Uhh...I guess a bit of back-up info is needed...so, in this Johnny is fourth out of seven brothers. They're at this age in this section:

Matt: 15 (9 years older than Johnny)
James: 12 (6 years older than Johnny)
Daniel: 10 (4 years older than Johnny)
Johnny: 6
Chris and Carl (they're twins): 3 (3 years younger than Johnny)
Jake: Not born, but their mother is pregnant with him (6 years younger than Johnny)

Anyway, enjoy the story!

A - Arachnophobia

Johnny had, of course, been quite a happy-go-lucky kid. For a start, he just smiled a lot; family members, friends and even strangers would look down at him and be blessed to see a genuinely friendly smile on his face. As well as that, he just had a happy nature growing up - he took a positive approach towards everything, from food he didn't like to mean boys in the playground at school.

However, there was one thing that he'd never been able to tolerate: spiders.

It had all started when he was six. Being the fourth out of seven boys (although, at this point, his mother had still been pregnant with the youngest, Jake), he was in a rather neutral position; he wasn't quite old enough to tell his brothers what to do, but he wasn't so young that he was teased every day. Whenever his brothers did tease him, he just shrugged and carried on doing whatever he'd been doing.

That night when Johnny was sent up to bed, he was exhausted; he'd had to stay up a little later to get some help for his homework from his dad, who didn't get back until late. Too tired to properly look and put the pieces together, he failed to notice that the Superman duvet on his bed was the wrong way round or that the bed sheets weren't properly on anymore. He gave a tiny yawn, and flopped onto the bed, making sure he didn't wake up Daniel from across the room. He shut his eyes and began to fall deeper into sleep.

And then he started to feel it - something hairy touching his cheek. For a moment he thought it was a teddy of some sort, or maybe a mouse or something. Johnny didn't mind mice or rats, so he nestled further into his pillow. The hairy thing moved closer, another couple of hairy things touching him.

If it's mice I should properly put them outside before Mom sees...

Johnny opened his eyes and saw it - a huge, hairy brown spider was half on his face, half on his pillow, clearly trying to crawl onto his face.

Johnny screamed, causing the spider to scuttle backwards. He didn't stop screaming - he was even starting to half-cry a little bit, frightened by this encounter. His older brother, Daniel, shot up too, woken up by the screaming. "W-What's goin' on?" He asked blearily

The light in their bedroom turned on, and he looked up with tear-filled eyes to see his mother and father standing there, both clearly shocked by his outburst.

"What's the matter?"

"You alright, son?"

Johnny couldn't even speak, instead just pointing a shaking finger at the monstrous thing on his pillow. "It's a-a-a...a-a-a..."

Daniel climbed out of bed and took a closer look; he rolled his eyes when he realized what it was. "It's a spider, on his pillow."

Johnny's dad came forward and picked it up, letting his stay on the palm of his hand. He paused for a second and then shook his head. "It's just a spider...wonder how he got in..."

The six year old didn't stop blubbering, instead reaching out his arms for his mother. She came forward, pulling him into a tight hug. "It's okay, sweetie," She murmured in his ear, rubbing a hand on his back. "It was probably just Matt or one of your brothers playing a prank on you...no need to be scared..."

Johnny shook his head, burrowing further into her chest and whimpering. "G-G-Get it a-a-away..."

His mother nodded towards his father, and he quickly left to dispose of the spider. "There-there. It wouldn't have hurt you, Johnny - he probably just wanted to...to see who you were...And Daniel, you need to go back to sleep, honey."

In the end, it took an hour to calm him down and get him to sleep. Daniel grudgingly went back to bed (after sending a smirk at his brother) and was out within ten minutes; each of Johnny's other brothers came in at different times to see what was going on, only to be escorted back to bed by their father.

Johnny never got over his fear of spiders; he sometimes had nightmares about one eating him alive, or torturing him on a web. Of course, his brothers all delighted in teasing him about his fear of spiders, even going as far as to throw some that they found at him; though they meant this as a joke, it did nothing but intensify his dislike of arachnids.

This, of course, didn't help when he found himself in Dracula's hotel fifteen years later.

Mavis really did love Hawaii - even though they could only go out in the evenings, she'd found that the most interesting things happened when the sky was dark. Fireworks, huge parties, fire shows...it was all so amazing, and she could definitely see why this place was called "Paradise".

During the day, there wasn't a lot to do apart from sleep. However, Mavis certainly didn't mind getting to cuddle with her boyfriend, falling asleep and waking up to the sound of his steady heartbeat against her ear. Even when they didn't sleep, they still had fun - Mavis found herself really liking some of the music that her boyfriend downloaded, and playing music while they relaxed and talked soon became one of Mavis' favourite parts of the day (after actually seeing Hawaii of course).

That day, however, both of them had slept through the entire day; they'd been at a festival of some kind overnight, only returning to the hotel when the Sun was soon to rise. Safe to say, dancing around and partying had taken a lot of energy out of both of them.

Mavis was the first to wake up, just blinking around the shady room and trying to figure out if the Sun was going to set soon. She didn't have long to wonder though, since when she tried to get up to move, she accidentally woke her boyfriend up too. Johnny gave a small groan of pain, but opened his eyes and smiled when he saw her.

"Good Evening," Mavis said brightly, giving him large smile. "So, where are we going tonight? A festival? The beach-"

"Uhh...let me wake up first," Johnny mumbled groggily, and Mavis laughed at the slightly-pained look on his face. "Man...seems like no matter how long I sleep, I'm always tired..."

"You're just not used to the sleep pattern yet," Mavis stated, feeling a little bit guilty; after all, if it wasn't for her inability to go out in the sun, he wouldn't have to be changing his sleep patterns. "So, what are we doing today?"

He just stretched his arms out and gave a final yawn. "We'll see." He stood up and went to covered window; carefully, so as not to let too much light in, he pulled the curtain back a little bit and squinted out of the window. "Yup...Sun's setting..." He dropped the curtain back into place and turned back to his girlfriend, an idea forming in his head. "Hey, we should totally check out some of the volcanoes around here - most of the island is volcanoes."

Mavis raised an eyebrow as he dropped back onto the bed and faced her. "Is...Is it safe?"

"Totally," Her boyfriend nodded. "There's, like, National Parks and stuff...I think one of them near here has a hiking trail we can explore."

"Oh." Mavis smiled at the idea - seeing something new appealed to her immediately. "Sure! Let's do that!"

"Cool," He grinned at her. "I'm gonna go take a shower first, though...too tired to bother after that festival..." He leaned forwards and pressed a kiss to her cheek before standing up. "I won't be too long!"

As he headed for the bathroom, humming a tune and grabbing some actual clean clothes (well...cleanest that he owned at the moment), Mavis started to get ready herself. She climbed out of bed and started to go through her bag, looking for an outfit to wear - something that she'd be comfortable and cool in. She didn't need to bother about looking too good anyway, especially since she didn't appear in mirrors or photos.

Just as she finished picking out her outfit, she heard her boyfriend scream.

In seconds the vampire had straightened up and ran to the bathroom as fast as she could. "Johnny! Are you alright?" She didn't bother knocking, instead just pushing the door aside - as they'd found out on their first night in Hawaii, the lock didn't work. "Johnny!"

Johnny was backed up against the wall furthest from the shower, pressing against it to try and get further away. His clean clothes were all over the floor, along with the towel he'd been planning on using. He hadn't noticed his girlfriend walking in, instead keeping his eyes focused on what appeared to be the shower wall.

"Johnny, what's the matter?" Mavis asked quickly, moving next to him and checking him over; he didn't appear to be wounded, and she could hear his heart beating quickly.

Johnny gulped, raising an arm and pointing a finger at the shower floor. "G-G-Get rid of i-it...P-Please..." Mavis blinked but moved to see what exactly he'd been pointing at.

On the floor, there was a spider - only just a little bigger than the staff ones at the hotel. The vampire turned back to her boyfriend, not seeing it as a threat at all. "Johnny...there's nothing in here."

"T-There's a s-spider," He bit out, staring at her in disbelief.

And that's when Mavis caught on; unable to help it, she started to laugh and giggle. Johnny just frowned at her, clearly not expecting this reaction. "You mean...y-you're scared of that little thing?"

Johnny straightened up, trying to regain some dignity. "I...no, of course not...I just...I don't want it in there."

"But it won't hurt you," Mavis stated, finally stopping her giggling so she could talk properly. "We're bigger than it is - like my dad says, it's probably more scared of us than we are of him."

"He didn't look scared when he came crawling towards me at top speed," The human mumbled, and his girlfriend sighed slightly. "Look...my brother used to play pranks on me, alright? And they always used spiders."

Mavis bent down and picked it up in her hand gently, being careful not to hurt him. "Look at him...he's not going to hurt you."

Johnny looked away quickly, trying to edge out of the room. "OHMYGOD! Please, just get rid of him!"

The vampire gave a little giggle but moved towards the bathroom window; she laid her palm out flat so that the little spider could crawl away, waiting patiently until he did so. "See? Did he bite me?"

When she turned around, her boyfriend just looked at her with wide eyes. "Okay," He said slowly, and his breathing started to slow down. "Now...uh...please wash your hands. Please?"

Mavis rolled her eyes but did so. "Seriously? I don't see what the big deal is," She commented, rubbing soap into the palm of her hands. "There were lots of spiders at the hotel, and you didn't freak out then."

Johnny coughed a little. "Uh...actually I did, but you weren't there to see it." He gave a sigh of relief and gave her a small, thankful smile. "Thanks, May. Really. I don't know what I would have done."

She couldn't help but smile back at him, amused by the whole episode. "No problem. Come on, I want to see the volcanoes you were telling me about..." As she started to walk out of the bathroom so she could leave him to shower, she turned around in the doorway to give him a small smirk. "Oh, and Johnny? Try not to scare any more bugs. That spider I just rescued was going to have a heart attack."

So, this is part of a series - they're in no particular order. The prompt is based off of an alphabet word thing; for example, basing chapters off of one word beginning with "a", another with "b"...

Next one should be done soon!