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everyone chimed, and Brendan started playing footsies with Ivy under the table. If she were a bunny, she would have blushed.
     
    Instead, the bell rang for the end of lunch.
     
    “The second emergency meeting is now adjourned,” Sophia declared as everyone gathered up their trays. “Let’s go find Mr. Vega his Miss Right!”
     
    For the rest of the day, Ivy tried to think of women who might be a good match for her dad. She kept a running list on the back page of her notebook, where she usually wrote ideas for the school paper.
     
    Valencia Deborg from the Vampire Roundtable? Too cold.
     
    The lady at the adoption agency? Too loud.
     
    Marie the florist who specialized in dead flowers? Too  weird .
     
    The list went on and on, but Ivy couldn’t come up with anyone she thought her father would be interested in.
     
    After school, Olivia had to meet with her algebra study group to prepare for midterms. Ivy went over to Brendan’s. The door swung open the moment she touched the doorbell.
     
    “Don’t let him see you!” Brendan’s little sister, Bethany, whispered in a panic and pulled her inside. Bethany was wearing enormous aviator sunglasses. She ran to the window, pulled aside the curtain, and peeked out at the street.
     
    “Who?” said Ivy.
     
    “The vampire hunter!” Bethany replied. Ivy took off her jacket and hung it by the door.
     
    “Seriously?” Ivy asked.
     
    “FREEZE, VAMPIRE SCUM!” a voice com
     
    manded. Ivy’s stomach lurched, and she turned
     
    to look. Standing in the door that led to the
     
    kitchen was Brendan, wearing a long trench coat
     
    and a yellow hard hat. In his hand, he held an
     
    eggbeater. He laughed maniacally.
     
    “EEEEEEEEEEKKKKKK!” Bethany shrieked and started running in circles around the living room. Brendan took straight-legged zombie steps
     
    into the room.
     
    From the kitchen, Mrs. Daniels called, “Please
     
    use your inside screaming voice, Bethany,” but it
     
    didn’t seem to have any effect.
     
    Ivy couldn’t help smiling as Brendan clomped
     
    right up to her.
     
    “Aren’t you afraid of the vampire hunter?” he
     
    asked with bulging eyes.
     
    Ivy shook her head. “Nope,” she said. “Why not?” the vampire hunter demanded. “’Cause I think he likes me,” Ivy replied coyly. I
     
    am going to miss you so much, she thought. Brendan
     
    touched her arm tenderly.
     
    “You get away from Ivy!” screamed Bethany.
     
    She charged and kicked Brendan hard in the leg. “Ouch!” Brendan cried.
     
    Bethany leaped on his back. “You big mean
     
    vampire hunter ugly man!” she shouted. Brendan winked at Ivy and gave a monstrous
     
    roar. He and his sister collapsed to the living
     
    room floor in a wrestling heap. Bethany was jumping up and down on his back, alternately giggling and shrieking, as he grunted and tried to claw at Ivy’s foot. Ivy kicked his hand away play
     
    fully.
     
    “You show him, Bethany!” she called. Suddenly Mr. Daniels burst through the front
     
    door. “Eureka!” he cried, his Einstein-like mane
     
    of gray hair pointing in all directions. “Let’s celebrate! I’ve had a major breakthrough!”
     
    Brendan and Bethany both sat up.
     
    Mrs. Daniels came rushing in from the kitchen
     
    in an apron. “Marc! Please calm down,” she
     
    admonished. “We have a guest.” She cast a meaningful glance toward Ivy, who was standing by the
     
    couch.
     
    Mr. Daniels focused his eyes on Ivy. “Ivy! It’s
     
    Ivy!” He bounded over and hugged her enthusiastically.
     
    “Um, hi, Mr. Daniels,” Ivy said awkwardly, her
     
    arms pinned to her sides. “How are you?”
     
    “How are you is the question!” he said,
     
    releasing her. “How are you a vampire,” he
     
    elaborated, waving his hands excitedly in the air, “while your twin sister is a human?” He puffed up his chest. “Well, today, Ivy, I found the answer!”
     
    Olivia made her way through the Meat & Greet