After Dark, Part 2

"Yeah, I've… I've noticed that," I muttered, looking at her longingly, hopefully. "How did it even happen?" 

"Vampires enter into a mild frenzy when desiring to mate…" She explained. "Our senses are heightened and everything becomes clearer, easier to do…" 

"Like feeling?" 

"Yes…" 

"Do you think maybe… maybe you might stay the way you are now?"

"Meaning to say you were not fond of me before…?" She cocked her head. "That is very cruel of you to say…" 

"And you're joking now, see?" I scoffed, smiling, ridden all over in a pleasant sense of disbelief. "I've never heard you joke before." 

"For now, yes… I can joke…" slowly, she looked up, the bulging veins jutting through her pale skin harder to see now in the dark. "And hopefully, in the future… I'll be able to joke again with you a bit more…"

"So you'll turn back."