"Come on Luke! Just because your wearing all black today doesn't change a thing! I bet those skinny jeans don't even show off your a**!!" Cael teased, which immediately got a flock of girls to stop and wait, giggling among each other. Cael's smile widened as the second-to-last person stepped off the bus. Luke stepped off the bus, his cheeks slightly pink. His unusual bad-boy appearance made all the girls around him scream and squeal their delights.
Cael opened her mouth to say more but something across the street caught her eye. Well someone. Tall and frightening. And staring strait at her. Cael's eyes widened in fear as his black eyes pierced her and seemed to hold her in her place.
"Black..." Cael barely whispered. She had begun to shiver when suddenly a bus drove between her vision and the other, more frightening, one. When the bus drove out of sight a second later, the figure had dissapeared.
"Cael? Earth to Cael!?" Grace's sharp, but not un-friendly, words came through. Grace touched Cael's arm lightly and gasped, "Cael! Your shivering! What's wrong?"
Cael shook her head and said truthfully, "I-I'm not sure... It seemed like there was a guy, but his eyes were pure black and a few seconds later, he was gone."
Something sparked in Grace's eyes but it dissapeared so quickly that Cael was un-sure if she had even seen it. "Don't worry about it, Cael, I'm sure it was nothing," Grace said with a sweet smile and patted Cael on the back before motioning her to come to class.
>>Grace<<
Grace bit her lip. The only one who had black eyes and could dissapear like that was that bast***, Vesan. If he already scents Cael's change then she must be getting close to becoming whole. And it means that he wants her, and no way in he** was Grace going to let that happen. She continued to curse in her head as she lead Cael into class.
'Uuuuughhhhh I don't know what I'm going to do! That.... that.... thing is going to through a freaking wrench into Cael's change! Jeezez why can't this stuff be quicker?' Grace thought grimly. Grace and Cael headed into class, sitting in two seats behind Luke. Girls were still flocking to the abnormally-black-clad idiot and Grace couldn't understand why. Humans had odd minds. Grace figured that all humans needed to do what her race does when one is considered an adult. Thrown out into the wilderness to fend for oneself, to become stronger and wiser. All human teens had to do was go to school and learn.
They had a whole life-time to learn but they only had about thirty to forty years before their bodies begin to crap out. Of course Grace was older then any one in the classroom, not that none could tell. So she passed all her classes easily, without even thinking about it. All she thought about was what she was going to next. Grace began to chew at her pen, irritated by Vesan's sudden and un-welcomed visit. Grace would have to hire that idiot Luke now even though she had told him to stay away from Cael but Vesan was to big a threat to leave un-noticed.
But during school, with Luke dressed like that, there was no way she would be able to talk to him alone. So she would have to talk to him after school.
TimeSkip: End of School Day
Grace walked down the street to Luke's place. She hated his guts but she couldn't deny the severity of the situation. She knocked on his front door and waited only a moment before his shocked expression met her.
"Don't say a da** word yet," Grace growled and came in, Luke closing the door after her.
"What's this about?" Luke asked cautiously, raising one eyebrow.
"We have a problem and both you and I plus Daemon will have to protect Cael."
Luke's expression became very serious and he asked, "Why?"
"This morning Cael saw a man standing across the street, probably staring at her. She said he had black eyes and vanished in a matter of seconds. And when I laid my hand on her arm she was slightly cold and shivering."
"Vesan," Luke said coldly, deadly.
Grace nodded and continued, "We will each need to protect her which means one of us will need to stay with her at all times."
"Is she alone now?"
"No, Daemon got off with us so I assume he went to her house. And don't you dare complain to me about him being near her."
Luke glared at her but said nothing. Then Grace's phone beeped and she answered with a 'hello'. After a moment her eyes widened and she dropped her phone and turned into her true form. Breaking down the front door, she rushed out of Luke's house and next door to Cael's with Luke right on her heels.
When Grace neared, she turned into her human form, so as not to frighten Cael, and headed inside. Daemon was on his knees trying to comfort Cael, who was on her knees, her head in her hands. When Cael looked up to Grace she cried, "Grace! What's going on?!"
Cael's eyes were glowing a royal blue to match her eyes, her tattoo was glowing the same blue and her hands were turning a light blue. Cael closed her eyes tightly as her hair began to lift from her shoulders and the tips of her hair was beginning to turn a little blue.
"She's changing...." Grace whispered lightly under her breath.
