“My goodness! You are looking like a mess!” A.O. Sylvestro, the principal of Maryland High School said when Damien entered her office.Sky winced at the principal’s high-pitched voice and he looked back at Damien as if just seeing him as he thought of how Damien must look to a woman who was used to only seeing her students at their very best. After all, students of Maryland High school were known to have at least about one uniform for each day of school and some of them couldn’t be caught dead in a rumpled school uniform not to talk of a stained one like that of Damien at the moment.Sky hated the fact that Michael had a rule set in place for all of them that forbade them from what he called unnecessary advantage because he would have loved nothing more at the moment than to wring Mr Dax's neck.The man had vented his anger on them after the powerful trio left. After yelling at Sky to get going, the man refused to leave until he saw Sky left so Sky had no choice but to tell him that h
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, ma” Damien quickly corrected himself when he heard the woman’s statement and Sky gave him a wide-eyed look with a hushed “Dude, what are you doing?”“I am sorry, ma,” he said to the woman, who was giving him an askance look “That was a mistake. I am Damien ma, Damien Kostos” he repeated.Principal Sylvestro finally looked away from him as she looked down at a file she picked atop some others n the left side of the table.“Oh year, Damien Kostos, I have you here. Your recommendation from the King came as a surprise because I have not heard of any Kostos here in Santa Eyre. Wh…”“He is from Afghanistan, ma. He and his family live there. Ah, I…yes” Sky completed when principal Sylvestro turned a displeased look on him.“I am sure I wasn’t talking to you, Androne. Was I?” she asked in a snappy tone.“No, ma I….”“What are you doing here by the way? Shouldn’t you be in class right now?”“We are in the same class ma,” Sky replied as if that was a perfect explanation.“And?” Princip
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
Damien showed the note to Sky immediately after Mr Silas left the class and the latter only whistled with a grin."Well, look at you being famous already," The younger vampire said with a light thump on Damien's shoulder "At least it took me a while to get popular with them. I was the ostracized kid before their highnesses felt I was worthy enough to talk to"He looked behind Damien suddenly as he said in a serious tone "Don't think much of this and I think you are about to have more of that" he stated.Damien could already feel someone's intent approach behind him and he turned around just in time to face her. The redhead girl."What is a weirdo like you doing here?" she said with her voice raised. "Are you still stalking me?" There she goes again with that word. Damien thought and he was about to set her straight on that account when Zach stood up from his chair so fast that it almost toppled over."You dare to stalk her? What made you think you are for to even look at her?" he sho
“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
“Oh shit!” Sky said when he realised that it had started already. He had thought he would at least be able to get back to the Abode to inform Michael about what happened and asked about what could be done.Though Sky felt that these people deserve whatever was coming to them for their arrogance and nasty behaviours but he knew that Michael would frown upon any violence started by him, especially in a place like a school.And now this? He deliberately tamped down the anger that was threatening to erupt in him as he vaguely heard Damien ask him something. He had no idea what he said though as he turned aside to look at him.Damien shook his head at him as he must have detected the turmoil going through Sky’s system. Sky nodded briefly as he tried to bring himself under control. He knew what Damien had seen. The New Order clan vampires had been trained to live below the radar for years and they had learnt to curb their hunger and urges in order not to attract attention to themselves. Th
“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