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Hey people its me again... Chapter 1 part 2 is up and on...


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"With the venomous kiss you gave me

I'm killing loneliness

With the warmth of your arms you save

Oh, I'm killing loneliness with you

The killing loneliness

That turned my heart into a tomb

I'm killing loneliness..."


"Killing Loneliness" from "Dark Light"(2005)


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'Vampire
Kisses'

Chapter 1: Little Monster, Part 2


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I was conceived on my dad's water bed-or on the rooftop of my mom's college dorm under twinkling stars-depending on which one of my parents is telling the story.

They were soul mates that couldn't part with the seventies: true love mixed with drugs, some raspberry incense, and the music of the Grateful Dead. A beaded-jeweled, halter-topped, cutoff blue-jeaned, bare-footed girl, intertwined with a long-haired, unshaved, Sanoske Higurashi-spectacled, suntanned, leather-vested, bell-bottomed-and-sandaled guy.

I think they're lucky I wasn't more eccentric. I could have wanted to be a beaded-haired hippie werewolf! But somehow I became obsessed with vampires.

Ishiga and Sanoske Higurashi became more responsible after my entrance into this world-or I'll rephrase it and say my parents were 'less glassy eyed'.

They sold the old flower power van that they were living in and actually started renting property. Our hippie apartment was decorated with 3-D glow-in-the-dark flower posters and orange tubes with a Play-Doh substance that moved on its own-lava lamps-that you could stare at forever.

It was the best time ever. The three of us laughed and played Chutes and Ladders, and squeezed Twinkies between our teeth. We stayed up late, watching Dracula movies, Dark Shadows, and Batman on a black-and-white TV we'd received when we opened a bank account. I left secure under the blanket of midnight, rubbing Mom's growing belly, which made noises like the orange lava lamps. I figured she was going to give birth to more Play-Doh.

Everything changed when she gave birth to the play-dough-only it wasn't Play-Doh. She gave birth to Nerd Boy!

How could she? How could she destroy all the Twinkie nights? Now she went to bed early, and that all creation that my parents called 'Souta' cried and fussed all night. I was suddenly alone. It was Dracula-the Dracula on TV-that kept me company while Mom slept, Nerd Boy wailed, and Dad changed smelly diapers in the darkness.

And if that wasn't bad enough, they suddenly sent me to a place that wasn't my apartment, that didn't have wild 3-D flower posters on the walls, but boring collages of kids' handprints. 'Who decorates around here?' I wondered. It was overcrowded with Sears catalog girls in frilly dresses and Sears catalog boys in tapered pants and perfectly combed hair. Mom and Dad called 'kindergarten'.

"They'll be your friends," my mom reassured me, as I clung to her side for dear life. She waved good-bye and blew me kisses as I stood alone beside the matronly Mrs. Kaede, wish was as alone as one can get. I watched my mom walk away with Nerd Boy on her hip as she took him back to the place filled with glow-in-the-dark posters, monster movies, and Twinkies.

Somehow I made it through the day. Cutting and gluing black papers on black paper, finger painting Barbie's lips black, and telling the assistant teacher ghost stories, while the Sears catalog kids ran around like they were all cousins at an all-American family picnic. I was even happy to see Nerd Boy when Mom finally came to pick me up.

That night she found me with my lips pressed against the TV screen, trying to kiss Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula.

"Kagome! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"

"What?"I said. The Hostess cherry pie that I had been eating fell to the floor, and my heart fell with it.

"But I thought it was just this one time?"I said, panicked.

"Kagome. You have to go every day, sweety!"

'Every day?' The words echoed inside my head. It was a life sentence!

As I lay alone in my bed, I prayed for eternal darkness and a sun that never rose. Unfortunately the next day I awoke to a blinding light, and a monster headache.

I longed to be around at least one person that I could connect with. But I couldn't find any, at home or school. At home the lava lamps were replaced with Tiffany-style floor lamps, the glow-in-the-dark posters were covered with Laura Ashley wallpaper, and our grainy black-and-white TV was upgraded to a twenty-five-inch color model.

At school instead of singing the song of 'Mary Poppins', I whistled the theme to 'The Exorcist'.

Halfway through kindergarten I tried to become a vampire. Kouga Ashi, a perfectly combed black- haired with weak blue eyes, was my nemesis from the moment I stared him down he tried to cut in front of me on the slide. He hated me, because I was the only kid who wasn't afraid of him. The kids and teachers kissed up to him, because his father owned most of the land their houses sat on. Kouga was in a biting phase, not because he wanted to be a vampire like me, but just because he was mean. He had taken pieces of flesh out of everyone but me. And I was Starting to get ticked off!

We were on the playground, when I pinched the skin of his puny little arm so hard I thought blood would squirt out. I stood motionless and waited. His face turned beet red, and his body trembled with anger, his eyes swelled with vengeance as I mischievously smiled back.

Mrs. Kaede entered the playground at that moment, I already knew what was coming.

A couple of minutes later, Mrs. Kaede had send Kouga to the nurse office, and I of course like always, was sent to the principles office to another one of his infamous lectures...


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End of chapter one...next time chapter two "Dullsville"...

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