In the AU of 'The Vampire's Mermaid Mate,' Ahulani and Vlad are still cursed, still meet at DarkWood High School when she is sixteen. For a year they only spare passing glances at each other. She became the cheer teams star captain and the most popular girl in school.
Vlad still plays football as the star captain and is the most popular guy in school. He doesn't bully her, but is still cold to her while secretly falling in love with her. He keeps his distance from her, watching her from afar.
She is nice to everyone, even to him. She starts to secretly fall in love with him and watches him from afar when they are paired for a class project and he starts to open up to her. Slowly noticing all the little things about him she never noticed before.
As the Halloween dance the school puts on every year draws closer, so do they and he asks her to the dance. He takes her shopping for their costumes and lets her pick everything out as he pays for them.
The dance comes and goes and they are still not together. Though they want to be, but neither of them knows how to ask the other. Her birthday comes two months later and they find out they are mates. Only they can't complete the mating process or touch each other until he changes how he acts.
Their cursed love will keep them apart until he changes, but can he? If he can't, they have less than a year before their worlds fall apart and everything is shrouded in darkness, until he realizes what he's lost.
