Chapter 7 Consequences and Decisions

I was woken up by my phone’s alarm that morning after that very stressful night . I didn’t have a wink of sleep because who could have thought that the “she” is such a pain in the ass to sleep over with. She is too surrendered to her instincts as an artist that even while asleep she is doing her painting stuff. This is a discovery of a new form of in-sleep activity. She is sleep painting.

I thinks it was just about 2 hours after we decided . I let her sleep on my room of course and I slept on my sofa since it is the most “gentlemanly” decision I can make in that situation.

At first , she started talk which is the thing that woke me up in that hour. She talks about a person, describing “him” in the most bizarre ways. Then she walk to my door , bumped her head a bit , I presumed for I heard a slight thud. Maybe its because the layout of my room is completely different from hers…which is well…entirely true. Then she opened it without waking up. She circled the sofa where I was sleeping , and ended up in front of the window. There she started stoking her hands in the air as if painting something.

I want to ignore it and go back to sleep , but every time she did that , every couple of minutes she will come near the sofa and smash me with her hands , as if shaking off some paint on the paint brush. So I was forced to wake her up a bit and help her to bed. Really this girl is a pain in the ass and she did that “sleep painting” three times. That is why I did not have a wink of real sleep.

Though to my surprise , upon getting up of the sofa , I found a note on the table…

<thanks for letting me stay the night , the hospitality is good-----Czarina>

So she left already huh? Why do I feel like I have been a victim of a one-night-stand scenario. I spend a moment clearing my head and do my usual morning routines before going to the university .

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At the university hall way , there is that 3rd year again that is giving fliers for the nature retreat , she is still giving out some fliers , does she doesn’t have enough members to go.I don’t usually initiate a conversation but since she came all the way to give me the flier personally before , I guess I will just do .

Before I enter the building , I walk infront of her and greeted her , she greeted me back which is I think normal for most people…she smiled with that greeting as well but something is so different from the smile that I saw from Czarina yesterday…well I guess a normal reaction like a smile has about 7 billion varieties huh.

“still doesn’t have enough participants?”-I asked

She sighed with a hint of disappointment …I guess I am right again

“unfortunately…yes”-she replied

“I guess the only ones interested in this kind of stuff are us on the ecology department”-she said which I think her “thinking out loud”

“That might be right ”-I said which surprised her for she realized that she just voiced out her thoughts

She looked at me a bit embarrassed as I am getting to more fliers from her

“I will tell my friends about this , and convince them to go as well ….but that is just 2 more people though”- isa id which she seemed to be happy about , for her smile is beginning to look like that one of “her”

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.After a moment of her expressing her gratitude a guy walk towards me from behind

“hey you”-the guy said

The 3rd year was shocked to see who is the one who called me and base on her facial reaction ,wide eyed , slightly turning red and fidgety reactions , this guys is on the “popular ” side of the spectrum.

I turned around to look at him with a sleep –deprived eyes which whe n I looked at it in the mirror , looks like a menacing eyes .

“and you are?” I asked for I don’t know who this guy is…probably he just have transferred here and surely he is on the arts department

“im Duke”-he said confidently or should I say “proudfully” as if it should matter for me

“and”-I replied which seems to irritate hiom for that shiver on his shoulder .

I waited for a moment for him to continue but since he doesn’t say anything I turned around to face the 3rd year and tell her that I will make sure that my friends will be participating .She is a bit flustered , and it is not my fault , but Duke’s , he must be really that po[pulatr huh , maybe I will up on him later.

When I was about to get out of this situation , a hand grabbed my shoulder stopping me from walking away and before I realized it we are surrounded qith quite a lot of people , which are mostly from the lower years or the artd department

“I am talking to you …so …. Don’t turn your back on me”- he said almost threateningly

I sighed and faced him again , as Althea’s words echoed in my head again

“You know you shouldn’t get involve with her”

Her words about getting involved with czarina and probably this is what she is talking about , I don’t want to drag this any longer so I out of necessity asked…

“so... what do you want”-I asked

He looked more irritated than before for those eye brows are getting closer toeach other

“do you not know who am I”-he asked

In my head , I sighed, so based on those sentence alone I conclude that this guy is a child of one of the sponsors of this school and probably affiliated with czarina and judging by these people around us he is definitely an “elite ” of the arts department

“your Duke …right…you just announced your name a moment ago”- I replied

He became more irritated , so I guess “knowing him” is a matter of utter importance…I sighed …sunshine people are just pain in the ass

“so what do you want”-I asked . he just looked me there , trying to figure me out I presume , but that would be impossible for a sunshine guy like you …

“if you don’t have anything important to say then , I will go here my class is about to start”-I continued after a few seconds of him just being silent there which I think made him snap.

I turned back after that for I really need to go to my class but then he grabbed my left shoulder and pulled it making me rotate my upper body a bit to face him again

“don’t you dare turn your back on me”- he said …in a threathening way , I think…oh man this guy are those guys who are pridedful of the names they did not made for themselves…his threat doesn’t seem to be threat though

People started growing around us and I was beginning to be irritated as well for the continued touching of parts of my body …so I looked at my left shoulder where his hands are and flicked it with my left arm.

If this guys really what I think he is …which is in the caliber of the empress in terms of status , then interacting or better yet being confronted by him might be risky as well…when this thing will become a huge mess which I think probabaly will for this many people witnessing . If I fight back , I might be ostracized and if I don’t , I will lose my seniority…crap this is a lose-lose situation for either way is a dead end and “HE” might step in if “HE” heards about it , which “HE” will probably do. But I would rather be ostracized than lose my seniority so I think I’ll just be returning his “so-called threat” with my kind of “threat”

I sighed as I was thinking that Althea and Cain will freak out when they hear about this

“look here transferee , first , don’t touch me again , I haven’t done that to you…”I started , he twitched on the word “transferee” so I guess I am right about that

“second…I don’t like to waste time so if you need something say it already…your wasting my time just passively waiting for me to praise you or something …”-I continued , he is silent but his irritation for being hit on the right spots is clear , those brows , I think they are a couple now.

I turned my back again because I really need to get the hell out of that situation to go to my class

“lastly , know your place in the system , I am your senior , transferred sophomore”- I said and started to walk , oh men , I think that is too much , nope that is probably just okay . I heard a slight stomp behind me , it him , I think then he shouted

“a nobody like you should not interact with my fiance”- he shouted

So that’s it , he and czarina is to be wed , then althea is right that I neeed to not get involve with her , “a nobody ” huh . I stop and look at him over my shoulder and said

“also…if you want to threat someone , do it properly –I said in a calm tone then…

…screw my day again , I will screw your entire life offline and online so bad that you’d wish you were never born in this generation”-I said as I menacingly stares at him , he twitched , then I stepped out off the dispersing crowd.

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What just happened in the hall way is , well expected I guess. Althea did warn me about the guys of the arts department doing something odd if I interact with Czarina which is the case . Conaidering that I have sensed her following me and her hiding skills behid that post , well I guess it is to be expected that someone saw her tailing me . whoever that is , he or she is not someone who can keep a secret .

I am pretty sure that were the only ones who are crzy enough to run in that rain . Well shes crazy and I was just dragged by her . So the observer must have only seen her tailing me and not the whole story , Well I guess that is jus how gossips works . There is a situation and you don’t know how it ended so you made your own version of the ending which you will tell to other people and gets embellished until it became so far from the truth .

Although that bastard at the hallway , I mean “Duke” didn’t get to ask what he must have asked me about and seems he is pretty new at this school and still that eager about knowing what happened about me and czarina . What about those who have interacted with her in the arts department for the past few weeks would do…I shivered just by imagining it . If I continue this , my “peaceful life” will be gone for good.

Considering that she came after me after that unfinisejd “debate” at the library when we met the second time there , she must be itching for a revenge match for all the losses that she had last night . She also must be waiting for me at the library later , where she alrerady caught me off guard twice . I sighed in disappointment for deciding to not go to the libarary to unwind and kill time . It pains me , but for the sake of my “peaceful life” , I will commit and not go to the libradry to avoid her . that is my end goal for now.

There is a problem though , for I cant go home or don’t want to go home duering that hour under the blazing sun , and I want to catch up some sleep or just to sort off refresh my brain from all of the complication that I have been dealing lately . The library will be off limits due to my “just made up commitment ”. I don not know where should I go now…this pains me as well.

I was thinking somewhere to go as I am tapping my pen quietly in the rhytym of the seconds hand of the clock without even looking at the clock . I am counting the ramainging minutes left for this class . The professeor is discussing about the projects that we need to build , I have already done mine , and now that I think about it , I could go to the workshop and watch other student sto do their projects which I think will be enough to unwind this brain of mine. For I like seeing people fail miserably but still gets back up and redo what they need to do over and over again until they can get it right. I was never those guys , for I keep track of all the steps that I need to take to arrive at a destination and go there , at its finish line in one go . But seeing individuals do the opposite of me seems kind of nice , once in a while , gthat is , so I would not forget how I roll in this life.

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