<span style="font-weight: bold">"Did your parents send you here because you are freaks and they are ashamed of you? Or does this school really help help a person be all that a person can be? The reason I ask is that my sister says that I am such a freak that I am being sent away for good and I'll never be allowed to come back. My father said that this school will help me be all that I can be. So which is it?"</span><br/><br/>Seimezi stared at the Mermaid Halfling uncomfortably. That was a pretty intense question... One he wasn't sure he had an answer to.<br/><br/>"I guess I should say it's the second one," he answered quietly. "Or maybe both? Either way, my parents didn't send me here; I came on my own."<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>Looking at the pool in their room, it made sense that it would be for Maria. But it was heated, so, if no one was around, Seimezi thought he could maybe use it to keep warm. He supposed he would ask for her permission sometime later. In the mean time, he set his own bag down. He didn't bother unpacking it, since it was as organized as it was ever going to be inside. Instead, he just slid it under his bed.<br/><br/>-----------------------<br/><br/>They played games for a long time. After a while, Kosuke started to relax a bit and watched them play. He never offered to trade in, and nobody seemed to have noticed him in the hall to offer him a controller. That was fine; it was enough to watch.<br/><br/>One of the others, the timid boy Kosuke had almost introduced himself to earlier, decided he needed a break. When he started moving in his direction, Kosuke wondered if now was his chance to make a friend. He got nervous, and hid behind the wall, hurrying to think of something to say, but before he could think of anything, Eliot rounded the corner and they collided.<br/><br/>He landed on his concealed tail, which hurt, but he barely felt it. The suddenness of it had him stunned. He pushed himself up with his elbows and rubbed his head to try and clear it, and, when he came to, the boy had turned into a vampire, and was crying and apologizing to him. "Ah! N-no..." Kosuke tried. Why was his luck so miserable?<br/><br/>Before he could properly try to console the boy, a late arrival jumped in. The sight of this one made Kosuke back up a few paces. He seemed nice, trying to cheer up the vampire Halfline, but he was a wolf. Even when they were both Halflings, Kosuke wasn't sure he could sneak past a werewolf's sense of smell. It didn't feel right to leave without saying anything, but he had to keep his demonic nature secret. So he fled to his room.<br/><br/>Kosuke found a bed that looked like it was for him, and curled up in a ball under the blankets. His eyes were wet, but he was trying not to cry.<span style="font-style: italic">I miss my Nii-</span>san<span style="font-style: italic">,</span>he thought and stayed there.