~Julian~
"Julian, what are we doing?" Max asked me only for me to shush him as I climbed up the tree. I had dragged Max outside of the school and near the fields where I was now climbing a tree. "Julian, I can't." I heard Max say and stopped on a branch about five feet off the ground. He was standing on the ground and looked defeated. I wrapped my legs around the branch and let myself fall back so I was hanging upside down. "What are you...HOLY!" He yelled as I grabbed the back of his shirt and practically threw him up as I pulled myself back up so I was right side up.
"SH! Do you want to get caught?!" I asked quietly as I watched him situated himself on the branch. "He is a demon and pretty much all the people in this town are supernaturals. If you want to be sneaking you have to be quiet."
"Wait how do you know Coach Night is a demon?"
"I've met many demons, shapeshifters, vampires, werewolves and faeries in my lifetime. I know what someone is when I look at them. I also know what rank, or at least close to what rank, they are when looking at them." I explained shrugging as I continued to climb up the tree. "Now are you going to climb, or do I have to throw you up the tree again?" I asked looking down at him and laughed quietly when he rushed to climb up the tree on his own.
"So wait does that you know that Coach Night is..."
"The crown prince of demons? Yup." I said as I once again passed him as I climbed up further up the tree. I mean it's not that hard to figure out, he is one of my mates and all of my mates are the crown princes from each of the royal families. Of course except for the royal family of witches, because one I'm the crown prince of the witches and two my families been dead for a very long time so there really isn't a royal family left. But of course I already stated that. I'm pretty sure more than one.
Although I don't think I've explained WHY my mates and I are all crown princes. Well it's to bring the six races that rule the world together in peace. But a lot of people won't want that. That's actually why I was cursed, although the evil witch that cursed me tried to make it so I wouldn't even be born, but she somehow messed up and instead I was cursed to never be able to die. Which only made it so I would one day find my mates as she managed to curse my mates' mothers when they were pregnant with them so they weren't born when they were originally supposed to be. Which was around the time when I was born. My mother was the first one she cursed and after her failed attempt she managed to figure out how to properly curse the other women, only by that time I was already born and she wasn't able to kill me anyway. For the past two thousand years I've been searching for my mates, waiting for them to be reborn, and nothing will ever get in my way again. Also there is technically seven royal families, only the witch was is kind of gone so more of six. Anyway I don't have six mates because the last royal family is human. But there wasn't originally a human royal family, they didn't really come about until about five hundred years ago. You see if they had one, been around two thousands years ago, and two were even really royalty I would probably have a mate from that royal family as well. But they weren't.
You see I'm actually the one who allowed there to be a human royalty. It was because I realized that the humans didn't feel that safe with all the supernatural races around and that they had royalty while the humans didn't. So I picked someone I trusted very much and made them the king of the humans. I was able to do that because I'm the most powerful witch to ever live and all I really have to do is tell someone my real name, or show them who I really am, and they will do pretty much anything I tell them to. Another reason I keep who I am hidden. Most of the time. Anyway the human royal family is still friends with me and they technically have to answer to me since I could take them off the throne whenever I wanted. If you're wondering who they are, well they are the English royal family. Although, unlike what A LOT of people think, they have an eminence amount of power and aren't just figure heads. Of course it's mainly the humans who think that.
Anyway, since I seem to always be getting off topic lately...
"Max, come on you lazy pup! We've got to get higher before Coach Night comes out with his next class." I said looking down at him and saw he was about ten feet below me.
"Two questions, that's all. First is that why you dragged me out here, to spy on Coach Night? And second why do we have to go higher?"
"Well first, hell yeah. He's a hot piece of ss and why not spy on him? And second, because I want to make sure he doesn't see us. The higher we get up the more branches and leaves there are to hide us."
"I still don't get why we are spying on him." Max muttered as he climbed up next to me and followed me as I climbed up a few more feet.
"Simple he's my mate and I feel like it."
"Wait you know?"
"Yup, I've been around enough mates to know the look one gets when they find the other. Plus the feelings I got when I was near him and when he brushed his hands against mine before I left his office tells it all." I said as I sat down on a branch, wrapped my legs around the branch and leaned forward moving the leaves out of the way so I could see my mate as he led his students out to the field. I looked back at Max when I left the branch shake slightly and laughed when I saw Max had his arms wrapped around the trunk of the tree and could sense his fear. "Max, don't worry, you'll be fine. I won't let you fall." I said reaching back and gripped his shoulder with my hand.
"Promise?" He muttered as he practically dug his face into the trunk and I had to stop myself from laughing at the sight.
"I promise. Now help me spy on my mate." I said and smiled brightly when I heard him laugh quietly. "Oh and don't let him know that you know that I know." I said as I turned back to look at my mate and stared at his ss as he was facing away from me.
"Why don't you want him to know that I know that you know?"
"Simple, it's more fun to watch him woo me along with my four other mates who I haven't met yet."
"How do you know you have other mates?"
"Secret." I said smiling back at him, as I put my finger to my lips, for a few seconds before looking forward again. I could feel Max's stare on my back, but ignored him as I stared at my mate. "Hey, Max, what's my mate's first name?"
"You don't know his first name?" He asked as I looked back at him.
"If I did do you think I would be calling him 'my mate' or 'Coach Night'?"
"I guess not."
"So, what's his name?"
"Oh...it's Kevin, Kevin Night."
"Kevin Night...I definitely like the sound of that." I said as I looked back toward him and quickly moved the leaves so they were covering me again. "That's not good."
"What?"
"He may have seen me."
"What do you mean 'May have'?"
"Well when I looked back at him, he was looking up at the tree right where we are." I said looking back at him and saw he looked kind of nervous. "But I'm sure he didn't see me."
"Julian." I heard Kevin saw from below us and we both looked down at the ground and I saw him standing at the base of the tree staring up at us, or more of me, with his arms crossed in front of his chest and one of his eyebrows raised.
"Or maybe he did see you." Max muttered annoyed next to me as I smiled down at Kevin.
"Hey..." I said trailing off as I tried to keep smiling and waved at him.
"Both of you get down here...now." He said and I couldn't help, but feel a bit aroused by his order. He's just luckily he didn't use his royal order, or he would be in SO much trouble. For one it obviously doesn't work on me as only the king of witches' royal order would work on me, but seeing as I'm technically the king...yeah good luck with that. And you try to order me with your royal order, or high ranking order. It will piss me off. You try ordering around a prince and see where that gets you. With me anyway, it just makes me do the exact opposite. But luckily for Kevin seeing as he ordered me as more of a teacher than a prince, it just turned me on.
"Julian..." Max said as he clung to the trunk of the tree further as he looked down with a scared expression.
"Just pay attention to where I step and then step where I did...okay." I said and started climbing down slowly so Max could see where to step. Honestly I could climb down a lot faster and in a much funner route if I hadn't made Max climb up with me. Or if he at least could climb down on his own. But I don't blame him at all. It is my fault after all. I was the one who made him climb the tree in the first place. When I got down to the last branch, the same one I had hung from before throwing Max up the tree, I sat down on it and looked back up at Max to make sure he got down safe and didn't fall. Which was good because not even ten seconds after I sat down on the branch his right foot slipped and he started falling.
I quickly stood up on the branch I was sitting on and climbed up two more branches to where Max was. I then wrapped my legs around the branch and grabbed his wrist as he fell past. I also ended up hanging upside down again. "Thanks, Julian." Max said as I set him down on a branch below him before getting right side up again and then jumping down to the branch beside the one he was on.
"Remind me to never make you climb a tree again. Because honestly you suck at it." I said chuckling as he blushed. "Do you think you can get down all on your own? Or would you rather be on my back as I climb down?"
"I can climb down on my own." He said blushing even redder.
"Okay, but be careful." I said and watched as he started climbing down again to make sure he wouldn't fall again. Once he was on the ground and beside Kevin, I moved so I crouched on the branch and started jumping down from branch to branch until I was about at the one I had on before Max started falling and jumped the five feet down onto the ground.
I stood up straight and ran my fingers through my hair as I looked over at Max and Kevin. Only to see Max staring at me with wide eyes and Kevin staring at me with lust filled, but also shock filled, eyes. "What?"
"How did you do that so easily?" Max asked while Kevin continued to simply stare at me.
"I'm just awesome like that." I said smiling brightly and he rolled his eyes at me.
"So either of you two going to explain why you were in the tree and why you were spying on my gym class?" Kevin asked finally getting over his shock, but the lust was still there.
"Well...um..." Max trailed off as he tried to think of a lie.
"I dragged Max here so I could spy on you, not your class." I said completely not caring about it and instead was smiling while Max stared at me with wide eyes. Again. "You're hot and I felt like spying on you and hopefully looking at your ss...Again." I concluded and Max's eyes got even bigger and Kevin was even staring at me with wide eyes, but he was even more aroused and I could see his, not so, little friend getting excited. Just then the bell, indicating the end of third period, rang. "Come on, Max, don't want to be late for fourth period now do we?" I asked as I led Max away, as I had put my hands on either of his shoulders and started pushing him in front of me as I walked away. "See you later, Sir!"
"Do you have a filter?" Max asked as he led me toward our fourth period class, which was Music/Choir.
"What do you mean?" I asked as I stared down at him smiling while my eyebrows were scrunched together.
"I mean when you talk. Do you have a filter?"
"I still don't understand."
"Like back there, you outright told him what we were doing up there in the tree instead of lying about it."
"I don't like to lie. Plus I suck at it." I said laughing as we turned a corner.
"So you decide to just tell him we, or more of you, were spying on him. And THEN tell him why."
"He was going to ask anyway. Plus it's a way of showing him I accept him, without actually letting him know I know we're mates." I said quietly to make sure no one heard. Which is hard being in a school full of supernaturals. "Now come on, we don't want to be late now do we?"
"You must be Julian Cheshire." The teacher, Mr. Light, said as soon as Max and I entered the classroom. I ,of course, stayed up front while Max headed towards the back and picked up a guitar after he sat down. I looked back at Mr. Light and nodded so he could continue. "Well during the first week of class I have everyone tell me what instruments they can play and if they can sing. Then I let them decide if they would rather sing or play and instrument to show me."
"That's fair."
"So can you sing?"
"Yes I can."
"Can you play any instrument?"
"Yes."
"What instrument or instruments?"
"Well I can play the piano, the guitar, flute, clarinet, tuba, saxophone, banjo, lute, violin, cello, drums..." And I state...I'm over two thousand and have had A LOT of free time over the years.
"Okay...okay...I get it, you can play an enormous amount of instruments." He said rubbing the bridge of his nose whil I laughed quietly. "Do you want to play one of the instruments we have here, as you apparently play all of them..." He said looking at me a bit skeptically, but if I had the time I could show him that I could play each and every one of them. "...or would you rather sing a song?" I tapped my finger against my chin as I thought about it. Because on one hand I love would love to show him that I could play a lot of different instruments, but on the other hand I LOVE to sing.
"I'll sing something."
"Alright what would you like to sing?"
"What hurts the most by Rascal Flatts." I said and he nodded. He quickly quieted down the class and motioned for me to start singing.
"I can take the rain on the roof of this empty house
That don't bother me
I can take a few tears now and then and just let'em out
I'm not afraid to cry every once in a while even though
Goin' on with you gone still upsets me
There are days every now and again I pretend I'm okay
But that's not what gets me
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do
It's hard to deal with the pain of losin' you everywhere I go
But I'm doin' it
It's hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I'm alone
Still harder gettin' up, gettin' dressed, livin' with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And havin' so much to say
(Much to say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do, oh
Oh yeah
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
(To say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do
Not seein' that lovin' you
That's what I was trying to do, ooo"
I finished singing and after a few seconds of silence, everyone started clapping and I smiled sadly. That song always made me think about my mother and the rest of my family, so it always made me sad when singing or listening to it. "That was wonderful, Julian." Mr. Light said and I could see that he was genuinely shocked.
"Thank you."
"Why don't you go sit over next to Max?" He said and I nodded before heading over. "Now class today we are going to..."
~Kevin~
It was fourth period, but fortunately I don't have a class this period, so I was simply walking around the halls making sure no student was out and about without a pass. And that they weren't making trouble. The whole time though, my mind's been focused on Julian. Which wasn't much of a surprise as he sure was something else. He was smart, cocky, agile and just plain sexy. Which was a bit weird to think of a student as, but I saw Damian as sexy since he was fifteen, and I was twenty-two, and Julian is only a year younger than him."Hey, Kevin." I heard Nathan say over our mind link.
"Hello, Nathan." I said kind of amused as he sounded like he was avoiding something. Which he probably was. He always avoided work and that only served to piss off his father. "So what are you avoiding now?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Nate."
"Fine, I'm avoiding some of the nurses right now. They are just so horny and don't understand that not only am I GAY! But I have mates, that I would never cheat on."
"Oh, I'm sorry, Babe."
"Stop patronizing me."
"But I'm can't help it...it's just so easy." I said laughing as he growled over our mind link.
"So, how's Julian?" He asked and I replayed my memories of finding him spying on me, him and Max getting out of the tree and then what he said before dragging Max away and by the end Nate was laughing his ss off. "I definitely love him! Now all I need to do is meet him and then jump him." He said and I laughed as I turned the corner and headed down the hall toward the music classroom.
"At least wait until the other guys meet him as well and then we explain everything he doesn't know before..." I stopped talking as I heard singing coming from the music room. My demon urged me to go closer so I complied and smiled when I realized it was Julian singing. "Hey, Nate, link the other guys so they can hear this." I said as I headed closer so I could hear him properly.
"...still harder gettin' up, gettin' dressed, livin' with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade, give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken
What hurts the most
Is being so close
And havin' so much to say
(Much to say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do, oh
Oh yeah
What hurts the most
Was being so close
And havin' so much to say
(To say)
And watchin' you walk away
And never knowin'
What could've been
And not seein' that lovin' you
Is what I was tryin' to do
Not seein' that lovin' you
That's what I was trying to do, ooo"
"Is there anything he can't do?" Jason asked once he finished singing.
"Sure as hell doesn't seem like it." I said smiling to myself as I headed back towards the gym so I could relax until my next class, and the fact that I couldn't exactly watch Julian the whole time without someone questioning me. And I would like to have Julian meet the rest of the guys and talk to him about being our mate before anything else. I just hope it won't take long, because I don't know how long I can hold out without officially mating with all of them now that we found Julian.