[ BOOK THREE ]
Ryan Mikaelson has spent his entire life hearing stories about his family and their past. The infamous Original family. The villains of the supernatural world. His world. But now, it's his turn to make his own mark.
Now a student at...
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
You Remind Me of Someone I Used to Know
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IN THE DAYS that followed since the cyclops incident, Ryan found it more than odd to go back to his life at the Salvatore School as if nothing ever happened. Like he could overlook the fact that everyone forgot his sister ever existed. Not only that, but he had to return without her.
After Ryan and Hope confided in Alaric about what happened with Malivore, he offered to let the girl stay with him until they figured out what to do next. She would also attend Mystic Falls High to not draw suspicion toward herself, and so she could help him if anymore monsters made an appearance.
Ryan, on the other hand, had to uphold his presence at the Salvatore School. Just until he learned more about the new headmaster. He needed to make sure he could sneak off to meet with Hope or Alaric without getting caught. Something in his gut told him that he should steer clear of the man, and those kind of feelings never let him down before.
"So, why are you slumming it at Mystic Falls High?" Hope quipped as she walked alongside her brother. "Never thought I'd see the day."
Ryan rolled his eyes. "Okay. Using my words against me. Hilarious."
Hope grinned toward him. "Hey, I'm the one stuck here. Least you can do is deal with the snark in return."
"Snark it up," Ryan retorted as the two of them strode across the parking lot of the high school. "I'll just shoot my own back." They started for the front of the school, hoping to catch Alaric before teenagers started to swarm the place. "You know, I've been thinking. What happens if people start to question why we're spending so much time together? I mean, it's not like anyone besides Dr. Saltzman knows we're siblings."
Hope pressed her lips together and shrugged. "I don't know. We could still tell everyone here that we're siblings. For everyone else, we could say we're cousins, or something."
Ryan nodded. "Works for me. Last thing I need is for someone think something else. I've already had enough of Mom thinking I've been moping about a girlfriend."
Hope's face scrunched and snapped to her brother. "Ew! Why?"
"She caught me burning your school records the night you jumped into Malivore," Ryan told her. "I couldn't exactly tell her the truth, so I didn't say anything."
"That's just as bad."
"Well, it doesn't matter now. Besides, we have time to figure all this out."
The Mikaelson siblings rounded the back of a school bus and started down the sidewalk along the side of the school. Ryan's eyes narrowed toward the end of it, finding several boys there with spray cans in their hands. Toilet paper hung from the awing above their heads, while a trashcan had been knocked over as they ran across the parking lot. He sighed when he spotted STALLIONS RULE painted in yellow across the Timberwolves sign on the wall. He sometimes hated the rivalry the two schools developed over the years.
