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Imperfection Well-Regulated

Chapter 2

Thea Harman

I couldn't help but to sigh in relief as Blaise and I finally finished signing the last paper principal Blackren gave us. It was official, me and Blaise are now apart of the students in Clearwater Private Secondary School.

Who knew transferring could be so painful? My hand was honestly killing me. Seeing how Blaise and I don't really have a very clean reputation, transferring here was a little hard. At first, they didn't want to accept us, but with the help of some Redfern relatives, soon enough the school decided to let us in. But not before handing us the biggest folder of paper work I have ever seen.

"Thank you girls, everything is set. You may make your way to the cafeteria for the assembly" Principal Blackren said as he finished writing a little note on the folder with all the paper work.

"Thank you sir" I said while Blaise just smiled and nodded. Soon enough we were both out of the office and on our way to the cafeteria.

"Stupid human" Blaise commented clearly referring to the principal. "What was he aiming for? Breaking my hand"

"Let it go Blaise" I said shaking my head "Just be happy we got accepted"

"I didn't want to get accepted. I hate high school. Its honestly getting annoying" She complained.

"Just think about the positive things" I said trying to think of any actual positive thing about this.

"There is nothing positive. Unless you want to count the guys" Blaise now had a wicked grin on her face "Maybe ill find myself a poppet"

I sighed before reaching the door to the cafeteria "Where will we be sitting?" I asked before opening the door.

"Lets find Ash" was all Blaise said before we both walked in.

Sure enough, we found Ash sitting next to Quinn and Kestrel in the far back left corner, luckily the teacher that was in the front was still trying to figure out how to turn on the microphone, so the assembly hadn't technically started yet. Everyone was still making a lot of noise as the they talked to each other.

I thought no one would really notice us, but I was wrong. With Blaise's high heels making loud sounds as she walked like a professional model, by a matter of seconds everyone's attention was focused on us. Blaise walked in front of me as guys were whistling, girls were murmuring and the other people were just staring. The cafeteria slowly got quiet.

Blaise had a smirk on all the time I simply walked with a normal expression. This year would probably be no different then any other year… at least that's what I thought so far.

Hannah Snow

"More Redfern's?" I asked as I saw the two girls who had just entered the cafeteria sit next to Ash Redfern.

"They looks hot, rich, spoiled and conceited. My guess is yes" David said before turning towards James.

"Thea and Blaise Harman" He said with a smile "They are relatives of the Redfern's. For me, they are like second generation cousins"

"Are they like the Redfern's?" I asked, but then corrected myself "I mean, are they like Ash?"

"Blaise is worse then Ash- in my opinion" James answered while nodding his head "Thea is not as bad, she just goes along with Blaise a lot"

"Which one is which?" David asked clearly checking them out. Why am I friends with him again?

"Blaise is probably the one who walked in first. The girl with the heels. Right?" Eric spoke not really paying attention to the girls right now, unlike David of course. That's why I never really hit Eric.

"Yup" Was all James said before turning his attention to Poppy as she started talking about how funny the teachers looked as they tried to get the microphone to work.

"They are both hot" David said still having his attention on the girls.

"And they are both never going to date you. Stop staring" I said hitting his head harder this time.

"I'm going to sue you for aggressive and physical assault against me" David complained as he rubbed his head.

"We should sue you for obsessive stupidity"

"That didn't make sense Hannah"

Mary-Lynnette Carter

Finding Maggie turned out harder then I thought.

The hallways were packed with kids. I thought everyone was suppose to be in the cafeteria already, but apparently not…I had to push a couple of people to get through. What surprised me is that most were freshman. I thought they would be scared to skip and all, but apparently not.

After a couple of minutes of walking through some hallways, around 2 minutes after the bell rang. I finally spotted Maggie. I was about to give up anyways.

Maggie saw me and then gestured me to go over to where she was. I did and then noticed she was trying to get to the washroom. I say 'trying' because at the moment, a lot of sophomore plastic-looking girls were all standing there blocking the way.

I rolled my eyes before practically yelling "Excuse me"

Some turned towards me gave me a dirty glare and simply moved, other girls just moved without even acknowledging me and then this one girl with bright gray-yellowish eyes and thick-long black hair- who was definitely not a sophomore, but a senior just like me, decided not to move. She gave me and Maggie a death glare, then rolled her eyes and slightly moved her shoulder, leaving just enough space for me and Maggie to pass.

We did. We pushed the door open walked inside and as the door slowly closed Maggie said "Thank you" even though we both knew we wouldn't get a response.

"It had to be a Redfern" Maggie murmured while rolling her eyes. I was about to say something when I noticed we weren't the only ones in the washroom.

My jaw nearly dropped as I saw who stood right in front of one of the mirrors fixing her hair.

"Wow"

Delos Redfern

"I'm sure you were told to not use it…"

I sighed before shaking my head and sitting back down. First day and I already hate this place.

"…what if a human had been the one to come up here and not me…"

What was the council thinking by forcing me to come here? It didn't even make sense. It's not like I need this school. I don't need education, I don't need to 'socialize with my family', and I definitely don't need to live a normal teenager life.

Those were the three excuses the council had given me. Those were the three things that had convinced my father and great uncle to agree to this. The three stupidest things I have heard in my life.

"…what the fuck are you doing up here in the first place?"

I slowly lifted my head to see Morgead leaning on the wall with his arms crossed "I wanted to be alone"

"Why up here?"

"Because every other corner in this school is occupied by vermin"

"Harsh words for a Prince" Morgead mocked but then barked a laugh "But of course, a nigh world prince is bond to be different then any human royalty. So I guess you being a dick is excusable"

"What are you doing here?" I asked not really caring.

"This is my spot"

"oh" I said once again not really caring, I could tell he wasn't caring about this conversation either.

"You cant play with your blue fire out in the open like this" Morgead said clearly referring to what had happened earlier.

As soon as I got to the school I focused on finding a place where I would be with no one around- with no vermin around. I was lucky enough to find those stairs that led to the roof. Once up here, I just made my self comfortable and as I happen to get bored I started 'playing' with my blue fire.

Since I was young I've been thought to manage it. I have full control over it and I can pretty much say that I can do whatever I want with it. Yes, I've been told not to use it and yes, I don't care. I may sound childish, but its my blue fire, it runs in my veins, therefore its my decision to pick if I want to use it or not.

When Morgead barged in I reacted fast thinking he was someone who may be a threat to me so I shot at him. Of course, he also has fast reflects so he dodged it, but regardless both him and I knew that he could have lost his life. That's the reason why we are currently 'fighting'.

"Your okay. Get over it"

"Its not that" Morgead exclaimed annoyed "I tell Jez the same thing, apart from being dangerous, it's also abnormal. If someone- a human- saw you lighting up a blue fire with your hands, they would be pretty freaked out"

"Do people usually come here?" I asked.

With a shrug Morgead answered "As far as I know, I'm the only one that knows about this place- apart from you" he didn't sound to pleased about the last part.

"So you have nothing to worry about. I don't use my blue fire in public, I'm not that stupid"

"Of course not your highness" Morgead mocked me again, but that was irrelevant. His words didn't matter to me.

"Speaking of royalty" I rolled my eyes as I turned towards the direction the voice had come from. So much for some time alone… "I didn't know Galen was transferring" Jez said looking down at the school entrance, she was standing in the other side of the roof.

"What are you doing here?" Morgead asked not to happy.

"Did you honestly think you were the first one to find this place?" She asked with her eyes still focused on Galen who was 3 floors below. "Was Galen forced to transfer just like you Delos?"

"Yup" I said as I pulled out my keys to make a cut again so I could 'play' with my blue fire.

"Turning emo Redfern?" Morgead asked.

"Don't you have classes to go to?" I asked getting annoyed.

"Classes start when the assembly ends, which is an hour from now"

Jez snorted "Your actually going to class?"

"Why not? A class full of females that could make a perfect lunch" Morgead said giving Jez a smirk.

"Whatever" She simply replied "How about you dear old cousin?" Jez asked with the same mocking tone Morgead used- these two are a lot a like.

I gave her a cold glare before answering "I don't have a choice- and you shouldn't either"

"I don't. I never said I wasn't going to class, I'm just asking if you are"

I saw her roll her eyes before she made her way to the door "I'm going to the assembly" She informed us "And both of you are coming with me"

Me and Morgead looked at each other and then back at Jez. Both of us had a confused expression on our face. Did she actually think I would go because she wanted me too.

"I don't need guys crowding up besides me and since you two are rather scary looking…" Jez trailed off and then added "Unless your scared of humans"

Normally I would have ignored her. I knew she could be persuasive and convincing, but for some stupid reason I had paid attention to her. So I fell for her stupid trick.

"I'm not scared" I said as I stood up. "Specially not of humans" Morgead agreed and then soon enough both of us were making our way to the cafeteria with a very happy Jez.

Bitch.

Galen Drache

When I was called to a meeting three weeks ago I never really imagined it would be a meeting about school. So my shock was definitely shown- and you can only imagine how wide my mouth fell open when I saw Delos arrive at that meeting. He was definitely not happy about it and in all honesty neither was I. I didn't understand why school would be so important, specially when they were only forcing us to go for one year.

They were also very specific in what school they wanted us to attend. Clearwater Private Secondary School. I have heard of that school, after all it's the school in which most of the Nigh World teens are attending. I knew not of many, but during the meeting they did happen to pull out a list.

It had a number of Redfern's which only made Delos complain more I was also able to recognize some other names like James Rasmussen a relative of the Redfern's and Thierry Descouedres an elder- in my opinion that was weird. Thierry must have been to school over a million times. Why go now?

Well soon enough after a lot of explaining coming from the council and a lot of complaining coming from me and Delos papers were signed and a call was made to the principal of the school.

So this is why I'm sitting in this cafeteria waiting for the teachers to finally get those microphones working.

I scanned the cafeteria as soon as I entered and soon enough I had located at least five shapeshifters who had bowed their head once they made eye contact with me. I saw some witches as well, two of them being Thea and Blaise Harman.

Thea bowed her head once she saw me, I simply returned a smile, I was the prince of the shapeshifters meaning she had no reason to bow. Blaise had given me a smile and of course I had returned one my self. I knew both of them from far back when we had taken that one class the council gave to teach us about the rules and laws of the Night World.

Next to Blaise three vampires sat. I didn't know either of them but I was certain at least one was a Redfern. Apart from them all I was also able to spot James. He also bowed his head once we made eye contact and then he turned his attention back to the girl who was sitting next to him. She looked small and fragile- she was human.

I was actually surprised, the vampires, witches and shapeshifters were all seated together and they all kept their distance from humans. But James, was actually sitting next to a lot of humans. It even seemed like he just fit right in.

I on the other hand, had found a seat at the back. Not many people were around me, there was just this one girl who was sitting at my right. Her hair was long and black and I don't know why but she didn't seem to like me. I liked her eyes though, they were bright green. I had to give it to her she was a very pretty human.

Thats it!

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