226 Invitation
It was an ordinary day of his life.
Just like always, he woke up in his room, washed up, changed clothes, ate breakfast, and walked to his school.
“Argh, my head!”
Except for one thing, his head hurt like hell since early in the morning.
Leaning on his seat, he placed his head on the back of his chair and stared at the white ceiling of the classroom with a blank face.
“Hey, Kairen!”
“...”
He glanced at his always-energetic friend for a second and nodded his head in his answer, before looking up at the ceiling again.
‘Maybe I should’ve taken so painkillers before coming here...’
.....
“Hmm? You still sleepy?”
Reyan examined Kairen’s sleepy face while sitting on the seat beside him.
“Um... Kairen...”
He turned to look at Reyan who seed to have sothing to say.
“Good morning, guys!”
The door of the class opened at that mont and the teacher walked in. Seeing the teacher, Reyan closed his mouth and opened his notebook. The class started at that mont and they had to study at school for hours afterward.
Ding Ding
“Haaah!”
He heaved a heavy sigh. The bell rang, aning his suffering finally ca to an end. Packing his stuff as fast as he could, he stood up from his seat to head ho. He wanted to go back, take so pills, and sleep the whole day as fast as he could.
“Hey! Wait for ! Let’s go together.”
Unfortunately for him, his friend seed to want to follow him. He and Reyan would walk ho together most of the days so it wasn’t sothing unusual, still, he preferred to rush to the orphanage as fast as he could and rest instead of walking ho and chattering with his friend.
He stopped midway through the stairs and waited for Reyan to co, then the two of them started to walk their sa route ho in silence.
“So... Kairen. Listen.”
After walking for a few minutes in silence, Reyan hesitantly opened his mouth.
“Yes.”
He answered Reyan without even glancing at his face.
“Uhm... Actually... My mom...”
“Actually your mom...”
Reyan’s eyebrows frowned more and more as if he was really struggling at the mont.
“She... invited you to our house.”
“....”
“....”
He finally turned to look at Reyan.
“Why would a humble person like be invited to such a steed person’s house?”
He was indeed surprised.
After the incident that happened in their first year in high school, the one where Reyan was attacked and he bravely(??) saved Reyan from the attackers(?????), Reyan’s mom acted nice towards him all the ti. She wanted to show her gratitude in any way she could think of.
She would send gifts to him on his birthday and even new year gifts, send him delicious food and snacks for so unknown reasons, and even sotis give him pocket money!
Although he wanted to reject those gifts, he just couldn’t. Reyan’s mother didn’t give up no matter how many tis he rejected the gifts so instead, he gave up and just shalessly accepted the gifts. Anything free was a good thing, so why not take them?
And now, he was invited to their house?
“Stop talking like that! I’m already embarrassed myself.”
“Why? Isn’t what I said the truth? A commoner is being invited to a noble’s house!”
“I will punch you right in your face if you don’t shut up!”
He knew Reyan wouldn’t.
“As you order, my lord!”
And his friend’s face was getting redder and redder, either from sha or anger.
“You! Really!”
“I apologize for offending you, young master!”
“HAAAAA!!!”
Really, was there anything more enjoyable than teasing Reyan? He didn’t think so. Reyan’s face was so funny that he could continue to do this for hours and not get tired, but of course not now that he was suffering from such a headache that even teasing Reyan wasn’t so much enjoyable.
“So, when are you coming?”
He tilted his head.
“I don’t know. You are the one inviting ! When should I co?”
Reyan scratched his cheek and pretended to think about his question as if he doesn’t have an answer prepared beforehand.
“How about tomorrow? We can leave the class and go ho together. Are you free?”
“I’m free but... Are you inviting for the dinner?”
Being too late to co back to the orphanage might be troubleso so it would be best if he could just go soon and return early.
“Maybe?”
Reyan shrugged his shoulders.
“You don’t even know yourself...”
Reyan shrugged again.
“I told you. It was my mom who invited you, not . Ah, also... Actually, my mom might insist on you staying the night. No, she will definitely insist.”
“Yes?”
Hearing Reyan’s words made him get chills all over his body. Why would he stay in their house? Just thinking about staying in such a family’s house was scary.
Still, wouldn’t everyone wish to see such a famous place for themselves? He had heard that the place was super big and beautiful and had a lot of maids and guards just like in those fairy tails! Even for one night, he would like to experience how rich people lived!
“She is so insistent! I’m telling you beforehand so that you can co prepared.”
“Co prepared?”
He tilted his head.
“If she catches you off guard, you will be forced to stay the night! You can’t refuse her once she decides to make you do sothing!”
Reyan’s face looked like a commander teaching his soldier how to survive on the battlefield instead of a boy inviting his friend to his house.
“I still don’t get why I should be prepared.”
He was confused by Reyan’s actions.
“To reject my mom? It’s the weekend the day after tomorrow. Who knows how long will she keep you in the house! You might even be forced to stay for breakfast and lunch for the other day.”
He opened and closed his eyes.
“I should reject her?”
His voice sounded sohow disappointed, but Reyan didn’t seem to notice that.
“Why are you asking such an obvious question?”
Reyan’s words made him really annoyed all of a sudden. Was it because of the headache that he wasn’t in a good mood?
“Oh? So you hate staying at your house that much, huh? I should refuse her at any costs? I see!”
Reyan’s commander-like face turned to that of a confused boy all of a sudden.
“Huh?”
“If you don’t want to, I can refuse the dinner invitation as well.”
Sending an angry glare to Reyan, he turned around and resud walking.
.....
“What are you talking about?”
Snapping out of his daze, Reyan ran behind him while still confused.
“What am I talking about? Why do hate visiting your house so much? You could’ve just said that you don’t want to co.”
He wasn’t so eager to stay in their house from the beginning, but he was still annoyed.
“T-that... I don’t hate it! I didn’t an that!”
Reyan, who had never seen his friend be so angry about such a trivial thing before, started to line up his excuses.
“I just thought you might not like to stay! I was helping you run away from my mom as she might be too scary for you to deal with!”
“Yes yes!”
Snorting, he kept walking without looking at Reyan.
“Are you really sulking? Okay! Co stay at our house as long as you want!”
“Nope! I don’t wanna. Go get lost.”
He fastened his steps.
“What the... What is your problem? I said I didn’t an that!”
Reyan also walked faster.
“Anyway, I’m leaving.”
He turned to one side, parting ways with Reyan.
“You are leaving already? Hey! Are you sulking?”
“I have a headache.”
“No, but you are sulking!”
“Really, my head hurts. I going ho.”
“Are you sick?”
“No. It’s just a headache.”
“I will co with you.”
“No need.”
“Hey!”
Reyan ended up following him till he reached the orphanage.
Even though he did exactly as he wanted, that ant taking drugs and sleeping all day without even touching his books to study, the next morning he still had a headache, this ti even more intense.
“Ughhh!”
He put his head on the table and decided to completely ignore the teacher.
‘It’s this shit again.’
By now, he already knew what this kind of continuous headache ant.
He would see one of those visions again. He didn’t know if it was true to call it vision, mory, prophecy, or anything else, he just called them however he liked since there was no one to na them besides him anyway.
“Poooffff!”
There was nothing he could do about it at this point. He only had to endure it until he fully saw the shitty vision.
‘Will I faint again? Please no!’
At first, he would only have a fever and headache when these visions ca to him. The more ti passed, the less frequent these visions got and the more intense the attacks would be.
“Huuuhhh!”
He didn’t want to go through the sa thing again. Why didn’t these visions just stop? Not that they had any usage anyway!
“Um...”
He ignored the blonde boy who had been peeking at him every two minutes since morning and continued to nag inwardly. He heard the teacher call him a few tis and even threaten him about minus points and such, but he didn’t care. Not that so minus pints would affect him, one of the school’s top students, in any way!
“Hey!”
After school was over, Reyan finally jumped out of his chair and walked toward him.
“What’s wrong? You’ve been like this the whole day.”
“Nothing.”
Reyan stared at the marks left on his friend’s forehead from putting his head on his book for so long.
“Are you still not feeling well?”
“Nah, I’m fine.”
Packing his stuff, he happily stood up to walk back ho.
“Uh! So won’t be coming after all...”
He stopped at Reyan’s words.
“Coming? Where?”
“....”
Reyan frowned.
“To dinner? Where else?”
“Ah!”
‘I completely forgot about that!’
He gestured for Reyan to co beside him.
“Yes, let’s go to the dinner.”
“What? But you don’t feel fine-”
“Nah, it’s fine.”
‘I’m probably in the best condition I will be in the next few days.’
If it was really one of those attacks, he would be sick for about a week. Reyan, as well as his mom, wouldn’t let him rest in peace if he postponed this party because of sickness.
So, the two of them walked to Reyan’s house just like that.
“Wow!”
He stared at the huge house with his eyes wide open.
“It’s... huge!”
It was just as he had seen and heard before. The building indeed looked like one of those castles from fairy tails! It was a huge, white, and beautiful castle.
“Let’s go in!”
Compared to the beautiful and expensive house, the two youths jumping out of a bus with one of them completely dazed looked really ordinary.
“This way!”
Reyan walked forward, leading his dazed friend inside the building.
“Huuuu!”
Taking a deep breath and massaging his forehead, he followed Reyan inside the building while hoping that he wouldn’t create a scene before everyone else.
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