A/N: I own nothing. ON WITH THE STORY!

RENNY'S P.O.V.

Soon, Mary, Randall, and I had joined the pool party. Mary couldn't go swimming, as it would require her taking off her costume and exposing herself as human. So Randall had borrowed a swim suit from Griffin, and I was wearing a normal swimsuit for women.

My feet were in the pool, and I smiled at everyone having a good time. They were around friends, family, and their loves. My smile faded. But I had no one. I knew that, Cory reminded me of that quite often.

Winnie, one of Wade's kids, walked over to me and asked, "Renny, why are you here all by yourself?"

"Hello to you too," I chuckled, "No big reason, Winnie. Just thinking about some stuff."

"About what?"

"Where my family and friends are. The ones I had before I came here. Where they are." I stopped. "If they notice I'm gone." Tears rolled down my cheeks. I'd never exactly realized I could've just been a girl all on her own. Hope, I guess, blinded me a bit.

"Well, even if are all by yourself, you'll always have a home here."

"Yeah," I grinned at Winnie, "You're right. Family or not, I'll always have you, your parents, Frank, Drac... I'll still have everyone in this hotel."

"Renny?" Drac asked from behind me, "We need to talk."

"Right. Winnie, run along please. Drac and I need to talk." The werewolf pup nodded and ran off.

I stood up, crossed my arms, and asked, "What now, sir?"

"About the humans. Johnny and... the girl."

"Her name is Mary, sir."

"Yes, her. We must get rid of them."

"What? No! And set monsters back hundreds of years!?"

"Not that way!" Drac informed.

"Then if you are to get rid of them, let me have Mary leave. When shall we do it?"

"After the pool party has ended. We don't want anyone to be around."

I nodded. "Alright, sir."

Standing at the edge of the pool was a bad idea, for almost as soon as my conversation with Drac had ended, my ankles were grabbed, and pulled me into the pool. I let out a small yelp before water flooded my mouth. I swam up and broke the surface, coughing out as much water as I could. I turned to whoever pulled me in and jumped on them. Both of us went under the water, me now with oxygen in my lungs.

When my eyes opened under the water, I saw Randall smirking under me. His shoulders shook, so I knew he was laughing at me. I frowned at him, for his actions and for laughing at me. Then I did something I knew would make him open his mouth.

I grabbed his shoulders, making his laughing stop, and pulled him closer to me. I held his face in my hands, steadying his head, puckered my lips, and was only a few centimeters away from his. When he closed his eyes and puckered his lips, I retracted my body away from him. I swam up to the surface, and climbed out of the pool, a large smile on my lips.

After a few moments, the surface of the pool water was broke by Randall. His face was red and he looked quite shocked. "Re-Renny? What was that?!" I turned on my heels and ran away from him. "Renny!" Randall yelled behind me.

"Come catch me!" I laughed to him.

"No! Ren, come back!"

It was a while before Randall was able to catch up with me. By then, we were both out of breath and had given up on the chase. The two of us had lied down in the cemetery next to each other. I had informed him the only reason I almost kissed him was for payback, so now we were talking about anything and everything.

"By any chance," He had asked me, "Do you like blueberries? I see you eating them so often..."

"What? No. Truthfully, I hate them. The only reason I eat them is because Cory refuses to give me anything else. The potion in them is terrible, so I have to mask the flavor somehow."

"Oh. Alright. Your turn."

I thought for a minute or so, and finally asked what had been lingering in the back of my mind. "Are you single? Dating someone? Married?"

"Me? No. Most of the women where I come from... they aren't into dating lizard-monsters. But there was this one girl..."

"Oh? Do tell. What was her name?"

Randall gave a big sigh. "Hope. She was this amazing monster. Even though she beat me up a bit, it was hard to not stay in love with her. Her beautiful eyes. Her enormous stature, but careful actions. Caring ways. She loved nearly everyone she's ever met. Given so many second chances. In my time of need, she carried me back to her home. Protected me, helped me... Hope... she loved me. She told me that before she disappeared." Tears were falling from his eyes. "Renny, I love Hope so much."

"Randall, do you really want to be telling me this?"

He shook his head. "I-I need to get it off my chest. You... you look so much like her. You act like her. Your laugh, your smile, that cute nose cringe she does when she's grossed out."

I stood up and shook my head, "Randall. I'm not your Hope. You're a great guy, really. It's just. I don't..."

"You don't like me like that."

"Yeah."

"It's alright, Ren." Randall had sat up, and turned away from me. I could hear his voice starting to break. The sobs that he was trying to hold back. The sorrow and heartbreak that was going to come at any moment.

"Randall, I...I have to go. Alright?" He nodded. "I'll see you later. Okay?" Another nod. "See you later."

"Goodbye," He sobbed. I turned and left, leaving him crying by himself.