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She was shaking her head, while looking over to where Rune and Rove stood, making her very soft looking hair sway around her face.
“I still don’t get it.”
Roam swallowed, hoping his voice was going to sound normal. “Get what?”
“Do you realize Rune eats enough for the three of you?” She then looked around, leaning toward Roam, lowering her voice. “Sometimes it’s still difficult for me to understand you being a daywalker vampire. You can eat, drink, get hurt, and stay out in the sunshine. You’re as mortal as I am. The only vampires who are immortal are nightwalker vampires, which includes Dracula himself. I wonder what my parents would think if they knew he was real.”
Out of all the people Roam and his brothers knew, Maya was the only one who knew their secret. Her parents didn’t even know. Maya had been a part of their lives since kindergarten when she and her family moved to the area.
She had been introduced to their secret at the impressionable age of six. Rove had tired of her constantly following them around and had decided it was time to put a stop to it. So, on a warm summer day while playing tag in the boys’ backyard, Rove bared his fangs at her when he had gone to tag her to be it. Maya simply pushed him down, and continued to play the game. Rove, shocked she hadn’t turned to run home screaming, had the utmost respect for her, allowing her to become inseparable from them. She protected their secret and accepted them for what they were without a second thought.
Now at almost seventeen, Roam was struggling with his growing romantic feelings for his best friend. Did he act on it or just remain her friend?
“Look at all those pathetic girls drooling over them,” Maya said as she crossed her arms across her chest, watching Rove and Rune with the girls. “Why don’t you go join them? They can’t seem to get enough of any of you.” She shook her head. “It’s like they’ve never seen triplets before. What I really like is how they have to ask who is whom when it’s so obvious!”
“We are identical, Maya,” Roam pointed out as he toyed with the necklace he never took off.
Maya stared at the silver crescent moon with the sun in the center that marked him as a Gustavo vampire. “Yeah, you all have the same faces. I get it. But how can you truly be identical when Rune has those white streaks in that raven hair you all share, and Rove has red?” She looked at Roam. “Why don’t you have colored streaks in your hair?”
“I was blessed with great bangs,” he answered as he purposely moved his head to make the bangs sway. “I hear they are sexy.”
Roam watched as Maya looked at him, her cheeks growing a slight pink. She quickly looked away, and then turned back with a mischievous look on her face.
“You know,” Maya said, tapping a pointer finger on her chin. “There is one way to get rid of those pests.”
“Oh? Do I dare ask what that would be?”
She motioned with the same pointer finger for Roam to come closer. “You could flash a little fang.”
“Girl,” Roam answered chuckling. “Sometimes you have one sick mind.”
“Who has a sick mind?” Rune asked as he joined them, grabbing the can of Pepsi from Roam, finishing it off.
“Maya was being creative with how to get rid of all those girls around you.”
“Why, Maya, I didn’t realize you were jealous,” Rove said as he came up behind them, giving Maya’s hair a little tug.
“In your dreams, fang boy,” Maya answered slapping Rove’s hand away. “Are the two of you finished with your girlfriends, or should Roam and I go make some new friends?”
“Yeah, we’re finished. The air was getting a little too thick for my taste.” Rove stretched his arms over the top of his head and cracked his knuckles.
“Maybe some fresh air is in order?” Maya asked, smiling sweetly.
“Maya,” Rune answered, throwing his arm around her shoulder, “I think you are addicted to flying. We may have to cut you off.”
Maya turned so she was nose-to-nose with Rune, “I would like to see you try, fly-boy.”
Rune smirked, “Why can’t I be fly-fang-boy?”
Laughing, she linked her arm through his, leading the way out of the clearing. “Okay fly-fang-boy, let’s go.”
“I do like how that sounds,” Rune answered as they walked into the trees.
A Day as Dark as Night
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About the Author
“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing…then you are a writer.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
After hearing this saying in the movie, Sister Act 2, it inspired JT Adeline to push herself forward and make her dream a reality. She is the author of The Dark As Night Trilogy; A Day As Dark As Night, A Day Without A Night, and A Day Yet To Come. She also has a short story Unexpected Match Maker, in the anthology, Second Chance for Love; as well as, Power of the Circle, centered in beautiful Osceola, WI. She is currently working on her next stories filled with magic, family, friendship, and love.
JT lives in Minnesota with her husband and two grown sons. If she is not writing, you can usually