Dark Night (22 page)

“Sure. I don’t like this at all either but we
have to learn how to live like this… even if we don’t want too.” I
lied because I knew damn well that she wasn’t about to back down
and just leave me alone but a girl had to try.

“O-kay, you freak.” She was not expecting
that, like I had thought. Like Bonnie used to say “Kill them with
kindness”. She grabbed her little purse and walked out giving me a
“you’re crazy” look. But I didn’t care instead I looked at myself
in the mirror, and wondered if I was after all crazy for staying
here.

…
.. At my lunch
table, Delilah, Anna, Sophie and their’ boyfriends were eyeing me
funny. So I spoke up. “You guys don’t have to look at me like that.
I’m not going to eat you.” I rolled my eyes, to show that I was
rather irritated by their silence. For not telling me that the King
and Queen were actually my parents when they knew all along,
actually come to think of it the whole institute knew.

“We’re sorry…”

“We just couldn’t tell you…”

“We were under oath…”

I held my hand up to stop them all from
talking at the same time, and when they did, I said: “I know.
That’s why I’m not mad. But still, I can’t believe that everyone
knew. Everyone, I think what surprises me the most is how no one
snitched.” Their faces fell. “What?” I asked not knowing what they
were freaked out about.

Delilah spoke. “You have no idea what happens
when you break an oath. And you don’t want to know. We don’t even
know all we do know is that is terrible, that would be enough to
scare us all to death.” I gulped when she said that. So I didn’t
press the subject.

“So how much do you know?” Anna asked looking
at her food.

“Everything… I think.” I hoped. “Genevieve
being my twin sister__”

They gasped in surprise. “She’s your what?”
Sophie’s eyes went wide.

I didn’t understand their surprise. “I
thought you knew that.”

“We knew you were sisters not twin sisters.”
Delilah agreed. The guys were just looking at each other not really
comprehending any of the conversation so they just shrugged. Except
Jack who was at the end of the table eyeing me.

Anna laughed and laughed, until Delilah
cleared her throat. “Sorry.” She said still laughing, “Out of all
the things, I did not expect that. Wow.”

“B-But you guys don’t even look alike? How is
that even possible?” Sophie was clearly the only one that actually
saw what I did when I first found out.

“It’s a long story.” I simply said because I
wasn’t ready to talk about it at all. Though I could see how Sophie
wasn’t satisfied with that. I ignored her and turned to Delilah.
“What do you think?”

She shrugged. “I think, it
all makes sense in a very bizarre way, but I am not that
surprised.” Whatever that meant...

I saw Robert standing by the door, where he
waved… at me…to go to him? I looked behind me, but the other
students were not even paying attention.

“I’ll catch up with you guys later. I have to
take care of something.” I said fast as I got up to leave.

“You want me to go with you?” Sophie offered.
But before I could answer Delilah spoke.

“No hon, you’re coming with
me, I need you to help me with something.” Then before I could turn
to leave Delilah winked at me quickly and went back to her
conversation.

I walked towards Robert ignoring the stares
of the other students. Once I reached him he grabbed my wrist
-which made me feel fuzzy when he touched me-and pulled me outside
the Cafeteria. “I need to talk to you…about the bond of course.” He
added, releasing my wrist.

“Okay.” I said looking ahead.

“Follow me.” He said, but this time not
touching me at all. We walked to the auditorium.

We were in his old room, behind the stage in
the auditorium. It all looked dusty and it smelled funny, it lacked
cleaning. I sat on the corner of the bed, while Robert sat in a
chair across from me. He hadn’t said a word yet, he was just
looking down at his shoes that by the way were nice, they were
black dress shoes that were shiny new and I bet were worth a lot
just like everything else in the institute was. He cleared his
throat and looked at his hands before he spoke.

“Your father asked me to speak with you.
They’ll be having a ceremony tonight for their return. He will not
be able to speak with you yet, but he told me to fill you in on the
ceremony.” He paused for a minute and looked at me briefly to make
sure I understood, so I nodded and he went back to looking at his
hands. “Basically it will be in the auditorium at seven pm., your
dress is already in your new dorm along with the rest of your
belongings. Since you are also a princess, it is required you wear
it.” He took out a folded piece of paper and handed it to me.
“Those are the directions to what you need to do once you are
ready, don’t be scared it isn’t anything that will embarrass you at
all. Just make sure you’re ready by six thirty. I will be escorting
you…” He trailed off not wanting to finish the sentence.

I didn’t ask, but what I was thinking about,
was about what he had just said. “What do you mean new dorm?” I
asked irritated, if it was what I thought it was, then he was about
to hear it.

“It’s not what you think, the royal wing has
been opened and only “the royals” will be occupying the wing. You
are one of them, and I am one also. Don’t look at me like that.” He
said looking at me glare at him, till what he said sank in.

I sighed. “I heard about that, I thought it
was locked down though?” I asked unsure.

“It used to be, yes. But It was ordered to be
unlocked again, and now it’s ready for its new members__”

“Why did they close it to begin with?” I had
heard that “the royals” wing had been closed a little over a year
ago, but no one had told me what the reason was. I never pressed
the subject, at the time it didn’t matter but since I was going to
be moving into it I wanted to know what the big deal was.

Robert didn’t answer right away. He stood up
and walked to the door. “I think you should ask Anna, it’s not
something I should talk about.”

“O-kay,” I said as I
followed him out of the room. “I thought we were going to talk
about the bond thing?”

“Oh It’s still unbreakable, and being in
different rooms… will help. Maryse thinks that… we should, you
know…. get together and talk about this… for the future.” He was
clearly having a hard time talking about this, and I didn’t feel
all that comfortable with my parents yet.

So I hesitated, thought about what I was
going to say for a minute. “Tell me, what are you so afraid of? I
mean I get it, you and I are never going to work right?” He doesn’t
answer right away, but I know what he’ll say anyway.

Sigh, “Yes, you are absolutely right, but I
also know that if we don’t do something about this… something bad
will happen. I read all about it, I’ll give you the notes I took
and… you can tell me your thoughts. Maybe then, we could speak with
your parents about this?”

“Agreed,” He nods, and I continue. “So we
don’t get to be roommates? Where is “the royal wing” anyway?” I
wanted to know all of these things, for one I had not come across
this wing since I lived here. I was also hoping that Robert and I
were still roommates. But judging on the look on his face and by
what he said earlier, that wasn’t going to happen.

We walked down the spiral stairs in silence,
until we were almost out the auditorium. “No. We don’t get to be
roommates again.” He paused. “We don’t actually get roommates… it’s
like a private suite. I can’t believe what I’m going to say…” We
stood right at the door, and he whispered. “We have a secret
society here called “Immortals”, and you are about to join them.
For now that’s about all I can say, oh and “ the royal wing” it’s
actually Crimson House where only the best of the best go, but it
adopted the nickname “ the royal wing” because only royals are
allowed to live there. … Anna will explain these things to you if
you meet her in her room in about__” He checked his watch. “Five
minutes, and don’t worry about your classes, you’re excused for the
rest of the day.” He smiled at me and quickly led me through the
door. He patted my back and walked away, I sighed. If only he knew
how much I cared about him, he wouldn’t act the way he did. But he
couldn’t know, because we couldn’t be together.

I knocked on Anna’s door and she opened
before I could knock again. “I’ve been expecting you.” She
said as I walked to the center of the room. “You should sit.” I did
as she said. I noticed that her room looked empty. The only thing
remaining was a couple of suitcases that were on her bed. “What I’m
about to tell you, is something that only very few people know at
this place, and I need to tell you for… personal reasons.” She
winked, and I knew what she was talking about the Immortals.

“Go ahead.” I waved a hand.

“About two years ago, I had a boyfriend. His
name was Max. He was a royal, one of the elite. We lived in Crimson
house. Now, there are three floors, the first is where you’ll be
with Genevieve, Robert, Delilah, Mereily and a few others. I will
be on the second floor, Denise (Genevieve’s BFF), Jack, a few
others I don’t recall. The third floor is where the young go, like
Sophie. Each floor represents the importance of each group. The
first is obviously called 1st Royalty, and etc, etc. Back to my
story, Max was on the first floor he was very important, a lord. We
were so in love.” Her eyes were tearing up but she quickly glanced
away, cleared her throat and recovered. “So a few months went by,
then suddenly Max was acting strange. He was doing weird things…
well at the time I thought it was weird. But now I know better, and
I know for a fact that he wasn’t going crazy, it was just a cover
up story so no one would know the truth, but I do. Though I never
said a word, it was his God that told on him and they took him
away. They said that he was locked up somewhere where he was going
to be fine, but… he isn’t. I know he isn’t. I know the truth, he….”
She blinked, I could see the regret of her telling me this in her
face, but I wanted to know now. There was obviously something going
on, and Anna knew what it was.

“What is it Anna? What did Max do?” I leaned
forward and waited patiently.

Now, tears escaped from her eyes and she
swallowed before she could say a word. “He had powers. I don’t know
why that was a bad thing, but they certainly thought so, they said
it was unnatural, not from this world. But there was nothing dark
about it, he told them the truth. And they just… took him.” She
wiped her eyes with a tissue. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have told you
that. It’s not something that you should be worrying about.”

What she didn’t understand was, that I was
already worried. From day one I knew this was all too good to be
true. However, now I understood why she was so dark all the time,
and why she didn’t like friendship. Who could blame her? “It’s that
why they locked down Crimson House?” I asked already knowing the
answer.

She nodded, got up and went to her bathroom.
I heard the sink running for a few seconds, then when she walked
out she looked normal again, composed. “Now, are you ready to move
in?” She tried to smile but failed, I could see through it all.

“Sure.” I said weakly.

We passed the dining room, and turned onto a
hall that was almost at the end of the institute, Anna took out a
key and we walked out through some back door that led through a
patio, that led to a building that I used to think was the God’s
dorm… but apparently not.

The building looked brand new, though it
wasn’t. It was all brick with some giant double doors that I swear
looked impossible to open. Anna put a key in and pushed the door,
it swung back all by itself and we walked through.

The lobby was amazing, about twelve foot
ceilings, bay windows all around, hardwood floors, and a fountain
that sat a few feet away from us. It smelled so new, clean, there
was two staircases that led upstairs, one on the right side, and
one on the left that connected together at the balcony. There were
some paintings by the front door that I recognized, they were
Picasso’s. They were the originals, and that meant that this house
was not just any dorm, it was exclusively for royalty, which I now
was.

Anna smiled slightly. “Come on, I have to
show you your new room.” I saw two large French doors in between
the stairs and wondered if they were the 3rd Royalty. We walked up
the left stairs, and turned to face an elevator.

“Seriously?” I asked in awe.

She tried to giggle. “Yep, this is nothing
just wait till you see your room.” She giggled again and I joined
her.

When we reached the third floor I was
nervous, I didn’t know what to expect. The hall was long, and there
were suitcases sitting outside each French door we passed, until I
spotted mine which were the only ones with the color purple. This
time it wasn’t the last door but close only three doors down, there
were about twelve to fifteen rooms in this floor. Not that I was
paying much attention, because I was excited. I turned to Anna for
guidance.

“Go ahead.” She said, handing me a key card
with my full name on it. I slid it through, and pushed it
opened.

My eyes wend wide at the sight of my new
room, it was to die for. For a second I thought I was Cinderella. I
walked to the center of the room and took in my surroundings. There
was a king sized canopy bed with a white comforter and pillows,
lots of them. A bay window right beside the bed with a round, white
chair, a cream colored chest at the foot of the bed, two side
tables, one with a cute lamp and one with a clock., a dresser with
a mirror on one side of the wall. Across the room was a fifty two
inch flat screen TV, another round sofa facing it. One door on one
side of the TV and another on the opposite side, there was study
desk with a lap top sitting on it, a bookcase over it, and across
from that was a mini fridge and a table with two chairs. The
ceiling was round and at least ten feet high and a chandelier in
the center of it. I had no words, literally.