The door opened, revealing a tall man with extremely long hair, pulled back in a ponytail. He had large eyeglasses and was smiling cheerfully.
"Welcome!" He said.
'Another humble student choosing to attend Cross Academy, it does my heart good to see such a young face.'
I held back a chuckle. This guy was pretty funny; it's not often that someone's thoughts are this…oh what's the word? Cheery and happy go lucky, I guess would be the best way to describe it. Though he probably won't be able to up my mood. Nobody could, I was the only one who could do the manipulating, no one else.
"Yuuki, Zero, I thank you two for escorting this young lady here. You may go back to class now." He said, dismissing them.
I heard the girl sigh, thinking:
'I'm so tired; I don't want to go back to class. Oh well…'
I tried listening to the boy's thoughts, but strangely I could seem to hear anything. Was he already trying to block his thoughts from me?
I looked back to meet his eyes before they left. They were hard and unfriendly, though they hadn't been friendly since the beginning.
'I'll be keeping an eye on you.'
I smirked. I look forward to it. He continued to glare as he left the room.
"You'll have to excuse Zero. He's not as accepting of your kind, and I apologize." I headmaster uttered.
'I hope he didn't frighten her. Oh no! What if he pointed his gun at her? I'm sure he did, the poor girl, and it's her first day too.'
"It's fine, and he didn't frighten me don't worry." I reassured him smiling.
"Well, that is a good thing, but.." He stopped in mid-sentence and stared at me in aw.
'Wait a minute, I don't remember saying anything about him frightening her.'
Here we go again, not that I care though. Anyways, I think it's a good thing for the headmaster to know what I can do. So now three people are going to know about my ability. Will I tell anyone else? No probably not. I will soon grow weary of explaining this over and over. It's so easy to surprise people! Humans really are rather fascinating I guess.
"Before you go throwing questions and false accusations at me, let me explain this to you. I can read minds, and control emotions. Meaning that right now I can hear and see everything that is going on in your head, and if I wanted to I could make you feel all warm and fuzzy, or so depressed that you would want to commit suicide." I explained.
He looked intrigued more then confused, though confusion was indeed planted on his face.
'Fascinating…I never knew vampires could do things like that. What a truly unique ability.'
Here he goes assuming I'm a vampire… joy. You have no idea how annoying it is when this happens. People really need to stop assuming things about others. It's rude!
I sighed.
"I'm not a vampire. Don't ask what I am, I really have no clue, but I would appreciate it if you put me in the day class. I don't want to accidentally harm one of your night students."
He cocked his head to the side puzzled. You could see the question marks above his head. I decided to start at the beginning and tell him everything that happened to me, also to attempt to describe what I am and whatnot. I really hope this is the last time I have to explain. I'm so bored of it!
I finished after about twenty minutes. Yes twenty minutes of only myself talking, he didn't interrupt me once.
"You poor girl." He said sympathetically.
I'm not looking for anyone's sympathy, I am completely ok. Depressed, yes, but then again who wouldn't be depressed after losing their parents?
"I'm fine."
"I'm amazed at how you've survived."
"It was only two weeks." I said a little annoyed.
He sighed. I stood there staring back at this bizarre man, wondering how it was strange that I had survived. I started searching through his mind when I was annoyed with not being able to understand what he had meant.
'She hasn't died of starvation or thirst, that must mean that she's skilled at hunting. It must have been hard for her family to explain what they are…I wonder how long their kind has existed. I've never heard of them before, and she states that she doesn't drink human blood. Yes, it should be a better idea to keep her in the day class, but what will she do when she's in need of blood? Will blood tablets work for her? I could always try and find out, I somehow doubt it though. And what is she going to do during break, when everyone goes home? I assume she doesn't have anywhere to go, so should I let her stay here?'
"Do you have any other family Zeverai?" he asked suddenly.
I shook my head. My parents were all I had, and now that they were no longer existent I was…an orphan I guess. I could hear the jittering in his head, but I ignored it. I didn't think I could take much more. I didn't want to talk anymore about my family, or where I was going to go, or what I was going to eat! Ugh, I just want to get checked in, go to class, and not think about all of these issues until a huge problem occurs. Is it possible to just forget everything?
"I see, so since you don't have very may options…" he started, "I guess I'll adopt you! Won't that be great? I will have yet another daughter!"
I looked at him with my eyebrows raised…WTF?! I was going to be adopted? Since when does he get to decide that?
I was about to tell him 'Hell no!', but he has smiling and clasping his hands together. His posture was just so childish and cute in a sense that I guess I would feel bad bursting his bubble. But, I didn't feel that bad.
"You really don't have to." I stated.
"No, I want to. And where else would you go?" He asked.
"Well….uh…I don't really know, but I have been able to survive so far, so I'm sure that I can figure something out." I tried, but unfortunately my voice had no confidence in it at all.
Damn it! Why couldn't I think of something to say? I mean I could find a job to support myself, but for how long would that last? I mean I'm using the money my parents had saved up in both theirs and my bank account for my schooling. Lord, knows when that will run out….but adopt me? I feel like a child! I'm fifteen, meaning that I am fully capable of taking care of myself! No, not really, but still!
"Sorry Monsieur headmaster, but I'm not sure about how I feel about that. I mean you already have two, and I would just be a bother to you all."
"Oh not at all." He said waving his hand, like it was no problem.
I wrinkled my eyebrows again.
"You are…quite odd if I may say."
He half laughed and smiled warmly at me again. For a moment, he really did seem like a father, but only a moment like I said.
"So how…do you plan to do this?" I asked still puzzled.
"You don't need to worry about it, but I would like you to do something in return." He said holding his index finger up.
'Yuuki and Zero have been complaining that they don't like their work. Maybe if Zeverai were to help them, they would feel better and more of the campus would get swept.'
"You want me to be a prefect right?" I said answering his thoughts.
To be honest I didn't exactly know what a prefect was, but I heard something about it in the girl's mind earlier. I didn't really pay attention, but it did not sound very pleasant.
"Yes! It's more like a school guardian, but prefect is the cover. So I assume Yuuki told you about it?"
"Um….you could say it was something like that."
"Don't worry, just ask Yuuki or Zero for assistance. I'm sure you'll get it in no time!"
"Sure."
Without saying another word, he got up and walked over to another door that was across the room. As he rummaged around doing who knows what, I once again tried to wrap my mind around everything that was going on. My first day here and I am, adopted and given some weird job. And I just thought I'd just get a pat on the back and sent straight to class. Boy was this different! So….Yuuki and Zero are going to be my adopted sister and brother? How strange.
The headmaster came back holding a black uniform in his hands.
"Here is the Day class uniform! This night class's is white, so you'll be able to tell who is in which class!" He said handing it over to me.
Wouldn't you think that the day class would get white uniforms and the night class would get the black? Just a thought, cause don't most people think of vampires as evil, dark and scary creatures? Oh well.
"Thanks." I said trying to smile.
This was all happening too fast, I needed some time to think things over. With that thought, I immediately blocked the headmaster's thoughts. I couldn't take any more. His thoughts were way too painful for me to handle right now. I smiled at him again, and then excused myself.
As soon as I exited the room, I stood outside clutching my uniform in one hand and holding my head in the other. I realized that I had become dizzy. I looked down at the card, telling me what number of room I was. It was decided then, I was going to go to my room and sleep. Heck no was I going to go to class feeling like this! Everyone will think I'm weird enough without my dizziness. Not that I really care either way.
I took the long journey up to my room, steadying myself against a wall. I unlocked my door, wobbled over to the first bed I saw, and slept.
End of Chapter 3This is my longest chapter so far! Yayz! Thank you once again for reading, hope you enjoyed this one!