a book I started to write about my daydreams

[Poopsie Holbrook]

Let me introduce myself in the manner of other famous vampires. I’m Lavar, 16 years old, 6 feet, blond hair, and of course blue eyes. My grandfather was a viking, I got his looks. Vampires are out, pretty much because some scientists got a hold of one and tortured him with tests. So of course he escapes and decides to sue them. He took the video tapes of the tests with him so it wasn’t hard to point out which was the inhuman in those. So he won and we have a lot of new laws. Like if you want the benefits of some of those laws you have to register and get a vamp ID. At least one law is that if your under 18 and attending school their not allowed to release the fact that your a vampire. Which isn’t a big deal since born vamps like me are rare. great for me cept thanks to some gang banger kid that stabbed me in the hall last week everyone at school now knows what I am and today’s my first day back. Its gonna be one hell of a Monday.

chapter one :
So I pull into the school parking lot in the old van that used to be my moms, its got shag carpet inside and a white tiger leaping off a cliff in front of a full moon airbrushed on the side. so cheesy and so cool, to me anyways. The twins Joey and Jason already hopping out. I sat there and looked at the school groaning at the idea of going inside.
”you coming in dude?” Jason yelled back at me on his way to the school yard.
”what do you think,Mojo?” I asked the purple bobbing head bull on the dashboard, I flicked his head and he bobbed in the affirmative. “guess it can’t be that bad.”
So I grabbed my backpack and got out of the van. as I caught up to the twins I noticed a lot of people that were busy a minute ago gabbing had gone quiet. A few looked away and started up talking but I was getting a lot of looks. the kind people think their being sly about but even a human could notice it. a few just out right stared at me as I walked by. I felt more open and out there than a vampire is comfortable with. I tried to act like everything was normal but hey most of them saw my guts spilling out Friday and then I put them back in while telling the teachers I didn’t need an ambulance. tough act to follow.
We get to the group we usually hang with and get a few “hey”s and kind of awkward silence till David, tall dark and dumb but he means well, says ” So can I see your fangs?”
“what am I some kind of circus performer here to amuse you” I say in my best Pesci impersonation. Everyone laughed so it seemed to break the ice. Still Dave wasn’t letting it go.
“So can I?”
“no.”
“why not?”
“cause if I show you then everyone wants to see and I’ll never make it to class on time.”
He looked sort of crest fallen when the bell rang and we headed inside.
”Don’t worry Dave,” Will our red and freckly friend pats him on the shoulders,”I’ll show you mine.”
Well at least my friends were still the same corny bunch of kids, too bad the rest of the kids weren’t as well.
We had homeroom this morning. everyone just sitting around till the teacher got up and took roll call. We voted on homecoming nominations and lastly got a little spew about if anyone was upset by last weeks happenings that Mr. Costello the school counselor is there if they need to talk about it. Could I roll my eyes anymore, but I guess gut spillage is kinda tramatic for people to see. Heck it was my guts!
The guy next to me leans over and says, “so you holding it together?” I lift up my shirt and gesture to my stomach, “so far so good.” He laughed. Bell rang and we all headed to first period class. Lucky me it was math. nothing easier for my quick vamp brain to process and now that I no longer have to slow it down to pretend to be normal I got done in time to take a nap before next class. Hey suns up, makes me drowsy.
On the way to my next class I ran into Josh, the guy that’s supposed to try out for our band tonight. I catch his attention with a nod, “Hey”
”oh hey dude, hows it going?” he says.
”We still on for tonight” I ask.
”oh yeah dude,”he paused for a sec and went on,”if your worried if I’m not cool with you being a vamp, don’t. It’s no big deal to me. Heck I figure having a vamp as your lead guy is bound to get us notoriety.”
”You know I never actually thought about it like that. I figured good looks and talent would get me there, but hey how will I know if they will really like me for me?” I said in a sort of jokingly sad way.
Just in time for Will to walk by and say,”Dude you know I like you for you.” He hugged me and I gave him a light “get off me” shove.
”come on guys before were late,” I herded us all along.
I had to jog to my next class all the way in the back of the gym for health. Its taught by this wacky coach that’s been rumored to have been struck by lightning.
I sat in my seat just as the bell rung. Coach Hubbard walked in and closed the doors.
“Alright class,” He said as he walked to his desk,”in light of last weeks goings on I thought this a good opportunity to revisit the vampire health we talked about a couple weeks ago.” See basic vampire stuff was added to health as a part of those new laws I was talking about. He continued, “Lavar since your now out of the coffin as it were why don’t you come up here and answer questions. You’re sure to be better equipped to answer than I, plus might make everyone a little more comfortable with the idea.”
”I guess I can.” I stood up and walked to the front of the class I said off handed,”I can’t believe you said out of the coffin” I shook my head and got a few giggles from some kids.
”OK so anyone have a question?” I said. A girl to the side raised her hand.
“How did you become a vampire?” She asked.
“I was born one, both my parents are vampires.” I looked at another kid that raised his hand.
“If vampires are supposed to be super strong how come that kid Zack Darius in 3rd grade pushed you in that huge mud puddle and you just sat there. Everybody after that was calling you The mud beast for weeks.”
“Dude you have an incredible memory.” I said.
The guy shrugged and just said, ” Stuff like that was always happening to you. I just hate seeing kids get picked on. But if your all like super human strength why didn’t ever once just slug Zack.”
”OK,” I said, “wouldn’t it be kinda weird if the scrawny kid I was just knocked out that over grown Zack?” Zack was that kid that was always over grown not handicapped but so slow he ended up staying back a year. Thank god he moved away in 6th grade. I didn’t want to have to take that tards shit for the rest of my school life. “Be sides my parents practically drilled it into my head to do nothing back cause if I hurt a kid we’d have to leave and I’d never see any of my friends again.”
A girl in the front row, Tracy I think her name is asked me why.
“Well vampires weren’t out then and if I had did something like that in order not to be looked at to closely we’d just up and leave. Go to some other part of the country or world.” I could tell some of the kids were thinking how that would impact some ones life, well I could even pick up a few surface thoughts along those lines, though I try really hard to keep that turned off in such a busy place as school.
“So,” Tracy said,”you spent like your whole childhood worried you’d hurt one of us and then have to move?”
”kinda but mostly only when you’d make me mad” that got a chuckle. I saw my friend Dave raise his hand.
”Can I see your fangs?” he asked again.
” I already said no leave it alone.”
”We’re not gonna make him show off for you guys..” the coach says. “Why don’t we just go over what we know. One, obviously vampires do not burn up in sunlight. Though they are light sensitive and significantly weaker during the day. So easy why they prefer nights. I’m sure Lavar has had many sun glasses taken away from him and I know I’ve caught him asleep in class plenty of times.” He looks and me, I roll my eyes and nod. I’m trying to hold on to the pair of ray bans in my pocket and not fall asleep with them on in class like I always do. He goes on, “Two, a stake through the heart will kill anything but its not the only thing that kills vampires, any serious to heart or beheading works too. Three, vampires do need blood and its illegal for them to bite anyone underage.” He looks at me and asks what he’s missed.
”Lets see,” I start listing stuff,”We don’t sleep in coffins, crosses and holy water does diddly squat. We do cast a reflection. I could probably pick up a car but it would be awkward. We can change shape but only at night and can only take on one or two forms. You really have to know what your turning into well and I don’t know anyone that picks bat. “
Dave asks me, “So what do you turn into?”
I sigh, “I don’t really want to tell everyone that.” a whole lot of whys went up in the air. “You just don’t go around telling everyone what your forms are unless their some one you trust. I can only do it at night anyways and you never know it could be like a last ditch escape effort. Most vampires won’t spread around their forms unless their really new or really dumb.”
“O.K. so you won’t show us your fangs and we don’t get to see turn into something. Wheres the fun in that?” Dave says.
”Fun?” I look at like he’s cracked, “This is my life. I’m just trying to finish high school on a few hours of sleep because as soon as the sun goes down I’m wide awake. I’ve got a fridge full of blood in my basement and my parents look barely older than me. My grandfather is an ancient Norseman who says if I’m his blood I have to know how to wield a sword. So when he visits he likes to surprise me with an attack and if I fend him off I get a pat on the back and a That’s it boy, be a long time till you see Valhalla.’ At least my grandma just wants to tell me
old native American legends but my Uncle loves to give me these killer noogies. So ya I can do cool things and a good chance to live forever but stuff is still gonna be hard. Life brings on all kinds of difficulties no matter what you are.”
Dave raises his hand,”So why do you keep the blood in the basement?” I just give him a look and Coach stands up.
”I think that’s enough questions for now” Thank god I go sit down and put my head in my hands. Course I just fall asleep and I guess coach was being nice cause I slept till the bell rang.
Lunch,yay. Everyone heads off to the cafeteria and I head to the outside break area. Find a shady area place next to the back of soda and snack machines to catch a quick nap till my friends are done eating. It’s not long before I hear laughter and talking heading my way.
Will looks down at me sitting a ledge,”You know I kinda thought you might be narcoleptic.”
”Yeah the higher the sun climbs the more I nod off”
Jen hops down next to me and says,”I’m so pissed at you.” Jen is probably my best friend since first grade. First day at school I was getting pushed around by a couple of kids ( like I said I was scrawny) she came up and kicked him in the shins. we’ve been friends ever since and she’s the keyboardist in my band. “I can’t believe you never told me you were a vampire. I’ve known you practically my whole life.”then she pinches me hard to extenuated her point.
”Hey you know he couldn’t tell anyone and besides its only recently did they come out.”says Joey.
”Did the twins know?” she asks. they looked down and kinda guilty, “ah huh. Why did they get to know?” couple of looks from Dave and Will said they pretty much wanted to know too.
”Well their parents work for mine so they always knew.” I couldn’t say the real reason being that the twins and their families were all werewolf’s since were’s aren’t out like vamps. my parents run a small wildlife rescue. basically exotic animals people thought made good pets like tigers and hybrid wolves. were’s are good with animals plus their family friends. “besides even after we came out I’m just used to keeping it secret. I suppose I would have come out with it eventually but I probably would have waited till after high school.”
Will says,”I can see why and it doesn’t bother me much.” Dave nodded as well.
”Well I’m bothered.” says Jen, “and to make it up to me you can be the subject of my journalism project.”
”O.k. what does that entail?” I look apprehensively at her.
”Well basically just video tape some of your everyday habits edit out the dull stuff and interview your family and stuff. its some biography kinda thing.”
”hope you don’t mind staying up all night cause that’s when I do any thing interesting. I don’t think your mom’s gonna be all that cool with it.”
“Well I’ll tell her if she wants me to get a good grade I gotta. you know parents and if its in the sake of an A I’m sure I can convince her.”
Will chuckles,”I want to watch when she’s all done and see what Lavar’s up to at night.”
Dave nods and adds, “specially if he’s biting some hot chick, I want to see.”
”Dude its not always a chick, just so you know.” I smile knowing what he’ll say.
He makes a gagging face, ” OK you can just edit that out. I’ve never seen you with a girlfriend you don’t like guys do you? I mean not that I’m a homophobe but you never put off that vibe.”
”Well honestly I’m not opposed to guys but I’d prefer to date a girl. I just don’t date because everyone my age is illegal for me to bite.”
”So basically your bi but you’d rather be with a girl?”asks Dave and I nod,”So why do you have to be able to bite them?”
I was feeling a little embarrassed by this, “well I can’t really get, um, you know intimate without biting”
”O.K.” says Jen, “are you talking about sex.”
”Yes and no. I’m pretty sure if I was making out with a girl I might not be able to help myself and if I had sex I wouldn’t be able to finish if I didn’t.” they all raised their eyebrows at me.
“Besides I haven’t even had sex yet so I don’t know how it would go. I just know I got a different sex talk from my parents than you guys did.”
”Whoa,” Will said,” your a virgin vampire. that’s so funny”
I grimace and the bell rings.
We all get up to go and Dave adds,”I am so gonna ask some more questions later.”
I can only groan and head to class.

My next class is biology in the science building. The teachers pregnant and I guess she’s hot because its super cold in there. Cold doesn’t really effect me like humans but its not always pleasant and only makes it more obvious if someone touches me my lower body temperature. Humans normal temp is 98.6 must be cozy since vamps run about 67.5 depending on when we last fed. It’s been a while since breakfast and it wasn’t warm.
It’s dissections day,little sharks. So Mrs. Patterson starts assigning small groups. One girl in my group raises her hand.
”Mrs. Patterson I need to be reassigned.”
Mrs. Patterson raises her eyebrows. “Is there a problem Darla?”
”Yeah,”she says. “I can’t be in a group with a vampire.” I admit I was waiting for something like this to happen all day. I mean I live in the fricken bible belt.
”I’ve never seen Lavar do anything more awful than fall asleep during class,” I must have come off soooo lazy to these people.”Why can’t you be in a group with him?” She asks.
”Because he’s of the devil.”She says I can only roll my eyes. “So its like against my religion to group with him.”
Lucky for me Jen shares this class with me. She’s quick to pipe in that she’d be happy to switch.The teacher agrees but looks unhappy about it. She’s a real equal rights kinda person and I could pick a few untasteful things in her head she’s like to say to Darla but thought better about it. I decided she’s now my favorite teacher.
“Sorry Lavar.” Jen pats my back. “At least she didn’t throw holy water on you.”
”Ya well I guess I’m lucky then. If that’s the worst that happens today I really can’t complain.”
The teacher handed out the sharks and we got to the dissecting. There was always at least one kid that refuses to do it so she was sent to the library because she couldn’t stand to watch. There was also some horseplay and eyeballs were thrown. I resisted tossing mine at the back of Darla’s head. See I can be adult, plus wouldn’t want to add to the fact she thinks I’m “of the devil.” who talks like that? Really. But class ended without to much turmoil.
Art class went alright. It can get kind of bosterous since its art and we’re pretty much allowed to do anything accept throw the pastels across the room. Only time I ever heard the teacher yell. I got a few teases and some questions from my fellow students. I guess I’m now the representative for my race in school, course I’m the only one of my race in school.
Some questions just struck me as wierd since aparently there’s some controversy on if vampires have to go to the bathroom. I totally didn’t see that coming(in case your wondering my answer was depends on what we eat).
Gotta love the block system cause that was my last class. I head to my van to find Jen and the twins waiting for me.
”Josh has directions to your place ,”Joey tells me. “He’ll be by later for practice.”
”Alright lets go.” I say promtly followed by a shotgun call from Jen.

chapter two :
So we pull up at my house and the twins hop out to head down the hill to their house. I live on the edge of town close to the wild animal rescue my mom runs.
Jen and I head up to the studio my parents built above the garage. It’s a pretty big house. My parents aren’t really rich, it takes a lot of money to run the rescue but my dad is almost 300 so he managed to make money. My dad has a hand in some businesses newest being vamp themed bars. It’s certainly an easy way to get fresh blood though not the only reason to open one. Another reason our house is big is that we’re the most stationary of the family so rest tend to leave some possessions here. There’s one long room that’s practically a museum with clothes and old weapons that they’ve used at some point in centuries past.
We toss our back packs on the old couch and Jen grabs a soda from mini fridge. I go and fiddle with the sound equipment. Some of this stuff is from the time my mom was a hippy and sang in a band herself before she met my dad. My moms pretty young for a vamp which is why I’m here. Made vamps don’t stay fertile longer than 80 to 100 years. Born vamps do.
Jen comes stand next to me,”So.” she says.
“So” I say.
“So what do you do at night?” She asks.
“Tonight, nothing much its Monday.”
“What does monday make a difference?”
“Well not really the best night to go out looking for fresh blood.” I tell her kinda eyeing her from the side.
“You gotta have fresh blood at least some of the time don’t you.” it wasn’t really a question.
“Yeah, guess you’ve heard that before. I’ve got a few regular donors around here but I can’t feed from them all the time. So usually I go out on the weekends to like clubs and stuff to get a bite.” She sorta snickered at that. Made me a little more relaxed.
“Well you know you could have told me.” She put her hand on my arm and I turned to look at her.
“I wanted to I just… well I would have eventually.” I said while she just smiled at me then leaned forward and kissed me.
At first I was a little shocked I mean my best friend was kissing me and then I thought it was nice. Her lips were warm and I kissed her back tasting the soda she was drinking. I’d kissed before just not with anyone I cared about. I inhaled and breathing her in. I could hear her heart rate pick up and her blood rushing. Then she suddenly pulled away with her hand to her mouth and I realized my fangs we’re pressing to my bottom lip. I’d nicked her with them.
“I’m sorry.” was all I could say.
“Its ok,” she said. “I guess kissing a vampire is a bit of a challenge.”
She smiled again and there was a bead of blood on her bottom lip. I couldn’t seem to help myself as I kissed her and took that lip into my mouth to taste it. The blood and her leaning into me only excited me more. We were getting into a deep make out session when suddenly the door burst open.
The twins and Josh explode into the room rather boisterously. We separate about the time they suddenly stop laughing. We all look a little shell shocked for a second before Joey lets out a very emotive, “Dude.”
Then all three guys smile at us and josh says,”Is this like the vamp version of catching you with your fly down cause your fangs are showing.”
I put my hand to my mouth and close my eyes to try to calm down. I felt the fangs recede and told the guys to go set up I’ll be right back. I needed to nip to the basement to quiet down the thirst I managed to work up.
When I came back upstairs Will and Dave had shown up. I could hear Dave even through the sound proofing say “Man I missed fangs gah!”
I smiled and opened the door just as Josh was asking Jen if she was going to let me suck her blood. I answered before she could.
“That points rather moot since she’s under 18 I can’t bite her.” I almost cringed thinking how my fang nicked her. I looked at her and her lip had stopped bleeding. She met my eyes and blushed before going back to setting up her keyboard. “So lets get set up” I said trying to move us along.”lets get Josh up on the covers we do then we’ll work on teaching him the original stuff.” I got nods and we started getting our act together. Will and Dave sat on the couch to watch.
People tend to show up at my house to hang and watch the band. So the studio tends to be crowded on practice nights and it wasn’t long till others showed up joining the two on the couch.
Dave’s cousin, who goes to the community college came in with his little friend probably the gothiest kid from school. The cousin,Nathan is quite a bit goth and very flaming gay. I think he’s funny as hell. Goth boy goes by Damien though I know that his real name is Howard so I guess I can’t blame him.
Josh was pretty familiar with the covers and catching onto the originals really quickly. When we stop for a break I pat him on the back and let him know he’s in.
Some of us sat around for a bit talking and playing the stereo. The sun had set and I was feeling more awake than I have all day. Yay, all my friends are winding down and I’m just getting started.
“So,” Dave says, “is there really a fridge full of blood in the basement?”
I laughed “yes where else would we keep it?” I returned.
“but why the basement?” Will pipes in.
“so humans like you don’t just stumble onit”
Round of “Ohs” sounded in the room.
Round about then my mom came in with the house phone in her hand.
”Is there a Dave here?” She looked around and handed Dave the phone when he raised his hand. Everyone was silent till she left.
Dave was obviously talking to his mom and she wanted him to come home. After some arguing he clicked the phone off and sighed.
“Crap I gotta get home moms have a fit” He sorta avoided eye contact so I knew his mom didn’t want him at a vamps house. “She’s just paranoid but see you guys tomorrow”
As he left people started talking again and they all wanted to know who the girl that brought in the phone was.
“She was hot and not hanging out with us.” Will sort of pouted.
“Dude that’s my mom,” every bodies eyes bulged when I said that. “Did you guys forget that vampires don’t age?”
“No way She looks like she’s 19, 20.” Will’s surprise evident on his face.
“Well of course because my dad turned her at that age” I laughed a little at him and he only could shake his head.
“She’s probably hundreds of years old,” Damien added like he knows all about vampires.
“Actually she’s about 60, now my dad is around 300,” woahs were expressed and I added ” Don’t even ask how old grandpa is since he was once a viking.”
“Cool can I interview your grandpa for my project” Jen was probably thinking what she’d ask him.
“My grandparents sorta show up when ever they want, I don’t know if they’ll be here,”
“But I can your parents right?” She looked at me for assurance.
“yeah I guess so, if their ok with it”
After that things starting breaking up. No late nights on Mondays and I think every ones parents gave them a get home early speech. Don’t be staying late at the blood suckers house or something.
“Come on Jen I’ll give you a lift home.” The twins were just leaving and Joey said something about a huge history report he’s gotta have in. Jason was ragging on him saying that he would have to do most of the work for him.
Jen and I climbed in to the van. We didn’t say anything and probably the first time I felt awkward with her.
“So we gonna talk about the kiss?” She asked.
“Kinda hoping to avoid it.” I looked at her and didn’t think it was going to slide. I was right.
“Did you not like it?”
“I didn’t say that. I just don’t want you to get hurt.”
“so your going to hurt me?” She raised an eyebrow at me.
“Well I did nick your lip and that’s just a kiss” She looked thoughtful and I resisted peaking.
“Seemed like an accident and besides it doesn’t bother me” I glanced over at her while I started to head towards her house. “Besides I wanted to do it before just seemed like a good time.”
“why now after I’m out and all?” Probably what was bothering me the all night.
“Well I have to say I was with the rest of the group and wondering what your sexuality was.” I laughed a little and she went on.”Well you do have a girl for a best friend and well after lunch I thought I should give it a shot.”
“So you want to go out with me?”
“well yeah if you want to.” typical female answer.
“It’s not that I don’t like you, I do,” I was quick to add.”It’s just that well bloods what I’m going to think about first when I’m close to some one and I just didn’t want to risk it.”
“So wanna risk it now?” She smiled at me and I had to laugh.
“well why don’t we talk about it more tomorrow?” We had just pulled up at her house, “and what does you mom say about me being a vampire?”
“Ok and fine.” then she hesitantly added, “well she doesn’t actually know about that. She’s been working so much she hasn’t heard the local gossip. Besides you’ve been over since we were kids she knows you.”
“uh huh, well I think you should tell her specially if you want to go with me Friday night for your project.”
“Ok ok, I’ll tell her,” she climbed out the van and held the door, “But that still doesn’t get you out of discussing stuff tomorrow, later.”
She closed the door and skipped to her door waving as she went inside. I could only shake my head and head home.
Who’d have thought the day could go so weird but not that bad. I totally expected the worst and thought about the events as I went home. I spend most of my week nights playing world of warcraft. I mean really on a Monday night not really much to do.
I finally managed to fall asleep at 2 am fast asleep with no idea that while Monday was alright Tuesday is a different story.