10 Chapter Ten

James groaned as he felt sleep slipping out of his grasp. Rubbing his eyes he tried to remember when was the last time he had such a good sleep. Ah, he thought sitting up, before the king found out about his child. As if his sleeping schedule wasn't chaotic enough before, Cheryl being brought to the castle was the cherry on top of his insomnia, anxiety and slowly developing terrorist thoughts.

"You finally came through"

Elijah heard James say as he handed him a glass of water, making him realize the pain his dry throat brought him. Chucking down the water, he looked up at the dark skinned male, who in his great shock was completely naked apart from a thin, pink robe exposing his broad chest. James choked on his drink.

Elijah was quickly by his side, which made the situation worse when James looked at him. It was from the few times he had his hair down, framing his face. Having had enough James grabbed the thin fabric of his robe, pulling close enough for their lips to be one breath apart. Without hesitation Elijah closed the small gap between them.

James layed on his back, pulling Elijah down with him and getting rid of the robe.

'Come on, come on, come on baby-'

Cheryl paused the song, removing her earphones she stashed them in her pocket of her jeans focusing solely on the door of the library, tapping the inside of her right palm. Taking a deep breath, calming the furious tapping and tightening her ponytail she opened the doors.

"Can you-"

Oliver tried but he only had more things crushing on him from which he did not have time to shield himself from so Mason pulled him by the back of his jeans bringing him flush against him.

James and Elijah stormed in the library after being informed of the ruckus the hybrid was once again the culprit of.

"Ah" Elijah exclaimed picking up a book that narrowly missed Oliver's head, titled 'HISTORY OF THE DARK ERA' in gold writing. He opened it to the first chapter 'VLAD II STARTS A WAR WITH THE WEREWOLVES' before closing it again to focus on the problem at hand. Cheryl who had taken a seat at the top of the library case and threw books at anyone who tried to climb up to her.

James went to climb up the ladder only to have a heavy, black velvety covered land on his head causing him to stumble back and hold the top of his head "What kind of books are those?"

Cheryl just smiled down, weighing the next book she was going to throw next.

Elijah took a breath trying to keep his usual cool before directing his attention to the albino "Are you okay?"

James, holding his head looked at him incrediously "Is she okay? You kidding me?"

The teenager opened a blue book , looking around at the pages totally relaxed in spite of the situattion she had created "No! I'm not okay!"

"Want to tell us why, exactly?" Oliver uttered hoping that he wont receive another book coming his way

"If you don't know then I wont tell you because if you cared you would know" she made a point to let out a sob at the end of the sentence before returning to the open book, shifting a bit trying to find a more comfortable position seeing as she had stuffed herself in an extremely small space and if she were honest, she wasn't sure if she could get out afterwards.

"How are we supposed to know?" asked James as always done with the girl throwing a fit once more.

"If you cared you would know"

"If we-" James cut himself off pinching the tip of his nose, taking a deep breath trying to calm down. Once he calmed down a little bit he scanned the library looking for something, or more like someone "Where is the librarian?"

Mason pointed behind him at the young-looking pink haired person hiding behind another library shelf checking the books they had managed to gather from the floor. Their pink hair where the only thing that James could spot through the pile of of books along with some mumbling about how kids are ungrateful these days and she is lucky that she didn't destroy anything or else they would be throwing hands with a child.

"Ali!" James called making the person to peak through the pile of books that blocked their vision, glaring daggers at the four, a fact that James ignored as he motioned for the person to come over "Come here"

Ali, still glaring, made their way to the four angrily, making their short pink hair jump a bit. "Do something!" they hissed pointing at the white haired girl who just waved at them with a toothy smile while admiring the librarians pink hair.

Mason took the chance of her being far too distracted by the vibrant pink color of the librarians hair who was scolding the vampire and giving the hybrid nasty glares , to climb up the ladder

"You are the one in charge of the library, shortie"

The brunnete swiftly avoided a book coming his way, taking hold of the albinos wrist. The girl tried to pull her hand free but seeing as Mason was much stronger than her,it was impossible. So, she did the next thing that came in mind; she hissed at him.

"Oh, because you are so fucking tall" Ali crossed their arms "And she is your responsiblity in general honey, so, i repeat, do something"

Mason threw her over his shoulder, ignoring the kicking, thrusting and hissing.

"I'm 5'7 and its a prefectly good height!" insisted James, trying to seem taller by straightening his back and standing on his tip toes. Ali just laughed in his face, pointing a finger at him

Seeing as the albino's flailing limbs were quite dangerous Oliver helped his friend by restraining her legs while trying not to cause her any harm. She would definetely throw a fit afterwards and it wouldn't be in his best interest either.

"Good height my ass, you half baked goblin."

"Let go you Latin hobo" Cheryl screamed at Mason trying to kick or slap him, but since her limps were under Mason's and Oliver's grip rendered her immobile as she was taken out of the library "And.... white dude" she trailed off looking at Olivers blonde hair

"Have you looked at your hair lately?"

Oliver stopped, halting Mason as well while Cheryl, who did not really have a choice in the matter, raised her eyebrows giving him a cocky look.

"Mine is natural"

"Mine is too!"

Mason and Cheryl just looked at him doubtfully

"It is" Oliver chocked out in desperation yet got no answer as the two kept giving him the same unchanging look. The sound of James and Ali going off against each other with weird, made up insults such as 'easy bake oven' on Ali's side (with another, just as weird insult, by James; 'unnecesary movie sequel' which called out lots of franchises but lets not go there) and Oliver's glare, who still fuming in anger turned his back on them and started walking again in a fast pace. Cheryl welped when half of her body was pulled by the angry blonde while the upper half of her body remained unmoving since Mason was too busy giving Oliver heart eyes.

"You fucking kidding me, Mason?" Using her bound hands she hit him across the face, finally waking him up so he would start moving.

Thankfully he did, and he continued to give the blonde heart eyes all the way to Cheryl's room. Heart eyes which maximized when Oliver glared or answered at the albinos taunts concerning his hair.

"This girl is giving him self esteem issues"

Elijah noted as he, and the other two, watched Oliver examine his hair meticulously in the mirror muttering something along the lines of "Its not that bad" Only to doubt himself the next second and wonder "... right?"

"That thing is going to destroy the whole vampire dynasty from the inside " James exclaimed , once more, done.

Cheryl who had her face buried in her pink, fluffy, pillow shot up "I am not a thing! I go by she or they, for your info"

The dark skinned man rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Anyways" James suddenly shouted "we dont have time for," he motioned at Cheryl who just growled at him "well, this"

"This is literally your full time job at the moment" the albino cocked an eyebrow

"Yeah, but can you act your age for a second and not throw tantrum like a brat because something urgent came up. So, stay in here and self reflect, or something"

James expected another sassy remark by the young girl yet the only thing he got was endless silence, the only sound that could be heard was Cheryl's nails tapping against the wood of her bed rythmically as she looked at him with a penetrating gaze making him fidget. At the obvious signs of discomfort her gaze seemed to intensify till James couldnt handle it anymore and broke the silence

"What are you doing?"

Then, a sweet smile adorned her feautures "Did i manage to make you uncormfortable?"

"All of us"

"Thanks, i saw it in a movie."

The four men ex changed looks wondering once more as to what was going on inside her head but at the end James just shrugged, far too tired, and walked out of the room, calling out "Be save kid"

"Okay!"

The rest soon followed, Mason petting the albino's head on his way out before locking the door behind him. Immediately Cheryl got up, lifting her purple colored sweatshirt grabbing the piece of paper she had tucked underneath. Unraveling the paper her purple eyes scanned the paper, taking everything she needed as quickly as possible. Then, she hid it under her bed and layed on it, taking a hold of the blonde lego doll with the dark red lipstick.Cheryl stroked the dolls hair, humming a tune.

Slowly she wrapped her hand around the dolls head and popped it off.