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Chapter 45: Family Ties

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Back in San Sequoia Harmony Jamie has gotten another promotion and is busier than ever at work. And so Harmony tries to be a good sister and help her sister with her schoolwork to help out. But being a good sister can be challenging when your younger sister wants to be a part of everything you do. "What are you doing?" "Writing." "What are you writing." "A story." "I can help, I'm great at stories!" "But I need to focus." "I can do that too!"   "Can I come in?" "No!" "What are you up to." "Hanging out, listening to music." "I like music too!" Walks in and sits down. "So what are you talking about? Boys???" "No, and that's private!" "Mom says we're not allowed secrets until we're eighteen!" Sometimes Harmony wonders if it's not at least a little bit allowed to strangle younger sisters.    With summer coming up and the s...

Chapter 44: Valentine's Vampiric Journey

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Not being able to spend time with his family was not one of the consequences Valentine had foreseen when he chose to become a vampire. It was not that he wasn't aware of the bodily changes, and that he hadn't been aware of not being able to be in the sunlight, but he just never considered what it meant in terms of family celebrations often held on patios or sunrooms. But the hardest part for him was his parents' reaction, particularly his mother who immediately started speaking of finding cures and alternatives to drinking blood. Within hours of his turning she was reading up online about plasma packs and plasma plants and other alternatives to, as she put it, using the maid as your personal snack bar. Valentine would hear none of it. Why should he drink plasma when the lure of blood was so much sweeter? And it wasn't as if he'd killed the maid, or bartender for that matter even if his mother did not know about that one. His mother's arguments about the immorali...