Vampire on sight!

[Day Two]

The second day; quite different from the first since Zinbad, who was seated pretty close to Tanya, now placed himself really far away on a very comfy couch with Kuro in his hand. He lost his enthusiasm halfway through the first day.

"I never expected you to lose your focus the very next day!" Tanya said as she helplessly watched Zinbad laze around on the couch and felt jealous.

"Should've expected the unexpected." He retorted back at her.

"Man, what do I have to do to get something to eat?" Tanya said it out loud—loud enough for Zinbad to hear.

"Well, first of all, you could just ask like a normal human rather than going in a roundabout way," Zinbad replied in a carefree demeanor. However, the words he said were true, so Tanya didn't lash out at him.

"Can I get something to eat?" She asked politely.

"Here you go." He handed over a packet of potato chips.

"Chips?" She looked disgusted as he looked at it.

"From my basic necessities. Better than nothing, right?" He said as he slowly took the chips away from her.

"Yea, I guess," Tanya replied as she instantly grabbed it and started munching it.

"Okay, now that's done, I'm going back to sleep," Zinbad uttered as he placed a headphone and went back.

"Wait!" Tanya seemed as if she wanted to say something but felt as if her effort would all be for naught.

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[Day Three]

The third day. Everything looked normal except for the teeny tiny fact that Zinbad lost his sanity. He cried, screamed, and wailed around for many hours of that day. It was as if they were replaying the same damn song again and again.

"Goddammit! Why did I listen to this woman and decide to help her?" Zinbad wailed as he glared hard at Tanya and made her feel a bit weird.

"Well, not that you're helping much." Tanya decided to mock him a bit.

"I should have ignored her." Zinbad continued on with his rambling, completely ignoring her mockery.

"Like right now, eh?" She asked.

Zinbad didn't care and moaned. "I could've been sitting in my couch binge-watching shows rather than sitting here and watching random people do random shit!"

"I get that, dawg!" Somehow that statement really struck a chord in Tanya's mind.

"God, save me from this awful nightmare!" Zinbad had his arms raised and stayed in that position for a while. "Guess not. I'll do it myself then." Since no God appeared to help him that time, he knocked himself out.

"And there he goes." Tanya sighed as she continued on with her work.

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[Day Seven]

Another normal day. Zinbad being a living piece of trash was pretty common these days, nothing outrageous. He didn't sleep; he didn't wake up. He laid there like a dead fish. However, at some point, he slept and did have a very good sleep…

…Before Tanya interfered with it too. "Zinbad—Zinbad, wake up!"

"No, let me sleep for a bit more." Zinbad was reluctant to let go of his dream, where he spent a really erotic night with someone whom he couldn't remember.

"Wake up, you dumb idiot." Tanya couldn't care any less, as she gave one hard slap in one of Zinbad's cheek.

"Ouch, that hurts like hell!" Zinbad said as he rubbed his cheek.

"You didn't wake up." Tanya had no other possible explanation.

"So, what happened?" He asked.

Tanya smiled. "I can see him. The vampire guy!"

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Zinbad got up from the couch looking surprised. "You found the guy? Really?"

"Yea." Tanya nodded.

"When? How? Where is he right now?" Zinbad asked as he frantically paced throughout the room, probably excited about hearing the news.

Tanya however, looked dead serious. "Hmm, about that. Come see for yourself." She said as she changed Zinbad's direction towards the PC.

"What happened?" He asked. However, he got the answer soon enough when he saw a guy and his butler looking friend waving to one of the cameras. Since he heard Tanya's side of the story, it was pretty easy to guess who that was. "That damn bastard! He sure looks complacent. Did he already know that we're spying through the street cams?"

"Well, it sure seems like it," Tanya replied.

"Wait, how did he know?" Zinbad looked puzzled as he asked.

"Don't know, don't care. What's more important is that the guy brought himself to us. Let's inform Addison about this news." Tanya said as she dragged Zinbad off the room.

"Wait, you didn't inform him already?" He asked.

"No, I came to you first." She replied.

"Oh." For a minute, Zinbad felt emotional and thought of it as a bud moment. Then he snapped out of it. "Let's go tell him then." Both of them ran towards the study.

"Addison, we got something important to tell you!" Tanya said as she kicked open the door of the study, which she thought was a cool way to enter.

"Let me guess. The vampire revealed himself, I believe." Addison said dawning a very calm expression.

Tanya was surprised and a bit freaked out. "How did you?"

"You think I'm an idiot or what? Didn't I tell that to you one week before already? And as I expected, he came." Addison gave out the victory pose and had a 'told you so' look in his face. Well, no one could deny it—he did tell so.

But Tanya was even more surprised. She took it as a joke when he specifically used the word 'little bird', but now it seemed like the man was the real deal. "No, how did you know a week ago that this was gonna happen?"

"I don't know. You seemed important to him. And both of you seemed like you needed answers." Addison, who looked like he was in no mood to explain, explained. "And as I said before, a little bird told me so." He said as he looked again towards the tree by the window.

"Are you gonna keep up with this little bird bullshit? If you don't wanna tell how you found out, don't tell! But, man…" Tanya thought to herself but did not outright say it since she respected Addison's quick wit. "I see. We don't have much time—we don't know when he will resurface again. So, I'm gonna get to him and ask him about the recoil."

"Hmm, okay. Good luck." Addison agreed and shook her hand.

"Wait. I'm coming too." Zinbad, who was silent the whole time, interjected the conversation.

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