Christina returned to the castle an hour later. She let the wolves outside into their pen before heading upstairs to her room. She tossed her bag i to the side and happily collapsed onto her bed. She rolled over and opened the drawer of her nightstand she rummaged around inside until she pulled out her tablet. She had an iPad mini in a fluffy purple case. She turned it on and typed in her pass code before looking through her pictures to find some inspiration for her next art project. They were several pictures of Draculaura, Sibella and her together. She missed the closeness they used to have but as Christina had gotten older they just drifted apart.
"Christina?" Came Draculaura's voice.
"What?"
"Do you want to hear about school?"
"Sure, come in" Christina replied opening the door with a wave of her hand.
Draculaura came in and sat at the desk.
"Fire away"
"Toralie wanted to know which school you transferred to exactly but of course I didn't tell her anything. Spectra wants to do an interview with you about Normies-"
"I'd rather not," Christina interrupted.
"Okay,"
"What else?"
"Cleo wants to know if you'll go to the mall with us,"
"I'm good."
"You haven't gone with us in forever though ,"
"I just, don't feel like going,"
"Fine then,"
So Draculaura left. Christina sighed as the door closed. She waved her hand bring over her laptop. Maybe checking The Ghostly Gosip would take her mind off things. She was pulled from her reading by a rapid knocking at her door.
"What!"
"Dinner time Christina," Dracula announced.
"Coming"
Christina trudged downstairs and to the dining room. Draculaura spent time chattering about everything. As she rapidly changed topics Christina ate her food silently.
"How was your walk Christina?" Vanapira asked cheerily.
"It was good," Christina replied nicely.
"I'm glad you're calm now," Vanapira continued.
"I was calm earlier,"
"Then why'd you go on a walk?"
"Because he made me," Christina replied pointing to Dracula.
"It was for your own good,"
"Oh, sure it was,"
"I'm not going to argue with you, Christina,"
"May I be excused?" Christina asked deciding to remove herself from the situation.
"Yes,"
A few days later at school. Christina was doing somewhat better. She hadn't had a outburst in a few days. Brandon tried to flirt with her several times. She always dismissed him in her snarky way. Shaggy always tried to help her in anyway he could but there had to be a reason. Dracula had arranged meetings twice a week with the counselor for Christina. Something she wasn't really enjoying today was one of those days.
"Have you been writing in your journal, Christina?" Mrs. Clark asked thumbing through her files.
"Yes,"
"When do you write?"
"When I take the wolves for a walk,"
"Okay, how are things at home?"
"Fine,"
"Your uncle said you've been distant for a long time, why is that?"
"I don't know," Christina lied.
"I'm sure you do,"
"No I don't,"
Seeing this wasn't going anywhere Mrs. Clark moved on.
"I see you've made a friend,"
"Shaggy?"
"Yes tell me about your friendship,"
"Well, Shaggy's nice we hang out at the park,"
"Good, you may go,"
"Thank you,"
