by Lumi Laura
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Sometime before sunrise, they kissed her goodbye at the door, and Alex left. "I don't know how this happened," she told them, "but I love you. I love both of you." When she stepped out into the dark street, she saw several people walking about. She could tell who was a vampire and who wasn't, but the vampires passed by her as if they didn't suspect anything.
Alex went back to her grandmother's home and went to bed. She laid on her back staring up at the dark ceiling. The surprise was that what she'd just done didn't seem strange. Thoughts of her lovers brought such tranquility. Even being a vampire seemed normal now. How quickly she'd fit into the role of an immortal being. So close to sleep, she felt and perhaps even saw, another world full of dark strange beings. They seemed to call to her. This was the one aspect of being a vampire that scared her. She fought sleep, clutched her cross close to her breasts and pushed the dark psychic world away.
Strangely, Nălucă, the cat, left her grandmother's bedroom and came to sleep with Alex, which had never happened before and felt unusually comforting. Alex tiptoed down the hall and peeked into her grandmother's room.
She was fast asleep.
