age. It’s the proper thing for me to be in school. Secondly, I don’t see how that keeps you from having your fun. We don’t exactly run in the same circles, remember?”
“This town is more dead than a zombie convention.”
“Need I remind you that prior to your dramatic return into my life, I was running my life in a rather safe and proper way? It had been decades since I’d even had a brief run in with a hunter. While you…I swear, Alexis. Sometimes I think you deliberately set out to taunt them just to keep your life thrilling and filled with excitement.”
Alexis cupped a handful of water, raised her arm high and let the water trickle down. “Maybe I should drive up to Hollywood.”
“Maybe you should just sink into that tub.”
“ Vampiring was so exciting in Europe. There was something vibrant, mysterious and right about being there. Perhaps it was the old blood.” She snickered and gazed at Sadie. “Get it. The old country… old blood.”
Tired of
“Leave him out of your games, Alexis. He’s an innocent football player who is strong and kind-hearted. He could have gotten himself killed back there.” She knew her sister was trying to challenge her again. It was a game Alexis never tired of. The moment Sadie set her eyes on a guy who was even remotely interesting, Alexis jumped in to make trouble.
“I just want to make sure he’s on the up and up. Maybe I should join this school of yours. I mean, academics aside, this could be fun.”
“No, you don’t. You just want to slither your way into another of my attempted romances.”
“Oh, so now it’s an attempted romance.”
“You know very well what I mean. I’m in school. You’re not. Leave me the guys at school and have your fun with everyone else. Besides, we’re simply here to get away from the hunters, remember? This isn’t the time to be building relationships with the locals.”
“If only you knew how to have fun with them, Sadie,” Alexis said as she grabbed another licorice and sauntered out of the kitchen.
Fuming, Sadie tried to ignore her sister’s exasperating antics. Adding to the pile of dirty clothes in front of the washer, she stripped out of her jeans and t-shirt and headed to the bathroom for that luscious bath.
The moment she reached the hall, Alexis strolled out of her bedroom with scented oils in one hand and trivial reading material in the other. With a shake of her shoulders and shimmy of her hips, she let her nightie fall to the floor at the threshold of the bathroom.
“If you need me I’ll be in a nice warm bath.” Alexis didn’t even look back as she entered the bathroom, leaving the door ajar.
“You know very well I was heading there.” Sadie stormed into the bathroom in time to see Alexis step into the empty claw foot bathtub and twist the faucet on.
“I’m bored silly, Sadie.” Standing there nude, in the tub she faced Sadie as she set to pinning her long hair up. As modern as Alexis had become, she’d not lost the ability to set her hair in a proper chignon when she desired it.
“And a bath is going to excite you?”
“No, silly. Irritating you excites me.” She settled into the water and sprinkled in scented oil.
“How fabulously mature of you.”
“Why did we come to this dead nowhere town anyway?”
“To get as far away from those hunters trailing you in Ireland, my dear sister. You’ve left a mess in Europe, and got me involved, too. Now it’s time to lay low and blend. Besides, it’s not all that bad. I’ve already come to like it very much here. The weather is pleasant. The people are kind.”
“And enrolling in school. Whatever gave you that idea? It ruins all the fun we could have. No one needs to know you're not an adult.”
“For one thing, I was turned when of adolescent age. It’s the proper thing for me to be in school. Secondly, I don’t see how that keeps you from having your fun. We don’t exactly run in the same circles, remember?”
“This town is more dead than a zombie convention.”
“Need I remind you that prior to your dramatic return into my life, I was running my life in a rather safe and proper way? It had been decades since I’d even had a brief run in with a hunter. While you…I swear, Alexis. Sometimes I think you deliberately set out to taunt them just to keep your life thrilling and filled with excitement.”
Alexis cupped a handful of water, raised her arm high and let the water trickle down. “Maybe I should drive up to Hollywood.”
“Maybe you should just sink into that tub.”
“ Vampiring was so exciting in Europe. There was something vibrant, mysterious and right about being there. Perhaps it was the old blood.” She snickered and gazed at Sadie. “Get it. The old country… old blood.”
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