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like I had no choice, my arms released him and he thudded to the floor. He grunted and winced in pain, then yelped in shock when I pulled him to his feet.
    “I've been looking for you,” I informed him. “All week. You weren't here or home, then an old human told me our aunt and uncle took you to the city and then she fell asleep on me. I've been half mad with worry. I thought maybe God took you to Heaven!”
    “What?” The question was accompanied with a burst of laughter.
    “I was looking for you, trying to find where our aunt and uncle took you, and this stupid human started rambling to me about God and Heaven and the Devil. Who are they and what do they have to do with us?”
    Tears were in my brother's eyes. He slumped back into the chair, beating on the arm with his fist as he roared with laughter. “You thought God was a person and heaven a place on earth? I can't breathe I'm laughing so hard!”
    “So this human was lying to me?” Fury boiled in me. I was going to find that human later and kill him! “Why are you laughing? I thought I wasn’t going to find you.” My voice turned timid, the anger fading into fear. “I thought I'd never see you again.”
    His laughter died and regret filled his eyes. “I'm sorry, To–”
    “When I said your name and you mine, that was an exception.”
    “Oh,” he mumbled. He looked at me, curiosity shimmering in his eyes. “Have you really been looking for me all week?”
    “Yes. Why didn't you come back here? How come you were never home?” I demanded, releasing my pent up worry.
    “I was getting settled in at Aunt Dee and Uncle Dick's. Do you remember them?”
    “No, who are they?”
    “Mom's sister and brother-in-law. We'd always go visit and you and I would sit bored out of our minds the whole time. No games or TV or anything,” he explained. “I spent the whole week moving stuff from home to there. Next week I go back to school.”
    “You're not going to live at home?” I asked, crestfallen. “I thought we’d be together, in our home.”
    His eyes widened in shock. “You want to stay with me?”
    “Yes, I figured if I behaved, the humans wouldn't bother me. That’s how it was in the city.”
    “Aunt Dee said there were a bunch of vampires in the city. She said they're like bees, let them be and you won't get stung. Uncle Dick said people should call VF and every vampire be destroyed. I reminded him you were one now.” His smile turned into a frown.
    “What’s wrong?” I asked. If my brother was staying with our relatives, then so was I.
    “Everyone expects me to believe the same, that I should hate you.” He looked away, voice hollow and sad. “Maybe I should, but I can't. When you got home, you went straight to your room without a word to me. I sat in the hallway trying to figure out what was wrong. I stayed there until Mom made me go to bed.”
    “That other room is mine?”
    “Yeah, we used to share a room, then Dad separated us. We spent all our time in yours because you had the TV.” He fondly smiled and I felt slightly envious he remembered and I couldn't. “Anyways, I don't know what woke me. Don't even know why I got out of bed. Something pulled me down the hall and there you were; Dad already dead and Mom dying. I was horrified.” He looked up at me. “But it was you and I... You had been missing almost two days. You never left without telling me before.”
    “So you don't know how the vampire found me?”
    He shook his head. “There have been rumors of vampires staring in windows and willing people to open them. Nobody said it, but I knew that’s what Mom and Dad thought happened to you.”
    “But if they thought a vampire got me, why did they let me in?”
    “Probably didn't think about it, they were too happy to have you home to even notice how you looked,” he sighed.
    “Are you still upset I murdered our parents?”
    “I'm not upset.”
    “Good.”
    “I'm sad.”
    “Oh.”
    He shook his head. “Your apathy is