The world came back in a foggy haze. My head was pounding. I assumed from all the bloodloss and fear I'd experienced in the last few days. I shifted to sit up, remembering too late that my wrists were still tied to the bedposts by my torn sheets. My eyes shifted down to my torn shirt, the bra still tugged half on my body, and the bruises that colored my breast. Two brightly colored balls still shimmered against my skin, the only proof that I was still pierced by the pins. The area around the wounds was sore and sensitive, as if the pain had woken up when I did. My breast was rosy and swollen. I let out a slow exhale and stared up at the ceiling.
"How was your nap Bratty?" The cheerful voice made my head snap to the side. Ayato had appeared next to me on the bed between blinks. He grinned down at me and reached out to brush a finger across the decorative balls, snickering when I flinched at the contact. "Comfy?"
"No," I said stiffly. "I'm not. Are you going to let me up now?"
The red head looked me over a minute, his fingers tracing over the push pins to make me flinch. "I'm considering it. What do I get if I do?"
I stared up at him soberly, using everything I had to keep my voice even. "We can both avoid the awkwardness of me peeing in this bed, for one."
"Is that the best excuse you've got?" He scoffed. "You need to go to the bathroom?"
"It's not an excuse," I grumbled out my lie and looked away from him. "You left me here all night. I do have basic needs you know."
Ayato's smile became suddenly devious, his bright green eyes trailed brazenly to my exposed breast before he leaned down to kiss the place impaled by pins.
"Are you asking me to scratch an itch for you Bratty?" He chuckled into my breast and I felt myself tremble at the soft brush of his lips. His tongue slipped out to flick my nipple and returned to his mouth when he laughed at the soft squeak I made in response.
"Don't do that!"
"Why not?" He smirked. His hand slid down along my side to settle on my hip a squeeze. "You obviously like it. I wish you could see your face right now. You're as red as a tomato."
"That's because you're touching me like we're some kind of intimate touching buddies!"
He laughed softly, kissing the top of my breast before he moved on to the other. "Does it embarrass you Bratty? When I tease you like this?"
My mouth bobbed a few times as I struggled to form a response. It went right out the window when he sucked my nipple into his mouth and teased it with the tip of his tongue. His eyes were locked on my face to watch my reaction. I did my best to bury my gasp until his teeth pinched the sensitive bud.
"Shit!" I breathed out harshly. Ayato smirked around my nipple. I saw the flash of his fangs just a moment before they sank into my breast and I let out a high pitched squeak of pain. He continued to watch me as he fed, no doubt enjoying the way my brow pinched and I bit my lip to keep from making another sound. It didn't last long, but by the time he was finished I was breathing in long, deep drawls to keep myself calm. The vampire licked the excess blood from my skin and his eyes moved slowly to the pins in my right breast.
"Do you want me to take those out now?"
After a deep breath, I nodded. "Yes."
The corner of his mouth lifted up as he glanced back up at me. "It's going to hurt. Are you ready for that Bratty?"
My eyes closed a moment, before I nodded again. "Just do it."
Ayato chuckled reaching up to press the tip of his finger into the lowest pin. The moment he touched the green bead, it flared in sharp pain and I hissed in a breath.
"Sensitive?" He asked mockingly. I simply glared up at him. When he pinched the bead between two fingers, I grit my teeth and my body tensed to ready itself. It wasn't enough. As Ayato pulled the pin of of my flesh, I realized it hurt as bad as going in. Worse, actually because the skin was swollen and tender now. I made a pitiful sound behind my clenched teeth and breathed heavily out of my nose. Ayato watched this all in a detached sort of amusement. He gave me a moment to breath and to dread the last pin before he grabbed it.
"Deep breath Bratty," he mocked, grinning wider when the slow pull he used to remove the pin made me wriggle on the mattress, cursing behind my clenched teeth. My breast throbbed angrily where the pins had been. A tiny bead of blood swelled up at the uppermost wound, but Ayato was quick to suck it away, tonguing the tiny puncture until I whimpered.
"Better?" He grinned, shifting to roll on top of me and brace himself on an elbow beside my head. I looked up into his green eyes and glared at him. That just made him laugh. "Would you rather I had left them in there?"
"No. I would rather you had never done it in the first place. Can you please just let me up now? My arms have been alseep for at least an hour."
"Stop complaining Bratty. You'll ruin my good mood." He leaned down to search my eyes, bringing him close enough to kiss me. My attention shifted anxiously between his eyes and his mouth until he smirked at me. "Are you thinking about last night? Did you like it that much much when I kissed you?"
"You are so full of yourself. It's-" I didn't get the rest out. His mouth covered mine in the next second and I was frozen. His lips were surprisingly soft for a monster. I felt the backs of his knuckles brush gently along the line of my jaw. I didn't want to admit it even to myself, but the kiss was making my skin tingle. I squirmed beneath him until he spoke against my lips.
"Be still," he murmured and his mouth slowly worked mine open so his toIngue could slip in and explore me. A tiny breath came out of me unbidden, a small sigh that made him smirk again
st my lips and kiss me with a more possession. By the time he was finished, I was breathless and flushed, blinking up at him in confusion. Why the hell could he make my head spin like this? What was wrong with me?
"What's that expression?" He teased stroking his thumb across my slightly swollen lips. "You look pretty excited there Bratty. Should I keep going?"
"No." I shook my head. "I'm not excited. This is panic."
"That so?" He asked doubtfully. His hand trailed down along my side again squeezing my thigh. I wiggled beneath him, sucking in a breath when his fingers slipped up beneath my skirt. "You're panic looks an awful lot like arousal. That might get confusing in the future."
"Ayato," I breathed out, shivering wildly when he began to rub me over my panties.
"I don't know why you're so embarrassed by your attraction to me. Just accept it western brat. You like it when I touch you. I can hear your heart thumping away with excitement."
I squirmed my hips as he focused on my clit, dipping down his head to brush a kiss against the corner of my mouth. His voice was low, and soft. It sent a shiver down my spine that coiled in my lower belly. I didn't want to be turned on by this, but he wasn't exactly playing fair.
"Do you want me to let you cum?"
The blunt question made my stomach flip. I had too little experience not to be flustered, and the way he was touching me made my thoughts race. My hands tightened around the cords of material holding them to the bed until my fingers tingled.
"Well?" He prompted with a smirk. "Answer me."
I blinked up at him, suddenly to embarrassed to speak. The truth was I did. I shouldn't, he shouldn't have been able to make my body react this way after all he'd done to me, but there was no denying it. Ayato chuckled softly, brushing a light kiss across my lips.
"You can say it Cara." The fingers rubbing me suddenly slipped into the front of my panties. I let out a soft sound when he curled one to push it into the slickness that had gathered under his attention. The coiling tighteness in my abdomen seemed to expand, my skin felt flushed with heat. "There's no hiding how wet you are, so just answer the question."
My eyes squeezed shut as he pumped his finger into me slowly. I felt like i might melt into the mattress for shame, but the other part of me, the one controlled by my id, was begging me to give in. It wanted to embrace the strange seduction. It wanted the hum of building pleasure within me to burst.
"Yes," I said softly, unable to meet his eyes. The part of me that hated to bend to their twisted wills was buried under the thing that made my hips shift from side to side as he played with me. I wasn't proud of myself, but here we were.
"Say please," Ayato smirked when my eyes snapped to him in irritation. I clenched my jaw a moment, until a second finger slipped inside me and he teased my clit with the heel of his hand.
"Please, Ayato." The words were a breathless whisper. They made his green eyes sharpen in amusement. The pressure on my clit increased and the fingers sliding in and out of me curled suddenly to press against my inner wall. It sent an almost violent shiver up my spine, my back arching slightly against the mattress. Electricity hummed beneath my skin to join the coiled tightness in my abdomen and I let out an unintentional moan. The pressure building inside of me was coming to a head. I wasn't going to last for much longer.
"So shameless," Ayato chuckled when a teasing pressure to my clit made me moan again. His fingers pulled out of me and he rubbed along the outer folds instead. The sudden absence of his effort made me squirm again beneath him.
"Ayato, please," I whispered, arching my back to press myself into his fingers. He couldn't stop, not when I was so close. The vampire smirked and leaned down to kiss me softly.
"Please what?" He murmured against my mouth. I closed my eyes again and let my head fall back against the mattress in defeat. I knew what he wanted from me now. He wouldn't miss an opportunity to tease me more.
"Please make me...cum." I struggled to say the world aloud, and once I did I felt my cheeks burning with the embarrassment of it. I heard him laugh softly and then his fingers were on my clit again. I moaned out my appreciation until the familiar tingling warmth began to build again. It swelled within me until it felt like I might burst, and all too suddenly, I did. My orgasm tore through me with a fierceness that made me cry out. My inner muscles clenched and released with the waves that crashed against me. When it had passed and I was panting in the after echos of pleasure, Ayato pulled his hand from my skirt and planted it on the mattress beside my head. When he bent down to kiss me, I let myself moan softly into his touch, arching up to press my body against his slender frame. In the moment I didn't care that I was acting as shameless as he said. I felt fantastic. There was no room in my world right now for shame.
Ayato nipped at my lower lip before he broke the kiss and pushed himself up. He tugged at the corded material binding me to the bed post on my right side and it snapped, releasing my restraint.
"You're welcome," he smirked pointedly down at me as he snapped the second cord to release my arms. Blushing deeply, I turned my eyes away.
"Um...thank you?"
He laughed at that and climbed off the bed. "Get yourself dressed Bratty. We'll be leaving for school in a few minutes. You know Reiji hates to be late. Don't make him come looking for you."
I nodded as I sat up for the first time in hours. My shoulders protested angrily about their new positions, aching as I lowered my arms. It was going to be a little bit of a struggle to get into my uniform tonight. Ayato leaned suddenly down to catch my eyes, his lips curling into a wicked smile when it made me freeze.
"And Bratty?"
"Yes?" I asked softly.
"The face you make when you're cumming, is absolutely adorable. You have to show it to me again soon." With that he vanished right in front of me and I was left to blush hotly in the room alone. He was far too good at making me flustered.
"Ok seriously, leave me alone, your creepy fan club is watching." My hissed words only made the smirking vampire wink.
I sank down into my desk at the back of the class. Normally I was relatively alone back here, but Laito had decided to take the seat next to mine on a whim. It caused some kind of panic, the girls that usually flocked around him were left with a hole in their strategic desk formation, their eyes raking me in hostile curiosity. I had felt their glares and ignored the whispering of the class for the better part of an hour now. Laito of course, was taking every opportunity to drive them all crazy. He leaned over my desk once, pretending to ask for help on our math worksheet. Later he had "accidentally" snapped his pencil. Half the girls in the classroom dove for their pencil cases, but he once again leaned over to invade my space. I gave him mine and glared ahead at the front of the room to ignore any further conversation. The obvious spurning was not taken well by his fan girls. They seemed to think the idea that I might not already be dripping into my seat from his attention to be impossible. They didn't know he was fucking with me on purpose, riling them up. So be it, I told myself. I would only be at this stupid night school until I got the hell away from them. I didn't need to make any friends. Right now, what I really needed was for this psycho to leave me the hell alone. He was still watching me, a dreamy sort of smile on his face as he propped his chin in his hand. To me, the expression was an obvious ploy to rankle his fan girls. To them it was a clear indication that he had taken an interest in the new girl and that made me public enemy number one.
"Stop it," I snapped under my breath, trying not to look directly at him.
"But you're blushing," he said soft enough that only I could hear him. "You know I can't resist that face."
"Then learn some self control," I snapped back a little louder than I meant to. It drew the attention of one of the fans, a girl with high, obnoxious pigtails dripping in pink ribbons. Her dark eyes narrowed on me then moment our gazes met but Laito managed to snatch her attention with a soft question. His voice was pitched just loud enough for the others to hear.
"You're name is Cara right?" I grit my teeth and refused to listen to him. My blatant disinterest made Pigtails go red. Laito wasn't done digging my hole. He leaned a little closer to my desk again and peeked down to catch my eyes with what would have been a charming smile if not for all the dark humor shining in his green eyes.
"You transferred here from the United States?"
"Yes," I played along in a sarcastic tone, sparring him only a glance. "I want to go to college here."
That part wasn't a lie, or at least it hadn't been until I learned that Japan was crawling with vampires. Now I would be overjoyed to return to my small town.
"That's neat," Laito feigned interest while he continued to watch me. I found it irritating that he barely had to try and these fools lapped up his words like he was composing sonnets. "Are you living somewhere in town?"
I met his gaze to scowl at him because we both knew I was staying with him. I'd been given an address with my transfer papers. When I arrived at the mansion, I'd thought it might be some kind of boarding school dorm or something. Laughs were on me when it turned out to be a murder house full of psychopaths, and my transfer and free scholarship were all a fabrication from the people who brought them food. Sacrifices, they called them. There was a whole faction of humans tossing girls into their laps in an attempt to appease them, as if they were gods. The very thought was disgusting and infuriating.
When it was clear I wasn't going to play along anymore, Laito smiled cheerfully and rested his arm against my desk to bring us closer. The fan girls were practically seething in their seats.
"Well if you aren't doing anything later, I could show you around the city a bit. It's not anything special, but there's plenty of fun things to do."
"No thanks," I snapped and stared pointedly at the front of the class. "I have to study later."
"You just got here," he pressed with a soft laugh. "Surely you haven't had time to explore yet. I know a pretty awesome arcade that-"
"Dude," I said in English, dropping any pretense that this was a normal friendly chat. "Back off."
Laito feigned disappointment. He sat back in his seat and lowered his head as if to sulk, but I caught the curl of his smirk before he hid it away. He was laughing at me, and all the other students saw was a rude American bullying one of their most popular crushes. Just fucking great.
I barely made it through the rest of our class. My boot tapped an anxious rhythm under my desk as I watched the clock. The moment the bell rang, I was out of my seat, grabbing my things to leave. Laito got to my school bag first and slung it onto his shoulder.
"Allow me," he grinned at my fury in amusement, offering his arm. "I think we have our next class together too."
"Give me my bag," I hissed softly, but he was ignoring me. He slipped his arm through mine and tugged me into the hallway. At the first empty hall, I shoved him around the corner and jerked the strap of my bag from him.
"What is wrong with you?" I asked as I pulled it over my shoulder. "You don't fuck with me enough at that house, now you're going to start here?"
Laito didn't flinch at my outburst. He tucked a hand into his pocket and leaned toward me until I backed into the wall. His free hand snapped out to brace against the wall beside my head with a sharp smack.
"But look how frazzled you get," he grinned. "How could I possibly resist?"
"Don't you fucking Kabedon me!" I growled and smacked his arm away, shoving him back in the process. He didn't resist, which I found strange until I heard the angry breath of another girl at the end of the hall. Laito's fan club was watching us, and they had come just in time to watch me pushing their crush away. The fake blonde had her arms crossed, her dark eyes shifting between us. The one with a purple streak in her dark ponytail just stared at us in furious shock. Pigtails, the shortest, but clearly the leader, stormed forward with her club in tow.
"What is going on here?" She demanded, as if it shouldn't be obvious. I mean empty hall, girl shoving guy off of her, it seemed like pretty clear math to me. Obviously she was using another system.
"I tried to ask her to the arcade,"Laito spoke up in a wilting voice, as if I'd hurt him. "She told me she's only into other Western guys. I was only trying to be nice."
"Seriously," I scowled and drew out the word so he knew how ridiculous this was becoming. The three girls stepped closer to me in unison, almost like they were protecting him. Honestly it was a little unnerving. Behind them, out of everyone's sight but mine, he was grinning at me in amusement. The trio started yelling before I could comment.
"What a rude thing to say!"
"How stuck up can you be?"
"I mean, I heard Americans were assholes, but you don't have to be a bitch just because someone tried to be nice to you."
"Enough," I groaned. I had far bigger problems in my life than a bunch of jealous girls. Girls who didn't even recognize the creature they lusted after for the monster he was. I did not have time for this.
"I want nothing to do with Laito. I just want to go home."
Behind them, the vampire in question was smirking at me. The malice in his green eyes was clear. How did these nit wits not see it? When he spoke, his voice was a perfect impression of wounded sorrow. The bastard should have been an actor.
"I'm not sure what I did to you that's made you dislike me so deeply Cara," he sighed as if I'd broken his heart. "But whatever it was I'm truly sorry."
"Oh fuck you." The angry words flew out before I realized their impact. The girls seemed to bristle like cats. The short one in dark pigtails stepped up in front of me and shoved a finger into my chest. None of them, of course, saw the snicker Laito hid behind his hand. They were too caught up in their collective crush on him to realize he was fucking with me. I really shouldn't hate them for it, there were plenty of people in the world who were also stupid. The problem was tiny pigtails was getting into my face, and I was truly done with the drama of this day. How the hell was I suppose to get through four more hours?
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Pigtails demanded. When I slapped away the hand that was prodding me, she tightened it into a fist. "How can you treat someone this badly when they haven't done anything to you? What kind of a person does that?"
When her friends started to join in I think my brain snapped. I couldn't take it anymore. My eyes narrowed hatefully my finger pointing at the vampire grinning behind them.
"You have no idea what that asshole has done to me. You should be running away from him! He's fucking dangerous and you're all making heart shaped banners of his face after school. How stupid can you be?"
"Hey," Laito frowned as if he were offended by me, but to polite to yell. "You shouldn't talk about people like that. You barely even know them." He was egging them on like a fucking master. If I wasn't so pissed, I'd respect the level of manipulation. It was impressive how quickly his face could go from wicked amusement to sorrow and shyness in a blink. Unfortunately for me, he was using this frightening skill to ruin my life. The respect was sort of diminished by that.
"I can't believe how self important you are." The fake blonde with giant toy earrings crossed her arms at me and sneered. "You get here and in the first few days you're attacking the nicest guy in the whole school."
"He's not nice!" I shouted, unable to keep it in. My head was spinning in my rage, my thoughts a blur as I glared at Laito with all the hate I could muster. "He is insane! He hurt me and-"
"That's a very dangerous lie to be spreading." Laito cut me off in a soft, sharp tone. He sounded irritated, but not so much that he might spook his fan club. "I can understand if you dislike me, but please don't try to ruin my reputation over it. That is too heartless."
"Seriously, what is your problem?" The third girl scoffed, purple streaked hair bouncing in its ponytail. "He could get into real trouble if you lied about him like that!"
"Don't you understand you'd be ruining someone's life?" Pigtails jumped in. "What are you, crazy?"
"If we hear that you are spreading lies like that on campus, we'll make you pay for it."
That about hit the bell on my capacity for taking shit. My eyes locked on Pigtails and I spoke through my teeth, fists trembling at my sides.
"If any of you so much as touch me, I will put you all on the ground."
"You're seriously threatening us now?" Barbie with the fake blonde hair gasped. "Are you stupid?"
I couldn't do it anymore. This was going nowhere, and these idiots would never see just how dangerous their crush really was. I could not stick around and get drawn into a fight. It also seemed like a perfect way to get rid of Laito. Maybe the gaggle of idiots would keep him busy long enough for me to sneak off.
"You know what?" I held up my hands in surrender and stepped back away from them. "This is pointless. You can do what you want, just leave me alone."
When I turned to storm down the hallway, they rose in a chorus of shouts at my back. How dare I walk away, I'd better watch myself, the usual bullshit. I was just happy to round the corner by myself. I took off running down the hall the moment I was out of sight. I didn't even care that he could hear it. Hopefully the idiots swarmed him to apologize for all my meanness. Hopefully they kept him busy and irritated for as long as possible. I knew he couldn't possibly enjoy their company, so let that be the only revenge I could manage for now. My new goal was making it to the side door out of the school.
The building was enormous, nearly as grand as the sibling's ridiculous house. It took a couple of minutes to make my way to a short hallway leading to the exit. Thankfully it was just an employee door, and not a fire exit. There would be no alarm when I opened it. Except when I tried, the stupid thing wouldn't budge. I rattled it twice with all my strength before I realized it was locked. My breath rushed out in an angry exhale. Maybe they kept it locked at night so the students couldn't slip away. Or maybe each teacher had a key. Whatever the case, I wasn't getting out of this door. I cursed under my breath and turned to run down the hall, just before tripping over something across the floor.
I yelped as my face flew toward the tiled floor, but managed to brace myself with one arm, the rest of my body was cushioned by whatever I'd tripped over. I looked back at the large thing, guessing almost at the same time what it would be. Sure enough, the blonde narcoleptic was sitting on the floor, his legs stretched out in front of him. I could only assume his position was strategic, since he hadn't been there before.
For just a second I froze, finding myself sprawled across him. His eyes were closed, but there was no way he hadn't felt me land on him. I stared at his smooth, pale face a long moment in silence, until I couldn't stand it anymore.
"There is no way you're still sleeping," I snapped. "Not even you can play opossum to that degree."
Shu didn't even flinch. I sat there a moment longer, waiting for him to do anything at all, but when he remained still, I was done. I had to get out of here.
"Ok, well you have fun counting your sheep and I'll just..." I was pushing myself up around him to stand when my hand came down on a clumpy hard collection of things. My words trailed off when I closed my hand around the clanking mass and held up a set of keys. My eyes trailed to the door and back to the blonde vampire, my heart kicking up a moment in anger.
"Are these the school keys?" I demanded to his utter silence. The bastard still wasn't moving. "Did you lock the doors on me?"
After such perfect stillness, the quirking of his lips into a smirk was almost startling. He didn't open his eyes, but he spoke finally, soft and low.
"You thought I would let you run away?"
I grit my teeth and tried to stand, holding the key ring tightly, but Shu wrapped his arm around me and tugged me down across his lap. Wiggling for freedom only made him tighten his grip until I was forced up against his chest, my arms trapped and bent up between us. I could feel his weary sigh against the shell of my ear.
"Surely you know this is all for nothing." He spoke so flatly, calm to the point of detachment. "All these attempts to run away only cause you more problems. Isn't it more trouble than it's worth?"
"No," I snapped, trying to push myself away from him, but with only one arm he managed to keep me locked against his chest. He was monstrously strong. This was simply not fair. "How can you ask me to just give in to a bunch of vampires?"
He chuckled softly in mild amusement. "What choice do you have?"
"Well I'm betting you've got about three more sentences left before you power down," I quipped, mostly out of panic. "So I'll just wait for that and run."
He sighed again, but whether it was annoyance or boredom I wasn't entirely sure. He was kind of hard to read. The hand that tightened into the back of my hair was much clearer. I made a sharp sound of surprise and tilted back my head to look at him with a startled frown. Shu was finally looking at me. His dark, blue eyes leveled on mine half lidded, and I did my best to seem like that wasn't sort of frightening.
"Cara?" He asked flatly, somehow the softness was gone from his voice, though he didn't raise it. I'm not sure how he made the sound of my name so threatening. I blinked at him in surprise.
"Yeah?"
"I'm not even trying." His lazy gaze dropped down to his arm around my back before lifting slowly up to me. "Stop fighting when you know you can't win. It's just troublesome."
"Fuck you," I hissed, trying to shove at him again to free myself. I fought with everything I had, even kicked at the floor to gain leverage. The whole while Shu watched me in silence, his face void of expression. My struggling barely jostled him and I was honestly trying to get away. He simply sat there until I tired myself out. When I was panting softly and I went limp in his hold he blinked slowly. Somehow it seemed mocking.
"Finished?" He asked. There wasn't any amusement in his voice, no quiet mocking, or buried anger. It was simply a question. He was asking if I understood how futile my efforts at escape were. I sniffed back the pricking of furious tears, turning my eyes away to avoid his steady blue stare.
"Yes." The word came out sharp.
Shu's lips tugged into a a fleeting smirk before he bent toward me, pulling my head closer by my hair. When I felt the prick of his fangs on the side of my neck, I scrambled to free myself again, but the arm around my back tightened until it crushed the breath from my lungs and I gasped for air.
"Stop fighting," he murmured against my skin. "It's all pointless. Just let yourself drift away."
"No," I choked out. "Let...go..."
He sighed heavily into my neck then bit down without another word. What little air I had rushed out with the pain of it. My fists tightened against his soft sweater between us. He drank until my struggles slowed into fruitless wiggling before he finally loosened his grip enough to let me draw in a ragged breath. When I opened my mouth to cry out for help however, the hand in my hair slapped down over my mouth. Shu bit down harder, which made me squirm in his lap. It was the only range of motion I had left and I really couldn't help myself. My body was growing heavy the longer he fed, my strength draining away with the blood. When all I could do was breath shallowly into his palm, he pulled back to look at me.
"Isn't that better?" He asked with the barest of smiles. "The calm?"
His hand fell away from my mouth to brush lightly across my cheek. I didn't have the strength to jerk away, so I simply did my best to glare at him.
"Eat..." I struggled to rasp out the words. "A dick."
His blue eyes sparked a moment, but he didn't lash out. Honestly I couldn't be sure if the flash of emotion was anger or amusement. He looked at me a long moment then let out a slow breath.
"Why don't we wait here for my brother to come fetch you? You can take a nap on me if you want. You're already so comfortable in my lap."
"Screw you."
"No Cara," his eyes drifted closed, long lashes fanning out over his pale cheeks. "We're at school. We can't do those kinds of things here."
"I...you know that's not what I meant."
The corner of his mouth quirked up slightly, but he didn't open his eyes or let me go. "You'll have to wait until we get home. I know it will be difficult to hold yourself back, lewd as you are."
"I hate you," I sighed, too tired to be as angry as I should with him. Now that I was leaning against his chest, resting my forhead on his shoulder, it was sort of hard to keep my eyes open. The long fingers against my spine moved soothingly up and down, steadily working away the tension still clinging to my limbs. Soon there would be no hope. I was going to pass out. This weird cat napping asshole was putting me to sleep.
Shu didn't respond to my comment. He was silent, probably back to pretending to sleep, other than the hand stroking my spine. I couldn't listen to his heartbeat, or the rhythm of his breath, so all I heard was my own. The slowing beat was a soft drum in the back of my mind, his stroking fingers timed perfectly to it. If not for exhaustion, I would have found that disturbing. As it stood, the world was drifting away into darkness. It turned out the peacefulness of sleep was just as soothing as he promised.
I woke to a jerk as Shu's leg shifted. When my eyes popped open Reiji was standing in front of us, glaring down in disgust. He'd kicked Shu's leg to wake us up.
"This is a school," he snapped. "Keep your PDA out of its hallways. And you." His eyes snapped to Shu and narrowed. "I could smell what you did with her. You should know beyter than to feed in a public place. You are a disgrace to this family."
Shu chuckled at that, but his eyes remained closed. It worked at pissing Reiji off more and his wine colored eyes snapped to me. Whatever illusion or magic he used to disguise them at school was wavering so that must have meant he was focusing all of his anger on me. That was not ideal because of all the Sakamaki brothers, he was the was that scared me the most. Reiji was cruel and sadistic. Nothing was ever good enough, so he always had an excuse to discipline me, as he liked to call it. Generally that meant some form of pain or degradation. I was not a fan of either.
"Get up." Reiji's voice was a low snap, it made me flinch in Shu's lap. Not wanting to piss him off any more I quickly complied. I climbed to my feet and smoothed down the stupid skirt I was forced to wear here. My eyes bounced nervously between Reiji and the open hall that led to freedom. Running was an option, but he would catch me in an instant and then he'd be pissed.
"Give those to me." He held out a hand, watching me closely. I blinked at him in confusion at first until I remembered the keys gripped tightly in my hand. His brow lifted with impatience, his toe tapping softly against the floor tiles. I held the rong of key out to him tentatively, then sighed in relief when he didn't grab me. Reiji tucked the key ring into the inside pocket of his uniform jacket watching me the whole time. Feeling his unflinchingly hard stare made me feel like I was deflating down into myself. I wasn't generally one to cower, but this crazy asshole scared the shit out of me. My heart was already beating faster from his attention.
"You still have a class to attend," Reiji said sharply. "Shouldn't you be getting to that, or have you decided to join my worthless brother in his delinquency? I've heard you're already starting fights in the hallways, now your fornicating in others. This type of behavior will not continue. Do you understand?"
"Ok, there was zero fornication, and I didn't start that fight! Laito-"
"I don't want to hear your excuses." He cut me off with a tone so fierce, ai felt it like he'd slapped me. My mouth hung open for just a moment before I swallow and looked away, mumbling.
"It wasn't my fault."
"What was that?" His deep voice held a clear threat and his eyes were narrowed on me when I looked back up. The menace in those dark red eyes sent a chill down my spine.
"Nothing," I murmured. It felt like shit to cower in front of him, but every survival instinct I possessed was always screaming the loudest when faced with Reiji Sakamaki. The psychopath was terrifying, and frankly I wasn't willing to get on his bad side.
"Go to class Cara." He snapped. "Why are you still standing here?"
I snatched up my bag from the floor and hurried down the hall, happy for any excuse to get away from him. Unfortunately just as I was passing him, Reiji's hand flashed out to grasp my upper arm. He tugged me closer leaning down to speak softly into my ear. My entire body went ridged.
"We will discuss your behavior later tonight." His deep voice made me shiver, my throat going dry. This news went through me like ice. I didn't know what he was planning, but it was certainly not something I would enjoy. Now I'd have to sit through the last hour of school and the car ride home dreading it. Just fucking great. I didn't look at him when he released my arm, I couldn't stand for him to see the panic in my eyes. Instead, I clutched my bag tightly to my chest and stormed off down the hall. I could feel him watching me until I rounded the corner and broke into a sprint. This day could not possibly get any worse.