fandomhigh | Building Healthy Relationships, Monday, Period 4

Oh, God, this was actually happening. There was an actual classroom, and actual students who would expect Vanessa to teach them things.

Okay, this was cool. She was cool. She could do this.

They were so young. Right, Vanessa, deep breath.

"Hi, guys!" she said, pasting a smile on her face. "I'm Vanessa Carlysle, and this is 'Building Healthy Relationships.' Now, you can just call me Vanessa, I don't think anyone's called me 'Miss Carlysle' in my life. And you might be wondering what qualifies me to teach a class on relationships, which, um, I've had a few? And after some serious bumps in the road, one of them is even working out pretty well! So, I don't know any of you, either, and I honestly didn't expect to get this job so I didn't really prepare for this," oh God. Had she said that part out loud? "So how about you introduce yourselves, and tell me something about you and why you took this class, what you want to learn, that sort of thing? That sound good?" She hoped it did, because she didn't have a better plan. "Who wants to start?"

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It was like the flower! D'Angeline's just couldn't leave well enough alone.

"M'lord Delauney knows little enough about me to make such a decision," Hyacinthe said. "Mayhaps 'tis my close friendship with his ward that made him choose this class. Meant to give me more to think on than simply the precepts of Blessed Elua and the teachings of Naamah when she joins me at Night's Doorstep, most like."

"Holy shit, kid, does everybody where you're from talk like they just walked out of Shakespeare?"

You probably weren't supposed to say 'shit' to the minors either, Vanessa. But, "I'm sorry, but I have no idea what you actually just said."

Hyacinthe was giving her a confused look of his own. "Who?" he asked. "This is how most people of Night's Doorstep speak. When you move towards more moneyed neighborhoods, however, their speech gets correspondingly erudite. You should hear Phèdre speak. Now she can twist a sentence."

Which was Hyacinthe's way of saying that he was just a poor, inner-city kid without much in the way of education.

"As for what I just said..." He paused, trying to put his words into plain Cruithne. It was hard to translate from D'Angeline to Alban on the fly and he only had Phèdre's insistence that he help her study to thank for the ability to do so at all. "...My benefactor does not know me well enough to decide whether this class is needed. But his ward is beautiful and my close friend and he may wish to give me more to think on than just sex when we are together."

He mentioned sex casually, as if he had no reason to believe it was a taboo subject. Mostly because he didn't.

Vanessa had mostly followed that version! "Generally it's a good idea to have more to think about than sex with anyone, no matter how hot they are," she told him.

"Phèdre is my friend, first and foremost," Hyacinthe said. "And until her marque is made, she is vrajna, forbidden. The Tsingani are a free people, we don't lie with the indentured."

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