"That was for Lauren"s sake, not mine. I had to give him his chance." she snickered."You..." I gasped. I couldn"t think of a bad enough word. It felt like the heat of my anger should physically burn her, but she only seemed more amused.
"And I"m not pretending you don"t exist," she continued.
"So you are trying to irritate me to death? Since Tyler"s van didn"t do the job?"
Anger flashed in her tawny eyes. Her lips pressed into a hard line, all signs of humor gone.
"Ryan, you are utterly absurd," she said, her low voice cold.
I turned my back and started to walk away.
"Wait," she called. I kept walking, sloshing through the rain. But she was next to me, easily keeping pace.
"I"m sorry, that was rude," she said as we walked. I ignored her. "I"m not saying it isn"t true," she continued, "but it was rude to say it, anyway."
"Why won"t you leave me alone?" I grumbled.
"I wanted to ask you something, but you sidetracked me," she chuckled. she seemed to have recovered her good humor.
"Do you have a multiple personality disorder or a personal grudge against me?" I asked severely. "You"re doing it again."
I sighed. "Fine then. What do you want to ask?"
"I was wondering if, a week from Sat.u.r.day - you know, the day of the spring dance -"
"Are you trying to be funny?" I interrupted her wheeling toward her. My face got drenched as I looked down at her expression.
Her eyes were wickedly amused. "Will you please allow me to finish?"
I clasped my hands together, interlocking my fingers, so I couldn"t do anything rash.
"I heard you say you were going to Seattle that day, and I was wondering if you wanted a ride."
That was unexpected.
"What?"
"Do you want a ride to Seattle?"
"With you?" I asked, mystified.
"obviously." she enunciated every syllable, as if she were talking to someone mentally handicapped.
I was still stunned. "Why?"
"Well, I was planning to go to Seattle in the next few weeks, and, to be honest, I"m not sure if your truck can make it."
"My truck works just fine, thank you very much for your concern." I started to walk again, but I was too surprised to maintain the same level of anger.
"But can your truck make it there on one tank of gas?" she matched my pace again.
"I don"t see how that is any of your business." Stupid, shiny Volvo owner. I don"t even care that my truck gets something like half a mile to the gallon you leave it alone.
"The wasting of finite resources is everyone"s business."
"Honestly, Amanda." I said. "I can"t keep up with you or women in general your all so confusing and scary. I thought you didn"t want to be my friend."
"I said it would be better if we weren"t friends, not that I didn"t want to be."
"Oh, thanks, now that"s all cleared up." Heavy sarcasm. I realized I had stopped walking again. We were under the shelter of the cafeteria roof now, so I could more easily look at at her face.
"It would be more... prudent for you not to be my friend," she explained. "But I"m tired of trying to stay away from you, Ryan."
"Will you go with me to Seattle?" she asked, still intense.
"Sure sure Damm pushy women." I knew you"d be back for this glorious a.s.s.
She smiled briefly, and then her face became serious.
"You really should stay away from me," she warned. "I"ll see you in cla.s.s."
At this point in time I"ve already lost almost any and all fear of the little vampire girl because of teachers beatings. now you may be asking something like Ryan why are you letting her do things like that your her master right? and the simple answer would be i need it and it"s the best training ever, besides all the beatings but my skills are rising at an insane level so are my stats I"ll show those later. I technically give her free reign to do as she wants just because I"m their master doesn"t mean I"m just going to up and control everything they do what do you take me for some kind of slave driver? even the elves have hobbies like growing flowers or playing with the gnomes they don"t have to work all the time.
I don"t want to be some kind of sick monster who takes away people"s free will that would be a s.h.i.tty thing to do. now if it was someone like a murderer or rapist yeah f.u.c.k those guys. but scathach is just a lonely tragic hero who enjoys teaching and is basically a G.o.d of combat let her do whatever. as for Ca.s.sie in control of the kingdom and buying stuff. that"s fine I mean scathach could get all the gold she wants from the dungeon and just buy whatever she wants anyway. and it"s not like the kingdom isn"t getting built so who cares just have fun.
The school day went by gradually morning cla.s.ses being boring as usual and math cla.s.s blowing a.s.s I hate math and arithmancy and anything math related number suck. it was time for lunch and I was following the cool kids to our usual table when suddenly "Amanda Cullen is staring at you again," Jessica said. "I wonder why she"s sitting alone today." I followed her gaze to see Amanda smiling wickedly, staring at me from an empty table across the cafeteria from where she usually sat. Once she"d caught my eye, she raised one hand and motioned with his index finger for me to join her. As I stared in disbelief, she winked.
"is she flirting with you?" Jessica asked with insulting astonishment in her voice. Don"t look like that have you seen my a.s.s of course she is I"m s.e.xy. "Well I"ll go see what she wants shall i?" and wandered over.
When I reached his table, I stood behind the chair across from her.
"Why don"t you sit with me today?" she asked, smiling. "This is different, but I don"t think this counts as a real date." I finally managed.
"Well..." she paused, and then the rest of the words followed in a rush. "I decided as long as I was going to h.e.l.l, I might as well do it thoroughly." I simple looked at her I had forgotten she doesn"t think she has a soul in this world I"ll fix that later. "well I"d probably meet you there I think I have a gateway to it somewhere" she took it as I was joking I however was not I do own a veil of death. well after some mild flirting and her pretty much giving up on staying away from me we headed off to the next cla.s.s
I walked into cla.s.s and looked at the teachers desk then walked right back out today they were drawing blood and I don"t like needles no fear of blood mind you just needles and such are kinda scary (A/N I do have this fear in real life lol so if people think it"s not realistic f.u.c.k you guys needles are scary anything that can just slide right into your skin like that shouldn"t be allowed give me heeby jeebies thinking about it) so I went right out the door under the confused look of Amanda.
"You don"t like blood?" she asked with a hint of irony in her voice
"What? Who gives a s.h.i.t about that it"s the needles man I don"t like needles." and proceeded to f.u.c.k off in the other direction under her gobsmacked look not expecting me to say that.