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Cryptic Cravings
An ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age "All in all, a good read for those who want a vampire love story without the gore." —School Library Journal "As in her Teenage Mermaid, Schreiber adds some refreshing twists to genre archetypes and modern-day stereotypes." —Publishers Weekly "Horror hooks such as a haunted mansion, a romantic teenage vampire, and a dark heroine who wins against the golden guys make this a title that readers will bite into with Goth gusto." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Schreiber uses a careful balance of humor, irony, pathos, and romance as she develops a plot that introduces the possibility of a real vampire." —ALA Booklist
"Raven is exactly the kind of girl a Goth can look up to." —Morbid Outlook magazine "Readers will love this funny novel with bite!" —Wow magazine
"A fun, fast read for vampire fans."—School Library Journal
"This novel, like the first three, is never short on laughs and shudders. Alexander is as romantic as ever, and Raven is still delightfully earthy. Schreiber again concocts a lively and suspenseful story that ends on a tantalizing cliffhanger. Fans of the series will be anxious to find out whether Raven's relationship with Alexander will survive." —VOYA "A good choice for Goth lovers and fans of romantic vampire stories." —School Library Journal
Also by Ellen Schreiber
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Cryptic Cravings
To my husband, Eddie, for being my high school crush
HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Katherine Tegen Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Vampire Kisses 8: Cryptic Cravings Copyright © 2011 by Ellen Schreiber All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. www.harperteen.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN 978-0-06-168945-1 (trade bdg.) 11 12 13 14 15 LP/RRDB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ❖ First Edition
1 Blood Exchange 2 Dead End 3 Menace 4 Creeping in the Crypt 5 Sneaking In 6 Club Rumors 7 Ghouls Night 8 Interior Decorator 9 Freak Factory 10 Ghoul Fight 11 Buzz Kill 12 Mortal Makeout 13 Midnight Madness 14 Rumor Mill 15 Birthday Bash 16 The Crypt 17 Familiar Visitor 18 The Covenant 19 A Storm Is Brewing 1 13 25 31 41 54 62 73 81 95 109 126 139 148 158 167 176 185 205
"Rumors are spreading that there are vampires living in Dullsville!"
—Becky Miller
Blood Exchange
had to admit it, Dullsville was no longer dull. In fact, for me, Raven Madison, the morbidly monotonous town I'd grown up in had finally become the most exciting place on earth. Not only was I madly in love with my vampire boyfriend, Alexander Sterling, but I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire-obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten. This wouldn't have been such a tragedy for me if the recipient of the bite had been Onyx or Scarlet, the superfabulous Underworldy friends I'd met at the Coffin Club, but the bite was given to my own vampire adversary, a real vampire and gothic beauty, Luna Maxwell. I'd been waiting almost a year to be bitten, since I'd met Alexander, not to mention my entire life of immortal dreaming, but for Luna it happened within hours of
meeting another vampire. That night, on Alexander's lawn, there had been an amazing group of partygoers—a handful of vampires mixing with the mortal local students. It was something I'd never thought would happen. While playing spin the bloody bottle, Luna and Sebastian, Alexander's handsome and hapless best friend, had locked eyes and gone in for more than a juicy lip-lock. His fangs pierced the soft flesh of her swanlike neck. Luna had stared up at me, her eyes dreamy, as if she were some hippie tripping at Woodstock. She glowed even more radiantly than she normally did as a morbid fairy girl fashionista. Most of the partyers missed the action, but those who saw the bite passed it off as a macabre prank. Sebastian had since moved out of the Mansion, and the rest of the vampires were perhaps back in Romania, or haunting the Coffin Club several towns away in Hipsterville. We hadn't gotten word of their whereabouts, and I hadn't seen any signs of them at Dullsville's cemetery. For the week following the love bite, I tried my best to get Alexander's mind off his disappointment. He was suffering because his best friend's impulsive behavior had put not only himself and Luna but even Alexander's secret in possible jeopardy. Happily, tonight Alexander was finally obliging. We were lying in the grass on a hilltop that overlooked Dullsville. From there we were able to see the glamorous sites of Hipsterville, such as the graveyard, but I didn't notice them because I was lost in Alexander's lips. I hadn't broached the tender subject of receiving my own love bite with Alexander in a while. But I saw this
evening, alone with him and without distractions, as my chance for another try. Fiddling with a link chain hanging from his black leather belt, I asked, "Do you think it's easier for Sebastian to fall for a girl and to take her blood?" Alexander furrowed his brow. "Or was it easy to do what he did at the party," I continued, "because Luna is already a vampire?" "I can't speak for someone else." "But I want to know what you think." Alexander paused. "Then yes, I think it's easier for him. He is very impulsive." His tone was clear and matterof-fact. I sighed. Alexander reached for me and guided my hair back from my face with his fingers. "It means more to me than that," he said directly. "Me too," I said, touching his shoulder. "But what if I were already a vampire?" I asked thoughtfully. "What if someone else turns me—not on sacred ground—so I won't be bonded to them forever. But—" Alexander withdrew his arm. "That's what you want?" he asked, his voice almost cracking. "To be turned—by anyone? Sebastian? Or Jagger?" "I was just thinking out loud," I quickly refuted. I didn't realize I'd hurt him. "It would be that easy to have someone turn you? Just like that?" When Alexander posed it to me like that, my fantastical solution didn't seem so romantic or practical in its reality.
"That's not what I meant." "Are you so sure? You'd have my best friend bite you? Or worse, my longtime enemy?" "But now you are friends with Jagger," I said, trying to lighten the mood. "That's not the point." "Of course not—I only want you. . . . I was just trying to take the pressure off of you. I was just thinking out loud." Alexander didn't seem pleased with my response and continued to stare off into the distance. "Let's be clear," I said, turning his face toward me. "I want to be a vampire. But I want to be one with you." He barely broke a smile. "I'm turning eighteen soon and you'll be seventeen," he finally said. "It's something I think about, Raven. You. Me. Our future. I want you to know that. But this is something that is life changing—especially for you." "I know." I gazed up at my dreamy boyfriend's eyes. His face was so handsome in the moonlight. "But will you really be eighteen? Or something else, in vampire years?" "I will really be eighteen," he said. "And then the next year?" "Uh . . . nineteen," he said as if I should have known. "But you are immortal." "The aging process will slow down. But that's many, many years from now. Is that what you are worried about? Us not being able to be together unless you are immortal, too?"
"I've always wanted to be a vampire, since I was born," I said to him urgently. "But then when I met you, I wanted to be one—to be turned by you. To have the covenant ceremony that you didn't have with Luna in Romania. A beautiful wrought-iron lace trellis with a coffin and two goblets, on sacred ground. I'd be dressed in a black corset dress and hold black roses. You'd be wearing a black suit and have a black rose in your jacket lapel. We'd say a few Romanian words and drink from each other's glasses. Then, you'd turn me." "Wow!" he said with a laugh. "I guess you have thought about it, too." "But it's not about me living forever. It's about me being romantically bonded with you and experiencing the world as a vampire." I stared up at him, the stars shining above him. I waited for him to laugh, to think my ideas were childish and naive. Instead he leaned into me and stared straight into my eyes, his chocolate ones dreamy and seductive. "There is a yearning that I have for you—that goes deeper than love," he said. "It's a desire that is palpable." He took my hand and raised it, exposing the inside of my wrist. "This desire courses through my veins," he said. He traced a prominent vein with his fingertip. "And yours. But I'd never put you before my own needs. What I struggle with isn't something that you should have to as well. It's a complicated life— more so than you realize." "I know it's complicated. If you don't want to talk
about it . . ." I figured it was best to drop the subject. I didn't want to be a nagging girlfriend, and Alexander had been through so much already with Sebastian's antics. Why couldn't I be more patient and not spoil our pure quality time alone together? "Well, you already know it's complicated," Alexander commented. "I'm not sure how I can keep convincing you." I smiled. "I like it when you try," I teased. "But sometimes I worry that you'll leave the Mansion and return to Romania. And I'll be stuck here, alone for the rest of my life." "Well, I am not planning on leaving." "But you weren't planning on coming here, were you?" "No . . ." "See?" "But I didn't have the same reasons to stay there as I do here," he said. "Is the only way I can convince you how much I care to . . ." I waited. Maybe this was my chance to demand my need to be a vampire. But it had to be a decision he was ready for as much as I was. "It isn't something we need to decide tonight, is it?" he asked. If I said yes and his answer was that he wasn't going to turn me, what was I to do then? Normally I was daring. Adventure ran through my blood just as much as oxygen did. But this kind of risk—the emotional kind—was far different than sneaking into rumored haunted houses or cemeteries. This was my love life.
I gave him a puppy-dog face. "Of course not. But I wonder if it is something you want," I said with trepidation, "or is it only my fantasy?" I waited. I knew Alexander had thought about it. We'd discussed it before. But as he said, he was going to be eighteen and me seventeen—and, most important, I was now being faced with watching other vampires bite. It wasn't something we could put off forever. "I can guarantee you it's not just your fantasy," he reassured me. Then he glanced away, looking in the direction of the Mansion sitting atop Benson Hill. "You are so much like my grandmother . . ." "But wasn't she lonely? For the rest of your family? Is that the fate you'd wish for me?" Alexander faced me and stroked my cheek. "The only fate I'd wish for you is for us to be together." My heart skipped a beat. Slowly and seductively he leaned me back on the blanket. I gazed up at Alexander, the starlight filling my eyes. He began tickling me. When I'd wrestled with Billy growing up, I'd learned to relax my muscles, which resulted in my no longer being ticklish. My little brother would run off, disgruntled, and I'd claim victory. But Alexander was no Billy Boy. I squirmed in my vampire boyfriend's powerful clutches and giggled like a little girl. My head whipped side to side and my face hit something jagged on the ground. "Ouch!" I cried.
Alexander released his grip. "Are you okay? I didn't mean to hurt you." He helped me sit up. I felt only a slight bit of pain. But it was Alexander's reaction that disturbed me. He was staring at my mouth. "What's wrong?" I asked. Alexander didn't speak. Instead his gazed was fixed. I touched the corner of my lip. A mixture of lavender lipstick and dark red liquid stained my ultrawhite fingertips. Oozing blood. To Alexander it was like an exotic perfume. Tantalizing and irresistible. Fresh blood to a hungry vampire. I'd only been in this situation with Alexander once before, when he had come to my house to take me to the Snow Ball. I'd nicked my fingertip on the corsage pin. He'd had that same intense expression as he did now, only then I hadn't known he was a vampire, and I'd just quickly wiped the blood away. But tonight was different. I knew that Alexander was a vampire. And the way he stared at me, so transfixed and intense, slightly frightened me but also made me feel wanted and alive. Though this blood was my lifeline, Alexander needed my blood—or anyone else's—for his own existence. Others' blood was his lifeline. Alexander wasn't repulsed by the sight and scent but intently attracted to it. I'd never witnessed it as much as I did today. It was apparent he was fighting his impulses. I wasn't sure if I wanted him to. He shut his eyes and turned away from me.
"What would it be like?" I asked. "Don't . . ." Alexander's appearance was scornful. Then his eyes softened. "I want to help you. Take care of your cut. But I can't. Don't you see how hard it is for me? I can't even help the one person I love. I can't come near you or I might—" Alexander was fighting his natural impulse, and I was fighting mine. He rose up, his hands balled up in fists. He was biting his own lip. But I followed him. I held my bloodstained fingers out to him. I wanted Alexander to crave me more than he already did. Like Sebastian had craved Becky. But was that possible? Alexander was so intense and passionate as it was—was there anything deeper that he could feel or show me? And didn't he already crave me and my blood without me tempting him in this way? I wondered if Alexander was right—that I might not like the vampire lifestyle after all, or that my lifelong dream of hiding from the sun and rising by the moonlight might not be as romantic as it seemed. Ultimately, becoming a vampire would be a decision I couldn't change. A test I couldn't retake. An ill-fitting dress I couldn't exchange. It would be for life. Forever. For eternity. But this wasn't about being turned. Alexander and I weren't on sacred ground. This was about something different. My boyfriend stared at me, consumed by the scent of blood and the irresistible desire to devour it. "This is what you want? Me to be like the others—Jagger and Sebastian? Impulsive, needy?"
"No. I want you to be you. This was never about being anyone else," I said. I could see Alexander was in turmoil. I was tempting him with something that was bigger than a fantasy to him. This was his everyday reality—a basic desire he had to fight against. "It's okay," I said. I moved back and glanced away from him. But instead of retreating, too, he stood still. I could feel his gaze fixed on me with a power that was hypnotic. "No," he said. "Don't go." I was surprised by Alexander's response and heeded his plea. I wasn't sure what he would do next. I almost gasped. Instead of leaving me, he stepped closer and took my face in his hands. Alexander was so close to me, his alluring presence took my breath away. He slowly reached his hand to my cheek. I froze as if the events were happening in slow motion. As his firm hand slid seductively along my face, I melted with it. Then he tenderly wiped the blood from my mouth. It was as if he had touched my soul. My blood was now staining his fingers just as it had stained mine. I waited with bated breath as the biggest moment of my life unfolded. I didn't think anything could have been dreamier than the first time we kissed or I slept in his coffin. Alexander was moments from taking my blood as his own. I was suddenly filled with guilt and sadness as I thought maybe Alexander was doing this for the wrong reasons.
Maybe I'd just worn him down. I took his hand and lifted my sleeve to wipe the dripping blood away. "You don't have to. . . ." I finally said. Alexander gently blocked my hand with his free one. "I want to," he said intensely. The moment seemed surreal, and I felt as if I were in a dream. My body flooded with warmth. Alexander stared at the dewy blood droplets now trickling down the side of his ghost white palm. It was as if he was making the decision of a lifetime. This wasn't just any blood to him. It was my blood. Alexander glanced at me and smiled. His sharp fangs caught the moonlight and glistened like icicles. Then Alexander drew his hand to his mouth. I watched, my mouth agape, as he took his bloody hand to his lips, pressed his hand to his mouth, and the red droplets disappeared. He inhaled a huge audible breath, as if he were breathing the life of me into him. I gazed at Alexander. He appeared transformed. For a moment it seemed as if his pale complexion was almost alive. Alexander whipped toward me with unbridled intensity. He leaned into me, his hair flopping over his forehead, and kissed me with such force my knees shook and my flesh quivered. I thought I might die of heavenly bliss. Alexander held me, limp in his arms, and I felt bonded to him in a deeper way than I'd ever experienced. He'd let me into his world, further than ever before. Alexander squeezed me so tightly, it was as if we were one person. He picked me up and swung me around, the
twinkling lights of Dullsville swirling by me. When he let me down, we both were giddy and dizzy. When I regained my vision I could see my school, the country club, and the vacant Sinclair Mill off in the distance. It was then I noticed something unusual. Alexander found me lost in thought. "What is it?" he said. "I hope you aren't—" "No—everything is fine," I reassured him. "It's nothing." I didn't want anything to break our perfect moment. "What's wrong?" he insisted. I had to squint to make out the object. It was then I could see clearly a familiar car—or, rather, hearse. I tried to block Alexander's view by attempting to pull him away, but he didn't budge. Alexander was already staring at the barren factory. His blissful expression sharpened slightly, and I could tell it registered to him that it was Jagger's car. I remained in his comforting clutches, bound to my love in a way I hadn't been before. We clung to each other, both reluctant to break our euphoric encounter and face the situation that we now overlooked. So Jagger hadn't gone back to Romania or Hipsterville when Alexander's party was over. There had to be a reason why he didn't return and was apparently staying in the factory. Alexander and I shared one last kiss before giving over to the distraction that lay at the bottom of the hill.
Dead End
ot wanting to draw attention to us, Alexander parked the Mercedes in a grassy area more than fifty yards away from the mill. I was still beaming over Alexander taking my blood as his own. We tiptoed over the gravel road that led to the factory with a connection that couldn't be broken. As we neared the entrance, the dreamy look in Alexander's eyes continued and was only slightly marred by his concern over the discovery of Jagger's presence. We walked quietly through the shadows, and Alexander squeezed my hand extra tight. The two antique smokestacks pointed toward the heavens like giant grave markers. The desolate and dilapidated factory was riddled with graffiti, broken and missing windows, rusted doors, and overgrown weeds and grass. Discarded boxes, trash, and beer cans were scattered around the grounds.
We turned a corner and came upon a vintage black mustang—Sebastian's ride. Alexander stopped in his tracks. He sighed and slumped, let down by the discovery that his best friend was in the company of his former nemesis. "Maybe Sebastian felt he had nowhere else to go," I offered encouragingly. "Now that he's fallen for Luna," Alexander said, "he's probably under Jagger's spell, too." Alexander took a deep breath and started for a white wooden door with the words "GET OUT " spray-painted in black. "Well, then I guess we're going in," I said. But instead of charging in, Alexander stopped. "Maybe we should wait," he said, pausing at the doorway. "They obviously didn't want us to know that they're still here. Maybe we shouldn't let them know we found them." "But how are we going to find out what's going on with them?" "I could go in myself—undetected," he said, alluding to his nocturnal powers. "That hardly seems fair," I said with the disappointment of a child who is told she is too short to go on an amusement park ride. "If I could change into a bat, I'd do it, too." Alexander realized my limitations were upsetting me. "Besides," I said, "it might be dangerous to leave me here alone in this dark, desolate place." He nodded in agreement. "We'll see what we can find
out from here." Alexander cupped his pale and once bloodstained palm. I stuck my combat-booted foot in his cradled hands and he lifted me up. I struggled at first but managed to grab on to a ledge and pulled my head slightly above it so I could peer in through a broken windowpane. My black fingernails were in stark contrast with the gray cement. Breathless, I peered in. At first it was hard to see. My vision had to adjust to the dim lighting. A flickering candelabra sat on a wooden table, and then I spotted a flash of white hair. "Over there," I whispered to Alexander. He adjusted his stance a few feet to our left to where I could now see clearly. Jagger was sitting with his back to me, his red-flamed Doc Martens boots resting up on a crate and his fingers woven together, supporting his whitehaired head. He was the king of this crumbling castle. Sebastian, however, was fidgety. Alexander's best friend repeatedly pushed his dreadlocks away from his face, his many rings catching the candlelight. He didn't see me; perhaps the glare from the light above them hid me or he was so deep in thought he wasn't focused on anything else. He tapped his leg repeatedly, like a junkie waiting for a fix. I'd never seen him this frazzled. "We'll need to start tomorrow," Jagger declared, "to get this thing up and running." "So soon?" Sebastian asked. "What are we waiting for?" Jagger countered. Sebastian drummed his black-painted fingers on the table.
But Jagger and Alexander now had a truce, and Jagger wouldn't do anything to jeopardize that—or would he? "The Coffin Club is a success," Jagger said. "So there's no reason not to start one here, too." "This town isn't filled with vampires," Sebastian said. "Not like the other one, anyway." "This town needs a place to dance," Jagger said. "For everyone to come alive—at night." Sebastian couldn't argue with that. "I agree—there isn't anything to do in this town." "And then the vampires will flock here. Like we did. Alexander, Luna and me, and now you. Mortals above and vampires below. The Coffin Club was a success and this one will be, too. We are sitting on a gold mine here in this abandoned factory." "The Coffin Club Two?" Sebastian said. "I already have a name for it: the Crypt." "But are the preppy girls in this town going to want to hang out at a place called the Crypt?" "I have ways to entice them besides the name alone," he said in a creepy but sexy tone. "And vampires?" Sebastian asked skeptically. "The mortals won't even know they're here. Besides, I have surprises planned for this club." "What kinds of surprises?" Sebastian wondered. "If I told you, then they wouldn't be surprises, would they? Besides, that's weeks away. We have a club to build first." "What about Alexander?" Sebastian asked.
"He can be a partner, too. But I'm not sure if he's the type to own a club. He's very private." "He is my best friend. I feel funny about this—without him being on board." "Is your best friend, or was?" Jagger challenged. "Well, you'll have a place to stay here as long as you like." Sebastian paused for a moment. He was the type that traveled constantly, his coffin covered with stickers from countries and cities around the world. It was something I could tell he was contemplating—a place to call home. "But there is more of a vampire culture in bigger towns, am I right? Here it's just Alexander. And let's be clear. I think he likes it that way. I think we should respect that," Sebastian said. Jagger cracked his knuckles, trying to mask his frustration. "He escaped everything," Sebastian added. "Persecution from mortals and persecution from . . ." "My family?" Jagger sat up. "The irony, you mean. That he'd travel so far away from my family and ultimately we'd wind up settling here, too?" "You guys have a truce." "I know. He helped my brother, Valentine. When Valentine was weakened and alone, Alexander cared for him and returned him to me. I'm not suggesting we restart that feud. But does that mean that what's good for Alexander is good for us, too?" Jagger asked pointedly. "Do we have to live our lives around his? Besides, maybe a vampire club is just the thing he needs. He won't be so alone on that hill
with only a butler to attend to his needs." "I'm just saying. I know he's still mad at me for what I did to Luna at his party. I know he thinks it jeopardized his existence here. And more of us coming to town—the kind that might be like me and act on impulse . . . it wouldn't be good for any of us." "You were just being you. Just being us." Jagger leaned in. Even from far away, his blue and green eyes were piercing. "I can't help it if Alexander's more . . . restrained. He should have bitten Raven a long time ago. Why let it drag on?" Just then my foot slipped and I knocked over the empty soda can on the windowpane. "What was that?" I heard Jagger say. "I think someone is outside." I held my breath. Alexander did, too. Alexander and I stood against the wall. A pigeon was walking along the window ledge. Alexander tossed a twig near the bird. Startled, it flapped its wings wildly and flew off past the window. "It's just a pigeon," I heard Sebastian say. Alexander cupped his hands and helped me up again. "You shouldn't be on edge," Jagger said. "Why are you so worried? It's just a club." Sebastian thought, then finally spoke. "But it's a club with vampires—in a place that has been inhabited by only one. Alexander fights every day to be who he is and do the right thing. Just because you and I might be more alike? That doesn't mean he's the one that's wrong." Jagger now was the one riffling his fingers through his white locks.
"I really want to run this past him," Sebastian said. "And what's he going to say, yes? Besides, you can't tell him you've been hanging out here with me and Luna." Sebastian hung his head low. "Don't despair," Jagger said. "It's going to be awesome. Music blasting, drinks flowing, dancing until dawn. Beautiful girls everywhere. What's not to like?" Sebastian's face lit up in the candlelight. The Crypt sounded like the kind of club I'd want to hang out in. Just like the Coffin Club—but only a few miles from my house. I bit my lavender lip in excitement. "I know he's mad at me . . ." Sebastian said, "but I still have his back." "He'll see the club once it's open," Jagger said, rising. He put his arm around Sebastian. "It won't be too long. We'll decorate at night. I have ways of getting these things settled very quickly." Sebastian bit his black nails. "Just think it over," Jagger said, slapping Sebastian on the back like a coach does to a football player. "You have a place to stay, a new best friend, and . . ." "A girlfriend," a sweet, ethereal voice said. Just then pink hair bounced in from behind the shadows. Luna was dressed in a wickedly cool frock—a pink mini-dress with black spiderwebbed tights. Her perfectly straight baby pink hair appeared as soft as something out of a shampoo commercial. Sebastian shot up. She took his hand and pulled him into her. They shared
a kiss that probably would have gone on forever if Jagger hadn't cleared his throat. "It's Luna," I whispered to Alexander. "Now we should go in—" Alexander helped me back to the ground and I told him what I'd heard. He shook his head. "We need to wait," he said. "Really?" I was surprised by Alexander's sudden change in course. "Yes," he said. "But not for too long. I'm always getting Sebastian out of predicaments. Maybe this time he needs to figure things out himself." "But what about this new club?" I asked. "It will be here, in Dullsville." "That we will have to fix. But I don't have to at this moment." We heard the sound of a car driving over the gravel. Alexander pulled me back into an alcove. A white Beetle painted to look like a skull drove past us and parked. Scarlet and Onyx hopped out of their car. "I think it will be fun to hang with them here for a little while longer," Onyx said. "That's because you want to be next to Jagger at all times." "I do not!" she declared. "It's okay," Scarlet reassured her. "I'd like to try to see that Trevor guy again. He's such a prep—but I have to admit, I really think that's hot!"
Onyx giggled. "Too bad I can't bring him here," Scarlet said. "Maybe I'll just show up at his school in his locker room." The two girls giggled as Onyx opened the trunk. "But he can't know about us," Onyx said. "That's why it's best to date vampires. We don't have to hide. Maybe you should like Sebastian?" "He's all into Luna. That girl gets on my nerves. I sense something fake about her." "Like she's not a real vampire?" Onyx asked as they retrieved several bags of groceries. "No—like she's up to something. She's either really saccharine-sweet or totally aloof." "Do you think she really likes Sebastian?" Onyx asked as they headed for the door with groceries in hand and passed by us. "I think she likes—" Scarlet said, but we couldn't hear her answer. They had disappeared into the factory. Alexander took my hand and led me away from the abandoned mill. "I have other things on my mind tonight," he said, his eyes still dreamy from the blood exchange, and he drove me back to the Mansion. As I lay in my bed, I cuddled Nightmare in my arms. Alexander had finally taken my blood as his own. The moment felt as intense for me as it was for him. To be one of the few living humans in the world to have blood taken by a vampire thrilled me beyond belief. And that it had been
done in a harmless and loving way made the whole event exhilarating and blissful. The most important part to me was that Alexander showed me that he needed me, craved me, wanted me. The feeling of connection I now felt to him was stronger than blood. And that moment was much different than when Sebastian had taken Becky's blood. One, she hadn't known it had happened; two, she wasn't aware that Sebastian was a vampire; and three—and most important—she wasn't in love with him. With Alexander, this was something we shared together as a couple. He needed me—inside and out, just as I did him. Heart, soul, and blood. And if he'd done this, something I never thought he would do, did that mean that he was one step—a big step—closer toward turning me? I threw my head back on the pillow in laughter. At this moment, I didn't care about being a mere mortal. A vampire had taken my blood! I'd experienced much more beyond belief since meeting Alexander Sterling. I'd always dreamed that vampires existed, and now I knew. I'd fallen in love with one—and this very night, he'd acted as a true vampire and shown me how much he needed me. But what should have been a uniquely blissful moment was complicated once again by the nefarious vampire twins, Jagger and Luna. If only I could spend time just thinking about Alexander. Finally our lives could be about just us. I wondered if that would ever happen. I was torn about the Crypt. When I thought about what Jagger was proposing, a fabulous new dance club where
none before existed, I was ecstatic. Practically speaking, though, there was nothing worse than having vampires (ones other than Alexander and his family, of course) inhabiting our town and mixing with mortals. If this place became a second Coffin Club, we could only guess what new vampires would do. Would they put the lives of unsuspecting students or townspeople in danger? But the other part—the dance club itself—was exactly what I'd really wanted all my life. A club, a haunted happening, only a few miles from my own house, that I'd be able to attend. A place, unlike school and all of Dullsville itself, where I would finally fit in. My mind raced. Maybe I could help Jagger and the others with the plans, marketing, and decorating the Crypt. I could be the very thing they needed to bring life to the club. Could this really be the gift I'd always dreamed of, and just in time for my birthday? But this one thing that would bring excitement into my life might bring disaster to Alexander's. The increase in vampires in Dullsville could bring attention to them and ultimately reveal the secret identity of the one vampire I cared about the most. Or maybe, just maybe, this could be a place like the Mansion, where Alexander could finally be himself. No hiding or pretending to be anything but himself. Just drinking real Bloody Marys and dancing until dawn. It was a gamble, knowing Alexander's former nemesis. Jagger was a vampire who craved attention and seemed to receive a lot because he owned a vampire club. Ultimately I
was skeptical about his underlying intentions for this new club. I was restless. For the first time in my life, the one thing I knew I needed to stop from happening was the one thing I wanted to make sure happened. Jagger, Sebastian, and the others were holed up inside the factory making plans for the Crypt while I was reduced to studying, homework, and insomnia.
hat happened to your lip?" Becky asked when I hopped into her truck the following morning before school. "Did Alexander get carried away with you?" "Is it that noticeable?" I pulled down the visor and checked my reflection in the mirror—an act I wouldn't be able to do if I were a vampire someday. I struggled with the idea that I would no longer be able to see myself and what that simple task would mean for me. To never be able to adjust things such as makeup, hair, and my clothes. Alexander was gorgeous naturally. I wasn't sure that I was ready for the world to see me without being able to present myself the way I wanted to be seen. As I touched up my cut with corpse white cover-up, I felt a renewed sense of confidence. It wasn't the kind of confidence one feels when securing oneself with makeup but rather an internal assurance and peace. I felt as if I couldn't contain my glow.
"What's up with you?" Becky said. "You can't seem to stop smiling." "I'm just in love. . . ." I said dreamily. "Me too. We are both so lucky we found good guys. I still can't believe that we both have boyfriends, can you?" "No," I said honestly. We drove past the covered bridge that met the winding road leading up to the factory on the outskirts of town. I could see the smokestacks high above the trees, as if they were deliberately taunting me—reminding me of Jagger's presence. "But I have so much on my mind," I said, slightly hinting to Becky. "What's up?" "If there was something you wanted to happen but it might be a threat to others, what would you do?" "I wouldn't want it to happen." "It's that simple?" I asked. "Why would I want something that was not good for everyone?" Becky was an altruist. That's why she was such a good friend to me. But in this case I would have preferred she be a bit more cynical. "Why would it be bad?" she asked, worried. "Is this about you and Alexander?" "It might not be bad," I confessed, and it was true, since I didn't ultimately know Jagger's plans. I was just going by his previous history. "I think it would be easier if you just told me what you are talking about instead of being so cryptic."
"It's not really a threat, not now anyway," I said. "I guess you'd have to take the threatening part away. That's the only way it would work." I thought about what Becky said. If somehow I made sure that no vampires were invited to the Crypt, other than the ones already inhabiting the vacant mill, then maybe there wouldn't be a threat. I knew Onyx and Scarlet, and so far they didn't seem to take advantage of unsuspecting mortals. If Sebastian liked Luna, Onyx had her fangs set on Jagger, and we kept a close eye on Scarlet's fondness for Trevor, all the vampires would be accounted for. Perhaps it could be a fun place for Dullsville's high school students to hang out. They could, at last, finally understand what I've been craving all my life. Maybe the darkness could make them, too, feel more alive than ever. And it could be a huge, morbid playpen for me. "You are a genius," I declared. "Now are you going to tell me what you are talking about?" Just then my cell beeped. It was a text from Alexander.
I can't sleep. Thinking of you.
I melted inside, knowing that my boyfriend was lying in his coffin and dreaming of me. And though I loved Alexander's mystery and old-fashioned style, I was grateful to be a not-so-normal girl with a not-so-normal boyfriend now that we were able to communicate like a normal couple. I quickly texted back.
Miss you like crazy.
I held the phone out to Becky proudly. "Alexander," I said.
"I have something to tell you . . ." my best friend said as we pulled in to the entrance to school. "There are rumors about Alexander's party. Some people are saying Sebastian bit Luna. Like for real—like a vampire!" "Why would they say that?" I asked skeptically. "Someone swore they saw blood and the rumor snowballed. Now some kids are freaked out. They've been talking about it all week. I was kind of afraid to tell you. I didn't want you to be upset. But it isn't going away." "So? That's all these people do is talk." "But I think it doesn't really matter, since Sebastian and those guys aren't even here anymore." They are still here, I wanted to say. I weighed my thoughts. I wasn't sure if it was time to tell her Sebastian and Jagger were sequestered in the factory, making a second Coffin Club. "I kind of wish Sebastian hadn't left," she said in a tone that was mostly saved for a confessional. "Not because I like him—in that way—but there was something different about him. Like Alexander and that Jagger guy. I really can't put my finger on it. They're different from the guys here." Because they are vampires, I wanted to say. "It must be that European charisma," she finally said. "Yes, that must be it." I smiled. Becky pulled into the student parking lot and turned off the truck. "Your birthday is coming soon," she said excitedly as we got out and headed toward the main entrance. "What do you want to do? We could all go to Hatsy's or Hooligans."
"That wasn't what I really had in mind." "The cemetery?" she asked nervously. I smiled again. I hadn't thought much about celebrating my birthday. Ever since I was little, all my parties were duds and the only ones I ever enjoyed were when Becky and I just stayed up all night pigging out on brownies, chips, and super-sugared and hyper-caffeinated sodas and endlessly watching vampire movies. "Alexander turns eighteen just before my birthday. I think we should just have one party together." "That sounds awesome! Maybe we can have it at the Mansion," she suggested. "Did I hear it's going to be someone's birthday?" a familiar male's voice said from behind me. I didn't even bother turning around and continued walking, but that didn't stop my nemesis from disturbing me. He jumped in front of me, blocking my way. "It's been a whole year, has it?" he asked in a syrupy tone. "Maybe this birthday I'll finally give you what you've always wanted." Becky was shocked and blushed. But I wasn't moved. Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought. Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed upon me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me. Trevor could have any girl he wanted—except for me. But for some reason, I'd always been a thorn in his side, maybe one that he never really wanted to get rid of.
"I'll just have to Lysol myself and make sure to get a rabies shot," he said. "I won't turn on the lights. For my protection—not yours." He leaned in so close to me I thought for a moment he was going to kiss me. "Don't forget to bring your 'Dating for Dummies' handbook," I said. "I'm sure you'll need it." Instead of scowling, his face lit up with a glistening white, devilish smile. It was as if I'd made his day and our quick and battling banter were like an aphrodisiac to him. He winked at me before he arrogantly turned away and disappeared into the crowd of students. Becky appeared weary as we headed to our lockers, but I remained unperturbed. At the moment, celebrating our birthdays in a joint party should have been the biggest event in my life. Usually I'd be obsessed with thoughts of decorating the mansion with bat-shaped balloons, dark purple streamers, and a monster-size chocolate cake with tiny coffins. But I couldn't think of anything else when Jagger and his friends were secluded in the vacant mill, designing its transformation into one of the most cryptic of all clubs. With Alexander's best friend only a short distance away from the Mansion, in secret, I knew I wouldn't be able to invite him or the others. It felt like a stake through my heart and made me miserably lonely for my boyfriend's sake. The whole birthday celebration was already ripe with drama.
Creeping in the Crypt
was dying to know more about the plans for the Crypt and Sebastian's sudden love for Luna. I had been hoping he'd be the perfect match for either Onyx or Scarlet, but he'd fallen for Alexander's former nemesis's sister. Now Sebastian would be hanging out with Luna and Jagger instead of Alexander and me and even going into business with Jagger. It was all happening too fast—even for someone as impulsive as me. I decided I had a chance to find out more of Jagger's intentions that afternoon since I would be protected by the sun—I used it to my advantage. As soon as Becky dropped me at my house after school, I hopped on my bike and pedaled toward the Sinclair Mill. The ride was exhausting, with its curving hills and narrow, winding roads. The rocky gravel of the mill's driveway made it too
unwieldy to ride over even with my thick tires, and I didn't want to stir any sleeping vampires with the noise, so I walked my bike over the gravel and leaned it against one of the brick walls. I found a few rusted and locked gates with boarded-up windows. I went around to the back of the building. This empty factory was historical to Dullsville, and I remembered learning about it in school. The mill prospered manufacturing uniforms for the war in the 1940s. After the war ended, a linen company bought it but it eventually went bankrupt. I imagined the noises of the running machinery cranking out uniforms for the war and the voices of the workers. The hours must have been long and laborious. I sweltered at school; I couldn't imagine what it must have been like to wear a floor-length heavy dress while sewing all day long. I thought it was hard to have worked at Armstrong Travel filing and making copies in a blouse, pencil skirt, and hose. I was happy I'd been born in the time of air-conditioning. The red-tiled smokestack, once full of thick smoke, was now barely standing. What was once home to machines and laborers was now home to modern-day vampires. I found the entrance that I had watched Onyx and Scarlet pass through. The door was unstable, looking like it might come off its hinges at any moment. I held it steady and gently opened it. I quietly stepped over discarded materials and around garbage left by others' sneak-ins as I made my way to the main part of the factory. So far I didn't see any signs of
the makeover I was hoping this empty mill would take on. Instead of neon signs adorning the walls and a tiled dance floor, spray-painted graffiti was the only decoration, and broken chairs were cast aside in the corners like litter. I knew the vampire crew wasn't in this room—the light was too bright for them to hide. They'd need a place dark and big enough to shelter five coffins. As much as Jagger had been a pain to both Alexander and me, he did make the Coffin Club in Hipsterville a thriving place for both mortals and vampires to hang out. Jagger had a great imagination and was successful in seeing his vision come to life. And now I imagined how this factory could be transformed, too. I wish I'd thought of it first. But had it been my idea and my venture, the only thing that was sure was that no one would come. With Jagger, he already had vampires inhabiting it and hadn't done a thing to it. The sunlight streamed in through cracked, broken, and vacant windows. This would be a hard place for a sleeping vampire to get any shut-eye. Last time we'd discovered Jagger's hideaway he was holed up in a freight elevator. But with so many vampires now in his company, that would be too small for all their coffins. I found the two-flight staircase we'd once taken when Alexander and I had originally found Jagger here months ago. As I ventured down the rickety staircase, less light streamed in and I dug into my backpack and grabbed my flashlight. My free hand got tangled in several spiderwebs.
"Sorry," I said to a grizzly-looking spider who stared back up at me. I walked down a darkened hallway. It was straight out of a horror movie. There were no windows here in the sublevel hallway, and I only had a flashlight to show my way. My imagination transformed it into a mental institution, with screaming inmates. Not sure who or what might jump out at me, I had to fight my own will just to open a door. I opened a few doors that led nowhere—empty rooms with no sign of life . . . or the undead. At the end of the hallway, I came to the last two doors—one across from the other. At this point I wasn't sure how much daylight I had to keep me safe. I decided to try the one on the right. The door was secured, but not with a lock. It felt like something was wedged in front of it from the other side. To me that meant there was something behind it worth securing. I pushed against the door with all my might, and the wedge shifted just enough for me to slip through the opening. I stepped inside and cast my light around the room. There they were—one right next to the other. Five coffins in a row. The first one, black with band stickers, was Jagger's. The second, baby pink, was no doubt Luna's. The third one was embellished with stickers from countries and cities across the globe, and I recognized it as Sebastian's. The fourth was black onyx stone outlined in white, and the fifth was adorned with shiny beads. Those were certainly Onyx and Scarlet's. Each had dirt around it in a circle. Five sleeping vampires, only a few feet away from me.
I imagined creating a custom coffin for Alexander and me—perhaps a double-wide coffin that looked like a huge heart. I wondered if the vampires were lonely in there, isolated from the rest of the world. I felt they must miss seeing each other during the daylight hours. Did they dream like we did or did they always have nightmares? I had to really contemplate this issue—think about if it was something I ultimately wanted, to be so closed away from another vampire or the outside world. I knew I should back out immediately, return to the hallway, and close the door. I knew I shouldn't remain in the room or step any closer to the coffins, but I couldn't resist the temptation. I tiptoed up to Jagger's coffin. I paused briefly, then leaned my ear to the coffin lid. I heard the faint sounds of breathing. Suddenly a thud came from the other side. I was so startled I jumped up and let out an audible gasp. My heart was racing so hard I was sure I'd have to call a doctor. I paused, covering my mouth with my hand. I wondered if they had heard me. Now I knew it was time to retreat. I tiptoed out and did my best to wrestle the wedge back underneath the door from the other side with my flashlight. I checked the time on my cell phone and, with sunset approaching, realized I had only a few minutes to investigate further. I'd found the coffins and discovered that no plans had been carried out yet. But what was Jagger's next move, and were there any clues that could help me figure that out?
There was one more door left uninvestigated—the one across the hall from the sleeping vampires. I'd be smart to head to the Mansion and return another time with Alexander. I didn't have much time to decide, and I was desperate to know what lay on the other side. I stared at the doorknob. I anxiously turned the handle, but it wouldn't open. I pushed and pulled so hard, the knob came off in my hand. As I wrangled it back on, I could feel it catching the latch. I did my best to be patient and opened the door slowly. The room was dark except for a paper-thin beam of light streaming in through a broken window at least twenty feet from the floor. The smell of dust and mold filled the room. Old filing cabinets lined a few walls and there was an antique wooden desk. A green wine bottle with a Romanian label sat on it. In the corner was an aquarium containing not water but rocks and one very frightening tarantula. Gravestone etchings, including the very ones I'd seen at Jagger's place in Hipsterville, hung from the walls. This must be Jagger's new quarters. By appearances, he wasn't ready to return to Hipsterville in the near future. I didn't have much time to riffle through the mess. I spotted a tube of papers. I unscrolled them and discovered they were a stack of diagrams. Sticky notes labeled each one individually, the first, THE CRYPT, the second THE COVENANT, and the third, which was worn and appeared to be an original copy labeled SINCLAIR MILL. I was looking at the blueprints for Jagger's club. I examined the one marked THE CRYPT. I wasn't in the
habit of reading blueprints and they weren't as detailed as I would have imagined. Instead of pictures there were boxes and lines, dotted and thick ones representing different things. I could make out one main room with a large box marked "stage." So, was "the Covenant" the mysterious underground vampire club, like the Dungeon was in the Coffin Club? I knew Jagger had mentioned to Sebastian his dream to open the club to vampires. These could be the plans to prove that it was more than a dream. I was intent on scouring it when I realized the light was no longer streaming in through the cracked window. This meant one thing: The sun had set and the sleeping vampires in the next room were about to rise. Alexander had to see these plans. He was smart and would know better how to read them. But I couldn't take them all with me. If Jagger discovered they were missing, who knows what he would do. I pulled out my cell phone to take a picture of them when I heard a rustling coming from the next room. I would have to use my flash to take the picture, and I knew it would bring immediate attention to the room I was rifling through. I only had seconds to decide. Ticktock. Ticktock. It was then I heard a creaking opening of coffin lid doors. I decided against the photo. I definitely couldn't take all the plans, but maybe Jagger wouldn't notice if one was missing. I pulled away the one on top and rolled the others back up and bound them with the rubber band. My
heart was pounding and the blueprints in my hands were shaking. I rolled up the Crypt plans and stuck them in my backpack and replaced the other two exactly where they had been. I grabbed my flashlight and quietly closed the door behind me. I bolted out of the room and tore up the rickety spiral staircase before the vampires had a chance to reach the hallway. Breathless, I hopped on my bike and pedaled straight for the Mansion. "You did what?" Alexander exclaimed when I explained the last hours' events. Alexander didn't greet me with the usual hug and sensual kiss. I realized I shouldn't have spoken so soon. "I thought this way we could have leverage on their plans," I said. "Once you see this—maybe we'll know what he's really up to." "Why didn't you wait for me?" he asked, shaking his head. "It was the only way for me to find out info. Under the cloak of sunlight. Otherwise they'd be up and I couldn't have investigated. We need to know what they are truly planning." I took out the blueprint and unrolled it on the antique dining-room table. I moved it far enough away from the several lit candelabras that wax wouldn't drip on the paper. "I don't see anything unusual here," Alexander said, examining it like a professional. "It is the blueprint for the
club. There's the stage, there's the bar. This is the dance floor. Over here is a door. Not sure where it goes." "It seems really cool," I said, pining for the club that I wanted to have in Dullsville. "But there was another set of blueprints," I confessed. "It said 'The Covenant,' but I couldn't get a photo of it in time. I think they are the plans for his secret vampire club. Would Jagger share everything with Sebastian?" I speculated, like Sherlock Holmes. "I don't think so." "There was another set?" Alexander asked. "Yes. I wanted to look it over—even take it—but I couldn't. The sun was setting and I didn't want to get caught." "You shouldn't have taken these—you shouldn't have been in there in the first place." "I know. But can we leave this to chance? Just wait until Jagger opens the club, when we both heard he plans to open it to vampires, too?" "I wouldn't put it past him to do something. The Coffin Club was so successful, I can see why he'd want to open another one. But here? It's too dangerous." "That's why we have to see those plans." Alexander reluctantly agreed. "I want to party at the Crypt so badly," I continued with a dreamy tone. "But we must stop this underground club and stop him from inviting more vampires to Dullsville." "Raven, we must return these immediately, before Jagger realizes they are missing. He and I have a truce. I don't want anything to disrupt that."
I could see how important it was to Alexander to finally have the weight of the Maxwells off his back. I didn't mean to start trouble again. I was just trying to make sure that Jagger wasn't up to anything nefarious. But maybe I was misjudging Jagger's intentions, like people in Dullsville misjudged mine. "And we have to examine the Covenant," I said to Alexander as I carefully stuffed the Crypt blueprints in my backpack, "just to be sure. I think it holds the real key to Jagger's plans." Alexander shook his head again. He grabbed the keys to the Mercedes off the antique end table and we headed straight back to the factory.
Sneaking In
lexander and I parked the Mercedes at a distance and traipsed through the darkness toward the factory. I would have felt like a scolded child, with Alexander dragging me back to return my stolen goods, but Alexander knew, too, that we had to double check Jagger's intentions to make sure the club he was building was safe for Alexander's life in town and for the mortal residents of Dullsville. We had three options. One, we could boldly go into the factory and face Jagger and Luna with my questions and admit I had their plans. Two, we could hang out and act natural, and while Alexander was chatting with the guys I could return the blueprint. Or three, both Alexander and I could sneak in and, with Alexander's nocturnal vampire vision, find our way to the office. The third was the riskiest, and thus, the most appealing to me. We both agreed
that admitting that I'd taken the plans might be a cause for a broken truce, so we decided to attempt the full sneak-in. It was a cool, windy night, and the leaves rustled in the trees as we passed by them. When we reached the gravel road we both sighed with relief. The road was empty of all familiar vehicles. I showed Alexander the door I'd used to enter the factory and we quickly snuck in. The empty, hollow factory rooms were just as I'd seen them a few hours earlier. I illuminated the way with my flashlight, though Alexander could make out objects better than I could in the dark depths of the factory. We descended the rickety staircase and I led the way down the narrow, dark, and dank hallway until we reached the last two opposing doors. "It's this one," I said. I reached for the doorknob, but like the last time, it fell off in my hand. Alexander's face grew serious. "Hurry!" My hand shook as I stuck the knob back in its groove and tried to wind it so the latch would catch. Alexander anxiously tapped his monster boots on the cement floor. The sound echoed, causing me to be more nervous than I already was. Finally, the knob caught the latch and we were inside Jagger's office. I raced to the desk. The rolled-up blueprints were in the same position I'd left them. I quickly took off the rubber band and unrolled them. "Here." I showed Alexander the second set.
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- In all variants of nephronophthisis (NPH)–medullary cystic kidney disease (MCKD), end-stage renal disease (ESRD) insidiously ensues within characteristic age ranges, and no specific therapy is available. Management is symptomatic and directed at preventing and treating complications of progressive renal insufficiency, such as the correction of electrolyte, acid-base, and water-balance disturbances.
- Anemia may be treated with erythropoietin.
- Growth retardation is responsive to recombinant growth hormone.
- All patients eventually require renal replacement therapy including peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis or preemptive kidney transplantation.
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- Access for hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis should be secured before ESRD develops.
- Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for patients who have nephronophthisis–medullary cystic kidney disease and ESRD.
- ESRD does not recur in the transplanted kidney.
- Living, related donors should be thoroughly screened for the disease prior to the transplantation procedures.
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- All children with polyuria, polydipsia, or a failure to thrive must be evaluated by a pediatric nephrologist. Children found to have nephronophthisis–medullary cystic kidney disease should be referred for an ophthalmologic examination and closely followed up by the nephrologist.
- Offer genetic counseling to the family.
- A carefully constructed pedigree may help in distinguishing between the recessive and dominant forms of the disease.
- Because of the genetic locus heterogeneity among diseases in the nephronophthisis–medullary cystic kidney disease complex, prenatal diagnosis can be performed only by means of direct genetic testing. This testing requires a setting in which a specific deletion or mutation of the NPH1 gene has already been characterized in an affected sibling. The urinary concentrating ability of asymptomatic siblings should be tested at yearly intervals.
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- Adequate hydration is important to replace urinary water losses and sodium loss in patients with salt-wasting.
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Here's the view from Market:
The unofficial orange cones are still around though.
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These two white posts have been installed at the foot of Golden Gate:
Here's the view from Market:
The unofficial orange cones are still around though.
I suppose this closes a chapter on the book of the new Golden Gate Ave bike lane…
First at 441 Pine
And then at Golden Gate and Van Ness:
And now at Market Center:
When will the next domino fall?
(Young Bart Simpson had good reason to break a window here, but then he went too far – "smashy smashy.")
I'll tell you, I see more broken auto glass on the Streets of San Francisco by 9:00 AM than most people see all day. And yesterday, I saw the most broken auto glass in one day in Frisco than I ever have before.
Hence this photo. What do you see here, Gentle Reader? What if somebody ordered you to, "Fix this" 'n stuff? Where would you start? Like, what do you see here?
How many people do you see here, just after sunrise? (There are at least four.)
Oh well…
Here's the scene at the foot of Golden Gate yesterday during the Evening Drive – what's new is the orange traffic cones:
Our SFMTA didn't put up the cones, the SFMTrA did. See?
So of course these cones are unofficial (unlike this one from last week, when a made member of our City Family put an orange cone near the curb so drivers wouldn't run over the legs of people warming up in the slow lane of Market inbound).
So I heard that the beginning part of Golden Gate in the 'Loin, the Tender / Twitter -loin, was going to get a bike lane just a few weeks back. And I says to myself, I says, "I better check it out afore things change." And I did but then I thought, no, neighboring McAllister is a much better way to travel inbound, even though our SFMTA / DPW just recently rejiggered the traffic lights in front of the troubled Hibernia Bank Building most unhelpfully.*
But then a week later, I saw this – it's just a paint job, for now:
Speaking of signal timing, I think you'd really need to hustle to make the green lights. I'll be satisfied to be delayed by just one red light from Polk to Market – prolly the one at
Hyde Leavenworth.
Anyway, speaking of that area, drivers turning right from GG onto Hyde just might get in your way. A lot. We'll see how this works out.
Oh, and here we go – on the same day, just by coincidence, I came through in a car. Lots of backed up traffic, as one might expect, oh well. See the pedestrian timer? The light turned red soon after and it was stop and go at each intersection even though traffic was not backed up at the intersection with Market, oh well:
So now Golden Gate seems more like the foot of troubled 6th Street, which is the SoMA street what GG feeds into.
IDK, maybe I'll start using this part of GG every day. The new bike lane is in beta, more or less, so we're not yet aware of all its issues.
Well see…
*So they take the trouble to make the foot of McAllister a two-way street and things seemed to be working out, but then they make the intersection with Market a mess with blocked #5 Fultons all over. Perhaps this is due to nearby construction? Our SFMTA has a real problem with traffic light timing – it's like it doesn't care a whit. The SFMTA isn't a safety organization, it's an un-safety organization. This isn't a money problem, it's a management problem. Sry.
I guess you're driving north on Van Ness and then you start to turn east on Golden Gate but then you see a sweet sweet empty parking space in front of Yet Another Abandoned McDonalds In Frisco, well, this is what it looked like:
And then after all the resultant honking, we ended up with this:
And then I had to turn away – it was just too embarrassing to watch, so I don't know the conclusion of this vignette.
But c'mon people! You're allowed to block one lane of traffic whilst parallel parking, but not three.
You're just not that special…
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Season 1 of THE INTERSECTION is a six-episode portrait of one Tenderloin corner: Golden Gate Avenue & Leavenworth Street. SF's poorest neighborhood has a reputation for crime, drugs and poverty, but it actually has the city's highest density of kids, seniors and the unhoused.
Listen to the first episode about being homeless and finding a home in the tightest real estate markets in the country.
Read the press release for more information about the project and the corner or check out the website.
Also see this effort from 2014, regarding Jerrold and 3rd Street.
And when I say one block, sometimes this line of idling Lexus LX570's, Toyota Land Bruisers, Mercedes Benzes, Audi wagons, Toyota Priuses, Tesla Model S'es, and all matter of Porsches! Porsches! Porsches! goes down Golden Gate Ave (not far from where Patty Hearst was held in a closet), up Central, and then starts snaking back along Turk:
Oh well:
For our appointed Mayor to go on and on about how double parkers slow his chauffeured trips about town, well, what's his fix for this? His zero tolerance policy doesn't appear to acknowledge daily reality, oh well.
IMO, narrow Central "Avenue" really isn't an avenue, so this wagon train of nannies and parents would be better off simply staying on Golden Gate stretching to the horizon.
Isn't S
DS SFDS the richest school in the Western Addition with tuition for kinders costing like $30k+ per year? I think so.
Seems it could try harder…
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Big names are doing extra-special things at the little room that is the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis. This spring, jazz piano giant Chick Corea will bring banjo god Bela Fleck to jam with him at the Dakota. Last month, Rock Hall of Famer Prince auditioned a new drummer there one night and debuted his new all-female backup band on another night. On Friday at the sold-out, 300-seat venue, Americana queen Lucinda Williams kicked off an unprecedented five-concert run.
After playing three nights solo there in 2011, she upped the ante by offering an extended engagement, accompanied by guitarist Doug Pettibone.
Even though Williams has been touring in this context for a month, she seemed tentative too long on Friday. Her pacing was awkward, her choice of material not varied and her patter less charming than usual. Overall, her focus seemed off.
The 100-minute performance was neither as wonderfully intimate as her 2011 Dakota shows nor as warm-heartedly personal as her 2006 duo effort with Pettibone at the O'Shaughnessy at St. Catherine University.
With no new album to showcase (in 2011, she explored the well-rounded "Blessed"), Williams seemed a bit adrift. The first section of her concert was heavy on slow, wistful reflections on places and lives in Louisiana, her home state. Fans are used to rock's poet laureate of pain filling her songs with longing, loneliness and loss, but the tempo and dynamics of "Lake Charles," "Jackson" and the like was too similar.
It wasn't until halfway through her set that things turned around. Oddly, that happened on a cover of Hank Cochran's country classic, "Make the World Go Away," which sounded like the song Williams has been trying to rewrite for years. Fueled by the fiddle of Lillie Mae Rische from the opening act, Williams demonstrated that she pro-jects drunken despair better than any other woman in and around country music.
Thereafter, the Grammy-winning Americana standard bearer showed that she can combine the nonchalant cool of Keith Richards with the boozy poetry of Tom Waits. "Jailhouse Tears" was a duet with Pettibone that had real Johnny-and-June bite. "Pineola," about an Arkansas poet's suicide, was dripping in swampy sadness. "Something Wicked This Way Comes," a new number written for the TV series "Nashville," was a righteous mix of sassy vocals and a nasty blues-gospel groove laid down by Pettibone's guitar.
Throughout the evening, he provided the requisite seasoning to pepper Williams' almost monochromatic, drawling tunes. Pettibone unleashed stinging blues on "Concrete and Barbed Wire," Tex-Mex loneliness on "The Night's Too Long" and mournful longing on "Jackson." His bent blues helped elevate the punkish "Joy" into one of the night's highlights.
That and the less-than-lively "Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings" were the only Lucinda essentials in the set. She relied too much on covers of Hank Williams, Tom Petty, Skip James and Memphis Minnie to add energy and spice to the set. Maybe, with a good night's sleep in her husband's hometown, Williams will find her focus and comfort zone to make her other four Dakota shows extra-special.
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Maiden Name Variants: Goodnow, Goodenough
Father: Thomas Goodenow
Mother: Jane Ruddick/Ruddocke
Probably born at Sudbury, Middlesex, MA.
First Husband: Christopher Banister
Second Husband: Nathaniel Billings, Jr.
Unless otherwise noted, all vital records come from "Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850." Printed by the town, Published 1895 by T.Todd, printer in Boston.
Sources for date of birth are inconsistent and range from 1640 - 1658. Jane was most likely at least 20 years old at the time of birth for her first child in 1670.
1a) Source for Vital Records: Family Data Collection - Births [Ancestry.com]
Name: Jane Goodnow
Father: Thomas Goodness
Mother: Jane Ruddick
Birth Date: 1649
City: Sudbury
County: Middlesex
State: MA
Country: USA
1b) Source for Vital Records: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [Godfrey Memorial Library in Connecticut]
Name: Jane Goodenow Billings
Birth Date: 1650
Birthplace: Massachusetts
Volume: 13
Page Number: 505
1c) Source for Vital Records: Millennium File [Ancestry.com]
Name: Jane Bannister
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 1658
Birth Place: Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Death Date: 6 Dec 1708
Death Place: Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Spouse: Nathaniel Billings
Children: Mary Billings; Prudence Billings
Further research reveals the "Millennium File" produced by Ancestry has several errors regarding the marriage of Nathaniel Billings to Jane (Goodenow) Bannister, widow of Christopher Bannister.
The Millennium File shows Jane Bannister married, 19 Mar 1679, the Nathaniel Billings who was born 14 Feb 1665.
This makes Nathaniel (son of John Billings and Elizabeth Hastings) a 14 year old groom to a widowed woman at least 15 years older. Jane bore her first child, John, in 1670 while married to Christopher Bannister. Therefore, the year of her birth is in the probable range of late 1640's to 1650. It is more likely that the widow of Christopher Bannister, Jane Bannister, married Nathaniel's Uncle, Nathaniel Billings, Jr. (1640-1714), son of Nathaniel, Sr.
2a) Jane married (1st) Christopher Banister:
From "New England Marriages Prior to 1700," Clarence Almon Torrey; pg 69
BILLENS, Nathaniel (-1714) & 1/wf Jane (GOODENOW) BANISTER (-1708), w Christopher; 19 May 1679; Concord
2b) Nath. Billins & Jane Banister maryed … 19. 3. 79; Concord, MA; pg 23
3) Mrs. Jane Billing ye wife of Mr. Nathanll dyed Decembr ye 6th day, 1708.; pg 70
(4) Known Children with husband Christopher Banister:
John BANISTER
1670 – 1730
Mary BANISTER
1672 – 1675
Joseph BANISTER
1675 – 1731
Thomas BANISTER
1677 – 1712
(5) Known Children with husband Nathaniel Billings, Jr. (1640-1714), son of Nathaniel, Sr.:
Mary BILLINGS
Mary daughtr of Nathll Billins. born. … 10 . 11. 80; pg 24
John BILLINGS
John of Nathaniel Billings born: … 14 . 1. 82-3; pg 25
John son of Nath : Billings dyed: … 11 . 3. 84; pg 26
Prudence BILLINGS (Source for Vital Records: Millennium File [Ancestry.com])
Nathanll, Nathaniel BILLINGS
Nathanll Billing ye son of Nathanll Billing & Jane his wife was Borne may ye 29th day 1688; pg 41
Daniel BILLINGS
Daniel Billing ye son of Nathanll Billing & Jane his wife was Borne March ye 20th day 1690 . 1; pg 34
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