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K on wit chapter 10!

'I don't know.'

'You don't know??'

Dain was incredulous and didn't bother to hide it. The great controlled, powerful and perfect Dahlia didn't know???

'That's what I said. Do I have to repeat it for you?' she replied coolly.

'That would be fun, say it again.'

She sighed in exasperation and said nothing.

'So, you don't know how to translate this, what do we do?'

'We do nothing, I go to bed, and you sort it out by yourself.' She walked towards the door and was about to leave.

'Hey wait a minute, the whole point of this was so you could help me.' Great I now sound like a whining child.

'Well guess what? I can't so you'll have to make do on your own.'

He had no idea how difficult it was to say the word can't, Dahlia had always based her success on determination and hard work, oh and natural ability. Now she had reached an obstacle that no one expected her to overcome, but she decided to defy those and prove them wrong. Now she was saying I can't do it, hypocritical and irritating at the same time. But she'd rather be that than spend more time with him.

'Fine, go then, I'll have to ask someone else.' Perhaps she'll stay because she wants to prove herself capable of anything.

She left closing the door behind her.

Obviously her aim to be able to do anything didn't outweigh her desire to fight whatever was going on between them.

Dain felt a pang of regret go through him. He had wanted her to stay. They didn't have to work; he just had this insatiable need to be with her. He gathered up the photocopies of Druid lore and rolled them up. He couldn't do this alone, so he elected to get some rest.

Next day Dahlia attended school and she was in her Geography class, when she noticed that Dain wasn't in school, as she was sitting with the class he was supposed to be in. The elders must have decided it was more important for him to learn the druid lore than have to spend time learning general knowledge. He would probably have to go to school later. Any way he lived as a human all his life, so maybe he'd done everything already.

The bell rang and she gathered her books into her bag as the teacher called out the homework while students filed out pretending not to hear. Dahlia however made a mental note of the page and questions they were to look at. She was prepared like that.

Walking through the corridor she allowed the jostling chatter and noise of the students wash over her, ignoring everything. She didn't hear the distant voice calling her name.

She walked straight ahead to her classroom and was fumbling in her pocket, while juggling books, for the key to her locker padlock. An arm tapped her on the shoulder from behind demanding to be heard but Dahlia resolutely ignored the person. She was carrying books, couldn't they see that, and inevitably if she turned she would drop them. They could wait.

She ignored the hand and opened her locker beginning to place her books inside neatly. Then she took the persons arm away from hers and threw it aside with a medium amount of force, enough to make the person back off.  When she was finished she turned and glanced at the annoyance.

'Excuse me but I've been calling you name for about 10 minutes. You could at least reply.'

'And you Mr Harrison could at least wait until I was finished.' She knew the tall, blond haired boy in front of her. He had been pestering her for the last month. It wouldn't have happened if she hadn't been so careless, she had just been told about her blood that day and she lost control long enough to do something stupid.

'So have you thought any more about my offer?' he asked through wounded male pride.

'Yes,' she answered succinctly.

'And?' he questioned eagerly.

'No'

'No?' his face fell about ten feet into the ground.

'The answer is no. Now if you'll excuse me Mr Harrison I have an important errand to run.' She picked up her bag and walked away leaving Tyler Harrison's eyes following with dejection but also with a strange determination. He followed her.

'Wait, Dahlia!' She walked on tenaciously and did not look back. She walked down the stairs and went inside the library, where the equally determined Tyler followed.

The library required quiet, so he was forced to whisper at her as she sat down beside a desk overlooking the hockey match going on outside. He grabbed a chair and sat next to her.

'At least try it out, you never know you may enjoy it!' He fervently spoke in an undertone.

Dahlia ignored him, cursing the day she let down her guard. She was in gym class with her class and they had been learning how to defend themselves in the event of an assault. Dahlia was asked to demonstrate by the teacher and did so without fault. The teacher however seemed to believe that she had executed the throw incorrectly. Dahlia incensed by this, decided to ask the teacher, politely and respectfully, to try again and attack her with as much force as she wished. Mrs Rafferty was the kind of woman who liked to put her pupils in their place…below her and being insulted by this girl was not part of that criteria.

Mrs Rafferty then attempted to attack Dahlia in several moves but Dahlia had lost her temper and was blocking with unbelievable speed and strength. Finally the teacher lay on the floor panting and Dahlia was completely calm and reserved standing very still.

Her class were staring at her in wonder. And from that moment on she was continually pestered to join the Karate club. This school seemed to have a particular affinity for martial arts (one of the reasons Master Nagini chose to send her there) and their team was very good. Tyler, one of their champions, was elected to persuade Dahlia to join.

'I said 'no' and I meant it Mr Harrison. Now I have work to do, if you would please desist in harassing me.' She said this in a normal conversationalist tone and at a normal volume. This meant she was heard across the library among the silence and whispers of the students. Tyler sat mortified as the chief librarian strode over to their desk.

'Is everything satisfactory here  Dahlia?' he asked in a concerned voice.

'No, Mr Thomas, Tyler was just leaving, there is no problem here.' The librarian nodded and walked away, not without looking meaningfully at Tyler until he arose from his chair.

'Before I leave I just want to say that you should join because you have a lot of potential and it shouldn't be wasted.' With that he walked away.

Dahlia did not reply that she was making more of her potential than she had any right to do, but allowed him to walk away. Opening her Biology she worked on her homework in silence.

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