Chapter 17 : Snuggie

"Do I know you?" I asked her.

"I don't think so." she said. "I'm always right here in this drive thru window. More than likely, you've seen me here."

'Lisa,' a voice yelled from the back.

I know that I know her. I've seen her somewhere before.

She stepped back away from the window and said, "Thanks for coming to Jack 'n the Box. Have good night."

"You too," I said. I watched her as she walked away and I know that I've seen her before and it wasn't in the drive thru window.

As I rode down 87, my thoughts went back to Eric.

He is so familiar to me. I have to admit, I was nervous. Not because he's a vampire but because he made me forget myself.

I felt so comfortable around him. I think that he felt the same way. He wanted me to be happy while I was there and I was.

I was happy because I was with him. He made me feel safe. He talked to me. I think that is what I liked the most about tonight; he shared with me.

From what so many people have said, vampires are not the friendliest of people but my vampires, well the vampires from tonight, were absolutely wonderful.

I can't wait to see them again. I felt so comfortable. Until that redhead pissed me off.

Her thoughts were very ugly. She had ugly thoughts of me. She was jealous that I was sitting with him and she wasn't.

She wanted to know why he sent her away so rudely but wanted to be with me. She kept thinking that she has something in store for me.

She kept saying over and over again that I wasn't that great. I wanted to go and deck her and ask her how the hell she knows. But I didn't. Ladies don't act like that.

As I sat at the stop light, I thought about how I sounded when Eric invited me to join him.

OMG; my heart almost stopped when he asked me to sit with him. I said okay so fast I probably sounded desperate. He probably thinks that I'm some loser.

When he touched my back, I almost melted. It's a good thing that I'm good at hiding my feelings because he would have been able to do anything that he wanted to me.

I could feel the coolness of his hand through my dress as it rested on the small of my back.

I wanted him to touch me all over. I probably would have let him touch me everywhere if we had been alone.

Gran would kill me.

OMG; I can't believe that I told him that he was cute.

Cute

Really Sookie… what grade are you in …third?

I am a bigger dork than I think I am.

I started screaming from embarrassment. When I did, I could feel a pair of eyes on me.

I looked at the people in the next car and they were staring at me with wide eyes. I smiled at them before resting my head on the steering wheel.

What an idiot! I'm so glad that he's not here to see this.

But he did call me beautiful. I can't believe that a man, Eric Northman said that I am beautiful. I was giddy as a school girl.

When the light turned green, I was still thinking of what happened at Fangtasia. I didn't notice that the light had changed.

The man in the car behind me did; he blew his horn. I waved him an apology and made my way home.

Fangtasia; the bar with a bite … really?

Can you say corny? All in all, the bar was reasonably nice; kinda cheesy but I would never tell him that. He was really proud of the bar and he should be.

He has worked hard to become part of an unforgiving society and if they accept him and those of his kind, then more power to him. I guess the commercialism of it is what draws the fangbangers in.

His explanation for owning a bar is a good one and it makes perfect sense. How else would they be able to blend in?

I also like the other vampires. They were pretty nice to me. His partner is very pretty. She was pretty enough but I'd hate to see her in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly late at night.

She did not look very approachable. I should have gotten the names of the other vampires.

I'll make it my mission to ask them the next time I go. Other than the way they stared at me when I got there, for vampires, they seem pretty nice.

The next time I go? He wouldn't mind it, right? Would he think that I'm stalking him? Nah ... he asked me for a date.

He must like me, right? He didn't flinch when I touched his hand as I read the fangbangers. He let me lean against him as we laughed and talked. He held my hand when he walked me to my car.

I think that he even squeezed my hand when we reached my car ... or was that me? Everything was so perfect tonight. I didn't want the night to end. It's been decided.

I'm going back.

I pulled my car in the garage. As I closed the garage door, I hummed and I was happier than I'd been in a long time.

I laughed as I went into the house. My tabby, Tabitha, was in her kitty bed. I picked her up and told her that mommy was home and that I missed her. I gave her a quick kiss before putting her back in her bed.

When I went to my room, I stripped down and put my Snuggie on over my naked body before going back to the living room.

I snuggled down for a relaxing moment on the couch as I ate my cold fries and drank my melted shake. I flipped through the channels but found nothing on but the news.

Same old same; crime, terrible economics, and celebrities; nothing new was happening in the world at all.