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you’ve read is true, but not all of it is wrong, either. We can’t go in without being invited. And if she’s got any kind of power at all, she’ll sense that we’re not exactly the mailman. So there’s no way in hell she’ll invite us in. So, go. Get to convincing.” Greg put one hand on Tommy’s shoulder and spun him towards the house. He put the other hand in the small of his back and propelled him toward the front door. I hopped up onto the roof of their porch so that I could get a closer sniff of what this chick was, if she was anything out of the ordinary.

    Tommy rang the doorbell, and a girl answered right away. I couldn’t see her, but I heard her clear as a bell. “I knew you’d be coming. You may not enter, and your friends may not enter, either. Your pitiful life is over, Thomas Harris, and nothing you say to me will change that.” Her voice didn’t sound right, like there was something bigger speaking behind her, and I could smell something that definitely wasn’t teenage girl floating around. I felt a surge of power, and hopped down off the roof just in time to see her try to slam the door in Tommy’s face. That’s when the kid did something I never figured he’d have the guts to do – he grabbed her. He reached inside and dragged her out onto the porch, slamming the door behind her.

    Once she was outside, I figured this would be simple – we’d grab her, haul her back to our cemetery, scare the crap out of her, and she’d be begging us to let her take it back and
please Mr. Vampire don’t eat me I’m still a virgin
quicker than you can say garlic mashed potatoes. But as soon as I stepped up onto the porch I saw that I was really, really wrong. And I got really, really worried.

Chapter 5

    I got to the porch a little before Greg, and we both stopped cold at what we saw. The girl, who couldn’t have been more than fourteen and a hundred pounds soaking wet, had Tommy on his knees and had obviously broken his left arm. He wasn’t screaming, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. It had more to do with the fact that she had let go of his arm and was busy crushing his throat with one hand.

    I ran at her, and she flicked out her other fist almost faster than I could see, and certainly faster than I could dodge. She caught me square in the solar plexus and doubled me up with one ridiculous punch. Lucky for Tommy she only had two hands, because Greg came at her the same time I did and landed enough of a punch to knock her a step backwards, making her let go of Tommy’s throat before he died.

    “You should not interfere, vampire. There are forces at work beyond your understanding.” Again with the creepy voice thing. This chick would have irritated me if I hadn’t been so scared just then.

    “Well, we have interfered. So let’s talk about this like rational beings, shall we?” Greg’s always trying to talk his way out of fights. I think it goes back to being the fat kid in school. He couldn’t fight, so he tried to talk or joke his way out of getting his ass kicked. I don’t know that it’s ever worked in all the decades I’ve known him. This was no exception. The girl looked at him disdainfully, laughed, and lunged at him with more of that crazy speed. She started throwing kicks and punches that would make Jackie Chan look like Jackie Mason, and it took everything Greg had to dodge enough of them not to get crushed.

    I picked Tommy up over my shoulders and jumped him onto a neighboring roof. “Stay here, and stay quiet. I don’t need to explain how you got here to the fire department. I’ll come get you after we kick her ass.” I made to jump into the scrap, but he grabbed my leg.

    “What if you can’t beat her?” He asked through a mouthful of blood. I missed the part where she busted his mouth up, but that might also have happened when she dropped him on his face.

    “Then you don’t have to worry about paying our bill.” I jumped off the roof, cleared the front yard