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This completely caught Alice by surprise. She had not expected for him to ask to meet up with her. In fact, she had by far not thought he'd just as easily agree to tell her anything. Well, in fact he didn't, but he'd not want to meet her would he not want to talk about something. Besides, she really disliked talking to people on the phone, so she was happy about that turn of events.

“Meeting somewhere sounds like a good idea. I don't know where though, so just choose wherever and whenever you want and I'll come by.” Alice really didn't mind where to meet, would she choose she'd probably go to the park or another quiet, secluded area again, just because those were the places she liked. There were also other reasons for her leaving the decision to him though. First off Blaize was the one that was more or less pushed into this conversation by her, so it would only be polite to let him choose where to meet. The other one was her curiosity. Which kind of place would he choose? Alice knew would she be in his position, she'd opt for a graveyard, just to hear the reaction of the other. A smile appeared on her face and she almost laughed, remembering just in time she was on the phone and stopping herself.

For a moment she considered meeting him might be dangerous, especially now he knew that she knew about him. But as usual, the curiosity won over that thought. Alice never did what was good for her, she usually got into dangerous situations because she didn't accept the fact they were dangerous as a reason to go against her curiosity or her wish to do something. Yes, the saying was that curiosity killed the cat. And one day it might bring her to her demise, but that didn't matter to Alice.

Alice glanced over to the clock, quickly going through the time she would need to get to the park. Half an hour should be possible. This would probably cause trouble for university today, but if she'd be up for too long because of this meeting, she'd just ditch classes for that day. She could just look up the topics they had taken care of that day and read into it herself later. After all, she might not get another chance. Somehow she had the feeling that Blaize might change his opinion would he think about everything for a day or two.

“Sure, I'll be there in half an hour.” If her mother didn't hear her leave and stopped her. Her mother didn't like Alice walking around alone in the middle of the night, especially now. Though she'd been against it since Alice started doing so. As with most things, her mother was a fair person and previously she allowed Alice to go on her nightly walks, even though her mother was worried sick. 'You're an adult, you can decide for yourself. But I'd really recommend for you not to do that.' was what she said. But now, this didn't count anymore. Now Alice was supposed to stay at home once it was dark, only when she was out with friends she was allowed to stay longer.

However, tonight she'd not care about that. “I'll see you there then.” Saying this, Alice would wait for a moment if he would reply and if he didn't she'd end the call to get dressed and leave.

Hearing him hang up the phone, Alice put her phone away and quickly got up. She would need to be quick but quiet if she wanted to be at the park on time but not wake her mother while getting ready. Though she wasn't the person to put too much effort into dressing up anyway. In fact, she never understood how some other girls could stand in front of a mirror for hours, unable to decide what to wear or applying make-up en masse. If it looked nice it looked nice. End of the story. Therefore, the biggest trouble was just to be quiet, but as Alice was used to wander around the flat at night while her mother was asleep, that didn't pose as much of a problem as she had thought.

Before she left, she grabbed her phone and her keys and then she headed outside. The moment she closed the door behind her, she exhaled, happy not to have woken her mother. In the end, even if her mother had woken up Alice would've gone anyway, but then there'd be a lot of trouble the next day. Outside she stood for a moment and looked at the clock of her phone, before she got her bike. That way she didn't need to hurry and would still be on time. As she arrived at the park and locked her bike to a bike stand near the park entrance, she was actually a few minutes early, as she saw upon another glance at the clock.

Standing at the park entrance, she noticed they hadn't decided on an exact spot to meet at. However, she was rather sure he'd be at the bench they met at before. Or he'd appear there if he wasn't there yet. As expected, the bench was the right place, since she saw him already sitting there. Had he actually planned to be here early? After all, if there were vampires, there was surely someone hunting them. So it would kinda make sense if he had come here early on purpose to check if she set a trap. Alice knew, that she probably didn't come of as trustworthy on the phone earlier, especially since she couldn't give him a reason why she wanted to know more. Heading over to the bench, she gave him a smile as she greeted him. “Hey there.” Stopping at the bench she then asked: “Mind if I sit down?” Kind of a useless question since they met up here, but as usual Alice saw it as common courtesy to be polite. Besides, with this strange situation she didn't really know what else to say.

Hearing Blaize claim the bench for himself, despite gesturing for her to sit down, Alice laughed slightly. Then she sat down, calm, as if she'd not sit next to a complete stranger who was also a vampire, but instead next to a friend from university. Actually, the fact that he was a vampire was less alarming to her than him being a stranger to her. Until now, he didn't seem too different personality-wise from humans. And to Alice it wasn't what a person was, it was what a person did that defined them.

His question however brought her to think. After all, it was the same question she had asked herself the whole time on her way to the park. More or less the same question at least. “I'm not so sure if I agree on the whole 'nice girl' part, but why would I not? As I said earlier, I just want to know more. And it's not like I would go to sleep the next hour or so anyway, so I don't mind the night.” Yet still she knew no sane person would have done the same. Maybe she was really crazy, at least that meant her nickname did fit her. Though in the end she probably was only careless.

“Though I guess I could ask you the same.” Pausing for a moment she then smiled. “With the roles reversed though. Why did you come here? I don't think that all of you are happy with what happened lately. And even less happy about someone telling stuff to a random person.”

„Seems like I'm living dangerous then.“ Alice replied with a smile. She wasn't sure whether he was joking or not. Usually people would say such a thing as a joke, yet she could not see any indication he meant it as such. Though in the end it didn't really matter, she didn't plan on telling anyone either way. Doing so would feel like betrayal to her. Of course she never promised she wouldn't tell anyone, but she saw it as an unspoken promise. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew that wasn't the only reason, but right now she had to focus on the conversation. Dealing with her inner demons had to wait until she would have time for it.

Thinking about this her gaze went to the side, where a bit more than a week ago a dead body had been laying. The situation that had started all this. Alice still wasn't sure if she was grateful for everything that happened or not. Everything that resulted out of that situation had it's good and bad parts. Hell, she was sitting in the park next to a vampire, casually talking. This would not have happened, had that other man not died. Would she be able to change the turn of events, would she do it? Would the life of a man that tried attacking her mean enough to her to save it? A question of morality. But remembering the decision she made only a moment ago, she pushed that thought out of her mind. She wouldn't bother with that for now.

“Maybe not loyalty to secrecy or sharing, but you must have an opinion, right? That one is more favourable, or one is just the right thing to do. Keep as much about you hidden so you are feared, or tell as much as safely possible to be accepted?” Would Alice have been in his situation, she'd be thinking about this question all the time. After all, it was the question that would probably decide the future of both humans and vampires.