Have lots of grandbabies and never miss a holy day of obligation at church. It ranked right up there with:īe a good boy, Nicky. Only hoodlums dropped out of school and she didn’t work as hard as she did to raise up another piece of worthless scum– it was a harped on litany permanently carved into his brain. Why can’t I flash forward and bypass this whole high school nightmare?īecause his mom wouldn’t let him. Not the teachers, the principal and especially not the other students. He was a massive loser dork and no one at school ever let him forget that. Honestly, he was sick of it and there was nothing he could do. Why wouldn’t she listen to him? It wasn’t like he wasn’t the one going into the lion’s den everyday and having to traverse the brutality of high school land mines. Especially since the bullies were illiterate idiots who couldn’t read it anyway. That wasn’t worth the “contract” paper it was written on. The school has a strict no bullying policy.” She let out a deep sound of aggravation as she paused while flipping bacon. “I’d rather be a delinquent no one picks on.” That shirt belonged to the son of a fine upstanding man and since that’s what I’m raising you to be.” Wanda told me at the Goodwill store that it came in from one of those big mansions down in the Garden District. If anyone sees me in this, I’ll be an outcast relegated to the loser corner of the cafeteria.”Īs always, she scoffed at his protest. It’s.” he paused to think real hard of a word that wouldn’t get him grounded for life– “hideous.

The color and style were bad enough, the fact it was covered in l-a-r-g-e pink, gray and white trout (or were they salmon?) was even worse. Nick sighed at his mother’s sharp tone as he stood in their tiny kitchen looking down at the bright orange Hawaiian shirt. “Nicholas Ambrosius Gautier! You watch your language!” 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Nick knows he's in real danger and he soon has a lot more to deal with than starting high school: he's under pressure to hide his new friends from his mother and his chainsaw from the principal while trying to impress the girl he has a crush on - all without getting grounded, suspended.or killed.***Also available as a manga adaptation*** However, before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students start turning into flesh-eating members of the undead. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters - immortal vampire-slayers who risk everything to save humanity - and he quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one that's filled with all kinds of evil. But his whole world is suddenly turned upside down on the night his best friends try to kill him.

Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is renowned. Teenager Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything.

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