0246: The Vampire's Daughter Book Three

Susan found that working with Mina was much harder than learning to fight. It was fun to jump around and hit things, but thinking required too much effort.

Her mind was so full of thoughts that it was hard to quell them. It seemed that only in times of great importance did she have a clear understanding of what needed to be done.

But fighting was easy. She was young and small, but she was good.

In fact, the fighting lessons proved to be quite valuable a month or so into her stay when an older girl started to pick on her. She stood her ground, resulting in a shove that she deftly redirected, sending the other girl to the ground with an undignified thud.

Before the other girl could get up to continue the fight, both girls were hauled off to the headmistress.

Susan sat quietly in a chair across from the headmistress with a somewhat vacant expression. Her attacker was in a chair next to her, glaring at her own shoes.

"Margaret," the headmistress started, "why don't you begin."

"I don't know what happened, we were talking and she just threw me to the ground," Margaret said.

"Susan?" the headmistress asked.

"She's lying," is all Susan said.

"I'm not sure what things are like in The United States, but that accusation is very serious here. Are you sure that is the response you wish to give?"

"It's the truth."

"Well then, why don't you explain to me what happened," the headmistress said.

"I was eating when she came over to me and started to call me names. I stood up and told her to stop. She went to push me, but I moved out of the way and she fell to the ground," Susan said.

"No!" her attacker yelled. "That's not what happened at all. She's lying. I went up to her to invite her to sit with me and she just got angry and attacked me." Margaret stopped talking as the headmistress put up her hand.

She looked over at Susan, tilted her head and raised her eyebrows as if to say, "Well? What do you have to say about that?"

"She is lying."

"You have only been here for a month or so, now, and if this is the type of interaction we can expect, I'm not sure that this arrangement is going to work out," the headmistress stated coldly. "Would you like one more chance to alter your statement."

"Why? I've already told you the truth. You don't want to believe me so you won't," Susan said, looking the older woman directly in the eyes.

The two locked eye to eye for almost a minute, when the headmistress finally looked away. "Margaret," she said, "You may go now."

"Thank you Head Mistress," Margaret said, getting up and walking out of the room. The headmistress watched her leave so she didn't have to look Susan in the eyes, as Susan's gaze hadn't wavered.

As the door shut behind Margaret, the headmistress stood up and leaned over her desk, again looking Susan directly in the eyes. She was attempting to gain power by her size and stature, but Susan didn't back down. She continued to look the headmistress in the eyes without looking away.

Susan was clearly calm during the posturing, which was obviously making the headmistress more and more angry.

Again the headmistress looked away, but, this time, said, "That is enough. I won't have a defiant little American pulling her childish pranks in my school. Tonight we will have a talk with Ms. Mina to arrange for your schooling elsewhere.

"Go to your dormitory and wait until I call you. You will miss both lunch and dinner."

Susan said nothing as he got up and walked out of the office.



[The Vampire's Daughter: An ongoing vampire story. Copyright Reuben Gregg Brewer, 2005, 2006. All rights reserved.]
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