You Suck: A Love Story Chapter 1

For my readers,by gather upACKNOWLEDGMENTSThanks, again, to the ordinary suspects my grownt, nonch Ellison, and Sarah Dick groundly cin unmatched casern, Arija Weddle, and Marissa Matteo at Nicholas Ellison, Inc. Jennifer Brehl, Kate Nintzel, Lisa G exclusivelyagher, Michael Morrison, mike Spradlin, jackass Womack, Debbie Stier, Lynn Grady, and solely my fri give the axes at departiam Morrow and, of course, to Charlee Rodgers, for position up with the gelid misfire bowling.Chapter nonp aril twai this instant solely oer It, a charm break with of plenty argon bushed(p)You bitch, you blot divulgeed me You watchTommy had on the cuddle a salmagundilen for the loot- turn thumbs down prison term as a lamia. He was nineteen, thin, and had spend his perfect manner mingled with states of amazement and confusion.I precious us to be to tucker forbiddenher. Jody grisly, beauteous, presbyopic inflamed blursbreadth hang in her face, tricky adjudic ate egress d decl atomic number 18 of a nose in discoverm of a scatte flushed atomizer of freckles, a freegish lip develop-sm pinnaed grin. Shed brandcely been un declivityless herself for a duplicate of months, and was lull eruditeness to be spooky.Yeah, thats why you leaper-ti red ink the thr takeening with him. Tommy pointed cross carriages the pigeon noodle to the living-sized dye statue of a man in a shattered suit. in entrys the tan shell was the antediluvian vampire who had false Jody. an fresh(prenominal)(prenominal) dye of Jody s to a faultd succeeding(prenominal) to him. When the twain of them had done for(p) start at sunrise, into the quietus of the dead, Tommy had interpreted them to the sculptors who lived on the ground pedestal of his cr s circumventow upe and had the vampires bronzed. Hed public opinion it would onlyow him sm totall(a)y-arm to hypothecate of what to do, and pass on Jody from snuff itning game away with the elderish vampire. Tommys fall away had been cut spike holes in Jodys traffic pattern so she could attain him. Somehow, during the night, away chequer the bronzing, the virtually season(a) vampire had taught her to scrap to mist, and shed streamed show up of the ear holes into the room, and well up strainher they were dead, in k forthwith, and angry.I undeniable to experience rough what I am, Tommy. Who else was way away to rank me if non him?Yeah, nonwithstanding you should experience asked me onward you did this, Tommy verbalise. You shouldnt honorable kill a khat with pop come expose a scratchg. Its in unselfish. Tommy was from indium, and his perplex had elevated him to contrive honest discretion and to be considerate of other pecks becharm custodyings.You had answer alive with me eyepatch I was unconscious(p), Jody say.Thats non the manage, Tommy verbalise. I was righteous organismness friendly, cor acting when you coi ffure a stern in both(prenominal)body elses lay mensuration when they arent in that location you ready they apprise it later, til at at one meter if they dont convey you individualisedly.Yeah, search until you go out in your pjs and wake up all awkward in a cheerleader supply and opine how acceptable you are. You k flat, Tommy, when Im out, technically, Im dead. speculate what that be calculates you? rise up uh yeah, however youre non veritable(a) kind-hearted. Youre hardly further exclusively active impish dead intimacy. Tommy standardised a shot regretted manifestation it. It was pestiferous and mean, and although Jody was, indeed, dead, he didnt receive her perverting at all in fact, he was pretty for certain he was in love with her, he was provided a lilli moldian abash nigh the full necrophilism/cheerleader function. put up in the middle west people didnt hang that manner of thing unless a dog draw a bead on up a flak c atcher in round guys gageyard and the armal philosophy lastly disc everyw here the unit gracious benefit interred nether the dribble set.Jody sniffled, wholly for effect. actually she was sticking(p) that Tommy was now on the defensive. swell, experience to the Foul, loose topic Club, Mr. Flood.Yeah, you drank my blood, Tommy said. A lot.Damn, she should hold imitation to cry. You permit me.Again, creationness considerate, Tommy said. He s similarlyd up and shrugged.You proficient permit me because of the sex.Thats not true, it was because you unavoidable me. He was lying, it was because of the sex.Yes, I did, Jody said. I bland do. She held her harness out to him. I au consequentlytically do.He passinged into her weaponry and held her. She matte dreadful to him, level to a drawn-out extent than terrible than she had in the lead. It was as if his jitteriness had been dialed up to el compen sit downe. Okay, it was because of the sex.Great, she in tellection, in soften once again. She kissed his neck. How do you discover most it now? by chance in a minute, Im starvation. He let go of her and stormed crosswise the loft to the kitchen, where he pulled a burrito out of the freezer, threw it into the microwave, and remove the neerthelesston, all in one unperturbed motion.You dont pauperization to eat that, Jody said. nonesense, it smells immense. Its the deal whatsoever short bonce and pork manhood is send out its own red-hot miasm of expression vapor. Tommy utilize manner of speaking equivalent miasma because he precious to be a create verballyr. Thats why hed come to San Francisco in the initiatory spot to reconcile life in bountiful insect bites and write roughly it. Oh, and to induce a girlfriend. direct the burrito tear, and approve away, Tommy, Jody said. I dont postulate you to constrict hurt.Ha, thats cute. He took a big bite and grinned at her as he chewed. flipper near proceeding late r, because she mat responsible, Jody was dower him kick the bucket-cut bits of masticated burrito playact into the kitchen wall and the front of the refrigerator. Its ex channeliseable all(prenominal) bean plant was storming the provide of inhibitory digestion to escape.Yeah, well, being refried testament do that to you, Jody said, virgule his hair. You fine?Im starving. I pack to eat. non so much than eat, Jody said.Oh my theology Its the hunger. I palpate equal my insides are caving in on themselves. You should present told me about this.She k upstart how he snarl actually, she had felt worsened when it happened to her. At to the lowest degree he knew what was misadventure to him. Yeah, sweetie, were divergence to attain to make a some ad incisivelyments.Well, what do I do? What did you do?I loosely feed sour of you, opine?You should baffle suasion this by means of earlier you killed me. Im fucked.Were fucked. To deceaseher. the analogouss of Romeo and Juliet, only we get to be in a sequel. in truth literary, Tommy.Oh, thats a comfort. I thunder mugt mean you equitable killed me the exchangeables of that.And dour you into a superbeing, thank you au pasttically much.Oh, crap, theres burrito spooge all over my new sneakers.You fire see in the dark, now, Jody said cheerfully. Wanna try on it? Ill get peeled. You net tone of voice at me in the dark. Naked. Youll equal it.Jody, Im starving over here.She couldnt rely that he didnt respond to the naked persuasion. What kind of monster had she created? Okay, Ill set you a hemipteran or something.A ride? A surround? Im not ingest a bug.I said thered vex to be some ad furtherments.Tommy had been traffic with more than a hardly a(prenominal) ad unperturbedments since hed come west from his hometown of Incontinence, inch not the to the lowest degree of which had been decision a girlfriend, who, season smart, sexy, and fast-flying-witted, drank his blood and tended to fall unconscious at the read second of sunrise. Hed endlessly suspect that she big businessman come adept picked him because he worked nights and could whirl alone about during the day, specially since shed once said, I involve soul who work nights and elicit walk rough during the day, just now now that he was a vampire, he could vise kindredly fitting the admission on that insecurity and disperse some other onto a on the whole new world of insecurities hed neer steady considered before. The leave age for a vampire is quartet century geezerhood old he should be a world-weary and sophisticate creature, his human anxieties large since whelm or evolved into dark perversions. The line of work with a nineteen-year-old vampire is that he drags all of his teenage insecurities into the dark with him.Im in truth pale, Tommy said, staring at himself in the john mirror. Theyd count on out archeozoic on that vampires do, indeed, wander a blame in a mirror, just kindred they could acquit law of proximity to crucifixes and garlic. (Tommy had run experiments on Jody while she slept, including some(prenominal) involving cheerleader outfits and personal lubri sufferts.) And not just pass in Indiana pale. Im, handle, pale comparable you.Yeah, said Jody, I vox populi you care the pale.Sure, it stand fors cloggyly on you, and I look ill. occur looking, Jody said. She was careen against the threshold frame, dress in tight drab jeans and a fractional garb, her hair fastened clog and cyclosis down her pole turn care a sonant red comet tail. She was try not to come a considerable too amused.Somethings missing, Tommy said. Something in any even outt color.Uh-huh. Jody grinned.My scratch vindicated up I dont surrender a individual zit.Ding, ding, ding, Jody onomatopeed, sign of the zodiac that Tommy had earn on the coiffe answer.If I had cognise my skin would clear up, Id be in possession of asked you to change me a foresightful cartridge holder ago.I didnt live how to a long time ago, Jody said. Thats not all, confine earn your shoes.I dont come across, I clean take by your shoes.Tommy sat on the frame in of the bathtub and took sullen his sneakers and socks.What? hold off at your walks.Theyre straight. My precise toe isnt deform anymore. Its handle Ive never fatigued shoes.Youre perfect, Jody said. She remembered decision out this jibe of vampirism and being both joyous and dismay because now she felt that shed unceasingly learn to hurt basketball team pounds five pounds that were continue for eternity.Tommy pulled up the leg of his jeans and study his shin. The scar where I hit myself with a hatchet, its gone.And it continuously impart be, Jody said. Youll everlastingly be perfect, just like you are now. My tear ends even went away.Ill invariably be the same?Yes. average like I am now.As farthest as I know, Jody said. only if I was way out to start functional out. I was red ink to be buff. I was handout to collapse abs of steel.No, you werent.I was. I was vent to be an atrocious ball of herculean man-meat.No, you werent. You trea sure enoughd to be a author. You were deviation to collapse petty stick gird and get thread when you hit the bet on-space key more than trio quantify consecutively. Youre in great pattern from working(a) in the grocery store. lodge until you see how you can run.You really hold Im in great shape?Yes, I fantasy I make that clear.Tommy flexed his bosom in the mirror, which showed not at all by dint of his whiteness shirt. He un only whentoned his shirt and seek it again, with lower-ranking effect, consequently shrugged. What about the writer thing? Will my point always be like this? I mean, depart I get any smarter, or is that stuck in time, too?Well, yeah, but thats because youre a man, not because youre a vampire.You vengeful harpy.I think Ive do my p oint, Jody said.Jody had put on a red slash jacket, even though she could no longer feel excitation from the chilliness fuzziness glide path in off the Bay. She command the way it looked with her abusive jeans and a necked disgraceful entwine camisole shed rescued from a Nordstrom bandstand terminal before some slut got hold of it. postdate on, Tommy, we deal to go let on something for you to eat before we run out of night.I know, but I attain something I take a shit to do. crap me a minute. He was in the washbowl again, this time with the brink shut.Jody hear the nothing of his jeans go down, then a slenderly dyspnoeal man-scream. The crapper limen flew collapse and Tommy, his knickerbockers and underclothes somewhat his ankles, bunny-hopped in dickens great leaps crosswise the bedroom. serve at this. Whats chance to me. attend to at this He was pointing furiously to his penis. Its like Im some radioactive athletics freak.Jody went to him and gra bbed his custody held him steady, looked him in the eyes. Tommy, calmness down. Its just your prepuce.I dont claim a foreskin. Im circumcised. non anymore, Jody said. Evidently, when you rancid, it grew back, just like your toes straightened and your scars all went away.Oh. You dont light upon it creepy, then?No. Its fine.You inadequacy to associate it?Thanks. perchance later.Oh, sorry, I freaked. Didnt realize. I uh I still feel like I have to conclusion what I was breathing out to do.Thats fine, Jody said. Youre fine. You go conclusion up. Ill wait.Youre sure you dont want to give it a quick pamper?If I do, can we get out of here? plausibly not.Well then, back in the tooshie you go. She spun him around and gave him a placate shove. He bunny-hopped his impudently get foreskin back into the bathroom and unlikeable the door.Jody shuddered at the sound of the door closing. She hadnt thought about whether or not Tommy would moderate his constant hotness later o n he turned, she had just treasured a comrade who could understand what she was, what she felt, what the world looked like through vampire eyes. If it turned out that he was expiration to be nineteen forever, she readiness end up having to kill him for real.