Our hero on that day couldn't dodge a single rock cake.
he wasnt allowed to heal the bruises either besides the ones on his face something about letting the lesson sink in and pain being a good motivator. she had somehow managed to disable his pain tolerance passive as well he has no idea how but she did it. it might be the effect of her zanpakuto. if so that's scary.
The month that followed the accident was uneasy, painful, tense, and, at first, embarrassing.
First off my training had taken a drastic increase I was beat so hard i swear I saw god again looking at me in pity before I was dragged back to the land of the living. teacher had set up an obstacle course for me to learn better dodging skills ("Are those fucking cannons?!?!?!) it was painful and i don't even know where the items came from it must have been Cassie that traitor of a wife I'll spank her later. on the plus side my dodging skills increased and I was getting my sixth sense up and going and getting a few lucky dodges here and there i was by no means good but I was meh. the beatings and strength training routine were hellish my weight was almost 150 pounds now we had moved onto seals so that I didn't carry around anything odd and they could be increased with magic or chakra or spiritual pressure we also had resistance seals so my muscles could work out more as I did training. this way my body won't be damaged or stretched by weights or anything like that however it was exhausting. my hollow body was absolute shit the lowest of the low could barely take a single hit from teacher. it was now sitting in the dark forest doing some odd meditation or whatever to grow. I couldn't use cero or good spiritual pressure or anything it was just like a big body that was weak with a mask that looked like my zinogre forms face. well most hollows eat other hollows for hundreds to thousands of years but the forest will have to do for now. I wonder if he can eat dementors. something to test later.
To my dismay, I found myself the center of attention for the rest of that week at school. Tyler Crowley was impossible, following me around, obsessed with making amends to me somehow. I tried to convince him what I wanted more than anything else was for him to forget all about it - especially since nothing had actually happened to me - but he remained insistent. He followed me between classes and sat at our now-crowded lunch table. maybe I'll have him buy me some food or something then he can go away. I mean it was only a small life threatening situation I go through those daily so it's alright.
Amanda was never surrounded by crowds of curious bystanders eager for her firsthand account. People avoided him as usual. The Cullens and the Hales sat at the same table as always, not eating, talking only among themselves. None of them, especially Amanda, glanced my way anymore. Oh well I have other things to worry about like daily training and the loss of my precious rock cake collection and what was the next scary thing teacher would make me do. The notifications ringing out in my mind from my shadows about deaths and skill increases was terrifying. the money in my kingdom never really went up too much we were spending it on new backgrounds and more houses for the kingdom we had bought a fire background with volcanos and such and an ice one that was just glaciers and ice fields and one that was just a ton of mountains we were increasing the world at a pretty fast rate. I made sure to keep some of the world's separated for now so I had a few portals in the town leading to wherever they needed to go like the dungeon the fire world and all that.
When Amanda sat next to me in class, as far from me as the table would allow, she seemed totally unaware of my presence. Only now and then, when her fists would suddenly ball up - skin stretched even whiter over the bones - did I smirk as she wasn't quite as oblivious as she appeared. My blood is too good, so go on keep acting girl let's see how long you last.
she was already seated when I got to Biology, looking straight ahead. I sat down, expecting her to turn toward me. she showed no sign that she realized I was there.
"Hello, Amanda" I said pleasantly, to show her I was going to behave myself. She turned her head a fraction toward me without meeting my gaze, nodded once, and then looked the other way. Honestly this is way more fun than it should be.
And that was the last contact I'd had with her, though she was there, a foot away from me, every day. I watched hsr sometimes, unable to stop myself from chuckling about how she was still trying to keep a secret even though I knew it all.. I watched as her golden eyes grew perceptibly darker day by day. But in class I gave no more notice that she existed than she showed toward me.
Jessica made me aware of another event looming on the horizon - she called the first week of the month and told me about the girls' choice spring dance in two weeks.
I strictly shut her down and told her I wasn't going to be in town I was going to drive up to Seattle and go to the book store and to set up a nice apparition point I can't apparate if I've never seen the place I'm going and a point in the big city is good more stores as I still need clothes and who knows what else I mean this town is tiny we have 1 diner 1 grocery store 1 gas station and that's about it. there's not even a wallmart or a KFC.
the next day I was asked by at least 7 girls whom I don't recall ever meeting and I turned them down with strange excuses like my harem was full or I had an urgent business meeting that day or even the truth that I was going to seattle.
All the while in Class, Amanda would glare at me then pout then look frustrated i just gave her a smirk and kept turning down girls with other bullshit reasons.
"Miss. Cullen?" the teacher called, seeking the answer to a question that I hadn't heard.
"The Krebs Cycle," Amanda answered, seeming reluctant as she turned to look at Mr. Banner.
"Ryan?" her voice shouldn't have been so familiar to me, as if I'd known the sound of it all my life rather than for just a few short weeks. odd stuff man must be that weird vampire compulsion thing.
"What? Are you speaking to me again?" I finally asked, a mocking tone of disbelief in my voice.
Her lips twitched, fighting a smile. "No, not really," she admitted.
I closed my eyes and inhaled slowly through my nose, aware that I was gritting my teeth. she waited. "You know if you keep acting like that you'll end up never finding a proper man for the rest of your life?" I said.
"I'm sorry." she sounded sincere. "I'm being very rude, I know. But it's better this way, really."
I opened my eyes. her face was very serious.
"I don't know what you mean," I said
"It's better if we're not friends," she explained. "Trust me."
" Ouch friend zoned right off the back and for a first time too I must have been letting teacher hit me in the face too much."
she looked a bit confused I just shrugged and laid my head down to take a nap. I really need a vacation I wonder if there's a planet in the multiverse with just beaches and gummy worm trees with ball pits everywhere yeah that would be perfect. maybe I'll make one in the kingdom trouble is the gummy worm tree seeds, sadly there were none in the system. the bell rang and Class was over.
It was a relief, as always, to leave. I almost ran to the truck; there were just so many people I wanted to avoid. The truck had suffered only minimal damage in the accident. I'd had to replace the taillights, and if I'd had a real paint job, I would have touched that up.