Dark Night (11 page)

5th Astrology-Elder
Tariq-Room 380

6th AP Languages-Elder
Braeden-Room 256

7th Basic
Training-Instructor Lord Robert Townsend-Main Gym

(8th Optional see training
instructor) Extra training-Study hall-Early leave

8th Extra
Training-Elder Abi-Main Gym

I grabbed my cell phone and put it in the bag
I didn’t want to carry two bags so I just figured that was all I
would need. Robert was not in the room and he had left the key on
the counter so I took it too. When I walked out of the room he was
behind me.

“Can I talk to you?” He asked as I started
walking. “Wait, please.” He touched my arm and I looked down then
he pulled it back, I looked away.

“What do you want?”

“To talk to you about what you saw last
night.” He reminded me of the scene that I had walked in on.

“I didn’t see anything, none of my business.”
I told him and kept walking. He followed.

“It is your business. Look, I’m trying to do
the right thing here. I don’t want to be with her but I have to,
just like you have to be with Jack and in time you’ll learn to like
him.” I could hear it in his voice that he didn’t even believe what
he was saying.

“You knew about him and you didn’t tell me?”
It was all clear now, how everyone knows everything, except for
me.

“I tried but forget that. We
at least need to try to break this bond while the King and Queen
return, that is if Mylian has not told them yet. Only they will
decide, until then we need to keep distance.”

“I couldn’t agree more, why don’t you start
by changing the class that I have with you?” I threw at his face,
he probably knew about that too.

“There’s nothing we can do about the classes.
That’s something we’re going to have to deal with even if we don’t
like each other.” He said flatly.

“Whatever then,” We walked down the stairs
and I saw Isabelle standing by the wall.

“Hello, Mia.” She bowed, and I bowed back.
“How was the ball?” She asked.

“It was full of surprises.” I smiled and
looked at Robert who was standing by me.

“I’m glad to hear you have become part of the
royalty.” She really seemed pleased.

“That makes one of us.” I said under my
breath. “It’s great.” I said to her face, knowing that was what she
wanted to hear.

“Have you looked at the package yet?” Crap.
The package I had last night, I had left on the table and I had
forgotten completely about it until now. So I lied.

“Not yet. But I will later it’s in my room.”
Robert looked with a smirk on his face and I glared at him.

“Well, when you get the chance to look at it
you need to come by and see me. My office is right down
there.” She pointed towards the main entrance. “Just ask Robert if
you need anything. I trust you have been helping her?” She asked
him.

“Of course,” Was all he
could say.

“There is something I need to speak with both
of you about in private later in the afternoon... If you could
please, come see me?” I nodded.

“Yes. We will.” He said. I knew what it was
about. Milyan had told her about our bond and now we were going to
get lectured about it.

“Till’ then I’ll see you, get to class.” She
said as she waved.

I walked through the doors that led outside.
It was nice and warm, about seventy degrees. Robert was still
behind me, but he wasn’t following me he was just going to class
too. I skipped breakfast, I wasn’t hungry. My stomach was aching a
little.

My phone rang.

I picked it up and didn’t even look at the
number but I answered it.

“Hello?” I waited.

“Mia, it’s me. Tell Robert
to take you to the cafeteria from there I’ll meet you and show you
the class rooms,” Mereily said.

“Alright,” I hung up. I wasn’t happy about
the idea of asking Robert for anything anymore but I had to. “Can
you show me where the cafeteria is?”

“Yes.” He said flatly and slightly smiled. I
ignored that and kept walking, we went into the building and it
looked just like a school. There were stairs leading down, and
stairs leading up. We were in the middle level, we walked straight
down the hall until the cafeteria came into view. Students sat
there while they ate their breakfast I spotted Mereily easily, she
was standing by the main door.

“Thanks” She told him. I didn’t even look at
him, and he didn’t say anything either he just went into the
cafeteria. It wasn’t as big as the dining area by the dorms or as
nice. But it was to be expected of a school that made me feel like
I was in a real school (which it was), I think I confused myself__
“Not covering up much today?” She noticed. I shook my head. “Let me
see your schedule.” I dug through my bag, when I found it I gave it
to her. She looked at it, for a minute or two. “You have three
classes with me.” She pointed at them. We had 1st, 2nd and 6th
hours together. That was good to know.

“That’s cool. So where’s our first class?” I
asked.

“Follow me.” She said and I followed. We went
back through the hall and down the stairs to the first floor.
“These are the four hundreds and five hundreds. I think some of
your classes will be down here.” She kept walking straight. “Here.”
We stopped in front of a door, it was closed but the room number
was big enough for everyone to see. “Room 400, this is our first
class, your third class is all the way down the hall and that would
be room 512, on your left. Also for room 420 that’s right over
there.” She pointed at the right side of the hall. “I’ll show you
the rest after class. Confused yet?”

“No. it’s pretty easy.” I wasn’t lying, I had
thought it would be hard, but it wasn’t, yet. The door to our first
class opened, a man greeted us.

“Good morning Mereily, early to class?” He
asked her.

“Yes, actually you have a new student. This
is Mia Dawney.” She introduced me.

“Nice to meet you Miss. Dawney, I am Elder
Abel. And you may call me Elder Abel.” He was awkwardly funny
looking. I guessed he also tried to be verbally.

“Nice meeting you too.” I said. The classroom
was still empty but he let us in.

“I have a sit for you Miss. Dawney.” Elder
Abel wasn’t old he was around thirty and he wore glasses, his hair
was long I could tell because he had it pulled back. “ You may sit
right there.” He said pointing at a spot on a table. There were
three large squared tables and there were chairs around them. I
went to sit at the chair he pointed.

Mereily sat next to me,
“This is my seat.” She said and I smiled, glad to have her in a
class. A bell rang. We sat quietly while the students arrived in
the room. I saw some that I had met last night, others I didn’t
know. A girl that I had not seen before sat next to me, she
smiled.

“Hi. I’m Delilah, are you new?” She asked me,
she was cute. She reminded me of a Barbie with her pretty blonde
hair straightened and it wasn’t as long as mine, but still long.
She had a black headband with a hot pink bow on her head. Her
uniform was a hot pink skirt with black top and sweater. She had
high cheek bones, and pretty skin. Her eyes were emerald green.

“Yeah, this is my first day. I’m Mia, by the
way.” I shook her hand.

“As in… Mia Dawney?” Nice to know there
wasn’t a person in the school who didn’t know who I was.

“Exactly, that one,” I said. Mereily said hi
to her and apparently they knew each other.

“She’s Robert’s little sister. Lady Delilah,
but she doesn’t like to be called that, just Delilah,” Mereily
said.

“Really?” I had no idea Robert had a sister.
But it shouldn't have surprised me I didn’t know he was Mereily’s
cousin which made Delilah her cousin too.

Hmm, “Yeah, I’m not that
little I’m seventeen, he’s the old one. Just call me Delilah, or
lilah.” She said. Now I was curious to know how old he was. I had
thought he was about nineteen.

“How old is he?” I asked her hoping she
didn’t mind.

She didn’t. “Twenty. Well almost, he turns
twenty this weekend so basically he’s an adult. But he‘ll be
graduating with you, so I guess it’s a good age.” She shrugged.
“I’m kind of half junior half senior, it’s really dumb but they
won’t allow siblings to be in the same grade or classes for fear of
cheating and that kind of goes for everyone. See I’m too smart for
my own good and Robby is too but he refuses to get ahead of
everyone else so I’m stuck in this weird grade thing.” She rolled
her eyes. Elder Abel closed the door and walked in front of the
class. He started talking about something I didn’t pay attention.
Delilah left me with some thoughts about what she had said. I was
wondering off, which I shouldn’t have because when the class was
dismissed by the bell I was lost.

“Mia, did you get the
assignment?” Mereily asked.

“No. I don’t think I heard anything, I mean I
wasn’t paying much attention… What was the assignment?” She looked
at her cousin and then back at me.

“Are you alright?” I heard Mereily’s
concerned voice.

“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?”

“Just checking,” Mereily and Delilah
exchanged another look and we left the room. “Hey, I’ll see you
later.” She told Delilah. Delilah nodded.

We walked up the stairs as students were
going to their second hour class. “Will you tell me why you were
both exchanging weird looks?”

“I knew you noticed, it’s about the other
vampires but it’s not important right now, we can talk about it on
lunch.” She said trying to change the subject. “You really didn’t
know she was my cousin?”

“No idea.” I said.

“You know where the cafeteria is? Well, the
Library is right beside it. And the one hundreds are on the same
floor.” We walked up to the third floor. “This is where you’ll find
the two hundreds and three hundreds. It’s smaller, so you won’t get
lost. There is two more floors, but that’s the college credit
classes only. We won’t need to go there until next year.” We
stopped in a classroom that was smaller than the first. “There are
only fifteen students in this class. You’ll know everybody once
class is over.” She said smiling. “Elder Carden.” She called
her.

“Yes. Oh.. I see Mia is joining our class.” I
was gonna have to get use to the idea of everybody knowing me. “I’m
Carden. You’ll get in trouble for calling me Carden, but I’m Elder
Carden. We have fun in this class, so please take a seat where you
like.” She told me.

“Thank you Elder Carden.” I was being polite,
I liked her. She was young and pretty. I didn’t know what an Elder
was exactly but so far Elder Abel and Carden were good looking
Elders. “I have a question.”

“I bet I have the answer to your question.”
She smiled widely. I smiled back.

“Um, what is Sociology? Is it like
socializing with people and things like that?” She wasn’t surprised
by my question.

“Don’t worry about that. I’ll cover that
today, and you’ll see what it is.” She said. Mereily told me to sit
by her and I did. The last bell rang and the Elder closed the door
behind her. “Good morning class, today we’re going to discuss
Sociology, it is not a normal class day. No word puzzles or
anything like that. Charles, give me your definition of Sociology.”
She told a kid that looked just like a kid.

“The study of classification
of different societies...” The boy said.

“Yes. That’s the general definition. But our
definition is the study of society, human, vampires, gods or
goddesses, and Elder’s social interaction, and the rules &
processes that bind and separate people not only as individual, but
as members of associations, groups and institutions.” I took my
note book out and wrote down the definition. “Humans, they are just
like animals in a way they stick to their own race. Vampires in the
other hand, don’t. Only the evil mortals and immortals are banned
from our society. Other than that, we live at peace with each
other. We also have good mortals and immortals. The immortals are
the goddesses and elders, which I am one. You are all mortals even
after you fully become a vampire. I have lived a very long time and
I can tell you that not all is good out there. This is why it’s
important for you to know the differences between our worlds.
Goddesses or gods are also picked to become one. They have their
own schools where they learn and train for one. They are very much
like humans. The difference is that they are immortal. To become
one, they take an oath, drink from a special wine and stay that
certain age forever. Elders, we are different from all three
groups. We are not trained to become one, most of the time we are
already born that way. Elders come from the mixture of humans and
vampires. We are immortal as well. We take on more from the
vampires but we have our human in us. That said we can continue
with the classification of each.” She spoke as she walked around
the class room.

Everything she said had me excited to learn
more, I had no idea about the types of groups and how they were
made. Now I had a basic idea. What I wanted to learn was about
bonds and things like that. Just so I would know how to break one,
I would wait until the end of the day to see if anyone discussed it
in a class. Elder Carden assigned us to research one of the groups
in detail. The class went by fast because I was fascinated with the
topic, I learned so much in one hour. Then the bell rang and class
was over.

“Do you want me to show you your next
class?”

“I got it. Thanks though, you need to get to
your class so you won’t be late.” I told Mereily.

“Alright, I’ll meet you in front of the
cafeteria for lunch.” She said as she was going the opposite way I
was.

“See you then.” I kept to myself while I
walked down the stairs back to the first floor. I passed my first
hour class and looked for room 512. When I finally found it the
last bell rang. I went in and the teacher recognized me right
away.