chapter 6

We all filed into the school, I felt tiny. The walls towered over me, looking up at the ceiling you could see a beautiful ornate chandelier with candle sticks lighting the room. There was light chatter echoing through the room. Zander was clutched to my side looking around the room. "So...who's the guy you were holding hands with?" I looked next to me, Alaric talking to another student. A large burley man, with a noticeable scar on the left half of his lips. I leaned into Zander quieting my voice. "He's the prince...I think he's taken a liking to me."

Zander's eyes shot open in shock. "You caught the eyes of the prince? Wow lils I didn't take you for that type." I looked at him confused. Zander kept leaning over stealing glances at Alaric. "He's talking to Mathew...he's kinda...scary, don't you think?" I nodded. Definitely an intimidating man for sure. He wore a long coat with a blouse under that. Long pants and heeled boots. "But remember we shouldn't judge, he could be super nice." Zander rolled his eyes smirking at me. "You're only saying that because he's talking to dark, tall and skinny over there." I shoved him smirking. "It's not that he's tall, skinny or dark Zander. He's super kind and...he just knows the right things to say." I blushed looking down at my feet.

"You've fallen for him and school hasn't even started yet, slow down." I looked down at my white haired best friend before starting to feel stupid. "Y-your right...thank you." He nodded sighing as if I was a child he had to keep an eye on. "Alright kiddos, please follow me to the lunch room. Let's make sure you don't starve!" At the thought of food my mouth watered. Definitely need at least a quick bite. Zander grabbed my hand squeezeing it. "Just stay with me, I don't need him stealing my best friend from me." I giggled at zanders antic's allowing him to lead me to our destination. Once the smell of food hit my nose I knew we were very close to the lunchroom. Being short in the middle of a group of very tall people sucked, I couldn't see anything ahead of me or behind me. Just Zander who still cutched my hand tightly so he wouldn't loose me amongst the crowd.

Once we finally filed into the lunchroom the crowd dispersed a bit, I could now see the cafeteria. Black and white tile, the ornate tables with beautiful cushioned chairs. A small fire going towards the middle of the room. A lunch line towards the back with metal trays stacked at the end. A small window sat at the very end of the line, a sign on top reading stop here. "Okay, let me run you through meals! You will first go and grab a metal tray! Then you will go through the line picking what you want! We require at least one fruit and you may only have one dessert! During breakfast we serve coffee, during lunch we have milk and juice, dinner is a free for all! Later down the line you get to the window! DO NOT SKIP THIS! This is where you will get you blood and medications! You skip it? You risk fainting or getting sick during the day! Subs if you forget to grab your medications or blood! Your Dom may come and grab them for you. Your punishment for such would be up to them! You can also ask for Tylenol, ibuprofen, Tums, Pepto, and Benadryl here! Anything that can be found over the counter for simple aliments can be grabbed from here! Otherwise please go to the nurses station! With that I dismiss you to grab food!" With that the chefs came out setting food into the slots in the line.

Everything looks freshly prepared, steam coming off of hot dishes. "Come on lilly, I'm starving!" Zander gave me a little pull before walking, knowing full well my head was in the clouds instead of in my small body. He stood behind some other people in line waiting for them to grab trays and make there way down the line. "Everything looks so good." I mumble looking at the food people were putting onto there trays. Zander flashed me a toothy smile then stuck out his tongue. "Your lost again, at this rate you'll be to the moon in an hour. You always overthink everything, just focus on now." Zander was right. I grabbed a tray and began grabbing things from the line. Mainly sweet things but also grabbing some chicken nuggets and french fries. Zander loaded up on fruit mainly, something I'm sure his Dom will get onto him about. I silently picked up a bowl of rice and placed it onto his tray. "Hey!" I giggled continuing to the end of the line and placing silverware onto my tray. Zander pouted but grabbed silverware as well before we both turned to look where to sit. Alaric was already flagging me down to his table.

We both sat down next to each other Alaric on my right and another Dom to Zanders left. This table was full of Dom's...we've been fed to the wolves by Alaric. "So Alaric, who are these

cuties?" A girl sitting across from me with her head in her hands. She was smiling and kicking her feet under the table. "Oh this is Lilith and her friend Zander. Lilith this is Valentine, she's kinda like a sister, she was my nannies daughter. I grew up right next to her." I nodded trying to be polite. "I-its nice to meet you Valentine." She tilted her head to the side. "Vals fine love!" I smiled back before digging into my food. Alaric leaned into my ear. "That's an awful lot of sugar." I blushed looking up at him. He got so close I could feel his breath on my ear. "Zander your tray looks even worse! The only healthy looking thing on that tray is the rice." Zander pouted. "And it wouldn't even be there if Lilith didn't put it there, you just wouldn't understand." I looked over at alarics tray. It had mainly meat on it. And not much on it at all for that matter. He had a glass chalace that had blood in it. He peered down at me. "Go ahead and eat, a Dom won't let you eat that kinda stuff so enjoy it while it lasts." He grinned down at me and I shifted in my seat.

"She's not your's yet, let the girl breath." Zander piped up rolling his eyes. Alaric kept his smirk on chuckling to himself. "Such a feisty little boy." I looked over to Zander with wide eyes. His face was turning a bright purple and he was biting his lip. For some reason I felt a tad bit jealous that Alaric made Zander blush. I shook my head shoving a fri into my mouth. I was getting frustrated that I felt like that. "Is there something wrong rose bud?" I peered at Alaric. "No, No I'm fine." He gave me a skeptical look. "I just...feel a little overwhelmed thats all." I gave him a small smile. "Hm, well just try to eat and calm down a little." I nodded feeling relieved that he didn't press any further. Admitting that I already caught feelings would be terribly embarrassing. I took the clips out of my hair and took down my buns and relaxed into my chair continuing to eat my meal.

This is going to be a very long day.