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Zoe's POV
As soon as they left, Aphrodite grumbled on and on about how ungrateful everything was.
I rolled my eyes and asked, "What is it?"
"Since Lenobia is second in command now, she's making Alexandria room with me," She said.
"I can make her move."
"No, Lenobia said it was either my room or yours and I have a feeling Stevie Rae will be pissed if she even sees someone else sleeping in her bed."
She was right, ugh.
"Alexandria's pretty," I said thinking aloud.
"Shut up Zoe," Aphrodite said throwing a pillow at me. "You've obviously got to be an idiot to not notice yourself and how guys gawk at you all the time. You know, not as much as me though," She said with a toss to her hair.
"You're right," I said laughing at her. "We should go to the dining hall now. Classes will start soon and I want to go ahead and claim all the brown pop I can before the big crowd starts to come in."
Right on the turn Aphrodite and me bumped into her 'oh so glorious warrior' and got ditched almost immediately. And of course, that was the perfect timing to a;most bump into Erik and his friends. They were talking about the new girl, Alexandria of course. The were unbelievably comparing her to Aphrodite and me.
"I don't know man, Zoe still beats both by a landslide I think," one of them said.
"Yes, but Alexandria may be hotter on the scale."
"Need I not remind you that Aphrodite's 'play hard to get' attitude gives hot a whole new meaning?" said another.
Erik just sat there listening and snickering.
That's when someone said it. "I bet that Zoe and Stark will be over by the end of the next month or two tops. Just for Alexandria, you guys saw the way they looked at each other earlier when we passed them."
And there they were, all bickering and placing bets on me and my relationship. I finally walked down the stairs and got all the wide eyed stares and shocked gasping I'd been expecting when before I walked down. Everyone except Erik left, not before they saluted me. He just looked up at me and smiled thoughtfully as if apologizing with his eyes. If that was even possible. I don't get why he bothered to stay there and sit and listen to those idiots betting on me and the new girl. You never know with males. Especially recently changed vampire males. God, how would it be for me to finally be a vampire female? Answer waits on the other side for me I guess, whatever the other side is. Wait, he said something. That's it, I just need to stop babbling in my head. I swear, it always get out of hand. He must have read my expression and repeated.
"I said, Don't pay attention to them. Their just looking for something interesting to talk about. Guys being guys you know," He said.
I nodded not knowing what else to say. "Wanna get some breakfast together?"
"Huh, sure." And off we left.
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Stark's POV
We walked in silence as I showed her around campus. She seemed be taking it all in pretty nicely. I know I and a lot others were scared as hell when we were Marked. It wasn't exactly comforting to leave your old life and learn new things; abandon everything you've ever known in your human life. I don't know; like always, the ways of Nyx are mysterious.
I showed her to our library at last; last section of the school. "And this is the library."
"I figured at least that much when we got here," She answered.
I smiled. She smiled. And then the idiots passed.
"So how's this whole mentor thing going to work out?"
"Well today you're missing your classes to spend the day with me and to get you a feeling on what it's going to be like. From then on, you will meet up with me 2-3 hours before classes to get this mentoring thing in. We won't spend the whole day on this although, I will take us out before or sometime in between the rest of the day so we can get to know each other better. We can't just be teacher and student; we'll be like friends too," I replied with a smile.
She nodded, stepped forward and tripped. I grabbed her harm just before she face-flat on the floor. We stood like that for what seemed like hours but only a minute, face to face, only inches apart. Her beautiful ginger hair was hanging and her beanie fell to the floor. Her skin complexion went so right with her hair color. I pulled the hair that was still on her face back. Her blood red, full lips went right with everything. Her skinny, petite body was perfect. What the hell am I thiinking!? That's when she leaned forward and..