“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;
“Why are the two of you looking at me like that?” Andrea said immediately she stopped laughing.“Nothing, Miss Andrea. Can I….”“Get out!” she snapped at HG Salem.The man hurriedly turned to leave then turned back to her “Ehm, Miss Andrea, about telling….”“I will not tell you,” she said with an almost angelic smile before she skipped over to the bed to pick up her textbook, which she flipped through without looking up at the man again.HG Salem shuffled his feet for a while before beating a hasty retreat. His confusion and fear were so palpable that Damien did not even have to try hard to pick up on them. That great was his terror as he left that he believed that day might be his last with the Macmillans.Damien could almost feel sorry for him as he caught his boot against the edge of his door in his hurried state. Almost. Andrea looked up at him the moment HG Salem left and she looked around as if looking for where to sit.The table that HG Salem had his leg on minutes ago was the
An hour agoShe had seen him!Isabella Astrid Kovarick, the princess and only daughter of King Saldus, the Great was sure that she did not see things nor was she going crazy as she had said to herself most times in the past weeks when she started seeing the strange visions.No, he was standing right there in flesh and blood. She could still remember the way his eyes widened a bit when she pointed at him. She was sure that she did not conjure him up or just overthinking as Marilyn would say. No, she had seen him standing there in the courtyard. He was a lot different from the boorish, pretentious men who were pretending and trying so hard to show her that they were ther because of her and not because of what her father had to offer.He was there amidst all that chocking gaudy, peacockish dress and he was just in a dirty-looking uniform? The shock of his appearance had been the main reason why she had pointed her hand at him like that so recklessly.Something she wouldn’t have done on a
The HG didn’t assign any job for Damien the following day.“Just get out of my sight!” was what he snapped at Damien when the latter went to him later for instructions. “Don’t let me see your face tomorrow morning too!”Damien had no idea if this was the worst news or not but he knew that he couldn’t stay for long in the man’s office so he quickly thanked him and was about to leave when the man said fretfully “You had better let your backer know that too. You will be held responsible if I lose my job!” he said in a near-yell.Damien quickly left before the man would change his mind and came up with something else again.“Why is it so hard to communicate with these people?” he thought on his way back to his room as he remembered the session he just had with Andrea which he had luckily came through unscathed and without getting her angry. Also, an important discovery too that he had not dared to confirm from the girl yet.After the panicked moment of how he was going to explain the fact
As it happened, he was unable to ask Andrea about his suspicion anyway.The moment she completed the assignment, she thrust it under Damien’s nose with an imperative “Look at it! I did it myself”Damien had barely had the time to check out the alien equations before she closed her notebook back, tucked the textbook underneath her armpit and skated out of the room. With a shout of “This room is yuck!” she was gone and Damien realised that he truly did not even want the answer to that question. What was the name that her friend always call her? He tried to remember as he could see the girl’s fiery eyes in his mind’s eyes as she was always glaring or scowling at him. Damien couldn’t remember ever seeing her without her customary angry look.He sat on his bed for a while in thought. “She must not know” was the litany that was running through his mind. He was certain that if she know that he worked for them, she would certainly make sure that he lost that job immediately. He imagined tha
“Hey, bro!” Sky called out to Damien the following day at school. He had been waiting for the latter just so he could tell him that he did not care about those bastards.He knew that Damien had been trying to protect him by keeping him out of his trouble and that must have been the reason he said what he said the day before in that imposing manner.Yes, he knew that now. Though it had taken him all afternoon and the better part of the night before with some pep talk from Marcus before he finally arrived at that conclusion; Sky figured what mattered most was that he understood him now.So even though Michael had informed him that he was to do according to what the leader said and stay out of the issue as Damien could take care of himself; Sky left The Abode very early that morning so he could wait for Damien at the door to tell him that they were in this together and they would face those pompous assholes, that had no idea of who they were up against, together.What happened was nothin
Damien was excited to see Sky waiting at the gate for him that morning and he was about to cross over to him to ask about the red-haired girl, momentarily forgetting the fact that he wanted nothing to do with the younger vampire at school to prevent any problem that could stem from such association.Just as he moved toward Sky’s direction, he could see the way some girls were pointing at him and he instantly remembered what he had said. He turned away from Sky when he heard the faint familiar sound of Cade’s car and he knew that it would look good for Cade if blabbermouths like Cade saw them together that morning again.He could feel Sky’s anger as he entered the school’s main building. He passed a small smile on his face as he passed some students who gave him a wide berth as though he had fleas on him. He could see that the fact that his uniform was clean and ironed that morning did not change their mind about him so he walked just as Sky would as he passed them.Ms. Mace was not in
“It was a tradition that those three bastards started,” Sky told Damien through gritted teeth, in answer to his question. He scraped his finger through his hair as he looked up and down the hallway. It was surprisingly deserted now compared to how it had been in the past hour. After Laura’s order that made the students reluctantly left even as some of them take pictures and posted them on their websites. Not only was Laura liked by most of the students, juniors and seniors alike but she was also the school’s head prefect. Sky looked back at Damien’s dripping uniform and winced. “Come, let’s get you cleaned up first. I don’t think that shirt can ever get close to white anymore but at least your hair wouldn’t be matted with paint anymore.” “Tell me the rest,” Damien said without moving an inch. Sky sighed “Okay, ehn, what was I saying? Yes, Ashton started it and it is only exclusive to him. Anybody that he gave the All Hands Mark will not only be bullied by him but everybody in the s