Damien was happy to get to school on time. Only a few students were around when he alighted in front of the school gate and he directed the driver to leave.“I am supposed to wait to take you back to the palace. That was the directive I was given” the driver said.Damien looked at him in surprise but then he realised that the man was serious. He quickly thought of what to say and he got one “The school do not allow drivers to wait in the car on school premises, so you will have to leave. I can walk to the palace by myself”“I am sorry, sir but it is the princess’s order. Besides nobody in this school would dare to send away a driver from the palace” the driver said confidently.“Why?” Damien asked, just as he remembered that Michael once told him that the school belong to the royal family. Which means the king. Which means the princess can do whatever she wanted.Damien knew that having the driver wait for him or people seeing him in that expensive car was asking for trouble. He had e
“You want to do what?” King Saldus asked with a narrowed gaze on his daughter, who suddenly reminded him of her younger self as she twiddled her thumbs. She once had that habit when she wanted to ask him for something important to her. Twiddling her thumbs, even as she looked straight at him like she was not anxious for his reply. Isabella looked away momentarily from her father’s penetrating gaze as she repeated with a shrug. “Dad, you have always wanted me to go out. To mingle with people my age. To live a normal life. Isn’t that the reason why you set up that ridiculous show of having men parade themselves for me to choose from? So, I am saying it now that I will like to finally go out there and…mingle. You can quit my tutorship programs. Tell the tutors to stop coming or keep them. You don’t even have to worry about the fact that I am not making any friends too. I am sure that I will make plenty of friends in that school too. I can just complete my high school programme there and
Damien knew the students will pick up from where they left off the moment the classes were over. They did not disappoint. He was expecting Sybil to be the first to confront him but then he had been hearing her whispered conversation with the tawny-eyed Laura when the classes were ongoing. She had wanted to leave her seat the moment Mr Dax left the class, after giving Damien a warning that he should make sure he submit his assignment to him before the end of the school period the next day. But then Damien saw Laura pull her down again. They were still having a heated discussion when Mr Dax entered the class and the class commenced. Classes were had back-to-back that day. The examination period was oncoming. So, Damien couldn’t tell if the others had been unable to try anything else because of the teachers and swamped classes as well or because they were biding their time. He was sure that if eyes could bore holes in a body. He would probably have multiple holes in his head by the ti
“What? Did I hear that right? Who is…” “Let’s go now!” Damien said urgently to the driver before the latter could get to him. The driver’s eyes widened in surprise with his hands still outstretched for Damien’s bag, then he quickly nodded as Damien passed him and he entered the car since Damien had already opened his door by himself anyway.Damien did not look out of the window till the car left the school premise. He knew that the school would be abuzz with the news.He was exasperated about the fact that he would have more problems to deal with from that moment on. “Why didn’t the driver do as I said?” he thought abruptly.He looked up to see the driver giving him a curious look “I told you to go back” he said to the driver.The driver shook his head slightly as if trying to dislodge something and he said “Princess said I must wait for you. Princess said I must bring you back”Then he concentrated on his driving. Damien wondered what happened between the time the driver had left a
Damien couldn’t prevent the inevitable since Princess Isabella had given him a stern warning the day before. The driver also didn’t bother asking him if he should drop him outside the school gate. He simply drove straight to the school grounds and headed to the waiting lot, where other divers that were waiting for their charges stayed. “Okay. I know you told me some of it over that badass phone of yours yesterday but now I want the full gist” Damien turned to see Sky lounging against his refurbished bike with a wide, excited grin on his face. He looked at his Patek Phillipe watch, one of the additions that had been added to his wardrobe before he got home the day before. He looked back at Sky with questions in his eyes. “What?” Sky asked with a scoff. “You have never been to school this early before,” Damien said with a smile even as he realised what happened. Sky deliberately came early to school to see the car that the students had been talking about the day before. Sky was not
“Uhhh,” Cade’s friends jeered as Damien turned back to face Cade.For a moment uncertainty flickered over Cade’s face when he saw the direct, stern look that Damien directed at him. Then the look was gone as Damien bent down to pick the keys from the floor.“Yes, Dog. Fetch for your master” Cade said as he stretched his hand forward for Damien to give him his keys back. His friends were all laughing and jeering while some whipped out their phones to record.Damien could feel Sky seething in anger beside him but the latter seemed to have decided to let him handle it. He moved towards Cade slowly.“See what I said? You just have to treat this trash and nobodies just the way they should be and they will fall in…ouch, my hand”It was so fast that even Sky hadn’t seen it coming. None of them saw the actual act, not even those with the cameras.All they could see was that Damien passed beside Cade so fast and now, Cade was on the floor cradling his hand as he yelled that it was broken.“Tha
Damien determinedly tuned out the murmurs, veiled taunts, and threats of his classmates as he got to class that morning. Sky was soon occupied by a discussion as some of them asked him about the car that people were talking about. It was funny that nobody was asking Damien directly since he was the one that rode in the car. Damien was more than satisfied to be left alone anyway as he quickly went through his assignment to be sure that he had everything in place. Ashton and his minions were not in class yet. Neither was Sybil. Damien knew when Laura entered though he did not look up and he could feel her curiosity as she looked over at him from time to time he had no intention of satisfying that curiosity. If she wanted an explanation, she could simply listen to Sky’s slightly embellished story as he regalled his enthralled audience with the anecdote about the magnificence of the car. When one of them asked Sky if he was aware that Damien could have stolen everything he had just to fi
The day took a different turn for Damien after Isabella got to class. All attention was diverted from him as the students vied for her attention and they all fell over each other as they tried to show her their worth and the reasons why she should consider choosing them as a friend. Apart from the tour she had accepted from Laura after the break period, she had only smiled politely and declined every other invitation. That didn't stop them from trying though. In fact, the more she declined, the more they rallied around her table with their latest offer.Though she did not even share him a glance, Damien could feel her emotions as plain as day. Though her polite smile did not waver for once, he could feel her annoyance about the student's behaviour. In fact, at times, he felt that she was close to snapping at one of the boys who felt that her rejection only made her more "hot"; yet she never did show any sign of anger. She was pleasantness-personified.And she totally ignored Damien's