I walk out the shower, taking out my tank top and sweatshirt. I change into them then into my shorts. I throw my hair in a bun and I walk out of the bathroom. I see that he made a salad for me that is on the table. "Sorry, I didn't have meat or anything so I thought something healthy and fast to make would be great." He was sitting at the table, looking down at papers. "That's fine." I reply back with a smile, tossing my bag on the floor. I walk to the table, sitting down and digging in the salad. I let out a moan, rolling my eyes back when I get the taste of actual food, not cardboard oatmeal. Mr. Hansel chuckles to himself, shaking his head and looking back at the papers. "What is that?" I ask him. "Bills to pay the teachers." "Oh." "Yeah, no one gets around here for free in the vampire world." He says while sighing. "Everything is just like the human world." He lifts up the mug next to him and drinks out of it. I realize that it's blood when the redness stains his lips. I look away, stuffing more salad into my mouth. •••• After eating, I plop on the couch, laying down on it. Mr. Hansel follows but stands in front of me. I lean my head against the arm of the couch, trying to use it at as a pillow. "You can sleep in my bed if you want." He says, crossing his arms over his chest. I look up at him, shaking my head. "No it's fine. I'll be okay here." "It's going to be uncomfortable and you have your first class in..." He looks at the clock that's on the wall. "three hours." "Listen, when every light get's shut off in this room, I will get knocked out like lightning. Don't worry about me." "Okay." He sighs and eventually walks away while I close my eyes. He shuts the kitchen light and goes in his room. It's dark but I don't dare to open my eyes. Suddenly, I feel something on my bare legs and I snap my eyes open. Mr. Hansel was standing in front of me, laying out a blanket over my body. "Incase you get cold." "Thanks." I whisper and he doesn't say anything else besides going back in his room. I see that his bedroom light flicks off and I hear him go on his bed. After that, I'm out. •••• "Does she usually sleep like this?" "I don't know, this is the first time I see her sleep." "Oh god, are you sure this is my brother's daughter?" "Positive." "God she sleeps just like him." "Wait still she wakes up, she has the same eyes as him too." I hear Mr. Hansel and an unfamiliar voice talking. They sound so close to me that I groan annoyed. "Adeline? Wakey, wakey. You have class in an hour." I only slept for two hours. Fuck my life. I don't really feel that exhausted though. "No." I whine then I hear the person's unfamiliar voice scoff. "I came here to see her whine." "Listen you came at the wrong time." "This is the only time I could come here." "Okay, okay, she'll get up... eventually." I stretch on the couch, my legs hanging off of it. I run my fingers over my eyes and when I open them, I see Mr. Hansel looking down at me and a tall muscular man next to him. I dart my eyes back and forth from them then down at my body. The blanket is tangled up around my bare legs and my sweatshirt is twisted and tangled on my skin. "Um, awkward." I whisper mostly to myself while I sit up on the couch. "Ugh, good morning." I add, yawning wide and disrespectfully. "Adeline as you can see this is your Uncle Peyton." I clear my throat, standing up to meet his sour green eyes that are just like mine. And just like my father's. "H-hi." I stutter and he lets out a laugh. "That's how to greet the King of Maywood?" He says to me like I'm some dumbass child. I feel suddenly small and looking at the largest man in the world. He is very tall and muscular, his features on his face are fatal, he seems flawless. His pale skin brings out his green eyes and the dark curly lackluster hair of his. "I-ugh, I-I'm sorry?" I mutter and it runs silent. "I'm kidding, it's just so weird knowing that I have a niece." "And it's so weird that I know a blood-related uncle." "You look just like Christina-Marie." His voice low and it fades with he says my mother's name. "And the same eyes of Louis." He seemed sad and broken down. I bite my lower lip because I don't know what to say. Mr. Hansel gives me a warm smile because I probably seem so shaken up. "Should I take that as a compliment?" "You sure as hell should." Uncle Peyton replies back, grunting while walking away. "Where are you going?" I ask him and he picks up my bag and tosses it to me. I catch it, letting my fingers hang loosely around the drawstrings. "I'm going to the dining room, meet me there for breakfast where we can talk." He walks out of the room and I look up at Mr. Hansel. "He seems..." "Weird?" "I don't know like... random." "Think of his personality but ten times worst in your father's body." "So you are saying my father was weird?" Mr. Hansel can't help but chuckle. "In your father's whole life I knew him more than anyone. Go get changed." "But you told me my uncle can be mean." "He can but I knew he wasn't if he was going to meet the only niece he has and the last time he saw you was when you were a baby." Mr. Hansel starts to walk towards the door, grabbing his coat. He was dressed principle style. In khakis and a striped button down that was tucked in his pants. His coat was a dark navy and I watch him put it on. "Wait, how old is he?" "Why because he seems so young?" "Yes and I don't want to mistake about how old he is because I already did with you." "Hey, you thinking of me in my late twenties or early thirties was an amazing compliment." "Well you are very welcome." I smile as he opens the door. "Anyways, Peyton is thirty." "Oh so if my father was alive right now they'd be seven years apart." "Yes. Now, go get school wise changed and come down to the dining room. I'm heading there now." I groan, walking into the bathroom while he shuts the door. I start to change and after that I leave his room and I walk down the hall. The building is exactly the same as the girls' dorm building. I find the dining room and I walk in but eventually stopping. All the six boys are in the room eating. They all stop when they see me walk in. I'm the only girl. I keep my eyes down at the ground because I am too scared to see them. But they are acceptingly fine staring at me. "Adeline! Over here!" Shouts Uncle Peyton and when I look up he is waving at me with Mr. Hansel laughing. "Hey you boys over there, y'all better not stare at my niece like that." He calls out at them, shouting more like in a pissed off mood. They all turn back to eating and I feel much more relieved. I walk over to them, taking a seat. "So Adeline." My uncle says to me which brings my attention to him. "Mr. Hansel over here told me that you don't want to get chosen." "Ugh, yeah. I kinda don't." He wipes his mouth after taking a sip of his coffee. "Well if you don't try, I'm gonna be very upset with you." He pauses and brings his gaze to all of the boys. "And I will kill everyone of the boys if one of them don't choose you!" He shouts to get their attention. "Especially Kaden who is taking my throne!" I give in and turned around, looking at all six of them. Some didn't pay attention but there was one waving at Uncle Peyton. His white teeth were gleaming and his blond hair was gelled back. "Don't worry, King Peyton. I gotchu." He shouts back and I meet eyes with Evan. He seems off today, in dark clothing then the other time I saw him. A long smirk was on his lips and when we stared at each other, he winks at me before turning back around. I slowly turn my gaze back at Uncle Peyton who is cracking up because of Kaden and leaning back in his chair. "Is he related to us?" I ask him, a bit confused now that he's taking my uncle's throne. "No but good friend family of ours. He is taking my throne." "Why, I thought it was brought down to family members?" "But I don't have kids and my brother is long gone." "But what about me?" I say, not sounding cocky or what. "You are human, Adeline. You cannot be Queen of a vampire country." I turn my head away from him, taking it a bit in a harsh tone meanwhile he probably didn't mean it to sound like that.