Embarrassment

I do not own Vampire Kisses, although I wish I did.

This takes place in chapter 18 of Cryptic Cravings

Jagger unlocked the Covenant door and waved us over. We walked down darkened, crooked wooden steps. When we reached the bottom we could clearly see the room.

After awhile of partying with our friends, Becky called out "Ok, Ok everyone quiet down for a moment."

Someone turned off the music and everyone turned to face Becky looking confused. I started to slink away behind Alexander, I knew what was coming.

"I doubt Raven has told any of you this, but we have a tradition. On your birthday you get to dare someone to do one thing and one dream come true, but you also have to answer one truth or do a dare. " Becky announced. Scarlett and Onyx both started giggling a little. Even Alexander looked amused.

"Can I dare her?" both Jagger and Trevor yelled out.

"No, I have a very special truth in mind this year." Becky said with a slightly worryingly evil smile on her face. "What is your most embarrassing moment?"

"The thing that was most embarrassing at the time or the thing that when looking back is most embarrassing?" I asked quietly

"Oh, definitely looking back."

I stared blushing redder than Scarlett's hair.

I pointed to the vampires in the room, "You are NOT allowed to laugh at me! Is that clear?" Of course they all nodded, except Jagger, but whatever.

"So I have known since I was five that what I wanted to be was a vampire. So one day at recess I decided… what let me back up a little bit. Trevor and I became arch nemeses in kindergarten because I won't let him cut in front of me on the slide. A few months later he starts his biting phase, pretty quickly he has bitten every kid in kindergarten but me. Most likely the reason he didn't bite me was that I wasn't in his way. Most days I wasn't allowed at recess because of bad behavior and even when I was, I didn't play with the other kids or use the usual recess equipment. Anyway so I decide that the reason I'm the only kid he didn't bite was some sort of revenge scheme. Everyone else gets bitten and gets to be a vampire but me. "

By this time everyone is cracking up, especially Trevor."I don't even remember this. We were five, why would I pay that much attention or concoct that elaborate a scheme just to get back at you for not letting me cut?" he asked through his laughter.

"Just wait, it get better." I said through my teeth, torn between embarrassment and laughter. ". Anyway so one day I decided I am going to make Trevor bite me. So I walked up and pinched him as hard as I could. Then I shoved my hand in his face, to make sure he would bite me. He gets in trouble and has to sit out. I head to the swings with the thought that now that I was a vampire I can obviously fly, but I need to get up to enough speed first. So I start swinging as hard as I can and then jump off. ..And face plant…right into the wood chips. "

At the point everyone was almost on the floor. The vampires actually were on the floor and every single one had tears in their eyes they were laughing so hard. I almost couldn't believe that my face could get any redder, but I was proven wrong. Even Alexander couldn't stop himself from laughing.

"I was so mad that I was not a vampire. Anyway so I start crying more from the fact that I wasn't a vampire like my heroes in TV than because of my hand. Trevor's punishment was over so while I was sitting on the wall with ice on my hand he walks by. He blew me a kiss and said thank you. I responded appropriately by sticking out my tongue and calling him a name from the Godfather. I got sent to the principal's office again." I shrugged toward the end. Now that the really embarrassing part was over with my face began to return to its normal pale color.

"Why would you think Trevor would be able to turn someone? He's human! " Scarlett asked through her tears and laughter.

"I didn't really get that a vampire had to be the one to bite. I just knew you need to be bite to turn. The fact that no one else he bit was turned didn't really occur to me at the time either. Just that I was not ok with anyone else in Dullsville being tuned before me. Now I look back, I am can't believe how stupid I was, but at the time it made sense to me. "I said still blushing a little.

Alexander finally stopped laughing enough to come up behind me to put his arm around my waist and kiss the top of my head. "I love you." He said into my hair, still laughing a little.

" Like none of you ever did anything embarrassing or misinterpreted a situation as a little kid." I said beginning to blush again as they continued to laugh.