"What are you doing? I'm pretty certain Shabana just killed Jacoba. "You know magic?"
"YES!" she jumps up and down. "Shabana. Pam--"
"SHABANA!"
"Ok. Ok. Shabana, did you kill them?"
"Yes!" she stares at me sternly. "Why did you kill this person."
"Why did you kill her!"
"I was hungry."
"Ok… well… I just wanted to." she lifts the back of her hair up. "My brother is dead. I don't know."
"You murdered somebody thinking your brother would take the body."
"No…" she sighs. "Then what the fuck?"
"I'm not a vampire. I wish I was."
"Oh my--" She's a damn praiser. "I have fake teeth in my mouth."
"Take them out. Before I bite you." She removes her fake Grips. "I got them in therapy." She holds up her teeth. "I asked for a gold tooth but they couldn't give me one at the hospital."
"H-How did you get here?"
"Me and my brother just hopped on… a bus."
"You got on a bus? Just random as hell?"
"Yeah…" she lifts her shoulders. I smack her across the face and put her head to the ground. I keep punching her and I kick her in the stomach. "What is wrong with you!"
"I wanna be a vampire…" she whines. "Why!"
"I hate you!"
"I'm sorry!" she cries. "I thought we was cool, Mokiri?"
"No!"
Z O E Y
I look up. "I need you"
"I'm handicap…" she looks at me.
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In the morning, Aril came to my room but I was already up. "Did you go outside last night?"
"What?"
"Don't what we bitch." he snarls and stand by my bed side. "I was looking at my clock. Did you go outside?"
"You have a charm to keep tabs on me?"
"Answer the question."
"Shabana was out when I was out." I look down then at Aril's handsome behaviors. It's sad.
"Why?"
"You a dick."
"Thank you. I don't have one."
"What?"
He pulls the pants to his crotch. "Why!"
"I cut it off."
"But when I met you, you said you offered sex."
"That's what we are supposed to say. In case you conk the fuck out and die… at least we have a child."
"For what?"
"Body bagging. He slowly blinks. "What were you and Shabana doing at night."
Who is he trying to discipline? "I was hungry."
"Did you kill somebody?"
"No."
"Was it Felicia?"
"N--" her name was Felicia?
"You did."
"Can I have my goddamn business!"
"No." he views my frame. "You have a special request from The People."
"I want you to know I took my ass to school."
"Amalaric?"
"Yes?"
"Do you want a doppelganger?"
"What?"
"I can have a stuffy made for you."
"You is tryin' to be my daddy…"
He rolls his eyes. "Voodoo doll."
"No."
"I will anyway."
"Don't do shit I say. And don't do shit I ask." I'm depressed. "Aril!"
"What?"
"requested?"
"Ms. Duffy is ready to send you somewhere. I guess you passed."
"Passed?"
He starts walking to the door. "Not everybody kept drinking."
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I went down to the dinning hall and sat down. Shabana was in the room. She sat at the end of the table. I sat towards the middle. A girl comes behind me, she tries to hoist me out my seat. "Get the fuck up!"
"What the--" I punch her in the face. She falls on the floor holding her nose. "What the fuck is wrong with you people!"
"You people? Echoes a voice. "Bitch fuck you!"
I snap my attention to the table towards the windows. "What you say to me?" I march to him. "Fuck you, black bitch!"
It's a nigga with a short fade and scar across his eye to his eyebrow going vertical. "Say that shit again!"
"You look like a dike. Gay ass--" My fist doesn't come quick enough. I want blood. He gets up and stands straight with a smirk.
H A L L O W B E T H Y N A M E
"Bitch don't nobody care about you going pink. In fact, you suck off humans." I what? "Bruh sit down…" encourages his light skin friend.
"I eat humans?"
A S C O F F E R
"Ok…" I grip the side of his head and bring it down to the table's edge. I pick him up, make him stand, and do it again.
And throw him across the room.
I grab his collar. He fights me. "Let me go!" he claws my knee. My eyes get hot…
I lift him above me. "You not that tall, huh?"
He kicks men in the hip. "Ow…"
"Mokiri!" Shabana races towards me. My eyes glaze over, "Listen," she knows to keep her voice low. "I'm human. But I know, drunk vamps are terrible. You don't wanna be that."
"Shut up…" I glare.
"Mokiri, you have to stop. I stopped!"
"What the fuck do you have to do with it?" I throw the nigga across the room. "You gay or some shit?"
"No! I just believe--"
"Fuck what you believe."
"Mokiri…"
"What will you do?" speaks Aril loudly. Shabana quivers, I know she's scared. I grab her neck gently. "Yep, you scared." I press her Adam's apple, she starts coughing.
"We found her!" celebrates the butlers and maids. "Get up!" the word repeats all over the walls. "Stand before her!" he puts his arm out towards me." This is a congregation Mokiri. Aril's face stretches in a wicked grin. "Can I marry you?"
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"It finally fucking happened. Give the bitch a beer."
"I didn't think you would go pink. But you did drink the whole bottle…" Aril smiles at me. "I like you Mokiri."
I grimace and look at Miss Duffy walking. "Why are we in the woods?"
"We are headed to one of the cabins. You are drunk as FUCK!"
"I liquor days ago…"
"And it will continue… You need about 14 bottles a day." He counts on his fingers. "After 14 days of pure vampire blood. You start to itch. You'll get darker. And your eyes will change," he cups my chin. "I would love to fuck you."
"Excuse me?" What is his obsession with me! "I'm… a masochist." Stop smiling. "My name is Aril Smiley. Father wanted me to marry a white bitch. I'm black, from my head to my toes--"
"Surely not your dick." I'm not even being funny. Aril put my fingers between his. "My family is drunk. But we different." he looks me up and down. "What do your breast feel like?"
"Titties." I bust out laughing. "They feel like titties."
"Can I suck on one in the woods?" he swipes his tongue across his bottom lip and around to the top. "No?" I'm grinning because this is funny to me. "Aril let go." I try to escape his hold.
"I'd fuck you none stop." he grabs my ass. "LORD!"
"HEY!" Miss Duffy shouts. "To the cabin freaks!" she holds her arm out in the right direction. I push Aril off me.