"So where are we going to make posters? We've left the library so we can't use the computers," Merton wondered as he followed Colette down the corridor.

"Well, I was think maybe we can try out a few things on paper, before printing some out on the computer. That way we can see what works and what doesn't," she replied.

"That make sense," he agreed.

"I have lots of paper and different colored pens and pencils back at my dorm. You can wait outside my room while I get them and then we can go find a place to work," she said.

Five minutes later they arrived outside the girls dormitory and Colette opened the doors to let Merton inside. He walked in a little nervously because he didn't feel particularly comfortable entering the place where the girl students lived. Once he was inside, Colette followed in after and shut the door. Merton then followed her up two flights of stairs and down a corridor until she finally spoke.

"This is my room. Wait here. I won't be long," she told him as she came to a stop outside room number 14.

"Ok," he said and she entered.

Merton leaned against the wall and his thoughts began to trail. Colette Stanford really was a great girl. Not only was she pretty, she also had very similar interests as Merton and she even liked him. The date had been a success but they hadn't really discussed whether or not if they were boyfriend and girlfriend yet. It's not like they had knew each other that long but he hoped they could be. Colette had said she would like to go out again sometime so he decided that he should ask her when she was free.

"Excuse me," a voice said snapping him out of his thoughts. He turned towards the voice and saw a short girl with ginger hair.

"Excuse me can I help you?" She asked.

"No. No I'm just waiting for someone," he replied.

"So you're waiting for Colette?" She wondered.

"Yeah. So you know her?" He asked as he stood up straight.

"Well that is my room," she answered pointing towards the door next to Merton. "So yeah I do. She's my room mate," she added.

"Oh, well it's nice to meet you, I'm Merton," he said.

"Yeah," she mumbled as if she wasn't really interested. "I'm really busy so bye," she added and walked into the room.

A while later Colette struggled to open the door. She had a pile of white paper in her hands and two pencil cases.

"Do you need help?" Merton asked.

"No I've got it," she said as she stepped out of the room and when she did the door shut behind her. She grabbed hold of the items more tightly so that she wouldn't drop them.

"Come on then let's go," she said.

"To where exactly?" He wondered.

"Outside or in the canteen? I don't think the canteen will have many people in at this time on a Saturday" she replied.

"Erm... We can go to the canteen if you want? I don't really fancy sitting out in the sun for hours," Merton told her.

"Neither do I," she said and then they set off towards the canteen.

Once they reached it they sat down at one of the many empty tables. Colette had been right there weren't that many people there. They began to plan ideas and draw them down. After they had come up with quite a few they went through them all to decide which one was the best.

"What do you think of this one?" She asked as she lift one up in the air so Merton could look.

"Eh," he sighed as he shook his hand, palm facing down. The way you do when you are trying to signal that something is OK. That it's not really great but it's not bad either.

"Yeah, I guess it's not really that good," she said as she placed it back down and then looked at the other designs.

"This one. I quite like this one," Merton said as he picked one up. It had black crow on and some very gothic writing. It fitted the gothic fantasy guild really well.

"Yeah, I like that one too. Let's use it," she agreed.

"Well now that the poster design is out of the way, I've been wanting to ask you something. Do you want to go out sometime?" He asked. He was hoping for her to say yes.

"With you?" She mumbled.

"Yeah, with me. Who else would it be?" He asked.

"No I meant did you mean just us two but never mind and yeah, sure I would love to," she said.

"Is Friday ok?" He asked her.

"Friday no. Monday night, I should be free," she replied.

"So Monday it is then," he said.

"So am I right in guessing that we are boyfriend and girlfriend, since we are going on our second date?" He wondered.

"Erm... Are we?" She mumbled.

"I don't know that's why I'm asking you," he answered.

"Well I don't know. I guess maybe we are," she said.

"Then can we just say we are. I mean I like you and you like me so why not?" He told her.

"Erm... Okay, yeah," she said. "I have to go now. I've got something I need to do."

"So soon? It's still early," he said. He didn't want to leave because he was having lots of funny hanging out with her.

"Yeah if I don't start it now I won't do it at all today, and I really need to," she said.

"Ok, I'll see you later then," he said.

"Do you want to take the designs or should I?" She asked standing up.

"You can take them if you want," he replied.

"Ok, I'll meet you in the library Monday at 5 if that's OK?" She asked.

"That's fine," he said and she began to pick up the paper and pencil cases from the table. Merton helped her by gathering some of the spare paper together. Once all the paper were in neat piles and all the pens and pencils were away in the cases she picked all the paper up as Merton grabbed the cases and then he placed them on top of her paper pile.

"Okay, see you later Merton," she said and walked away.

Merton set off to his dorm room. It was strange how she said that she need to leave to do something after he had mentioned boyfriends and girlfriends. Maybe she didn't like him as much as he thought she did. It didn't seem like that she wanted to be his girlfriend but she said that she wanted to and that she wanted to go out again. However it seemed to Merton that maybe she just wanted to be friends, by the way she acted. She wouldn't be the first girl who he really liked to only see him as a friend. The thing that confused him though was that she said wanted to be his girlfriend but now that he thought about it she didn't seem to sure. Maybe he could ask her again just to be sure of her answer. He didn't want to push any further if she wasn't that in to him.

Tommy was looking at Merton's books on the shelves as Merton entered.

"I thought you hated reading?" He asked his best friend as he shut the door. Tommy turned around to face him.

"I do but I didn't know what time you'd be back. So I thought maybe that I could try finding a spell to help us against The Dilucomes. The Di..." Tommy replied. He couldn't remember how to pronounce their name properly.

"The Diluculums," Merton corrected him.

"Yeah them," Tommy said.

"Did you find anything?" He wondered as he walked over to the book case.

"No, I'm still looking to see if you have any spell books," Tommy replied.

"I don't have many. I have a few but I think looking on the Internet would be a better choice, but we could still have a look to see if there's anything in the books," he said. Then he searched the books with his eyes to find the spell ones. Once he found two he handed one to Tommy and took one for his self. They then went to go sit down on their beds.

Merton opened it to the first page when Tommy spoke. "So how's you and Colette?" He asked.

"What do you mean?" Merton wondered looking up from the book and looked at Tommy.

"You know are you going out on another date? Are you boyfriend and girlfriend?"

"Oh. Yeah we are going out Monday and yes she's my girlfriend," Merton answered. It wasn't really definet that she was but Merton believed she was or rather hoped that she was.

"That's good. See me and Lori told you that you'd meet someone normal who liked you for who you are," Tommy told his friend.

"Normal?"

"Someone who isn't a vampire or some other supernatural person," he said.

"Yeah, I guess you were both right," Merton said.

"Speaking of Lori. She called while you was out. She's coming over tomorrow to help us to come up with a plan to stop The D- those vampires and she has a free day Monday so she's staying the night at her parents," he told Merton.

"We don't need her to help us," Merton said.

"I know but it'll be nice seeing her," Tommy told him.

"That is correct," Merton said.

They talked and searched for spells most of the day but they had no luck in finding one that would help them. A spell might not be really needed to help them because the spell wouldn't stop the vampires. It was just simple a means to help them against their magic powers. Something other vampires didn't have. The three of them would find a way to put an end to the vampires tomorrow and find their secret meeting place, and then they could finally begin to stop them.