The Other Side Of Me [Sequel to Faen's Child]

Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Weeks later, I was sitting in the Headmaster’s office, waiting for something to happen and still nursing a bandage on my head. It had gotten me more than a few looks, and it was kind of annoying to be known as the New-Guy-With-The-Bandage. I didn’t really hope to be known as something like that, but what could I do before I was even admitted into the school?

My parents really seemed to have taken the fact of all Faens and Vampires hard, since they refused to talk to Ashe and her husband at all. They began to view me as something weird, and didn’t seem to be willing to talk to me at all, as if I had somehow sprouted horns and conjured some black magic in front of them. I guess I couldn’t blame them –but wasn’t it a little too extreme? I wondered how Ashe broke the news to them about Faens and crap.

“Don’t worry; you’re going to be perfectly alright, kiddo.” Kenton put a hand on my shoulder, trying to reassure me –not that I was worried or anything. After I was deemed well enough to get out of bed, I had been visiting Brother Noel to learn about my new element. Then, when I begged and bugged Ashe to teach me about air, she referred me to her past-mentor, her Training Master, and also a man with a cracked head called Mr. Kote. Mr. Kote was pretty old, so I forgave him for the cracked head, though Ashe told me that Mr. Kote was twice as cracked and crazy when he taught her. Still, he had made a perfect air-user out of her, so she had no complaints in that section.

I began my unofficial training under these two men, and realized how fun it actually was to use my elements. Okay, it was weird at first that I could control such elements with my power. Okay, I admit that the power freaked me out. But after I was taught about how to keep them with me, how to control them, I learnt exactly how fun it was.

“Update me on how is this going to work again? I answer a few simple questions and I’m in?” I asked unsurely as I waited for the Headmaster. I had been brought up to my ex-school’s Headmaster more than a few times for truancy and delinquency, but I had never been brought up before a Headmaster to be admitted in a school before.

“Yeah. The school actually takes in anyone who can control power and is relatively a Faen. From what I know, the questions are actually just to see how willing you are to learn. You know; some people just don’t care? Besides, you’ve got your sister and me backing behind your admissions. No problem in that area.” Kenton informed with a secret grin, and I had the idea that admitting into the school wasn’t so easy.

I mean, it was a great shock to me when I found out that my sister –in which I simply suspected was Faen –was actually the ruler of all Faens, and her husband was something like a prince in his own Vampire Kingdom. I was dealing with blue-blooded vampires and Faens, and here I was, unknowing to everything until now.

“Don’t you dare go around telling every single new student that, Kenton. For Raun, yes, it’s easier since your sis is, well, your sis. But the questions are not as useless as they seem.” A new voice interrupted, and we turned around to see the forty-to-fifty looking man walk in.

“Yeah, Jason? I’ve been around when you started admitting students, and I’ve heard of the questions you’ve asked. Kind of stupid to be asking, ‘what do you think you can achieve coming here?’”

“Well, at least it gives the kids a target to set. Not like a vampire like you would know.” Headmaster… Jason?... snapped back and I guessed that the two of them had some sort of animosity going on between them.

“Well, I think I’m glad to not have gone through such a waste of time, then.” Kenton snapped back, and even though the thirty-plus-year-old guy was my brother-in-law, the two of them looked like a pair of overactive puppies nipping at each other’s tail.