Chapter 10: Ambiance

She peaked at the clock. She might as well start counting.

She really got snatched by a vampire. Adami really considered that Osmani wasn't her cousin. At this time in her life, she didn't even know the definition of cousin.

Some shit about relations.

"Do you want me to print this?" she mumbled. Osmani slapped her in the back of head. "You got addresses?"

"Yeah..."

Keira remained still, but now she was pale and stood in front of the door. "Who runs the bank?" he questioned. "I have to look everything up." she said.

"I could kill you and bring you back a vamp if you ain't full-blooded." he crossed his arms. "Start with the owner."

Her fingers went to typing, "his name is Judicaël Poelmans."

"You got an address?"

"I have his number for work purposes."

"That's it?" his tongue poked his cheek. He looked at Keira. "What about her?"

"She got a nigga?" she jested. Osmani kicked her chair to the floor. "Well, now that you gave me the thought. I'm going to have a new bitch!"

Adami gawked at him and placed her hands on the carpet. "Fuck the money, I can get a whole bank!" he grinned. "I could fuck my cousin! Nothing else matters! I'm dead!"

Adami got up. He beamed at her, "Call a bunch of people saying they need to come up here for something."

"I don't know what to say."

"It's alright, I'll make you say it!"

Adami held the desk. "I need a coven. Shit, if I get this bitch. Shelby finna be proud of me..."

"Shelby?"

"Granddaddy, I finally get the house again." he closed his eyes and smiled. "So, I got a wife." he looked at Keira's still body. "Next I need you to play barbie..."

"You said we was cousins."

"So! I make a baby with her, we good in the hood. I got bodies saved up, daddy finna let me back in the house!"

"You doing this cause you got kicked out the crib!"

"Yeah..." he rolled his eyes. "Don't start talking to me like this shit stupid." he waved his hand. "It is stupid! This whole vampire lie is--"

Osmani summoned a gun and the bullet glided into Adami's chest. "Like I said I can bring you back..." he popped air in his cheek. "Later."

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Adami's eyes opened and she had a blanket over her. "You woke?" She saw Keira over her. "Why did you take the fruit from the bowl?"

"I hate her... but that's besides the point. You ok?"

"I'm good..." Adami was baffled for a moment but sat up straight. "Who is that?"

"My cousin." Or something related. "Osmani."

"He unfroze me and I saw you passed out. He fixed the hole though."

"Hole?"

"He shot you! I called like five people over here. And now look at one of them!"

Adami looked at the front desk and a woman in a red dress was leaning back and forth. "He got two more mumbling shit to themselves. I'm scared."

Adami got up, "He said he was vampire."

"Vampires?" she went to the door and a giant blob of blood with a human shaped head came out pushing her from it. "Nevermind." she went back to Adami. "Where is he?"

"I don't know, I don't want to look!"

"Keira he said he was going to take over the bank and make you his girlfriend."

"Tell him I'm gay!"

"No!"

"Girls..." they faced the backrooms. "Girls, Girls, Girls, boy I love girls. Grown mind you, I ain't that type of person." Osmani came out the back hall with two zombies behind him.

"Explain why nobody tied with the bank?" he inquired. "I need like a stable. I need hoes."

"Please don't say area codes..." murmured Keira. "I should... you got friends?"

"No." they both answered. "Bullshit, I know a bunch of heifers that got 'friends'" he made air quotations.

"Osmani you killed my mama."

"Yes." he nodded.

"And you want the bank?"

"Yes." he nodded again with vigor.

"You can have the bank. But listen."

"No."

"You have to listen!" she got loud. "I take care of mama and I know she mentioned a secret under the house."

He rose his eyebrows. "What you doing this for?"

"Shelby, that's my daddy, her brother." he clarified. "Well, I didn't know." she said.

"They hate each other." he cocked his head. "My daddy is Shelby and your mama is his sister. We cousins from that. Now guess my age."

"20?"

"55."

"LET ME OUT!" Keira yelled. "How are you 55?" eyed Adami. "Easy, 1995, you were born. You should be 25, what did she tell you after the magic... to give another life?"

"I am 28 years old, Ozzie."

"You are," he smacked his lips. "Stop. You WOULD be 25, but you are dead. I killed you."

"Ok, smartass. Why?"

He shrugged, "you got me there."

"So you is lying?" she smirked. "What the fuck is wrong with yo simple minded ass, bitch!" he bared his fangs. His back cracked as his wings came out. "Adami, I am a nigga!"

"I just don't understand--"

"YOU ARE SCARED OF ME!"