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Chapter 3 - Reuniunea de clasă Noapte
(Meeting the Night Class)
Raven had exited the bathroom, leaving her clothing behind for now, with a lenient promise to herself to come back and get it, she heard a very girlish squeal. “Oh my gosh, you are so adorable in the uniform, too!!!” Headmaster Cross sang, as he clasped his hands together and wiggled happily.
She scowled, and folded her arms over her chest. “First of all, since now you are now my legal guardian, I insist that you do not, call me any pet names, or give me any childish compliments. I’m Raven, and that is all I wished to be called, do we have a mutual understanding?” She informed, with an irritated tone in her voice.
Headmaster Cross sighed and pointed to the ribbon in her hair, “You do realize you may be questioned for improper uniform attire, for the location of your neck ribbon?”
“…I have a serious problem with breathing, and anything tied around my neck, will make my problems worse, to the point where I will die, or haven’t you heard of affixation?” Raven countered. “Besides…from what I saw of the student body, the boys weren’t wearing their ties or had their uniform quite the opposite of your uniform expectations.”
“…You are quite good at lying Raven, it’s probably one of your best qualities yet.” Headmaster Cross laughed. He then exclaimed a small, “Oh, I almost forgot!” He wandered around his office, until finding a box, this one smaller than the other she had received earlier, and said, “I now present to you, your weapon that should be with you and hidden at all times, which will help when the time calls for it.”
He gave her the box, which she opened cautiously. Inside the box, were two long, silver chained, bracelets, both with the same silver rose as her cuff links of her uniform. “What are these?” She inquired, curiously. She had also pulled out an arm band, which she presumed that read, School Enforcement, or something, her foreign language was poor at the moment, and she prayed she had easy classes like English and American History and whatnot.
“Those, are your weapons. Just with a push of the hidden button on the rose, both extend out, removing themselves from your wrists, and becoming a sort of a pair of whips. Another push of the button, and you’ll have little knives that come out of the ends of the bracelets, and if you press that same button a third time, they will return to your wrists, as if they never were. Carved on both of them, are two words; Stinging Thorns. Pretty clever no?” Headmaster Cross explained excitedly. “I had checked your background and was made aware that this weapon was something you’d be used to quite quickly. Do you like it? Also, that band is to be worn at all times, just think of it as part of your uniform.”
She was dumbfounded and amazed. This man had went out of his way to make her something she knew she didn’t deserve at all. “I like it…A lot.” She found herself saying, with a blank expression. “But, why…?”
“Well, I couldn’t send you out without protection to be the school’s security. And there have been some problems with blood and whatnot, but you seem capable of protecting yourself, this is just to give you confidence and a boost. And also, a welcoming present from your new father.” He smiled as he waved a hand at her, as if gesturing her to go. “Now go out and wait for Zero and Yuuki, they’ll be arriving to this building’s entrance at any minute now.”
She nodded and waved at him, and putting the bracelets on either wrist, and the arm band over her left arm, leaving the office with newfound excitement and curiosity of what the vampires of the school looked like. She rushed out of the school, bumping into two students; Zero and a younger girl, with short brown hair, much like the one from Headmaster Cross’s photograph. “…I’m sorry.” She said, with a false apologetic tone, and looked away. “I’m Raven, the new kid.”
The girl smiled at her and took her hand, shaking it respectfully. “It’s very nice to meet you Raven, my name is Yuuki Cross. You’ve met Zero, I’m sure, as well as my adopted father, the Headmaster, and we are the school’s guardians.”
Raven shrugged, shaking her hand out of Yuuki’s and found herself glancing up at Zero, a bit bashfully. He wasn’t looking at anyone or anything in particular, just looking into the distance. His eyes and his hair had been few of the first things to intrigue her; a clouded pair of crimson eyes and a silver for hair color, both had been natural, it had seemed. “We should be going…It’s almost time…” He muttered, with an annoyed tone in his voice.
“Let’s be going Raven, it is your first day on the job.” Yuuki said, as if she was oblivious to what Zero murmured, and she lead Raven to a building were all of the female student body had been crowding around, chattering and were all sighing contently.
She groaned and thought, Now, why did I agree to this nonsense? Are these vampires truly important to them?
Yuuki had continued ahead, crying out, “Make a straight path for the Night Class! Come on, I don’t have all day! Return to your dormitories before all of you receive detention!” She seemed a bit more harsh and annoyed about the fangirls than Raven did, which was also surprising. Scattered groans and scoffs were sounded and the crowd had slowly made a path from the dorm they were surrounding and the building for the next class.
Zero had stepped beside her and whispered in her ear, “If you hadn’t already noticed, most of our classmates have this sickening school girlish passion for those vampires.” He said the word with a disgusted tone, in which he spat. “If those creatures try to take a students blood or anything, you have free right to threaten them with both your words and your weapon…although, with the way you threw me today, I guess you’ll do just fine…”
Raven felt her face heat up as she blushed with embarrassment once more and nodded. “Un-Understood….I mean, whatever.” Her own being was coming apart and transforming into something she could never thought she could be; an average and shy schoolgirl. She looked up at some of the other students, finding some of the other male students of the school, who looked at her with longing and need, and eyes of desire. She gave each boy to look at her, an ice cold glare, which they quickly looked away from, shuddering, and all paling just as if they had seen a ghost, or something of the like. Had still been watching, Zero whispered into her ear once more, “You’re pretty good, for your first day.” He had sounded shocked and she faked a sweet smile up to him.
“Oh honey, you have no idea of what I’m even capable of…” She used a sugary sweet whisper, and began to walk to Yuuki’s side. For the female students that had been glancing at Raven when she was at Zero’s side, they murmured their gossip with the juiciest of details, she was sure, but she ignored it for now, as Yuuki was struggling with some of the students who weren’t cooperating.
“Hey! When someone tells you to move from where you are and to relocate, you are to follow those instructions or suffer the consequences. Now all of you, move if you all value your lives.” She growled looking at now each horrified face in the crowd as they separated and made a very straight path, straighter than it had been before. “Thank you for cooperating and I expect that all of you be in your rooms after the Night Class finally enter their next building, got it?”
Scattered mumbles of yes, and nods were heard and seen, and Yuuki patted her on the back, and smiled at her, as if saying, Good work, partner.
Raven nodded back, and had nearly jumped when the bell tolled and chimed a few times and the Moon Dormitory gates and doors had opened, the lights of the late afternoon shown on the seven new figures exiting one by one, in a sort of line. The first to exit, was a teenage boy with sort of slicked back,blonde hair, and topaz colored eyes, his uniform straightened and pressed professionally. He had a sort of charm that the schoolgirls had fawned over. He winked and blew kisses to his fans, in which each one to receive a kiss, fainted.
The next boy to exit, was taller and resembled the first, although, he had sort of an orange color of hair, unlike the blonde, and he had brownish-gold eyes. He seemed more serious than the first, and his uniform wasn’t as it should’ve been, it’s jacket was unbuttoned all the way, and his black shirt was unbuttoned three from the top, and he wasn’t even wearing his tie. Girls fawned over him too, but he ignored each and every one of them.
The next one to exit, was female, and had long dirty blonde hair, and brown eyes. She held an agnostic look on her face, her hair had danced around her waist and was kept nicely. The boys of the Day Class, had held their hearts and murmured something about a fallen angel, which allowed Raven to stifle a groan.
The next to exit, was another female, with yellow-orange hair and grey eyes, but instead of being alone, she was accompanied by a boy with shoulder length amber hair, and pale blue eyes. They seemed to be a couple, although, they weren’t holding hands. Or smiling, when they walked side by side. They didn’t even look each other in the eye.
Odd… She thought, as she looked to the next few that had exited.
The next was another blonde haired boy, but he was taller than the first blonde, and had emerald green eyes. He was walking alongside a teenager only half an inch shorter than he, with long brown hair and had sort of hazel-amber eyes, and they were discussing something pretty serious, although, the blonde was doing all of the secretive smiling and expressing emotions. The only time she saw one of the two, the brown haired one, look away, was to look in Yuuki’s direction, ever so discreetly, and Raven saw Yuuki blush in the corner of her eye and look away bashfully, similar to how she now reacted around Zero.
She noted that each of the Night Class’s uniforms had been the inverse coloring to the Day Class, which they wore pretty well, and were all very graceful. Also, each had their own style and were very beautiful to look at, and each one had a sort of shadowy atmosphere, except the green eyed boy. She blinked and looked up, just in time to hold the blonde haired, green eyed boys gaze, in which he stopped talking to the long haired brunette.
What is with me…? She thought, as she finally dropped his gaze.