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
“How dare he even show his face here after that?”“Wow, these poor people have no shame” “If it was me, I would find somewhere to bury myself and I wouldn’t face anyone again ever!”Damien could hear the students whisper clearly as the teacher carefully completed the diagram he was drawing on the board before he turned to him.“What happened to you?” the man said and the class laughed as they expected that he was talking about Damien’s pain-spattered uniform. Damien smiled as he felt Sky’s wave of anger filling up the room and he knew that the ignorant students would quake in terror if they knew what was going through the younger’s mind at the moment.He faced the teacher “I…”“Look at you. A new student who got enrolled this late yet you are coming to class this late? What are you standing there for? Get in or do you need a royal welcome?”The students laughed again and they already got their phones ready for recording to add to the ones they already recorded that morning.Damien al
“Can’t she see that her involvement with him has something to do with what they were doing?” he thought briefly before she stepped forward, shrugging her friend’s hand off.“What kind of a head prefect will I be if I leave you all to do as you want in this school just because of an idiot?”Hushed whispers went through the students when they heard that statement from Laura as they knew who she was talking about. Nobody dared talk about Ashton. Well, nobody but Laura. Some of them were recording the event. Some were doing Livestream on their channels in the school-launched app “MaryConnect”“Now, every single one of you that has taken his place should get back in line,” she said with a fold of her arm across her body.The first student that pushed Damien out of the way was just telling the servers what he wanted when Laura spoke. He looked back guiltily when almost every head in the cafeteria swung to him.“Ah, Senior Laura. I was just…”“Step out of the line now!” Laura said and the la
Damien looked down at the food on his tray and then back at the entrance where Zach just left after giving his order. He obviously expected Damien to follow him instantly. The whole room seemed to be in bated breath as they waited to see what he would do. He turned around and saw Laura shaking her head at him. Damien looked away from her instantly as he wished fervently that the day could be over as soon as possible.There would be no escaping this. He knew so he went back towards the counter to return his food. “You are just going to waste all that food?” the server said to him in a disapproving tone. “You children have no problem with wasting food, do you?” “Kelsey! What gives you the right to talk to the students like that?” an older-looking woman said as she came to the counter. She seemed to be in the kitchen before. “Don’t think I can’t fire you just because you got in through the back door. Even a newbie like you must know that Maryland students are not like that backwater s