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guilt, I “borrowed” money from Jack to leave her. Maybe she
wouldn’t have to work so hard, and at least that would be
something.
    Milo called her after I left, as he had been
infrequently doing since he moved out. He got to make up all sorts
of fancy stories about a boarding school in New York, and that
seemed to cheer her up a bit.
    I formally dropped out of high school, which I
enjoyed. Milo insisted that we both take our high school
equivalency later so we could go to college if we wanted, and I
agreed to it, but I didn’t really have any intention of doing it.
As far as I was concerned, I could spend the rest of my life as a
trophy wife, and that was fine by me.
    There was the issue with my “best friend” Jane, but I
didn’t know how to resolve that. When I went to the high school,
she saw me and instantly figured out what had happened. I still
looked like me, but I was hotter than I had been before, maybe even
hotter than her.
It was during the day, so I was incredibly tired. We exchanged a
few heated words, and she ended the conversation with the flippant,
“I hope you have a good death.”
    Meanwhile, my life as a vampire was pretty damn
awesome. There were missteps of getting the handle on walking,
moving, breathing, eating… all the basic skills I had taken for
granted before. But I was completely and totally in love with Jack,
and I had just started spending the rest of eternity with him.
    What could I possibly have to feel bad about?
     
     
    - 4 –
     
    When the plane started to take off, I thought I might
throw up. My fingers squeezed the arms of the seat so tightly that
I’d break them if I wasn’t careful. I’d never been on a plane
before, and it scared the hell out me.
    This amused Ezra endlessly. He chuckled warmly at my
stricken expression as the engines came on, making all sorts of
whirring and clicking noises that sounded like death to me. I
looked out the window at the dark night around us and imagined the
plane crashing into the runway and bursting into flames.
    “First time flier?” A woman across the aisle looked
over at us.
    “She’ll be fine,” Ezra cut her off shortly, and I was
too busy being terrified to comment on his rudeness. When he looked
back at me, he smiled.
    “You could say something comforting,” I suggested in
a thin, anxious voice.
    “Why? This is distracting you from thinking about
other things going on around you,” Ezra said. “It’s less than a
three hour flight to New York, and I’d like to wait for you to eat
until the next flight.”
    By “other things” he meant the other passengers, who
flooded the red-eye with the scent of their blood, and the plane
wasn’t even that full. I’d had just eaten yesterday, which meant I
wouldn’t need to eat for another five or six days, but I wasn’t
great at controlling my hunger.
    “Mmm, sounds great,” I muttered. Unfortunately, he
had a point. My current level of fear made it almost impossible to
notice my thirst.
    “Really, you should be enjoying this,” he said with a
wry smile. “There’s only a small window left where you’ll be able
to feel fear like this.”
    “Oh, yeah, this is totally awesome.”
    “Let me give you a little tip.” He leaned in towards
me, lowering his voice so it would be inaudible to anyone around
us. “Even if the plane does crash, you’ll survive. You’re immortal
now.”
    It hadn’t dawned on me yet. I was a vampire, and I
wasn’t going to die in a plane crash.
    My fingers relaxed on the arm rest. Still, whenever
we hit turbulence, I’d grip onto Ezra for dear life, but he’d just
chuckle.
    I tried to enjoy the rest of the flight, but it was
dark, and even with my improved vision, there wasn’t much to see
out the window. Ezra brought some books on tracking, and he went
through them, even though I’m sure he’d read them before. He’d
probably read everything ever written.
    “Where are we going anyway?” I asked him quietly.
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