Faye sat in the infirmary looking over Makala. It was close to the end of the semester and the vampire hadn't improved much.
The nurse walked over to Faye with a sorrowful expression as if she felt for the young priestess. She watched as Faye took Makala's hand in her own, her body still covered in bandages and wraps including her head.
"She's going to be sent home," the nurse said. "We thought she would have improved by now but...that doesn't seem to be the case."
Faye turned to face the nurse and put her head back down.
"We need someone to go to her room and grab her things. Her parents gave permission."
Faye didn't know where Makala lived. When they talked about things, it was usually about school or Faye being a priestess. Faye never really asked Makala anything about her life-regretting that she wasn't intuitive to the girl who cared so much for her. Faye didn't know that with time she would too would begin to have feelings for the vampire.
Faye stood up and nodded her head at the nurse. The nurse walked over to her desk and picked up a few boxes that were sitting there.
"Her parents will be arriving sometime in the evening around six. Think you could have her things packed by then?"
"After class, I can get right on it." Faye answered.
When the nurse left the two girls be, Faye sat back down in the chair. She placed the packing boxes to the side. She looked around the area of Makala's bed to see if there was anything that needed to be packed from there.
Her attention caught the presents and gifts family and friends had sent her through the months. One gift in particular caught Faye's eye because it was blue and it had imprints of dragons on it.
Faye got up and reached around to grab the box. She turned it over in her hand and saw it was from Daniel! She opened the present up to reveal a necklace of two dragons meeting amongst their tails and snout.
Faye broke the necklace, sending the broken chains falling to the floor including the two dragons.
"How was he able to send her a present?" She asked the nurse.
Stunned, the nurse rose from her seat. "Who?"
"Daniel! The boy that did all this!"
The nurse pleaded for forgiveness. "She recieved numerous presents and gifts. We don't look at every single one."
"Maybe you should start. Allowing the assault to harass the victim like this." Faye kicked the two dragons that were on the ground. She took the boxes handed to her earlier and left.
Dear Little Poop,
Oh how I miss your fatness. Your fattie fat fat and all your cuddle fats. You were fat. Fat as a rat because you were a rat. A fat rat.
With love,
SOUS and little baby basilisk
Sous was quite proud of herself for writing that letter for the princess. She folded it up and was about to put it away until Instructor Connors snatched it up.
Instructor Connors held the letter up in the light of the green house. She cleared her throat and began to read the letter to the entire class. They all laughed of course, Sous clearly demonstrated she lacked the talent for poems or whatever she was trying to do.
"And this is how you spend your time in my class?" Instructor Connors said, slamming the letter back down. "You would rather write letters to a fat rat named Little Poop then study for your herbology exams."
"I did study this time!"
Instructor Connors sighed and walked back to her desk. "If only you were as enthusiastic for herbs as you are with potions." She picked up the stack of papers that were on her desk and she began to pass them out.
Sous received her final grade for her final exam. Wavy blue tears spilled from her eyes as she got a 67.
"A 67?" She whined holding the exam up to her face, seeing all the red marks the Instructor had given her. Her paper was dead, it was bleeding with all those red marks.
"Awe Sous, you're getting my shoes wet," Zan complained.
Sous' wavy tears were causing a puddle to form under her feet leading into Zan who sat right next to her. Desk to desk.
Sniff, sniff.
Snot was beginning to come down her nose just as she peered over to look at Zan's paper to see he got a 98!
"A 98!" Sous screamed.
"You should have asked Zan to join his study group. He helps lead a weekly study group." Instructor Connors said.
"You lead a study group? You never told me!" Sous felt offended. How dare the Omega.
"Like you like to study, Sous, tsk," he said smacking his lips and giving her a skeptical look. "You still passed, a 67 is a D."
His words gave Sous no comfort.
Faye knocked on the door to Makala's dorm. It took her a while to find the House of Spirit but here she was by the greenhouses where they lived.
Makala's roommate opened the door and allowed Faye to enter. Makala's things were pointed out to Faye. The first thing Faye saw was all the pictures that were on Makala's wall of them together.
"Its so sad she's going to spend her fifteen birthday wrapped in bandages and stuck in bed." Said one roommate. "She must still be in so much pain."
Faye began to take the pictures from the wall first, listening to the roommates gossip. They asked questions like what happened to the pixie who did it and they talked of the Dragon Lair.
Faye had never heard of the Dragon Lair. Hunters and leadarch was all she was aware about when it came to justice and the criminal system in Nadia.
Once she was done with the pictures and placed them nicely in the box, she got on her knees and began to pull out items from underneath the bed.
"She missed the entire semester." Another roommate chimed in.
"Practically, I wonder if she'll have to repeat any grades and you know she's a sponsored."
The girls gasped.
"Yeah, she's from a small village in Conaska called Grim."
"That's the country where the princess was turned to a rat and then Sous helped change her back." One girl said.
"No, it was Tany. Sous was just talking like she always does-"
It went on like that. Faye not knowing Makala was a sponsor student was just many things she didn't know about the vampire. She knew the vampire wore a cloak to shield from the son placed on by a witch. The witch must have been from Nadia since there were barely any witches in Conaska. Barely any vampires really.
"You're the girl she likes," one said as Faye was heading out, done packing. "You're all she ever talked about."
Faye looked at the roommates. She didn't know what to say beyond thanks for allowing her to get Makala's stuff and then she left. Closing the door behind her.
Click!