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    Young Forever: A Paranormal Tale of a Vampire, a Romance and an Undying Hunger
    Young Forever: A Paranormal Tale of a Vampire, a Romance and an Undying Hunger
    Young Forever: A Paranormal Tale of a Vampire, a Romance and an Undying Hunger
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    Young Forever: A Paranormal Tale of a Vampire, a Romance and an Undying Hunger

    By Lola Pridemore

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    Isotta is not your average creature of the night. After being abandoned by her family in the forest as a young girl, she is rescued by Gerta, a lonely vampire in need of a companion. Over the next few hundred years, the two of them, along with Gerta's cousin, Aloiki, see the world, adapting and living according to the times. However, like Gerta before her, Isotta eventually finds herself wanting more than her vampire life has to offer. But when they eventually end up in the present day and as blood supplies begin to dwindle, she finds hope as she falls in love with a human. Can she resist the urge to bite him or will she forever make him hers?

    Young Forever is the story of a girl who became a vampire but now wants to live a normal life. As normal as a vampire can, at least.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Tradition Books
    Release dateSep 27, 2013
    ISBN9781938107467
    Young Forever: A Paranormal Tale of a Vampire, a Romance and an Undying Hunger

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      Young Forever - Lola Pridemore

      Young Forever

      ALSO BY LOLA PRIDEMORE

      The Other Girls

      Young Forever

      Lola Pridemore

      Reverberator Books

      Young Forever. Copyright © 2013 by Lola Pridemore.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher. For more information, email reverberator@artrummedia.com.

      Published by Reverberator Books.

      eBook ISBN–13:  978-1-938107-46-7

      eBook ISBN–10:  1-938107-46-2

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

      For those who are young forever.

      Contents

      This Boy

      A Little Walk

      That Was Then

      This Boy

      It was dark and it was lonely. And I waited. I waited by the grave I’d dug for my beloved and I waited for him to claw his way through the dirt and into my arms. I waited, wondering what the new him would be like, how we’d live our lives together, young forever, together always.

      It wasn’t supposed to happen like this. I hadn’t wanted to turn him into a vampire but I had no choice. Once it all started, there was nothing I could do but submit to the process. But it had all started out quite differently than from where it had ended up. If I had been able to look into the future, I might have handled the situation differently. I might have backed off and ran from it, from him. But I’d been bitten by love. And him? He had been bitten by me.

      He was younger than me. By about a thousand years. Wait a minute. That’s not right. No, about three to four hundred years. That was about right. Yet, it seemed as though I had loved him that long, for at least a thousand years. Well, not really. I loved him from the moment I laid eyes on him. It took all I had to keep from eating him up, quite literally. He smelled so yummy.

      I hid the love I felt from him. I did. I admit that. It wasn’t right. I should have been more upfront but I didn’t want him to see me like that, like some love-sick fool. I didn’t want him to know. It might have frightened him off. My being a vampire would have been even more damaging. He might have run had he known. Besides, I didn’t want him to be afraid that I might bite him. But he’d bitten me already. Yes, I’d been bitten by love. And it hurt in the most delicious way possible.

      It’s just that he was just so… Oh, he was the best. He was such a good young man. He was better than good; he was a doctor, a young doctor, but a doctor nonetheless. He was fresh out of medical school, starting his residency. That was very impressive, yes? And I’d never had a doctor before.

      That’s where I met him, at the hospital where he worked, several months ago. It was this whole thing. I’m a vampire and I needed some blood. Where better than a hospital to get it? So, yes, I was there to get some blood, dressed in nursing scrubs, in disguise. He just assumed I worked there, that I was a nurse, even convincing me. But once I looked into his eyes, I knew life would never be the same. I was lost, lost from myself, from my past, un-tethered from what I was. He made me feel like someone else, someone who could have a different life, a better one. He was handsome and manly and well-groomed. And good-hearted. I only had good things to say about him at first.

      His name was Otis. That’s a really cool name, yes?

      My family couldn’t stand him. Well, they’re not really my family. We’re not related by blood. But then again, I suppose we were. Gerta and Aloiki and I have been together for a long time. We’re stuck with each other. We’ve all exchanged blood, that’s how each of us became vampires in the first place, a long time ago in Europe. We still have thick accents, too, though I try to blend in by using American slang and what-have-you. I have worked on lessening my accent throughout the years, but, while it was more toned-down than theirs, I still sounded a little foreign sometimes. It doesn’t really work and people look at me like I’m crazy most of the time, like when I said, Totally rad! or Dude! or even OMG! I love your cool kicks! But I love the slang. It just does not love me.

      But my family… Ugh. It’s this whole thing. Sometimes, they really got on my nerves.

      Have you told him the story of how you came to be a vampire? Aloiki asked once. Or how we became vampires, Gerta and I?

      I had not. It wasn’t a story I wanted to bring up anytime soon. No, and I do not plan on it, either.

      He considered this, his dark features growing even darker. He was a handsome man/vampire. He turned heads. He was strong and tall and, well, good looking, as they say. Gerta was equally beautiful, with long, black hair and super white skin. They looked to be in their early twenties but were, obviously, much, much older than that. Like me, they would be young forever.

      Gerta stepped in and stated, It was the biggest mistake of my life, turning Aloiki.

      Hey! he shouted.

      She shrugged. Well, it was.

      How could you? he asked, aghast. We have been the best companions. We are blood, cousins.

      True, she said. I knew you before I was a vampire. However, I should have known better. But I did not.

      Gerta, he groaned. We are a good team. Look at how long we have survived together.

      Well, in your mind, at least, she retorted.

      Enough! I said, my voice rising. I don’t want to get this started. They backed down, then turned to stare at me. I stared back. What?

      This boy, this Otis, Aloiki said smoothly. He is going to be big trouble.

      No more than you, I said.

      Perhaps, he replied and glanced sideways at Gerta. But we do not think that you should pursue this one. Leave him alone, to his life, to his mother.

      To his mother? What did that mean? He was a grown man.

      Let me find you a nice young man, a younger one, one more…ummm…impressionable, Gerta said. I will turn him for you. He will fit into the family better. I just don’t think this Otis is suited for this.

      I shook my head. No. Otis was mine. From the moment I laid eyes on him, I knew he was mine. And I was not about to let him go. They would just have to accept that. Besides, we’d tried it their way once or twice or several times before with disastrous results. I told her that.

      That is inconsequential, she said.

      What does that mean?

      It means it doesn’t matter. He is not the one.

      I guess it didn’t matter. Not anymore, anyway. But I knew I was right about Otis. He was the one for me.

      I bit him once. Accidentally. Yes, right after we met

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