When Meredith woke up, she called Vlad letting him know that I would be joining them. While she was doing that I went to the kitchen and grabbed out a

raw steak from the fridge. I sank my teeth into the meat and drank all the blood until the steak was dry. After that I got dressed. It was about a half an hour later when

We were putting on make up there was a knock on the door. Meredith asked if I could get the door because I was done. It was Vladimir and Henry. I let

them both in and led them to the living room to wait for Meredith. It started to get weird because I kept catching Henry staring at me. A few minutes later Meredith

comes out and Vlad stands up to give her a when they let go she says "Vlad ,Henry this is my cousin Gabrielle."

"But call me gabby I like it better." It got really quiet. "yeah, I can drive if you want me too. I just got a new jeep,so might as well put it to some good use. " " Sure it's fine with me," Meredith said.

Then we all got got in the jeep. I decided It was a good idea to tell Vlad that she is his protector but by telepathy. "Vlad can you hear me?"

"Who is this?"

I responded "It's me, Gabby.I know you're a vampire."

"How?"

"Well for starters we are speaking to each other by telepathy. Only vampires can do that. I need to speak to you in private later."

"OK?"

The car ride was pretty much silent the whole way to the park. I asked them if they wanted to go for a walk. They all agreed.

"This is about as private as we're going to get because of Henry and Meredith."

"Um OK, whats going on?"

"I was sent to Bathory for V.P.P. to protect you from D'ablo or any other people who try to hunt or kill you."

"What does V.P.P. stand for?"

"Vampire Protection Program."

"So you're like my bodyguard?"

"Pretty much." Vlad looks up at me suspiciously. "How to I know I can trust you?"

"I can show you proof but not now."

"OK. Oh and Henry thinks you're smokin hot."

I chuckled and shook my head. After about ten minutes of walking in silence, Meredith asked if she could just walk with Vlad for a while. So Henry and i turned around and

started walking when all the sudden Henry said "Gabby, I know we just met but I feel like I've known you for a long time. You're just so beautiful." I could feel my

face getting hot. Then Henry leaned in toward my face to kiss me, but was stop by Vlad's shout."Henry what are you doing!?" I had to say something. "It's not

what it looks like." Henry tried to back me up . "Yeah um… it was nothing." Then Vlad said "I think we should be going now." It was another silent drive back to

Meredith's house. When we got there I got both Vlad's and Henry's number. Henry's parents came and picked him up. I promised Vlad I would drive him

home. When I started driving, I reached into my pocket and grabbed out the V.P.P. coin. "Now do you trust me?"