Originally published in Drabbledark III (Shacklebound Books, 2024).
Jin’s so beautiful. She’s also a vampire, turns out.
She pulls away, blood dripping from her fangs. “You know, most kids cry at this part. They beg. They get upset.”
Upset about what, being with the hottest girl in class?
“I’m, like, six hundred years old. You get that, right? You understand I’m a monster?”
A popular monster – everyone’s obsessed with Jin!
Incredulous, she shakes her head. “You’ll shrivel up without blood. Mrs. Cho literally covered this in biology last week.”
But who needs biology when you’ve won Jin’s predacious attention?
Withering is sacrifice, you know. Withering is teenage love.