After I was done with the blinds, I started putting up the chairs so I could do a thorough sweep of the place.
“Don’t you want to, like… take him?”
Ohh.
“Uhm.”
I wasn’t sure Eric wanted that.
Was introducing my vampire boyfriend to my human friends a good idea? If we stayed together, they’d eventually notice he wasn’t aging.
Fuck.
I’dbe aging.
If we stayed together, I’d get old, while he’d still be looking like twenty-five.
Would I have to become a vampire too?
I scrunched up my nose, my whole body turning cold at the thought.
I didn’t think I wanted that.
The thought of drinking blood… my stomach turned, and a wave of nausea hit me.
Nope.
Not gonna happen.
“You okay?” Maggie asked, her question ripping me out of my spiral. “You’re not sick again, are you? Because you just turned white as a ghost.”
More like white as a vampire, I thought.
“Everything’s fine. And I want to introduce Eric.” Maybe. But I couldn’t very well tell her about all the complications that came with bringing him into my life. “But I want to tell them about him first. Then introduce him the next time or something like that.”
Maggie nodded thoughtfully. “You don’t want them to think you’re moving too fast. I get that. Hell, I’m the queen of moving too fast.”
I snorted. “What was your record of moving in with a boyfriend again?”
She threw one of the cleaning rags at me. “Shut up.” Then she rolled her eyes. “One date turned one-night stand turned relationship. I basically went home with him and never left.Well, I left… when I broke up with him six months later. It still sucks; it was a nice apartment.”
I cackled, throwing the rag back at her.
“Never change,” I told her. “Seriously. Never ever change.”
Maggie batted her lashes at me.
“I don’t plan to, honey.”
By the time ten p.m. rolled around, I was tired as fuck. Usually, I’d be in bed right now after working a ten-hour shift. Didn’t matter that it’d been the closing and not the opening shift. Those days could wipe me the fuck out.
Constant noise.
Constant chattering.
Complaining customers. No, we didn’t have all the pre-made sandwiches available ten minutes before closing.
No, we did not have peppermint-flavored syrup yet.
