For a moment I glanced at the disappearing back of the vampire that was moving lightning fast my senses were extremely good making me capable of perceiving his movement until he disappeared in a matter of seconds.

-Ehmm...dawn can you stop holding me now...

I was surprised and looked down for a moment and noticed that I was holding cecilia onto my embrace my hand holding onto her wrist made me look very possessive the females in our area were also looking at us intensely with a sort of envy,hestia wasn't an exception her fiery rage could be felt only a few steps away trying to burn a hole into me...

-Oh..I am sorry...

I said with a humble tone cecilia accepted it and parted away from me her face was flushed red,but I didn't call on it and just proceeded on showing our invitations to the personal.

-Here..this is for your guards its to identify them from the guests please make sure that they wear it at all times..

The receptionist said giving me 2 badges that could be hung onto clothing I gave these 2 badges to hestia and leraje both of them took the badge differently one snatching it while the other taking it calmly...

I smiled awkwardly towards hestia she glanced at me with a scornful look of hers,but didn't say anything and tried to ignore me.

I sighed right now I didn't have the time to make up with her she probably even knew that it wasn't even my fault I didn't even look at another woman like I do to her so she must understand.

With those thoughts In mind I continued to proceed the stairs steward gave us a small goodbye he wasn't intending on going inside,but stay outside and observe the situation,he was relying on me to keep watch inside which I understood.

-Dawn...

Steward called I immediately stopped and turned towards him with a questionable look on my face.

-Yes ?

Steward wasn't facing me instead he was looking around with his back towards me,it wasn't that he wanted to be rude he was just focused which I could understand from his point of view.

-Cecilias parents are going to arrive soon they probably would want to meet you too and don't worry you don't have to answer them just because they asked you to act normally and keep an sharp eye..

-Always..

Even though I couldn't see I felt that steward made a smile as he said.

-I know..

With the conversation done I looked back up and saw the waiting cecilia standing up stairs waiting for me to come already.

-Its going to be a long night...

I muttered getting up the stairs and following cecilias steps towards the mansion.

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We soon reached the entrance of the mansion standing beside it were a few guards and other personal who were accepting the guests inside for this kind of deal I would just keep quiet and let cecilia handle it which she did of course.

-Oh madam cecilia I am honored that you are participating in the young masters celebration would you like me to call the master and the magistra ?

The old man said bowing his back towards us while pointing the question his attire was a butler uniform a bit different from steward of course.

-No,it isn't needed they are probably busy no need to interrupt them with my presence...

The old man nodded his head with a smile and opened the door for us he gave me a small glance,but didn't talk with me.

Finally entering the building cecilia swept the whole room with her eyes the inside was very extravagant,but didn't amaze me since I already saw a lot of these buildings for the last few days it was sparkling and mildly crowded with different people in different groups talking to each other while sitting in their own seats waiting for the celebration to actually start the tables were square shaped and arranged in different angles the people who were sitting in each of these tables were differently arranged and their looks indicated that they were in their own league while talking pleasantly with each other.

Our arrival wasn't without a spark of attention of course a lot of people were observing the entrance vigilantly seeing me and hestia come out made a lot of peoples stares direct towards us I kept my calm and cecilia just looked indifferent and like so we started to go down stairs towards the main hall where the tables were located.

I had pretty much no clue where we were going cecilia had two pieces of paper that she had acquired from the receptionist tucked between her fingers while crossing her arms I assumed that those were the positions for the seats we were supposed to get,but while we descended down some of the people that were once seated came forward to start a conversation with cecilia.

-Well hello little cecilia you have grown a lot since we last met your beauty is truly profound like your mothers...I see that you have brought quiet a outstanding guy with you...

The rigid old man said with a laugh on his face I didn't speak and just waited for cecilia to reply,who also made small smile and answered.

-Greetings senator henrickson I thank you for your compliment and it indeed has been a while how is your state of order going around ? No,problems I assume ?

Cecilia lead the conversation skillfully like I expected the only thing I needed to do was stay quiet and observe behind the guy who was called the senator stood another person...a boy to precise he seemed to be the same age as us and was staring at me as if trying to pierce me with a dagger a bit threatening,but I ignored and just gave him a kind smile which he scoffed at turning his head to the side.

I didn't think of it as anything and just turned back to the conversation between the senator and cecilia,the time was close in a hour or so the celebration would start and until then I just had to wait and see.

-Hey handsome ! your here too lucky for me !

Out of the blue I could hear a small shout coming from the right a lot of people looked at where it came from and when I turned around eyes met with a blonde haired girl who wore a blue silver dress behind her was a butler no...a dragon.

-Greetings loren...I didn't expect to see you actually..

I said keeping a neutral friendly conversation between us,I didn't know here a lot,but getting a bad impression on her didn't sound to good to me since she was the daughter of one of the major families that was silva.

The girl in question smiled and stroke a pose in front of me the attended verdath stood behind her with the blank expression of his like usual.

-I didn't expect to see you either hmmm...did cecilia bring you or something ? She must have right ? Your even wearing a suit man you look tasty...

She and with every word her steps would close up on me until we were only separated with half meter distance from each other.

-Thanks for your flattery..

Loren smiled playful and said.

-Oh I wasn't flattering I stated a fact actually...

Her hands were moving up about to grab me,but before she reached me a arm went between me and loren making her step back a few steps creating a distance between us once again.

I looked to my side and noticed a annoyed cecilia standing next to me she took a step forward and narrowed her eyes towards loren who was also glaring at cecilia with evenly challenging gaze.

-I don't see why you are trying to get your hands on my escort loren? Too hard to get your own ?

Cecilia mocked making loren blush for a moment as she retorted.

-Ha ! as if I was just testing him to see if he would be someone interesting since I didn't get to know him better at school I thought that this would be a decent opportunity to make a bond...

-Then strike your bonds with different people loren...

-Hmph...

Sparks could be seen flying between these two and as always they didn't get along with each other and just continued this back and forward conversation with each other...the people who were spectating looked to be excited by the clash and the poor senator was making a awkward smile while looking at it his conversation with cecilia was probably interrupted by this.

-Now now we are celebrating why are you two fighting ?

Another person came into lime line and it was also someone I knew another member of the silva family alexis silva the head of sutopia academy.

Her entrance was grand her beauty was also very unique making a lot of the males inside stare at her dreamily she had power,smarts and looks which was sought after anyone who wanted to be successful in life her appearance was that of angel trying to bring peace between two titans to clash.

Stepping forward she glanced at me for a moment raising her gaze she also looked at leraje and hestia with a appraising look in her eyes her look didn't last for more then a few seconds,but hestia who was standing behind me noticed it so did leraje,but he didn't react like hestia did who literally hit me to the back almost causing me to cough.

-Sis...I didn't start cecilia came between my conversation..

Loren complained using me as a reason to get clean cecilia just stayed quiet without a word seeing this scene alexis made a trouble expression she silent grabbed onto loren and put her into her own embrace talking to her.

-Its understandable loren dawn is obviously cecilias escort of course she wouldn't like something like this so be good and don't interfere with them alright ?

Loren wasn't satisfied,but nodded anyways cecilia was slightly distracting on how alexis had said those words,but didn't comment on it nonetheless.

In my opinion no was satisfied with this out come which I believed to be alexis'es goal to be which in itself was pretty smart I gotta admit.

-I heard that aiden himself had come and given you the invite dawn...he came for a visit while stepping into my academy of course to inform me...

Alexis said holding her pleasant smile of course I just nodded my head and said.

-Yes,it isn't really a big deal..

I tried to be humble and change the subject alexis understood and also nodded her head bringing up another topic of conversation over all it was relative small talk we were doing cecilia and loren just kept on glaring at each other as if wishing the death of the other person the people around us also didn't dare to come and join the talk they just observed from a distance.

Hestia and leraje didn't talk a lot which was expected alexis even tried to bring both of them into the conversation she asked if hestia was a newly employed which hestia answered with a yes of her own saying that she was a co-worker with leraje at some point and just joined in a few days ago this particular answer made alexis very interested and we talked like this for about half an hour until the sound of trumpets could be heard ending the conversation.

-It seems like it is about to begin...alright then it was pleasant to talk to you dawn I hope we can continue...

-Me too...miss alexis..

I nodded my head giving her evenly kind smile before she left cecilia and hestia who were standing by my side sighed heavily as if a large burden had been taken from their shoulders.

I just kept a neutral look and stared towards where the sound of trumpets came from cecilia also took my hand and lead me towards a table where both loren and alexis sat also.

My seat was next to cecilia and looking around you could different kind of people standing and the guests sitting on their tables getting ready for the celebration to begin I wondered if I could let hestia or leraje sit down,but realized that it probably wasn't the case they also didn't mind standing and just stood behind my seat like watchdogs.

The sound of trumpets was graceful and gave you a sense of royalty the sound came from upstairs and looking up you could see the main hosts of this celebration walking down the stairs which were aiden his wife his two daughters and mainly his son...joseph.

Looking at the main focus of this celebration made me immediately judge this boy as a slightly timid and shy person his gaze and how he fidgeted with his hands gave me such impression,but nonetheless he seemed to be good enough to be called a young master with his short black hair and brown eyes and his clear white skin made him out to be a pretty handsome guy that was going to turn 16 years old today.

-Young master...when is your birthday actually...

Hestia asked still looking at the descending core hosts that were taking their time to come down.

Her question made me confused for a second and honestly it was hard since...

-I don't know...

My birthday was never revealed really I only counted my age every full year meaning that I set my birthday every january first.

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