Ben opened his eyes to find himself lying down on his bed. Nico and John were beside him, and seemed to be watching over him the whole time. Then, recalling part of the emergency that he had earlier, he quickly sat up.
“Whoa, man! Don’t do that, you might end up dying or something,” said Nico, while trying to push Ben gently back.
“There you are, Joseph. I am surprised that I haven’t tried this method before.”Back when Ben was suffering from the coffee, John had anticipated that the young master and his friend would need water, but he thought that this other event was more important. It turned out that while Joseph could travel through shadows, it didn’t quite mean that he was undetectable.
Ben had a feeling that it may be a long one, so he sat down on his chair and leaned forward on his desk in genuine interest. “Just go on, okay?”he said.
Ben knew it was too late to talk to his parents about what just happened right now, so he tried to go to sleep instead. He managed to eventually, but it took him a while as his mind couldn’t help but go back to everything. He had surprisingly taken things in stride earlier, but that was more of him not being able process everything yet than actually being emotionally ‘strong’.Not that he thought of himself as the latter.
The two students soon reached the school, and Nico parked the car somewhere on the lot nearest their first classrooms. They then went out to stretch a bit before taking their bags.The vampire stared up at Ben and noticed that he seemed a lot taller than when they first met. “Man, that transformation really did something…” he thought.
CRASH!A coffee mug was seen broken on the floor, spilling its caffeine-laden contents into the space between the wood panels. The mug in question fell from a table that was filled with books, papers, and a laptop.The youthful-looking dark-haired man who was witness to the sight breathed a sigh of relief. None of the items on the tabl
“No, I’m not going to. In fact, I’m going to thank you for your offer.”Those were the words that Ben’s father said to Nico.“What?! Peter, you can’t possibly-!” interjected Ben’s mom in the background. She was stopped by her husband with a simple hand gesture.
Not long after they have started, Ben, Nico, and John were finished putting the baggage in the van."Finally, it's done!" said Nico."Yeah!" said Ben, stretching his body a bit. "By the way, thanks, John."
Soon, Ben and company had arrived in Duwood City. The tall buildings and large amount of people on the streets made the country boy feel a little on the claustrophobic side. But at the same time, he felt a sense of wonder, as if he was a child yet again. He saw a lot of things and activities that he had only mostly known about on the internet, which, of course, he was thankful to have had access to.He was happy with what he was seeing, but he also had to watch himself. The strange feeling of wildness was building up within him again. And he didn’t have his own room