While we had been driving my eyes had shut, I wasn't sleeping.. of course. I would get so embarrassed if I started snoring like a lion, when I had a driver I didn't know. So I did what any sane person would.. I just closed my eyes and relaxed. Though I wasn't sure if I had been sleeping, because suddenly my drivers voice said: "Miss. You can wake up now, we are almost there. We are driving through the forest now, and in a couple of minutes, we'll see the academy."
I opened my eyes, and was about to reassure him, that I hadn't slept at all, but then I saw the entrance of the forest. Which I may say was wonderful, beautiful and amazing all mixed into one word.. which sadly didn't exist.
We had been driving through a town, I could see the lights in the behind us, but we had been driving up a small hill, and reached the forest. Though it was clear not everyone could enter it. there was a black iron gate, which looked like those Victorian gates. In the middle of the gate there was two letters DA. Drovili Academy. In a little house on the left side, a man came out with a flash light, and some serious looking weapons. He had a gun and a sword on his back, while in his hand he had some strange high-tech thingy, which lighted the car with a blue light.
My driver rolled down his window and looked at the guard. He had a uniform on as well, and looked pretty strong.
"What's the code?" the guard asked.
"1678-electra." My driver answered.
"Who's your passenger?" the guard asked as the tapped the number in on his.. thing or what ever it was.
"Melanie Darrow, Witch, descended of the Darrow and Crowley families. Her mother and sister is waiting. She's a new student, and an order from The Council." My driver answered, somehow when he said 'an order from The Council' the guards eyes got a bit surprised, and he couldn't help himself to not look at me. His eyes was filled with questions he knew wouldn't be answered.
"What about you?" he asked, his voice a bit shocked, but he got it under control. Seems like that Council really was something big in their world.. oh sorry, my world.. that's what it was now.
"Thomas Farring. Driver for the Queen." He answered. The guard gaped a bit and his eyes returned at me. It didn't take a mind reader to see what he thought; "How can this girl be so important?"
Well, hopefully he would never get the answer to that, 'cause I really didn't want anymore crazy bloodsucking people after me.. was it even okay to call them people? Could I curse and they wouldn't be offended? What about saying 'oh my god' would that tick them off? Crap! Just thinking about this made my head hurt.
While I was spacing out, my driver drove through the gate. A weird tremor ran through me. As if something closed it self on me, it actually felt nice, I could feel myself relaxing a bit more, I felt safe. I sighed relieved without knowing why.
Thomas looked in the mirror and said: "That thing you just felt, is the protective spell that the adult witches makes. It's too keep all enemies out, like hungry vampires, or mad werewolves. Everyone driving through here, feels the relief of being safe and protected."
"Amazing." I just answered as I looked out the window.
We drove on a graveled road, which made it a bit of a bumpy ride in this beautiful black Mercedes. Seemed like vampires.. or what ever they were, liked to drive expensive and fast things.
On the sides on the road, there was small torches with real fire in them, the forest behind them seemed scary and dark, while the road got a somewhat medieval look to it. like we was on our way to a giant party at the Dukes home.
The path twisted as a caught snake would, but soon I could see our destination. It was a large white building, which had those roman/Greek pillars on the ground, keeping up what looks like a long and giant canopies. There was a beautiful garden that seemed like it was going all around the main building. The road changed from gravel to cobblestone, which lead us down to a huge garage. Seemed like the kids here could store their own cars too. Amazing.
There was spotlights, that lighted the building from bottom to top, giving it a kind of creepy ghostly mansion look, but it looked cool at the same time. There were large windows on the main building. Something I hadn't expected, but hey William/Vladimir had already told me, that sun didn't bother them. I hadn't noticed the other buildings; the main one had swept me off the floor, so I hadn't noticed that there was a parking lot as well, where my mother, my aunt and Anna patiently waited.
The other building looked Greek/roman, with it's big pillars and that beautiful white carved stone. The doors were open wide, and showed the wooden floor had a driftwood color. the walls in there was white too, it too had big windows. Through them, I could see a group of teens doing fighting techniques. Which looked pretty cool.
My eyes sucked all the new impressions too them. Some other teens walked out of the.. what was it? a gym? And headed towards the main house, they were laughing, so it seemed like it wasn't dungeons and grave yards and.. creepy castles with ghosts and… stuff like that.. anyway..
The car stopped and my driver got out, and opened my door before I could as much as click my seatbelt open. Seems like he had some gentleman manners. A part of me loved it, and the rebel part of me hated it, why should men do that? Didn't I have hands?
I got out of the car, feeling a bit like a princess though I would never, ever admit it. I was on the edge of saying something like: "Thank you Thomas, I'm delighted to be here." But I controlled it.
I looked at the garden, which I may say was wonderful! I could see how the roses was growing it's way up of the main building, like a lover it clung to the walls, together with another plant I couldn't remember the name of.
I didn't notice my family until Anna buried her head in my stomach.
"Melly are you really going to live here?" she asked, she sounded a bit scared. I would too, my family didn't really have a lot of money, my mothers last marriage was… well, let's call it a disaster, the guy was really great at the beginning, but then he started to gamble all our money away, so now we have a huge dept on our shoulders, which basically meant, that my mom worked her ass off, trying to support us, as well as paying back the money. He was the father of Anna, and he didn't really like her, he didn't like me either, so why did he even get a kid?
"Yeah, I'm going to stay, it's best this way." I answered, feeling the lump in my throat. I tried the best not to cry, I hated when people saw me crying. It made me feel so weak.
"You wont ever visit, or come home? I can't see you anymore?" she asked and looked up at me, with big teary eyes. Another thing that I hated, was that if I saw someone crying, I couldn't help it, I just started crying as well. So embarrassing.
"Please don't cry! Of course I'm gonna see you, if I need to sneak out, in the middle of the night, then I would. Don't worry, I'm not going away or anything." I answered and got on my knees, and pulled her into my arms.
Poor Anna had a thing with people dying, she didn't like her father, but my great-grandfather Jim, loved her to heaven, and she bonded with him, unfortunately he died. So did all of her pets, her cat Kitty, and her fishes Toby, Jimbo and Gregg. Weird names for fish, but what can you do? It was actually a tragic accident, Kitty ate the fish, and then she got run over by a car. Even more sad was, it was her fathers car, he just cursed at it, and threw it out. My mother never forgave him for that, the next day he was killed in a car crash, he had been drinking while driving the police said. He didn't leave us any money, nope, he left us the exact opposite, we had no money at all.
"Don't leave me Melly!" she cried. I patted her hair, and did my best to keep the tears down. When my mother and Alan – her husband at the time – argued, I usually held my hands over Anna's ears, and sang a little song, while trying to keep the tears and sadness from showing.
"You will come back and visit?" she asked again.
"Yup, if I need the Royal life guard, then I'm going to get it," I answered. She stopped crying, instead she just sobbed a bit, and dried her eyes.
"Okay.." she said carefully, she wasn't going to agree on anything just yet. She wanted cold hard evidence.
As soon as I got up again, my mother embraced me in a tight hug.
"OH HONEY! DON'T EVER SCARE ME LIKE THAT AGAIN, ELSE I'M GONNA.. GET VERY MAD.." my mother said loudly. Which was quite embarrassing, the group of teens looked in my direction. I could feel my face heating up with the embarrassment.
"Relax, I'm fine now.. nothing happened, thanks to. William or Vladimir, or what ever he calls himself." I answered and rolled my eyes.
"You were really lucky he came! A god damn vampire? I would kill him, if he weren't already dead," she said angry.
My driver looked at her with lifted eyebrows. Seems like he was a vampire, haha nice one mom.
"I mean.. he was a god damn vampire.. not all vampires of course.. anyway, how are you feeling Mel?" she said, a bit embarrassed herself.
"Better if you would let me breathe, and stop talking so loud, it's freaking embarrassing." I answered.
"Oh, righty." She lot go of me.
My aunt Isabelle, gave me a hug too. She had the same kind of dark brown hair as my mom, but a pair darker eyes.
"So Melanie.. are you done making trouble?" she said and smiled at me.
"Yeah, never ever again." I answered and smiled back, somehow she just knew how to make people feel at ease.
"Well then, let's go see your new room." She said and walked away with me, on to a little path of cobblestone again. The path was wrapped in a long line of beech wood trees, which long branches gentle reached down to us, of course they were cut so it didn't land in our hair and faces, but it still looked pretty, I could see the evening stars shine, when I looked through the leaves and branches. The path separated into three other paths, the one we followed turned a little bit to the left, but not quite, there was a path on each side of it, ours lead us more right, there were two to the right, and two to the left.
"This path leads us down to the four dorms, we have Humanoid, which means witches, the one furthest to the right, is the one that leads us to the Guardian Trainees. Those two to the left are those who drinks blood, the one furthest to the left, and our shape shifters, and werewolves. You can easily tell the difference, the red path is red as blood, which means blood drinkers, the green and brown are those who are closer to their animalistic side, which means shape shifters, the golden is the humans and the light blue is the Guardians." She said. As I looked down at the cobblestone I could see they all had different colors.
"Oh, cool," I mumbled. Not really know what else to say.
I could see four houses, they were all connected by a long glass corridor, a soft light lit them all, and I could see girls going through them.
"Mrs. Drovili thinks it's important that each race learns to know each other, too keep the hostility some may have for each other, down." Isabelle said, as if she was some tour guide. How did she know this much about this Academy?
"How come you know all this?" I asked confused.
"Oh, I work here, I'm Mr. and Mrs. Drovili's eyes and ears on this place, I'm their secretary." She answered and opened the French doors. This building had same characteristics as the main one, but it looked at bit different, it was more squared.
I was amazed by the look inside. The walls had a delicate red color, with beautiful paintings of exotic and strong looking women. There was a little corridor where coats and boats stood, else the whole big and open room, was filled with couches and flat screened televisions. There were a slide door, that shielded the four TV rooms from each other, but they were all made of glass, so the room didn't look smaller.
On my left there was a big kitchen with three big tables, there were like a hole in the wall, so people could see into the kitchen, there were no door to shield it, only a wide door frame, with no door. The kitchen walls was same soft and delicate red, though the kitchen it self, was modern and of stainless steel.
"Well, let's go up too your room." Isabella said, and lead the way up some stairs. Did I mention the floor was a soft white marble?
My mom was just as quiet as I and Anna was. This was big for us, something we were not used to.
The hallway we walked through was a shade lighter than the red downstairs, the floor here was wood and carpet, the wood was dark and looked like oak, but I wasn't sure. On the walls up here, there were still those amazing pictures. There wasn't many doors in this hallway, but I could see it turned a bit further down, so there were probably a lot of rooms, though it didn't look like it here.
"There are four floors, though the fourth floor is kind of empty, there are ten doors in each of the six hallways, not all are used. This is your door. Number eight." Isabelle said, as if she read my mind. Which I hoped she didn't, I had a lot of things I didn't want to share with anyone else.
She stopped before a dark wooden door, it's handle was of iron or something, and had one of those card thingy's that hotels also had.
"This is your card, so keep it safe. It's the only way to get into your room, without breaking the door of course." Isabelle said and put the card in the thingy. There was a little red light on it, but now it turned green, and the door clicked. Isabelle opened the door, and lead me into my dream room.
The walls was a soft creamy color, my bed was a double bed, and placed in the middle of the room, there were two more doors, in same wood as the one I entered from. There were a soft carpet on the floor around my bed, that kind of carpet, that would be just as good to sleep on, soft and cozy. I had a desk with my laptop on it, it too were of that dark wood, my floor was also dark wood. I had a balcony, which was amazing, I had noticed we had been walking down far, and I was able to look out of some windows on my way.
I could see the forest from the balcony. Just by looking at my room, I decided this was the best idea in my life.
"This is your bathroom." Isabelle said, and opened the door to the right, the other door was opposite of it.
She opened the door, that lead me into bathroom paradise. The walls was same kind of soft creamy color as my room, I had a tub and a shower with glass around it. plus a big mirror. There were already some towels on the sink, where I had room for all my make up.. not that I had that much, I mean there are boundaries to that, when you in serious dept like us.
"This. Is. Amazing!" I said shocked. I still couldn't believe this was my room, it was like I had just checked into some high class hotel. I was in the seventh heaven.. no, the ninth.. the top heaven.. yeah.. okay.. anyway.
I turned and stared at my mom with Christmas stars in my eyes.
"Mom! look at this! Is this really mine?" I whined happy.
"Yup, it's all yours.. I can't believe it either, you've checked into the Hilton or something!" she whined with me and jumped up and down with me.
"Well.. Melanie.. you should take a shower, you're kind of dirty," Isabelle said after a while of my mom and I screaming – low of course – and jumping up and down like a pair of idiots. Isabelle smiled.
"Oh, righty." I said and pulled myself together. Be cool Mel, be cool.
You can take a uniform from your closet. It's kind of amazing actually, those who makes the uniforms just know peoples sizes." Isabelle said, a bit proud. I just thought it was creepy.. what if I gained weight, would they know too?
I walked over to the beautiful mahogany closet and opened it. inside I could see how my shirts, pants and skirts were all put nice together, none of it were mine, but new clothes, my clothes was lying in the sports bag on the floor.
I got a dark purple sweater down, and a top to take on inside it, a new skirt, and a pair of pantyhose.
"Is it okay, that I take a shower now?" I asked kind of embarrassed.
"Yeah, I bet you don't want to eat, while wearing that dirty clothes." Isabelle answered.
"What is the time anyway?" I asked confused.
"It's about 7:30, so dinners ready." She answered and shunned me into the bathroom.. I bet she was hungry.
I took a shower, which I may say was wonderful. The water washed all the bad things away, and it fell like rain, not as cold though.
When I finished I got my underwear on, and the clothes. When I realized something. There had been pants in the closet, and this sweater wasn't something I had worn before, what did that mean?
I walked out, refreshed and a bit curious. Though my curiosity faded as soon, as I saw the goddess that was lying on my bed, with her hair everywhere. She had a dark brown hair, skin that was same color as an almond and a pair of light brown, cat eyes.
She got up as soon as I walked out, and of course I stared confused at her, and didn't see the other brown door was open, and showed into a soft blue colored room.
"Melanie, this is Amy Michaels, she is the Guardian Trainee that's going to protect you, in the future." Isabelle introduced.
"Hi! It's so good to finally meet you, I can't tell you how freaked out when William showed up, at the Guardian dorm, asking to talk with me, he's so scary when he's like that. so when they started to move my stuff, I panicked, I thought I was kicked out or something, which would be weird, since all Guardian Trainees get's to stay here for free." She said and jumped elegantly off the bed, damn why couldn't I do that?
"Hi, nice to meet you too." I said, a bit overwhelmed, she talked a lot, but I bet she was nervous.
"Sorry.. I talk like I got mouth diarrhea, I'm just so exited, it's rare for Guardian Trainees to get one they must protect, so early. And I was quite nervous if you were some kind of stupid… well, I think you get the picture." She said, and looked down at Anna, before she said bitch. Anna just looked confused.
I couldn't help myself but smile, she seemed really nice.
"Well.. don't worry I don't think I'm.. like that." I answered.
"Good to know.. anyway, I'm pleased to meet you, princess." She said and smiled, as she bowed, with her hands on the opposite shoulder. Why did they all bow so strange?
"Princess? I'm no princess." I laughed, but did as she did, she looked confused and totally speechless.
"You can't do that!" she said nervous, and stared at me with disbelief.
"I'm not your equal, I'm in a lower position than you, it's obvious you should greet me, like I greet you. It's.. it's unheard of." She added.
"What?" I asked confused.
Amy looked at my mom and Isabelle, with disbelief and said: "You haven't told her?"
My mom looked guilty away, Isabelle just stopped smiling.
"I never got the chance, besides.. I'd rather not tell her." My mom said.
"Tell me what?" I asked confused, and started to get suspicious.
"Oh my god! I'm in no position to say this, but still, you should have told her who her father is, I mean practically all know it now, rumors spread like plague with the wind." Amy said.
"Who is my father?" I asked even more confused, and started too feel a bit like no one listened to me.
"Melanie.. I haven't been totally honest with you okay? But please don't get too mad, I did it to protect you." My mom started and looked at me, with begging eyes.
"What haven't you told me?" I asked harsh. I hated it when she kept secrets.
"Your father didn't die in a plain crash, he's still alive. And probably remarried and has kids," she said it so bitterly, like she still had feeling for him. "Anyway, I ran away from him, there were some people after us, mainly you, The Pure Bloods. They noticed you, and wanted to raise you, saying I couldn't do it right, that you belonged to them. They tried kidnapping you, after they did a lot of other, despiteful things, so I ran away, without telling your father. If he knew where I went, he had to tell them. He too tried to find me, just as they did. That's why we've been running so many times. All those lies about me being fired, it was all to protect you." My mom said. And finally came clean.
"So, does that mean I have a father?" I asked confused, so many things, such little head.
"Yes, your father is.. well, he represent the human world, he's a wizard just like me. And he's like a leader of all witches and wizards, him and some other families." She answered. Okay, by calling him a wizard I started to think Lord of The Rings, or like a long bearded dude, with glasses and a big pointy hat, with stars on it.
"His mother wasn't that found of me, and it certainly didn't help when I ran away with you, though it was only to protect you. I'm sure he's already aware of you, I.. I haven't been strong enough to contact him. I feel a bit evil, just taking his one and only daughter away." My mom said.
"Oh.. is there a chance I can meet him?" I asked. Suddenly realizing I had a DAD! A real living DAD! I couldn't get mad at my mother, she tried her best to keep me safe, which touched me deeply, that she would give up her love, and family. Only to protect me. It also answered the question to why, I rarely saw my grandmother and my aunt. My mother had to keep me away from all eyes. We had to be incognito.
"Yes, if he wants to, I'm sure something could be arranged, though I got to tell you, your father is kind of an.. what's the word? Airhead, he does what he feels like, he's one of those do first, think later types." My mom answered. I still couldn't believe I had a father.
"Though it can't be right now, he's in Germany, a conference or something like that," Isabelle said, as if she knew. Which she probably did, she seemed to know everything.
"No, it's fine.. I don't think I can handle it all at one time, I need some time." I answered, as my stomach started to growl at me, I had been neglecting its dinner and lunch.
"You must be hungry too." Amy said, and tried her best not to laugh at my talking stomach, I just blushed. Oh well.
"Yeah, now that you say it, I'm starving." I answered and laughed.
Before Amy could answer, a woman voice said: "Hello Miss. Darrow, it's an honor to meet you, I'm you vice-principal, Veronica Likova." A beautiful woman stepped inside the room, she had a long moss green dress on, that shimmered like a starry night. Her eyes was same kind of moss green, while her hair was a bright red, almost like flames. They fell down her body in soft curls, and stopped at her waist.
She smiled.
"Well, it's about time we eat, and I hadn't seen you, so I thought I might come and see if you hid yourself here." She added and walked up to me and placed her right hand over her left chest, and nodded at us all.
"Greetings. Now, let's get you to the dining area. Your family should also get going, I'm sorry to say. We have our specific hours, where the parents or other family members, no longer can stay. You are free to come in the weekend between 10 AM and 8 PM."
"Oh, sorry it wasn't to disturb your rules," my mother apologized and smiled.
"Don't worry, it's not eight just yet, you still have about ten minutes." Miss. Likova said. Somehow she seemed really strict.
"Well, we better get home too huh Anna, Melanie needs to relax and see it all, and we need to get some dinner, and get you to bed in time right?" my mom said and looked down at Anna, who hid behind my leg, she seemed scared of Miss. Likova.
Anna just nodded.
"Hi, I'm sorry I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Melanie.. but I'm sure you already know that.." I said and smiled. I felt stupid.
"Yes I do." Miss. Likova answered with an overbearing smile.
"Greetings Miss. Likova." Amy said and bowed with both her arms over her chest.
"Greetings." She just answered.
"You should say hello too Anna." my aunt said, even though she hadn't said anything too Miss. Likova.
Anna looked up at Miss. Likova.
"Hello Miss. Likova, I like your hair and dress, you are very pretty." She said.
I could see how a real smile showed on Miss. Likova's lips.
"Why thank you, you are very cute too." She answered and smiled.
After that, we followed my mom and Anna down to her car.
"Call me okay? Promise you'll call me! Tell me about everything, and behave yourself, make some friends too okay?" my mom said as she hugged me tight, with tears in her eyes, and her voice thick. Damn, I could feel how the tears too pressed on my eyes.
"Yeah, I'll behave. Take care of Anna okay? And you too, keep out of trouble." I answered and lot go of her. Somehow my mom reminded me of a child sometimes. And I would get this crazy feeling to protect her, and with me moving out, I couldn't.
I hugged Anna too.
"You better take good care of mom okay? And behave yourself, be careful too okay?" I said. Now my voice was also thick.
"Yes. Melly, have fun okay? But don't forget me!" she answered, with big tears down her face. Damn it, why did she have to look so much like an angel now?
"I will.." I answered and put her down. I waved at them as they drove off.
"Are you alright?" Amy asked worried as she saw my teary face.
"I'm fine.. I just hate it when they cry.. or anyone else for that matter, I can't help not to cry myself." I said and laughed a bit at it. she just smiled understanding.
"Don't worry, my mom was also not loving the idea, though she knew it was my choice. Still, I missed her a lot the first week, but after that, it went better. Now I can miss her, but I've got my friends to make the home sickness go away." Amy said, and softly patted my head like I was some kid.
"Well girls, let's get something to eat right?" Miss. Likova said and smiled at me. She followed us down the path again, till we reached the main house.
We walked in silence, it felt good, not an awkward silence, I knew they gave me some space. My aunt had disappeared as we said goodbye.
She opened the French doors, that lead us into a dining hall, though I had seen it coming. On the west side of the dining hall, a long series of windows filled the wall, they went from roof to floor, and showed out to the garden which I may say looked like something from a fairytale.
The floor was a more creamy white colored marble here, the walls were olive colored. There were placed a lot of tables all around the place, there were chandeliers hanging from the roof, throwing their soft light on everyone underneath it. the tables were mahogany and so was the chairs, the cushions on the chairs were soft leaf colored, and stood very well to the greenish walls. It all looked so nice.
"Let's get something to eat!" Amy said energetic, when she laid her eyes on the food. It was like a regular cafeteria, there were some kitchen people who gave us it, though the food here looked very much better than the normal school food.
"See you Miss. Likova." Amy said and dragged me with her. People looked a bit after us, but it seemed like they didn't see anything that interesting.
We stood inline and waited for our turn to come, when I wondered what ever happened to William or Vladimir.. and why the ones in The Council didn't seem to like him very much. I should ask Amy, she probably knew it all.
"You know what? I think you are going to love it here, people here are very kind and friendly-" Amy barely said the last word, before a girl walked in. she had a miniskirt on, a very mini skirt, a pair of knee socks, and a blouse that stopped at her elbows. She had blond hair with stripes in it, and a pair of brown eyes, her mouth was actually quite sensual. She was flanked by two other girls, in the same costume as her, only they were both dark haired and with blue eyes.
The girl walked up to a table and touched a guys neck, very sensually and leaned down, only to bite his ear. Gross. Didn't the teacher say anything? Well.. now that I thought about it, where were the adults?
"I take it back, almost everyone here is friendly, everyone except her. She is like the queen bee here, the one who everyone adores and wants to be with. And.. oh shit, she's coming this way." Amy said, and looked away, she obviously didn't want to talk with her.
"Hello, my name is Drina, I'm the leader of the schools club, Moon Sisters. You are new here right?" her voice was sweet, but fake, she was putting on a show.
"Anyway, I just wanted to tell you, that Miss. Likova thought it would be great to let you join us, if you want to of course." She said, she was smiling. As soon as she saw Amy, her sweet smile vanished, and became a sarcastic one.
"Oh, I didn't see you there Amy. Are you still trying to safe the world? You'd do better as a blood whore. That's something that get passed down the family. Your mom should know all about it." Drina said, with a evil smile on her face. Amy looked like she could just kill Drina right here, her eyes was like fire. But she was hurt too.
"Anyway, you should hang out with trash like that, Miss. Likova thinks highly of you, so you should join us instead. We are more suited for you." Drina said and looked at me, her eyes told me I had to choose.
Thankfully there wasn't much to think about. I put on my best smile and said: "Actually, I'm gonna pass on that. it's not very tempting to join your group, I mean if it's a request that I wear that, to join, I'm gonna pass. Plus I'm not really interested in acting like a whore in public, besides it's not cool to talk dirt about someone, to make yourself feel better."
I could feel how I had so much more to say.
"Plus, Amy just happens to be my Guardian Trainee, so I'd like if you didn't speak like that about her." I added, and felt my smile disappear. Drina looked like she didn't believe someone talked against her. It made me feel good.
"Tsk, then stay and be dirt yourself. I thought you were cooler than that.. well, trash can never become cash anyway." She said and turned away with her nose held high.
"Oh my good. What a.." I said and looked at Amy. She just stared completely amazed.
"Did.. did you just do that? you really must not know anything of this place. That's Drina, she's related to the present Queen, do you know how bad that was? As a Royal yourself, you need to keep them all close to your body. She's the one no one wants as an enemy, and you just made her one!" Amy said. She looked speechless, though she could talk.
"Whatever, why be together with someone who talks bad about people I like?" I answered and got myself a tray to carry my food on. I got some delicious smelling pasta.
We walked down to a table, Amy was still speechless, she even gaped a bit at me, and looked at me with eyes, that wasn't sure if I were mad or just really stupid.. it was probably a mix of both.
We sat and began to eat in silence, somehow I could sense a scolding. Amy was about to open her mouth, but thankfully she got interrupted by a voice, that was clear as glass.
"AMY! GUESS WHAT! I GOT AN A PLUS. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?" a girl yelled all across the dining hall, we both looked after the voice, and saw four girl walking towards us. The first one had a dark café au lait skin, and shiny brown hair with deep chocolate eyes. She was tall. The second was small and thin almost doll like, with her short hair that appointed to every side, her hair was brown with light brown stripes. She had brown eyes. The third girl was taller than the second, but not as tall as the Amazonian beauty. She had a curly red hair, and blue eyes, along with freckles on her cheeks, though she too were very pretty. The fourth girl were blond, with deep blue eyes and a wide and happy smile, she was the one who had been shouting.
They all hurried down to our table. The Amazonian beauty looked a bit annoyed with all the attention, but the red haired girl sucked it all in.
They sat down.
"Isn't it amazing? I mean, I know I'm smart but still.. I love school." She said and sighed happy, before looking at me with surprise.
"Where did you come from?" she asked.
"This is Melanie Darrow, the one I'm going to be her future Guardian!" I could hear the excitement in Amy's voice.
"Anyway, Melanie, this is Emily Valentino," she pointed at the blond girl, "Rebecca Swan," the redhead, "Luna Farrell," the little brown haired girl, "And Camille Alkaia, which means Mighty One, its an Amazonian name." Amy introduced.
I was right, she was an Amazonian beauty.
"Hello, nice to meet you!" Emily said and smiled warmly at me.
"Yes, nice to see you, it's good to know our Amy finally gets used at something." Camille said and looked down in a magazine she brought. She didn't seem too friendly.
"Don't worry about Camille, she's actually really nice, and very easy to socialize with, she's just putting up a facade to be cool, when you get to know her, you'll know she fights for her friends." Luna said and smiled at me.
"Oh come on, when did I fight for you?" Camille asked and looked at Luna.
"Hmm.. wasn't it yesterday when queen bee told Luna, to go wash the stench of dog off her?" Emily asked and smiled at Camille.
"Right.." she just said and looked back down in her magazine. She ate a bit of her salad in silence.
"So Melanie, how come you get a Guardian this early?" Rebecca asked and took forkful pasta in her mouth, all their eyes landed on me.
"Oh.. it's.. a weird story.." I said and looked at Amy for help, she must know the truth. Didn't the Council tell me to keep quiet about this?
"Well? We've got lot's of time." Rebecca said.
"I was attacked by a vampire.. and a.. what was it? a golem or something? Anyway some people thought someone was trying to get rid of me, and then it showed I had witch blood in me.. so I landed here." I said, I didn't tell them about the stag, and how I brought it back to life. Not here with all these ears, and I didn't know if I could trust them.
"Wow, so that's how you got that bump on your head?" Rebecca said and looked at my forehead, where a band-aid was stuck on.
"Yup." I answered.
"You wont believe this either, she doesn't know anything about our world, she greeted me as if we were equals. And told the bitchy queen bee off." Amy said, and began to describe the words I had said. I just took some pasta and sighed in my mind, this was going to be a long night, and looked at the French doors I had entered from, wishing to be able to escape.. with the food of course, it was delicious, no way I would leave it alone.
The doors opened suddenly, and William or Vladimir, or what ever he was called, walked in. he looked pissed.
A man came out from a glass door I hadn't noticed, it was that Dimitri dude.
"What the Hell Dimitri? I thought you took care of those bastard dogs?" William snarled, the room went quiet as soon as they saw Williams face.
"Will, relax don't argue with me here, I took care of them, but there must have been more out there, I searched carefully." Dimitri hushed.
"There must have.. damn it, stupid dogs. Are you aware of how close they followed.." William stopped and looked at people, did I say they were quiet? And then he sighed. His eyes found mine, his was frustrated and fascinated again, mixed with a bit of.. worry? No way.
"Forget it.. I took care of them so, they aren't anywhere near here. I couldn't trace them though." William said again, and followed Dimitri into the room, behind the glass doors. I could see some adults sitting in there and eating their food.
"Oh my god! William is so hot when he's mad!" Rebecca said and almost drooled when she glanced at the door.
"Yeah, nothing beats a good eye candy," Amy added. He just freaked me out, so what if he was a bit hot? Okay, I take that back, so what if he were a god in hotness, he was still scary. Couldn't they see that? or was it just I, who were able too see William for who he really were?
"Anyway, what's going on with you and William?" Rebecca asked and looked at me, she wanted some dirty info. Something I couldn't give her.
"Nothing.. nothing at all." I answered, and didn't know if I could tell them the story, I looked at Amy who just took a bite of her pasta, not really interested in saying anything at all. Damn.
"Sure? He just looked down here, it might have been a pissed look, but still.. usually he doesn't care about any of the students, yesterday I slipped out of the dorm to meet Tony.. who's just gorgeous, he has this silky blond hair and curls so cute.. anyway, I met William on my way over there, and expected a hell of a scolding, but he just looked at me, a bit annoyed I admit that, but then he just told me to be more quiet on my way back.. can you believe that?" Rebecca said, her eyes filled with surprise, as if it had just happened. My impression of her now; she was a man-eater, not literally of course, but she liked men.. a lot.
"No way?" Amy said, completely swallowed by Rebecca's little story.
"Way!" she just said and lifted her brows as if to reassure Amy it was true.
"William isn't that bad." Emily just said in a low voice, and looked around, as if she was embarrassed to say. Were she in love with him? I couldn't ask, I mean I was new here.
"Oh come on, he's just nice towards you, if he says anything, that can be thought of as positive, to anyone he usually doesn't talk with, then it's freaking rare. You would be the last to say something different." Luna said.
"Oh come on, hasn't he been nice to you ever?" Emily asked a bit louder this time.
"Nope, I don't think so. When we have Material Arts, he just sighs and rolls his eyes, like I'm totally weak. Else he just tells us to get moving," Luna answered. Amy agreed.
"Yeah, in our protection and defense classes, he just calls us morons, or beats the crap out of us, without the least care about our well being, he says it's to strengthen us." Amy said.
They continued an argument on Williams bad temper and unsocial behavior, I just listened and actually enjoyed feeling normal.. well as normal as I could at the moment.
"And what in the world does he even do at his room? He spends all his time there, else he goes out somewhere, is it to pick up chicks or something?" Rebecca asked Emily.
"What? no, William doesn't need to 'pick up' chicks, they come running at him, screaming and throw themselves at him." Emily said, she was sarcastic, but a part of me could feel she was serious too.. interesting William was wanted and desired by females.. like I didn't know that.
"I have another question, why doesn't he have any other friends than those Garrett and Emmett?" Amy asked.
"Isn't it obvious? It's because they are all hunters." Camille said as if was clear for everyone.
Hunters? I don't know.. I couldn't see William riding a horse, and hunting.. what was it they hunted those Englishmen? Wasn't it foxes? Yeah it were. Anyway, that just didn't seem right.
I just looked at Camille with wide eyes. She seemed confused, until I asked.
"Does William hunt? No way.. with hounds and stuff? Does he were that weird clothes?" I asked and couldn't believe it.
They all tried their best to keep their masks on, but Amy was the first one to fail. She started laughing. So hard she cried.
"William doesn't hunt animals.. he hunts women." Camille said after getting over her laugh attack.
"Oh.. it didn't suit the picture of William anyway.." I said, and felt really stupid.. why hadn't I seen that from the beginning? Maybe it was your lack of brain?
The glass doors opened, and William walked out. He seemed pissed, but didn't say anything. Dimitri came out after him.
"William! William for god sake, slow down will you? I haven't told you the rest yet!" Dimitri said after him. Another guy walked out, he had light hair, short and with curls that sat close to his face, he had same kind of yellowish eyes as Dimitri.
"Let him go Em, he's not in the mood for talking right now.. let him get out and run it off." He said.
"Who are they?" I whispered and looked back at the boys, after looking at Emily, she was the one who seemed to have all the knowledge of William.
"Oh, them? That's Emmett and Garrett, Emmett is the dark haired one, Garrett is the blond one, their Guardian names is Dimitri (Emmett) and Victor (Garrett)." Emily answered.
"And as said, those two are closest to William.. they know things even I don't know." She added, and sounded a bit jealous.
After hearing that, something slipped, it wasn't something I had planned, it just came out of my mouth.
"Are you in love with William? I mean, knowing so much about him.. it must be tough to know the guy you like, is never going to tell you his darkest secrets." I said. As soon as I said it, I could have beaten myself, drowned myself, anything else but to look at – they all started laughing, including Emily.
"Oh. My. God. no. William is my adoptive brother.. like I'd ever fall for him.. not when I know how he treats girls.." she said, and started to calm down.
"Oh.. sorry. It wasn't on purpose, it just sounded.. I mean, you just sounded so.. jealous of them.." I apologized and felt really stupid.
"Oh, I am a bit jealous.. but it's only because William always keeps to himself, if anything bothers him, he usually doesn't say. He just takes care of it on his own, he's not used to tell people about himself, so when those two came up, and got all pushy after.. seeing something or something like that, he just lot them into his world.. so easily. Not even a test." She said and sighed.
"Oh.." was all I could say. Some more time went with talking, though they had changed the subject to shoes, which apparently they all loved. I started yawning, but I tried to hide it, I actually felt comfortable here, I enjoyed they arguments, and discussions, and just the fact to be here, with someone who didn't know a thing about me, or my situation.. what ever that was. It wasn't like people had thrown information about me, in my head. I had no real idea about what those Pure Bloods, that I apparently seemed to be, was.
"Oh my god, I totally forgot you Melanie, you must be dead tired after such a long day!" Amy said, the dinning room was almost empty, but it didn't seem like it mattered that we still were here.
"Oh, no please, carry on your talking, it's nice.." I said and felt how I blushed. Damn, I thought I had hidden it better.
"No way, we got to get up tomorrow, first day of school.. well for you atleast, anyway. You are tired so I'm following you back." Amy said and looked at me strict.. great, was she my substitute mother now?
"Fine.. mom." I mumbled and yawned again, not trying to hide it this time.
"Haha, Amy you're already middle-aged?" Camille laughed.
"Funny, very funny." Amy said and lead me towards the door.
"I'll see you in the living room, I'll just walk Mel to bed." Amy said and followed me out. It didn't really matter that she left me after that, I was dead tired, and I would hardly be able to tell if she were there, or not.
She walked me to the human girls dorm, and got me inside, the livingroom still looked amazing as ever. I walked upstairs and used my card, as soon as I found my bed, I undressed, brushed my teeth before I went to sleep. I was so tired I could hardly stand. As soon as my head touched the pillow, I went to sleep.