Arabella woke up to find that the window was shut and that her blanket was fully covering her. She knew that's not how things were when she fell asleep. She looked at Maddie who was still at the foot of the bed and raised an eyebrow. She shook her head.

"The cat defiantly didn't do it." She said to her self.

Things like this bothered her when sometimes they shouldn't. Then she remembered how Vlad was half ghost. She decided to get up and eat some breakfast. She grabbed her green robe, which was more like a silky long coat than a robe and went down stairs.

When she was down stairs as always she saw Vlad sitting at the head of the dinning room table reading the paper and eating breakfast.

"Good morning, Arabella." He said without looking away from the paper.

Arabella sat down next to him and started eating her breakfast.

"So, why were you in my room last night?" she casually asked.

Vlad moved his eyes to her.

"I was looking for Maddie, my cat. Why? Did I wake you?" he said.

"No. I just noticed some things that weren't the way they were when I fell asleep."

"Sorry. I was just being thoughtful. You looked like you were freezing."

"Well thank you. I was just making sure you weren't a perv or anything."

Vlad quietly laughed and went back to reading the paper.

"So what are your plans for today, Vlad?" she asked him.

"I have some meetings to go to for my work this morning. But besides that, I have nothing planned. Why?"

"Oh, no reason. Just curious."

After Vlad left for his meetings, Arabella decided to go watch TV for a while. She went into the living room and saw the remote sitting on a table next to one of the chairs. She grabbed it and sat down on the leather couch. The remote and TV were exactly like the one she had at her house, so she knew how to work it. She channel surfed for a while but then stopped at a channel she liked. She hardly paid attention though. She couldn't stop thinking about Vlad. She liked him so much. She just wanted to tell him how she felt about him. What would he say though? What would he do? He did ask her out on a date. So maybe he felt the same way about her. She hoped he did.

Vlad was also thinking about Arabella a lot. He hardly paid attention to his meetings. The truth was he really liked her. But did he have room in his heart for her? He still loved Maddie Fenton. But could he love another. He knew that it would never work out between him and Maddie Fenton, but he had loved her for a long time.

Maybe I should just try to forget about Maddie for a while. It would never work out between us anyway. He thought to himself.

Vlad got home to his mansion around three o'clock. He found Arabella in the game room. She was winning at pinball.

"I see you're winning." He said as he leaned against the doorway.

Arabella jumped a little.

"When did you get here? I didn't see you there." She said.

"I just got home."

"Oh. So how were the meetings?"

Vlad rolled his eyes and pushed himself off of the doorway.

"Wonderful." He said sarcastically.

"I've just been in here playing games and watching TV all day."

"Well maybe I can beat you at air hockey."

"I don't know. I'm pretty good at it."

Vlad took his jacket off and rolled up the sleeves on his shirt. They started playing air hockey. At first Vlad was beating Arabella with five to one. But then she started to get in the lead with seven to five.

"You're pretty good." Vlad said.

"So are you."

Pretty soon Arabella won with ten to eight.

"I just let you win." Vlad said.

"Right. Sure you did."

"That's just beginner's luck."

Arabella's hand lit up with a red ghostly flame.

"Wanna bet?" she said.

"Now, now, Arabella…"

The red flame disappeared on her hand and she started laughing.

"I was just kidding! You should have seen the look on your face!" she said while still laughing.

Vlad just stood there embarrassed. He looked at the clock on the wall. It said four thirty.

"Well, I'm going to go see what we're having for dinner." He said.

"Ok. I'll be in here." Then he left.

Later around six thirty it was dinnertime. They had steak with mashed potatoes, gravy, and fruit salad.

"I can't believe how good the food is here." Arabella said.

"The food is quite good, isn't it?"

Arabella nodded as she ate her food. They laughed as each other made jokes and talked.

"I have to work on some things in my office for a while." Vlad said as they finished their dinner.

"Ok. That's fine."

Arabella watched him leave the room and head to his office. She sat there bored for a while but then remembered the pool. She hadn't been swimming for a long time.

She changed into her red and black string bikini and went to the hot tub room. She noticed that it was dark outside and found a switch that said 'pool light'. She flipped the switch and the pool lit up. She walked to the pool and set her towel on the ground. The pool was deep enough for her to dive. So she dived into the pool. When she came up she flipped her hair back out of her face. The water wasn't too cold but it wasn't too warm either. It was perfect. She loved swimming. She swam a few laps and did tricks off of the diving board. But she soon got tired. She elegantly got out of the pool and wrapped her towel around her. For some reason she felt like someone was watching her. But when she looked around she saw no one. When she got back into the hot tub room she turned off the pool light. There was hardly any light so she really couldn't see anything. Then she heard someone loudly clear their throat. She flipped the light switch on and saw Vlad standing in the doorway with his arms crossed over his chest and a smirk on his face.

"H-how long have you been standing there?" she asked him.

"Long enough." Vlad glanced outside.

"You were out there too, weren't you?"

"Maybe."

Arabella noticed her towel was falling off of her body. When she was about to pull it back up she felt Vlad's hands on hers. He moved his hands to her face and through her hair. She looked into his eyes and they both started leaning towards each other. Then they kissed. It was an innocent kiss at first but then it deepened. Vlad removed the towel from Arabella's body so that she was just wearing her bikini. She put her hands in the opening in his shirt and moved them up to his neck. She felt as if she was floating and couldn't come back down. When they pulled their lips away they were both in a daze. Vlad ran his hand along Arabella's face. She put her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist as he ran his fingers through her long hair.

"Just don't leave me, Vlad. Don't do what he did to me." Arabella whispered.

Vlad kissed the top of her head.

"I would never do that. I'll never leave you."

With that they kissed again. Vlad picked her up in his arms and carried her to his room, where they fell asleep together.