Alex feels supremely uncool now and she slouches, trying to give off the aura that she's totally cool and she's totally as cool as a mutant or a vampire or a vampire mutant. "Well, I...have a hula hoop dance," she counters as they're hustling along, with her cool shoulder slouch and her awesome ability to escape zombies along with her rescuers. "This is so an awesome young adult novel in the making," she whispers excitedly, when the door is in sight.