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She replied, “That IS what it takes. I knew about you the whole time, once again, and I never said a word about you, did I?”

`He replied, “No, you did not. I’ve actually seen you stare at me and notice how my skin was so pale, and how my eyes change from blue to grey when I am hungry. I do not like to eat the blood of the people I care about, and what I’ve noticed about you is just looking at you, I feel that I care. But I,-“

She cut him off “Am a monster? You are not. You’re a caring person just like all of the rest of us. You know what’s right and what’s wrong. You’ve done what you need to do, you’re a vegetarian. You’re not a monster; all of us eat animals, just not their blood. 

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She and her friends looked at him. She knew that they exsisted, because she had seen them, with that lion in the woods that night.

That night is when her dad called her and she never picked up, because she was too shocked. When she saw them, she almost screamed. She opened her mouth and Maxye came to her and closed it for her. “Don’t speak,” he said.

She asked him “Why didn’t you say anything last time? I knew about you the whole time.” He replied, “I just don’t want us to get caught, so keep your mouth shut about this okay?” What she replied with was, “Will you go out with me?” He said, “If that’s what it takes to keep you quiet about us.”

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Chapter One

They smile in their world, they laugh in their world, they frown in their world and they play in their world.

       Annalisa knew that she wanted to see them, but at times it seemed like they didn’t want to see her. She asked if anyone was out there, when she went deep into the woods. She saw a lion, body and all…But no blood. She was almost sure it was them.

They were everywhere, in her school, near the playground, in the woods, on the streets, but she never knew what they were. She knew they drank blood, and especially these girls, and this one guy, they were beautiful.

Madeline and Saralen were the first two, and the last one was Maxye. He was beautiful just like the girls, but in a guy sort of way.