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*yawn* i have nothing to do and 14 pages of this written so *shrugs*

“Hey, Tanya, can I sit here?”

Tanya looked up.

“Sure,” she said.

Kan set his lunch tray on the table next to Tanya and sat down. Tanya’s friends giggled.

“You may commence as you were before,” Kan told them, “I was just looking for a place to sit.”

Tanya glanced over at the table where Kan usually sat. His friend Jaya and Jaya’s sister, Letiya, were sitting there, staring at Kan. She shrugged and said nothing.

“So, Jaya asked you to go to prom with him?” Ashley, one of Tanya's friends, asked her eagerly.

Tanya shrugged. “I turned him down,” she said flatly.

Kan twitched slightly.

“Why?” exclaimed another girl, Sarah.

“I've never really liked him,” Tanya explained.

“What about giving every guy a chance?” Ashley asked.

“I said I would give every guy a chance, so long as my original opinion of them was neutral, or good. My opinion of Jaya isn't very high,” Tanya told her.

“May I ask why?” Kan cut in.

“He's an idiot,” Tanya told him. “He asked me by handing me one of those peanut cans with the snakes in it, and had a note taped to one of the snakes.” She dragged her fork through her mashed potatoes and gravy.

“He does enjoy practical jokes,” Sarah said, as if to excuse Jaya.

Tanya glared at her as she took a bite and Sarah remembered that Tanya had little tolerance for practical jokes.

“Oh.”

“He would do that,” Kan said.

“But, are you going to prom?” Ashley asked.

Tanya shrugged. “Maybe.”

“You have to go!” Sarah exclaimed, “It's your first prom!”

Tanya shrugged and was silent.

“Would you perhaps be interested in going with me?” Kan asked quietly.

Tanya jerked her head up, surprised. “Oh, well...umm...”

“I mean, well, you don't have to reply now, you could tell me later.” Kan got up suddenly and went to dump his tray of untouched food.

“Jeez,” Sarah said.

Ashley whistled.

Tanya sat and watched Kan's retreating back. “Wow,” she said. “Wasn't expecting that.”


“You a*****e!” Jaya slammed Kan into the wall at the hangout after school.
A few other vampires looked up, others ignored them. Fights were known to break out among vampires, but Jaya and Kan were usually calmer than that.

“You just had to ask Tanya, after I did!” Jaya snarled.

Kan held up his hands. “She turned you down, man,” he pointed out.

Jaya growled with frustration and threw Kan across the room.

“Hey, careful!” one of the older vampires told them.

Kan stood up and brushed dust off of his shirt. “I bet you just asked her for because of the draw of human aura,” he said.

“You asked her for the same reason!” Jaya moved to behind Kan and twisted his arm behind his back. “Give me one good reason not to suck your aura.”

“Ver would send you to the afterlife himself,” Kan told him. “And I asked Tanya out of curiosity.”

“Oh? And what exactly were you curious about?” Jaya inquired, his lip curling to expose teeth dangerously close to Kan's throat.

“Her,” Kan replied simply, “I want to experience what humans do, even if it's something as simple as a school dance function.”

Almost all of the vampires looked up at that.

“Why the hell do you want to experience humanity?” one asked.

“Curiosity,” Kan told them. He twisted out of Jaya's grasp.

“I'll be at the library,” he said smiling. He shaded out of the house.


Phew, boy was that close, Kan though a minute later as he approached the town's public library. Too close.

Kan caught sight of Tanya and slowed down a little. He was apprehensive as to what Tanya might say, after his asking her to prom.

Tanya caught sight of him. “Hey, Kan!” she called.

Kan feigned surprise. “Oh, hello, Tanya,” he replied.

Tanya ran to meet him. “If your offer still stands, I'd like to accept it,” she said timidly.

“Yeah, it still stands,” Kan told her.

“Ok, umm...See you at school tomorrow?” Tanya asked.

“Yeah, see you.” Tanya turned to enter the library and Kan moved to go straight.
“Wait, Tanya,” Kan called after her.

Tanya turned around. “Yes?” she inquired.

“Would you mind going to a movie with me tomorrow?” Kan asked.

“Sure,” Tanya smiled, “What time?”

“I'll pick you up at 6:30,” Kan promised.

“Ok, then, it's a date,” Tanya said, turning into the library.

“Yeah,” Kan said wonderingly after she had gone inside, “It is.”


Kan returned to the hangout in a daze. He'd asked out a human, and she'd said yes. What would Ver say?

Ver just glared at him warningly.

“You be careful with her,” he told him.

Kan bowed to Ver. “Oh, I will, sir.”

Ver frowned a little and watched Kan head slowly upstairs to his room.

Kan flopped down on his bed, still dazed. Jaya shaded into his room.

“So?” he asked.

Kan looked up. “I'm picking her up at 6:30 tomorrow and taking her to a movie,” he told him.

Jaya growled with frustration and left the room.


hope you still like it ^^