Okay, I want to start off by saying, I'm so sorry! High school is stressful and I haven't had much time to write! I know, it's short, but I promise, promise, promise I'll write a longer chapter for the next one next weekend! And If anyone also reads my Harry Potter fanfics, I'll be updating those soon as well.

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I tried to pull off the smirk Vlad always uses on me.

He narrowed his eyes and said, "What?"

I smiled, licked my lip, and said, "No you're not."

He looked at him, surprised. "I'm not what? A half… yes I am." He said.

I narrowed my eyes and tilted my head. "Prove it."

He rolled his eyes. "I didn't make you prove it, did I? My mother, Melina, was never a vampire. My dad, Tomas, was. My mom had me, I grew up with her and my father and then..." His voice broke.

I looked up to him, before he started to talk about his parents I was going to make a witty remark but then I decided against it. "You don't have to finish..." I said softly.

He shrugged and rubbed his wrist again, probably a habit of some sort. "I just miss them, that's all...I mean, yes Nelly and Otis…they're great but no one can replace your parents." He said quietly.

I stood there, dazedly, but also quite shocked. Another half- vampire? That's impossible.

"Well?" He said, a curious look in his clever eyes.

I stood there still and then finally uttered, "That's impossible."

He smirked at me and started walking deeper into the forest. "Highly unlikely yes, but as we have just proved, impossible? No." He said tauntingly.

I unhinged my feet from the ground that they might as well have been glued onto and walked after him.

"So," I asked. "It's just you and your uncle? Is he really your uncle or is he your father and the woman your mother?"

Vlad shrugged nonchalantly and said, "No, he's really my uncle. Like I said, my parents are dead. Dad was a vampire but mom was a human. Nelly is just like a mother to me, from how she reminds me to put on my sun block to how she just about kills me when I steal cookies."

I smiled and said, "Sounds like my mom."

I then heard a small buzzing noise. Vlad pulled at his pocket and out came a small white phone. "Hey Henry. Can't talk right now. Call me back in thirty minutes, dude." Then he hung up. He looked at me and said, "Thirty minutes from now…right on the dot I'll get a call."

My eyes narrowed, "Why? Is he that desperate for your attention?"

Vlad smiled and said, "Nah, see Henry…well he's my drudge. And I accidentally gave him a direct order."

"He's your drudge? That's so cool! I've always wanted a drudge but mom and dad said no…. sadly." I said back enthusiastically.

He smiled. "I bit him when we were eight, but he told me to do it."

I looked at him, my eyes open wide.

"What?" He snickered.

"He knows that you're a vampire?" I asked.

Vlad simply nodded. "Yeah I mean, I was little, didn't know any better and one day, I let it slip. He and Nelly are the only humans that know, I live a perfectly normal, well at least that's what Nelly says, teenage life…apart from the fact that I'm a creature of the night." He laughed.

I smiled softly and nodded. "Well, I…er…I have to go, Vlad." I said quietly and began to turn.

He nodded. "Okay, see you later, Reneesme."

I nodded and waved goodbye as I ran back home, maybe coming to Bathory wasn't that bad after all.