/Chapter One- The Night That I saw She Was More Than A Pretty Face.\\

I can't sleep.

I just woke up from the bloody nightmare; from the same dream I'm having for years.

And I hate it.

I wake up sweaty and all; and I look at the bed beside me.

Empty.

I panic. What could a girl do during lights out time? I silently curse the headmaster.

"Elliot, since you're the responsible one here, and you're the one who noticed anyway-"

"Wait, where is this going?"

"Listen. Miss Ada Vessalius is going to need a room. And I choose yours."

"What? I can't! And she's a girl, and I'm a boy-"

"And you're one of the capable students. The girl's dorm is full and is only for single people."

"But-"

"Let me finish. Your dorm is big enough for two people, and looking at Miss Vessalius's- err- body, I know she's hard to resist. For the other students, anyway. And I'm counting on you."

I wish I never noticed the rusty walls in her dorm room. I wish I didn't agree in the supplementary lessons that Vessalius offered. And I wish I never listened to Reo about my grades.

But how could that Vessalius survive the crumbly room of hers? How she always managed to smile at me even when I shout at her to 'shut up?'

I sigh. Maybe I was too hard on her.

I really don't know what to think anymore.

I go to my balcony; somewhere I would just feel the cool night breeze on my face and think.

Pushing back the curtains, I see a (gorgeous) blonde with that green wide-eyed innocence staring back at me.

"Elliot-kun!" she stammers as she looks at my bare... chest? (Oh, yeah, I forgot that it was hot in the room.) Oh great. "I'm sorry! So sorry! I'll go back to the room and sleep right away!" Ada (tries) to go in the room and instead trips among the potted plants in glass door. A real klutz she is.

I choke back a laugh. For the first time I see how innocent she was, with those beautiful green eyes of hers. I pretend to groan as she whimpers and is about to cry.

"I'm so sorry!" She cries, the round shape of tears falling from her face. "I don't really blame you for hating me right now, if I were you I'd hate me too, but I'm me so-"

She stops after seeing my outstretched hand.

I raise an eyebrow.

"I'm sorry. It's just that Elliot-kun's always mad at me," she says. "So, I'm really used to it."

Ada's words hit me like a knife. Was I really that angry at her?

It was my turn to say sorry; but of course I have a man's pride so, you get the point.

"Take my hand."

She looks at me as if I'm some kind of crazed being.

"I'm sorry?"

"You really have to stop saying that." I remark. "A noblewoman from the Vessalius dukedom must have her pride."

She laughs, takes my hand and lets me lead her to her bed.

"And Elliot-kun?"

"What?" I pretend to be annoyed.

"Thank you."

It's a good thing I have my back turned or else she would have seen my face burn.

/End of Chapter One.\\