Chapter 118: Moving On
I scowled at Night which made him shut up as I pulled my phone away from him.
"I-I’ll call you later."
I hang up the phone and gulped after Night went silent because of what I did. ’It’s totally his fault why I raised my voice at him, so why do I feel so guilty?’
"I didn’t an to raise my voice," I said but Night completely ignored .
’Ugh! Why is this person so moody?’ Can’t he just tell
if I made sothing wrong? Even though I wanted to ask him what his problem was, I couldn’t ask because I didn’t want to argue with Kenji being here with us.
I waited until we reached the mansion, but the mont the car stopped, Night quickly went out and ignored . ’Is he seriously on his period?’ I thought as I couldn’t believe it.
"Would the lady want
to talk to the young master?" Kenji asked as he opened the door for .
I shook my head. "I’ll handle it. Thanks for asking." Even though I don’t want to deal with Night’s moodiness, I still need to get along with him. He said he likes
but he’s acting like this.
Why am I the one who’s supposed to chase after him and ask him what’s wrong? I’m aware that I didn’t do anything wrong to him, so why am I the one that needs to reconcile with him?
Due to annoyance upon realizing the situation, I went to my room first to calm myself.
"Great job today again, young miss." Rika greeted
but I couldn’t force a smile. "Is sothing the matter?" It looks like Rika’s already figured out what’s wrong.
"I’ll be sleeping here first. If I don’t wake up, then don’t bother waking
up anymore." I said as I was about to lie on the bed, but I rembered what coach Samantha said. Do not skip als, and do not sleep too late.
"Rika, bring
my dinner in my room." Rika turned to
with a smile.
"Yes, young miss!" She rushed out of the room after that.
My phone started ringing the mont Rika went out, and I saw El’s na. ’I guess he’s going to talk about the date.’ I thought as I accepted the call.
"Hello?"
"Hi, Ellie! I know you said you’ll call
but I just can’t wait to hear your voice again." El said making
sigh. "Is it alright? Are you, kind of busy right now?"
I looked in the direction of the door and said, "No, I’m free right now." I shook my head and went to the bed. "What do you want to talk about again?"
"Oh! I actually forgot, I only want to hear your voice." He said making
taken aback.
’If Night acts and says things like this, maybe I’ll fall for him imdiately in a blink of an eye.’
But I know he’s not the type to be all honest with his feelings. What do they call that in Japan? Hmm... ah!
"Tsundere."
"What? I’m not a Tsundere!" El quickly said making
realize that I said that aloud.
"I-I didn’t an you."
I heard El laugh. "I see, you’re distracted." He said making
feel embarrassed. "Did sothing happen with you and your crush?"
The way El asked that made
feel uncomfortable for him. Didn’t he confess that he has feelings for ? Wouldn’t it hurt him to know that I might still have lingering feelings toward Night?
"Nothing. It’s my teammate, she’s being cold to ." I lied. Leslie’s already done being cold to
but I’m using her as an excuse. "Anyway, when are you going back?" I tried to change the subject and I think it was effective.
"I’ll be going on the 1st of February." He said with a cheery voice. "I’ll be able to watch you right? I really want to watch you win." El said.
The way he cheers for
makes
think that he’s an older brother cheering for his younger sister. If my brother was alive, would he be like that? Would he be protective and strict, or would he be carefree and gentle? I don’t know. My mom only said that my brother died when he was still in the womb so there’s no way of knowing.
"What about your younger sister? I rember her na is Marielle." I said. He’s really a caring older brother since he’s managing even his sister’s transfers.
"She’s at ho. I think she’ll be having fun with her friends for a while before leaving." He said. "What about you? Are you doing great these days? Right! I forgot to congratulate you."
"For what?"
"You won the beauty pageant, right? Although it’s obvious you’ll win."
"And why is that?"
"Because you’re—"
"The food’s here, young miss." I couldn’t hear what El was saying because of Rika.
"I’m sorry, I’ll hang up now. I’ll eat my dinner and go to sleep since I’m tired."
I heard El giggle. "Okay, okay. Eat well and rest well." He said and I hung up on him.
"Who was the miss talking to?" Rika asked.
"A friend."
Rika didn’t bother asking anymore and she watched
eat everything. ’I need to eat a lot to gain more strength for the practice.’ I thought as I could feel my eyes closing due to tiredness.
"The miss mustn’t sleep imdiately after eating. You’ll get fat." She said after seeing that I’m really sleepy already.
"I won’t," I said as I let out a yawn. "I’ll rest first then take a bath." Rika nodded as she prepared the bath. While I’m at it, I should probably go read so notes. That’s what I thought until I received a text ssage on my phone.
Take care of my ring.
The mont I read that Z’s face imdiately flashed inside my head. How could I forget? I’m not safe from him anymore... unless I don’t go out of this mansion ever again.
’My ring!’
I rushed towards the desk and opened my drawer. When I saw that the ring was still on the jewelry box, I was relieved. ’What am I doing? It’s not like Z could snatch this while I’m hiding it here. That’s the reason why he needs to abduct .’
"What am I going to do?"
Despite difficult thoughts going in and out of my mind, I still continued training as if nothing was going on, and the day for the semifinals arrived without a hitch.
It’s amazing that even if my head’s out of the gutter, I could still do my training well. ’Is it that thing called muscle mory?’ I’m doing things even though I’m not being able to focus. I told myself not to do that because I’m afraid I’ll drown, but I still won.
"Wow! Noelle what was that!?" Ericka asked with her eyes wide open as they rushed towards
and pulled
in a hug. "That was amazing!" I looked at the scoreboard and saw my new record. The crowd scread and cheered for
as I could still feel the water dripping off my body. ’I won?’
What in the world? Did I really win the race? How co I didn’t know?
"Hey. Are you alright?" I looked at Leslie after she asked
that. She’s also wet and she removed her head cap while walking towards .
"You’re out of focus." She whispered into my ear making
flinch. "Don’t let the coach see you out of focus like that. She’ll surely scold you." Leslie tapped my back and pulled
towards our other teammates.
I feel ashad despite winning. ’My head was up in the clouds and I’m worried about sothing else instead of what’s in front of .’ I gulped as I followed Leslie.
Coach Samantha looked at
and I could feel that she wants to tell
sothing, but she didn’t. "Congrats, everyone. I’m so proud of you all." She said with a huge smile on her face. Even though I don’t know what happened, I tried to smile at them to celebrate our win, but I feel like I don’t deserve it.
"Ellie!" I heard a familiar voice in the bleachers. A wide smile with bright baby blue eyes stared right at . "Did you miss ?" He asked with his hair twinkling due to the bright light from the ceiling. Everyone’s looking at him, even those people I don’t know.
’My god, could these n stop garnering attention?’
"Your prince charming’s here," Ericka whispered to my ear. "We’ll change clothes first." Ericka waved back to El and pulled
to the locker room with the others.
"OMG! Noelle’s really snatching all the good-looking n away!" Tristen said aloud as soon as we entered the locker room.
I shook my head. "I’m not."
"But would that be fine?" Doreen asked with a worried tone.
"What will?" I asked.
Doreen looked at the others. "Because Night’s here too."
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