When I woke up I was in Aido's room on the bed, and it was still dark out. Aido was laying beside me on the edge of his bed, leafing through The History of Vampires. Upon seeing me awake, Aido opened his mouth, presumably to begin reading the next page of the novel. But I held up my hand to interrupt him.

I wanted to backtrack a little to when Aika had approached Aido in the garden a while ago, her perfect blonde ringlets bouncing around Aido as she'd leaned over his shoulder. "What did Satoshi-san want?"

"Another time then." Aido closed the book and his teal eyes darkened dangerously. I was tempted to drop the matter, but I held strong. He rifled a hand through his golden hair and put the book on his nightstand. "She just asked me about you."

"Oh." I squeaked. "What did she want to know?"

"Oh, the usual." Aido sighed, like explaining this to people was starting to feel like a chore. It probably was. "What are you doing here, why am I interested in you, are we dating, et cetera, et cetera."

I couldn't control my curiosity. "And what did you tell her?"

He looked at me and flashed a grin. "That yes, we were dating, and I was extremely interested in you." I could see the glint of his vampire teeth and I rolled onto my back so I could look at the ceiling. I was praying my heart would slow down - it had sped up considerably after I heard the way his voice wrapped around the word "extremely".

"Oh Aido... why did you tell her that?" I cursed him for telling Aika that we were dating when she'd previously told me to stay away from him. I shifted away from him on the bed and fought the urge to facepalm.

I'd forgotten about that. My inner recoiled at the memory of Aika incapacitating me with sound waves when she'd imparted that particular message.

What's going to happen to us now?! My inner started panicking.

Not the place or time to worry about that. I thought back. I knew I was delaying it, but I couldn't let Aido see me freaking out.

"But I am very interested in you." Aido said, crossing his legs. "Question."

"Nooo!" I whined, slapping a hand over my eyes.

Aido suddenly leaned over and grabbed my hand, pulling me sideways so I had to lean against him.

"Are you okay with this?" He asked, surprisingly serious. His face revealed nothing but an intense concentration focusing on my own eyes.

"With..?" I trailed off, unsure of what he was referring to.

"This." He said, curling his hand into mine more, cradling it. "Being like this. You may think I'm a bad person, Matari-san, but I truly don't want to force you into something like a relationship if you're not okay with it."

I gripped his hand back. "It's okay." I said quietly. "Most people think we are anyway."

Aido nodded, seemingly content with my answer. "Okay. Now an actual question." He wiggled his eyebrows in a way that made me instantly worried.

"Uh..." I raised one back, and removed my hand from his. "Sure. But first-"

"What?" Aido instantly looked guarded.

"It's okay... if you call me Kisa-chan all the time." I admitted. "I don't mind. Besides, that way it'll be harder to slip up in front of the Night Class as well."

"That's fair." Aido said, relaxing and nodding. "Now back to my question."

"Which was...?"

"What's going on with you and Shiki?" Aido sighed the words like he'd been wanting to say them for a long time, and finally was given a chance to speak his mind.

"I dunno," I said, almost wanting to laugh, "he's nice to me?"

"He isn't nice for the sake of it."

I rolled my eyes. "Most of you vampires aren't."

Aido frowned. "You didn't answer my question."

"What do you want to know?"

"Are you going to keep meeting him and talking to him?"

"I don't know." I frowned back. "Are you planning to ditch me again?"

"Touché." Aido leaned back a little, a pensive look on his face.

"Do you feel any better?"

"I felt fine to begin with." Aido seemed almost petulant, and I fought back a giggle.

"I'm sure you did."

"Aido, can I ask you a question?"

He looked at me warily. "I suppose."

"What's going to happen if Kaname finds another memory spell? One that works?"

"Well then Headmaster Cross will use it of course." He said immediately. "And you'll forget all of this."

I didn't answer, and Aido leaned closer again.

"Isn't that what you wanted? That way, you could go back to your safe little life as a Day Class girl, oblivious to the big scary vampires..."

I slapped his arm lightly. "Jerk. You guys are scary."

He nodded, laughing a bit himself. "That's true."

Sunday passed by too quickly, and as the sun set Aido walked me back to the Sun Dorm.

I went to go up to the door and Aido pulled my hand back. "What, no kiss on the cheek this time?" He pouted adorably, and I rolled my eyes and smiled.

I stood squarely in front of him and went onto my tiptoes to kiss his cheek and at the last second Aido twisted his head so I got him on the lips. His hands came up to cradle the sides of my face, and one of my hands rested over his as I gave in to the sensation of the kiss. He parted my lips gently and deepened the kiss, pulling me closer to him gently. He let me go for a second before changing angles, and in the second my lips were free I sighed, and Aido smiled against my lips. We separated at the same time, and I slowly went off my tip toes to my normal height. Aido smirked at me, and I blushed and looked down.

"Goodnight, Aido."

"Goodnight, Kisa-chan."

And Aido disappeared into the night.