3. FIRST DATE.
School was great for the past couple of months. Although I grew more haters and... Admirers, it couldn't be any better. I was looked at as Alexandra Churchill, not as the oh-so-handsome Sebastian Churchill's or Fiona Fabulous Churchill's little sister. But still, I own the same private space as they had given Frederick.
I was surprised to find that all the studying I had done for almost all of my life with James had somehow covered more than any PhD holders' knowledge. Well, with someone who was over three hundred years old and the brain that processes knowledge along with it, nothing such as intelligence, could make his thinking be a bit ancient too, couldn't it?
I was under the same wings as my siblings, honors students. Rumors did fly around that we got the title because of the help our parents' money. Ah... How I wish these humans knew better than just to point fingers and spread ugly-based rumors such as that. They just didn't know how some beings' mind work in a much more advanced way than any of the average humans does.
Also, over the two months, Samuel had stopped stammering when we were together. He treated me much as he had treated my sister. But a little more polite to me, not quite meeting my eyes, actually. He daydreamed a lot when he was with us. It made me curious but the answer to his sudden behavior made me uncomfortable for reasons I didn't even want to think about.
According to my brother, he'd gone out with a girl named Amelia Miller. Fiona told me that the Miller girl was a red-head, average looking - of course, average. It's hard for Fiona to see the beauty in humans because she think humans were barely beautiful, much less pretty - but somehow, much more bitchier than Fiona herself. A Queen in-the-making for the school. She was in my year.
It did leave me feeling a bit unsettled but I couldn't care less. It was his life so why should I care? And since then, Frederick has been my partner in school. He was sick at looking the new couple - Samelia, people called the couple - when they started to cozy up on each other. That made the two of us went almost everywhere together.
And that also had brought about a new round of rumors.
"Don't you see how close they are?", "Oh, they're so perfect together.", "I'd do anything... anything...", "I wish I could be as beautiful..." were how whispers, sobs and enraged voices had surrounded me for the two months.
To my understanding - without telling because it was so obvious - the Queen of the school, Jade Meredith, has a thing for Frederick. She loitered everywhere Frederick and I went, waiting for the perfect chance just to talk to him. And today, just like any other day that I had during lunch time, she was sitting next to my usual table - the usual were Fee, Sebastian and Frederick. Sam's out here, somewhere... - eyeing Frederick.
"I'm leaving for Psychology." I said as I stood up, piling up my file and folders.
"I'm going with you." Frederick said.
"No, you should stay." I commanded.
"Why should I?" he asked, too innocent.
"Damn better you know why, Fred." I raised an eyebrow. "Give the girl a chance."
"Sigh... alright then." He mumbled and I thought I heard him say the word, "absurd."
I grinned as he sunk back into his bench and glared at me with annoyance. I stole a glance to Jade Meredith and she was looking at Frederick with such... devotion? I couldn't believe she couldn't see the boy's reproving look. Then, when she looked at me with sudden hostility, I decided it was my cue to leave.
"Oh, Alex, before you go..." Sebastian said, stopping me from marching to my Psychology class.
I turned to look at him frowning a little. He sighed and looked up at me apologetically.
