Monsters.And worst of all: no private room. She was an only c***d, and had had her own room all her life. Now she was sharing one with four other girl... who she'd only just met, and somehow, she was even more scared by that than the idea of fighting vampires. Part of her wanted to just call this whole thing off and go home.Damn her stupid shyness! Why couldn't she be normal and confident, like everyone else? Other k**s her age looked forward to going to college and living in a dorm; Satsu had. She could feellittle beads of sweat running down her forehead."How is it?" she could tell Jay was fighting back his amusement."Fine," she said, her voice tense. She put another spoonful in hermouth. Immediately her tongue began to burn. She broke, "Fine. It'snot fine! Water, I need water!" She grabbed for the jug of water. Jaysignalled to the bar for two more beers."Don't laugh," she sulked, "It's not fair."He laughed harder, "The great Esme Entwistle admitting to weakness. Ifonly the office. Both of us came from money, so it wasn't a problem for either one of us. Her father had made a mint in the stock market and could squeeze a penny until he got five dimes out of it. Well, perhaps not literally, but I think you may know what I mean. When he retired he had quite enough to make his life comfortable. Two years after he retired he was killed traveling from New York City to Paris, France. It had been his dream to travel and the Paris trip was to be the last one. The plane went down in. The sleek machine slowed and stopped in front of her. "You are so early! I wanted to shower and put something decent on before I had visitors!" Tess cried out as Charles and Fiona got out of the car. Chuck pretended he was getting back into the drivers seat, "We will came back in a couple of hours then," he said. "Don't be silly, come on in," Tess said as she kissed them both on the cheek. "How hot is it up here!" Fiona exclaimed. "Apparently you get used to it after you have been living here.