"HE WHAT?"
"Yup, Zeke got himself a girlfriend. And a senior at that. All the boys in the third grade were calling him the ’Rizz God’."
"She is not my girlfriend. And those guys are idiots."
"So you did not skip every class after recess because you were talking to her?"
"He did what?"
"We were not talking. We were studying. In the library. And those classes are boring. I already know everything they are teaching so I would have skipped most of them-cough cough. The point is, she is not my girlfriend. She can’t be, we just t today."
"So there is hope for the future?"
"That’s enough Cass. Stop teasing your brother." Then she looked at Zeke and said, "We’ll talk about this when we reach ho, young man."
She resud driving. The rest of the ride was mostly silent except for the occasional giggle from Cass. Alexi was already ho by the ti they got ho.
"Hey, guys. How was your day?"
Before Cass could even open his mouth, Zeke said, "Shut up, Cass." and dragged him upstairs.
"What is up with him? Anyway, I got the beasts and everything else on the list. I have to say, you know so very interesting people. But seriously what is going on?"
"You’ll know in a minute."
Cass and Zeke ca down. Zeke had cald down a little but then he heard Katherine saying, "Cass, go to your room. Zeke stay." Cass didn’t say anything and returned to his room.
Katherine pointed at the sofa and said, "Sit."
"I’m fi-"
"I said, sit."
Zeke obediently sat down. Alexi, who was standing behind her, mouthed ’what did you do’ to Zeke. Zeke mouthed back, ’I don’t know.’ Katherine obviously saw this and looked at Alexi. He suddenly found the roof of his new ho very interesting and started observing it.
Then he said, "Will soone tell what is going on?"
Katherine glared at Zeke and said, "Mr. Rizz God here, got himself a girlfriend today."
"So?" Alexi was confused.
"I said, he made a girlfriend today. A senior at that."
"And?"
"Are you not listening? I said-"
"I heard you the first ti. But I still don’t see the problem here."
"How do you not see the problem here? He is seven."
Alexi was still confused. Why was she making this such a big deal? Then he understood why.
"Right. You don’t know about that."
"About what?"
"Magnus also made his first girlfriend when he was seven. And, he didn’t even do anything."
"He what?"
"Of course, you don’t know about that. After all, we t you guys much later. And let tell you, he did not put in any effort. Hell, for the first six months, my man didn’t even know what the word ’girlfriend’ ant. True story."
"Please tell you are joking."
"Nope. As soone who grew up with Magnus, let tell you sothing. He was always surrounded by girls. You already saw that when we were in school. It’s one of the reasons that we were able to et. But it was much worse when we were kids. These Ashbourne kids, sothing about them just attracts girls to them. And these guys are much cuter than Magnus ever was."
"Enough!" Zeke had heard enough.
"She is not my girlfriend. We are friends. I already told you, we just t today."
"You skipped every class after recess because you were talking to a ’friend’?"
"We were in the library. And we were studying."
"You study in class, not-"
"I don’t, okay. Do you have any idea what it’s like? I’m five years ahead of them in terms of curriculum, and that was before I got these damn mories. I was one of if not the smartest n in the Earth Federation. Do you have any idea how hard the Demons tried to get to switch sides? I already had one of their most prestigious bloodlines.
They withdrew from the Faction War because of . Because of my word, that if we lost and I was still sohow alive, I would join them. They left a planet, a whole planet, in exchange for the slight chance that I would join them. When they left, so did the Angels. Otherwise, there was no way that the Garden of the Fair Folk would be the winner. The only reason that I’m even going to school is for Cass and to brush up my knowledge. Back from the complete basics. But even my complete basics start from the curriculum of eighth grade.
And my ’girlfriend’, as you keep calling her, is one of the few true friends that I had. Her na is Aria Fairchild. She is two years older than . When I saw her today...you know what? I don’t care what you think. I’m done explaining myself."
Then he stord off. Katherine wanted to say sothing to stop him but didn’t know what to say. Alexi also just stood there not knowing if he should say sothing or not. And if so, what? In the end, he simply said, "We obviously need to talk about so issues. Let him cool off a little. The blood and bones are in the fridge. I’ll go talk to him while you refine the blood and bones. And then we all will sit down and have a calm and civil conversation."
Katherine rely nodded and headed to the kitchen, retrieved the blood and bones and headed to her lab. The blood was fairly easy, she just had to put it into the machine, making sure that blood of each affinity was separate. The bones were a whole different ball ga. She had to analyse their structure and remove the unwanted components without making the bones collapse. Just as she was busy with this, Alexi headed upstairs to Zeke’s room.
He knocked on his door but he got no reply.
"Zeke, buddy, It’s , Alexi. I just want to talk. Can I co in?"
He got no reply.
"Don’t worry. I’m not angry or anything. I just want to talk, OK? I’m coming in."
He opened the door and entered the room and found Zeke playing Call of Duty. He was decimating his enemies.
"Can I play too?"
Zeke paused playing for a mont and then gave another remote to him. For the next hour, they did nothing but play in absolute silence. Finally, Zeke put the remote down and asked, "What do you want?"
"I told you. I just want to talk."
"About?"
"About what just happened downstairs."
"I have nothing to say about that."
"Then listen. I get it that Katherine went too far and that this wasn’t too big of a deal. But you have to understand sothing too. Katherine’s new to this whole parenting thing. And you boys are not exactly your average children. You with your advanced intellect, and Cass with his battle instincts.
You might know because you were absent, but they had a small sparring match in your school. I saw those clips today and I could only think of one thing at that ti. Cass could easily wipe the floor with any, and I an any 10-year-old.
And try to see things from her perspective too. You have the mories of an adult man, don’t you? And you said sothing about Cass’s children. Now imagine your state of mind if one day you found that Cass’s seven-year-old child was in a relationship and that they had skipped every class after recess because they were ’studying’.
I’m not saying that Cass’s child is in an actual relationship. But you sohow got the news that they are. What would you do? Think about that."
With that Alexi left the room, leaving Zeke deep in thought. Then he went to check on Katherine. She was almost done with the blood and bones.
"I talked to Zeke. He has so things that he needs to think about. But you do too. He wasn’t exactly wrong. We don’t know what it feels like. He is a child, with the mories of an adult man, inside the body of a child. I can’t even begin to imagine how he must feel like.
And then there is his intellect. He must feel that third grade is a waste of his ti. And he isn’t wrong. And he can’t just skip grades either. After fifth grade, many classes require the use of mana."
"I don’t know how I can help him. What would Magnus and Isabelle do if they were still alive? Would they be disappointed in ..." Katherine had started crying.
"Nothing different. This was also their first ti as parents and they wouldn’t have trusted us with the boys if they didn’t believe that we could do this. Also, did you notice that he was referring to his other self as himself? I think that those mories are affecting him much more than we thought they were. But we will deal with that later. Now, let’s make so soup."
They transferred the refined blood and bones in a large utensil. Then they put it on a stove in the backyard because they didn’t want the house to stink of blood. They turned the on and left it on low heat. It would take about 4-5 hours before it was done.
Five hours later, the soup was done. They strained the soup into another container but sothing unexpected. Alexi said, "I think you refined those bones a little too well. I think they dissolved in the soup but that’s not a bad thing, right?"
She agreed with him and then she carefully put the soup into ice trays and put those in the freeze dryer. With her industrial-grade freeze dryer, they would only need an hour before they were ready.
Both of them went inside, only to find Zeke waiting for them in the living room.
"We need to talk."
"That we do." Alexi was happy to see that Zeke did not look angry. They both sat down and waited for him to start.
"First of all, I wanted to apologise. I said so things that I shouldn’t have said."
" too. I feel like I was too hard on you. I had no idea that you felt this way."
They talked about so of the things that had been bothering both of them. When it was ti for dinner, they decided to order sothing. At first, they wanted to get pizza, but Cass had pizza for lunch and wanted sothing else so they ordered burgers.
[Alexi ordered it for him during my rant. You didn’t think we would let him starve, did you?]
After they were done eating, Zeke invited them all to the lab.
"It’s ti we begin the preparations for the elixir."
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