Re: Courtesy lessons...
"Lets go see this place. My hours are limited, being nightbound, and it sounds exactly like what I've been searching for." Eve grinned at Kat's choice of words, flashing her fangs, "Hey, I'm not dead. Not anymore. I'm re-alive, thank you very much." Eve held the bathroom door open for her and they slipped out of the club.
"Too bad I can't market my secrets," Eve sighed with mock regret. The night air felt good. Eve pointed to her car down the street, so Kat knew where she was headed and continued to recount her change. "Anyway, that's not how it happened. It was an accident. Whenever James came into the store, he was polite, but withdrawn. He probably didn't think I would have been interested, as I was a new widow. My husband died the previous spring during his tour in World War Two, but truthfully, it wasn't that much of a blow. We married for practical reasons, and barely knew one another before he was deployed. Not that I could tell James that, and he never asked, of course."
She shrugged and unlocked the car, pushing the button to allow Kat entry as well. "I was closing up one night after my dad and younger sister went home. On the way, I heard a noise, and saw him slumped on the side of the road, bleeding and barely able to move. I went to check on him, and the moment I bent down, he grabbed me. It was the blood loss, and being a vampire, feeding was the only way he could heal himself. Instinct took over. Then it was my turn to die. I expected to die, and when I blacked out, I was so sure that was it. Instead, I woke up the next evening, in James' home, a vampire."
She pulled out of parking lot, and started down the road. "All night diner sound good to you? I'm full, but I'm betting you could use something to eat right now."