"You've discovered me secret," Aidan said with a laugh, hugging her a bit closer as she leaned up against him. If she got drunk enough, it would be much easier to make her forget all about him later. He hated to do it, it was a violation and he genuinely liked her, but it was for her own safety.

"But promise me you won't say anything to the others? Will you swear the silence of the mime to me?"

It was odd, how relatively close she was to the truth. Just replace 'mime' with 'vampire' and there you go. Fortunately, not many people would assume vampires. Not that many would assume mime either.

"But Josh and I are close. We'd... probably be lost without each other."