A Feast For The Vampires

XXXII

Anxo’s face flushed in anger and embarrassment. He growled lowly and stood up, the chair screeching against the floor. “How dare you speak to me in such a manner?! I—Anxo da Seiva—has never been insulted by a mere mortal.” He pointed at Kimi and hissed, “and a child at that.”

“Then good.” Kimi picked up his napkin and unfolded it. “There’s freaking first time for everything.”

Aurum coughed lightly in surprise, his lips quirked in amusement. The Level Os started murmuring amongst themselves.

Anxo’s face reddened and he growled, “why you—!”

“Anxo beat it. You just said it yourself that he’s a mere child so just shut it, sit down and eat,” Aurum said in a light tone, pent-up laughter making his eyes shine.

Anxo growled in anger and pulled his chair to himself and sat down. He started mumbling in Portuguese, his face reddening with each word he said.

Kimi simply raised his hands to the skin under his eyes, pulled on his skin and stuck out his tongue at Anxo.

Homer choked at that, his face red in shock.

“What have we wrought?” Tobe asked quietly, toying with the food in his plate.

“Kimi Mikaelis apparently,” Jiaozi answered from beside him.

Anxo roared a growl and stood up. “I can’t do this!” He stomped out of the dining room, his face extremely red.

“Dad!” Maria said, getting to her feet. She spared Kimi a cold look before she rushed out of the room after her father.

“That was...” Aurum dragged out the last word, lost for words.

“Fucking awesome,” Homer completed for him.

“Homer!” his mother and siblings yelled in unison. Homer shrugged in innocence and continued eating.

Aurum shook his head at the slowly dying commotion. He sighed, standing up as he walked to the cabinet that was in the corner of the room.

“Lord Caedis please sit. I can get whatever you want,” Ravenna said, moving away from her position by the door.

Aurum just waved his hand at that. He crouched and pulled the cabinet open. In it was a small, old radio. He took it and stood, lightly dusting it.

“Why don’t we listen to some music after all that yelling?”

Kimi scoffed, taking the plate that Silver passed to him. “The one who actually needs it isn’t here.”

“Well...” Aurum puffed out air from his mouth, toying with the radio’s switch. He clicked his tongue at it, frowning as he muttered, “how do you turn this on again?”

“Lord Caedis let me,” Caim said as he stood. He sped to Aurum and took the radio from him.

“Oh,” Aurum said in surprise as he watched Caim pull out the radio’s antenna. At that a soft tune began to play. “I must’ve forgotten,” he mumbled, sheepishly scratching his hair.

He thanked Caim and took the radio out of his hands. He moved back to the table and placed the radio beside his plate.

Kimi watched him as he sat down, his face holding a confused expression. “You don’t know how to operate a freaking radio?”

Aurum shrugged a shoulder. “When you’d spent a decade in a coffin you’d forget how to use some of your things.”

Kimi scoffed a laugh. “So what? Trying to say you freaking own this house?”

“Yes I do.”

Kimi flinched, his eyes drifting to Meraki. “But I thought...”

“Well I actually own the mansion and gave it to Meraki when—”

“ANIKI!” a girl screeched as she ran into the room. Everybody watched as she ran towards where Rin’s family was sat. She raised her hand as she got closer to them.

“Eien,” Rin said coolly as he picked her up and sat her on his laps.

“Rin!” she said, wrapping her arms around his neck. “When did you get back?”

“Yesterday. You were sleeping when—”

“Eien respect your elders and get off your brother this instance,” Yūgen mumbled swiftly in Japanese.

“I’m sorry,” she whispered in a sad tone, sliding off her brother.

Kimi stared as Rin helped Eien into the chair that was beside him. His brows raised in surprise at the slight smile that graced Rin’s lips as he dished food into his sister’s plate.

I see weirder and weirder things each day that passes, Kimi said as he started digging into his food.

They all ate in silence, the soft tunes playing in the background. It was only when the tunes were suddenly disrupted did they look up form their plates.

“We apologize for interrupting this music break,” a lady from the radio said. Aurum increased the volume and her voice boomed loud as she continued. “Another set of murders had been had been reported today. Earlier today around five am, the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Mikaelmas had been found in their home that happened to have been attacked by a burglar who had broken into the Mikaelmas family house. It was also reported that Mr. and Mrs. Mikaelmas had been killed on the spot. Their daughter had also been stabbed and we don’t know yet if she’ll survive. And also another had happened at the popular Lavender House Hotels at the edge of town. The body of a young man with the name Richard Mikaelan had been found—”

Aurum swiftly switched off the radio. They had already heard enough. By now, the room was already filled with harsh whispers.

Kimi dug his nails into the table cloth, the hand he had around a spoon shaking. His breathing heightened and he stood, his chair tumbling to the floor. Tears flooded his eyes as he rushed out of the room, a hand on his chest.

“Kimi!” Aurum wanted to follow him but Silver glared at him in warning as he stood.

“I’d warned you,” Silver said as he threw his napkin on the table and stood. “Your presence only brings him death and pain.”

Author’s Note: hiya! I decided this chapter to be a filler chapter. Please watch out for an extra update today or tomorrow. How’s NaNo? Please vote and share. Thank you!