Strange
I now sat in my new room. The conversation I had with Aido was still rolling around in my mind. He seemed different than what I'm used to. At Cross Academy he acts so carefree, but he had actually seemed to be at little fractionally more serious here.
There was a soft knock on the door that made me jump because I hadn't been paying much attention to anything and for a second after I come to I could have sworn that I was back at my day class dorm room.
My eyes were starting to water again but there was no way that I would allow myself to cry again so soon after my eyes had finally dried up. "Yes!" I called from my bed, just starting to get up.
No one spoke a response until I had the door to my room open. Shiki was on the other side. "Kaname sent me to make sure that you had settled into your room alright. He also wanted me to inform you of the fact that he'll see you later tonight. Probably at dinner."
I nodded to him and he turned away from me and left not saying another word. I was alone again in this huge room, and so unsurprisingly I felt lonely. I almost felt like a huge, luxury, prison at the moment.
The bed was king sized with pink curtains that framed the bed and matched the rugs. It was as if they were really trying to make me comfortable and all I kept thinking about was how long this took them. How long did this take Kaname? I didn't understand why he would go this far out of his way for me, to make me happy.
Was I really not a bother to him? It sure seemed like it. He's always doing everything for my sake without any complaints. He would have to be sick of me by now, and yet….."No, he loves you and would do anything for you." Aido's words continued to get to me.
I love Kaname, but sometimes I wonder if he really does love me. Sometimes it's like he's in love with the person I used to be when I was little. Since Cross Academy, and meeting Zero I have changed. Though it makes me think that Zero's only in love with the human side of me. My mind remains that of a human but my blood is purely that of a pureblood vampire. I'm feeling like I will forever be stuck in the middle. Kaname longs for a pureblood in both mind and body, so I will continue to disappoint him.
Just then another knock on the door disturbed my train of though. "Come in!" I called at the door not bothering to get up this time.
"Ms. Kuran, Kaname is waiting for you in the dinning hall." Ruka said in an outwardly pleasant voice, still though she couldn't suppress all of her distaste for me. I chose to ignore it, and answered her politely.
"Thanks, I'll be there in a second."
Ruka answered. "Would you like me to help you prepare?"
She would never ask me this voluntary so I assumed that it had been Kaname who had asked her. I told her that she could if she wished to. I knew that if it had been Kaname who had asked her to and I had refused to allow her to follow his orders then I would only end up being on the receiving end of her fiery glare that much longer. Not that she would listen if I told her no.
Ruka marched into my room and rummaged through my closet. She stayed that way for several minutes. When I thought that we would never leave the room she stepped back pulling out this bright bubble gum pink dress covered in lace and they had a few ruffles. I didn't dare to say that I had seen better clothes on a dog. We both knew the other hated it, but in this test of wills Ruka won in a flying pink dress…
She tore my clothes off and suffocated me as she tried to get me into the pink monstrosity in her hands.
Silently we headed over to meet Kaname when Ruka decided that I was ready. As we entered Kaname smiled politely and complemented the dress as I stood wondering if he was lying through his teeth.
I assumed that he was but I would never know, or at least that was what I thought until Aido had barged in, smiling. At least he was smiling until he saw me. "Yuki, you look awf-", he was cut off by a glare from Kaname, and then he continued but changed his words, "Awesome."
He was attempting to hold in his laughter now as he pointed his gun fingers at me in a way that would make his fangirls melt, but it only frustrated me more that I had been until that point. 'This was going to be a long dinner' was my prediction as I sat down in one of the chairs.
Suddenly a flow of conversation began. I started looking at every member of the former night class. They were all in attendance except one straight haired blonde vampire named Ichijo. No one seemed to know or care about that though.
"So Rime how was your photo shoot today?"
"It was interesting." She turns to Shiki. "Wasn't it?"
"Yes, very interesting." He said bluntly.
Kanaame quickly gave up on that conversation that turned to Ruka. "Thank you for helping Yuki get ready this evening."
Blushing she says "Oh, it was no problem. We had so much fun."
I swore I heard someone down the table say, "So you're responsible for her looking that way." But I'm not sure who said it.
I shoes to ignore the rest of the lies pouring out of Ruka's mouth. Instead I turned to Aido as he asks.
"So are you getting used to it here?"
"Oh, I love it here." I said with a big smile. He knew I wasn't being completely honest but before he could say anything Kaname cut in and asked him, "So Aido do you like your room?"
"Oh I love it! It's like a replica of my room at the moon dorm! Well maybe except for the curtain color. It's a tad off, but man it's awesome! I love it!"
Kaname was now bored of the conversation with Aido so he turned to Shiki trying to drag a conversation out of him. I could see the desperation in his eyes. Aido was still rambling on about his room. He still believed that Kaname was listening.
It takes a minute but finally Aido realizes his audience has abandoned him so he turns to me and continues to talk. I look over to Kaname in desperation but he doesn't look at me, and as I search fro someone, anyone, to help me they all look away pointedly as our eyes meet.
Kaname finally speaks to me but his words only bury me. "You will be spending a lot of time with Aido in the future so you will need to know how to deal with him."
I quietly pray that idiocy isn't contagious as Aido continues to talk.
When the meal finally arrived the conversation slowly died out. Aido reluctantly stopped talking as well.
The meal was over quickly as all the food vanished from the table. No one spoke for the first time since I had arrived and they acted like the polite and proper people who I had always thought that they were. The personality who was exactly as I had thought it would be was Aido. Still though I can't figure out if that's a good thing or not.
Everyone slowly started to excuse themselves from the table, but I don't move until Kaname does and we leave together.
When we reach my door he kisses me on the cheek before turning around and leaving me standing there. Quickly I go inside and change to my pajamas, and leave my room again to go to the bathroom down the hall. The walk over was quiet but I can't say the same thing from the walk back to my room.
I must admit though that it's partially my fault for deciding to see what Aido was up to sitting at the table covered in papers so late at night. "What are you doing Aido?" I asked quietly, attempting to look over his shoulder.
He turned around quickly to face me. "Hey Yuki you have amazing timing. Do you remember what the last thing your class went over at Cross Academy?"
"Not really." Was my brief reply.
"Oh, well have you gone over this kind of math?" He gave me a sheet of paper covered in calculus equations that I couldn't make heads or tails of.
"Uh, no. We haven't even touched this yet."
Perked up Aido said. "Oh well I'm glad to be teaching you this! It's really quiet simple."
As he maneuvered though one of the 'simple' equations I became lost. Honestly I was lost after he said, "It's really quiet simple."
"And that's how this calculus equation is solved." He said as he finished explaining. He looked up at me and saw my very confused face. "Well it's really late. 11 pm, so…." I said trailing off.
He stood up and asked, "Can I walk you back to your room?"
"Sure." I answered back easily.
"So you're not used to it here yet are you?" he asked while walking me back to my room.
"How did you."
"You're very easy to read. Especially if you're paying attention to the details." He said with a sexy grin. I couldn't help but to blush.
We now stood in front of my room.
"Well thanks for walking me."
As I was about to turn the knob Aido placed his hand against the wall, blacking me from entering my room. He was so close I could feel his breath on me.
"You know you look very cute when you think." My heart was starting to pound.
"Your…Your eyes are very blue." Was all I managed to get out.
"Would you like to view them more closely?" he asked as he inched closer and closer. I couldn't mange to escape his hypnotic gaze and I wasn't sure if I wanted to.
Nose tip touching nose tip he said, "See you in the study parlor tomorrow for our lesson." He stepped back and started down the hall.
I stepped into my room and got into bed, still dazed by Aido. As I drifted off to sleep the last thought that came to my mind was, 'what a strange guy.'