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''Who is he though?'' Zelda asked.

''Alden, he is in your department,'' Rose replied.

''Oh, why is he like that?'' Zelda couldn't keep her curiosity down.

''Now, now, aren't you asking too many questions, nobody knows why he is like that,'' Rose's answer made Zelda even more curious but she decided to keep it shush.

Zelda and Rose parted ways to their own class.

On the way, Zelda met Tristian.

''Hey, is everything alright? How is your roommate?'' Zelda asked as she slightly tugged Tristian's sleeves.

''I didn't except for these people to be this good, His name is Ashton, a nerd if I describe him,'' Tristian replied making Zelda sigh in relief.

''You better behave otherwise...

''Ya, ya, I know we will fall in trouble,'' Tristian cut Zelda's speech.

As the duo reached the class most of the students were playing around.

Zelda and Tristian took the same seats as yesterday, Nicole who was sitting in front of them turned around, ''Hey, good morning!'' Nicole wished.

Zelda smiled ''Good morning,''

''En, good morning,'' Tristian replied as well.

''If you have completed the notes, could you please return that back to me,'' Nicole politely asked her notes back.

As if sudden realization hit her, Zelda opened her bag as she dug for the books, ''Here! Thank you so much!''

''Your welcome,'' Nicole replied with a grin.

And the bell rang, the students rushed back to their seats and an unfamiliar lady came in.

''Good morning class! You must be wondering who I am, My name is Lousie and today I am here to revive you guys from studies,'' The lady spoke with a charm.

The students cheered hearing what Lousie said.

Lousie chuckled, ''Ok, ok, calm down let me finish my introduction,''

''I am a counsellor, and I am here to fight the battle together,'' Lousie still had the smile on her face.

''Mam, battle? Are we combating?'' A guy from the class asked.

Louise shook her head stifling a chuckle, ''First, don't call me mam, it makes me feel old and yes all of us are fighting, aren't we? All of us have our inner battle so I am here to help you fight those,''

The students face looked confused.

''What is she talking about?'' Tristian whispered to Zelda.

''Probably she is here to help us figure out our problems and give a solution,'' Zelda whispered back.

Louise clapped her hands to bring back the students attention, ''Now, shall we play a game?''

The students cheered on giving their approval.

''Cool, now let's team up all of you into groups, what is the class strength?'' Louise asked.

''30!'' somebody from the back yelled.

''Good to go, All of you are sitting two on a bench which is perfect, now I would like all of you to take a pen and paper, and shuffle your seats,'' Louise instructed.

Zelda turned to look at the other side, she has been paired with Alden. The guy was still gloomy, with a pen and paper in his hand, his red hair covering his forehead.

Alden lifted his head to look at Zelda, his black soulless eyes met Zelda's green eyes which were filled with determination.

''Hello,'' Zelda awkwardly waved her hand.

But Alden just hung his head down once again.

Zelda just sighed, she had never met a person as beyond the pale as him.

''Now that you have shuffled your seats, let's begin the game, I will write some words on the board, I need you to write the first word that comes to your mind when you see the word, you are not supposed to show the answer to anybody except your partner and by the end of the class you need to explain what you understood about the person sitting next to you,''

Louise paused for a moment studying the face of the students, ''Let's begin,''

''The first word is...life,''

Students started scribbling in their paper.

Zelda and Alden exchanged their papers.

For some reason, Zelda found Alden's answer strangely true, his word for life was cruel.

Alden just stared at Zelda's answer which was 'race'.

Alden turned towards Zelda as he snatched his paper, Zelda frowned and took her paper, back from him.

''I hope you have seen each other's answers now, the next word is 'magic',''

'Power' was Zelda's answer and 'Nonsense' was Alden's answer.

Zelda was fuming from inside how could he disrespect a witch's ability?

On the other side, Nicole was mortified by Tristian's answers what kind of weird answers was he giving?

'Wizardry', 'Bluemoon', Nicole was having a creepy feeling from Tristian.

The game went on for half an hour.

''Good job, guys! Now I want all of you to tell me what you understood about each other,'' Louise clapped her hands in excitement.

Even after a few minutes, nobody volunteered.

''Ah! you guys are really tedious seems like I have to choose one among you by myself,'' Loise spoke finally running out of patience.

''Umm, you the girl at the back, yes you, the one with curly black hair,'' Louise pointed out at the back.

Zelda carefully stood up, 'out of all the people why me?' she thought to herself.

''What's your name?'' asked Louise.

''Zelda,''

''Cool, that's a unique name,'' Louise said with a smile and Zelda slightly turned red.

''Now, what's your partner's name and why did you understand about him?'' Louise asked.

''Umm, ah... His name is Alden,''

'This is so awkward' Zelda thought to herself as she could feel Alden's eyes on her.

'This guy was not even lifting his head, why is he staring at me?' Zelda thought to herself.

''Miss Zelda, you are zoning out, come on we are waiting for your answer,'' Louise spoke.

And now the whole class's eyes were on Zelda the spotlight was too much.