*Author's Note: Here's another for you. Enjoy!
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As much as I hadn't wanted to do anything for the headmaster right now, I had ended up in town with Yuki simply because I couldn't say no to her. Looking at me with huge eyes, gripping my arm and pleading with me, I would have given her anything she wanted.
We had run a couple errands and picked up some things, and now we were walking along the street, looking for a place to grab some lunch.
"Being sent on an errand by the headmaster has its perks, doesn't it?" she said, stretching and smiling back at me. "Not really," I said. Though I frowned at her, I was trying not to smile, looking at her completely free hands and back at my completely full ones, holding all of the things we had picked up for the headmaster. Every time I had been about to ask her if she wanted to take any of it (only because I knew otherwise she would yell at me for thinking she was too weak to carry anything), she would get distracted by something ordinary in a shop window and run to it, delighted, as if it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
As I had been thinking, I realized she had run off again, seeing something in a window. "Oh hey! Zero, look! Come over here!" she said excitedly. This time, I didn't try to hide my smile. This was one of the things I loved about her. Not many people had the ability to take something ordinary and find it beautiful. She was innocent, in love with the world and its wonders, and that only made me love her more.
Without warning, she was looking at me, a strange look in her eyes. Again, we made eye contact, and it seemed to last for a while before she dazzled me with a sweet smile, running over to me and taking my arm, since my hands were completely full. I wondered what she had been thinking about.
She walked with me down the street, talking about a place she really wanted to take me and I followed behind, letting her lead me. Soon we got to a small café. We came inside, our arms still linked, and the hostess smiled, clearly thinking we were a couple.
"Table for two?" she asked. I nodded. We were brought to a small booth near the back of the café and given menus.
"Zero, let's get ice cream! Will you share with me? I can't eat it all," she asked me hopefully. I sighed. I didn't want ice cream at all, but I wasn't really hungry anyway, so it didn't really matter to me. "Whatever," I said nonchalantly.
We ordered, and soon the ice cream came, a huge sundae piled with every kind of topping imaginable. I tried to hide a smile again. She reminded me of a five-year old sometimes.
"I'm digging in!" she chirped, expecting that I was going to share with her. Just to see her reaction, I said, "I wanted noodle soup." As I had hoped, she stopped her spoon halfway to her mouth and stared at me with huge eyes, blushing. I tried to keep the hard expression on my face, but it was very hard not to laugh at her guilty expression. All of the sudden, she was back in motion.
"Yeah, but the sundaes here are so good! Sayori and I came here together the other day, and—" she suddenly stopped her chatter and her eating to look at me seriously.
"Hey Zero, by the way…that new teacher…do you know him?" she asked carefully. So she had noticed my reaction to him. I looked away, not knowing if I wanted to tell her. Seeing this, she quickly appeared to reconsider.
"Uh…never mind, you don't have to answer that, it's just…that he comes across kinda scary…" she said, trying to spare me from feeling uncomfortable.
"He's not. When you get to know him, he's actually—" I said, making up my mind to tell her how I knew him, when I was interrupted by an excited-looking waitress.
"Excuse me, but are you from the Cross Academy night class? You are aren't you! I knew it immediately. You don't look like everybody else does. Students from the elite class aren't like everyone else. There's someone in the night class named Aidou, right? He likes sweets and he comes in here sometimes—" she babbled, but I interrupted her, saying, "I'm leaving," to Yuki, unable to take any more. Yuki had tried to correct her a couple times, but the waitress had ignored her, only interested in me.
As I got up, walking outside, I heard Yuki say, "ok," sounding a little confused. I made my way outside, the bell on the door chiming as I walked out.
I must smell like the vampires. That must be why the girl assumed I was from the night class. It couldn't have been how I looked. I had looked like this as a human too. The thought that I smelled like the creatures I despised so much made me slightly sick.
Out of nowhere, I was overcome with bloodlust. I could smell Yuki's blood from where I was outside the shop. I needed to leave now. I dropped the packages that I had been still holding and made a run for it.
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