All it took was Eye Contact
Yay! Chapter 6! :) I had a lot of fun writing this chapter but to be honest, there's not that much to it
Chapter 6: Exchange Them Back Please!
It was a bright Saturday morning when Mariam was heading towards the sandwich cafe. She noticed that most of it's customers were leaving as if there was someone waving an extremely sharp butcher's knife around trying to decapitate their heads or something like that but worst of all, they were all runing directly towards her- even her friends.
Everyone who left the sandwich shop was now trying to hide themselves behind Mariam, who didn't know what was happening. They all looked a bit shaken up.
"What on Earth is going on?" Mariam demanded.
"I d-d-don't think th-th-they're from Earth." Kenny stuttered as he indicated the four unusual people coming towards them.
Max, Tyson, Rei, Mariah, Hilary, Diachi, Kenny and even Mathilda were all poining towards the strangers. The rest of the crowd was standing miles behind them.
Mariam looked a bit startled, "You weren't kidding when you said that." Mariam said to them while looking at the strange people.
The four strangers stopped when they reached them. Everyone except for Mariam (who was trying not to laugh) shuffled back a little bit with fear.
They looked down at Mariam, suprised that she wasn't scared, "Are you not even a tiny bit scared?" They asked her.
"Should I be?" She asked them.
Everyone behind started to come forward again. They were suprised at how brave Mariam was.
They looked taken aback, "Are you're thoughts not related to fear in anyway?" One of them asked her.
"Well, I'm thinking who or what on Earth or whatever planet are you from are you meant to be?" Mariam answered them honestly.
"And I was thinking that it's a bit early to celebrate Halloween." Joseph decided that it would be fun to mess with their head.
Mariam greeted her brother with a smile.
"It's Halloween everyday at where we come from." They spoke proudly.
"I see, so you're Norwegian." Joseph confirmed, everyone looked at them with confused expressions.
Mariam nodded, "That would make sense," Maraim agreed, "You do have shorter days there don't you?"
"We're not from Norway!" they shouted at Mariam and Joseph.
"Rei," whispered Max from behind the commotion, "Maybe you should tell them." Max suggested
"No way!" Tyson disagreed in a loud whisper, "This is getting entertaining." He pointed to the bunch of students who were no longer scared.
"Then who are you and where are you from." Mariam asked.
They let out an evil laugh, "We are-"
"Not from this centuary or the previous one." Ozuma finished for them.
"Are the old man from down the road?" Dunga asked, earning a nod from Mariam as if she was saying 'he does look like him, doesn't he?'
"NowearetheDarkBladers!" They said very quickly, so fast that it was almost inaudible but the others did manage to catch what they it.
"Point out the obvious then, why don't you?" For a moment, Dunga sounded like he genuinely knew who those people were.
"It is?" everyone asked, suprised.
"Yeah." Dunga confirmed, "Look at them, they're so dull, if they're not the Dark Bladers, what are they gonna call themselves, the Light Bladers?" Many people had to laugh at that one.
"We are the European exchange students."
"They found out anyway." Tyson whispered to Max.
Hilary decided to join their conversation, "I'm kinda afraid to meet my exchange student."
Tyson thought that it would be funny to scare Hilary, "I'm gonna suck your blood." he whispered in that voice that Dracula would have on t.v. All he got from Hilary was a slap across the arm.
"Students?" Joseph laughed, "You look like Dracula and he's like a billion years old."
"No, I am Sanguinex and I'm only a few hundred years old." he introduced, "I am a direct descendant of Count Dracula." He pointed at Tyson, "By the way kid, if you do that again, I really will suck your blood."
Tyson nodded, "Yes sir."
"He got the message loud and clear." Hilary smirked.
"Funny," Mariam said in a kind of evil way, "Shouldn't you be afraid of that object over there called the sun?" She pointed up towards the sun, knowing that their natural instinct was to look at where she was pointing.
The four members of the Dark Bladers immediatly raised their hands up to sheild themselves from the UV rays, "Whereisthenearestdarkroom?" Asked Sanguinex in the same inaudible way as before.
"Just go through those gates over there," Joseph pointed towards the entrance of the campus, "And take the bus. It should take you to the airport and you can live unhappily ever after in Norway."
The Dark Bladers ignored Joseph's instructions and ran towards the science building.
The crowd started to disperse after the Halloween fans disappeared.
"That was almost as fun as bickering with Dunga." Mariam admitted.
"You didn't tell me about your courageous side." Mariah said when the surroundings was all quiet again, like how it was before their strange encounter.
"It's not courage." Mariam said, "It's a memory."
"Of the old man down the road?" Ozuma asked her rhetorically, Mariam nooded and let out a laugh.
This only made Max even more curious about Mariam and Ozuma's past and present relationship and of the man down the road.
Monday first period...
Rei, Max, Mariam and Mariah were all called to the teachers desk. Apparently he was concerned about Mariah and Mariam failing all the expiriments in science so he wanted them to switch lab partners.
"Mariah, I want you to partner with Max and Rei you're with Mariam." The teacher announced.
"Why can't I partner with Rei." Mariah whined as she looked over towards her boyfriend and his exchange friend, who glared at her, "Never mind." Mariah looked away from Sanguinex.
"Okay then, off to work." Mr Sanders said.
"You know Mariah, he's probably only doing this to protect the remaining hair on his head." Max was being brutally honest with her and she wasn't liking it.
"Well then." Mariah huffed, flicked her hair and walked back to her seat.
"Max, please watch you're tongue around her." Rei warned, "You're my friend so I don't want to see you get hurt."
"Same, I don't want to see you get hurt either." Max returned while looking at Sanguinex, "But then again, Mariam's your lab partner now so you should be safe."
"Actually," Mariam started, "He's a really cool guy if you minus the fear of sunlight, his queer accent, the blunt fangs..."
Towards the end of first period...
"His bad breathe, dirty nails, weird dre-"
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" Sanguinex finally heard enough of Mariam's list of things that were wrong with him and put a stop to it.
"Hey, I know the truth hurts," Mariam nodded in comprehension as she patted his shoulder, "Back to work Drac junior."
"I told you already," He muttered, "The name's Sanguinex."
"What about it?" Mariam asked.
Max turned back to his and Mariah's experiment after being side tracked by all the commotion. As soon as he turned to the experiment, he saw Mariah holding a beaker of clear fluid and was about to mix it with a beaker of white powder, "Mariah stop!" he yelled causing the majority of the class to duck and cover.
"What!" She yelled back, she slammed the empty beaker onto the table and their experiment started to sizzle like all over the work surface.
Too late.
Hilary straightened up when she heard footsteps round the corner, "I hope I look okay." She said to herself. Hilary had this habit of talking to herself whenever she was nervous.
"You look perfect." Said a voice, "You must be Hilary."
Hilary looked up to see a blond boy staring at her, "You are...?"
"This is Enrique," Principal Dickenson introduced, "Your exchange partner."
"Enrique from Italy?" Hilary suddenly realised that her exchange student was nothing like Rei's: her exchange student was hot! She couldn't stop staring at him, it was such a shock to her that Enrique wasn't at all revolting like how she imagined him to be after meeting Sanguinex and the rest of the Dark Bladers.
Enrique suddenly hugged Hilary, who was startled at first before she happily hugged him back, but he pulled away quickly before giving her a quick, brief kiss on both cheeks.
Hilary looked at him with her eyes which were wide open, clearly even more startled than when he hugged her.
Enrique noticed her blush as did the principal, "It's traditional Italian custom..." Enrque said, in a perfect English even though his Italian accent was still there.
"So I've heard." Hilary said to him, trying not to speak her mind, "And thank you principal Dickenson." Hilary was trying very hard to not lose her cool.
Meanwhile...around the corridor...
"Ewww that's gross!" said a certain someone to themself quite loudly but fortunatly, it wasn't loud enough to draw Hilary's attention.
"I'm leaving, see-" Mariah grabbed Mariam's arm.
"Don't go." Mariah pleaded, "We don't want to be left alone with him" She whispered and pointed to Sanguinex and his friend Cenotaph, who was Kane's exchange student.
Rei and the others (Tyson, Kenny, Max, Diachi, Kane and even Mathilda) looked up at her, trying to give her the puppy dog eyes.
The only eyes she noticed were Max's, they were so bright and mesmerizing, "Fine." She said reluctantly even though she didn't really mind staying here.
Diachi suddenly perked up, "I have a bit of gossip for ya." He said to them.
"You gossiping is already gossip within itself." Mariah stated, which kind of threw everyone off gaurd. It sounded quite technical for the Mariah they all knew.
Everyone stared at her; she actually had a point for once.
"I saw some guy kiss Hilary." Diachi said, "Twice!" Everyone gasped when they heard this except for Mariah.
Underneath the table, Tyson clenched his fists.
"Was the guy cute?" Mariah asked, she was back to her naive self again.
Rei cleared his throat as if to say: 'Why are you aking? You already have a boyfriend.'
Mariah understood his hint and nudged Mathilda, who was sitting to the right of her.
Mathilda nodded, "Was the guy cute?" she repeated for Mariah.
"Well, he had blonde hair and blue eyes." Diachi tried to remember more about him but he couldn't because he left the scene so quickly.
"Does that discription not fit like Max?" asked Mariah.
"NO!" shouted Mariam as she sat forward. She earned a lot of attention from the people at the table, "I bit myself again." Mariam lied and slumped down in her seat again, "Continue."
For a moment there, Max thought that Mariam was... jealous? Would she be?
"Well, I think it does." Mathilda agreed with Mariah.
"No, his hair was a bit different. His..." Diachi sat there trying to remember the word he was looking for.
"Style?" Mariam helped.
"Yeah that's the word."
"Speaking of style," Sanguinex started, "what's wrong with mine."
"And don't say what's not wrong with it." Cenotaph was trying to predict what Mariam's answer would be.
"Okay then," Mariam said, "What's right about it." she pointed towards Sanguinex, "No one in this cantuary or the last ever did or wanted to ever dress like that and you," She then pointed at Sanguinex's friend, "You're the only per-" She stopped to consider her words, "Creature I know that wears toilet paper. I know it's creative but it is also weird"
The two Dark Bladers glared at her.
"Not even the people of Norway wanted to do that." She added just to annoy them. It was a habit that she had developed over the past few days after she thought that Dunga could use a break.
Mariah looked at Mathilda, "We have to have our first school sleepover of this year soon," she said to her, "And we can continue this discussion in my dorm."
"Not again." Mariam whined, "Don't you think you're a little old for sleepovers." She asked them, in hope that they would rethink their plans.
"You can never be too old to have sleepovers!" Mariah answered her enthusiastically, "Oh my God, we can get Julia and Salima to come along too."
"Yay!" Mathilda cheered, "Hopefully they won't be too busy."
"Oh yeah, I haven't seen her since before the school ended last year." Max remembered, "How is she?"
"Always busy," Mathilda answered, "She's always rehearsing for the school shows and concerts."
"What about Salima?" Rei asked, "I haven't seen her around either."
"I didn't know you still cared about your ex." Kane said.
"He does and I think it's sweet unlike you, who angered Salima." Mariah reminded him.
"She's still mad at that?" Kane asked, "I told her that it was an accident."
"Well don't shout at me for saying this because I didn't say it first but 'when you stand there and don't turn away for more than ten seconds, it's not an accident.'" Mariah quoted, "I think I completly agree with Salima on that one."
"So you hate sleepovers." Sanguinex stated to Mariam, who simply just nodded. Sanguinex looked at his friend, "Then we know how to get you back then."
"Two flaws." Mariam simply pointed them out," One. If I don't like them then I don't go to them and two. If I ever threw one- which I won't, you wouldn't be invited anyway." her answer was harsh in a sense but to the point.
Max kind of liked how straight forward Mariam can be.
Just then two people entered the cafe, "Hi!" One of them greeted.
Everyone looked up to see who it was: Hilary and someone that they had never seen before.
"That's the guy!" Diachi said to his friends at the table.
Tyson immediatly built up a strong dislike towards this guy.
Unlike Mariam, I don't seem to be very good at getting to my point quickly... Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter and Sanich, I think I've figured out how I can incorprate Kai into the story!
