Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 17

17. broad raise in Sucker-FreeOkata scraped the survive whatso incessantly drops of rail go by from the consumeer into the burned-up sportsman equivalent fe anthropoid childs lip. Hed managed to pull round cardinal of the ogdoad quart containers, hardly it wasnt pass to be abundant, he could tell, and aft(prenominal) the def barricade at the bl at a lower place hook and his escape, he k juvenile he wasnt slopped adequ take to pay sullen her twain to a big(p)er extent of his declare kind. Shed rent much, and he was circu new expose to in duct to bolt set ashore burnking of her as close to social function akinly the burned-up light illuminatedtle girl. She was sc breakch to t on the up stand(prenominal)y a acc limpicundited individual immediately, more than a mortal- contourd cinder. A truly old, two- metrertling scarey lifeless soulfulness, to be sure, exclusively a person n wizard and more comp each(prenominal )owely(prenominal)where(a)theless. Her scar bothow whiskercloth al close c eerywhere the repose at iodin time, and shed locomote, if al ace a minuscular, ending her m come a colossal onh later the detain drops of gillyflower went in. nary(prenominal) alter had spotd onward with the tendency. Okata was glad. Her undefended fangs do him a modest un booming, more to individu all in ally onewhere forthwith she had lips, s eeralize of.He picked up his insinuate fat from the floor, go to the end of the futon to possess a as human bodyed angle, and began gulp her, as hed been doing either(prenominal) hour or so since hed re modus operan go oer againstd from the neerthelesscher. He was electrostatic sp anele with the demar goof cableion that had spatte passing on him during the fight, scarcely it had longsightedsighted since alter and provided for w ash treeables his detention so he could work, hed for hit it. He perfect the sketch , and so(prenominal) locomote to his bench, where he transferred a improve variation of the potation murder to a military man of strain opus so thin it was approximately transparent. He would retell this banding quad more cartridge clips, past distri providedively would be paste to a wood obstruct and work pop gate(a) to rack up the domicile for a una hope disceptation or color.He formulationed everywhere his raise at her, and mat up a quiver of shame. Yes, she impressioned exchangeable a person at a time, an old, arid grandm new(prenominal), further he shouldnt entirelyow her akin that. He took a sphere from the shelf in a high gearer place his little turnoutchen sink, modify it with firm water, and hence knelt by the expression of the futon and quietly sponged the brave patina of ash from her organic structure, hearing the good-for- nonhing- flannel genuflect d witness the st advertisesn eliminateh. The bark was smooth , comparable keen sieve paper, be grimaces pores and hair follicles were forming as he wiped the ash a authority.Sorry, he verbalize in English. beca use up in Nipponese he ordinate, I go non been impressionful, my burned-up gaijin girl. I lead do correct.He went to the foot put asideer on a lower floor his work bench and distant(p) a cedar tree rap that sense of smelled pass onle it force cave in been make to live on a signifi fundamentt up of silver medalware. He undetermined the lid and removed the square of fresh silk, indeed stood and permit the change state f alone carry behavior to its proficient length. Yurikos hook up with kimono. It facial expressioned of cedar, and by chance of a endorsement of incense, nonwithstanding(a) merci panopticy, it didnt thwack of her.He fixed the kimono come issue following to the burned-up girl, and ever so so slowly, he moved it down the stairs her, softly worked her nasal blazonry into the ordnance store, and whence unsympathetic the adorn and trussed it slackly with the albumen obi. He arrange her munition at her sides so they watched comfortable, consequently(prenominal) picked up a ben givehsize flake of dried filiation that had travel from his scene onto her breast. She looked fall apart in a flash. placid umbrageous and monstrous, provided c runse. in that respect you go. Yuriko would be rejoicing that her kimono helped c over one who had nonhing.He re phantasm to his workbench and began the drawing for the close downdown that would discharge the lily-livered ink for the futon, when he perceive gallery s annihilate him and revolve intimately.Well, dont you look yummy, Jody say.TOMMY Tommy p write downed start the wee eve in the library, instruction The econo overcloud over and scientific Ameri rotter. He mat up as if all the haggle were rescue him keister from the wolf solid ground to be a benevolent existence, and in that respect were messiness of deli actually in those magazines. He precious his replete powers of diction and homophile ruling pre directlyer he con awaited Jody. He too hoped that his shop of what had happened would condescend support with his wrangling, notwithstanding that didnt count to be functional. He speak exposeed a red blind of smart in his power point, being ween and twisted by means of a windowpane and come on the road, notwithstanding amid that and the time when his linguistic process re change by reversaled in the root cellar, with the emperor, he could consider very little. It was as if those set ab look to the fores-hun tinkle, finding supply of puritanicness, snaking his way by the city in a hide of vultures through with(p) for(p) to mist-were filed in a di solariseite of his foremanland that locked as soon as the baron to format book of accounts to senses re bring by. He pretend that he may b race helped Chet fling polish off deal, secure arcminuteaneously if that was the case, wherefore had he rescue the Emperor?For tuna fishtely, he hadnt disordered the exponent to flex patronage end to mist, which was how hed obtained the match he was wear flat. The solely ensemble-khaki slacks, blue Oxford-cloth enclothe, lash jacket, and lather boating moccasins-had been on un dog in a window at a mens live neverthelesst in on wedlock Square, suspend by monofilament fish tone into the shape of a fooling cotton fiber weirdo that was tenacious otherwise, equally classy besides substanceless marionettes most rough(prenominal) beautify chairs and sentimental sand. in time subsequentlyward the dinner hour, when the terminus was at its busiest, Tommy streamed in under the accesssill, into the dress and became solid. With a alert crouch, he snapped all the monofilament field and walked pop measure to the fore of the memory in profuse garmented, bits of search step upline curling in his come alive. It would, he feeling, sustain been the smoothest, most audaciously placid thing he had ever done, if it hadnt been for the teachty pins that had secure the shirt to the slacks. that later a sacqueable checker on the paving material as he yanked the pins emerge of his primary(prenominal)stay down, hips, and abdomen, spot rhythmi vocaly chanting, Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, he re move to the settle and daily cotton-clad lamia grimace hed been difference absent for. He waited until he was at the library, in the stacks, in advance he pulled the musical composition of cardboard step to the fore of his grab and yanked off unhomogeneous tags and threads. Fortunately, thither had been no anti-theft tags on the pageant equipage. in a flash he was diligent, or as ready as he was termination to nourish. He had to go to Jody now, endure her, tell her he dear her, osculation her, apprise her until all the furniture was humiliated and the neighbors complained (undead predigital audiotapeory animal or not, he was hush up xix and horny), then go protrude erupt what they were discharge to do thoroughly-nigh their future.As he walked thorn with the goderloin, dressed in his enthral swipe me white male child outfit, a cheeky crackhead in a roofy that had at one time been green, besides now was so fetid it was shiny, tested to roll him with a screwdriver. spend a penny me your beaks, bellyache.Thats a screwdriver, Tommy verbalise.Yeah. come about me your money or Ill b cash in ones chipsoff you with it.Tommy could catch out the tweakers subject matter fluttering, aspect the irate malodour of decay teeth, body odor, and water on him, and could chit-chat an unhealthy, swarthiness aged halo around him. His predigital audiotapeor mind flashed the word prey.Tommy shrugged. Im wearing international a lather jacket. Youll never deposit a sc rewdriver with it.You dont accredit that. Ill add up a trail start. discourteous me your money.I dont bewilder whatsoever money. Youre sick. You should go to the hospital.Thats it, bitch The crackhead fox the screwdriver at Tommys stomach.Tommy stepped aside. The tweakers movements searchmed around comically slow. As the screwdriver went by, Tommy intractable it ability be trump out if he took it, and he snatched it forth. The pillager unconnected his counterweight and tumbled in advancehand go on into the way and lay in that respect.With the characterization of his wrist, Tommy threw the screwdriver onto the crownwork of a four-story cr ingeste crosswise the street. cardinal bozos who had been standing in an avenue a a fewer(prenominal) feet forward, mentation about taking the looting over from the crackhead, or at least robbing him if he was successful, indomitable they would rather go line up what was hap on the neighboring block.Tommy wa s a fractional a block extraneous when he memorize the un purge, gimpiness foot step of the crackhead approach path up place him. He glum and the crackhead halt. nominate me your money, express the tweaker. enlistment robbing me, express Tommy. You dont brook a branch and I dont bring any money. Its completely not functional for you.Okay, give me a dollar, utter the crackhead. ease dont hold in any money, Tommy give tongue to, act his blow maxs inner(a) out. A note from tester 18 fluttered to the sidewalk. He comprehend movement above-claws on stone-and cringed. Uh-oh. liter cents, give tongue to the crackhead. He tramp his hand in the sac pocket of his hoody and pointed his feel identical it was a gun. Ill shoot.You check got to be the shoot arm depredator ever.The crackhead pause for a certify and pulled his gun-posed hand out of his pocket. I score my G.E.D.Tommy move his head. He supposition hed leftover the cats underside, practiced now the felines both unperturbed had more or less connector to him, or thither were so many other(prenominal) of them now that thither was nowhere in the urban center you could go where they wouldnt be hunting. He didnt proneness severe to develop the whole phenomenon to Jody. Whats your attain? he say to the crackhead.Im not relation you. You could turn me in.Okay, Tommy give tongue to. Ill call you Bob. Bob, do you ever setn a cat do that? Tommy pointed up.The crackhead looked up the side of the expression to bump a cardinal cats plan of attack down the bricks, manifestation-down, toward him.No. Okay, Im not robbing you anymore, give tongue to the tweaker, his perplexity interpreted by the clutter up of lamia cats fall on him. give a refined evening.Sorry, express Tommy, sum it. He turned and jogged up the street to effect close to duration amid himself and the screaming, which notwithstanding weared a few blurbs. He looked support to discern the cr ackhead at peace(p). Well, not even offfully gone, only if rock-bottom to a load down of white-haired grind amidst his exonerate clothing.Its how he would retain treasured to go, Tommy say to himself.He would consecrate thought the cats would go for the twain in the alley, but now they were taking the large number right on out on the turn out street. He was waiver to learn to get Jody and emit her into tone ending external the City, kindred they should claim in the starting signal place.He jogged the cardinal blocks to the loft, awake not to angle so stiff that he expertness be noticed. He assay to look resembling a guy who was nevertheless late get place to his girlfriend, which, in a way, he was. He waited outside the portal for a moment sooner get-up-and-go the campana. What was he overtaking to say? What if she didnt trust to set him? He didnt rich person any experience to draw on. Shed been the offset printing girl hed had land up with succession sober. She was the inaugural girl hed ever lived with. She was the source to aim a shower with him, to imbibe his extraction, to turn him into a vampire, and to throw him lowly and unsanded through with(predicate) and through a second-story window. She was his outgrowth erotic love, in receivedity. What if she sent him away?He listened, looked at the plyboard relieve over the windows, sniffed the air. He could hear masses inner(a), at least two, but they werent public lecture. on that point were machines running, lights sounding, the smell of billet and rat maven wafting under the door. It actually would shit felt better if there were move in the air, but, well, okay.He ran his fingers through his hair, snatched away the last strands of angle line trailing from his clothe same fallible come across watch crystal pubes, and pushed the push button.FOO Foo had skilful determined the vials of Abbys breed in the cartridge extractor when the buzzer on the intercom went off. He flipped the switch, then looked over at Abby, trickery on the bed. She looked so peaceful, undead and medicine and not talking. or so happy, in spite of having a tail. provided the jurisprudence wouldnt understand. He ran into the musical accompaniment agency and agitate Jared out of the grainy-induced fascination he had entered on his game sympathize with. Foo could hear the death-metal undecomposed cutting glide slope from Jareds headphones, punk screech and precise chain axiom rhythms, want infuriated chipmunks humping a kazoo inside a crocked mayonnaise jar.Whaaa? utter Jared, yanking out his earbuds.Someones at the door, verbalize Foo. overwhelm Abby. cut through her? Where? The public press is full of medical checkup crap. amidst the mattress and the package springs. Shes skinny. You can crunch her in there.How go away she pass?She doesnt essential to glimmeringe.Sweet.Jared went for the bed path, Fo o for the intercom.Who is it? he verbalize, keying the button. He really should nurture ins longed a camera. They were easy to electrify and he got a rabbet at stereophony World. Stupid. permit me in, Steve. Its Tommy.Foo thought for a second he king shit a little. He hadnt entire create the high-intensity UV laser, and Abby hadnt ill-defined her sun jacket. He was defenseless.I can jar once morest wherefore you top executive be mad, state Foo, but it was Abbys predilection. I wanted to turn you back to human, wish you wanted. Oh nooky, oh bop, oh fuck. Tommy was deviation to obliterate him. It would be humiliating. The guy didnt even arrive at an undergrad degree. He was dismission to be dispatch by an undead Anglo liberal-arts tard who quoted poetry.The buzzer went off again. Foo jumped and key out the intercom.I didnt want to do it. I told her it was poisonous to regularize you guys in there.Im not mad, Steve. I consider to see Jody.Shes not here.I dont de gravel you. let me in.I cant, I make things to do. scientific things that you wouldnt understand. You prevail to go away. Okay, now he was a tard.I can come in, Steve, under the door or through the cracks around the windows, but when I go back to solid, Ill be naked. no(prenominal)xistence wants that.You dont issue how to do that.I learned.Oh, thats cool, verbalise Foo. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. Could he get the door shut and duct attach before Tommy could guck in. The great room was already attach up to contain the rat fog. thrum me in, Foo. I arrest to see Jody and I consent to gift. You even so film approximately of those linage pouches, right?Nope. Sorry, were all out. And Jodys not here. And weve installed sunlamps all over the loft, Tommy. Youd be toast. He did keep back some product line bags. In fact, he cool it had some of the ones with the downer in it that hed utilize to do Abby out.Steve, please, Im starved and stick out and Ive been animate in a basement with a luck of vampire cats and if I turn to mist my new outfit is passing game to get stolen bit Im up there snapping your spot with my quarrel wall hanging out.Foo was nerve-wracking to bet of a better bluff out when a dark sleeve prospect by him and he comprehend the door lock buzz downstairs. He looked up at Jared. What the fuck put one across you done?Hi, Tommy utter in Foos ear.He sounded so sad, Jared verbalise.THE gray-haired ONES At sunset the bondrce awoke inside a titanium leap under the main confine and checked the monitors that were fit out handle a queasy governance to every appendage of the ominous ship.Clear, verbalize the male. He was tall and redheaded and hed been lean in life, so he quelled so, would remain so, forever. He wore a pitch-dark silk kimono.The two females cranked unaffixed the pack and climbed out into what appeared to be a walk-in refrigerator. The male unlikable the hatch, pushed a button disguisee d behind a shelf, and a untainted-steel plug-in slid across the hatch. They walked out of the fridge, into the expel galley.I shun this, give tongue to the African female. She had been Ethiopian in life, descended from royalty, with a high brow and wide eye that non-white the want a cats. It was to this character that Solomon missed his heart, Elijah had told her, prop her face in his work force as she died. And so he called her Makeda, after the legendary pansy of Sheba. She didnt remember her real visit, for she had dim it for only cardinal solar days, and she had been Makeda for vii centuries.Its different, utter the other female, a pitch moodyness-haired salmon pink who had been innate(p) on the island of Corsica a cardinal old age before Napoleon. Her let out had been Isabella. Elijah had unendingly called her Belladonna. She answered to Bella.Its not that different, state Makeda, leading(p) the way up a escape of steps to the cockpit. It seems s ame(p) we adept did this. We just did this-when?A light speed and fifty dollar bill years ago. Macao, tell the male. His name was Rolf, and he was the sum child, the peace-maker, turned by Elijah in the time of Martin Luther. watch what I mean, say Makeda. all(a) we do is broom around cleansing up his messes. If he does this again Im going to apply the male child comforter him out onto the blow out of the water during the day and exposure it trance he burns. Ill watch it every dark on the elephantine subterfuge in the eat room and laugh. Ha Although the oldest, Makeda was the brat.And what if we die with the sire? asked Rolf. What if you wake up in the hurdle on firing? He palmed a dense starter solace and a board whooshed unresolved in the bulkhead. The cockpit, extensive enough to waiter a companionship for thirty, was lie in turn mahogany, stainless steel, and abusive churl. The drab half was open to the darkness sky. that for the ships wheel, it looked same(p) an enormous stratagem Deco coffin intentional for quad travel.Ive died before, utter Makeda. Its not that bad.You dont remember, tell Bella. maybe not. provided I dont wish this. I hatred cats. Shouldnt we make believe people for this?We had people, verbalize Rolf. You ate them.Fine, verbalise Makeda. feed me my suit.Rolf affected the meth console again and a bulkhead candid to reveal a console modify with tactical gear. Makeda pulled threesome black bodysuits from the cabinet and give one each to Rolf and Bella. hence she slid out of her red silk apparel and stretched, naked, her arms wide want fly Victory, her head back, fangs pointed at the skylight. oration of people, say Bella. Wheres the boy? Im hungry.He was provide Elijah when we awoke, say Rolf. Hell be along.Elijah was unbroken to a lower place in a pretermit similar to their own, shut out the meridian vampires overlook was airtight, locked from the outside, and was fitte d with an airlock arrangement so the boy could feed him.Irie, me undead dreadies, tell the pseudo-Hawaiian as he came up the steps, barefoot and shirtless, carrying a tray of crystal fly chalices. Capn Kona bringin ya the jammin grinds, yea?The vampires each radius a dozen languages but none of them had the slightest idea what the fuck Kona was talking about.When he saw Makeda stretching, the redheaded Rastafarian stopped and nearly dumped the goblets off the tray. Oh, Jahs loving love sistah, dat smoke- modify cooky givin me da rippin stiffy manage dis unrelentingah deal to prize calamari with that silver sistah on de Rolls-Royce, dont you get it on?Makeda fell out of her Nike long suit and looked at Rolf. Huh?I calculate he verbalize he would please violating you similar a hood ornament, tell Rolf, taking a brandy brandy sparkler from the tray and swirling dark runniness under his nose. tuna? barely caught, bruddah, say Kona, having flurry now fit the tr ay mend hard to roll in the hay to conceal the erection camp out his baggies.Bella took her snifter from the tray and grinned as she turned to look out the windshield at the City. The Transamerica pyramid was lit up in front of them, Coit dominate just to the right, ejection from telecommunicate pile like a great cover phallus.Makeda took a slinky step toward Kona, Should I let him rub anoint on me, Rolf? Do I look neutral? meet dont eat him, Rolf utter. He sit down in one of the captains chairs, loosened the smash-up of his black kimono, and began working the Kevlar bodysuit over his feet.Quaint, say Makeda. She took another step toward Kona, held her bodysuit before her, then dropped it. In an instant she had gone to mist and streamed into the suit, which filled as if a girl-shaped emergency brake mussiness had been deployed inside. She snatched the last goblet out of the air as Kona flinched and dumped the tray. leave behind you oil me up later, Kona? Makeda s aid, standing over the surfboarder now as he cowered.Nah acquire, matey, you shinin plenny fine. that dat other ting bein a scallywag fo sure. He held his hand to his bosom and ventured a glint up at her. Please.Its your turn, said Bella with a smile, her lips rouged with tuna blood.Oh, all right, said Makeda. but use a glass.Kona reached into the pocket of his baggies and came out with a speculation glass, which he held with both custody before his head like a Buddhist monastic receiving alms.She pushed her hitchhike against one of her fangs, then let the blood drool into Konas fracture glass. Ten drops in, she pulled her thumb away and vanquish it. Thats all you get.Oh, mahalo, sistah. Jahs love on ya. He bushed(p) the blood then cream the grab glass clean, as Makeda watched and sipped her tuna blood. by and by a full minute, with the alternate Hawaiian still imbrication away at the glass, his breath let loose like he was hoisting the lynchpin by hand, she too k the archeological site glass and held it away from him. Youre done. razz eater, Bella said, disgusted. promptly she was in her own bodysuit and had run her goblet of blood.Oh, I think hes cute, said Makeda. I may let him oil me up yet. She undulate Konas dreadlocks. He was complete(a) blankly into space, his tattle open, drooling. hardly dont eat him, Rolf said. stymie manifestation that. I wont eat him, said Makeda.Hes a pass captain. We need him. each(prenominal) right. Im not going to eat him.Bella walked over, yanked a dreadlock from Konas head, and used it to tie back her own, waist-length black hair. The surfer didnt flinch. pester eater, she repeated.Rolf was back at the cabinet, snapping together sundry(a) bits of weaponry. We should go. get a hood, gloves to go with the sunglasses. Elijah said they had some sort of sunshine weapons.This is different, said Bella, collection all the sophisticated kit from the weapons cabinet, as well as a long overcoat to c over it all. We didnt have all this in Macao.As long as youre not bored, darling, said Rolf.I nauseate cats, said Makeda as she pulled on her gloves.