The Academy Vampire

{ Chapter 15 } - Home and Dinner to Avoid.

A/N: Not a lot of drama happens in this one, but it's necessary to set up for the next one :)

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--- Sang's Pov ---

Home.

When looked up in a dictionary, it is defined as "a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household". It also can be defined as "the place in which one's domestic affections are centered."

I've had the first, but never the second. Not until these boys came along. I've never had a place where it's been deemed affectionate, warm, or enticing, really. Until the boys, I'd never seen another person genuinely smile, with no malice coating their features, but instead, pure joy.

'As much as I don't want to admit it, and I'd never say it aloud to the boys, but I'm happy Mr. Blackbourne went missing. At least, I'm happy it was Sean that caused him to go missing. Because, if not for that moment, I would have never known that I had a family besides my father.

Have I doubted my father when he said my mother was really dead? Of course. What child would willingly accept that their mother was gone? When I was young, I used to think she would visit me every so often before I would go to sleep at night. I also used to imagine her holding me when I woke up crying from nightmares.

Now that I was older, I accepted those moments as simple fantasies of a young, lonely girl that missed her mother. However, were they really fantasy, now that I know that my mother was no ordinary human?'

Looking around my room for the time I'd be staying here, I'd be lying if I said that the wall full of books didn't make me giddy.

Like a normal girl, I decided that I would take a quick peek at the titles he had before heading downstairs. At the relatively normal pace of a totally not obsessed book nerd, I sat down in front of the books and began flinging books off the shelves as I pillaged through description upon description from classics like the Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast, to YA novels like Juliet Dove, The Queen of Love, to a book with a description that caught my eye.

"...Jess was an ordinary girl who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," I read in aloud in quiet whisper, "On the run from people who want to kill her before she can reveal their secret, she runs into a group of four men that seem to hold more trouble than is worth when they convince her they can keep her safe. What they don't realize is Jess packs a bigger punch and attitude than they thought.

Emotions run high in this critically acclaimed novel about a girl's journey within herself and independence as she learns firsthand what it's like to have men doting on her at every turn while her days are numbered by those that don't want to see her happy ending."

'I know Olivia mentioned her gaggle of men that she's with, but does this really happen in everyday life? Is this normal, a human woman ending up with more than one man? Or is this only possible in fictional situations? A vampire has all the time in the world to work through all the problems that could arise. But what about me? Will I have to choose years from now? Or is Olivia right, and I'll have my men of mine for the rest of my life?'

"Angelle Mou?" A quiet, but deep voice questioned.

Bringing me out of my thoughts, I looked around, only to realized that I subconsciously built a stacked up book enclosure, tall enough to block my vision while sitting, from all the books I looked at and put aside. Looking up out of my enclosure, I saw Silas peeking down at me.