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contact, she had picked her best friend Becky Simon. Stephanie
didn’t want to call any of her actual family members; she hadn’t spoken to her
parents in nearly ten years, back when she had been a “difficult” teenager.
    No, there
was no need to involve them in her life now. Not after they had walked in on
her and Becky sharing a harmless cigarette. They’d kicked her out of the house
for that. Her life had been going perfectly fine until Eric…
    Stephanie
started to shake suddenly; just thinking of him forced that nightmare back to
the front of her mind. She had met him at City Lights, her favorite downtown
club. He had seemed nice enough: He’d bought her a drink and didn’t come off as
desperate or forceful. He had been a perfect gentleman. And it had been her
idea to invite him back to her place, though she hadn’t planned on making out
with him or anything—that had been a completely unexpected surprise.
    Then the two
of them had become animals.
    And then,
once gaining control of themselves, they’d gone back to her room to watch some
TV. She had been pretty embarrassed she’d forgotten her self-control, though it
had been Eric who’d made the first move.
    Now
Stephanie remembered what had happened after they’d gone back to her room. The
TV had only been on for a minute when he started kissing her again. She tried
to push him off playfully, but then he started getting forceful.
    And then he
bit her.
    Stephanie
still couldn’t believe what had happened. She tried to understand but found she
couldn’t. What she also couldn’t understand was where those two guys—both
wearing dark hoodies as if to hide in darkness—had come from. They had been in
her house, though she didn’t mind now, given the circumstances. But where had
they come from? Why had they been there in the first place? Stephanie hadn’t
thought to ask them these questions at the time because she had been in shock
and weak from blood loss.
    If she ever
got the chance again, she would learn more about them.
    *   *   *
    Chris sat in
his car in the parking lot of San Sebastian Hospital, unable to actually go
inside the building. What good would it do? He just had to see her again. He
knew Stephanie had to be scared after the attack she had suffered. He felt
responsible for her situation.
    He couldn’t
get her out of his mind. He wondered if it had anything to do with the fact the
same vampire had bitten them both, if they had some kind of psychic
connection—that’s how it always was in books and movies, right? If that was so,
such connection should have been severed the moment Eric was killed. This was
all guesswork, though; this was the first case Chris ever had to deal with. He
and Stephanie were the only two people he knew of to survive an attack.
    But wait!
Eric and the others had to be cases of people who survived, too. Right? They
had become vampires (or whatever), after all, so not every victim had been
killed off. But how long would it take before Chris and Stephanie changed?
    His cell
phone rang in his pocket. He answered.
    “Hey. You
busy?” It was Owen.
    “ Kinda . What’s up?”
    “I was just
thinking about heading to the river. I need to talk to you about something.
Think you can meet me there when you’re done?”
    “Yeah, you
got it. Is it bad?”
    “I’ll tell
you when you get here.”
    Owen did
sound concerned, but Chris’s desire to see Stephanie didn’t lessen. He said
goodbye and hung up.
    He hated
hospitals—they were so alien to him. He snuck a peek at Stephanie’s room number
on a chart at the nurses’ station and walked down the long hallway, glancing at
the rooms until he found hers.
    She was
lying in her bed, staring at the window. The blinds were down, though. Chris
approached slowly, as not to scare her. He figured she’d be jumpy.
    “Stephanie,”
he called gently.
    She turned
around and quickly wiped tears from her face. Her eyes were red and swollen.
    “Remember
me?” he asked.
    She