Kissing

"You're very clever, you almost fooled me." Lily said coldly, "Too bad you talk too much. "Lestat has long forgotten about 'that man', so where did you get the information? It's just a lie made up along with my words!"

The force in Lily's hand deepened, and her narrowed blue-green eyes welled up with a complex light, like nostalgia and loathing, "And, you know what? I really hate your name!"

As soon as the words left her mouth, Lily's hand increased in strength and Alice could not even breathe, her eyes were covered with a black veil, and she could not see clearly.

Never had she been so close to death as she was now.

Her mind flashed back to the way Aunt Daisy was looking at her.

Alice thought that Aunt Daisy was really pretty, and that if she smiled more, she could charm a crowd.

Valen, Miss Angelina, Bonnie, Cynthia...

The faces of her classmates and friends, all of them so vivid and funny, and she always had a good time with them.