The hours passed quickly, the commotion that had happened at the start of the day had slowly dwindled as the students had to head back to their classes and yet it still remained the talk of the day, it would likely remain the talk of the month. In a small town like Forks when almost nothing special happened, it was something that would remain in the news for a while. Especially because it had been Bella Swan, the new transfer student and the infamous Edward Cullen that had been directly involved in the incident.
As the day slowly passed into the afternoon, the final ring of the bell rang out, singaling the end of the day's classes as the students headed outside of their classes with their friends, heading towards the exit of the school.
Alan slowly got up from his seat as he grabbed his books and headed out of his classroom, the afternoon light hitting the hallways from the windows as he walked to his locker, placed his books inside and closed it before turning to head out of the highschool.
His mind was still stuck on many things, there were many questions that still remained unanswered, many things that he had to think about and yet the more he thought about them, the more he realised just how far away he actually was.
The fight against Johanna had given him confidence and even a slight misconception, he had thought that he had started to finally figure things out, that the road before him was now paved and that he wouldn't face any troubles, that he would find out all that he needed but as he had spent hours today thinking, he had quickly come to the realisation.
Did he actually know anything? He had gotten a system, that he still knew nothing about, he had gotten turned into a different race that he didn't exactly know anything about, not really, he knew about his stats and the buffs that the race gave in comparison to a human, but did he really know anything else?
'No.. i don't… I don't even truly know what I am now. I don't know anything truly substantial. Unlike Humans who know exactly what they are, know how their metabolism works, how their blood and organs work, how their brain mostly works. I know nothing about what I'm slowly turning into. And then the vampires… thats all I know, from Johanna, and can that even be truly trusted? I mean, I don't have any way to verify it. I don't even know what Vampires are in the real world besides stories, they could be completely different and in a way they are… damned it.' Alan thought as he walked out of the highschool and out into the parking lot as he started heading down the street.
*Buzz* *Buzz*
It was at that moment that his flip-phone vibrated in his pocket as he was walking, a notification coming through.
Taking the phone out of his pocket and flipping it open, he quickly saw that he had received a text message from a saved contact, clicking okay with the small keyboard on the phone's lower half, he saw who it was.
[ Alice: Hey Alan, just wanted to let you know that everything went well and great, neither of the two are like in any danger and there was no damage really but Bella's gonna take the day off, Edward too. ]
Looking at the message, Alan nodded to himself as he kept walking whilst contemplating how he should reply to the message for a moment before his fingers moved on the small phone keyboard with extreme dexterity by human standards.
[ Alan: Alright, that's great Alice. I was a bit worried and all since he's your brother and the accident happened so quickly. I'm glad that he's okay and that Bella's fine too. See you tomorrow in class? ]
[ Alice: Yeah, see you then! Bye bye! ]
[ Alan: Bye. ]
Looking over at his text once more, Alan felt like slapping himself as he flipped the phone closed and put it back into his pocket.
'Right, I'm glad that hes okay and I made it sound like I was only concerned because he's her brother, god does that sound… a bit like I don't give a fuck at all, which in all regards, I kinda don't but like… well who cares, he's a vampire anyways.' Alan thought to himself as he turned his attention forwards once more as he walked down the street.
Around half an hour later, he arrived before his apartment building, looking up for a moment before walking inside and heading up the stairs to his apartment.
Walking inside after unlocking the door, he was quickly met with his room, the smell of rot had almost completely faded thanks to the fact that he had left the windows open almost constantly since the event, however that had also caused another problem.
The area near his singular window was almost completed drenched, snow had gotten inside and then had proceeded to melt.
'That… that's gonna cause me a shit ton of problems with my flooring.' Alant thought in annoyance as he released a sight and walked towards his small kitchenette as he grabbed two used towels and placed them on the ground as he started trying to take out as much of the water and moisture as he could from the flooring. A process that wasn't actually working that well, considering that his towels could barely absorb anything with how old they were and how the cloth had deteriorated.
'If only I could just use my inventory to grab and store the moisture, it would be so easy, just a single word and it would be done. Wait can I?' Alan thought to himself as he placed his hand on the ground and tried before shaking his head in frustration.
'Yeah. No.' He thought as he released a sigh.