Chapter eight the truth comes out
After lunch we all just hung out and played on the gaming systems that Aphrodite bought us in secret, we played Mario Cart and Sonic at the Olympics until dinner and then we just talked.
That night Zoey had a nightmare about Loren Blake, the guy she lost her virginity to, she woke up crying and that also woke Stark up. "Zoey, are you alright? What's wrong?" "No …Have I ever told you the story of how I lost my virginity?" "No, but from the sound of your voice it's not a happy story." "Yes your right it's not a happy story, I was with Eric as you know, and then I met one of the teachers at the house of night where I first met you, his name was Loren Blake, he was a part time professor that taught poetry, we met in the media centre, I was looking for ideas for the Dark Daughters and Sons because I had just become the new leader. A week or so after I met him I was outside, taking a walk, and I ran into Loren, I was wearing a singlet, and he asked to see the new additions to my tattoos, I let him touch me, his touch was soft and it felt nice, I was with Eric the next time we ran into each other, and I mean that we were walking together but he was also my boyfriend, he got defence of me, a month or so after that Eric and I had a fight after the Full Moon Ritual, we were talking in the rec hall and then he convinced me to have sex with him even though I had just had a fight with Eric, I thought I loved him and him me, but later on when I went looking for him I heard him and Nefert talking together about me and when I looked through the crack in the door I saw them having sex. Loren Blake was brought into the school to trick me and share my secrets with him but he was really Neferet's lover and he was also her puppet and he ended up killed by her." "Wow, I'm sorry about what Neferet did to you." "You don't hate me for not telling you sooner?" "no, I know that you will tell me everything in your own time, I was a bit annoyed when you said you were with Eric because it brought back memories of our time and how you were with him and me and Heath, but I'm glad you did tell me." "Thanks for being understanding Stark, I love you my Warrior." "I love you to Zoey, my Priestess, now let's go back to sleep, it's one in the morning." "Ok I love you, night." "Love you to, night."
Once Monday morning rolled around everyone was ready for the new week to begin. When Zoey got to the kitchen she said good morning to everyone, "Rephram and Stevie Rae and Shaunee could I please talk to you up in my office before classes start?" "That's fine with me Zoey" Rephram said and Stevie Rae and Shaunee agreed in their own way. Half an hour up in my office we all took seats, "I've asked you here this morning to talk about your education Rephram, I know that Stevie Rae and Shaunee help you with the homework and we all give you a little less work than the others but we want your opinion on if you want more work or not." "well Stevie Rae and Shaunee have been really great at helping me catch up to everybody else's level from a first year's level, I think I would like to take the same test as everybody else in all my classes and try and see if I can pass, if I don't get almost the same average as everyone else then I would like some more help in and out of class." "We are glad to hear that you wish to take the same test as everybody else." Stevie Rae said and then she looked at Shaunee. "I'm proud to say that I'm impressed with your progress in and out of class, but if you want to be able to achieve the same results as everyone else, then we are going to have to put a whole lot more time and effort in to your studies ok Rephram?" "As long as Stevie Rae is fine with that arrangement then I'm fine with it as well." "Thanks babe, and I'm happy with the arrangement but I think that we need to give Shaunee some time to do here own thing as well so I was thinking that maybe twice a week Shaunee could tutor Rephram and then for the rest of the week one of us teachers could tutor Rephram on different days, that way we can all help him more and Shaunee also gets a break from tutoring him." "That's fine with me, what about you Shaunee and Rephram, are you ok with this arrangement?" "I'm fine with that, like Stevie Rae said I would get to do something else or just relax, maybe spend some time with Erin, are you ok with that Rephram?" "Yes that is fine, thank you guys for helping me with this, and thanks for letting me choose my own pace at which to study." "It is not a problem, and we all love you and if we didn't love and care for you Stevie Rae would have had our necks for lunch." Zoey said. "Oi, I wouldn't have had your necks for lunch I would have just left you all for Neferet to deal with." "Ok you to, enough joking about Neferet, it's starting to scare me, oh look at the time we have five minutes before the first bell rings we should all go, Rephram we have Blood lust & Imprinting first."
After dinner that night when I was walking back to my room to grab something I found Shaunee crying and I mean snot crying. I asked her what was wrong but she said she would tell me the next day. Thursday, I had cancelled classes because I needed a break from teaching so I could finished marking all my class work. After I had finished marking students work I was sitting in my office thinking about the past couple of days. I just started to think about the fight Shaunee and Erin had, from what Shaunee told me on Tuesday it was about themselves or more spisificly Shaunee. Erin ended the fight by telling Shaunee to get her own room because she didn't want to be a "twin" anymore. It took me, Stevie Rae, Damien, Aphrodite (yes I'm still shocked) to convince Shaunee to stay at the depot. I suddenly had an idea that would affect us all so I called my circle, my Prophetess(Aphrodite) and my Poet Laureate(Kramisha) to my class room as the meeting about to take place had nothing to do with classes. "ok guys, thanks for meeting me here, I had an idea." "Why aren't out warriors here? They are teachers as well" Stevie Rae asked. "Thanks Stevie Rae for asking that, my answer to your question is that my idea is about all of us." "come on Zoey, please tell us." Damien begged. "ok my idea was that we close the school down because we aren't teaching anything new at the moment and we never really finished our own classes at the house of night, and as Thanatos is now working there, she has said that is fine if we wish to come back and continue our studies, also I have a gut feeling that we need to go back and do some damage control, remember what Nyx told us after the reveal spell, I quote "Hold to the memory of the healing that happened here this night. You will need that strength and peace for the upcoming fight." "I think if we go back we find out what Nefret is up to and stop it all the while trying to learn, also Thanatos has said we are welcome to come back by bus but we must have our school name painted on the bus, so I'm also thinking that we need to get our own bus/van for free time our when we want to go out and we put our school name on the bus we have and that becomes only the school bus." "I think that is fine, and I agree with everything you just said, we need to go back to the house of night and do damage control, we need to catch up on shit and we need to buy a new car, by the way I'm taking Shaunee, Damien and obviously Darius with me today to go buy us a new car." "ok Aphrodite, just make sure it's a bus/van so that it fits all of us, I have my car as well but if we are going to go shopping or do our own thing we need a second car, oh, you have a car at your parents' house don't you?" "yes I have my car there, and so many more that we would be able to each have our own car and my parents wouldn't notice that they had gone missing." Ok, take everybody that is old enough to drive their own car and go steal some from your parents, but I also what an SVU instead of a bus please." Got it, ok guys please come with me" "Erin please stay, you have your own car, you don't need another, please go clean your tunnel as it looks like a tsunami swept through it." "Ok, fine." After everybody had left with Aphrodite I called Thanatos and Lenobia to let them know we would be there on Monday.