Vampire Symbolism

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The setting of this story is in a library and some what in some type of a cemetary. Some of the characters are the boy, father, and vampire. The boy watches out for book thieves. Also he’s there to work for his dad.
He sees this weird guy and he’s never seen him before. So he’s hiding in his hiding place and sees this guy pull out a straw and sees him slurping up something and then the guy spots him and vanishes right away, and he looks at the book at all the words are gone except like 20. Before he disappears the boy sees him floating.
The boy thinks that the vampire is going to eat him.Then the vampire hypnotizes the boy to drink ink just like him. And the boy thinks that the ink tastes like brownies. The vampire suffered from a liver problem

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