I’m going to faint, black out, and wake up in the real world. There’s absolutely no way this can be real, NO WAY! I drop my head into my hands, willing it to stop spinning. Breathe, Nina, breathe. My Mom is not my Mom. My real Mom is a Vampire! There has to be some mistake here, some sort of misunderstanding. I would know if I was half Vampire, wouldn’t I? “Nina, I know this is hard to process. Vampires are real. I thought they only existed in fairy tales, but they are real, Nina.” “Dad, I know that Vampires are real, but there’s no way that I’m half of one!” I exclaim. “You know that Vampires are real?” Oh God. I shouldn’t have said that, but does it really matter now? My Dad has known about them all along! “Yes, because I am one.” I spin around in my chair to see Troy standing

