Chapter Thirty Four

The walk to Guardian Brooks' Vampire 101 lesson was relatively eventful with Els gushing with excitement. When we actually got to the lesson, silence dawned on the class and everyone turned to stare at me.

"Ah, so little miss runaway has finally decided to grace our lesson." Guardian Brooks commented. Although his words weren't very nice and seemed very sarcastic, there was something in his tone that seemed different. His tone certainly didn't seem to match with his choice of words. It was like he was putting on some kind of a sarcastic front without meaning to or something. This certainly wasn't the same stiff and demonic Guardian Brooks that I remembered.

"Pleasure to see you too, sir." I replied with a similar tone of voice to match his.

"You seem to be the hero of the class, Valentine. You must've been prepared for the outside world."

"Sir, I've lived in the outside world for the past six years, it's nothing alien to me." I retorted as politely as I could but it was hard.

"Well th