The next day, I could hear the heavy drops of rain by the window of the prince's chamber the mont I woke up. I imdiately stood up and stayed there for a few minutes as I watch the rain with amusent in my eyes.
Way back when I was a kid, I liked being in the rain. Maybe because I have fun mories with it. Like there was this one ti when my brother and I snuck up in the house in the middle of the night and went to the strawberry fields that he has been working on because I forced him to during my teenage years, and then it suddenly poured. Of course, my brother was scolded after we ca back ho, dripping wet and all. But at least we had a good ti together.
There was also one ti when my childhood friend Dexter and I have been playing in the rain in the middle of a football field after school and danced along with it until we got tired. I was then reprimanded by my mother when she picked up that ti, and Dexter was willing to take all the bla but I insisted that it was actually my fault for persuading him to go along with my foolishness.
Those were just the examples of good mories that I had with the rain, and I was hoping that while I am still here in Citadel, I would also have a good mory with it soday.
I almost jumped out of my bed when I saw Alex standing in front of as soon as i turned my head.
"Gosh, you scared !" I yelped.
"You are not answering when I was knocking on the door, so I had to barge in and see if you are still alive and breathing," he snickered.
"Alright, alright. I am on my way to prepare for school, so please go now."
"I will without you telling , don't worry,"
"Good,"
And with that, he truly left the prince's chamber, making way for to finally prepare for school.
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I hate bringing umbrellas with , but this ti I had no choice. It was still raining so hard when I arrived at school and all the students are either wearing raincoats or also are bringing their own umbrellas with them and leave them on the rack outside our room.
"Good morning," my friends greeted in the chorus as soon as I went towards my seat and settled down.
With a bright smile on my face, I also greeted them back.
"What a sha. We have all been planning to go to this new boutique that just opened around Central Town and it suddenly rained," Ariella suddenly ntions this, her tone really disappointed and her eyes looking at the window.
"I was all excited for this and we need to postpone our visit," Maggie says in the sa degree of tone as that of Ariella.
Cailin sees this and clapped her hands together, catching their attention imdiately.
"Tomorrow is another day. We could all still see the boutique, as if it would really go away from here," she says. And for her positivity, I give her a thumbs up.
"But today is their grand opening. And that only ans plenty of sales for first few custors to visit the store,"
"It will be alright. I'm pretty sure they will be extending it until tomorrow."
And our conversation had to end there because our class adviser Mr. Pumpkin had already entered the classroom and imdiately started the discussion.
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By the ti the school bell rang to indicate that classes for today are all over, my classmates are already starting to make their way towards the door, I was still gathering my things and stuffed them inside my bag as neatly as I could.
I stopped midway with what I was doing when I saw sothing placed inside my bag. Wrapped in a brown bag is where the mango tarts that we baked earlier during our culinary class were placed. If I rember it correctly, there are four that were left from the batch of tarts I baked earlier since I ate two of them to see if how was it. It turned out to be okay.
A smile then appeared on my lips. I was so proud of what I've done since I am not also a good baker either that I decided to pack the rest of them for my ntors to have a taste of it. I wonder how would they react to it.
"Soone's happy," Cailin pointed out. For a second, I almost forgot my friends are still here beside , patiently waiting for to finish what I am doing right now.
I pretended not to hear it and imdiately stood up once I closed my backpack. And together, we went out of the classroom going towards the gates of Gilead Academy.
"Oh? It stopped raining already,"
Everyone looked up into the sky and saw the rain had indeed stopped pouring. All of my friends looked so excited about it.
"I guess we could still go to the grand opening of the boutique then?" Ariella brought the topic we had earlier to the classroom.
"Yes please! I would really love to see their beautiful products on sale," Maggie insisted as well.
"I guess I could co too," Cailin chis in. Then they all looked at like they were waiting for to speak up even if they already have an idea that I can't co with them.
"No I can't co guys. But take care, we'll never know when it would start raining once again," I finally said, closing my umbrella while speaking. I heard sighs and saw their forehead wrinkling because of what I said.
"Do you there's a chance that it would rain again?" asked Maggie.
I pointed my right index finger to the skies and said, "Yes, there is. The skies are still gloomy, aning anyti now it would still rain. So just be careful on your way to Central Town."
"Oh, okay. We will." they all said in a chorus before we parted ways. I turned to my left where the marketplace is located.
On my way to the castle, I was already aware that one of my ntors is currently following my every movent in an invisible mode because that is what we have agreed on ever since we found out there was soone trailing from behind the other day. I am not sure yet if it is Alex or Lucas though.
"Lucas?" I whispered shouted while keeping a straight face like I am not trying to communicate with an invisible person here.
When no one answered, I called out another na. "Alex?"
Still no response.
Geez, maybe there is really no one who would pick up from here in the marketplace. I sighed and kept going. I was practically roaming my gaze for any signs of stalkers and enemies around when halfway towards the castle, it rained again all of a sudden.
Panicking, I instinctively got my umbrella and opened it, but I think it got jamd in the inside. It won't open too soon, and my hair is starting to get wet around here.
But then I felt that the rain stopped pouring on . Not because it stopped raining, but soone had his umbrella placed over my head while also trying to cover his head as well. When I lifted my head to know who it was, it's like ti itself went at a slow pace and all I could see was him and him alone.
"Alex" Surprised, his na ca out of my mouth like a whisper.
He is not in an invisible mode right now, or else he would not be able to hold out tangible things like this umbrella he is currently holding. We are now in this dark alleyway leading to the secret route, so there are no other persons that might see us here.
"I-I thought no one was here to pick up"
"Looks like it's damaged," he says, ignoring what I just said.
Seeing that I didn't respond to what he said, his eyes shifted from to the umbrella I was holding and added, "I an your umbrella."
"R-right," I replied and imdiately looked away. It took a little bit of energy for to take off my eyes from his handso face.
"Well, it's not really damaged, it's just jamd inside, which usually happens when I did not properly close it well," I added.
"Whatever. Hurry up and open that thing or I will be wet as well here."
For a second, I thought he was trying to be a gentleman earlier. But seeing that it would also cause him so much hassle for doing so, I forced my umbrella to open up as soon as possible, and finally worked.
I rolled my eyes at him and started walking ahead with my own umbrella in one hand. A few seconds later, I felt him following behind.
Regardless of how he behaved earlier, I think another good mory will now be registered inside my head during the rainy season that I can keep forever.
That is a visual picture of his handso, masculine face under his umbrella.
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