Here it is chapter eight of The Halfa and soon we will be coming to the first movie now I want some suggestions people what movie would be good first for D? Because Ghouls Rule and Skull Island, Why Ghouls fall in love and the one where we were introduced to Robecca has all passed. So which one would be a good fit? Anyway I hope you all enjoy this chapter, see you in the next one.
It had been a few days since the party and… To be honest I was having a good time now…granted I would never openly admit it but things are going well. I even made some friends…sort of. More like I was always surrounded by Frankie and her friends, I'm not sure why maybe Cleo, Draculaura, and Clawd decided to be around me to help me have some sense of normalcy… Frankie and Clawdeen…No idea why and the fish girl who I found out was named Lagoona thought I was nice… 'bloke' for some reason or another. During this time, I met a few of their friends and despite my best attempts to politely get away from them…They stuck to me like a bad stink.
To be fair though…All of this was…. helpful in a weird way. I am not going to say that I made friends with anyone here… But I didn't feel as alone. Which was nice. Right now, it was lunch time and I was sitting outside hoping to avoid others, since I wasn't feeling to hungry I decided to draw to pass the time. Sitting underneath a tree I was really enjoying the peace and quiet not to mention the shade, so far today is going well.
"Hey D what are you drawing?"
Holding back a long-suffering sigh I looked up to see the face of Clawdeen looking over my shoulder, quickly pushing my notebook against my chest I looked away. "Nothing just some doodles…"
Frowning slightly Clawdeen shrugged and stood straight. "Oh… Sorry if I was bugging you."
Sighing I shook my head and held out my notebook. "You're not, and here it's just some cosplay ideas."
"Cosplay? What's that?" There werewolf asked as she looked over some of my drawings with a strange expression on her face.
Blinking I raised an eyebrow. "It's where you dress up as a character from a book, movie, tv show, cartoons and things like that. It's really fun a lot of people do it and go to conventions and enter contests and stuff."
"And you do this?" Clawdeen asked. "That seems weird given how you don't like people."
Frowning I nodded. "Yeah… But for a few hours I can be someone else, I can be anyone else."
"Oh, I guess that makes sense." She nodded, flipping through a few more of my drawings but stopped on one page. "Oh, my ghoul, this is fangtastic! D what is this? I mean who?" She asked pushing my notebook back into my hands.
Looking down at the page I raised an eyebrow and frowned, the outfit I had drew was of…the vampire hunter D, I thought it was kind of ironic that I would draw a cosplay outfit idea based on him. I had drawn in detail his standard clothing and my ideas on my own ideas on what I could make them from. I even had some notes on adding hair extensions to make sure my hair was the right length. Of course, I did a full sketch of him and me right next to the vampire hunter that I named myself after.
"That…Is a book character his name is D." I said biting my lip. "He is also a dhampir… Like me."
Clawdeen's eyes went wide slightly as she looked at the picture and then back to me. "You guys have the same- "
"Yeah, though D isn't his full name neither is it mine. It's just short for something, I just preferred to be called D, like him." I said closing my notebook back up.
Looking between the picture of D and myself the werewolf girl nodded. "I get it, though you do look kind of like him. Guess dhampir's have similar features."
"Mhm we do, we get all the strengths and supposedly none of the weaknesses of our vampire parent. Yet we are all hated and feared by all." Shrugging I placed the notebook back in my backpack and stood up. "Well see you Clawdeen." Giving the werewolf girl a wave, I walked back into the school heading to my next class a little early.
Frowning Clawdeen bit her lip and shook her head. "No D, you're not. Not anymore and not by us."
The rest of the day went…Well it was the same as before I sat in the back of the class away from others. Eventually school ended and I decided to walk out instead of pushing my way out like I normally did. Guess I'm making some progress, walking out of the school I…I had no idea what I was going to do, I wanted to go home but my aunt was there…No just no…I could wander around town? Eh… No people are out there, maybe stick around the school? Looking around I saw various students hanging around some were heading to I think clubs or going to sports practice…. Frowning I shook my head. "Wandering around town it is."
Leaving the school grounds, and heading into New Salem I texted Aunty Helen letting her know that I would be in town. All she texted me was an okay and have a good time. Rolling my eyes, I couldn't help but shake my head, my aunt was crazy but at least she didn't need me to babysit her like my dad. Then again…recently my before he left was acting very adult like, strange for him but I get it. At those times, I needed a father not a little brother or roommate.
"D! Wait up!"
Turning around I raised an eyebrow as Clawd smiled as he ran up to me. "What's going on Clawd?"
"Not much man, where are you going?" He asked.
Shrugging I nodded behind me. "Just heading into town, I may go to the mall why?"
"Cool, mind if I tag along? I wanted to head to the mall." Clawd asked as he scratched the back of his head.
"I guess not." Shaking my head, I turned around and continued walking, with Clawd following close behind. Now I am one of those kinds of people that doesn't feel the need to fill every second of the day with talking. Sadly, Clawd wasn't one of those people, he kept on talking about everything and nothing…Now I liked the guy to an extent but for the love of everything holy and good why won't he shut up? Luckily, we ended up at the mall, why did I walk here? Simple maybe I could lose him if I went to F.Y.E. Nope that didn't work because he wanted to check out some more anime apparently, that was his whole reason for coming to the mall. It was one of the few times he could search for anything without anyone from school finding out his dirty little 'secret'.
Browning through the selection I spotted someone staring at me, she was a goth girl with her hair in a bob with bangs and blue stripe on the left side of her head. She was wearing heavy black make up on her eyes and lips, her eyes…were yellow? Weird but a nice color, she also had a labret piercing. She was wearing a black turtle neck with a skull in the center, she had ripped blue jeans and black and gray striped tights and short brown heels.
"Can I help you?" I asked turning to stare at her.
"You're new, I've never seen you around town before." She said. "Did you just move here?"
Raising an eyebrow, I nodded. "Sort of, I've been in town for more a few weeks now."
"Weird seeing how I never see you at school, New Salem isn't big enough for- "She frowned and raised her eyebrow. "Are you a monster?"
Blinking I slowly tapped my hand against my side. "What makes you think that?"
"New Salem is a decent sized town but it isn't big enough for a lot of high schools and seeing how New Salem High and Monster High are the only high schools in town…And you don't go to New Salem, so you have to be a monster." She shrugged with a small grin.
She looked so proud of herself, smirking I was so going to bust her bubble…Granted she was right but that didn't matter. "Sound logic but what if I'm home schooled?"
That seemed to cause her to falter. "Oh… I didn't think of that…"
"Hey D there you are, look they have-Oh hey Clair how are you doing?" Clawd smiled coming up to me and the now named Clair.
Clair gave me the biggest shit eating grin ever. "Home schooled huh? So, what kind of monster are you? Are you like Jackson?"
Rolling my eyes, I shook my head. I knew who Jackson was I had seen him a few times around the school but I never talked with him, but I did find out he was Jekyll and Hyde when it came to monsters so it explained why a normal looking guy like him was at the school. "No, I'm somethi- "
"D's a dhampir." Clawd supplied happily. Turning around I glared at the werewolf who had a confused look on his face. "What? I didn't think it was a secret." He said shrugging.
Sighing I turned around looking at Clair. "Yeah I'm a dhampir."
"Seriously? Half vampire?" She asked putting her hands on her hips. "That's cool."
Rolling my eyes, I nodded. "Yes, seriously, I know I'm a fre-Wait did you say cool?"
"Did I stutter? I said that is cool." Clair smiled. "Anyway, it was nice to meet you D but I need to go, but before I go-" Reaching into her pants pocket Clair pulled out a pen and grabbed my hand, quickly she wrote her number down. "Here's my number, text me sometime." Giving Clawd and me a wave the goth girl left leaving us both alone in the anime section of F.Y.E.
Blinking I stared down at the number on my hand very confused. "What just happened?"
Grinning Clawd patted my back. "You got a ghoul's number bro, congrats. Anyway, check this out- "
At that point Clawd kept on rambling on about something or other but I kind of stopped paying attention because I was focused on one thing…the fact I got a girl's phone number…. How does that even happen? We barely interacted with one another and yet…It's official I don't get people.