High School

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela's fingers automatically go to her lips, and a blush creeps onto her face. Did he just? she asks herself, and then scratches the back of her neck. "Uh, that didn't hurt." She says, a smirk showing up on her face. "So, I guess this means I'm right?" Leela takes a few steps towards him and crosses her arms across her chest.

 

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Emery laughs slightly, still facing away from her, his palms still on the tree. He balls them up into fists and cocks his head to the side for a second. "Guess you're right." He turns and looks back at her out of the corner of his eye for a moment, seeing her blushing. He turns and looks at the tree again, he still wanted to bite her but he knew that he wouldn't. He turned and leaned his back against the tree, looking Leela in the eye. He felt butterflies in his stomach, but he didn't let it show.

 

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"When do you think you should go home?" She asks, the words hurting her as they came from her mouth. She didn't want him to leave, she just wished he could stay, but it couldn't happen his parents would notice his absence and come looking for him. Her home would be the first place they looked.

 

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"He should come home now." A voice says from the shadows, and Emery jumps and runs in front of Leah protectively. Fenton steps out of the shadows again, then leans against the tree almost mockingly. "Hello again."


Emery hisses at him like he had done last time, he wasn't going to let anything happen to Leela. "Can you not just leave us alone for one night?" Emery shouts at him, "Jesus I'm not hurting anyone!"

 

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Leela glares at Fenton from behind Emery. She wasn't going to sit on the sidelines like she did last time. She wasn't going to let Fenton hurt Emery or herself. An intimidating growl comes from her throat and her top lip raises. "Get the fuck off of my property." She says and steps beside Emery.

 

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"Don't shoot the messenger," Fenton steps backwards slightly, "relax Ms Long, I'm not here to hurt anyone, I'm here with a proposition from Edward Niles." He holds up his hands defensively.


Emery puts his arm across Leelas chest, stopping her from moving anywhere. "What do you mean you have a proposition?"


Fenton rolls his eyes, "I mean that father wants to speak to you. Both of you. If you come with me, you can speak to him, he has some rather interesting ideas." Emery looks at Fenton suspiciously then looks back at Leela, raising his eyebrows slightly. "I'll only go if you go, if you want to hear the proposition then I will go with you." He says to her.

 

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((Also sorry I took so long I was having my hair done :3))

 

[HappyBeingMe]

((Sorry it took me so long, I was getting contacts for my eyes))


Leela looks at Fenton, then back to Emery. "I don't know." She says, then looks back at Fenton. "Fine, but trust me, any funny business and I'll kill you." She threatens, her voice dark and her eyes shining in a menacing way. She didn't know this side of her, she'd never heard herself speak like this. It honestly scared her, and she couldn't stop herself.

 

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((I wish I was brave enough to wear contacts, I'm stuck with glasses xD ))


"I have no doubt that you will, Miss Long," Fenton nods. "Emery, escort her home when you are ready." He walks back into the shadows again, and Emery turns to face Leela. "Are you sure you want to do this?" He says as a chill runs through the air. He didn't know what his father was planning but the sound of a proposition gave him slight hope for them.

 

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Leela nods and lets a shaky breath out. "This is a weird way to meet your parents." She jokes and a smirk shows up on her face, before a slightly scared look comes over her. "What if... Never mind." She says, shaking her head. She was afraid that if they went it would be a trap, but then again the look in Fenton's eyes made her have hope.


((Trust me if you ever get them the first day is going to be fuzzy))

 

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Emery nods, understanding that she was slightly scared, but then he lets out a little chuckle before he begins to walk with her to his house. He'd walked from the two places a lot in the last day, so he knew the route pretty well now. "Don't be afraid of them, I won't let them hurt you," he says as he walks, thinking about how this could be a way just to get Leela into their house so they could kill her, but he wouldn't let that happen.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela nods and puts her hands in her pockets as they walk. "Just one question, though," She starts. "You guys wouldn't happen to have dark room at your house with almost no windows and no doors, would you?" she asks him, remembering the dream she had on the night of the full moon yet again.

 

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Emery thinks about it for a moment, looking up at the moon in the sky. "Yes, actually I think there's some in the cellar. We don't use a lot of the rooms in our house, and it's pretty big, so who knows what there is." He doesn't tell her about the blood givers room, or the cell for that specific type of punishment that he had gone through. "Why?" He asks her, messing with his hair slightly.

 

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"Oh, uh. I had a dream about a room like that. There was a really familiar woman and somebody in a hooded cloak, well poisoned her or whatever right in front of me." She explains, then sighs. "I think it was my mom." Leela holds up her hand and looks at a ring that was placed on her middle finger. "All my dad ever told me about her is that she was beautiful, and that she was into powerful stuff. He gave me this ring when I was four, saying it was a magical ring that kept me from harm. It didn't really work on him, did it?"

 

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Emery frowns, "I'm sorry about your mother," he says, actually sorry. One of the best things he found about Leela was that he was genuine with her, he didn't lie as much with her, he made her smile. He suddenly remembers that he kissed her and looks down at the ground, biting his lip, as they begin walking up a hill. They were close to the manor. "I'm sorry about kissing you. I haven't got a clue why I did it." He says, even though he was sort of glad that he did it.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

"I'm not sorry." She says simply and another blush covers her face, she wasn't. She was absolutely fine with it, well, yeah it was her first kiss but it was good. She shrugs her shoulder and her hand went up to her mouth. Leela starts chewing on her fingernails as they got near her aunt's house, which was most likely next to Emery's house.

 

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Emery laughs slightly. "Good because..." He stops as nerves get the best of him. Usually he wasn't such a nervous wreck around girls, back in private school he was pretty good with them, buts thats because it was a school full of vampires. The house comes into view, and he changes the subject quickly as they enter the front yard, trees shaped like serpents lined the pathway that lead to the large wooden front doors. The house was large and old fashioned, and only a few dim lights could be seen through the window. "Welcome." He smiles, hoping she wouldn't remember what he had started to say before this.

 

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Leela's heartbeat gets faster as she started chewing on her lip. She was scared, yes, but she was also nervous. She didn't know what was going to happen, would they attack her as soon as she got in the door? With that thought Leela stopped chewing on her lip and got into a strong stance, it wasn't her fighting stance, it was just let's say her 'I'm Ready For Anything' stance.

 

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Emery walked up the steps to the door, and offers Leela his hand to take as the doors get pulled open by someone inside, revealing a brightly lit large room with a grande staircase in the middle of it leading upstairs, a black carpet rolled from the door to the bottom of the stairs, and on either side of it were the staff in their maid outfits and the chefs outfits. On the stairs was Emery's family. His father in the middle on one step, dressed in a dark black suit, his black hair standing out and being shine on by the light. On the step below was Fenton and Alice, his mother, Fenton dressed fancier than he had been when he had confronted them in the woods, Alice wearing a high necked black dress with lace, and purples jewels around her wrists and dangling from her ears, her hair was to one side, curly and white. On the step below them was Chimera and Cinnabar, dressed in identical black knee length dresses, their white hair in plaits tied with purple ribbons. Emery looked out of place with his sweatpants and white tshirt, stained with blood from the rabbit.

 

[HappyBeingMe]

The smell of new vampires flew into her nose and she had to fight hard with herself to keep from retching. She didn't smile, she didn't show expression on her face, she just stood there. She had a feeling at least one person in this room had something to do with her father's death. Leela holds onto Emery's hand and bites the inside of her bottom lip.

 

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Emery squeezes her hand comfortingly and walks to the bottom of the stairs, staring up at his father while he strokes the back of Leelas hand with his thumb. His father walks down a few steps and his family parts like the sea for him, he reaches the bottom step and stands two inches above Emery, he looks down at Leela and extends a hand for her to shake, "Welcome to Niles Manor, Miss Long."


Emery pulls Leela behind him slightly, the grip on her hand tightening as he hisses at his father, "You don't touch her, don't you dare."

 

[HappyBeingMe]

Leela swallows a lump in her throat and looks at Edward's hand, but she doesn't shake it. She didn't want to seem rude, oh who are we kidding she hoped they found her rude. "Hi." She says quietly, she had to fight to keep the threatening tone under control, so she changed to a shaky voice instead. She squeezes Emery's hand slightly, ignoring the slight pain.

 

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Edward puts his hand back to his side and raises his eyebrows before he turns and beckons for them to follow as he walks upstairs, towards his study. Emery loosens his grip on her hand but still holds it, walking up the stairs, following his father. He can feel all the eyes on them, and whats odd was that he no longer felt welcome in his own home. They get inside the study and his father lights the room before sitting down behind his large black desk. Emery sits at one of the chairs, pulling Leela down next to him. He could hear her heartbeat, and he knew his father could too.

 

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Leela could feel a sore popping up on the inside of her lip now, but she doesn't stop chewing. She looks anywhere but at Edward, glancing around the room until she found a suitable place to keep her gaze. It was a wall, a blank wall. As she stared at it she held Emery's hand, she was too scared to let go. If she let go she'd start shaking, and she didn't want to show weakness.

 

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Emerys father leans forward in his chair and places his hands on the table. "As you may know, it has come to our attention that you are friends, and under the circumstance that you, Miss Long, are a werewolf, we all thought that this would end badly. As a family we did not expect Emery to put up such a fight. I trust you are aware of what he went through over the last few days, yes?" He says, looking at her. Emery glances at her out of the corner of his eye and strokes her hand with his thumb. He wished he could just take everything back, back to the day of the full moon when they were in the forest and everything was so peaceful.