BLOOD LEGACIES
Chapter 177: Back To Covenstead

Chapter 177: Back To Covenstead

"Emma!"

I spun to Carly who rushed over to me and I found myself smiling as I watched her. She made a stop in front of me, releasing a sharp breath, I noticed she was about to speak but paused checking me out from head to toe with a smile.

"This is new"

"What?" I mused with a shrug of my shoulders.

"You look good" she checked me out again almost like she was seeing a different person.

But I didn’t seem different. "Oh," I said looking at my outfit, maybe it was because of this... I was in a black turtleneck sweater, short sleeves, and black jeans with marching shoes. "Just thought of something different" I shrugged while adjusting my glasses. A faint blush on my cheeks, this was part of the new clothes Dace got me, I had never felt so excited wearing new clothes before until now, it made me giddy inside wearing this and extremely comfortable.

"That’s nice. And it’s good to see you. I thought for a second that I won’t" She began as we both strolled the halls.

"Why won’t I come back?" I asked with a blink.

She gave me a look before speaking. "Well... it’s spread, everyone’s talking about it" she huffed.

"What?" I knew what she meant but I just needed to know what exactly was spreading.

"About your relationship with a werelion, blah blah blah... I think the entire family knows at this point, it’s the hot topic, everyone won’t stop talking about you, you’re popular"

I knew something like this would happen and there was no way to avoid it. I mingled my fingers together with my book close to my chest.

"I thought because of that I won’t see you again" she added sadly this time.

"Oh," I tucked some hair behind my ear. "I’m still a half-witch and have a place here," I began. "Rather than run away from it I wanna learn that part of myself", it was more like a new purpose for me, that was the reason why I chose it, for some reason I felt that I needed this part of myself.

When I first found out about my nature I was scared about it, scared about the toll and everything thrown at me all at once, it was like Vanessa said to me all the time, the supernatural world was indeed a tough one that’s why she tried to keep me away from it for so long, but I can’t exactly stay away from it now... it ended up being a part of me.

So I want better control... What happened in my room and in the class won’t happen again, I knew there was always a way, I just needed to take that step. I smiled. Because that’s what Dace and I talked about, he didn’t want me back here because of the toll I mentioned but I ended up trying to convince him as well as having a better understanding of myself. I was trembling as I spoke because I knew what I would face might end up experiencing pain like that back in the class, he encouraged me and told me there was always a step to something and I told him I will handle it, it was my decision and I will face it.

"And they let you?"

"Hmm?" I snapped out of my mind, I drove too deep and now my thoughts were of Dace only.

"The Devereaux?" she repeated. "They let you do that?"

I’m not sure what she’s trying to say here but she definitely got the wrong impression. "I’m not a prisoner Carly, you have it all wrong," I said with a smile at the end of my lips. They really do misread the werelions a lot.

"Right, sorry... it’s just we have never been in this kind of situation before. But I’m happy you’re still here"

"Me too" I mused and my phone chimed, I quickly slid it off my jean pocket and my smile broadened, and warmth filled my chest seeing his message. God, Dace has been texting every minute since I came to the covenstead, he will definitely run my battery.

DACE: Are you okay, baby?

ME: I’m fine don’t worry

DACE: Sure?

ME: YES

DACE: I’m calling you right now

I sighed, shaking my head.

ME: No can do, I have class... this is how it’s gonna work remember? Like we talked

DACE: I will call you later then

ME: Okay

DACE: I miss you already

I smiled.

ME: Miss you too...

"I think we have Professor Claudia today," Carly said.

"Really?" Great, it was her class today... hearing ’Professor’ from Carly reminded me of what we’re supposed to call the teachers here, we both made the mistake of calling her Mrs. Claudia at the beginning before we were cautioned.

So it was the garden today, there we go. We came our way towards there and others were already gathering in place, with books at hand too, I held mine close to my chest as we made a stop.

"Okay everyone settles" she came into view wearing that look of elegance as always. The mumbles around the area died.

"Owen’s not here" Carly whispered to me.

"Seems like a separate class again" I whispered back. I seriously don’t know how this works, there were sometimes we saw faces in our class we didn’t know about, were particular classes optional? Seems like it.

"Emma Adams?" she called.

"Y-Yes" I replied nervously as all eyes fell on me, I really hoped she wasn’t gonna critic me as she did the first time. I survived the rest of her classes, maybe today wasn’t an option.

"You’re not supposed to be here"

"W-What?"

Murmurs filled the area.

"You aren’t station for my class anymore, you are with the First Class"

"First class"

"Her?"

"For real?"

"She can’t be a First, can she?"

"I don’t believe this"

The talks were getting louder and there was only one pondering question in my head, what the fuck was the First Class?

"Your class is in one of the class halls, tagged orange, off you go," she said with a nudge of her head.

I gulped nodding, I faced Carly and she looked just as puzzled as I was. I just leisurely walked away, even as I did I still felt their eyes on me until I was in a far distance and finally able to breathe off their glances, that was a relief for me, having people watch you like a hawk wasn’t exactly comforting.

Okay, I was able to collect my thoughts now. That was unexpected, for a minute there I thought she was gonna ask me to leave her class or something but it seems like that wasn’t the case, I have been transferred to another class. Was it because of what happened? Was it the clan leader’s doing? It’s gotta be, what else but that? Either way, I’m about to find out real soon, I hope.

My mini heels from my boots echoed until I made a stop at the door, this was it, the one with the orange tag, this was my class. I gripped my book tightly against my chest before reaching for the doorknob bigger than my hand, all doors here were insanely big so I pushed it open with all the strength I could muster. I walked through it and came into view of a very captivating class. The walls were mostly covered in the growing plants. This class was closest to the garden I saw, lit candles, and the main source of light was from the glass window at the center and the light came in strongly from it. And I finally gained the attention of the company here. I was so engrossed in my environment that I didn’t see it until now.

"So that’s how you tame a spell, tame a spell... you have control, don’t let the spell control you... because if you do-" Professor Colton stopped halfway when he settled his brown orbs on me. I noticed about 4 others but I couldn’t tell who they were.

"Oh Emma... how nice of you to join us"

They turned. I set my eyes on Owen, he was here? And his cousin Sophie, Miles and Henry.

"P-Professor Claudia said I should be here, although I don’t know why?"

"Yes, Yes... Welcome Emma, to First Class, have a seat"

I made my way towards it, still having their eyes on me, Owen gave me a bright smile as he pulled the seat for me and I sat on it.

"What’s going on?" I whispered to him.

"Don’t worry Emma, I will answer your question for you"

I snapped my eyes to Professor Colton.

"O-Okay"

"When you hear first class what comes to mind?" he asked me all of a sudden.

I adjusted my seat properly before speaking. "L-Like a top class or something..." I was super nervous because I was given the floor to speak, "...but being here in night school I’m not sure what it means"