Okay so I was going to have a bunch of monumental, mind blowing stuff happen in this but, I decided to kind of make it just a nice happy little chapter before a ton of craziness. I'm really bad at filler chapters and I'm sorry if you think this moves really fast, but technically, its been several months since the begining. I also dislike reading chapters where nothing much happens and this is sort of one of them. It's all nice and happy kind of a calm before the storm. I'm going to have one or two major chapters full of insanity posted in like twenty minutes. Oh yeah and review porfavor!

**Claire**

One Month Later

Things with Shane have been going so much better. He's, you know eating, though I still have to remind him and make sure that he actually is. He's been acting more and more like his old self. And things aren't as tense with everyone. Eve hadn't brought the whole me and Shane thing up again either. Myrnin is still acting weird, distant, less crazy more formal. I waited a week before going back and he acted like nothing had happened, it worried me a little though.

"We should do something fun tonight." Eve declares as we sit on the couch watching Michael and Shane explode things on the T.V.

"Like what?" I ask, there wasn't a whole lot in the entertainment department in Morganville.

"We could go bowling, or see a movie or rob a bank…." Eve says when she realizes the neither of the boys are listening. "That would be fun right Michael robbing a bank?"

"What? Oh sure, cool." Michael says, never taking his eyes off the T.V.

"Boys." Eve and I say at the same time and laughing.

"What?" Shane and Michael both ask at the same time, doing their best at sounding innocent.

"Come on you two," Eve says going to stand in front of the T.V. "It's family fun time."

"I always hated what happened after my parents said that, it was never what I or really anyone would say is "fun." Shane says clicking off the T.V.

"Well this time it will it will be." I say, hoping that I'm speaking the truth.

"I guess a movie would be good," Shane says with a shrug. "I heard a new zombie movie is out."

"No," Eve says with a groan. "Anything but that."

"Yeah, and no explosions either," I say when Shane begins to protest. "You guys always pick the movie. Eve and I get to pick this time."

"What do you have in mind?" Michael asks warily. Eve and I look at each other and grin.

"That movie was terrible," Shane declares as we walk out of the theater. "Zombies are so much better than that!" And I had to agree, it had been some mystery/romantic comedy thing. The two genres hadn't mixed very well. Not that I had noticed much, we had all sat in the very back whispering and cracking jokes about it while Eve and I had snuggled up to Shane and Michael. It had been just what we all needed.

"Oh come on it wasn't that bad!" Eve argues.

"Yes it was!" Michael and Shane chorus together.

"Where to now?" I ask, since it was only like eight and things had been quiet in town for a while. There was still the occasional crazy vamp to watch out for, but other than that…

"Pizza?" Michael suggests.

"Yes!" Shane says giving Michael a hi-five. "Excellent idea bro." So with that, we all pile into Eve's hearse with Michael calling shotgun, leaving me and Shane in the back.

"Alone together in the back of a hearse, this is kind of romantic huh?" Shane asks leaning close to me. I smack him and he grins.

"Keep it PG!" Eve yells. "It's only like half a mile away!"

"Bite me Zombie Princess!" Shane shoots back.

"I thought that was your job now!" I see Shane's smile falter a little at that.

"Hey, are you okay?" I whisper, sincerely worried that something would send him back to gloomy distant Shane.

"Yeah," He says giving me a kiss on the cheek. "I'm great. Why?"

"Just checking." I say with a small smile, but we both know why I asked. Shane drops the act and puts his arm around me, pulling me close and he kisses the top of my head.

"Really Claire, I'm fine."

"I know Shane." I say turning to give him my best reassuring smile. But I'm not sure, no I'm not sure at all.

We get a booth at this little pizza place that looks like it probably hasn't redecorated in a couple decades. Peeling red vinyl booths, torn checked table cloths and a couple of dusty paintings. It's deserted except for a couple of people that look like they could be college students. I'm skeptical about it, it's kind of creepy actually but everyone raves about the pizza so I decide to trust them. We get a medium cheese for Eve and me and a extra-large meat lovers for Michael and Shane from a waitress who looks like she came with the place she's so old.

"Weird how quiet things are huh?" Shane asks as he devours a piece of pizza, I'd lost count at four.

"Yeah but weren't things like this when you guys were growing up? I mean aside from the whole vampire infestation it was quiet right?" I ask biting into my own slice, they were right, it was amazing pizza.

"As far as we knew." Michael says a little darkly.

"Yeah we weren't exactly in the loop then." Eve adds. We're all silent for a moment at that, it was true; the vamps didn't always give pertinent lifesaving information to Morganville's breathing residents.

"I'm sure they'd tell us if something was going on," I say firmly, though I'm not quite sure I believe it. "And isn't it a good thing that we can finally relax?"

"Yeah," Shane says with a sigh. "I'm just always on edge you know? Always waiting for the next impending doom."

"Well I hope that it stays this way. Things are perfect." Eve says with a smile.

"Too perfect," Shane mumbles under his breath then, "Hey!" As Eve kicks him from under the table.

"Come on guys, stop worrying!" I say smiling brightly. "We should do this more often now that we aren't running for our lives on all the days that end in y."

"Totally," Eve agrees. "But I'm stuffed." She declares throwing down her pizza in defeat with the napkin on top as a flag of surrender.

"Me too," I agree, shoving my plate away. "I couldn't eat another bite."

"Seriously?" Michael asks astonished sharing a twin look of disbelief with Shane. "You both ate like two pieces."

"So?" Eve asks with a shrug. "That's how much normal people eat. Unlike you two."

"What I only had like what five? Six maybe?" Shane says as if that's not enough to feed two or three people.

"Yeah I'm still hungry and if you two aren't going to eat it well I can't let it go to waste." Michael says snagging a piece of the cheese so does Shane.

I roll my eyes and look at Eve. "Boys." We say in agreement for the second time that night and we burst out laughing. It really was nice for things to be so peaceful so normal for a change. We were all just a couple of teenagers hanging out for once. There were no vampires, no evil villains to face. It was just a couple of friends having pizza. It was nice. Really nice.

After an epic rock-paper-scissors-battle between Shane and Michael over the last piece of pizza (which Shane won by the way), we all piled back into Eve's car with Shane and me in the back again. Shane puts his arm around me and I snuggle against him closing my eyes. It really had been an amazing night.