vampire

The chocolate monster burped loudly, then promptly apologized. Mary was unimpressed. So was the waiter who found himself laid out on the floor three feet from where he had been standing serving the vegetables.

“You had one of your garlic sandwiches before we came out didn’t you?”

Charley the chocolate monster knew he was in trouble. He pouted his lips, blew a seductive kiss across the table, which bounced off Mary’s lips only to smack Charley in the face.

“You had better explain yourself Mr”, said Mary

Charley turned to the shocked Emily to explain her date Dracula’s sudden disappearance.

A wooden stake and hammer, Michael looked at them for a moment partly in disbelief, was the old man right?

He looked towards the woman sleeping on the bed. She didn’t look like a vampire but then what was she doing in a basement where the windows had been covered with thick cloth.

Michael glanced back to the old man who nodded encouragingly.

Got to be quiet. Michael moved forward silently in the eerie silence. Got to get this right, he thought, breathing slowly.

On the bed Josie slept unaware her deluded stalker was at the side of her bed.