CHAPTER 9

(Alice P.O.V)

After that useless trip to the kitchen that didn't have any tuna at all! Griffin had to go to his friends for something about a band practice. He locked me in his room with the skeleton head shaped like a phone and told me to not get in trouble… He also told me to stay as a cat in case anyone comes in. Jeez, I'm not a child or anything! Plus I'm only here because I need to find Jonathan… Right?

"Are you really going to follow what he says kid?" Skull head said looking at me with a smug face.

"What are you talking about?" I glared at him and stopped clawing the bed.

"He's got you cooped up in the room and expects you to stay out of trouble! I say you should go out." Yeah, I should go out. He won't notice since his busy… But he locked the door to make sure the maids don't come in without me noticing.

"Sure wise-head, problem is the doors are locked! Why are you helping me anyway?" I looked at him after thinking about it

"My jobs boring, I lost my body and now I'm forced to be a hotel item for room service." He looked down and stared at the floor.

"Hmm…." Well I could use a guide around here and the windows aren't locked anyway.

"H-Hey what are you doing?" I turned into a cat and used my mouth to hold onto a part of him.

"Well you said it was boring and since Griffin only said to stay out of trouble… I'm sure he didn't mean I couldn't walk around." I mumbled while opening the window.

"Just don't drool! I'm fragile!" As much as I want to, I don't exactly like the taste of bones unlike those horrible stinky dogs.

"Calm down! If the worst comes I'm sure I can superglue your skull pieces back together" I grinned as he looked at me with shock and tried struggling.

"Why bring me along anyway?" He asked as I hoped onto the side of the window.

"Loosen up will ya? You definitely need some fresh air, plus I need a guide around here." I mumbled as hard as I could while holding him on my mouth as I climbed the pipes and got to the roof.

"I think you're missing the point…" He sighed as I placed him down on the roof.

"Who cares about the point? Relax, it's not like we're really far away." I chuckled and began my ritual to lie down as he made a groan sound.

"Duck!" he screamed and rolled to a lower part of the roof.

I looked back and a bat bumped onto me with a loud thud.

"Oh my gosh, are you okay kitty?" The bat asked as it transformed into a human and kept touching me to check for any injuries.

"I don't think so…" I groaned as I changed back into a human. Dang that vampire crashed onto me really hard.

"Woah, what are you?" she walked towards my back and gave both my tails a small slide touch as she faced me.

"A nekomata, we usually stay in shrines so I'm not surprised if there aren't many in this hotel… Oh my head…" I explained and rubbed my head and cat ears in pain. How is she not in pain?

"Kid you might need to place some medicine before that thing gets worst" The skull looked at my injury as he said that.

"What are you doing here?" She looked towards him and gave a questioning look towards us.

"Cat lady there "I cut him off before he tried saying something and I quickly blocked his mouth with my hand.

"Oh I needed a guide and he said he could help." I laughed slightly as he agreed with me with a slight hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"You need help? Maybe I could help! How bout we get you to my room? We can help with your headache too, let's go!" she said excitingly.

"That isn't necessa- ACKH!" I yelped as she took my only free hand and zoomed towards her room.

We got to her room and it looked extremely fitting for her. She placed us down on her bed and got a type of drink on the table. The room looked so beautiful and when I turned to look at her she was looking right at me.

"So how old are you? What's your name? Tell me about the nekomata!" Her eyes glimmered as her face came closer and closer to me invading my personal space.

"Woah, woah, woah slow down Mavis you're giving me and the kid here a headache from the waterfall of questions." The skull said and smiled as I looked at him with a thankful look.

"Sorry, it's just you rarely see new monsters nowadays that's not an old coot no offence." She said and moved back.

"None taken, now could you bring me to Wayne's room? I've been reassigned to wake him up at the night." He said to Mavis. Guess his going to be busy.

"Alright, hold on a sec uhh…" She looked towards me and looked at me with a look that I recognized from seeing Jonathan hang out with the other humans.

"Alice" I answered as she smiled.

"Hold on a sec kay Alice? This will only take a few seconds."

"Okay…?" I answered as she dashed out.

"Alright I'm back! Anyway I forgot to introduce myself silly me. My name's Mavis!" It wasn't even 2 seconds and she came back already. Dang that's fast.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Mavis" I politely said mimicking what Jonathan would say.

"How old are you?" She asked.

"I'm 15 years old" I answered fast enough to match her speed a bit.

"Oh my gosh, you're 15 years old? You're really young for a monster… Your parents let you out at this age?! Luuuuucky! I just turned 118 years old today and my dad only allowed me out this year, it wasn't what I expected though…" I don't really need to explain to her that I came here through Jonathan and I don't exactly know where my parents are… She looked upset when she ended that sentence and I couldn't help but ask.

"What's wrong?" I asked and held her hand softly.

"It's just… when I visited a town inhabited by humans nearby they were horrible! They kept saying that they were going to steal my candy and they placed garlic on bread! That's lethal to vampires and they were going to give it to me!" She whined as she explained about that absurd story.

"Uhm… Mavis… Are you kidding?" I laughed as she shook her head.

"No! They held torches and ran me out too!" She exclaimed and stood up mimicking it.

"Mavis… they were probably saying they'll steal your candy because humans are weird sometimes… and you probably looked like a human and they offered garlic bread to you as a friendly gesture... and as for the torches and running you out thing… Perhaps you just need to present yourself more… differently!" I said as I made her sit down again on the bed.

"Really?" She looked at me with a confused look that I can't believe she's 118 years old, how long has her dad cooped her in here?

"Positive, I even know one myself!" I accidentally spilled out and that was a bad idea brain. I could tell just by looking at her excitement grow.

"Holy rabies, you mean you talked to one before and he didn't kill you?" she said really with excitement in her voice and looked at me with shock.

"You got to stop your paranoia on humans killing you… He doesn't exactly know I'm a monster… I'm kind of afraid of how he would react if I exposed myself… But he takes care of me! He saved me when I was a kitten" I said grinning sheepishly. I kind of have the same problem as her but I don't really fear humans as bad as her. Jesus Christ where does she even get all the ideas about humans going to kill her anyway?

"That's so awesome! Maybe we could solve our problem with humans by going to the human village after my birthday party tonight!" She held my hand and jumped up and down.

"Birthday party?" I asked. I really don't know a lot about this hotel. That's expected since I only got here because Jonathan wanted to check out a spooky place… who would have thought he and I would get separated suddenly huh.

"Oh right I forgot to tell you. My birthday party is tonight. My dad Dracula celebrates my birthday in this hotel every year, his owner here." She giggled slightly and parted her hair from her ear as she said that.

"Cool! It must be awesome celebrating in a hotel!" Jonathan would always buy tuna and sing me a song on my birthday since we're not exactly high on budget. And that's enough for me but people like her are just so lucky!

"It gets boring easily but this year my dad hired this weird monster guy named Johnnystein to help out and his just so awesome like I never heard such music before not to mention his super cute!" The Johnnystein that had some weird business with the Dracula dude and some other dude? I never did find out what happened… Tch, it's that guard's entire fault jeez!

"Sounds like someone has a crush, tell little Alice about him!" I grinned as she blushed really hard.

"It's like does he know his cute or what? His like so-"

We talked about her crush Johnnystein and she explained about how weird he was, he kind of reminded me of Jonathan… but he's a monster so I guess monsters can be almost as awesome as Jonathan. After a few hours I decided to leave, Griffin was probably waiting for me in the room hopefully skull man helped back me up. I told her I was going back to my room and she said I must go to her birthday party that was tonight and I accepted and got out through the window making my way towards Griffin's window.