Mara usually binge watches netflix and deals with her stressful life, not fight off demons and fall in love with a vampire. Dana and Mara start working together to stop the demons from taking over their hometown, in this action romance.
Mara browsed her finger along the smooth surface of the moon crescent tattoo on the side of her finger and smiled. "Thanks Em!" she said while hopping off the smooth leathery seats. Mara took a look around the tattoo parlor and took it all in. "You sure your mom won't notice it on your finger?" Em said while gaping at her friends finger. Mara did a little trick with her index finger to show off the tattoo and looked at em. "If she's even sober enough to see it." Mara said while looking down at the checker board themed floors, now the thrill of a forbidden tattoo isn't so fun anymore. Em rested her hand on Mara's shoulder and sighed. "If you ever want to come to my house you can bud, my family considers you family." Em waited for her eye contact but it seemed to drift off to the walls. "I've got to go! I'll text you!" Mara said quickly grabbing her bag and dashing off out of the parlor.
(Mara's pov-)
As I dashed out the parlor I felt all the stress I usually leave at home hit me and I exhaled. "Lady move!" a man on a bike riding on the sidewalk shouted on me. I quickly moved to the side but his bike still somehow hit me. I landed hard on the sidewalk and looked around me to grab on to something to pull me up but i felt to dizzy. "Hey , take my hand." I heard a girls voice around my age say. "Um can you hear me? Don't close your eyes i think you have a concussion". I shifted a bit to open my eyes but I feel to hazy. "crap" i heard the girl mutter to herself. She lifted me up and carried me to her car. "No!" I shouted feeling sudden strength. She looked at me and still put me in the backseat of her car. "Hey stop, is there anywhere you need to be dropped off at? I'm not leaving a 16 year old girl unconscious on a side walk." as she said that the sunlight hit her face and she was beautiful, she had piercing features and bright brown eyes. I pulled myself up and looked at her. ''I'm not going home." I said sternly, no way i'm going home to see my mother drunk with guys at the house probably. She looked at me unsurely and nodded. "How do you feel about clubs?" She said smirking. I looked at the tattoo on my finger and thought about my mom, no way i'm going to be depressed my whole life. I looked at her and smiled "A club sounds awesome, and by the way i'm Mara who are you?" she looked in the rear view mirror in the black car and grinned. "My name's Dana".
We got of the car and I saw huge black club with purple neon spotlights flaring around it. I stumbled back a bit still feeling dizzy from hitting the ground and Dana quickly rushed to my side "You sure you're okay? We can go somewhere else" I shook my head mentally telling her no and gave her a fake okay smile.She grabbed my hand and walked us in.
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My senses were buzzing with excitement and I gazed around to see people dancing and stero-typical red cups and wine glasses. I looked at Dana pulling me in to dance and her curly hair bounced with her as she swayed and motioned me to.
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The club was blasting the song hypnotic through the speakers and I started swaying along with Dana while the purple lights lighting the building started flashing different colors and it was all hypnotizing. "Is this fun?" Dana said smiling. But as she spoke it was addictive , her voice was as if it was compelling me. "It's amazing." I said back at her while i took the rubber band out of my my hair and shook my head while my straight hair sprang on my shoulders along with Dana.
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As we left the building I smiled. "Thanks for tonight, honestly my life has been a poop hole!" I started laughing because I said poop hole and Dana seemed amused. She bent down to adjust her boots and then stood up to look at me. "Your welcome. I mean when you hit your head that seemed like you could use a boost or a doctor." She laughed and I grinned. She opened my side of the car door and I hopped in the car. As she put her keys in the car she lifted her finger and brushed it across my jawline. "So do you have a phone number?" She said it so confidently and I quickly shook my head yes. I mentally rethought my phone number and looked around for something to write it on. She grabbed a pen out of the side pocket of the car and put her arm in front of me. "Here, i don't have any paper." She motioned for me to write my phone number on her arm and i did. I told her to drop me off at my mom's house and by the time we got there I forgot I had school tomorrow. Crap ! "It was awesome meeting you Dana" I opened the door to the car and walked slowly to the front door anxious to see what i'm about to see.
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I saw my mom cooking and it's been forever since she's done that. A man with a beer bottle sat at our kitchen table and grinned snarky at me. "Hi Mara dear, mind setting the tables?" I rolled my eyes and starting fast walking up stairs to my bedroom. I looked at myself in my bedroom mirror and sat down with tears rolling down my cheeks. I quickly changed my outfit to pajamas and fell slowly asleep on my bed.
