Chapter 10
"The Dreaded Lesson"
It's the first class we've had since Ichiou made his appearance and since Kuran had given me "etiquette" lessons with Souen. Today will be the first lesson with her after our class ends. I'm not looking forward to it, I doubt she is either.
I sat in my usual spot and Aidou was making more trouble for the teachers and Yagari-Shishou. Overall, it was boring and uneventful. Time flew by and before I knew it, class had ended and we were on our way back to the dorms. We had a little free time before dinner was ready and it was then that Souen came up to me, a scowl on her face. "It's time for your lesson now. Come with me to the library and we can get this over and done with." she started walking away before I could say anything. So, I rolled my eyes and followed her.
We made it to the library where she sat a study table and motioned for me to sit across from her. "So, for today you are going to learn where you stand in vampire society." I scoffed at that. She sent me a look before continuing, "You'll find that you are the second lowest being in our world. Though, you should already know all about that. You already know where you stand but what you don't seem to know is what that means."
"Care to explain?"
"I can't fathom why Kaname-Sama would allow someone of your level to be in this class, let alone in this school. You're not even stable and yet you aren't even grateful to Kaname-sama for all he's done for you."
"All he's done for me? I never asked to be here. And besides, he already told me why he's keeping me alive and its not out of the kindness of his heart."
"How dare you! The whole point of these lessons is for you know when to keep quiet and do as told." She was fidgeting with a pencil, clearly getting mad.
"So, I'm supposed to just keep my head down when someone insults me?"
"Yes. You are supposed to stay in line and listen to anyone who is of higher status, especially the council or purebloods." By this point she was actually glaring at me not too dissimilarly to how I glare at the fangirls.
I was ready to just get up and leave but I knew it would just make things worse, so I just complained instead. "I get it already. How long are we gonna stay here so you can insult me?" She looked exhausted now, like I was draining her energy by just being in the same room.
"Sure, I don't want to be here either. That's it for today's lesson. Make sure you are back here tomorrow for your next lesson though."
I got up and began heading out the door. "Yeah, whatever."
It was later that night, right before dawn when I had decided to 'relax' a little. I've been a little stressed lately so I could do with some relief. I hadn't done this in a while so I've been feeling a little pent up anyway.
I put some music on, not too loud, but not too quiet either, proceeded to grab one of the magazines out of my cupboard and sit back on my bed. The magazine had a false cover because I couldn't let Yuki find this while I was still living with her and cross. I covered my legs and waist with the sheets and got comfortable, I was too paranoid about someone walking in and I won't risk being seen. It would be embarrassing enough just for them to see me like this.
I opened the magazine to a dog-eared page, and settled back. Slowly, I ran my hand down my abdomen and towards the hem of my pants. Before I could go any further, the door to my room opened suddenly and I stumbled to quickly close the magazine and hope they didn't notice what I was about to do.
I looked up to see Takuma Ichijou wide eyed in the doorway. "Uh, I came to ask about how your lesson went with Ruka, but I see that it wasn't so bad after all…"
Oh god. This is so embarrassing.
Ichijou looked a little stunned and so I tried to distract us both by talking. "Um, yeah. It wasn't too bad considering that I'm already insulted on a daily basis." I sat up straight, keeping the sheets bunched around my waist so that my erection isn't noticeable and so that it looked like I was only trying to stay warm.
"That's too bad. I'm sure Ruka will come around soon. She is stubborn with new people but once she gets to know you, I'm sure you would be good friends." He was looking everywhere but at me.
"I don't doubt that she's stubborn, but there's no way in hell we would ever be friends. She just spent our whole lesson telling me how "below you all" I am."
"She just doesn't know you well enough yet."
"You don't know me either." I stated matter-of-factly.
"Maybe so, but I'd like to think that we are friends." He stated it so confidently, as if saying it like that would make it true.
"Listen, I don't need friends, and I really don't want to befriend vampires. I'm only here because I have to be. So, I'd appreciate it if you left my room as it's the one place that I shouldn't have to talk to any of you."
He spoke glumly now, "I see, well in that case I'll just leave.", and he walked out of my room and down the hall to his own where I heard his door close loudly.
Thankfully, all that talk about friends and Souen had settled down my libido. I put my magazine back into my closet and moved towards the bathroom to have a shower and rid myself of the feeling of sweat running down my spine from such a close encounter.
I hope to god that he didn't realise what was happening before he barged in.
AU: So, I have finally worked out what ship I want for Zero, but I wont spoil it just yet. Have fun trying to work it out. XD
