Chapter 1: Everythings fine, for now.

Erins pov.

I put my newly brought clothes into my wardrobe. My room is starting to feel more homely now. With personal touches here and there. I cant say that everything feels homely, but its as homely as it gets when you live with a family of vampires.

Ingrid is, well, Ingrid. She hasnt tried anything decieving since the Sethius incident. She tries to help keep the truce together. And helps with the blood banks, which although is helping everyone, is still very suspicious of her.

Betrand is still here. Although his mission has been completed, and defeated, he has stuck around. He seems to have saw the error of his ways and is more than happy rounding up street vamps and getting them to give the blood banks a go. I still dont trust him to a full extent though, an obvious reason being he wears Sethius' bone around his neck.

The Count has been as cheerful as always. He doesnt like the idea of a truce, that vampires should be biting breathers till dawn. But has yet to attempt to stop it.

Wofie has become like a little brother to me. Ive started to teach him to read and write, but we spend a lot of the time drawing. I must have brought hundrends of pads of paper and millions of coloring pens since we started. He cheers me up after a long day a converting vampires to the new way of life.

And that leaves Vlad. The most kind and thoughtful vampire that exists. The chosen one. The future grand high vampire. My boyfriend. We've never spoke about it, especially with everything going on. We've not seen each other much since the Sethius incident, but I woke up to find a note and some money, the note telling me to go shopping for some new clothes.

So here I am, just closing my wardrobe and about to spin around when I feel a breeze. I know who it is. I turn around and I stare into the eyes of Vlad dracula. He stares into my eyes aswell, no expression on his face. Then he reaches up and strokes my neck. I lean into his touch and close my eyes.

"Have fun?", he asks.

"Nothings fun without you", I open my eyes to see him give a sweet smile.

These moments are heat stopping. We hardly get to see each other, but thats about to change now. Everything has been sorted with the blood banks, its just the matter of keeping it under control.

"Erin", my thoughts get interppted by Vlad.

"What, sorry", I ask.

"I said whats wrong".

"Vlad, we never get to see each other. With everything going on. The only time we spend together is when were tracking vampires and even then Betrand and Jonno are with us. Its just, you know, exahusting".

I look at Vlad whos diverted his eyes to the floor. Its not his fault. If anything hes making things a whole lot better.

"I'm sorry, Erin. I think of you all day and everytime I get ready to see you something else comes up, I just...", I stop him and put a finger to his lips.

"Vlad, you dont need to apologise. Its just that I, um", I pause, thinking of how to say it. I dont know if he feels the same way, or if hes even forgiven me for all the secrets I kept from him.

"You what, Erin, whats wrong", he asks beneath my finger, worry showing on his face.

"Nothings wrong, Vlad. Completly the opposite actually. I just...", I decided to just tell it how it is. I take a deep breath and say, "I love you, Vlad".

I look up and see Vlads eyes widen. I take my finger away feeling self concious. I take a step back but Vlad grabs one of my hands in both of his.

He stops me and lifts my chin up. "I love you too, Erin".

I see in his eyes hes telling the truth. My body flushes with emotion. In this moment Im so happy. Im so happy I dont think twice about closing my eyes and reaching up towards Vlad. He closing the distance and our lips meet. Its the first time we've kissed since the carthepian feast. Except this is different. This time my life isnt on the line. This time we both have feelings for each other. As we brake apart, because I need to breathe, I look at Vlad and see a wide smile across his face.

"Wow", Vlad says, and we both burst out laughing.