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During the night Charley kept having dreams about hiding in a white closet size room in Jerry's house. His heart threatened to burst out of his chest as he tried to quiet his breathing even though he knew that Jerry could hear his heartbeat if he truly was a vampire. Sounds of a woman crying reached his ears as keys jingled in a door further down from his. He listened to more cries and then the door was shut, and the footsteps sounded closer to his door. His heartbeat sped up as the doorknob slowly began to turn and he backed away from the image of a smirking Jerry with fangs.

"Hey guy," Jerry said confidently before Charley's world went black.

"Charley, Charley, wake up, it's ok, stop screaming. It was just a nightmare, Charley," Jane yelled down at her son as she tried to shake him awake from his nightmare.

"Stop," Charley screamed as he woke up looking around his room wildly. Sweat ran down his neck as he turned to stare straight at his concerned mother. "Mom," he breathed out shakily and he was surprised by the hug she pulled him into to comfort him. "Morning," he whispered a little hoarsely since his voice had been ruined for at least a while because of his terrified screams. "Vampires can't be real," he thought but deep inside his gut was telling him he was in denial. "I'll just have to go to Ed's after school and see the videos," he thought while his mom pulled away slowly and told him softly to get ready for school.

He felt as if he was in autopilot as he walked around his room and got ready for the day. He looked outside of his bedroom window and frowned at the fact that Amy's car was still parked close to his house. "Did she stay with a neighbor or something?" he thought before his mind flashed back to a smirking Jerry, who had watched him shout back at Amy. "Oh yeah I told her something that I just realized about myself, crap," he cursed himself mentally before rushing to grab his book bag and go downstairs to grab breakfast.

"Honey, have a good day," Jane said with a happy smile and she watched her son rush out of the house. "Crud, I should have told him we are having a guest over tonight," she thought before she got ready to go to work.

Charley got to school on time but dread started to drag him down when he did not see Ed anywhere. Classes passed, text messages and phone calls went unanswered, and more fears about his neighbor started to rise up within him. "I have to go to his house for sure now," he told himself when the final bell rang for the day. Ed had never showed up to school, but the weird thing was that neither had Amy. He could not stand her, but if her car was still near his house, then he had a feeling Jerry had her. "Don't even dare acknowledge what that was," he thought to himself as another streak of jealousy flashed through him. "He might be a psycho, murderer, or even a vampire, don't have jealous feelings," he muttered to himself as he walked to Ed's house.

Ed's parents happily answered the door and Ed's mother pulled him into a hug, while Ed's father gave him a pat on the back. The warm welcome just started to make him feel worse about the fact that Ed might not be among the living anymore or even in one piece. He asked to go up to Ed's room and Ed's family left him alone to disappear upstairs. He opened the door with a small sad smile seeing all of the unique gamer/paranormal/scary movie stuff that filled Ed's room from wall to wall. He closed and locked the door behind him before going to Ed's computer. He opened the video files and turned up the volume so he could hear everything Ed and Adam said in each video.

The first one made his eyebrows raise and his heart speed up uncomfortably fast. Jerry's truck had just pulled up and stopped in front of the garage, but nobody was seen exiting the vehicle. However, the truck door did open and close and so did the front door the house. With shaking fingers, he switched to the next video, which showed an invisible source dumping some trash and concrete into the dumpster. "Impossible," he tried to tell himself but Ed and Adam had captured real footage of Jerry not showing up on the video camera. Normal people would show up and there were no green screens at all, but Jerry did not appear.

A small note on Ed's desk caught Charley's attention. He picked it up and it was a note to him from Adam and Ed. It said to not invite Jerry into his house for any reason at all. The vampire could not come into his home unless he was invited. The next few bits of the note were more tips and information to try to protect Charley and his mom. "Mom," he whispered worriedly as he looked outside to see that the hours had passed so quickly. The sun was slowly setting and he had to get home before something bad happened, even though with a vampire neighbor next door and a disappearing neighborhood, bad things were already happening. Charley thanked Ed's parents, stuffed the note in his pocket, and ran home as fast as he could.

With huffing breath, he opened the front door of the house and practically slammed it closed behind him. The smell of pasta and fresh bread hit his senses when he rushed into the kitchen to find his mom. Surprise washed over him when he saw his mom happily setting out food on the kitchen counter before disappearing into the dining room. She was humming a soft tune under her breath before making a happy noise when she saw him.

"You're just in time, go upstairs and change into some clean clothes," Jane insisted with a skip in her step as she pushed her son towards the stairs.

"What's going on?" he asked his mom when he was halfway up the stairs.

"We're going to have a guest over tonight, and I won't tell you who yet, but they seem really interested in you. I heard you the other day shouting at that rude girl, Amy, and I fully support you. I want you to be happy and like whoever you want to like, but I think you might be happy with who has an interest in you. Now get changed," Jane called out with a grin before disappearing into the kitchen again.

"Ok, that was weird," Charley whispered in shock before he did as needed, and changed into some cleaner clothes. "Who?" he thought before tossing the note onto his nightstand for later. He was still worried and scared about his neighbor, but now he had to worry about his mom setting him up on a date with somebody that he did not know, or did he? "Just let this go well," he thought nervously as he fiddled with his hair before going downstairs. His heart stopped beating when he heard Jerry's dark timber voice echo from the front door. Charley walked quickly to get to the door and tell his mom to not let him in, not even connecting the fact that Jerry was the one supposedly his mom thought was into him, but he was too late. His eyes met Jerry's as the vampire stepped comfortably into his home after Jane invited him inside.

"Oh Charley, there you are, Jerry told me he'd like to get to know you better so I invited him over for dinner, now you two have fun. I'm going to meet some friends out in town. Don't do something I wouldn't do," she shouted before exiting the house and shutting the door behind her.

"Hey Charley, nice place, food smells good," Jerry said with that smirk plastered on his face.

Charley stood there wondering if he would even live to see the next hour. He knew his heartbeat's erratic pace was making Jerry more than pleased as he began walking towards the frozen teenager. Charley slowly backed up as Jerry kept approaching him. He opened and closed his mouth a few times as if he knew what to say, but honestly, what do you say when a vampire that will happily rip out your throat has been invited into your home. "Jerry, why?" he started to stutter out but Jerry disappeared from his sight. He backed up faster in his fear before yelping when a cold surface was behind him and two cold strong arms wrapped around his waist, trapping his arms.

"Charley, I know you know, Ed told me he shared my secret," Jerry whispered in Charley's ear as his now clawed fingers slowly traced designs on Charley's waist.

"What did you do with Ed and Adam?" Charley stuttered out almost afraid to breathe as he felt Jerry's lips trail across his neck.

"They're fine, they're where they need to be, but that's not why I'm here. I'm here to talk with you, Charley," Jerry spoke again and he felt his chest swell with pride at the smell of fear and arousal coming from the shaking teenager in his arms.

"About what?" Charley whispered before gasping when Jerry pulled him tighter to his chest, and he blushed brightly when he felt something rub up against his behind too close for comfort.

"You and I," Jerry almost growled and he spun Charley around to pin him to the wall beside the kitchen.