"Hey it's you" came the familiar not so familiar voice.
"Hmmm??" asked Nia as she was confused, she could not remember where she had met this guy before?? maybe all the crying confused and rewired her brain, so that she had short term memory, because this guy seemed to know her, and she did not know him at all.
"We have to stop meeting like this" said the guy.
"We always seem to bump into each other" he said
"Ahhhh" said Nia to herself as what he said jogged her memory, this was the same rogue vampire that she had been bumping into for a while now, it was a bit alarming that she kept on bumping into the same person.
It made Nia panic, maybe she had unconsciously casted a magnet spell, that caused her and this guy to keep on meeting, and in the weirdest of bumping situations.
"I am so sorry, for bumping into you once again" said Nia as she moved back two steps.
"I do not know what is wrong with me nowadays" she said as she sighed and scolded herself.
"No don't be it's not your fault, I am also to blame, seeing as the both of us seem to have our heads somewhere else" he said as she laughed.
"You can say that again" said Nia as she whispered to herself, she was just so tried of everything, and she was sure that it was because she had not eaten all day, and she even cleaned Selene's pigsty of a room.
"But anyway, I am sorry it will not happen again" said Nia as she looked at the rogue.
"It is fine, and I will make sure it does not happen again too" said the rogue as he smiled.
"I see that your face has healed" he said as his face went to the side of Nia's face that he saw was in bad shape last time he saw her.
"Ahhh" said Nia as her hand unconsciously went to touch her face, no one had asked her about it, but this rogue did.
"Yes it has, it was nothing really" said Nia as she tried to change this talk about her face,
"No don't say that, it was not nothing" said the rogue
"Ahh umm, well Thank you for your concern??" said Nia as she scolded herself, why was she thanking this completete stranger??
"You are welcome" said the rogue as he smiled.
Nia did not know why, but she felt uncomfortable with the way he smiled at her, as if he wanted something from her, and it creeped her out, so she decided this was enough of their conversation, she needed to get to the cafeteria.
"Once again, I am sorry for bumping into you, I have to go now" said Nia as she did not even wait for a reply and she just walked past him, he was a rogue and she knew that rogues were dangerous, so she needed to be careful.
"Oh, okay" said the rogue as he looked disappointed.
"So where are you going?" asked the rogue as he startled Nia with the way he moved so fast to catch up to her, she was so scared that she jumped back.
"Oh I am sorry, I did not mean to scare you" said the rogue.
"Ahhh umm it's fine" said Nia as she tried to calm her pacing heart, and she composed herself.
"So where are you going?" asked the rogue once again, now Nia was really suspicious about him, why did he want to know where she was going so bad, they had no relationship at all, they had only met twice, and those two times were under bad circumstances.
"Oh, I am going to the cafeteria" said Nia as she found no reason to lie to this rogue.
"Oh really?? it just so happens that I am also going there" he said as he smiled
"Oh okay" said Nia as she kept on walking.
"Do you want to go there together?" asked the rogue
"Umm sure why not?" said Nia as she was trying to be careful, she did not want to make this rogue angry, his eyes looked too innocent to her, and knew better than anyone else not to trust people who looked innocent.
Nia figured out that if she angered the rogue, and he decided to kill her, no one would be able to save her, considering that they were the only ones walking about the camp at this time, as everyone else had already gone to sleep.
"Okay then" said the rogue as he began to walk.
The both of them walked in silence, until the rogue cleared his throat and he looked at Nia and said;
"Hi my name is Hunter" said Hunter as he reached out his hand for a handshake.
"Hello Hunter" said Nia as she turned and she shook him back, just out of politeness.
"What's your name?" he asked
"Nia" said Nia as she replied to his question.
"Nia what a nice name" said Hunter as he smiled as Nia broke their handshake.
"Thank you" said Nia as she maintained eye contact with him, as she did not want to appear weak, but she did not smile at all, which made this conversation of theirs a bit cold and stiff.
Nia continued walking, she just wanted to get to her destination, this awkward, quiet conversation between her and Hunter, made her finally curse the fact that the servants quarters was very far away from the cafeteria.
"Nia" said Hunter as he called out her name for the first time.
"Hmm" said Nia as she instantly turned her head as soon as she heard her name being called.
"I know that this might sound weird, or even crazy" said Hunter as Nia narrowed her eyes on him, what was he going to say?? she asked herself.
"Okay" said Nia as she replied, she looked very brave and unfazed on the outside, but on the inside she was bust overthinking, of just possibly what this new rogue that she had met wanted to say to her.
"Can we be friends??" he asked just all out of the blue
"Friends??" asked Nia as she was totally caught off guard, what would this rogue possibly benefit from being friends with her?? all her thoughts came overflooding, she knew she was overthinking but who could blame her??
"Yes friends" said Hunter as he looked at her softly, and he was patiently waiting for her answer.
Nia was about to say no and reject his offer of friendship, that was until, what Clove said popped into her mind.
Clove said that she should be happy, and that she should make no friends, it was true that she had no friends at all, she preferred to be alone with her thoughts, but since Clove urged her to make new friends, maybe this was an opportunity to do it??
Nia started at Hunter, she was skeptical, she was suspicious of his intentions, but then maybe she was thinking too much, and she needed to come out of her comfort zone a bit.
Hunter had been patiently waiting all this time for Nia to gather her thoughts and give him an answer, there was nothing but silence between them, under the dark night sky.
"Okay" said Nia as she finally answered.
"Okay what?" asked Hunter as he needed to be sure.
"Sure we can be friends" said Nia as she felt very weird on the inside, this was the first time that she had ever had a male friend, and not to talk about the first time she had made friends with a vampire, and a rogue for that matter.
"Thank you" said Hunter as he smiled
"Umm, you are welcome??" said Nia as she did not know what to say, she felt dumb for saying "you are welcome" as if her friendship was the most golden thing in the world.
"It's such a coincidence the way we always meet" said Hunter as he started to walk, and Nia sighed and walked also, she was relieved that Hunter stopped her from overthinking by continuing to walk.
"Mhmm it's true" said Nia as she was trying to think of what else to say.
She rarely had any friends, and she never really had to hold up a conversation, so she had no idea, what to say or talk about, they were totally different people, he was a rogue and she was a witch, they had nothing in common to talk about, besides from the fact that they both lived in the same camp, and they worked for Azazel.
"If I did not know any better, I would say that you were stalking me" said Nia
"Haha" laughed Hunter as Nia could not see his face, since he was a bit ahead of her, his eyes looked nervous.
He lied that it was a coincidence, he was actually stalking her, and he just did not approach her because he knew that it would be weird, he needed to gain her trust first before he could ask her to be a part of his plan.
"Hunter, Bruce told me to call you" said a rogue vampire, as he called for Hunter and Hunter turned around.
"Can it wait?" asked Hunter
"No it is urgent" said the rogue.
"It's fine you can go" said Nia as she did not looked sad at all, she just said that because she saw Hunter was looking at her like he was really sorry.
"Thank you, I will make sure to make it up to you" said Hunter as he smiled.
"Okay??" said Nia as she smiled, she was curious on how he would do that?? her new friend was very weird.
"See you later" he said as he ran and caught up to the rogue.
"Bye" said Nia