I want to thank myra for some helpful ideas. This chapter is dedicated to her, with many more to come, so I hope you enjoy it!
"Kaien, you're kidding," I say.
"No, I don't think that it would be smart to leave you in Yuki's care especially since she shares a room with Yori, who just recently had her memory wiped. It would just be safer this way," Cross says.
"But headmaster, you can't do that," Yuki argues.
"Why not?" he asks.
"BECAUSE! That is against school rules. No girls in the boys dorm and no boys in the girls dorm."
Zero is leaning on his bedroom door with his head up against it. I'm just waiting for Cross to realize what an idiot he is.
"I am the headmaster. I make the rules. Besides," he says as he wraps his arm around Zero, "Zero wouldn't try to do anything to her. Or, at least not forcefully I hope."
Zero punches Cross in the face and sends him sailing down the hall. I laugh and Yuki sighs.
"Zero, did you have hit him?" Yuki asks. Zero doesn't reply. He opens his door and walks in. I roll my eyes again and look at Yuki.
"Yuki, what do I do?" I ask.
Yuki shrugs her shoulders. "Well, it isn't like he shares a room with anyone and everyone is pretty much scared of him, so I don't think anyone will notice."
I sigh and shake my head as I walk into his room. I shut the door and look around. There isn't much in here at all. There's a bed, a sink, and a closet, but that is it. Oh, there's a window, too.
"Um, so what are we gonna do?" I ask him.
Zero looks at me then to the window. "You can sleep in the bed and I'll sleep on the floor."
"That isn't what I meant," I say as I sit on his bed.
He looks at me. "Then what the hell do you mean?"
"About the other shit that's going on. About Phoenix and Edmond, and… where the hell did you and Yuki go earlier?" I ask, getting off topic.
Zero leans against the wall and looks at me. "We were trying to figure out how he got in here, but when we went looking we ran into Toga. He told us that he would look in to it. That it was something we needed to stay out of."
"Ugh… At least you tried," I say. I think for a moment about what I am going to say next because I don't want him to start hating me again. "Zero, can I ask you something?"
"Depends on if it's gonna piss me off," he says.
"Okay, I'll take that as a yes. Why do you talk to me if I am two things you hate."
Zero doesn't say anything. Five minutes pass before he does say anything. "I talk to you because I'm trying to find things out."
"Oh, so it isn't because you like to talk to me," I say.
"If you think that then you're very wrong."
I shrug my shoulders. "As long as you don't stick a gun to my head every ten seconds, I don't care if you like me or not. But if I was human would you?"
Zero cuts his eyes at me. "If you were human, I probably would never have met you."
I laugh. "Yeah, I guess not…" I smile for a moment because the thought of me being human brings back the memories of my family. But then it also brings back the night that Shizuka killed them all in front of me. "I bet we would have been good friends if Shizuka had never come around." He doesn't reply. "You don't think so?" I ask.
"If she'd never come around, then my parents would still be here," he says angrily.
Oh well, there goes not pissing him off. "Hey, you know what?" I ask as I think.
"What?" Zero asks gruffly.
"I think my parents were vampire hunters, too."
"Then why the hell would they keep a vampire in their home?"
I look at him. "I haven't always been a vampire," I say.
Zero glares at me. "I find that rather hard to believe."
"Well, if you don't believe me just go ask…" I trail off. I don't know what to say next.
Zero laughs. "What, you can't think of someone?" he asks.
I shake my head. "There isn't anyone. She killed them all."
Zero crosses his arms and looks towards the door. "What about Sky? Isn't she your sister?"
I sigh and stand up. I walk around and kick my feet a little. Then I look him in the eyes and slightly smile. "We don't remember each other being there, but we both have our memories of our family. Except for one…"
"And that is?" Zero asks me.
"When I watched Shizuka kill my oldest sister in the snow, I ran home to find that the rest of them were dead. But apparently Sky ran away altogether. She didn't stick around to see what was left. That's why we never met, or maybe our memories of each other were erased." I sit back down on the bed and lie back with my feet dangling off the edge.
"Then how did you and Kaname meet?" he asks.
"I've been waiting for someone to ask me that," I say. "You might want to grab a seat and a bag of popcorn if you really want to know." Zero doesn't grab a bag of popcorn, but he does sit down on the floor. I sit up and scoot up against the wall so I'm not talking to the ceiling instead of him. "Are you sure you want to know?" I ask.
"Everything I find out always leads back to you, so you might as well just tell me your life, but make it short," Zero says.
I laugh. "Alright, you know my life up to my families death, so I'll start there. After Shizuka bit me and brought my vampire senses, if that's what you wanna call 'em, into my life, I cried and she left. The words she told me before she left were 'you're next' have haunted me for a long time, and they still do, caused some of my crying. I don't know how long I was there alone, but it felt like forever.
"Once I grasped what had really happened to me, I got up and walked outside. The sun wasn't out yet and it had only set by the time I got home that night, so I knew that I could leave before any vampire hunters came and found me. I decided to just leave as I was, blood covered clothes and all, and get as far as possible away from my home. However, I ran into someone unexpected. Another vampire, Kaname Kuran. He took me to his 'home' and got me cleaned up. I lived there for about a year, and I couldn't live there anymore. They didn't treat Kaname too well, but they treated me even worse."
I pause for a moment. I recall Cross saying that Zero had been dealing with his problem for four years now, and I have been dealing with mine for four years as well. Then I recall reading in the paper a long time ago about that day. "Zero, did you know that Shizuka attacked our families within the same day?" I ask him.
Zero looks at the floor. "No, I didn't know."
"Anyway," I say as I know that this isn't going anywhere, "I left and lived in the woods. I met Hanabusa and Akatsuki while I was walking around the cursed earth and soon fell in love with him. And three years later, here I am, still as much human as ever."
"God, that was long," Zero complains.
I take my shoe off and throw it at him. "It isn't my fault! I have a really long and boring life," I say.
"Boring to a T," he replies.
I huff and cross my arms. "Well, now you know my life. Try and make heads or tails of it if you can, but I don't know what it will help you with." Zero gets up and walks over to me. I look up at him since he is towering over me and see that he has a sad look. "Zero, what's wrong?" I ask.
Zero doesn't reply to me. Instead, he reaches his arms towards me, grabs me, and shoves me off the bed onto the floor.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" I scream.
Zero laughs and sits down. I hop up and jump on the bed. I stand on it and kick Zero in the stomach. He grunts and grabs my foot that I was too slow to pull away from him. Zero pulls me down and I fall to the bed. I start to giggle, and Zero begins to laugh. I swear, sometimes Zero is a complete ass, but then again he has his good moments…
"Rose, wake up," Zero says.
"Hmm?" I yawn and stretch. I open my eyes and realize that I fell asleep in the most uncomfortable place in the world; half on the bed and half off. I sit up and look at Zero. He is already dressed and ready for class. The jerk…
"We'll be late if you don't hurry up," Zero urges.
I stand up and notice that he has my uniform in his hands. I grab it and sluggishly walk over to the sink. Zero sits down on his bed and since there is a 'wall' blocking Zero's view from the sink, I get undressed and put my uniform on. I brush my teeth and wash my face, and sluggishly walk back over to Zero.
"Rose, are you alright?" Zero asks me as he gets up and walks to the door.
I follow him blindly and run into him. "Uh-huh," I say slowly. I look up at him and smile.
"Maybe you shouldn't stay up so late." Zero opens the door and we both walk out. I don't see anyone in the hallway as we walk to class, but I'm so exhausted I probably wouldn't see them anyway.
We get to class just in time, and Toga is our teacher now. Ugh. I feel so sleepy while we are reading a stupid story so I decide to lay my head on the table for a moment and rest…
WHACK!
"Oh! What the-!?" I grab my head and sit up.
"You are not going to sleep in this class," Toga says. He has a book in his hand that he just hit me with.
"Gah, I'm so sleeeepy," I whine.
"You should have slept instead of staying up all night," he says as he walks off. I huff and cross my arms. Yuki and Yori snicker and Zero shakes his head in disbelief.
The lunch bell rings and the four of us walk outside again. Well, I more or less am dragged along. We sit down and they begin to eat while I try so hard not to fall asleep.
"Yume, are you feeling okay?" Yori asks.
I nod my head. "This may sound weird, but I get very sleepy on full moons," I say.
Yori laughs. "I know, my parents do the same thing. Here, have this," she says as she pushes some strange food in my face. "It'll keep you awake for a while."
I take it since it looks like a granola bar and eat it. I look at Yori and smile, and all of a sudden I feel light headed…
"Rose, Rose, can you hear me?" someone asks.
I slowly open my eyes and see Sky standing above me. I turn my head and see Yuki, Zero, and Kaname behind her. "Wha?" I ask.
Sky laughs. "You're awake," she says and hugs me.
"Ugh, what happened?" I ask. I sit up and look around at my surroundings. It seems as though I am in the nurses office, judging by all the beds and glass containers in here.
"You are apparently allergic to granola bars," Yuki says. "So, ever since yesterday, you've been in here."
I blink at her. "Since yesterday I have been asleep?" I ask.
"Well, you needed the sleep anyway," Zero replies. I face-palm myself because they are useless to me right now.
"Rose," Kaname says, "How are you feeling?"
I roll my eyes. "Like you care," I say. I look over to him and notice he seems a little hurt. Bull crap Kaname. I know you only act like that around Yuki! I think to myself.
"Rose, I do care," Kaname says. He walks over to me and leans in close to my face. "But for some reason you choose to ignore the fact that I can and do care."
I bare my fangs at him. "Get the hell out of my face Kaname or I swear I'll kill you where you stand," I say as viciously as possible. Kaname chuckles, and I begin to slap him, but Yuki grabs my arm and stops me. I turn to glare at her and say, "Let go of my hand, Yuki."
Yuki shakes her head. "I can't let you go around hitting people. If I did, I'd have to let Zero, too," she says with a slight smile.
"Well, fine then," I say. I ready my other hand to slap Kaname, but then Zero decides he is going to stop me too. "For crying out loud, why won't you guys let me hit him!?" I yell.
Everyone gets silent. I look around at all of their faces and they seem a little fuzzy, except for Kaname. He is as clear as day for some reason.
"Rose, I don't think you realize something," Kaname says.
I snarl at him. "Oh yeah? And what the hell might that be?"
Kaname chuckles once more and leans in even closer to my face, merely inches away from my lips. "This is all a dream that you need to wake up from."
"What? A… a dream?" I ask. The grip on my hands fades and Kaname pushes me down on the bed.
"Yes, a dream." His face has yet to move closer or further away from my face, leaving me with the idea I am having a very appalling nightmare that will hopefully soon come to an end. Or, even worse, Kaname is lying to me and he is actually on top of me. I try to pull away, but I can't free myself of his grip. Suddenly he begins to laugh again, but lower than before.
"Kaname, what the hell do you think you are doing?" I ask, more terrified than angry.
"Rose, all I have ever wanted in life was you," Kaname purrs. Oh, how much I want to slap him right now! "And now that you know…" Kaname leans in closer to me and I can feel his breathe on my lips, and almost his lips…
And thank you again myra for letting me make this special scene for you. I know it isn't much, but I'm definitely new at this kind of writing. Anyhow, I really how you enjoyed reading this, this goes for all readers. I can't say when the next chapter will come around, but I hope soon. HEH! Thanks for reading and please, please, PLEASElet me know how I did. It would mean the world to me.