By: Martrel A . Howard
Kai and Demitri gazed out of the windows in silence as
they continued driving threw the blanket of fog. The lack of sound around this
eerie frontier left them feeling sober and slightly drained. It felt like the fog was draining them of
their energy. Kai and Demitri began
yawning uncontrollably, until they finally fell asleep.
The weather didn’t improve as Charles continued to
drive along the expansive winding road; it was cast in shadow by the large
assortment of trees
(Oak, Maple, Willows, Birch, and gorgeous Japanese Cherry Blossoms) that lined
the solitary road as far as he could tell everything else was surrendered
covered in the overcast of the fog.
Forty
minutes later the boys began to wake in time to see that the fog was beginning
to lift as they rounded a large bend in the road.
“Charles,
where are we?” Kai asked groggily as he stretched out with pleasure in his
voice. “Almost there look ahead”, he
said. Kai stared, as they drove down the straight three-mile long stretch of
road lined by two expansive lawns appearing to be acres wide.
Kai pushed
Demitri.
“Get up”
he yelled. Demitri shock harshly trying
to focus his vision, “What, what are you…” Kai made Demitri look out of the
front window. The boys were gawking
opened mouthed.
They finally saw it.
Alexandria
University.
“We’re
finally here”, Kai said as he glanced over to Demitri who had a sly grin on his
face. “It’s about damn time,” Demitri
said.
It was
growing more and more as they approached.
Charles pulled in on the other side of the round-about right in front of
the grand staircase leading into Alexandria Tenim; the main building on campus
that every department resided in.
“Lets go”
Kai said opening his door. They all
exited the Lincoln Town car. Demitri and Kai were taking in the beautifully
constructed building. Meanwhile Charles
had gone to the trunk to fetch their suitcases.
“Thank you Charles, you know you don't have to do
that,” Kai said as he walked to the trunk reaching for his bag, but Charles
pulled it back. The harsh movement took
Kai aback.
“It is my
job sir, my pride is in my duty so I shall do what I am trained to do” Charles
replied as he saw Kai's surprised face because of Charles' action. “Just let me
do it Kai, it's no trouble at all boy” Charles said winking at Kai. Kai gaped
at Charles with a contorted face as he tried to think of a fitting retort.
Demitri
turned around towards the both of them, “Charles we are big boys, we can carry
our own bags, just give them to us please; besides you won't be around to do
much for us anymore so enjoy your long over due break ok,” Demitri said as he
took the suitcases out of Charles' hands and handed one to Kai.
Kai
slightly buckled under the weight of his large suitcase. Ugh, why do I have so many damn shoes? He steadied himself and smiled at Charles’
weary glance.
Charles no
longer objected to this as he stared at the boys. His eyes were steadily getting glossy. “Are ya’ll going to be alright up here? You know I can come up whenever you need me.”
Charles said in a low tentative voice.
“Of course we gonna be ok.
Besides we’ll be back next month after our cars get up here.” Demitri
said looking from Kai to Charles.
The three
of them spoke for a minute more before Charles gave the boys goodbye hugs. “Call us when you get back home so we can
know you got back safe” Kai said.
Charles nodded before getting into the car and driving away down the
long drive of Alexandria Lane.
Kai and
Demitri watched Charles drive away until they could see him no more. Kai spoke,
“I hope he's ok. I would hate for them
to drive him crazy now that we're gone.”
“He'll
be fine; he gets to relax now that he's not shackled to us anymore. Come on, we
need to check in” Demitri said looking at Kai.
“Time to rule the school again”, Kai said with a sly look on his face. They both laughed as the strutted towards the
stairs with their luggage.
They
walked up the stairs with such grace that it seemed like their suitcases were
as light as air Demitri pushed open the heavy oversized doors allowing Kai to
walk in ahead of him. “Thanks Snook,”
Kai said as he passed Demitri. Both of
them stopped in their tracks. The room
was cast in a bright golden glow due to the gold ceiling and golden statues of
mythological creatures and deities that surrounded this expansive room.
Demitri
looked strange.
“What’s
wrong with you?” Kai asked. Demitri’s
face was stern, “I just feel as small as you now in this room.” His stern face
turned into a glowing smile. Kai rolled
his eyes and started walking again saying; “Bitch” very audibly with an errant
chuckle in his throat.
As they
walked up to what appeared to be the Information Desk; a large three sided desk
in the shape of and ‘A’ there was a young female that appeared to be a freshman
also, caught their attention. “Where the
hell is this person” Demitri sighed to Kai. “I’m tired I want to get to our
room.” Kai wasn’t paying attention to
what he was saying. His focus was on the
girl.
She was
sitting on one of the uncomfortable looking gold painted benches. Although she was sitting down she seemed to
be about 5' 7”. Her caramel colored skin
was quite beautiful and flawless; she was almost glowing. She was pretty, her milk chocolate eyes and
curly shoulder length hair made her look almost child-like. The girl's eyes
shifted towards Kai and Demitri.
“We have
to wait, for the attendant to come back.
She took a group of students to the dorms.” The girl spoke.
“Thanks, y
is it so empty in here and out front?” Demitri said spotting the rainbow scarf
that was wrapped loosely around her left wrist, as he looked her over. She's cute. “I guess they’re all out
there”, she said pointing to a glass door across the room from them.
Demitri barely moved as he nudged Kai. “I know” Kai said under his breath knowing
that he was referring to the gay symbol adorning her wrist.
Kai walked
over to the girl and sat next to her.
“So you're a lesbian Hun?” Kai inquired appraising the girl looking ever
so interested in her hair. “No
tracks, good sign. Could use some toning
moisturizer but that’s easily remedied.”
The female
turned her head towards the left so that she was face to face with Kai. He slightly gasped at her action. Her expression was blank but full of so much
intimidating intensity. “Yes I am do you have a problem with that?” she
questioned him, peering through his eyes as if she was trying to see his true
intentions behind the question.
This
slightly made Kai uncomfortable and he shifted his body back a little before
composing himself. He slid a little
closer to her.
“It would
be quite hypocritical of me to have a problem with how you live your life
considering I'm 'strictly dickly',” he said smiling at her.
Demitri
burst out laughing as he stood in front of them. “I’m mad you said that ‘Strictly Dickly’,
Demitri said still laughing. She
laughed also seemingly more relaxed and at peace. Her eyes were soft now, warm and
compassionate.
“That's great, I'm not alone now. My name is Kiyren Delaine.” Kai smiled
at her, “my name is Kai Donovan.”
Kiyren replied, “Nice to meet you.
And you are…?” directing the question at Demitri.
“My name
is Demitri Jones, Kiyren.”
Eh
Hem
The desk
attendant had returned.
The three
of them turned with such intensity in their eyes as they turned to see where
the sound came from. It was apparent
that these three were cut from the same cloth so to speak. They were confident and contrite with their
being. There movements were a true
definition of who they were destined to become.
They
walked up to the desk as the squat woman prepared her station.
“May I
help you?” she said.
Kiyren
stepped forward first. “Kiyren
Delaine.” Kai watched her. “She’s quite manly. I wonder if she can walk in heels. Hmm. At least she has a dress on.” He
watched her as he pondered.
The woman
searched through the computer that lay upon her desk and searched through a box
behind her desk. A minute later she said
with an envelope in her hand, “Ah, Ms. Delaine here's your class schedule, and
the key to your room. You are on the 4th
floor of Conlin Hall. You have a single.
Next please.” She said delightfully with a smile looking at the
boys.
Kiyren
moved to the right to let Kai and Demitri check in. Demitri was scrutinizing the woman. What the hell is she wearing? Seriously,
polka dots and plaid sweetie you need some help. Even white women shouldn't wear blue eye
shadow. Ugh, get your hair done.
Kai nudged
Demitri, “Stop that” he said as if he could hear Demitri. Demitri merely smiled and turned back to the
lady.
“Demitri
Jones and Kai Donovan.” He said, flashing a sultry smile to her.
“Ooh
Mr. Jones and Mr. Donovan we've been expecting you. She opened a locked box that was on her desk
and took out a solitary binder. You are
in Conlin Hall, floor 5-apartment number 1.
Your keys and class schedules are inside of the binder as well a contact
list for any of the facilities that you may be in need of.” She said.
Kai took
the binder then all three of them picked up their bags. The attendant walked from behind the desk and
said,
“Follow me
please.”
The three
of them picked up their belongings and followed her out of the back entrance of
the building. Kai stopped walking. Something interesting caught his eye. “Excuse me” he said. Everyone stopped and looked at him. “Yes dear”, the woman said.
“What is
this? On the floor I mean, what does it mean?” he asked. He was staring at the floor there was a
picture of a large ornate letter ‘C’.
She
smiled, “You’ll learn about that at Orientation later on tomorrow at 12
pm. Anyway there’s a legend here about
the city of Creation. This was the symbol
of the royals of Creation, The Elders; the creators of all magical and cosmic
power. It is said that Alexandria lies
on the remains of the old city, but no one has ever found it. But like I said you will hear all about it at
orientation. It’s kind of a school
legacy.” Hmm. Kai pondered her words and followed behind as
they started walking again. His eyes
were transfixed on the symbol.
They stepped out of the back door and were
completely dumbfounded. “Oh wow”,
Demitri Said. “This is so pretty”,
Kiyren said.
They were standing at the top of the
staircase over looking a beautiful garden maze the size of a football field
surrounded by campus buildings. They snapped out of their inadvertent daze and
continued following the lady downstairs.
Everyone stopped as two suitcases went rolling down the stairs. Kiyren was looking smug when everyone looked
at her. “Hey they’re just clothes” and
continued walking down the stairs. Kai
was smiling broadly.
“Excuse
me, what is your name?” Kai asked.
She stopped
at the bottom step and turned towards them, “My name is Solara. I’m the campus Information Distributor as
well as the Student Affairs coordinator.”
She said as she continued walking to the left, towards the nearest
building.
There were
people everywhere apparently enjoying this dreary day. “I’m going to need him to put some clothes
on,” Kiyren said looking at a young Hispanic man who was playing with a
basketball shirtless. “Honey please”,
Kai and Demitri said in unison. They
swiftly walked through the crowd until they got to their building. Conlin Hall read the sign on the
building. They walked up to the entrance
that had a creepy looking gargoyle above it.
“This is
Conlin Hall; I trust you can find your way around. Have a nice day,” said Solara
as she walked away waving.
“Thanks”,
Demitri said.
“Let’s go guys,” Kiyren said.
Chapter 2 Coming Soon...
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