The False Vampire

The supplies had been set up, and currently, we all had it under our fingernails and up our arms.

Dad had gone to take a shower a few minutes ago, and now we all held our breaths in anticipation.

Creeping towards the taps, I turned the hot one on. Quickly running away, I locked myself into my bedroom. Samuel and Jae stood leaning against the wall, Samuel glancing outside the window occasionally.

Agata sat on the bed, running her fingers through Elisa's hair. I watched for a couple of second, seeing Agata twist the blonde and blue hair into an intricate braid.

"Adrienne!"

The booming noise made everyone except Samuel jump. A low chuckle escaped Samuel’s lips as I could hear my fathers thundering footsteps across the floor.

The sound of running water that echoed around the kitchen was turned off, before in a few short minutes the sound of the shower running once again reached our ears. Elisa giggled; it was obvious that she could not wait for the result.

"Do you want to watch a movie?" we all nodded, Jae seemed proud of his idea, while he stalked towards the room that I had shown him earlier was the lounge room.

Jae was obviously one of those people, which walked fast. As I rounded into the lounge room, Jae was already crouching in front of the DVDs. In his hands, he held two covers.

In one hand, he held Underworld, in the other he held A Walk to Remember. I walked over to him, kneeling beside him. Placing my hand on his shoulder, I lightly whispered into his ear.

"I prefer Underworld."

His smile once again lit up the entire room. In my chest, I felt my heart flutter. His smile could do that, even as I looked at Agata, I saw her bottom lip trembling.

Settling onto the one lounge that we owned, Elisa sat next to me, while Agata sat next to her. A blanket lay over my legs, one leg being curled beneath me, the other dangling over my side.

Samuel settled against the lounge, spreading his legs out in front of him. Jae practically skipped across the room, flicking off the light switch before the movie started.

He settled next to my legs, pulling the corner of the blanket across his body. Unknowingly, a smile spread across my face.

We were only five or so minutes into the movie when we heard the shower turn off. As I heard him come down the stairs, I nudged Jae with my legs, whispering in his ear for the second time today.

"I can hear him coming downstairs. Tell Samuel" a small chuckle escaped his lips before he leaned over to repeat the message.

As I told Elisa, she started giggling and leaned over to tell Agata, much like Jae had done before to Samuel.

Before long there were two giggling girls sitting on the lounge, unable to put up with their squirming any longer, I slid in between Samuel and Jae. Their combined body heat was enough so that I could discard the blanket that had previously sat on my lap.

"What are you watching?"

"Oh, just Underworld dad"

Glancing over my shoulder, I saw my dad standing holding a beer in his hands (which told me it was obviously footy night) and his hair was wet, curling towards his eyes. However, there was no indication that his hair was purple...as it was supposed to be.

"You've seen that movie at least one thousand times before Adrienne"

I forced out a gasp, acting offended.

"Well for one father, Underworld rocks, and two, Jae chose it not me!"

"Which one?"

"That would be me sir"

Jae extended his hand to my father, who in turn shook his hand and shook it with a grunt that told me dad did not trust him. Which, he did not trust anyone of the same gender as himself around me.

After a few silent glares aimed in each other’s directions, dad finally submitted to Jae, recognizing that he was not a weak-minded boy.

You could swear my dad was a dog, challenging every male that stepped within this house who had an interest in me, but honestly, he was just a dad; it is what they do.

I tried not to let my disappointment go to waste as I thought about my prank...that did not work.

Samuel threw his arm around my shoulder, as if instinctively recognizing the fact that I was upset. Leaning into his embrace, I nestled my head into the crook of his neck.

As the movie continued, I heard my mum’s voice yelling out, claiming that we were having chicken and salad. Elisa yelled out for mum to leave the chicken off her plate.

After about half an hour, dinner was ready and the movie was not yet finished. Putting the movie on pause, we all stood and stretched. My eyes were glued to the little bit of skin showing on both Samuel and Jae’s stomach, the golden flesh there fascinating me.

After we were satisfied that we had stretched enough we all headed to the kitchen. Mum was standing at the table smiling widely. Slowly, we all cracked out into a grin, then laughing when we were unable to help ourselves. Instead of dad having purple hair…mum did.