Mum called out as she was leaving, to go into town, suggesting I get up before the day had gone.The front door closed and the car engine started, revv...d-up and dissipated into the surrounding noises, as she drove away, leaving me alone and half asleep.I waited a few moments listing to the hedge clipper scything a hedge somewhere on the street, mixed with the birds and all the other Summer sounds.I sat up and swung myself out of bed, stood up in front of my full length mirror, marvelling the. I was 10 when Sung-ho left.I remember well his last words to me as fled as quick as he could out thedoor:"You're fucked, bro."And the moment the door closed behind him, I saw my hard-working parentsturn their go-getting eyes toward me. I was now the focus of theirattention. I don't have to describe the strenuous and unrelenting academichell they put me through the next few years.By the time I was 14 and ready to start the next school year, I asked momand dad whether I could talk to them after. Maya now I have to report this to Principal as you were given the duty as no one should come inside the building premises and now you are found here doing all this. She said she is feeling guilty pls don’t call to Principal or else they would be thrown out of the school and will have problem with family. The other teacher was of a chalu quality I could recognize from her face. The she said we can have a deal, if you want to. I said what’s is now this deal about. She told me to join them and. “What was it, something like a year ago, I walked into Bloodlust, scared as all fucking shit because I ran into the Prince. She made me sit down with her, and flirted with me, just to watch me squirm. I remember before that, going to the Invictus ball, and being scared shitless of talking with Viktor. I managed, but it was rough. Not long before that, I’d awoken from a frenzy, and found I was on a rooftop, with the corpse of a woman ... Mrs. Pavala.” Pavala. Christ, that name grabbed his mind,.