Feros and the Underworld Prince (31 page)

I gather up my stuff and follow my classmates out the door. Thanks to our connection, it is a simple task for me to tell where Natasha is and it appears that her office is three floors above me. I head up the stairs and down a hallway before I reach her office. I knock and open the door to the small 10’x10’ office that only holds a desk and a couple of bookcases, to make it look like it belongs to an English professor. Natasha is standing in front of her desk, shuffling through some papers.

“
Hey, what’s up?” I ask as I walk in, closing the door behind me, and approach her from behind. Natasha quickly spins, grabs my shoulders, and pulls me on top of her as she sits on her desk.

“
I’m your teacher wearing a sexy outfit and we’re alone in my office; fuck me, right?” Natasha suggests.

“
I’m not sure that’s such a great idea…” I reply. Suddenly I get this image of Natasha calling out my name while masturbating. “Now it seems like a better idea…”

“
Haha, I guess Tia was right about Cheza not having used that on you, huh? Why that girl was leaving such a weapon unused since Tia gave her the idea in Hawaii is beyond me. Well, hurry up and get started, Cole; I’m not wearing any panties anyway!” Natasha exclaims.

“
Why, Miss Holmstrom; I do believe that you’re trying to seduce me.” I reply with a sly grin.

“
Is it working?” Natasha coyly asks. I unzip my pants in response.

So I start fucking my teacher against her desk. We go at it like that for a while before I spin her and start hitting it from behind, with Natasha bent over her desk. I smack her ass and she starts moaning louder, drowning out the sound of her door opening. I continue in my duty as I turn my head to see Naia and Ryuji standing in the doorway.

“
Hey guys… what’s up?” I ask, somewhat stunned and slowing in my rhythm.

“
What exactly is going on here?” Naia asks.

“
Well, my professor seduced me, invited me into her office, and convinced me that I was a naughty boy in need of punishment. I didn’t take too kindly to said punishment so I decided to return it to her in kind.” I reply, now fully stopped and trying to deflect the awkwardness with humor.

“
Please don’t tell Cheza about this…” I beg, giving up on deflection.

“
Well, it’s a little late for that; she was standing outside the door when we got here, looking rather flustered.” Ryuji replies. Fuck… as if my relationship with Cheza couldn’t get any more tenuous at the moment.

“
Could you guys give us a moment?” Natasha asks from her prostrate position on her desk.

Naia and Ryuji close the door behind them and I withdraw myself from Natasha. Shit! Why can’t I stop fucking up with Cheza? Maybe this is just a sign from the universe that I’m not meant to be with her…

“
Don’t worry; I’ll talk to her and explain things. It will all work out, I promise.” Natasha thinks.

“
I’ve got homework and stuff so I’ll see you tomorrow.” I reply and leave her office.

I pass by Ryuji and Naia without a word, and head back to Graythorn Hall. I head up to my room and flop down on my bed.

(Do not fret, Master. Everything will work out as it should in regards to Chezarei)

“
You really believe that, don’t you?”

(Have I ever lied to you, Master?)

I’m pretty sure that Airi has lied to me before, but her words are still oddly reassuring. I walk over to my desk and pull my organic chemistry book out of my backpack. I get about halfway through the chapter when I begin to question why I’m doing this at all. My original career that I had in mind is basically forfeit now; I’m far too adept at killing for my future to go in any other direction.

(This is true… for the present future at least)

I’m about to ask Airi what she means when I hear a knock at my door.

“
Hey bro, want to go get some dinner?” Travis asks when I answer the door.

I go and get dinner with Travis in the food court. We idly chatter and head back to our respective rooms; the only point to eating together was just so that we weren’t eating alone anyway. I finish my chemistry reading before writing my one page paper for Natasha. She already knows about my ‘best’ nights that I don’t remember, so I decide to tell her about the night that Cheza roofied me as a punishment for flirting with her friend.

When I’m finished with my homework, I boot up Skype and see that Sara is on so I call her.

“
DADDY!” Addie screams when the call is answered.

“
Where have you been Daddy?” Addie asks on the verge of tears.

“
I’m sorry sweetie; last time I called you were already asleep. I promise that I’ll try and talk to you more regularly from now on. How was your first day of preschool?” I ask.

“
It was a lot of fun! There was snack time and nap time and I got to play with other kids!” Addie exclaims excitedly.

“
That’s great sweetie! Are you excited to go back tomorrow?” I inquire.

“
Yeah!” Addie replies in an overly animated fashion.

“
Come on Adelaide, your bath is read—oh, hey Cole.” Sara says while walking into the room.

“
I wanna talk with Daddy some more!” Addie pouts.

“
Be a good girl and go take your bath Addie. I promise that we will talk tomorrow.” I tell her.

“…
Okay… I love you, Daddy…” Addie quietly replies.

“
I love you too, sweetie! Sara, I need to talk to you about something so can you ask Tia to give Addie her bath?” I ask.

“
Come on Adelaide, let’s go take your bath!” Tia says while entering the room before Sara has the opportunity to answer.

“
Thanks Tia!” I reply. Tia shuts the door behind her as she and Addie exit the room.

“
So what did you need to talk about?” Sara inquires.

“
I recently met a nagini that gave me a present… and she said it was from my brother.” I inform her and stick out my tongue to show her.

“
I can’t really see it through the webcam; what is it?” Sara asks. I pull out my phone and send her the zoomed in picture of my tongue. I hear her phone ding over the webcam.

“
I know that it’s a yantra; I’m hoping that you can answer whose. The present came with a message from my brother that was telling me to not die again because mom and dad don’t have the resources to bring me back a second time.” I tell her as she opens her phone to look at the picture.

“
What!? But this is… this makes no sense!” Sara exclaims.

“
I need to talk to my mother; I’ll get back to you tomorrow. So has anything else been going on?” Sara asks.

“
Well I discovered that Lila is attending high school here, woke up next to her naked in her bed on Sunday morning, and it’s only the first day of classes, but I’ve already had sex with one of my teachers and Cheza has already found out about it. On the plus side, I have a lead in the investigation so this may be over relatively quickly.” I say as Sara goes slack-jawed.

“
Don’t worry; nothing happened between Lila and me, despite the fact that I don’t remember anything because her friend dosed me with fairy alcohol. Oh, and the teacher was Natasha.” I add and Sara relaxes slightly.

“
Alright, well I’ll look into this yantra; talk to you tomorrow.” Sara replies.

“
Yep, see ya.” I say and end the Skype call.

…

Chapter 28: Stacy’s Mom

[September 23rd]

“
So, Cole… why is your left arm like, always bandaged?” the blonde Stacy asks during our cardio kickboxing lesson.

“
My left arm was really badly burned so I keep it wrapped up for self-conscious reasons.” I blatantly explain.

My patience is running thin with punching and kicking that only connects with air, and the music that Spanish Ewan McGregor is playing isn’t helping anything.

“
Oh, um… sorry.” Stacy replies, looking embarrassed for asking.

“
Don’t sweat it, but if you really feel bad, you can answer some of my questions.” I suggest.

“
Shoot.” Stacy responds, looking almost hopeful at the chance of redemption.

“
Okay, where are you from?” I ask.

“
Burbank, California.” Stacy replies.

“
Huh… do you live with your parents?” I ask.

“
I live with my mom.” Stacy replies; a smile crosses my face.

“
Huh… does your house have a pool?” I ask.

“
Umm… yeah, it does.” Stacy answers, looking confused.

“
Huh… if we went to high school together, would you invite me over after school to hang around by the pool?” I ask.

“
Uh, sure?” Stacy replies, more confused than ever, but I think Kacey and Sarah have caught on to the joke, based on their giggling; Nagi doesn’t appear to understand at all, but I didn’t expect her to anyway.

I decide to leave it there for today. We finish the class and I make my way to English. I sit down in the middle of the class, away from the four other males that are currently in the classroom, who are all in the front row. Cheza walks in the classroom, completely avoids looking at me, and sits down next to me. Needless to say, her actions confuse me greatly.

“
Don’t worry; Natasha explained things and I get it. You’re a guy and have things to take care of to keep you from going around the country, murdering strippers. Besides, I’d rather have you doing it with Natasha instead of some random girl.” Cheza says with a hushed tone.

I’d like to point out that she and I could have sex and it would solve all of those problems, but I don’t.

“
I know, Cole… I’m just not quite there yet…” Cheza quietly replies. Did I say that one out loud too?

Natasha comes in the classroom wearing a similar ensemble to the one she wore yesterday, but appears to have traded the stockings for pantyhose and has buttoned her shirt up a bit. She assigns the prompt for tonight.

“
It was brought to my attention that some people don’t drink for religious or legal reason or whatever and some people asked me what they should write about, to which I replied ‘you figure it out.’ Apparently that wasn’t obvious enough for those people so I’m just going to tell you all directly: you’re in college now, so if you have the dilemma of not having the experience that I’ve told you to write about… MAKE IT UP! I’m not fact-checking this shit! I’m never going to call you out and say ‘I see that you wrote about the time you got in a knife fight with a carnie because you thought he was rigging the non-existent prizes for donkey rides… show me the scars.’ So for tonight’s prompt, you all know what to do. Class dismissed!” Natasha announces.

After class, Cheza and I walk back to the dorm together. We chat for a bit and she tells me that I need to call Ada more often. We head back to our respective rooms and I work on my assignments for a few hours until I hear a knock on my door at about 6pm. Travis invites me to dinner and I tell him that we should invite Cheza and Naia as well. He agrees and we head down to the fifth floor. I leave inviting Naia to Travis while I go knock on Cheza’s door.

“
Hey Cole, what’s up?” Cheza asks.

“
Do you want to go get dinner with Travis, me, and possibly Naia?” I inquire.

“
Umm… sure, let me grab my jacket.” Cheza says with a bit of uncertainty and retreats into her room.

I’m going to take her willingness to go as a sign that our relationship is getting better… now how do I keep from fucking it up? Travis and Naia join me in waiting outside Cheza’s door. She comes out about a minute later and we all walk to the food court. Cheza joins me in line for Asian food while Travis and Naia head to different sections. We get our food and I see that Travis has gotten us a table, so I lead Cheza in that direction. A few minutes later, I notice Naia looking around lost so I wave her over.