Disclaimer: I do not own Elsword
School just ended and Aisha was still in her classroom finishing off a bit of reading. However, the overly-loud screams outside was ridiculous, she couldn't concentrate. She ended up reading the same sentence ten times before getting irritated and decided to stop.
She sighed, pushing her glasses up.
"Might as well just go home." She mumbled as she grabbed her bag. As she put on her outside shoes at her shoe locker, she could hear some squealing, similar to those she heard on the third floor.
Aisha rolled her eyes. People these days.
She secured her bag on her shoulder and left the main building.
In front of the school entrance, by the gates was a group of girls surrounding someone. What Aisha didn't notice was red hair among many various variations of browns and black, until...
"Ah, Princess!"
Said purplette froze in her tracks, right next to the group as she looked over to see a wave waving among the cluster of girls. "Heh…?" The voice sounded familiar but she really hoped that it wasn't who she thought it was. But that address basically screamed out who it was.
"It took you long enough." Elsword squeezed out of the group, scratching the back of his head sheepishly. "I been waiting for you."
Aisha blinked. Once. Twice. Three times. You got to be kidding.
"Uh…" She then checked the situation with the people behind Elsword and decided the best possible route to go about this.
"Sorry, you got the wrong person." She ended up saying with a hand waving back and forth before booking it.
"Wha - hey, wait up!" His confusion was temporarily put off as he chased after the running girl, who was leaving a comical dust cloud to trail in her wake.
"DON'T FOLLOW ME YOU IDIOT!" Aisha exclaimed.
"This isn't call following if we're going in the same direction!" Elsword hollered and quickly caught up.
"What the -" Aisha underestimated just how fast Elsword could go and so, she slowed down. "Watch out, there's a -"
Thud!
"- lamp post…" Aisha winced and walked over to the redhead, who was still standing and rubbing his aching face. "Are you okay? How many fingers am I holding?"
"... two?" Elsword answered though it was a bit uncertain due to the headache.
The purplette blinked. "Huh. That sounded like it really hurts but you seem fine."
"How can you say that so casually?" Elsword groaned. "It does hurt!"
"Right…" She didn't know what else to say so she just decided to walk on, Elsword tailing right beside her. "By the way, why were you at my school? I thought you were with Noah at the police station."
"Oh that. It's… kind of difficult to find my sister so Noah took me back - I'll be staying with you two for now by the way - but she decided that I should wait for you to make sure you would come home straight away."
Aisha clicked her tongue.
"... You were going to stay late weren't you?" Elsword could read her face quite well.
"No." The purplette lied, averting her gaze, only to return back to him. "Wait, how long have you been waiting?"
The redhead scratched his cheek as he looked up to the sky. "Not… that long."
"You're lying." Aisha deadpanned.
"I'm not."
The girl huffed. "Whatever. But thanks to you, there's going to be a few rumors going around school tomorrow."
Elsword tilted his head. "Why's that?"
Aisha heaved an exasperated sigh."Never mind, I don't want to explain it to you. Just know that I'll be blaming you if tomorrow is worst than usual."
The redhead sighed, shaking his head. How irreverent can she be?
He noticed the purplette stopping in her tracks and he followed suit.
"Something wrong?"
Aisha pointed to the empty store right next to her, with the sign 'For Lease' on it. "That antique store… it's gone."
He tilted his head in confusion. "What store?"
"The store that we ran out from just yesterday!" Aisha elaborated. "It's empty now! How could it be emptied out this fast?!"
Elsword blinked. Rena... where did she go now?
"I don't know." He answered.
"But Rena said…" Aisha started, then looked at Elsword. "Didn't you say you're a friend of hers?"
"... yes?" The boy didn't like where this was going.
"Then you have a way of contacting her right?"
Elsword felt a bead of sweat rolling down his cheek. "Um… No actually… She's just an acquaintance that I met long ago." It's not too far away from the truth...
The purplette sighed in disappointment. "Oh well. But they had some interesting things that I wanted to look at…"
Aisha decided to resume walking while Elsword spared one last glance at the empty store before following.
...
"We're home!" The purplette shouted to the empty house when she unlocked it. It was a habit really. She developed it when Noah was always home before she could get out of school. It was only a few months ago that Noah had a change in her shift, though she said that it would be temporary. Then she'll be back to the night shifts.
Aisha pointed to the couch. "Sit down. Don't try anything funny because I got a bat and I'll use it if I need to."
Elsword sweatdropped. "O... kay?"
The purplette huffed and tossed her bag to the side of the couch. "What do you want? I'm going to make something to eat."
When no answer came, she walked out of the kitchen to see Elsword staring intently at the remote. "... Don't tell me, you don't know how that works either?"
The redhead laughed and shook his head. "Uh... No, I do."
She raised a skeptical brow. "Right..." She gestured to the remote. "See that big red button on the corner? That's the on and off button. Click it. Then use those arrows to see what you want to watch on TV. Got it? Good. Now, do you want something to eat or not?"
"... What?" Elsword didn't catch what she said since her voice drawled on idly.
"... Okay, a sandwich it is." Aisha nodded as if the redhead gave her a proper answer. She went back to opening the fridge and taking some ingredients out. She stopped midway when she took two slices of bread out of the bread loaf.
Why exactly am I making something for him to eat?
She pondered that while she's making two sandwiches.
...
"AAAAIIIEEEEE!"
When Aisha woke up next morning, it was the usual time. No oversleeping and no panic. She was still groggy when she got out of bed and still was when she opened her door. She did not expect to see anyone and she definitely did not anticipate the redhead stranger - yes, he still was - to be standing right in front of her door when she opened it.
And so, she shrieked and shouted out bloody murder before grabbing the bat she had against the wall of her room and tried to hit him.
"W-w-wait!" Elsword exclaimed, retreating back at the sudden attack. "Ow - Hey - Princ - OW! OKAY, STOP THAT!"
He got irritated by the relentless swing of her wooden stick and decided to intercept it, causing Aisha to open her eyes and registering who it was. That only made her kick Elsword in the guts in anger, sending him plummeting to the floor.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" The purplette exclaimed. "WHY WERE YOU STANDING IN FRONT OF MY ROOM LIKE A CREEPER?!"
In Elsword's defense, he was just trying to knock on her door just as she opened it suddenly.
"Wait, I just -"
"GET OUT OF MY SIGHT PERVERT!" Aisha shouted, tightening her grip on the bat and making more swings.
"What's going on up there?!" Noah shouted from below, which caused the high school girl to stop mid swing.
"THERE'S A PERVERT IN OUR HOUSE!" Aisha shouted back, glaring.
"... What?"
"I'm not a pervert!" Elsword protested. "Noah told me to get you and then you started screaming when you saw me!"
"A likely story!" The purplette retorted, raising her weapon. "Now face hell for me, pervert!"
"Aisha!" Noah decided to come up to see what was going on and had to take the bat out of Aisha's hand before she gave poor Elsword a concussion. "Don't jump to conclusions like that! Elsword was telling the truth!"
"O-oh..." Aisha's cheeks suddenly flared, realizing she got worked up over nothing.
"Now apologize to Elsword and get ready for school." Noah said sternly.
"W-what?!" Aisha exclaimed incredulously. She did not want to apologize to the redhead. It was his fault for scary the heck out of her and that he was just standing there! But her thoughts derailed when she realized that she shouldn't waste time. She can't be late to school again!
"Ah!" She rushed to the bathroom on the floor and shut the door loudly.
Elsword sweatdropped while Noah heaved an exasperated sigh, shaking her head.
"Don't mind Aisha." She told the redhead before going downstairs. "By the way, you're an early riser aren't you?'
"Um..." Elsword rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "You... can say that." The only reason he woke up early was because a knight can never let his guard down. Especially when he has a duty to fulfill.
"Right. Come down and eat." Noah smiled sisterly, reminding him of his own.
He feigned a smile. "Okay." Elsa...
...
"Wait, Aisha -"
"I'm going now, bye!" The purplette said hastily as she just grabbed a granola bar from the counter and left with that. She didn't want to stay for too long, lest she be reminded of the embarrassment that she made of herself early this morning.
"Gah!" Aisha huffed as she slowed to a walk. "I can't believe that dork! He should have told me sooner before I got hysteric."
She bit a chunk of her granola bar as she walked to school. Along the way, she saw the usual students and among them was a silver haired girl surrounded by a few girls. Aisha knew the girl from her year, just in different classes.
She was Eve Silvia, the Student Council President; popular among both girls and guys despite her cold demeanor. The purplette was also interested in the student council when she first came in but... since she needed student votes, she knew that that was impossible.
She cast a contemplative glance at the silverette. She found Eve strange. Even though she was constantly surrounded by her fellow students, she seemed... distant. Some say that Eve's just shy, others said that she was emotionless, and more say that since she's rich, she didn't want to bother with peasants. But Aisha's favorite was that Eve was secretly an android send to Elrios High to investigate the school's secrets.
Aisha chuckled under her breath. "Like that would ever be possible."
Eve caught her staring and returned with a poker face.
"Eep!" Aisha bristled and looked away, trying to act as if ntohing happened while she fidget with her glasses. She was a horrible actor to say the very least.
She was relieved when she got to school on time and scurried off to her class... only to hear snippets of what the passing students were murmuring when seeing her.
"Is that...?'
"Yeah, I think she knew that cute boy. from yesterday"
"He called her a 'princess'."
"What's their relationship?"
Oh great... Aisha mentally rolled her eyes. Elrios High wasn't known for their virus-like rumors for nothing.
When she opened the from door to her class, eyes were boring onto her immediately, making her sweatdrop.
"Uh... hey...?" She greeted awkwardly before making her way to her seat. Well that was a first. She greeted her classmates.
She was still getting strange stares but she tried to ignore it by looking out the window. I shouldn't have gotten up so early...
Stella slammed the attendance book on the desk. She was the class's history teacher yes, but unfortunately, she's also their homeroom teacher.
"Alright you brats, pay attention!" She snapped, her hand still firmly pressed against the book while her other was on her hip. "We have a transfer student and I expect you all to behave, got it?!"
Of course, that didn't go like Stella demanded.
Hearing that there was a transfer student riled Aisha's class up a great deal.
"A new student?!"
"Finally!"
"I wonder if it's a cute guy..."
"Psh, it's definitely going to be a hot chick!"
"Maybe it's -"
"Could it be -?!"
Stella had half a mind to smack all of them into a wall when a vein bulged on her head. "... Shut... the HELL UP!" She pounded a fist against the table, immediately gaining control of her class. "Didn't I tell ya'll to behave?!"
"H-hai!" Most of class 3 - A bristled for fear of angering their teacher again. But really though, they think that Stella needs some kind of anger management. Her getting choleric at them all the time was definitely not good for her health.
The brunette straightened up, satisfied.
"Get in here brat." Stella ordered, turning her head to the door.
The class watched in peaked curiosity as to who their new classmate will be. And when Aisha saw red hair poking in, she cursed all seven gates of hell and back.
"Don't just stand there!" Stella barked, pointing to the spot beside her desk, in front of the class. "Get in and introduce yourself!"
"R-right..." The redhead responded nervously. He walked to the front of the class and unknowingly gave the killer smile of his to his future classmates. "Hello. My name is Elsword Seighart and I'll be your classmate from now on. I hope we'll get along."
Aisha found herself banging her head against her desk.
Why me?
... I wanna hit my head on something too qq