Chapter 20: Barton's Shame
Over the weekend, Zach the vampire closed the Grande House, postponed all appointments, deliberately set aside the next three days, and postponed all matters to three days later. Because it was about to be the night of the full moon, the entire Grande House was shrouded in an atmosphere of anxiety.
This agitation comes from Benjamin. A day ago, during a hunter raid, the wolf nature that erupted because he thought Zach was dead made him more sad than ever in the past three days.
After eating this morning, Zach decided to advance his diet plan by half a day and not provoke Benjamin's wolf nature. To reduce food cravings, our vampire is like a real dead man, lying 'asleep' in the basement.
Benjamin, who sat on the dome of the Grande House warehouse, twitched his nose, frowned, and switched positions under the cover of the water storage tank. As the full moon approached, the werewolf's senses were skyrocketing, and he found his first 'guest'.
Lola Barton's eyes were red, ignoring the 'closed' sign in front of the Grande House porch, and she kept banging on the inky door.
"Closed today!" the door was opened inward, and Old Hank's voice was like a bell, and his wrinkled face glared at the startled girl, "Don't you see the sign!"
Lola turned her head in a daze, saw the sign of 'closed', and her red eyes were even more aggrieved: "I, I'm looking for Alice, is Alice there?"
Old Hank snorted heavily, got out of the way, and when Lola entered, he went out and placed the sign of closure in the middle of the front porch, and then closed the door again......
Today, Alice looked more haggard and anxious than usual, and the Great Dane followed her to the coffin display area of the Grand House. She wasn't too surprised by Lola's visit, and she probably guessed what was going on when she looked at Lola's red eyes.
"Lola, why are you here?" the banshee didn't have to act, and at this moment when she had just been attacked and the full moon was approaching, her anxious expression was natural.
Lola hugged the banshee: "I ran away from home......!"
Alice patted Lola on the back, not knowing how to comfort her, "Did something happen?"
Lola hugged the banshee for a while, and now is it time to share the frustrations in her own life? Of course not!
"Is Benjamin there?" asked Lola, sobbing.
Yes, the girl's mind is so magical, when they are wronged, they prefer that when they confide, they will have the object of their liking by their side, which will arouse the sympathy of the other party......
There was a hint of panic in Alice's eyes and she lied: "Benjamin is not here. ”
Lola was a little disappointed, but he quickly threw it away and took Alice's hands, "Can I stay with you for a while? ”
Alice forced a smile: "Well, let's go to Benjamin's warehouse." ”
Lola's tear-stained face showed a smile and nodded.
The two held hands and walked towards the interior of the Grande House, and old Hank silently wiped his work (coffin), and in his old eyes, he didn't know whether he was relieved or sad.
After obtaining Lola's permission, Louise first called Barton Manor in Zack's office, at least to let Lola's family know where Lola had suddenly 'left', so that they could rest assured.
On the dome of the warehouse, Benjamin leans his back against the water tank, and the spring breeze floats the werewolf's unusually vigorous hair. Benjamin could even hear the air whirling in his curled hair, so that he could hear the conversation between the two maidens clearly under the dome now.
"Kyle. Lola's love seems to be occupied by grievances again: "They're going to send Kyle to [St. John's Middle School]!"
"[St. John's School]?" Alice had not heard of this school, but she knew that 'John' was a figure among the Holy Bishops of the largest religious faith in the Federation, one of the disciples of the Son, known for his 'salvation'.
"In the western part of the Federation! It's a religious boarding school! Kyle only comes back once a year!" Lola's hand rubbed against her eyes, and even the best cosmetics couldn't help it.
Alice reluctantly took the wet cotton to wipe off Lola's flowery eyeliner, Alice didn't know what a boarding school was, but after hearing this, she almost guessed that this was a place to deprive people of their freedom. This should be the result that Benjamin and Zach wanted, Alice thought for a moment and comforted: "Kyle is a senior student, it only takes a year, don't worry." ”
"How can you not be worried!" Lola was a little angry, sitting cross-legged on Benjamin's bed, waving her fists excitedly: "It's a completely closed school, there are 10,000 rules to follow!
Alice's mood was slightly relaxed, and this friend of hers always seemed to have a peculiar view of things. Ordinary people will probably only think that this is a school for the correction of delinquent teenagers.
"Don't worry, Kyle can hide outside. Maybe when he returns, your father, Mr. Barton, won't force him to study law. ”
Lola took out the small mirror from her bag, looked at the corners of her eyes that had been wiped clean, and her feelings fell again, "Don't worry about this." His father won't let Kyle study law anymore. ”
"Why?" is really curious, after all, the law is the most direct way to get to politics and inherit the surname 'Patton'.
Lola's eyes became a little confused, and it seemed that she didn't quite know why, "Yesterday." Lola looked at Alice and whispered, "Grandmother and father were so angry with Kyle, it seems that they were found in a notebook in Kyle's backpack. ”
Alice did her best not to show that she already knew.
"They were arguing until midnight, and I heard them arguing about things like 'Did you do this?' and Kyle said he wished he did, and that he would do it when he had the chance. It seems to have something to do with Connor, on Becky Street under construction, and seat belts. Lola shook her head, it seemed like she hadn't overheard much, "Later, Grandmother burned the notes, and Father grounded Kyle. I tried to ask Kyle what was going on, but Kyle locked the door and ignored me. ”
The 'loopholes' deliberately left by the vampires are strangely linked to real memories.
Kyle resists Connor's provocation and does not kill Connor by mistake. However, the performance of the field made him lose the possibility of pursuing a career as a professional rugby player, and he had to succumb to his father's arrangement.
Therefore, he had a grudge against Connor, and under the accumulation of unwillingness, he kept replaying Connor's provocation in his mind, and his brain gave him a plan to get out completely if he didn't resist the provocation at that time and killed Connor by mistake! He wrote this plan in his notebook, and after a week of observation of Connor, Kyle decided to implement the plan that Ben had made a week ago......
Did Zack's Enchanting Pupil really leave a loophole? No, this loophole was only a commission for Mrs. Barton, and Zach didn't completely bury Kyle's sin! The vampire disrupted the sequence of events, reconstructed the false and the real into a new memory, and threw the 'sin' back to Kyle for the Barton family to deal with by themselves!
Lola had a sad look on her face, "I overheard the conversation between my grandmother and my father again, and they said that Kyle would never touch the law again, 'Barton's shame,' Grandmother said. ”
Alice lowered her head and patted Lola on the shoulder.