"Well...that was something." Lisa said a short time later when she found herself seated next to Kaname on the love seat with her shoes off and resting in Kaname's lap where the vampire king was soothing some of the pain in the sole's of her feet away with a nice relaxing massage, while a small, collapsible table had been set up next to her end of the seat with several drinks and various foods. Including a nice chunk of heavily frosted butter cream and vanilla birthday cake.

Kaname took his eyes off of his task for a moment to find her looking out over the crowd that had gathered around Ichijo and was looking at his new ring in the moonlight.

He seemed happy with his gift. And everyone appeared envious.

Goal achieved. Kaname thought happily as he finished with Lisa's feet and then gently set them off of his lap and reached out for her hand so that he could pull her close to his side. "Hn. I should have warned you ahead of time that he's a screamer," He said in slight amusement as he finally got Lisa's body to co operate with him and managed to get her right where he wanted her and wrapped an arm around her slender shoulders before deciding to change the subject. "You look lovely in your dress, and jewelry. Though I somewhat had expected you to put your hair up in an intricate knot or to curl your hair somehow to tame it."

Lisa fought the slight urge to both blush and cringe though she could detect no reproach in his tone. "Thank you. And I might have styled it differently, but my hair is too long to be curled and I know of no intricate knots that I could have styled it in."

"Hn. I see." Was all that Kaname could say. He hadn't known that she wouldn't know some of the more intricate styles. But then sometimes he kept forgetting that she was human and not a vampire like himself. Especially after the paper cutter incident several weeks ago.

She had been taking a slight break from working on her crafts and instead had joined him in his office to act as his secretary for a little bit. He had given her the simple task of opening letters with his letter opener and sometime a little while later he had smelled her blood.

The scent of it had flooded his senses and touched every corner of the room with it's enticingly delicious smell.

He had gotten up to go and make sure that she hadn't accidentally nicked her wrist or something with the sharp and piece of heavy silver. And had found her licking her own wound in an effort to clean up the blood and not alarm him. To say that he had been surprised to see her doing this, would of course, be an understatement.

However after a few moments, he had managed to get over his initial shock and stop her from licking her wound any further and had used his own tongue and healing saliva to seal the wound closed before he had released her to go and get her a band-aid.

The night dorms had been in a frenzy for a few hours trying to figure out what was going on. And since everyone was trying to hunt down the source of the blood- Lisa had poked her head out of his study and gave everyone a quick apology for being so clumsy. After which everyone had returned to their usual activities and only a few stragglers had remained to make sure that Lisa was truly alright.

Needless to say, Kaname hadn't let his ward out of his sight that night and most of the day after. He'd even gone so far as to drag her from her room after she had bathed and settled in for the night- back down the hall to his room where he had partially lain on her torso to keep her in place so that she would sleep next to him.

He hadn't wanted anyone still possibly feeling the effects of bloodlust to wander into her room and attack her.

Feeling his ward's eyes on him, he turned his head to look at her questioningly when she said, "I asked if you would like something to eat or drink from the little...uh...table thingy?" He raised a brow at her for a moment and let his eyes scan the table before muttering about wanting a bite or two of birthday cake.

Lisa went to grab the hard plastic cake cutter when Kaname reached over her and picked up a fork from the table and used it to take a bite of the piece of cake that Ichijo had given to him to let Lisa have.

It was good. But as he glanced at his ward, he thought of several things better tasting. Sighing as he slowly turned his eyes away from Lisa's pretty little throat, he grabbed a crystal glass of red wine from a tray that someone was carrying past where he was sitting and quickly downed it hoping that the alcohol would take the edge off of the sudden hunger that he felt, never realizing that once he downed it someone put another, full glass in his hand followed by another and another until he felt as if the world was spinning a little bit.

Once he finished off his last glass of red wine, he decided to stop drinking altogether knowing that if he didn't he'd wind up tipsy or something and some poor soul would have to take care of him. Like last time when poor Ichijo had gotten stuck with him.

He'd woken up the next morning with a bit of a hangover, completely nude, and Ichijo had been tied to a chair partially dressed in what had looked like a shepard girl costume. complete with lace up bodice top and petticoats. To say that neither of them had been able to look the other in the eye for months after the incident was the understatement of the century.

Everyday that Ichijo had seen his face after the incident, he'd scream and take off running through the dorms like a mad man claiming that Kaname was after his ass. Of course everyone, including the vampire king, had thought him joking. But apparently Ichijo had meant the words literally because during Kaname's inebriated state, he'd brought out some nice 'toys' and some lube.

Frankly Kaname had no damn idea how he had gotten his hands on any of those things. So Ichijo had finally told him several months after they had started talking to each other again that apparently he'd confiscated the various toys and lube from Hanabusa and some of the girls. Go figure.

Still...he had apologized to his friend for his inappropriate attempt to...whatever he had been trying to do to him while drunk. And life had gone on from there.

Starting to put his current glass down, he paused when he noted the number of empty glasses and muttered an oath loud enough for everyone including Ichijo to hear him. Everyone looked at him as he felt the seat he was on shift slightly as Lisa's face came into view.

"Kaname?"

"Hn?" He hummed as he watched the gorgeous creature in front of him like a hawk.

"Are you okay? What's wrong?" The siren asked him as he continued to watch her for a moment before slurring slightly.

"I'm good."

Followed by someone saying in a slightly panicked tone, "Oh my god, he's drunk." Which was then followed by someone else shouting, "Quick! Get Lisa away from him!"