The story continues after another day of school, this one was bad. It caused Alex to run straight to her room and she locked herself in her en-suit bathroom. Claude followed his daughter to see what had happened today. He sensed her sadness but was not sure what to do. "Alex, come out here and we can talk about what happened". All Claude could hear were sobs, Alois walked in a loud scream echo through the room so he jumped to his feet from his laying position on his bed and ran down to Alex's room. Alois found Claude sitting at the end of Alex's bed with his head in his hands. Alois carefully approached Claude but then left him and walked over to the en-suit door and tapped it "Alex, hey Alex, what's up?" eventually the door creaked open and Claude jumped up and stood behind Alois. The two of them saw blood on the sink, Alois pushed harder on the door when both males saw cuts over Alex's arm. "Your highness ... do you mind if i speak with my daughter privetly?". Alois nodded "go ahead ... i thought you were going to ditch this 'habit' "and ran out in tears.
"I have a step brother and a mum that walked out on me when i was very young, i will NOT relax! I want to meet them!" Alex began to breathe uneasy. "Alex, your mum died a few years back and your brother Finnian works at the Phantomhive estate" Claude was begining to freak out, this was affecting him too. "You knew dad, you knew and you never wanted to tell me - thinking you could hide it all this time!". It was lucky that the Ciel Phantomhive was no longer enimys with Alois, this would make it easier for Alex. While attending to Alexs cut, many questions were going through Claudes mind - one in particular was how did she find out about her family?. After bandaging both arms, Claude asked her how she was informed "I found out by the school bully, Byron Spears" ... that surname ... "Spears?,as in related to Will Spears?" Alex shrugged her shoulders, she didnt care anymore but Claude wasnt in any mood to let this drop.
Alex kept bugging her father about her brother , he knew Claude would give in soon enough. "Finnian is the gardener at Phantomhive Manor. He is a little bit older than you and he doesn't know about you. Your mother and I tried to kept this from you, only cause we thought it would be easier ... but i guess that went out the window". After that Claude went upstairs to check on his highness. "Claude, I got a letter from the one and only Phantomhive boy. He is hosting a garden party ... tomorrow night - tad soon but can you see to it that we go! Alex can meet Finnian, I can have Ciel and well ... you keep yourself out of trouble with Sebastian"
"yes, your highness"