Chapter 84: [Bonus Chapter] Suffocating
Who is he to ask
that? He’s the one who avoided and ignored
all the ti. "I’m tired," I said as I passed him by, deliberately not answering his question. Night didn’t retort and let
pass.
"Sleep in our room today." He said. Is he back to ordering
around again?
There’s no way I’ll sleep in the sa room as him after all that happened. "No thanks," I said as I walked back to my room. I’m not even worrying about what Makoto will say anymore. When I first ca back to my room and Makoto learned of it, he teased Night and
that we might be arguing already despite being newlyweds. I ignored him every ti he teases
because he’ll only continue doing it if I show any reaction. ’And if I stay in that room again with Night, I might finally lose myself this ti.’
"Young miss." I heard Rika calling . She has a weird expression on her face. "Does the miss wants to eat sothing?" I shook my head and told her that I’ll be going to sleep after washing up and that she didn’t have to scrub my body again since I’ll be taking a quick shower.
I’ve been spending less ti in this mansion as the days pass by, it makes
breathe more as I feel suffocated whenever I’m here. I prefer training my butt off than staying in the room where Night is. Even though I passed the special examination, I still have lots of things to do to ensure that I’ll graduate with everyone.
’Ah, right. Andy texted
a happy new year last ti but I couldn’t text back.’ I sighed, it makes
feel guilty that I’m ignoring him but this way he won’t call . He’ll still think that they’re still fixing my phone, and about that mafia group after , there is still no news.
Kenji’s been out of the mansion because he was tasked to find out more about the mafia group, while Night’s working on grandpa Kenta’s office, I think. "It’s so tiring," I said as I slamd my body on the bed after taking a quick shower.
I’m too lazy to dry my hair so I chose not to. Maybe things will be easier if I didn’t take a bath, but I feel sticky after all the sweat I got from going out. It’s cold because it’s still January, but you get hot when you run and I sweat a lot. "I miss mom and dad. I wonder what they’re doing right now." Why can’t I talk to mom through the phone? I’ll ask grandpa Kenta about that later.
"For now, let’s sleep."
Almost all the ti of my days goes to training, and the others go to resting since I can’t overdo everything again like before. "Now I can’t stop wishing to go back to the old tis where living was much easier because of my parents," I said aloud. It’s like my mind and body are drained and I don’t want to spend more energy. Maybe I can be cured if Ace hugs
right now, but she hates . Everyone ends up hating
because I’m a liar.
I woke up the next day feeling groggy, but I didn’t want to skip the training because if I do, Shiho will surely want to talk to
about her older brother. I don’t know if I can fake a smile at her right now because I feel really annoyed about her older brother. "I’ll be attending my training again," I told Shiho as I bid them goodbye. Even though I can go ho for lunch, I always decide to rest in the infirmary since it’s more peaceful there and I’m always alone, though sotis the school nurse’s there.
"Don’t you think going ho during the afternoon is better?" Ericka asked while she was sitting beside the bed here in the infirmary. "The food’s better too." She said while yawning.
"You didn’t have to stay with , you know that." I smiled at her, but Ericka just sighed. "I’m really fine resting here, and the school nurse doesn’t get angry at
either."
Ericka lay on the bed while looking at . "Doesn’t it feel weird to sleep here all alone? Do you know about the ghost stories going around about the school?" A sneaky smile ford on Ericka’s face.
"Do you think I’ll be scared?" Ericka nodded but I laughed at her. "Too bad I’m quite good with horror stories, maybe because I’m born on Halloween," I said which made Ericka pout. It’ll be scarier for
if I saw n holding guns and chasing after . That’s what a scary story is like for , not those ghost stories. Actually, I like ghosts more than humans. Ghosts can’t hurt , while humans proved lots of tis that they can and they will.
"What scares you then?"
I stared at the ceiling. "Losing people that are important to ." Silence followed that. ’I shouldn’t have said that. Now I’m making things harder for Ericka too.’ "HAHA, anyway, don’t you have other things to do?"
Ericka shook her head. "I don’t have anything to do. My mom will make
do household chores if I go ho now since she’ll think I’m not tired even after the training." She said as she rolled over to the side. "I want to live alone away from my family." I can’t relate to her so I didn’t respond to what she said.
I did think of living on my own before away from my parents to be free, but now that I am living without them, it’s taking a toll on
and I’m suffering. ’I miss them so much.’ "I’ll sleep, for now, wake
up if it’s already ti for the next training."
"What about lunch? Where do you want to eat? I think the cafeteria won’t be opening for today."
"I’ll buy a sandwich in the convenience store later."
I closed my eyes after Ericka didn’t say anything back. ’Here I can relax without a worry in the world. As if I’m back to my parents’ place.’ I thought. It didn’t even take long before I started drifting away in sleep, and when I woke up, Ericka wasn’t around.
’Shoot, I still haven’t taken lunch. Our next training for today will start at 4 pm.’ I thought as I imdiately got up but my eyes widened upon seeing soone else sitting beside the bed. "Why are you here?"
"Hey there." El greeted
with a smile as he placed the book he was holding onto the desk. "Your friend, Ericka, told
that you’re here."
My forehead creased. "No, that’s not the point. I’m asking why you’re at our school."
El smiled again. "I wanted to let Marielle see the school before she decides since she’ll be going back to Italy tomorrow." He said. "And that’s when I bumped into your friend." I waited for him to say sothing more, but he didn’t instead, he looks like he was waiting for
to say sothing to him.
"And?"
"And what?"
"Why are you here if you’re going around with Marielle?"
He was still smiling as he leaned toward
and ruffled my hair. "Because I want to see you, silly. You didn’t text
the date for the semifinals either." Oh, right. I totally forgot about that because of Night, but I didn’t want to apologize. "May I watch you train later? Ericka said that I can." El said. ’Why bother asking
though?’
"Sure, do whatever you want," I said while yawning and preparing to leave the infirmary. "Where’s your sister, by the way?"
El tilted his head. "I don’t know. She said she’ll go ho first, but I don’t know where she really went to." He said as if he doesn’t care even if his younger sister gets lost. "Oh, don’t worry. Lorenzo’s with her, so she’s fine." He said as if he heard what went to my mind.
I stood up from the bed. "Where are you going?" He asked.
"I’m going to eat lunch."
El’s smile grew wider. "Let
go with you. I haven’t eaten lunch yet either." He said. ’Right, he confessed that he has feelings for . Should I really let him do this? I might be leading him on this way.’ I thought as I took a deep breath.
"Say, about your confession last ti." I looked at him and he smiled at
again. "I don’t think I can reciprocate your feelings towards ."
El placed his hand on my shoulder. "That’s fine. Like I said before, being your friend is enough for ." He said. ’But I’m the one who keeps feeling weird about it.’ I sighed.
"Are you really sure about that?"
His baby blue eyes looked directly into mine causing
to be taken aback. "Why? Are you worried about ?" He placed his hand on top of my hand while still staring at . "If you are, then would you like to try being my girl—"
"Don’t be stupid." I said as I pushed him away.
"That’s an! Wait up."
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