Better luck next life

A pin-drop silence falls in the ground of scorn dirt white rock and vacant gravel that is settled just between the significant expansion of wild timber and the affectionate insignia of my bottomless ambitions of freedom of a name, of identity, of me! Under this thick grey sky...

But,

' For you...for your sake only... You, You... You...YOU! '

"Great god, what sin I have COMMITTED?! " Pulling my aqua blue hairs through my pale frigid fingers, I cried with disdain morsel onto my tongue, crease on my forehead, and inflated blue veins through my collar, as if my whole world had turned upside down. Then left-right through the axis then the equator and at last, I am still plunging to the exact rock mountain to crash through my skull again and again within that loop of everlasting but culpable eyesore time, in short, I was damn boomed!

And he, the crush of my best friend, the fellow who tried to haze me on the first day, was now standing in a dump of puzzled and astonished, and scared throughout his heart and soul,

"Eh...viber's---" and lengthened his right hand to touch my elbow, however,

"Don't... Ahha... No! Never! " I wailed pulling my whole body away with a whim, jerking my skull from left to right constantly instantaneously like a little child, and his face was literally at Mount Peak of bewilderment, like another innocent child who was trying to figure out his mistake, but, the only concern and regret was that ' we ain't a child anymore! '

I clasped my fingers into a tight fist and raised my breathless gazes which were as ready to take the sacrifice of blood and soul,

"I...I can't be! You can't be... Agh... We?! (The depressed image of Nev rises inside the canvas of my brain) Kill me! I must have figured out that you had your evil (but...agh.... handsome) eyes set on me! "

"What?! Are you even hearing your words?!---" Plunging his knees almost to the ground, he exclaimed at the top of his cords, However,

"Don't act innocent!"

Aggressively, I heaved my hand toward that shameless being who was still trying to figure out the situation but, before it would have whacked him in the middle of his chest like a Japanese knife and cut him like a mandarin orange,

who am I supposed to hit? 

that strong physique? nah, God heavens! hitting this rock means hitting myself instead! 

"I'm the stupid one! Stupid!" I cried pulling my hair like a gardener unrooting the wild outgrowth of grass through my clenched fist, at least it has been of any use. 

"Viber's girl!"

"Stupid---"

"Eh? Let go!" Abruptly, he seized my wrist into his metallic cuff-like palm as if made up of titanium that was suppressing any form of resistance, but his face was distressed nothing like amusing or narcissistic or a bully, that was as if a fourth form--

"If you won't give me any chance to prove my innocence, then how can you know the other side of me? the one who has been wronged since the beginning."

wronged since the beginning?

'Then please me...'

Those words felt fresh when my brain re-installed them inside my cranium but why do these particular words resurface so suddenly?

Was it an accidental thought or an actual thought of the never-revealed reality?

Is it... Truly What I'm thinking or was it a part of his plan? I can't be certainly sure, there is an unearthing fear within my soul

But... On the other hand, some part of me which was darting straight into his eyes which were shimmering with a greenish glimmer, was somehow attempting to look in another direction

Agh!!! what a sucking tedious dilemma?!

"Ahem, Will you walk with me? "

Eh? Abruption through my resonant dilemma, he shook his head away from my gaze, he asked in suddenness, without reflecting on my face for once...

Something was unexpecting and awkward that I could feel in my guts- a sick feeling deep to my soul that would be foolish of me to ignore but---

His eyes rested on the ground unfocused, and his feet rustled through the dirt,

I shut both my eyes in a deep brooding and took a big lump of saliva down my dwindled throat-

'God, how many times am I going to be foolish?!'

"You have time till the bell rings for the class." I declared opening my adhesive eyes which were annoyed and helpless in many ways, Of course, he has helped and stayed by my side most of today's day without complaining (aha! let's exclude his drama) he could have done anything (means anything!!!) to me, I mean we are alone for a few more than half an hour- how much time it would have taken for such muscular physique athletic male to grab such a thin and debilitated lass in some of those forsaken corridors that we have walked to reach this deserted demolish site of the university and could have done the worst of the things that I even dare not to wish on my enemy!

but... the point is he didn't turn out not even a single thing of what I had been anticipating or maybe...

It is a blindfold which I have myself tied to my eyes.

******

the sky is still smothering in grey and white, and my feet walk coldly over this wasteland as if some wracked ancient German civilization where shivers are hiking through my body. was it just cold?

No, the air is awkwardly calm and filled with caution. 

and you know the reason,

the reason is walking somberly in front without a word stretching a cold stealth of suspense. 

however, don't you know my hobby of breaking ice?

"You were to say something after the bell rings?" I questioned pulling my hand over my waist. 

"When around me, are you always hurried and filled with hunger or your birth conventioner?" 

I raised my eyebrow glancing through that broad shoulder, questioning my ears, and cursing my foolish innocence,

"I am beginning to like your clumsy good points." 

And narcissistic bully was back, with that evil grin and devilish shine in his streamlined eyes that were looking right into mine however, this time it made me agonize in agitation-

"Enough! " I yelled wry,

Not because I was being April fooled in September, but because something has got over my nerves!

"Enough, Mito, stop pretending! Stop pulling this mask, again and again, you can say anything, and it will stay concealed within this heart and this forsaken palace"!

It's illogical how much I have gone inside such a 'dangerous' zone,

"What pretend? I'm the flirtatious playboy what else do you want to hear? tell me if you won't...because everyone wants to see this face, these habits they admire rather than what lies within it, they say they won't judge but all of them do, if I show the real me, they won't understand me and no one cares for it! And no one will! "

"But...You do care..." 

suddenly, his ignited eyes flicker looking into my eyes in awe.

"And that's sufficient" and gently I touched caressing his stiff shoulder,

He looked at my hand and then searched through my eyes with those baffled brown eyes. It was as if a street dog who had been bullied for more, had been cared for and now he felt somewhat uncomfortable but still comfortable towards that person.

Abruptly, he shook his head low and shrugged behind shedding my head that rested on his right shoulder,

Leaving me confused.

'Did I do something wrong? '

I rested my gaze on his face through his thick black hair which fell onto his forehead,

But, unexpectedly, he begins to giggle- leaving me questions twice-

'Did I seriously do something wrong or has he gone mad?! '

"If Viber hadn't found you first then undoubtedly, I would have been the one to steal you away."

I rolled my eyes at such a claim, the claim that only I and Viber oh sorry Gabriel too now know (many of Gabriel's gang too,) know how much is truth.

"Better luck next life" I waved my hand in the cooling breeze

"Maybe next period?" he beams stopping my way,

"Next? Or Next to next? "

"Sure, switch the girl!" I declared with a devilish grin, to which he frowned a bit, but then he finally said-

"Fine next life! You have to keep your word up"

Wait that's not scripted!

"I said 'Better luck next life' not 'I will be yours, next life' " I said pulling myself away from that big bag of protein,

"I heard the second one, so that will be counted instead"

"Cheater!!! " I cried punching my fist into his bold shoulder, however,

"Ouch, Viber's girl broke my shoulder joint" Such a big grown muscular boy, held his shoulder and began to wail dramatically,

'Such a child in a grown adult' I ponder,

And begin to walk towards the gigantic gate-like formation of red stone in the open yard from where the population of the University was visible- 'finally between people again! That means we didn't wander towards another state in our talks! '

But, suddenly he clenched my wrist, which gripped me in fright,

'Is my darkest prediction coming to light? '

I cautiously twisted skull around to view his face clearer,

That playful face was gone again, no child resisted anymore- it was the plain face of any other ordinary human being- a face that is smiling but at the same time is filled with dilemma,

But, the question is what dilemma?

When he finally said through those lips of his-

"...Thank you"

Oh...

My cautiousness fell below the ground, and a smile rose to my lips as I touched his hand which was still clenching my other wrist,

Where no further words were conveyed,

Until'

*Ring*

"Seems like my appointment has come to an end" he grins shyly stepping away from me as I shy similarly pulling a lock of hairs behind my ears and questioning to shift the topic of chitchat-

"Where are you going to head now? "

"Eh... Probably to the grounds to warm up, the next game is scheduled for next month" he commented stretching his arms to which I nodded going blank out for a moment,

"....? " he questioned something but I just knew it was questioning my tone however the words seemed to evaporate.

Have I been diluted so easily by standing or screaming?

I blinked my eyes twice and looked at his face again which appeared somewhat blurred to me, but was considerable-

"Viber's girl?"

Okay, words are back too,

"Hn!? Say it again" I said it straight

"I said what are your plans now? "

"Nothing much extraordinary- classes... Then classes---"

However, abruptly,

" Have you forgotten about your dual punishment, Miss Willow Stone? "

That---That----

"Professor...Tyler"

I didn't even call the devil yet and he's already here, more colder and handsome than always,

But, why is he here in the demolished site? Does he also have a liking for a walk just like his brother or does fate find ways to get my ass kicked?!

Well, I go with option B.

(Hey readers,

Gotta sleep today, nightly night

Your author)

*****

Spoiler:

Are you hurt?

He questioned upthrusting her chin with those frosty fingertips of his,

Is it butterflies that sweep through her stomach or is it an alarm of caution?