Chapter 1

Her blue eyes were still glowing with joy after the party was long over and she was laid in her bed, facing the window. She couldn't believe her father had allowed her to travel, much less with a human.
Her heart fluttered at the thought of the red haired young man she had zinged with. She couldn't tell why, but ever since he bumped into her at the lobby, she knew he was different. He had a different scent from any she had ever felt. Something that drew her to him, inexplicably, and she was sure it had nothing to do with their zing.
She couldn't sleep, because of the excitement of going to Haweewee, and she was sure Johnny was awake because he, she found out, used to sleep during the night; so it occurred to her to spend some time with him.

She hoped off the mattress of her lidless coffin and walked out of her room, anxiously crossing the hallway and stopping in front of the first suit armor she found.
"Do you know where Johnny is?"
The armor took a couple minutes to answer, but informed Mavis that he was exiting a locker in the lobby, carrying a huge backpack. She thanked the armor and turned into a bat, flying downstairs to meet him.

"Johnny!" She transfigured back in front of him, causing a scream and making him drop his backpack.

"Oh, hey! It's you! I guess I'll have to get used to it." He laughed nervously after he realized it was Mavis and not Drac. The Count still kinda scared him sometimes. "Wait, shouldn't you be asleep?"

"I couldn't sleep… so I thought I could spend some time with you." She smiled and brushed a lock of her short hair behind her ear.

That made Johnny's heart skip a beat, she was even cuter when she did that, and he felt like he could stare at her forever. Good thing she was awake and wanted to spend time with him, just the two of them. There were so many things about the world she didn't know, so many things about humans, and so many he wanted to know about her. She was a vampire after all, and everything he knew about them he learned in movies and comic books and video-games, and based on what Drac told him, not everything was as he knew.

"Let's go to my room!" He grabbed his backpack with one hand and her wrist with the other, dragging her with him towards the stairs.

Once they got to the bedroom he had been given, the shrunk head hanging on the doorknob made a face.

"What the two of you think you're doing?"

"What?" Johnny frowned.

"Dracula forbid you too to be in any bedroom by yourselves, he say it's not proper fo- " With a wave of her hand Mavis shut the annoying head and rolled her eyes, opening the door and entering the room.

Johnny followed and threw his backpack on the ancient cedar canopy bed as the vampiress let herself fall on the mattress and sat just beside it.
"I'm really curious about all the stuff that's in there" she mused, staring as he began unpacking.

"It's mostly clothes." He chuckled.

"But you've got things from places you've been too!" She exclaimed as a small pointy object made of metal fell of a pocket. "I've seen this one in my birthday party!"

"Oh, that's from Paris, it's a miniature of the Eiffel Tower, it's huge!" He explained, drawing his cell phone out of his pocket. "Check it out!"

"What is this thing?" She looked at the device he held out, displaying the picture of him in front of the tower.

"You don't know cell phones?"

"No… What does it do, besides showing paintings?" She looked at the screen intrigued with it.

"Oh, lots of things! Aaand, these are pictures, not paintings. Let's take a selfie." he scooted closer to her and smiled goofily, turning the phone around and pressing the camera button.

The flash almost blinded her; Mavis blinked furiously and then covered her eyes. That hurt slightly from the excess of luminosity. Johnny looked at the screen and his smile faded when he saw only himself in the picture.

"You… don't show up in pictures…"

When her eyes stopped hurting from the excessive light, Mavis opened them and saw a disappointed Jonathan, looking to the side, to a mirror and seeing only himself.

"Or in mirrors." His eyes widened and then he turned back to her. "I have so many questions about you..."

She smiled shyly at him and he cupped her face, noticing for the first time, how cold her skin was. Mavis leaned in and he did the same, pressing his lips to hers, softly, his hand slowly sliding from her face to base of her neck, the tip of his tongue touching her mouth softly. Felt a shiver run up her spine, unsure of how to react, only being used to give him chaste kisses, lips pressed firmly together, because she had no idea of how to do it otherwise. She could hear his heart beating hard and fast, echoing in her ears, feel his palm warm against the back of her neck, and insecurely, she parted her lips. He inclined his face and invaded her mouth, making her gasp against his lips, her hands gripping the border or his t-shirt tightly, as she got used to the feeling of his tongue against hers.
Before she knew she was responding instinctively, lost in his scent and his warmth and that odd heat that send shivers through her body.
He parted, panting lightly, eyes locked on hers, noticing how big her pupils were and knowing exactly what that meant, he had to push the thought aside quickly.

"What was I saying?" He whispered, his voice a little hoarse.

"You had questions about me?" She offered, a grin forming on her lips.

"Lots of questions. Though Drac has answered some already, like, I know wooden stakes kill you, but they'd kill anyone. And you're actually allergic to garlic. But what about being naked when turning into a bat? Nobody answered me that one."

"You know, we have abilities, like, magical abilities. So when we shape shift into bats, I'm not sure exactly what happens in the process, but I guess we're naked."

"Hot!" He exclaimed raising his eyebrows and she blushed, giggling. Everything about that girl was so awesome, he just couldn't find a defect on Mavis, she was perfect. He couldn't wait to take her to all those places he told her about, especially Hawaii, since she was so eager to go there.

"But I have questions too. Everything I know about humans apparently is wrong. And I think my dad was wrong too. And you have all these things" She pointed to the cell phone he was still holding.

"You know what? I think I should take you out tonight. Like a date." He jumped off the bed, excitedly, walking towards the window and pointing out in the direction of the city. "I think you have to see people to know more about them, and I can teach all about the technology we have, and…" He stopped and turned around, getting close to the bed where she sat watching him. He crouched in front of it and held her pale hands. "You can ask me anything you wanna know, anything, Mavis."

Later that night, when the sun was setting and coloring the Romanian sky with shades of red and orange that faded into deep purple and dark blue as the night fell, the Count watched from a window the silhouette of a little bat carrying a human man towards the city and sighed. His precious daughter had zinged with a human.

He was consumed with worries about those two. His knowledge of Jonathan's species was limited, and outdated, he realized after the events of the past few days. But there was something he knew, would never change, no matter how much things had changed: vampires liked human blood. They felt drawn to it, they craved it sometimes. And proximity only made it worse.

There were so many things, so many details. Humans were mortal, to begin with. At every passing moment Johnny was dying, life escaped him slowly and Mavis would live forever, developing into an adult vampire and remaining beautiful and young. The widower remembered the pain of losing his beloved Martha, and he knew his daughter would face the same when his human life had ended. That made his heart clench, his Mavis didn't deserve to know such pain.

Also, the thought of them getting married was bittersweet to Dracula, because on one hand he would be filled with joy (he really liked Jonathan, after all), but on the other, they would... the thought brought complete horror to him. And there was the detail of Johnny's family. He had mentioned he had brothers. And probably parents.
Even though Dracula had no idea how human life was, he was sure his future son-in-law had one before coming into the hotel, and would he leave it behind? Or he would take Mavis away? How could his precious little voodoo doll live among humans?

Rubbing his temples the Count turned around and decided he was overthinking the whole situation. He would think about the two later. For the moment, he would distract himself with work.

Arriving the lobby, Dracula watched the monsters that arrived and supervised the zombies and witches, glad that everything was back the normal, and he didn't have to worry about hiding a human.

He stopped at the center of the crowded lobby and raised his arms welcomingly "Welcome to Hotel Transylvania!"