Disclaimer: I don't own Morganville Vampires. It belongs to Rachel Caine and whomever else holds the rights.

Author's Note: I have edited the first chapter! Yay! It's so much better if you remember how it was.

"Claire?"

"Yes Mom?" Claire was sitting in the kitchen waiting for her amazingly hot boyfriend, Shane, to come home from work.

"Honey, can you come over for a while? Oh, and bring Michael."

Bring Michael? Since when did mom want Michael over? Claire thought.

Michael was one of her best friends, her landlord, and a relatively new vampire. Claire and Michael have a special bond, which comes from knowing each other for a large portion of their lives. They met because their parents knew each other and became best friends. That was why Michael had given in to her staying there, she had brought up their past with each other. Shane and Eve didn't know about them knowing each other from the time when they were really young. They just hadn't shared that part of their life with them yet.

Michael and Claire practically grew up together. They learned different languages with other, studied together (when he was still in school that is), and more.

"Yeah, okay. What time?" she asked, returning to her conversation.

"Oh, whenever's convenient."

That was weird, she thought.

"Michael," she yelled.

"What?" he yelled back.

"Come here for a sec! Please?" she added as an afterthought. Then she felt a slight breeze and there he was rocking a horrible bedhead. She giggled. He got an annoyed and confused, mostly confused, look on his face which made her giggle more.

"What?" She pointed at his head. His ears turned bright red, which looked adorable even on a vampire and made him look like the boy she had grown up with.

"My mom wants me over ASAP," She told him and waited for the question.

"What does that have to do with me?"

"She wants you there, genius."

"Oh," was all he said looking embarrassed.

"Yeah 'oh'. Now hurry up and get dressed, we have to leave." Michael raced up the stairs and came back down a few seconds later completely dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and his blonde hair was gelled back.

"How did you-? Never mind I don't want to know." Michael smirked at her and grabbed his keys and started out the back door.

"Hurry up slow poke!"

When she got to her parents after a short drive, during which they debated on what her mom could possibly want, she knocked. Michael stood there shuffling his feet as they waited. The door opened and she gasped at the person in the doorway.

Edited: Thursday June 14, 2012 at 4:36 pm EST.