They kissed for a few more minutes and then broke apart.
"Better?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah. Let me check on that bite, last thing needed is it getting infected."
They sat on the bed and Merton looked the bite over. It had stopped bleeding and was healing nicely; by the next night all that would remain was a tender little red spot. Merton let Tommy know what it looked like and then got up to wipe off any blood on his mouth he had missed.

He had a tissue in hand when he saw himself in the mirror.
Dropping the tissue, it wasn't needed anyway; Merton grabbed the journal and began to write.
"What exactly is that?" Tommy asked.
"Just writing down what's been happening to me since I was turned. It's kinda like the journal I keep on you."
Tommy nodded. "What are you putting in?"
"Currently, the fact that I have a reflection. But so far it's about my abilities and thoughts."
Tommy nodded again and let him write.

After a few minutes, Merton put down the journal and the two set about hiding Merton's stuff. The last thing either of them needed or wanted was Tommy's parents to come in and ask what he was doing with it.
"I'm gonna go see if anyone's downstairs, we need to find you a place, it's too dangerous here." Tommy said, opening the door.
Merton nodded in agreement and Tommy went downstairs. He returned ten minutes later and said that Dean was the only one in the house. The two then as quietly and quickly as they could sneaked downstairs, which for Merton was easy, he literally didn't make a sound in any way, but Tommy stumbled on the rug his mom kept at the bottom of the
staircase, which resulted in him staggering slightly and bumping into the wall with his shoulder.

Both boys winced at the noise and flinched when Dean asked if that
was Tommy.
"Um, yeah." Tommy said, poking his head in to the living room.
"Could you get me a drink please?"
"Uh, sure Dean."
Dean turned back to the TV and Tommy motioned for Merton to cross to the other side. Tommy got Dean his drink and the two left as fast as they could.
The two were a few blocks away when they realized that they could have just gone down the tree and saved themselves the trouble and that they really shouldn't be out in the open like this. They moved to the shadows and began to softly talk about what to find Merton.