College experience

Chapter 14

I'm trying guys! I'm trying.

-----------------Andrew

"Welcome back class." I hear when I sit down in Myth Studies. Briar is sitting beside me look like he would rather be anywhere but here.

"Today we are going to watch a movie." Drew says as he pulls out the TV and DVD player. I groan in annoyance. At least we might be able to sleep a little.

This Friday has definitely not been my day. I had a run in with my ex, and Paige was way more clingy than normal. Then this douchebag of a football major, I think his name was Gage, pushed me up against a locker for 'embarrassing his mate at the party'.

Figures.

Jocks don't have brains.

He did give me a nice bruise on my rib though. Dumb fuck didn't even care about the crowd of teachers we had gathered. Briar caught me limping to Myth Studies so he swung one of my arms over his shoulders and helped me to the classroom.

Just thinking about his muscular shoulders makes me turn pink. His shoulders were quite wide and nice to feel.

"SHUT UP!"

The sound of Drew's yell made me jump and shake away the embarrassing thoughts. The movie credits had been skipped through, and the main menu was on the screen.

'Dracula Untold'

The movie title makes me want to bury my head in my arms, but it could be worse. At least it's not some weird Italian playing Dracula or a silent movie with the dumb vampire with his two fangs right next to each other.

"What's wrong?" Briar's voice sounds hushed, but concerned.

"The movie."

"What about the movie?"

I look at him with a 'your-a-fucking-idiot-how-did-you-get-into-college' look.

"Briar." He focused on me. "I'm going to say this as simple as possible. My," I point at myself," grandfather, is Dracula." His face looks confused before he has an 'oh' look take over his face.

"Oh!"

"Yeah." I cringe and put my head in my arms. I feel his hand rub circles on my back and I relax into the calming touch.

"If it makes you feel any better, I think this movie is complete bullshit." I crack a smile and slowly lift my head to look at him.

"That's because it is." We both chuckle and spend the whole class period making fun of the movie.

"Where did humans get the 'vampires can turn into bats' thing? That's complete bull!" I whisper/yell as to not disturb the classes 'learning'. Briar chuckles next to me, and I crack another small smile.

A true smile.