Rodwood Academy

Chapter 23: Blind Goals

"There she is." Faye tensed up as Lain eased her into the dining room with a hand on her back while the man she'd remember terrifying her sat across the table. "You look better than when you were in class with me." James smiled.

But Faye kept her head down as she sat quietly digging straight into her meal. She wanted to be out of the room as quick as possible with as little interaction as she could get.

"I didn't know you both took in a Bloodlet?" Aaron said to the couple as he cut up his meal with a surprised look on his face.

"It was an impulsive decision." The woman claimed.

"I see, so what is it that you've been doing here?"

The question was up in the air as Faye felt a gentle nudge on the shoulder from the woman sitting besides her.

While Mallix sat on the other half of the girl, Faye found herself leaning closer to Lain as the man still held a strange place in her heart. But even despite her best efforts to secretly keep her distance from him, Mallix couldn't help but look down occasionally at her as he smirked to himself.

"Aaron asked you a question Faye." He cleared his throat as his wife's nudge hadn't been enough of a hint for Faye to speak.

Finishing what pieces of chicken were in her mouth she cleared her throat before stuttering lightly. "Um...um...lea-learning." She said hesitantly.

"You're teaching her?" Aaron looked confused at the three other vampires at the table. "But I thought you taught the Bloodlet's James?"

"I do and I still am, but Lain thought it would be a nice gesture to take some of the pressure off my hands. So she took this one in." He spoke as if the small girl sitting in front of him weren't even there.

The way he spoke made Faye shutter. 'Something special, huh?' The girl scoffed internally as she rolled her eyes as the memory of Lain's initial reasoning to bringing her to their home played in her head. 'Good to know this was nothing more than a lucky draw to the lottery.' She thought as her eyebrows furrowed while she aggressively stabbed a piece of chicken before eating it.

"Mallix? What do you have to say about all of this?"

"Mm, nothing much. Faye's been doing great. She's learning what she needs to know and it's been nice having company around the house."

"What about me?" Lain chuckled as she tossed a piece of chicken at her husband across Faye's head.

Laughing as he reached out to catch the chicken, Mallix threw his hands into the air in victory as it landed right into his mouth. "Thank you for the food." He told his wife as he chewed on the meat before saying, "oh yeah and your company is good too." He smiled.

"Wow. Thanks babe." Lain sarcastically remarked.

"What kind of stuff has she learned so far?" James asked curiously. He wanted to know how much information Faye knew in comparison to the Bloodlet's currently sitting back at Rodwood in the classroom freezing in the dark as they read textbooks.

"Minor things mainly. We've talked about how our irises change color and how they're related to our emotions, we've gone over our better sense of vision, the teething process-"

"Teething? Isn't it a little early to start talking about that? Has she even began the process? She doesn't seem to mind eating solid food?" Aaron spoke as he ignored the girl eating her food perfectly fine.

"Oh it's started alright." Mallix chuckled as the group of vampires could hear Faye lightly whimper as she slumped further into her seat with a flushed face. "A few days ago I made some amazing hamburger steak and this one hadn't said anything about her teeth hurting, so naturally I gave her a piece for dinner, but the instant she bit down into it she screamed loud enough that she shattered my cup at the time."