Serene’s POV
I opened my eyes and found myself in the infirmary. Ayrden and Ralph were standing near with worried looks on their faces. As soon as they saw opening my eyes, they chuckled with joy.
"Welco to the land of the living sleeping beauty. You gave us quite a scare." Ralph tried to tease .
"How are you feeling, now? What happened?" Ayrden took my hand in hers and squeezed gently, her face squirming with worry.
"Ahh, I am a bit clumsy you know. Always bumping into people. This ti, I slipped and bumped my head on the floor. Then I lost consciousness." I blatantly lied to my friends.
"That’s why I said I would co with you. I had a bad feeling about this." Ralph narrowed his eyes. "Frela found you unconscious, lying in your pool of blood. The poor girl almost had a heart attack. We were all so worried. Artins Sensei was very furious, he thought soone had hurt you." Ayrden filled in.
"No, no that was all and don’t worry it’s just a minor injury. I can’t believe I fainted, everyone is going to think I am weak." I was furious with myself.
"It’s not a minor injury, you lost a lot of blood. And, you have to stay here for a day or two." Ralph’s tone was serious now.
"What? no, we have a tournant to win. I need to practice." Defiance evident in my voice.
"Don’t be ridiculous, you need to rest. Until and unless you are fully recovered there will be no practice for you. Head injury is not supposed to be taken lightly." Artins Sensei had just co in and his authoritative voice echoed through the whole infirmary.
"Yes, Sensei," I respectfully nodded, my head was covered with bandages.
"Who did this to you? Physically hurting a fellow student is punishable by expulsion. Give the nas of those who were involved." Artins Sensei ordered .
I knew it would open up a whole new ss of things if I told him. I couldn’t comprehend completely what had happened. Until and unless I spoke to Arlo I wasn’t going to say anything. So, I told him the exact sa story.
"Hmm, I can’t believe you got so clumsy to fall and injure yourself so badly. Are you sure you are not hiding anything from us? Because I will find out the truth." Artins Sensei was as furious as ever.
"No, Sensei. I am telling the truth." I couldn’t believe how I was telling lies so blatantly. My heartbeat had increased and my hands were getting sweaty. Thank goodness that none of them was a vampire who could have sensed my alleviated heartbeat.
"Now, now let her rest all of you." Mariela Sensei waved them all out as she handed a vial of dicine. Ralph and Ayrden waved at before leaving while Artins Sensei murmured sothing in Mariela Sensei’s ear to which she said:
"I understand."
"Sorry, Mariela Sensei I couldn’t reach you earlier." I apologized.
"Not to worry, I just wanted to hand over so Elixirs to Sarim Sensei. That’s why I asked Dria to call you." So she wasn’t lying after all. They were pretty smart and always thought everything through so nothing could circle back to them.
The dicine made drowsy and soon I was in a deep slumber. I dreamt that Zeph had co to see , he was standing at the door looking at with a concerned expression. Suddenly, I woke up drenched in my sweat. Why was it so damn hot in here? Night ti had fallen and blue light from one of the moons filtered through the window, falling on my bed. I looked around and found Mariela Sensei sitting on a chair.
"Glad you are awake. Hungry?" She asked.
"Yes," I replied ekly.
"I have ordered food for you." She handed another vial. "After you eat take this. I will leave you for a while with your friends and will be back in a few hours."
The door flung open and Arlo entered with a tray of food. I gulped so hard and my eyes widened with shock but I bowed my head to hide my expression.
"Serene, Arlo will stay with you for a while and then Ayrden and Ralph will co over. I have permitted them. But, don’t stay up too long, you need your rest." She told in her dominating voice before leaving and shutting the door behind her.
Arlo began to get closer to with the food tray. "Stay away from ," I shouted at him.
He stopped in his tracks. "You, do realise I was putting up a front earlier to save you." He replied in a calm and collected voice, unlike mine.
"So, you are saying she is not your psychotic girlfriend, whom you failed to ntion to anyone." I blurted out.
"She and I are complicated, I like keeping my personal life personal, and no she is not my girlfriend. I wouldn’t express my feelings for soone if I already had a girlfriend." He didn’t budge or raise his voice.
"I thought we were friends." I looked up at him.
"We are, you an a lot more to than just a friend. And, I apologize for the way I treated you earlier. Give so ti, everything will beco clear to you. Not in a million years, I could think of hurting you. It broke seeing you that way..." He trailed off, his eyes looked sad and hurt. His face was distorted with anger and dejection. I had never seen him so broken.
I wasn’t sure what to believe. "I am not mad at you because you might have a secret girlfriend or the way you treated . You are free to choose anyone you want, I am no one to bind you. But, you were my safe space, soone I could trust. That was violated, I, don’t trust you anymore." I confessed my feelings.
"Serene, you have to trust . Please, give a chance to prove myself. Just a few more days, I will tell you everything." He almost pleaded with this ti, his expression soft.
"I can’t trust you right now, but I will give you another chance to be my friend. Don’t make regret this." I replied trying very hard to stop my voice from trembling.
"Thanks, now eat sothing." He placed the tray in front of , which contained egg rice, fried chicken, kebab, a glass of milk and chocolate cake; all my favourite foods.
"Thank you, for bringing food." He nodded at my words.
" How is your head? " He asked with concern. "Throbbing but better," I replied with my mouth full of rice. He sat there watching eat with one hand on his cheek while his elbow rested on my bed.
Just then the door opened and Ayrden, Ralph and Mikasim barged in. All three of them were arguing over sothing. As soon as they saw they stopped arguing and rushed towards , with Mikasim in lead. "Are you alright? I was so worried when I heard." Mikasim’s face showed all emotions as usual.
"I am alright, don’t worry. Did Tanzil let you finally visit ?" I teased him and everyone tried to hide their smiles even Arlo.
"Glad you are alright, and shhh she doesn’t know I am here. She is having a girl’s night with her friends so I sneaked here." He placed a finger on his lips.
"I understand Mikasim, even if you didn’t co. I don’t want you to get in trouble with her." I smiled reassuringly at him.
"I won’t, you don’t worry." He reassured .
Ralph had brought flowers which he placed on my side table. " Thanks, Ralph, that’s very kind of you." They were beautiful flowers with pink and purple petals and filled the room with their sweet scent.
All of them sat around as Ralph began to tell jokes sending us all to roll in guffaws of laughter.
Even Arlo stayed and I could see him trying to hold back his smile. I knew who that girl was and why Arlo didn’t say anything to her at that point. I wished I was wrong but only ti will tell who was on whose side. It made my heart swell to be surrounded by friends and I wished we stayed that way and deep down I desired for Zeph to be here as well.
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