Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Black Blood Brother characters. The characters I own are only Sydney, Del, Heather, Camilla, Anna, Alex, and Autumn.

Autumn's POV

Alone with Zelman. This is just perfect. I sit without touching my food and Zelman takes a bite of his then leaves it. 'Man, it feels really tense in here. This is so awkward.'

I reach my hand down and pick up my fork. I pick my plate up along with it. Sitting the plate in my lap I start to eat. The food tastes so good. My Mom really is a good cook. This food is probably my favorite. It's dressing and sweet potatoes. I really wish she would be eating with us though. Sitting alone with this guy is strange. Silence engulfs the room.

Almost half an hour passed and I finished eating all I could. There was still some left but the silence was getting to me. I decided to go into the kitchen and make some hot tea. Hot tea relaxes me well. Once past the door way I reach a top the fridge to grab the tea bags. 'I wonder if Zelman wants some to.' I have no idea why I'm thinking about him. He's only an annoying jerk. I hear footsteps coming towards me. I ignore them. 'Zelman is probably just coming in here to get a coke or something. I should probably tell him to put what he set in that ice chest of his into to fridge. I'll just explain that we won't touch any of it. Don't want to ruin anything of any importance.' I dip the tea bag into the tea cup that I already filled while I was thinking. All of a sudden I feel a hand touch my shoulder. The room was so silent that I didn't even notice the footsteps stop. The silence was so calming and absorbing that this slight touch broke that calmness and made me jump. In reaction I threw the tea bag that I still had a hold of behind me. I could hear the tea bag hit something. I turned around and saw Zelman with the same wet tea bag I threw on his face. Within a few seconds the tea bag hit the floor. Zelman just looked at me. "Um….I'm really sorry about that. You just spooked me which made me do that. Again I'm really sorry." I walk in behind Zelman while he just stands there straight as an arrow. I grab the nearest wash cloth and run a bit of water over it. I make sure to put some soap on it so that the smell of tea will go away.

I walk to Zelman and get him to turn around. He did as I told him and sat down in a chair in the corner of the room. I kneel down in front of him and start to wipe his face clean."I can't believe I just did that. I'm usually not this bad of a klutz. I really am sorry. Although you have to admit that was kinda funny." And gave a small laugh and accidentally got the soap in his eyes."Agh! That hurts!" He raised his hand to try and rub his eyes."Oh, I am so sorry! I did not mean to do that at all! I don't know what's wrong with me tonight. I have been such a total klutz. I really am so sorry!" I run to the sink and clean the cloth of all soap and bring it back to him. I begin to gently dab each of his eyes so that I don't make it worse. 'Idiot, idiot, idiot! How could I be such an idiot? Autumn, you really did it this time! I've never been a klutz at all though! What is wrong with me tonight?'"That's not helping at all. You do know that right?" I sighed as I looked at him."Well it would help if you took out your contacts. Your contacts are what got soap on them after all."He just glared at me."Are you stupid? These aren't contacts. These are what you would call my eyes." He sounded so aggravated when he said this."But how? They're blood red. There's no way."He starts to stand up."No big deal." He holds out his hand for me to give him the wash cloth. I hand it to him willingly and he rubs him face with it."See? I'm fine. Now I came in here to ask if you would show me around the house." I stand up. This little fiasco got me into less of a tense mood around him. I still am suspicious about his eyes though. What does he mean by them not being contacts? No matter."Sure. Where to first?" He just looks at me with an almost irritated look about him."Wherever you choose first I guess. I really just wanted to break the silence. It was kind of getting on my nerves."I look somewhat surprised. 'That means that I at least wasn't the only one who thought that.' "Well then follow me." I walk out of the kitchen and continue on with the tour of the house.

We only have two rooms left to go to. My room and his since we already passed Mom's and everywhere else. We walk to the door way of my room."Well this is my room. Moving on is your room."He stopped in front of my door way."Aren't we going to go in your room like we did the rest?" I blushed a small amount."Well we didn't go in Mom's room so what's the point of going in my room?" He just turned to look at me."What are you hiding something I shouldn't know about?" He walked up to me and placed a hand on my cheek. I felt as if I was going to die right there."Of course not! It's just common courtesy to not enter a girl's room." I then turned and walked toward my old room. He followed behind me."This is your room now. I'll go get your things from in the living room and bring them back here. If you need any help putting anything away then I will gladly oblige." I then walked towards the living room. Of course everything I said had no emotion to the words since I needed to go to sleep about thirty minutes ago.

I walked into the living room and Zelman was already there and had hold of his ice chest."How did you…never mind. Do you realize you can put all of that in the frid-""No! I just need some ice every once in a while so that I can keep everything in here cold. Don't worry about it."I just looked at him. No reason to argue. Just one less thing I have to worry about."Okay, sure. I'll get your suitcases one at a time. You can organize your things in the drawers in there." That was the last parts of our night.

Mom got home late and I told her that I showed him around the house. I left out the tea incident because I knew she would yell at me to no end. She asked why he didn't eat the food she made him, but even I didn't know that, so I made the excuse that he already ate and wasn't hungry. She believed me and didn't ask any more questions. Later I saw her on the phone. She told me she was talking to the school. I don't know what this was about. But it was most likely my grades or something like that. Whatever it was, it didn't keep me from falling asleep that night. I dreamed of nothing like usual, but I still am worried about what I'm going to do about changing. Tonight was no problem. Let's hope tomorrow is the same.

Del's POV

Once we got home yesterday I got Jiro to take off his trench coat. The incident kind of went like this.

-flash back—

I walked in the door and shut it behind me. Jiro was waiting for me to come in. He really is a gentleman, but this won't keep me from destroying his hat and stealing the trench coat. I'm used to meeting celebrities so I wasn't embarrassed about being a little rude to him. I took my jacket off and hung it on the coat rack. Jiro was about to walk to the main room. I stopped him."You know that it is considered rude to not take your coat off when entering someone else's home?"He looked odd at that moment."I've never heard that before."I smiled graciously."Well it's true. Haven't you ever heard of courtesy? It's really important around here."'This plan better work.'"Well I would rather not trouble you with it so I think I'll just leave it on."'He is a formidable foe.'"Would you please take off the trench coat and the hat? Please Jiro."He smiled as well."No, I think its fine-""Take off the trench coat."I enunciated every word."Okay…."He took off the trench coat and hung it on the rack. He was about to walk away."The hat." I said with an evil smile on my face. He took off the hat while smiling nervously."Now you may sit wherever you like."He smiled as smile that said thank you than went to sit. Once his back was turned, I stole the hat and coat and hid them. 'Now this should be fun.'

-flash back end—

It's morning now and I feel ultimately great. This is rather unusual. Definitely strange since my alarm clock woke me up and what sounded like a long and loud scream. I coulden't tell what was said. Anyways, now time for some fun. I go down stairs to greet Jiro a good morning.

"Morning Jiro!" I see Jiro passed out on the couch. One of his legs has fallen off the couch and so has one hand. His face looks rather calm. It would be covered if it wasn't for the fact that I hid his hat inside the house. Now he can't find it anywhere. I'm so pleased with my work. Paying closer attention to his face, I see that he is waking up. Mostly because of the fact that I just dropped my extremely heavy and annoying alarm clock that woke me up this morning. It was getting annoying carrying it so I decided to sit it down. Poor Jiro was the closest thing. I also think that I could get the best reaction out of this. As soon as I dropped it his eyes flew open and he let out a large gasp of air. 'Looks like he's awake.' He slowly raised himself up and leaned on the back of the couch."Good morning miss Del." I smirked at his indifference to the fact that he just got a alarm clock that weighs a ton dropped on his stomach."Morning Jiro." Now that that's done I can go and fix myself some breakfast. Autumn should be here in a little while to walk to school with me like usual. Since Camilla and Autumn are the first ones up, Autumn gets me and Heather while Camilla gets Anna and Alex and Sydney. We all meet up at the end of the street and go on to school. Since Autumn gets here so early, she brings her breakfast with her. This way she can eat with us. Her Mom is already at work by the time she gets here. Used to, she would wake me up by dropping three large, hard back, novels on my back or stomach. I always felt like I was going to kill her when she did that. Every book that she dropped on me I threw at her. That's how it goes when I don't get up before she gets here. Last time that happened, sis had her video camera out and posted a video from Autumn dropping books on me, all the way to when I was cracking her skull with those same books, on You Tube. It was really interesting. Heather laughed so hard when she saw the lump on Autumn's head. Now I'm eating cereal when Autumn walks in the door. She looked like she just got killed, came back to life, was tortured, and then revived again. In other words, horrible. Walking beside her was none other than the oh so famous Zelman Clock. 'What's he doing here?' She pulled a chair up beside me and brought out her breakfast. She must have been a wreak. I bet it's got something to do with Zelman. But why does he have a shoulder bag with him? Don't tell me he's-

Autumn's POV

This morning was the worst made possible. I woke up and was told by my 'lovely and oh so caring mother' that last night she was doing some business with the school. That business was infact having to do with enrollment papers. Let me say that my cat wasn't the one getting enrolled. The one getting enrolled...was...Zelman. I don't know how to deal with this. Zelman Clock, the new kid at school! This cannot be good.

I am going to have to get dressed in the bathroom this morning. I grab my thin button up shirt that has a peace sign on the back, as well as my black skinny jeans and of course a blood red under shirt and the necessary under clothing. I take all of it into the bathroom and get undressed. I decided that since I got woken up so early that I would take a shower. I went ahead and sat down when I was done with everything else. The running water felt so good. I couldn't help but enjoy it. I sat and thought to myself about everything. Mom was gone. Zelman was asleep in my old room. I was awake in the shower at four o'clock in the morning. A new way to wake myself up. Now that I already destroyed my alarm clock, the first time it went off in fact, I had no other way to really wake up. Time was against me this morning. I really just wanted to stay in here so much longer so that I could relax. That wish obviously did not come true.

I got out of the shower and grabbed a towel to dry myself off. I went ahead and left my hair for last since I could get away with wet hair. Wrapping the towel around me, I heard footsteps outside the door. 'Zelman? Why would he need to come in here? I doubt that he has to use the bathroom already. So why is he getting so close to the door?' I could here the footsteps stop outside the door. I looked down beside my ankles and saw a hat. A beanie to be specific. 'What's that doing in here? But wait, that's probably why Zelman stopped at the door. This has to be his! He's going to come in here and get it, but I'm in only a towel! Ah, Hell!' I could hear the door knob turn."Wait! Zelman don't-" I was cut off by the entrance of Zelman Clock. He opened the door entirely while still holding on to the door knob. We both stood silent. I was looking at him without his hat on. His hair was amazing. Such a beautiful color of red. His hair was completely messed up, but I thought it looked amazing. I could say so much less for my self. He was looking straight at me. I had one hand holding onto two corners of the towel, and the other reaching for the shower curtain. I was stopped before I even could begin to race to the shower. I had a chance to be safe, and I lost it. I was completely cornered, hypothetical speaking that is. I was a deer caught in the headlights. I feel like I really do want to die right now. 'Some one shoot me now.' After these few seconds of staring passed Zelman smirked."Well good morning to you too." I blushed so hard. I could feel my face heat as if it were in a sauna."I just need to get my hat if you don't mind."He walked in to the bathroom with that smirk still sculpted on his face. He knelt down beside me and picked up his hat, glancing up at me from the floor. His smirk grew wider. I was passed shocked. All I could do was stand there no matter how much I tried to move away. He stood up and put a hand on my shoulder looking me straight in the eyes."You're going to catch cold if you stay like that. Though I think your face says otherwise." He began to walk out the door. Almost out the door he stopped."Love the look though." He then stepped out the door.

I let a few seconds pass before getting dressed. I left the two top buttons undone on my shirt. I always do this. It lets the deep red in my undershirt show. The colors mix rather well actually. My problem has nothing to do with that though. I washed me face and dried my hair completely. As soon as I left the bathroom I leaned against the door. I took a long and large breath. Letting it all out, I screamed in rage and mostly embarrassment."Zelman you pervert!"I could hear a small laugh coming from Zelman's room. 'I swear I am going to kill that perverted bastard!' Next thing I knew, I was already in the kitchen. I started to fix my breakfast to take over to Del's place. I always do since Mom's already off to work by now. I grab two pieces of toast that I glazed with honey as well as a juice box. My usual breakfast. Packing that inside of a bento box I got for Christmas, I went to the front door to grab my bag that lay beside it."Nice to see you again. Ready for school?"I could hear the arrogance in his voice. I bend over to grab my bag and stand once I do."You better not say a word about this to anyone, alright?"I did not even turn to look at him. Who cares if he's an actor? He's just another perverted male that I have to deal with. The only difference between him and the rest is that I have to deal with him at both school and home! Besides, I can't treat him as an actor at school since no one else is supposed to know. This gives me an excuse to act rude towards him."Don't worry. I won't mention a single thing." I felt like I was going to burst. Embarrassed, mad, both these things plus the fact that I'm naturally insane really do mix for one hell of a headache."Good. Now we're going to go pick up Del then Heather. After that we will meet up with everyone and be off to school. Any questions so far?" I still don't turn to look at him. I can't face him. Not after this morning."Just one. How is your face able to turn so red just because I saw you in only a towel?"I twitched."I meant a question about how our morning schedule works, not about that."I spoke my words through anger and and whatever shred of sanity I had left if any. Slowly I opened the door and took a step outside. Today did not look to be promising.

Outside was dark clouds, moving fast, and a rather cold wind. The cold didn't bother me much at all. On the porch, I sat down my bag and searched for my music. The only thing that could help me now to calm down. My long and skinny fingers wrapped themselves around a cord that could only have went to my music. Pulling on that cord I dragged out my Mp3. I placed the ear phones gently in my ears and began to search for a song. I picked up my bag while looking. After I was a few steps off the porch I found the perfect song to listen to. It was 'High School Never Ends' by Bowling for soup. That band had the strangest name. Their music wasn't all that bad though. Walking I mouthed the words to the song. A small voice would come out occasionally, but too quite for anyone to hear. Not a word escaped between us. No talking could make anything better. After listening to the song a few times over and over again, we were at the door to Del's place. Hopefully she won't ask any questions.

Opening to door I walk in with Zelman at my side. Dels' sitting at her table eating. 'Wonder what got her up this morning.' I went to sit at the table. As soon as I sat I brought out my food. I didn't feel like talking because I knew she would question why I look so stressed out.

I took a bite of a slice of bread. The honey was so sweet that it made me feel calm. I leaned back in the chair I sat in. Taking a deep breath I raised back up to eat the rest of the slice. I could see out of the corner of my eye was Del cocking her eyebrow in a questioning way. I've learned how to read her facial expressions. We've know each other this long. I should be able to do this much, or else what kind of friend would I be? Minutes passed in silence before a word was spoken. Due to my looking down to grab my other slice of bread and it not being there that is. I glance at Dell and she's eating her usual breakfast. I turn to my left side and see Zelman eating. But that's the problem. Zelman is eating my other slice of bread."What the heck Zelman? Why did you take my bread?"He ignored me and continued to eat."Hello? Earth to Zelman. I would appreciate it if you answered me." He finished eating and looked tiredly at me."I didn't have anything else to eat. I'm not going to starve myself by eating absolutely nothing this morning."So now I sit glaring at him. 'Well I guess it's my own fault for not fixing him anything. I forgot that he didn't have any breakfast to bring with him. Looks like I just shot myself in the head. Idiocy has taken over ever since yesterday.' I glance down at my drink. The only thing that remains of my beloved food. I go ahead and just finish it off. 'Now if only I could actually relax. That would be nice for a change.'"So," Del began to say."Did something happen this morning? You look so angry. Plus the fact that I'm pretty sure that scream this morning came from your house. Either that or Anna found her dog eating her notebook again."I almost jump at the words."Uh, it must have been Anna. I think I heard a scream too." I know that I sound really suspicious right now. I can't help it though. But I'm still a little surprised that I was loud enough to wake her up. It takes a lot to get her up."Okay, so now I know that it was you. You really suck at lying, you know that?"I sigh in shame. I'm so pitiful."Do I have to tell you?"I smiled at the question. She's usually patient when it comes to getting answers, so she should say no."Yes."Dammit. I didn't think she'd say that."But I don't want to."She gave me a pitiful face as a comeback to mine."But you have to." I went to lean back in my chair."Well I'm not going to."Del bent in front of me."Aw, is it really that bad? Come on, tell me."She wouldn't stop."Yeah, Autumn. Tell her. I would love to here this."Great. Now Zelman's harassing me as well."I said I don't want to so I won't."Zelman put his hand on my shoulder. I glared at him."Well than I guess I will. It's a rather interesting story to tell."My eyes wided a bit."Don't you dare."Dell rested her elbows on the table and looked to be full of interest."Oh yes. Do tell."

"Well, all it was is that I-"I smacked my hand over his mouth."Shut up!"He was silent."Ahh, so it has something to do with him does it? Well than this story is sure to be entertaining."I glared at Del. When I had my head turned I felt something sharp touch my hand."Ouch!"I yanked my had away from Zelman. Looking down at it I could see a small spot that was red. I slowly turned my head to face Zelman. He was wiping his mouth with his sleeve. 'What was that? Did he just bite me?' I looked back down at my hand. 'No way. I must be seeing things.' I turned back towards Del."Can't we just leave it?"She smiled."Okay, fine. I'll let you off this time, but you keep too many secrets. Next time I ask you I expect an answer."She then stood and went to clean the bowl she had been using. 'That was a close one. He almost told her.'

Once we finished Del went to Jiro."Now you do remember that tonight you're going to go work at that movie theater, right?" He looked up to her from the chair."Yes. By the way, do you know where my coat and hat are? I can't seem to find them on the coat rack." She gave that evil grin we all know and love. Except for Anna that is."Well I for one am going to propose a deal for you. I have hidden you hat and coat inside the house. Since you're going to home for such a long time, I decide to give you something to do. To keep you busy till I get home. Here's the deal. You find the coat and hat before I get home and you can have them back. Though if I get home and you haven't found them yet, than that coat is mine and your hat goes up in flames. Don't worry, if you lose then we'll get you a new coat and hat, but your fashion sense has become dull and needs some readjustments."Jiro gave her a mad look."You will give me my things back now!"She smirked."Uh,uh,uh. No way. See ya!"She then raced out the door before he could catch her. I followed slowly behind not really caring.

Cammila's POV

Waking up at four o'clock in the morning is not the nicest thing. Mom yelled at me for who knows what reason. This happened after Cassa went to her room of course. Mom would hate to make a bad impression. Now I've gotten Anna, Alex, and Sydney. Were supposed to meet with Autumn, Heather, and Dell in a few minutes. Standing here, Anna is holding Kotaro while Sydney and Alex are talking. Yes she does have Kotaro. We have decided to drop him off at the middle school. He's going to be in the fifth grade. Lucky Kotaro gets to start towards the end of the year. He's a lucky kid. But he still has to take benchmark so mabye he's not so lucky. Poor Kotaro. But..."Aw! You're just so cute!"I ran and gave Kotaro a head hug. Anna fell down since I basiclly snatched him off of her.

Heather's POV

I glance in the direction of Del and Autumn's place. 'What's taking them so long? This is so annoying!' I become so annoyed that I end up stomping towards Del's house. Just before I could go a whole meter Del, Autumn, and Zelman walked up."Hey."Autumn looked stressed."What bit you this morning?"The joke was not meant to be a pun. Just realizing that Zelman plays a vampire in Black Blood Brothers I start to laugh."Will you shut up?"Autumn snapped at me."Aw, but why.""I'm going to kill you.""Aw, but you love me too much."She glared."Yes, I love you enough to express to you how much I absolutely hate you."I shrug."You love me, you hate me. What else is new?" I pick up my multitude of bags and start to follow them. Del laughing uncontrollably meanwhile."So what's up with grumpy over there?"I ask Del as Autumn and Zelman walk behind us."I'm not sure, but I know that Autumn really doesn't want to talk about it. When Zelman almost told me she put her hand over his mouth. She almost looked like she was blushing."We both started to laugh too hard and loud not to hear. I know we must sound like a pair of gossiping preps but we can't help it. 'I wonder what's going on. This should be sweet.'

We just made it to everyone else."What is Kotaro doing here?"My face says it all. I am confused as can be."Well Kotaro has to be dropped off at the middle school to start fifth grade. Isn't it so cute?"Anna hugged Kotaro even more. I snatched Kotaro away from her."Don't call Kotaro an 'it' Anna! Kotaro is Kotaro! I'm sorry the mean girl said that about you Kotaro-chan."I hugged him tighter. He seems to not mind all of our hugging. You'd figure the poor guy to be dead by now. At least I can still hug him though!

Well we've made it to the middle school. Everyone hugged Kotaro before he could get near the door. We didn't embarrass him though. There was no one else around at the time. Only teachers. I hate to see him go. He doesn't even have him Lord Bow ow with him. Although, that school bag does look so cute on him. I wish Kotaro was staying at my house instead of Mimiko. Mimiko just does paper work, sleeps, eats, cleans her side of the room, and fixes some of her own food. At least she's not helpless. I would ask if I could switch with Anna, but Kotaro's her cousin. I wish he was my cousin too. He's so darn cute! The whole way to the High School Autumn and Zelman were trailing behind. If I didn't know any better than I would say they're trying to hide something from us. That's probably what it is. I'm usually right about these things. Just before we all sit down I stop Autumn. Del stops Zelman. While Kotaro was getting hugged by everyone else, except for Zelman, we came up with a plan to find out just what is going on."Now Autumn, you're going to tell us everything that happened. I don't care if you like it or not. Now spill it."

Author's note: Man, that chapter was LONG! This is my longest chapter so far. Took me a while to get it down. The comedy filled it, but now Autumn's going to have to explain what happened with Zelman. Will the bell be her savior, or will Del and Heather have other tricks up their sleeves? Find out next time!