Virlaq Kingdom

2

"Giving speeches is always tiring," Nick sighed once they were back in the limo.

He had just given a speech at SkyView and they dropped Klara off at her new dorm. Silver would meet Boris at the castle and then they could go home.

"I'm just glad that Boris will come pick me up and then I can go back home soon," Silver said, he felt very nervous being alone with Nick. Donald was in the limo as well of course, but he was on his phone, hardly paying attention.

Nick scooted closer to Silver, "I don't think so. You're not safe over in Willow,"

"Willow is literally the safest place in the world," Silver glared, scooching over a few inches, "And hopefully I can be free of you,"

"You can never be free of me," he grinned, vampire fangs dropping again, "Why do you want to be?"

"Because you're a vampire," Silver answered as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"And what have you heard that's so bad about vampires?" Nick leaned back, turning his head to Silver lazily, "I haven't done anything but help you,"

Silver's stomach churned. He was kinda right, "You suck people's blood," he shrugged, "Your life force is dependant on blood,"

"Like a parasite," Nick agreed, closing his eyes with a smile, "I didn't ask to be born this way, you know,"

"And I didn't ask to be a human. I wish I could've been born a werewolf," Silver chimed in.

"I wish you were a werewolf too," Nick answered, "You wouldn't be so wary of me if I was unable to turn you into a vampire. Which I don't even plan on doing, might I add,"

"Have you ever turned anyone into a vampire before?" Silver asked him.

Nick looked at Silver for a solid ten seconds with a blank face. His mouth slowly curled into a smirk, "You wanna know more about me? You could at least buy me dinner first,"

"Ugh," Silver groaned, "I thought princes were supposed to be charming and polite, not flirty and annoying,"

"I'm not a flirty person," Nick said honestly, "I just happened to have taken a liking to you. Love, at first sight, you might call it,"

"You're not a person at all," Silver shot back, face growing hot, "You're a vampire, remember?"

"Neither is your entire family, remember?" Nick laughed, "They're werewolves... you know, I dated a werewolf once," Nick said, a random memory flooding to the front of his mind.

Silver raised an eyebrow, genuinely curious, "And how did that work out?"

Nick smiled at Silver's obvious interest, "Well, not well. For starters, I probably should've figured out I was gay before agreeing to go out with her,"

And that was the first time Nick got to see Silver genuinely laugh.

***

Klara sat on her new bed. It was a tiny twin-sized bed that could be turned into a bunk if need-be.

The dorm was very small with olive green walls and navy blue carpeted floors. There wasn't a window and there wasn't a bathroom. Just a sink, two beds, two desks with chairs, and a cabinet which Klara put her microwave on top of.

Klara's roommate hadn't arrived yet, so she sat there, on her phone. She called her parents and told them everything that happened. She listened to her father rant about the vampire prince and she rolled her eyes at his racism.