Blame the goddess ✔️

Chapter 38 - We want the Omega!

Jason Dolley as Cal

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CAL

Time management, time management, time management; maybe if I keep chanting these two words, I'll learn to use my time wisely. School, work, and the academy are pulling me apart. Second-semester classes have started, and the lab courses are killing me. Too much to do and not enough time. Things at Wood Inc. are getting busier especially with the newest cream, I developed. My cream that I call 'Night Shadow' is really for humans. It firms and tones the skin all over making a fifty-year-old look like a thirty-year-old. It's currently our best seller. And since I cannot be there daily, we decided to promote Ed Johnson to the interim director. He now has the authority to manage the company. Delegation, the magic solution for busy executives.

I feel a bit sorry for poor Lars and his friend that he referred to Minerva. My sister is like a dog with a bone. She has taken on this project with the same intensity as Alpha Salim with the construction. And we are slowly becoming friends.

I must admit that Minerva has surpassed my expectation with the school or academy as she calls it now. She has been going haywire on preparations for the school. Who knew there's so much involved with starting a private school? All we wanted was a school, period. After doing her research, Minerva informed us that to start a private school and get up and running will take at least eighteen months. We need to decide school structure, hiring and training staff, buildings, and most importantly the grade levels. Deciding on the grade levels was where Esme and I butt heads.

I suggest kindergarten through twelfth grade, Esme wants middle school through twelfth. I insist that we may come across children at that age that need the school. She says that we should only get children at an age where they are old enough to be away from their family. The committee was split down the middle with Minerva and PA on my side and Lars and Luka on Esme's.

Esme and I kept on arguing till Freddy decided to put an end to it, the only way she can. I mean, who knew that the voice of reason will come from our seventeen-year-old vampire jokester, Freddy?

"Freddy, how do you vote? Where do you stand?" Esme asked her.

"Before I tell you my vote, may I say something?"

"Sure."

"Okay if I remember correctly this school..."

"...academy," Minerva interrupts.

"Excuse me, the academy is supposed to help build good relationships between the races. There's an easy way to fulfill both your ideas for it."

"How?" Esme asks.

"Your land is over a hundred square miles, that's a lot of land. So why not in addition to the houses you plan to build for the staff and faculty, also build homes in the town for families that want to send their young children to the school, excuse me academy," she glances at Minerva.

And continues, "that means and correct me if I'm wrong Minerva, but you can make this a day and boarding school. Day school for the younger ones and boarding for the older. And in the case of the younger ones who want to board, you already solve that problem by building houses based on age, right?"

"And I thought you are just a pretty face," Esme teases her.

"Shut up Esme."

"I like it. Minerva, please inform Alpha Salim that in addition to faculty and staff homes, we might need homes as soon as possible for the families that wish to move to the town," I tell her excitedly.