Monday morning Lori had rung up to let the boys that she would arrive in the afternoon, around 12pm. Tommy was the only one who needed to be up early that morning because he had early sports practice, but he had woke up Merton in the process of getting ready, much to his annoyance.

"Do you have to make so much noise?" Merton groaned as he rolled over in his bed and pulled the covers over his head.

"I can’t find my sneakers. Have you seen them?" Tommy asked him.

"No, Tommy I haven’t," he replied.

"I was only asking," Tommy mumbled quitely.

"Have you tried looking under your bed?" Merton asked his friend.

Tommy hadn’t so he went to go look and sure enough there they were. He bent down and picked them up. He would finally be able to put them to good use, he had bought them just before his first day at college because his old ones were ruined.

"Found them," Tommy said as he stood up.

Merton sighed and stretched but he was still laid down. "Thanks Merton you’re the best," Tommy said and sat down on his bed to put on his sneakers. Once they were on and tied he headed for the door.

"See you later. You can go back to sleep now," he told his best friend before leaving.

"Thank you," Merton said glad that he would finally have peace to be able to lay in. Tommy opened their room door and left.

A few minutes passed as Merton tossed and turned but he couldn’t fall back to sleep so he gave up trying. He sat up and looked at their alarm clock; only seven-thirty. He still had two and a half hours left until he needed to be in class. There was nothing he could do until then. He didn’t have any class work . Maybe, he could read a book or watch something. However, Colette might be up already and he could go suprise her. No, he was seeing her later tonight but he sudden exit yesterday made him feel slightly anxious.

What if she was hiding something or she didn’t really like him as much as she claimed? Maybe, it was best to wait until that evening because he didn’t want to seem pushy or needy. He could see later whether or not she liked him. It wouldn’t hurt to just go call by her room, though. No, he should wait till tonight to see her. He decided against going. Instead he decided to get a shower and then watch a little Buffy.

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Later that day at lunch time Lori had arrived and now they were sat around a small table that could sit a maximum of four people.

"So what’s the plan?" Tommy asked but Merton wasn’t listening. He was watching Colette who was walking a little further away from them. He hadn’t expected to see her in the canteen but it made sense that she would be, she need to eat too.

"Merton have you even been listening to a word we’ve been saying?" Lori wondered. He still wasn’t listening. Tommy and Lori looked to where he was looking.

"Is that?" Lori asked when she noticed the girl. Tommy nodded his head.

"Colette, the most beautiful girl with amazing taste literature to ever walk this planet," Merton replied.

"Well call her over. I want to meet her," Lori said.

He made a nervous laugh and said "You want me to call her over?"

"Yeah, I want to get to know her."

"I can’t do that," he said.

"Hey, Colette," Tommy shouted.

Merton looked at his friend, annoyed. Colette turned around and walked towards the group.

"Hey, Tommy," she said and then turned to face Merton.

"Hi, Merton," she added. He quickly turned around to face her.

"Hi," he said.

" It’s nice to finally meet you. I’ve heard a lot about you. I’m Lori a friend of Tommy’s and Merton’s," Lori said with a smile.

"It’s nice to meet you too," she said.

"Why don’t you join us for dinner?" Tommy asked.

"Good idea, it will give us a chance to get to know each other. Make friends," Lori agreed.

"I would love to," Colette said.

"What about coming up with a plan, to stop the evil society of blood suckers?" Merton whispered to Tommy as he leaned over the table.

"We can do that later," Tommy answered.

As much as he wanted to enjoy a normal conversation with his friends and his potential girlfriend, if they didn’t stop Reece and Helena soon someone be attacked or worse killed.

Colette sat down next to him.

"Is there something wrong?" She wondered.

"No, nothing at all," Merton replied and sat back up straight.

"So you two met in a lecture right?" Lori asked full of curiosity.

"Yes, in a literature lecture. I walked in and straight away Merton caught my eye, that’s why I went to go sit next to him. I just had to know him as cliché as that may sound," she answered.

"It was because of my quirky, unconventual handsome looks wasn’t it?" He asked.

"Maybe that was part of the reason," she replied.

"What was the other reason?" She cut him off by kissing him on the cheek.

"Before I got called over, I was about to go to the toilet, so if you excuse me, I will only be a second." She got up out of the seat.

"I told you that you would meet a girl who liked you for who you are," Lori said when she left.

"If she does like me," he said.

"What do you mean? She’s your girlfriend isn’t she?" a Tommy asked.

"Not exactly. Well I’m not sure. I think she’s my girlfriend," he explained.

"What do you mean?" Lori asked.

"You said yesterday that she was. Now, you’re not sure. How could you not know?" Tommy wondered.

"Well... She said that she wanted to be my girlfriend but then she rushed off and didn’t seem like she really wanted to be. I don’t know I’m probably over thinking things and worrying for nothing," he said.

"You don’t think she’s hiding something do you?" Tommy asked.

"That’s what I was thinking but what could she be possible be hiding?" Merton wondered.

"I don’t know maybe a vampire from that creepy sorority," he answered.

"Don’t be ridiculous Tommy, she isn’t Vampire," Merton said. Maybe Tommy was right, something did seem strange with her. "What if she’s a vampire?" He blurted out.

"Maybe she isn’t. Maybe she’s just afraid of commitment, maybe she’s been hurt before or she is a vampire," Lori said.

"Tommy you’ve got to help me," Merton begged.

"We don’t even know if she is one, yet."

"Maybe we should just wait till we know more about this vampire sorority thing," Tommy added.

"And what if she sinks her teeth into my neck before we do that?"

"We might be over reacting. There could be a reasonable explanation," he replied.

"Yeah, Tommy’s ran out on dates and he hasn’t wanted to hurt them," Lori said.

"You think she’s a werewolf?" Merton asked.

"Okay, so maybe that wasn’t such a great example, but I think you’re over reacting. We don’t even know the reason behind it," she explained.

"Why don’t you ask her?"

"Yeah, because I can just go up to her and ask her if she’s a blood sucking demon."

"I didn’t mean that. I meant ask her why she keeps running off all the time," Tommy corrected just as she was returning back.

They stopped talking and she sat down back down.

"Erm...Colette," Merton said.

"Yeah?" She asked as she looked to him.

"Tonight on a date I might need to leave a little early. I have something to do," he told her. Tommy, Lori and himself need to go find out where the vampires hung out so that they could stop them.

"Work for class?" She wondered.

"Yeah, you could say that," he mumbled quitely to himself.

"It’s fine that you need leave early," she said.

Once they had all finished eating they left the canteen. Lori had decided to look around campus for any clues the might give away the Diluculums hideout while Merton and Tommy attended their lessons as they weren’t anything else she could really do. She didn’t really know anyone on campus except for Tommy and Merton. She had met Colette now but she had lesson to attend too. Not that she mind being alone because looking for clues would keep her mind occupied till later.