in the Fallon Academy had me excited just to go to a diner. A diner! Somewhere I wouldn't have bothered to eat at before this all happened. Now, it was the highlight of my month.
What being quarantined will do you to you...
"It's a bit early to eat lunch," Ayden checked her phone and my own palm itched to have my own device back in my hands. "We can walk around and check out the stores if you want? Or just find a spot and people watch?" She looked at me expectantly.
"I don't mind either wa-" I began to tell her and then caught sight of an electronics store. "Actually, why don't we go in there?"
Ayden's mouth twisted to one side, but she didn't argue thankfully.
I had to keep myself from running to the store so Ayden and the loitering teachers wouldn't suspect anything was up. When we walked in the electronics store, I pretended to look around, but I could already see the display for pay as you go phones.
If Azazel and my dad thought, they could keep me down by taking my phone they had another thing coming.
I just needed to get my hands on one of them and then I could get a hold of Nikki. While I didn't have plans right now to take off especially after the talk I had with Ayden, I still needed to let her know I was okay.
Standing in front of the phone display was like standing in front of the holy grail. I swear it was that monumental. I felt a huge weight fall from my shoulders as my hand wrapped around one of the plastic cases.
Until my world came tumbling down around me.
A shadow fell over where I stood, and I barely had the phone in my hands before it was plucked away by Professor Rufus with a smug grin.
"Hey, give that back. I'm going to buy that." My fingers curled into fists and the need to knock the smirking asshole on his butt was almost too hard to refuse.
"You are on restriction," Rufus stared down at me hard, though he still had a gleeful gleam in his eyes. "That means no cell phone. You're lucky our liege even let you out of the school. I wouldn't have let you if I were running the academy." He sniffed and shifted away, pointing a finger at the door.
Clearly someone thought they were better suited for Azazel's job but either way he had just ended up on my shit list. Holding back the need for violence, a valiant effort on my part if I did say so, I marched out of the store and waited by a nearby tree for Ayden to come out.
She did a few minutes later confused and searching for me. Ayden spotted me a few seconds later and walked over to me.
"Hey, what happened? I thought you needed something."
I shook my head and kicked the stone sidewalk beneath my foot. "Nah, they didn't have what I wanted. Let's go check something else out."
As we walked, I noticed quite a bit of teachers and other staff members in town. None of them had been on the bus I'd been sure of it.
"Do they usually come to town with the students?" I pointed out to Ayden.
She shrugged. "Sometimes but usually it’s only a few. They must be taking extra precautions this time with all the angel sightings lately." She stopped before a clothing store window and surveyed the outfit on display. "They usually just make sure that we don't use our powers or cause a fuss."
"And what about the people who live here?" I noticed a few guys about our age staring at us unabashedly. "Do they know...what we are?"
Ayden scoffed, and straightened. "Of course not. They put up with us because we bring money to their little town."
"How could they not though?" I stared right back at the guys until they finally stopped and walked away. "We don't age the same, so they are bound to notice eventually."
"I’m sure they have but none of them have said anything or if they have, I'm sure our liege had one of the mentals do a memory alteration."
"They can do that?" My brows rose as we walked to the next store. This one had a guy making custom wood furniture. They were exquisite if a little out of price range. Not that I had anywhere to put it now. Until I got out of Fallon Academy my mom's house was just going