“I don’t feel anything…I’m dead remember?”

“No I think you feel it…feel it…”

“Yeah well you are wrong. I don’t feel anything.”

“What happened to you…how did it happen?’

“It doesn’t matter………. Shane….the girl with the boy’s name….”

“That rhymes….why won’t you kiss me again?”

Carmen her name is Carmen…..why did I just remember this now?

“Because of the fever….I did a bad thing…and now we are connected….they can’t find you here….you should go….”

“Carmen…please don’t go…”

“Shane you don’t understand…..you can’t be here. There are rules and I broke at least seven…..go before I have to kill you…..”

I moved closer to her. She had no scent at all. I half expected her to smell dead. But she didn’t. She was just soft yet hard and clean….and dead. I could see her fighting the urge to want drain everything in me. Her eyes where getting red….her teeth and the wicked smile revealing… tiny little jagged fangs. She was so unreal to me. We where so close. My body was humming for her touch. I thought I could back her into the fence and use my body as leverage but she was like a boulder…she didn’t budge and I was so on her. I was panting….so turned on by her. I kissed her neck. Moved along the line of her jaw. No deep panting breaths from her….she didn’t breathe…she was dead. No sweat, no taste to her skin…just that soft texture…she was taking my body heat…warming herself with me….

She met my kiss. Opened her mouth ever so slightly. The kiss was not sloppy there where no wasted movements. I felt her teeth bite my tongue. I didn’t cry or scream out in pain. I took the sting of it. My blood tasted like salt or copper. I wonder what it tasted like to her.

She pushes me away from her. Her mouth lined with my blood.

“You have to leave….I can’t…”

“Can’t what? Can’t kiss a mere mortal?”

“Don’t mock me Shane….just don’t.”

“You called me here….you said we could be together for ever…..does mean you want to make me like you?”