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
“I know the lounge. Come, let me take you there” Sky, who had made himself scarce when Ms Mace was confronting Jonathan said the moment Damien got to the entrance of the class where Sky stood. “What lounge?” Damien asked as he brushed off his cloth. “I will....… You don’t want me to take you there” Sky deduced when Damien did not move from the spot where he was standing. Damien sighed imperceptibly “You know…” “I know that you believe that I can’t handle myself with these stupid kids” Sky answered before Damien could complete his statement. Annoyance is evident in his voice. “Just show me where the lounge is,” Damien said matter-of-factly. Sky raised his brow at that. “Fine, give me the direction to the damn lounge!” Damien snapped. “Now I am talking like you” “Glad to see that I am rubbing off on you,” Sky said straightfaced, as he tried to hide the amused twitch of his lips. Sky gave him the direction to the lounge before returning to class. “Hurry up, break period will be
“I…ah” Damien had no idea of what to say when Zach turned away from him after throwing out his insulting question. He left the door open though and just as Damien was wondering if that was an invitation, the latter turned to him with a snap. “What are you waiting for? An invitation?” Damien quickly entered and he was gobsmacked by what he saw. He couldn’t believe that such a room was in a school building as it was so different from any room he had seen so far. “Look who we have here,” Collins said mockingly as he stood some distance to a dart board, casually throwing red, little darts at the board. He was dressed in all black, his outfit contrasting with the creamy-wine colour of the room accentuated by the low lights. Damien was distracted for a moment as he wondered why the darts were not falling off since they had no visible spike that could make them stick to the board. He turned his head and looked in amazement when he saw a tennis table to another side of the wide room and an
“He is coming!” Damien was still smiling in amusement when he stepped out of the elevator that took him from the floor where the pampered kids had their lounge. The loud whisper made him jerk his head toward the voice and he was amazed as he saw some boys tapping each other as they gave him a once-over.“Wow, he came back in one piece after all! Oh no, my money!” one of the boys lamented as he brought his money out of his pocket and most of the others standing by did the same.Damien was still wondering what was going on when Sky came out of the class with a smirk on his face as he said “Hand it over, boys”More groans followed before all of them gave Sky 100 dollar bills each. “$100 is nothing to me anyway. It is only losers like you that value paper money like this” one of the juniors said as he gave the person collecting the money his crinkling $100 bill. He immediately turn away though and beat a hasty retreat before Sky could take a step in his direction.“Yeah, that is right. G