Walking with the Vampire |COMPLETE|

33.Be my Guest

Awkward silence at a very awkward brunch.

When Sonya mentioned that Sasha was coming for brunch,, he expected it to be just him, Sasha and ofcourse, Niko. To his regret, that had not been the case at all. Nicholae stared at his parents on the other side of the table with their smiling faces. His mother was doing a consistent job of keeping the conversation going with Sasha Draga. Niko looked at his father and gave him a tortured look Nicholae understood full well because he was feeling the same. They both could be doing better things with their lives and yet, here they were listening to his mother's idle chatter with Sasha and his father's obligatory response to the conversation per his mother's cue. The silence was sometimes filled with Niko mixing more kool aid into his glass of punch. Fortunately his parents didn't know what koolaid was.

Nicholae played with his glass of blood and orange marmalade punch, afraid to upset his stomach again. HIs mind went to Valentina, whose blood had settled the churning in his belly just as the vampire blood had. Nicholae really couldn't figure out what was wrong with him, he'd have to go and see a doctor when he got back from the human world.

'Nicholae loves to go there all the time.'

'Is that true?' Sasha asked him directly, the first time in the twenty minutes that she's been there that she'd directly spoken to him. Unfortunately, Nicholae had been lost in his thoughts and so had no clue what they were talking about.
'Yes, Papa does take frequent trips to the human world.' Niko answered for him.

'I've been there a number of times myself for pleasure,' she said with a sparkle in her eye making him aware of just what she sought when she went there; human blood. The human in the other realm and a more liberal way of living with no strict rules for the suernatural and no regard to what other creatures walked with them in the night or morning in Sasha's case. Since she was also a noble it meant that she had a closet of enchanted clothes that helped her walk in the sun. There, on the otherside of the veil, supernaturals could get away with a number of things that's why it was a hub for the younger and more carefree immortals.
'I heard he is planning another trip there.' Nicholae tried to hide the suprise in his expression when his mother told their guest of a plan she was not suposed to be aware of.
Nicholae looked at Erik who stoically avoided his gaze. He was the first culprit, and the other was Sonya who had decided not to even show up after setting up this stupid brunch date. Nicholae's blood was boiling.
'That's sounds fun.' Sasha smiled at him.
'Sasha, you should go with him and report back to us exactly what he does when he goes there.'

'What I do there is my business and i'd like to keep it that way.' Nicholae said a little too passionately. He looked down when he felt Niko's smaller hands on his and he calmed down considerably choosing his next words with more care.

'Forgive my outburst, I told certain individuals that information in confidence.' he focused on Sasha when he spoke his next words but they were intended for a certain blond vampire holding a jug of punch.
'Don't you just hate it when people can't keep secrets?'

Sasha nodded. 'Totally understand.'

'It's not right to keep secrets from your parents.'

Sasha laughed at his mother when she said that. 'Your ladyship, I do not say this with any disrespect but sometimes parents don't need to know everything.'
As it turned out, Sasha wasn't such a bad person afterall. She did seem boring at the banquet but as she openly displayed, she wasn't as uninteresting as she looked with her blond hair and sky blue eyes.

Nicholae caught Niko nodding along to Sasha's words. No. No. That does not apply to you young man, Nicholae said with his eyes. He was glad his message got accross when Niko frowned and pursed his lips at the glass.
He wasn't old enough to be keeping secrets from Nicholae just yet. The thought made him dread Niko's teenage years should they come, somehow he knew his son wouldn't be the horny teen but the troublesome one sneaking away doing experiments on poor clueless animals. He might even elevate and experiment on people.