Immortal Academy- The Complete Series

by S. L. Morgan

  I pinched my lips, wanting to punch a fairy in her face and watch the glitter poof away from her sparkly hair and skin.

  “We all grow up, don’t we?” Vannah said, dismissing the judgy fairies from staring at both of us like we were humans they wanted to use some dark magic on.

  “You know,” I said, unable to remain quiet and let a pixie’s mouth get away with insulting me, “your stupid fairy attitude is probably the main reason we’re all stuck here.”

  “Shut your mouth, wolf,” the sprite next to her ordered me. “We’re all in this together. We all need to deal with it.”

  “You’re lucky I have high hopes for all of us getting out of here, or I’d punch the glitter off both your faces.”

  The pixie turned around again. “You need to watch yourself, Jenna,” she warned. “It’s not good to be on the bad side of a fairy.” Her thin lips turned up into a wicked smile, “And from what I’m aware, your little group of friends upset the fae, including that alpha boyfriend of yours. I knew him before IA, and he definitely is a ladies’ man. That’s probably why we all believe Melanie’s side of the story.”

  I went to punch the pixie, but a force was holding my rigid right arm in place. The sprite chuckled after eying my arm as it was shaking at my side, and then she looked at Vannah, “And so the witch saves her friend again. Shifters are the worst.”

  “Knock it off with the insults. She’s probably right,” Vannah said. “You two and your attitudes are probably contributing to the problem as to why we’re all stuck here.”

  “Just stating the truth,” the pixie said, knowing she got lucky when Vannah mentally manipulated my arm to follow her will instead of my own.

  “Well, state the truth to your fairy friends. Insulting shifters isn’t going to get you far with my friend or me.”

  “Whatever.” The pixie flung her hair over her shoulder as we approached the desk to find our new rooms, dorm house, and bunkmates.

  I remained silent and almost fell over when I looked at my paper. This was all wrong. All wrong.

  “We’re in the same dorm house,” Vannah said as she ran her finger over the words on my paper. “Dom’s our new dorm master, and…” she stopped when she saw the only bit of information I’d seen.

  “Melanie is my new dorm mate.” I looked at Vannah. “I thought I was about to get us all locked in here for another year a few seconds ago with those fairies, but that’s nothing compared to this.” I swallowed hard, “This is not going to turn out well at all.”

  “Maybe you can switch?” Vannah said with an exhale.

  “There will be no switching of dorm mates. We did a lottery to pick your new dorm master and roomy,” a witch staff member said from behind the desk, “and per instruction, the president of IA said that no one switches or chooses anything at IA anymore. This is half the reason you are all staying here and not being released into the human population. No one around here can handle a little stressful situation anymore without freaking out and demanding you get your way. IA’s president is putting an end to all of it.”

  “Glad he did because he just put his leprechaun of a daughter in grave danger.”

  The witch smiled. “Dominic Rossi is your dorm master, I’m pretty sure she’s safe. No one slips anything past that guy.”

  “Yeah.” I exhaled. “I guess you’re right.”

  Freaking A! WTF! Double WTF! I seriously couldn’t do this. What were the freaking odds out of all the shit I’d been through already with this school of horrors? Melanie the freak, who was as crazy as the new vamp professor, was now my roomie.

  Chapter Eighteen

  We were dismissed to our dorms to pick up our class schedules for our new school year, my third year in this prison death sentence, which was to start tomorrow.

  “Jenna!” I heard Tanner’s voice call out from down the hall behind me. “We’re finally in the same dorm house,” he said in his carefree, Tan-Man tone.

  I couldn’t help but smile after my neck was clenched in the bend of his arm. I reached my arm in for a side hug, pulling his good energy in tighter for me to absorb.

  “Finally,” I said, wriggling out of his chokehold. “What room number?” I peeped over at his dorm assignment, “Ah, well, at least we’re on the same floor.” I snatched his offered paper. “You’re bunked with Bradley? What the heck, man.” I showed him my paper, “I’m with Melanie.”

  “Oh my gosh,” he covered his smile with a fist. “You think she had something to do with all of this?”

  “She’s a leprechaun who thinks her dad is the king of IA, so I wouldn’t put any of this past her.”

  “Dom is our dorm master. Where do you think he’ll stay?”

  I glanced down the end of the hallway where I knew the only suite existed on this floor and hoped Dom and Ethan were paired up and still in that room. Dom was the head dude here, so he had to have a say in something.

  “Dom and E usually take the nicest room here,” I smirked at Tan and gripped his elbow to turn him in the opposite direction of my former room. “You’re all the way to the end and around the corner,” I said. “Still have your bug map?”

  Tanner pulled his map out of his pocket. “Stink is always by my side,” Tanner said, bringing my attention to his armored bug.

  “You named your bug Stink? How in the world did you get armor for your bug?”

  “The more you use them, they get stuff, and they do cool stuff for you in return. It’s like leveling them up or something.”

  “Really?” I responded questioningly. “I’m cool with Bug, and he’s cool with me. I just don’t abuse him by using him all the time.”

  “These guys are like little fairy-created buddies, man,” he answered. “I learned my first day that they love the attention and hate being ignored. So, make them feel good, and they do cool stuff for you because they get new outfits and stuff like that.”

  I swallowed hard, knowing that if this was the case—which it must’ve been because they were freaking fairy-created insects with attitudes and tempers—I had totally neglected Bug. He was waiting for me three doors down from where my old dorm was. He would’ve been moved with all of my other belongings and transferred to my new room with the snap of a fairy’s tricky little fingers once the new assignments were final.

  Crap. Now, I’m going to really have to kiss Bug’s butt to make him feel good about himself. All the other bugs have cool shit, and he’s sitting around, looking totally basic.

  “I’ve only used mine twice,” I admitted, as I walked toward my open door. I peeked in to find the same layout as my other dorm room, and I wished I at least had Lusa back. How was I supposed to bunk with Melanie and be even farther away from Dom’s room?

  “You only used the map twice? Wow. Well, start using him, or he’ll intentionally get you lost after two years of neglect.”

  I eyed Tanner. “Yeah, great. I share a room with a fairy, and I now have to deal with a fake insect who has a fairy attitude.”

  “Quiet,” Tanner smiled. “It can probably hear you.”

  “Well, it’s a good thing I have this school memorized by now.”

  “It can screw with your schedule too if it already hasn’t. That or make you late.”

  “I’m not in the mood for this, are you serious?” I asked Tanner’s amused expression.

  “Jenna,” I heard Melanie’s whiny, trying-to-be-cool voice as she popped out of wherever she hid in our shared room. “Who’s this? New boyfriend?”

  Tanner’s face grew stern, and that surprised me since the guy didn’t have a serious bone in his body. “Best friend,” Tanner answered Melanie’s bratty face. “We all know she’s true mates with Dominic. I think you know that better than anyone.”

  I looked at Tanner, shocked he even had the shifter attitude, I’d never seen this side of him before.

  “Why don’t you stay on your side of the room, and I’ll stay on mine?” I said, glaring into her sparkling green eyes. “We’re only here to sleep anyway.
I’m just here to grab my map, and then I’m off to get my schedule,” I said, stepping past her.

  To the left was glittery-purple bedding and décor that practically had glitter sprayed on the foiled walls of her side of the room. A four-leaf clover that illuminated in different colors was her pillow, and that was all I could take in before I got a splitting headache. As if the colors weren’t horrible enough, a sickeningly-sweet fragrance filled the air—a side effect from when a fairy creates their own BS world out of their side of a dorm room.

  “Good grief,” Tanner said from the doorway. “It reeks in here, and with all these illuminating colors…” he paused. “Jenna, you could probably get a new roommate, knowing Melanie did all of this just to annoy the shifter she knew was bunking with her.”

  “Nope,” Melanie said in a snotty tone. “By the way, I’m not the only fairy who loves to feel at home in their dorm room, either,” she childishly intoned.

  “Well, I’m not the only shifter who’s going to need an eye mask to sleep, then. I’m sure the school made exceptions since they love their students so much.”

  My arm was gripped by her cold fingers, and I have no idea how I managed to hold back my reflex of giving her an uppercut to the chin.

  “Get your hand off me,” I seethed, my body shaking from my restraint.

  “I was only trying to get your attention.” She flinched when I turned to face her. “We can try to get along or just stay enemies. The whole point of this method of picking our dorm mates was to encourage us all to get along. It’s almost like fate paired us together, Jen.”

  I stiffened at the one name I hated coming from the one person I hated. I glanced over at her barfy, rainbow room scene. “If you ever wanted to get along with me as a roommate, it wouldn’t look like fairies came in and barfed all over your side of the room,” I said.

  “I’m sorry about Dom. I just—”

  “I don’t want to ever hear his name or the word Jen come out of your mouth again. Leave us both alone, and we might survive this whole new setup.”

  “I heard you’ve been adopted,” she said.

  I looked at Tanner. “If you don’t see me at lunch, it’s because I ripped a leprechaun’s throat out, and I’m in the dungeons.” I sighed, “That actually seems a million times more inviting than this place.”

  “You have a horrible attitude,” Melanie said. “I was apologizing.”

  “Well, then, if you are sorry, get that crap off your walls and your bed, and air out that godforsaken smell too.”

  “I’m sorry, Jenna, but I have to go. I’ll see you at lunch,” Tanner said, knowing he had to get settled into his room and go deal with my nice, ex-boyfriend shifter as his roommate.

  “See ya,” I said, turning away from Melanie and walking out onto the balcony for fresh air.

  “Like I just said,” Melanie walked out to where I was trying to reset myself so I wouldn’t kill her before the school itself found a way to, “I heard you were adopted by that council member guy.”

  “There are some things I don’t like to discuss with people I don’t trust,” I looked over at her, “the first of those things is my personal life.”

  “Well, it’s obvious your personal life is in the spotlight of this school.”

  “How so?” I questioned the idiot.

  “Dating Dominic Rossi and stating the fact that you’re his true mate. Everyone talks about it.”

  “Good. Let everyone talk, then. If they’re talking, they’re entertained, and if they’re entertained, they’ll leave Dom and me alone.” I stared at her, hoping her fairy brain picked up on the fact I was talking about her.

  “Yeah, dream on.” She giggled.

  I gripped my forehead. “Speaking of whom, I think I’ll go see how screwed Dom is on top of being the dorm master to some obsessed leprechaun who started rumors about him.”

  “Those weren’t rumors,” she said in her vicious fairy voice.

  “Really? So, Dominic did take advantage of you, and after that, you thought a shifter would fall in love with you after every romantic night you spent with him? That’s all true?”

  “Yep.” She nodded. “He crushed me.”

  I rolled my eyes. “Then that’s your fault for letting my womanizer of a boyfriend take advantage of your stupid butt,” I said, playing her dumb game. “A shame too, I thought leprechauns were smarter than all the other fairies. The tricksters of the supernaturals and here you got played by my guy. I guess that proves that elves really are the smart ones.”

  Her face was beet red. “I trusted him and he took advantage of my body.”

  I wanted to finish her off by doing the worst possible things I could think of to make her life miserable, but I held onto my temper.

  “He took advantage of your body?” I asked, acting like I was shocked with this newest lie. “My gosh, did he have sex with you?”

  “Yes.”

  “Are you kidding me? I didn’t know that. You must be devastated,” I said with the best look of sympathy I could muster. “Just to use you like that? Wow.” I sighed, thinking of the wolf tattoo I saw on Dom’s right, lower waist, something she wouldn’t know about unless she’d enjoyed my guy wearing only his boxer briefs.

  “He did. I fell into his trap, I guess. He’d walk me back to my room, and every night, it would be more and more intimate between us. He was my first, you know.”

  “You’re sharing quite a bit of information with his girlfriend, you know.”

  “I want to protect you from him doing the same to you.” She looked out toward the front lawns where students were still in line for their schedules. “You guys haven’t done it yet, have you?”

  I bit hard onto my bottom lip, knowing that if we had, I could probably have full access to my magic, then I could snap my own fingers, and drop this chick right here and now.

  “That’s none of your business.”

  “Well, I’m just warning you.”

  “It is a beautiful tattoo, isn’t it? Almost like it was created by magic.”

  “What tattoo?” she stammered, meeting my deadly gaze.

  “The wolf’s face. It’s like you can see through its eyes and into its soul. There’s more to that tattoo than seeing or running your hands over the artistic design. It’s almost like it pulls you in.”

  “Dominic’s tattoo?” she questioned my smile.

  “Yeah, if you two were, you know, having sex against school policy like you’ve confessed, then I’m sure you saw it.”

  “I didn’t. I was too involved.”

  I gripped her throat and shoved her back into the room and up against the wall. “Dom has that tattoo, and if your stupid lies were true, you would have seen it. It’s a picture of the wolf that would kill you right now if he had to listen to all the bullshit you’ve been spewing.”

  Her green eyes were wide with fear. “I…I….”

  “Shut the hell up, bitch!” I said, squeezing her throat tighter. “Kill all of these obnoxious rumors dead. If I hear anyone say anything as much as Dom even kissing you, I will find a way to ruin your life at this school.” I smiled remembering Harrison lie about being my dad, “Or I’ll call my sweet daddy and have you and your dad kicked out of here. See, two can play the daddy game now.” I released her neck and glared at her. “Except my daddy seems to run a much bigger show than yours.”

  She lowered her voice at me as she rubbed her neck. “About that tattoo? Did you both go against IA’s rules to have sex?”

  “Wouldn’t you love to know,” I said, heading to the door before I shifted and let my wolf rip a leprechaun to glittery confetti. “You’re a lying, evil little thing, and it’s wise to stay the hell away from me, and shut the damn rumor mill down about this BS between you and Dom that never happened.”

  “Fine,” she huffed and stomped. “But this isn’t—”

  I turned back before leaving the room. “It’s the end, Melanie. Shut your mouth, and go play with the rest of the first-year students who just
showed up. I’m sure you have friends here who are dying to see you again.”

  “I had no friends at my other school.”

  I shook my head, “I wonder why.”

  “They hated me because I was so smart.”

  “Well, get used to being hated, then. I’m sure being the president’s daughter at this school should score you some points with any new student here.”

  “Yeah, I guess.”

  “Well, what are you waiting for? Get your ass out there and start clearing up rumors. The day is still young.”

  “I’ll tell everyone I lied,” she said.

  “You’re a freaking leprechaun. I don’t believe your words. I’ll wait to see them in action. The atmosphere you created about this made-up crap between you and Dom will be fixed by tonight before I lay my head on my pillow and sleep in the same room with a freak I don’t trust.”

  “You’ll see,” she stormed passed me, “It’ll all be different from here.”

  I watched in utter disgust as she bounced on her feet down through the halls and out of my sight. I took a deep, calming breath and had to congratulate myself for not brutally injuring that demented fairy just by being in her presence alone. She’d made Dom’s life a living nightmare, and she had better hope on her own life that she cleared up all the stupid rumors and quick.

  Now, it was time to find my guy, and hopefully, spend the day detoxing myself from the leprechaun.

  Chapter Nineteen

  “I want all of you to understand the darkness that lurks inside every one of you. The evil nature the vampires were born with to drink blood from human beings.” I watched in continued disbelief as Professor Marguerite spewed her craziness in my first-period class, Vampire 101. “Blood, students, blood!” She pointed out to the stadium seating of the massive room in House Draugar. Her arm waved over all of us, “This is why the supernaturals will always be born of evil, and it must be forced out of them.”

  I glanced around the class that consisted of students of all years, blended into one. IA was at extremes with their new curriculum. Ages, years spent at this school, and learning material was all pretty much at a ridiculous level. So ridiculous, in fact, that part of me believed Harrison himself mandated that everyone was to be brought back to the basics of learning about our individual races…And then there was this vampire instructor. She had to be a joke that Harrison handpicked. There could be no other reason why she was here.