The ensuing events of the day did nothing to dim the excitement inside Damien at finally being in “high” school. The high school had been nothing like what he had imagined and he was happy that he could finally make it. Damien was more grateful to Leah at that moment than he had been originally when she felt promised him that he would be able to attend.When Cade thought he was ridiculing Damien, all Damien could think about was how much more people he was going to see and get to mingle with. He had checked on his phone in the past few days to know what to expect. He knew that he would at least get to be part of a community bigger than the few workers he had come across at the Macmillans.Even though the Macmillans have a lot of workers on their cotton plantation and many working in the gardens, Damien only sees most of them as they come and leave and they snubbed him most of the time. Even the workers staying in the staff house seemed to have collectively decided to ostracize him.

Damien conveniently looked away from Ashton's glare as he made his way to the seat that Sky pointed at. Zach suddenly threw his leg out to trip Damien and even though his fast reflex saved him from falling over, his stagger earned him a few snickers from the student as Zach raised an eyebrow at him as if daring him to talk when Mr Silas asked the student to quiet before looking over at Damien who was still standing as he asked "What is delaying you? Take your seat" "I am sorry, sir," Damien said as he took the seat, ignoring Zach's silent taunt. "Just ignore them" Sky mouthed him before turning to face the teacher. Damien felt eyes on him as he tried not to look around in fascination or curiosity as he could sense different emotions from the stares he fell on him. Some are that of derision and disbelief. Some that of interest and malicious anticipation. Some indifferent. Then one... he could feel a different vibration and energy from somewhere to his right and he wondered what it me

“Let’s go” Sky whispered to Damien immediately after the school bell rang after the last class.Damien, who found his eyes kept going over to the brunette girl was startled as he looked back at Sky. The serious look on Sky’s face alerted him to the fact that something was not right, then he remembered the students that went out of the class and that thing some of their classmates said about “All-Hands”“You still haven’t told me what those boys meant by…”“No time. Let’s go” Sky said as he glared at some of the students that were about to come over to Damien’s side as they pointed their fingers at him and laughed. Damien quickly put his book in his bag and smiled to himself as he remembered how difficult it had been for him to write down their strange letters. He was determined to get it right though and he wished that he would have some time to himself when he get back to the Macmillan’s for him to start practising. “Probably in the evening,” he thought to himself as he turned to Sk

“Why would you do that? Of course not! Why should we run away from those punk heads? I am not a coward and I…” Sky trailed off when he saw the look on Michael’s face and he knew that it had to do with the way he was addressing Damien. He had become so used to the leader in the past weeks that he did indeed forget that it was a privilege for them to even have him with them at all in this world and how it was unacceptable for any of them to speak to the latter the way he was. The anger he was trying so hard to keep on a leash had just got the better of him when he heard what Damien said. He realised his mistake when he saw the stormy look on Michael’s face and he cleared his throat before saying “What I meant was that, leader, you shouldn’t…” “Damien” Damien corrected him immediately even though his back was to the other occupants in the room as he looked out the window. The sky looked briefly at Michael’s face before nodding slightly as he proceeded “Damien, I mean you shouldn’t be

“What?” Damien thought in surprise as he was sure that no human was supposed to see him in this form.She took a step forward towards his direction. Just as Damien heard one of the men directly on his other side ask hopefully “Are you talking to….”Damien didn’t wait to listen to the rest as he quickly drew on his rarely used power that tends to take much out of his reserve - he vanished from that place in case she had truly seen him!Did she truly see him? The disturbing thought was on his mind on his way back! He set the upsetting thought that his power might truly be waning aside when he got to the Macmillan’s land and he intended to quickly sneak into his allotted room to change his school uniform before he would seek out the head gardener for whatever the man had planned for him because of his late coming.Little did he know that upon entering his almost bare room; which was scruffy, the poor condition was more glaring as a result of the sun penetrating through the small window;