After he moved in, Ned greeted the paper girl right away and gave her a nice tip. He figured he might as well get things started on the right foot, after all the poor girl worked hard early in the morning for his convenience of having the paper at his doorstep.
A few neighbors dropped by conveniently right at lunch time, but Ned didn't mind making a nice platter full of lunch meat sandwiches for everyone to enjoy.
He got a job right away as a team mascot for the Crescent Island Llama's. It'd pay the bills at least. He wasn't really interested in making tons of money or having fancy things so he wasn't very particular about what position he took.
Living alone, however, was pretty boring. Out of desperation he amused himself with a paper airplane he made.
After work is the perfect time to bring in the trash. Ned knows that most people take it out but that seemed just silly. What use is having an empty trash can in the house?
Wanting to pick up a cell phone and meet new people, Ned headed down to Cold Issue Clothing.
The only new people to meet there were teens, however, so he walked to Sugar Cube Bowling before long.
He met a redheaded Barista and they hit it off pretty well, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to ask her out or not. He didn't swoon when he looked at her or thought about her so he wanted to keep looking.
Then he met a rather odd looking formally dressed fellow named Count Joel Pons. Ned figured he was just rather eccentric so he wasn't going to let his strange looks put him off any.
He tried to befriend a very skinny little old lady but she told him off for even trying to speak to her!
He ran into his friend and neighbor, Magnus Follord, and they had some goofy pictures taken together.
The next evening after work Ned called Count Joel over wanting to spend some time with a friend.
They goofed around quite a bit and Ned was pretty happy.
He might not have found anyone he wanted to ask out yet, but at least he was making some new friends!
Then one day out of nowhere Count Joel leaped into his arms!
Before long the count kissed him. He had no idea his friend felt that way about him and he was too surprised to be able to sort through his own feelings about the whole situation so he just went along with it.
Then one evening the count gave him a very strange look. Instead of kissing him, Joel bit him!
Realization dawned on poor naive Ned about just who and what Count Joel truly was.
He felt foolish and taken advantage of and he was furious at his so-called friend!
Normally he doesn't condone violence, but Ned just couldn't help it. He attacked Joel for turning him into a vampire, knocking the count on his backside.
Ned was forced to spend some of his meager savings on a few new necessities like a car to get to work...
And a coffin to sleep safely in. That is, until he has time to sort through all the things that happened to him in his mind and maybe try and find a way to cure himself.
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