How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) (Monster Girlfriend, #1)

by Marie Cardno

She didn’t even really know what she was going to be, yet, but she was fiercely, confusedly jealous of it.

And each experimental skin and limb and sensory apparatus brought her closer to herself.

Because, as her heart was telling her, if anyone was going to make this human’s eyes glimmer with unearthly madness, it was going to be her.

The human had a skeleton underneath, didn’t she? She thought about adjusting her eyes to see through the human’s surrounding flesh to the bones beneath, to see how they worked, but that seemed rude. They hardly knew each other. She didn’t know much about human customs, but skeletons had to be private, or else why would they be so carefully wrapped up?

She was pretty sure inhabitants of the Endless Void weren’t meant to be hot.

Maybe it was worth becoming one with the Endless again, just to have more space to hide from the memory of how completely she’d messed that up.

Existence eternal, how embarrassing.

And when she did come back, Trillin would say … something. Something really good. Smart. Witty. Maybe even … alluring.

Trillin wasn’t entirely sure what alluring meant, but she suspected it was a big part of being girlfriend material.

won’t eat you.” Trillin’s voice was so sincere, so earnest, that Sian had to bite back a burst of giggles. “I know how to, now, but I won’t. I want you to know that.” “I think that’s the most romantic thing anyone’s ever told me.” She