Keaira McMannis sighed and sat down beside Rei Morgan. She had hated him with a passion all through school, and there were good reasons too. Keaira was a witch, born and raised, but she'd never really went around bragging about it; Rei was a vampire, beautiful, eternal and constantly conceded. She didn't bother looking over at the beautiful blonde. He'd never had a kind word to say to her, or a word at all for that matter. No, Rei and Keaira had known each other for years, been raised with each other, but she could't stand him. At first, all the girls envied her for their family ties, told her how they wanted to be in her position, some would even go so far as to befriend her and spend the night in hopes of seeing him. She sighed, She could never see what was so great about Rei Morgan.
"Miss McMannis." The teacher, Mr. Rhodus looked up at her from his desk. "Could you come forward please?"
Sighing and nervous the entire way, Keaira walked up. "Yes sir?"
"There's a new student today, I'd like you to show him around." He pointed to the door. "Damien Heartstring....you're excused from class this afternoon to give him a tour." Keaira sighed, her ebony curls fell in her face as she nodded, collected her things then went out to show the new guy around. She could tell something was different about him, something inside him screamed he was in the NightWorld, but...you never spoke of those things in public. After the day was over, she politely told him goodbye and started walking home to her Grandmothers shop, which she stayed at. She'd never expected Rei to be sitting in the shop talking to her Gram Marygold to be talking to him.
"Ah...Keaira, you're home!" she smiled from her cup of tea.
"Grams...Rei." she let his name roll off her tounge in disguest, he hated it when he beat her home.
"Ahh...Keaira sweetheart I was beginning to get worried about you...Rei said you left school an hour ago..." Gram Marygold stood up.
"Yeah...I gave Illana a ride home, and we stopped by DiscLand to pick a few things up." she gave her allaby with no more than a second thought. "IS that the tea pot I hear?" she asked.
"Oh..yes." Marygold laughed and smiled. "Musta left it on, dear me...Well. I'm going to go call your Great Auntie Rosengurtal, you two behave yourselves alright..." she gave Keaira the 'It wouldn't hurt you to call her once and a while...now be nice to our company' look. After the older woman was out of the room, Keaira let her smile drop with a sigh.
"What are you doing here? Harassing my poor old grams?" she had her hands on her hips and was glaring daggers at Rei.
"Wanted to check up on you..I mean, after a day with the new vampire...I figured you'd be toast..." He stood up and sat his tea cup down with an arrogant smile. Keaira grabbed the cookie from his mouth and tossed it in his tea cup.
"What would it have mattered to you huh?" she asked with a snap, grabbing his arm and pulling him through the great foyer that stood as the store and pushed him to the door.
Rei laughed as she did so, but scanned her body for bite marks, he was the only vampire that ever fed on her.
"Sheez...you act as though chivalry is lost upon me..." He rolled his eyes as she pushed him to the great large door that graced the front of the massive house.
"It is." she said flatly doing her best to push him out of the doorframe, but he held on tight. "Can't I be worried about an old playmate?"
"Old playmate?" she rolled her eyes. "Give it a rest Rei, really!" she thought about kicking him between the legs to get him the rest of the way out of the house, it wouldn't have been the first time...
"Honestly. A new vampire shows up and you get all chummy with me?" she laughed. "It's gonna take a LOT more than that to make me change my mind about you!" she pointed a slender finger in his face. With a cocky grin, Rei extended his fangs and pretended to snap at her.
"Go." she said, refusing to find the humor in his last action.
"Fine...Fine...I guess I'll go pack my bags, since I'm staying here for the weekend..." he laughed.
"What are you blabbering about?" she sighed.
"Grams is going to a Daybreaker meeting....so...she invited me to stay here and watch over you, wasn't that soo sweet of her?" with his best 'Do hate me because I'm beautiful' smile he continued. "So...being the gentleman that I am, I accepted..."
"OHHHH..." She growled and pushed him out of the doorframe. "GET OUT!" she slammed the door in his face. She couldn't believe it, her grandmother had ACTUALLY invited him to stay... This was NOT going to be a good weekend.