Yes, yes, yes, I know it has been a long time. And yes, I know that Ara is already in the story. Please don't rage to me about it. I was 2500 words in when I remember I introduced Ara in the story. Pretend that Ara is a new student- for me. Ara x Add incoming 3.
Chapter 6
What?!
Raven's P.O.V
"Junior students, I have an announcement," Mrs. Stella said. The room was buzzing. Our homeroom teacher, Miss. Luriel, had told us that Mrs. Stella was coming to make an important announcement. The morning had been the same. I caught up to Eve in the morning, and walked her the rest of the way. We didn't talk much, only something school related, involving science. Eh, I enjoyed the peace and quiet though. That is, until Elsword ran into us. God, I sometimes can't believe he's a year older than I am.
"It's time for the class trip!" Mrs. Stella continued. This wasn't news. Every year, the junior class goes on a class trip to Bethma. It was Mrs. Stella's hometown. It was always sunny, and the ideal place to get a tan. Not like I needed one. I spend most of my times outdoors that my tan is natural. Anyways, there are many beautiful sights to see there. I only been there once when I was 4. I was excited to go there again. The sunsets and sunrise, although I highly doubt I could wake up in time to see the sun rise. Also, this year, there's going to be a supposed meteor shower, which Aisha is super excited about. I myself was personally planning on going to see Bethma Lake.
"Unfortunately, Bethma is infested by lizards. So we'll be going somewhere else." Everyone was confused. Where WERE we going? Apparently this question was on everyone's mind, since the room was buzzing with confusion.
"Anyways," Mrs. Stella continued, "While we're deciding on where we are going, I have 2 more announcements. One of which will involve new students." That perked everyone up. We usually don't get new students, except for apparently Eve last year, and when we do, they show up at the beginning of the school year. It was 3 months in, so of course new students at this time was not normal. Everyone was wondering who they would be. Some of the fangirls were hoping for a cute boy, while boys prefered a cute girl. It was all the same to me. I just hoped they were talkative and nice. Not that Eve was mean, but it would be a nice change, talking to someone.
"The votes for president are in for this year," Mrs Stella said. This too also perked everyone up. I could hear some of the girls whispering my name, and there was the occasional Rena, Aisha,and Elesis mixed in. Eve didn't seem to care, it was all just a silly game to her. Which in its own case, was, but being president does have a lot of interesting stuff, like helping the teachers. While I'm sure that I won the popularity vote, I can't forget that the teacher's votes are weighted differently. Ultimately, whoever gets the most votes from the teachers, not the students, will win out. This, Eve does have a shot at doing. The teachers seem to all like her better than the rest of us, even though they can't play favorites. Except for Mr. Banthus. Eve just stay out of Mr. Banthus way, and does the bare minimum.
"However, before we announce this year's class president, I'd like to introduce the new students," Mrs. Stella said. I heard a few groans across the room. I let out a soft grunt myself. I can't stand the suspense of this. I was curious on the new students, though.
"Class, please welcome Ara and Add," Mrs. Stella said, gesturing to Ara and Add to come in. Ara was the first to come in. She had dark,ebony hair, tied up into 2 "tails" behind her back. Her hair was extremely long, and she wore a shy smile. She wore a red, black, and white dress, and there was some kind of crest on her necklace. Her eyes were amber like mine, but they had a greenish color to them. She had one long, flowy sleeve on one shoulder, but none on the other. Her skin was pale, and she was around 5"6'. She could be my sister, if it wasn't for her pale skin.
Add on the other hand, looked more like Eve. He had violently violet eyes, was towering over Eve at 5"10, and had this crazy smile on his face. His hair was whitish, like Eve's, and was messy. He wore a black T-Shirt, and a long pair of black jeans. He was wearing a light jacket that was a lighter violet. His eyes was on Eve, and to be honest, I was feeling a little jealous. I don't know why, but that emotion just washed over me like ocean waves breaking a sand castle.
"Ara, please sit next to Aisha, and Add please sit next to Eve. Aisha and Eve, I trust that you will catch them up to speed," Mrs Stella said, demandingly. Aisha was excited to get Ara sit next to her. She wanted to know everything about Ara, but more importantly, she wanted Ara to know everything about her. Aisha was chatting with Ara for the next 5 minutes or so. Ara either gave a short response, smiled pleasantly, or simply just nodded her head. They were getting very friendly towards each other. Ara caught my eyes, and smiled. It wasn't a I-like-you kind of smile, but more like a nice-to-meet-you kind of smile. The friendship that Ara and Aisha had developed was non existence between Add and Eve. Eve just simply handed Add his text books, and went back to reading her book. Miss. Luriel expressed a look of concern on her face, but did not question anything, since Add was intently reading. Eve and Add made some sort of conversation, but it was only one or two words. For the most part, the girls were happy with Add, and the boys were happy with Ara. Mrs. Stella was still in front of the class tapping her foot impatiently.
"Ahem," Mrs. Stella said, "If I may continue, I'd like to announce the class president." The room piped down. Ara ask Aisha a question, probably something to do with president, while Add just sat there, a bored look on his face.
"While Raven won the popularity vote by a landslide, Aisha and Eve did win for the teacher side. However, let's see who will ultimately win out," Mrs. Stella continued.
"In third place we have a tie between Rena and Elesis." There were a few applauses. For the most part, no one could care less. A few boys sighed, but Rena and Elesis both knew there wasn't any chance for them from the start. While Rena and Elesis were liked by all the teachers, they knew that barely to none of the teachers would vote for them with Aisha and Eve.
"In second place," Mrs. Stella said, dragging each word like it had 5 more syllables, "we have a tie again. Raven and Eve, who both excel in studies." A few girls let out groans of defeat, as if they were in the election instead of me. A lot of the girls gave me looks of sadness. A few of them mouthed sorry. That meant Aisha had win. It was no surprise.
"Aisha, congratulations. Although we don't know where we will be going for the class trip, I would like for you to turn in the rooming charts by Monday. We have 10 Rooms and 34 students. However, 5 of them room 4, 4 of them room 3, and 1 of them room 2. Get started," Mrs. Stella said. I smiled. Right off the bat, Aisha got her first assignment.
"What?!" Eve and I both stuttered in unison. It had been a month. Mrs. Stella decided that we should go vacation in the snowy mountains of Hamel. Apparently, Chung's family own a resort there, since it was Chung's home town. Ara's family was able to cater all of our food, and Add's family planned out our entertainment. Eve and my family had little relevance to the trip, so we just donated money to help with the funding. Aisha got the room chart done. The past month had been generally, for the most part, the same. The day Add and Ara came to our school, we had walked home together. Ara lived in the same neighborhood as we did;however, Add lived on the outskirts, although his house was much better. During lunch, Aisha invited Elsword, Chung, and I to sit with them. Ara and Add was also invited, but they choose to sit alone. They were hitting it off. Later on that day, I learned that Ara was really fast at doing sprints, but was lacking endurance doing cross country. Add wasn't a bad athlete himself, keeping up the pace with Rena and Elesis. While Add excelled in studies, Ara was hovering right above the B mark. Eve and I still got some alone time while walking home, but we usually just stay quiet. Life at home wasn't much different either. Mom and dad were almost always busy, but mom was home a lot more. Eve had confided with me that her parents were much better, though. It felt nice, someone trusting you enough to tell something so private. After a month had finally passed, we were on the bus on our way to the resort in Hamel. On the bus ride, Aisha, Elsword, Eve, and I sat in one row, in that order. A girl called Alana's family owned a traveling company, and had donated the transportation. While we were going up to Hamel, it was getting colder. I saw Eve getting the goose bumps. I handed her my jacket.
"Here, Eve, take this, you look cold," I said, taking off my coat and handing it to her.
"Thanks," she managed to say, grabbing it hesitantly. She draped it over her shoulders and started to push her head into the seat, in order to fall asleep.
"Elsword," I hear Aisha said, "I'm cold." I felt bad for her. I would lend her my jacket, however, I knew Elsword will give Aisha his. Aisha and Elsword did need a romantic moment, afterall.
"Well, damn. Aisha, I can't control the weather," Elsword rolled his eyes, missing the point entirely. Aisha just huffed and sunk down in her chair. I sighed. Honestly, how can Elsword be this stupid. I saw his sister, Elesis, giving him the death stare. Elsword just shrugged it off. I started to unzip my jacket. I had only a T shirt underneath, but I guess it would suffice.
I gave Aisha my jacket, "Here," I said. Aisha looked at me hesitantly. Eve even gave me a look of concern.
So I said, "Don't worry about it. I'm fine." Saying thanks, Aisha took the jacket and put it on. I heard fangirls all around me sighing. Gosh, do their lives just have to revolve around me? An hour later, we got to the resort. It was quite big. It was covered in snow, and outside was freezing. I still had only a T shirt, and was shuddering. Eve looked at me worryingly. I smiled and waved it off. Finally, we were in our room, although cold, which was much warmer than outside. This is where we both stuttered the word, "What?!" Earlier that day Aisha had said our rooming charts.
"This year we will be having coed rooming," Aisha had said, smiling slightly. All of the girls were fantasizing rooming with Elsword, Chung, Add, and I. Although I knew that Aisha wouldn't let any girl room with Elsword, he might feed Chung, Add, and me to the girls. I was hoping not.
"In the 5 rooms of four, there will be Rena, Elesis, Add, and Ara. The second one will be Elsword, Chung, Alana, and I…," Aisha trailed off. I recognized Alana. She was part of my fan group posse. She looked pretty happy being able to room with both Elsword and Chung. Finally, she got the room with two. There was only two people left. Eve and I. I was quite surprised by this, but Eve just looked worried. Perhaps it was the idea of sharing rooms with a boy.
Aisha giggled as she said, "For the room of 2, it will be Raven and Eve." I heard all the girls muttering in protest. Something about how Eve already spends enough time with me, and that it wasn't fair. Everyone was trailing off to their rooms, happy or not. Aisha accompanied Eve and me to our room. This is where we stuttered, "What?!" The room was nice; however, there was only one bed. I started to protest. I wanted to room with Eve, but we were not going to share the same bed.
Aisha giggled slightly again. I was terrified of the giggle now.
"There's only enough hot water for one shower in this room," She said. I couldn't believe it.
"Aisha," I said, "Do you hate us?"
"No, I simply ran out of people to put in this room."
"But why a boy and a girl?"
"Odd number of boys and even number of girls."
"Seriously?"
"Yep. Oh, and Raven?"
"Yes?"
"I know that you'd offer to sleep on the floor so Eve can get the bed."
"So? Is there anything wrong with that?"
Eve blushed.
"Yes," Aisha said walking out the door, "look for yourself."
Now thinking about this, the floor was not carpeted. It was wooden, and it was freezing. I sighed. Why in the world does she hate me. God, if it was up to me Aisha and Elsword would be in this room. Eve noticed the flooring, too, and started to speak.
"No, it's okay, Eve, I can sleep on the floor," I said, sighing in defeat.
"Although I appreciate the gesture, I'd prefer you not," she said, looking at me. This took me aback. I didn't expect her to say that.
"Well, I don't want you to sleep on the floor."
"I'm not," she said. Wait, is she implying that we would sleep on the same bed?
"The same rules apply," Eve continued, "no looking, no touching, and certainly no sexual statements. If you break any of them, you'll find yourself in the freezing cold in your night wear."
I held up my hands and nodded.
"You take the hot shower," I said, "I can get the cold water."
"No, it's fine," Eve said, dismissing the thought with a wave of her hand.
"But-" I started to say.
"No, you walked in here with a T Shirt. You are not going to take a cold shower."
I sighed. Oh, well. At least I get to take a hot shower, which I needed.
When I first got in the shower, it was very hot. I was thinking about life. My school work, my family relation, my friendship with other people: all of them were going down. I had a feeling that it stemmed from one person: Eve. I guess it wasn't her fault. I didn't have to walk her home, I didn't have to give her so much attention, and I certainly didn't have to room with her. For some reason, I just do. I just feel. I just feel. I feel complete around her, cliche or not. My thoughts wandered off to Eve. Although we didn't seem to talk much, we did enjoy each other's company when we walk home. I was still thinking about Eve when a cold jet of water sprayed on me.
"Fuck," I thought. Oh, well. It felt nice while it lasted, at least.
Drip, drip, drip was the sound I heard as I stepped out of the shower. I put on my boxers and my pants, and then put on my shirt, which I didn't even bother to button up. My skin was still wet, so I might as well button it up once I get dried off. As I walked into the room, I found Eve was staring intensly at me.
"Uh, Eve?" I said, hesitantly, "Is something wrong?"
"Move. You're blocking him from my view."
Him? Wait, what?! I whipped my head around. Sure enough, Elsword was sitting there, his cheeks red. Almost like someone had hit him or something.
"Eve," I said, quickly buttoning up my shirt, "You know that I don't mind you slapping me, but slapping someone else-"
"I didn't slap him. Aisha did," Eve interrupted. Oh? Well, I didn't know Aisha had enough willpower to do that. I sat down on the bed next to Eve.
"I used up all the hot water. Sorry," I whispered into her ear, not wanting Elsword to hear. Eve just simply nodded her head. She was still staring at Elsword. Elsword just sat there his cheeks puffed out, angrily. Soon, Aisha came in.
"Elsword, it's time for dinner. I trust that you'll behave yourself?" Aisha said, smiling ever so slightly. Elsword just muttered a reply.
"Raven and Eve," Aisha said, looking at us, "How do you find your room?" She giggled again. That stupid, fucking giggle. Soon, we found ourselves at the dinner table. Everyone gasped. Ara's family sure put it over the top. There were plates and plates of main courses, appetizers, and desserts. Everyone complimented Ara, as Ara blushed. Add, Aisha, Ara, Elsword, Rena, Chung, Eve, and I soon found ourselves digging in our plates in a corner seat that was overlooking the window outside. The street lamps were on and it was drizzling, giving the effect that the light was brighter than it actually was. Soon, we finished our dinner and all retired to our respective rooms.
"I'm going to go brush my teeth," said Eve, walking towards the bathroom, "after I'm done, you can brush yours then we'll sleep, okay?"
I simply nodded my head. I was tired anyways. I yawned and lay down on the bed. Soon, after Eve and I brushed our teeth, we both got in bed in silence. Eve kept tossing and turning, as if it was uncomfortable. It actually was uncomfortable; however, I was able to adjust well, but I guess Eve couldn't. I put one arm under Eve's hip and the other arm above and pulled her closer to me. She struggled for a bit, but soon, she just lay there, not moving.
"Sorry," I said under my breath, kind of hoping that she won't throw me out in the cold. Instead, she snuggled into my chest, and pulled the blanket closer around her. I smiled.
Writing this story was annoying. It was basically like this:
Me: I'm going to write my fanfic :D.
Muse: Lol, nope, you're going to play Elsword and League of Legends for the next 3 hours.
Me: Oh, okay! That sounds great!
3 hours later
Me: I'm going to write my fanfic :D.
Muse: Lol nope, you're going to eat and play the piano :D.
Me: But D:
4 hours later
Me: I'm going to write my fanfic :D
Muse: Okay! I'll help :D
-Insert muse being horrible and uninspiring quote here-
Me: Muse you're useless! D:
Muse: Oh, fine, I'll actually try now.
-Get brilliant idea from muse quote here-
Me: Great, Thanks Muse for this great idea.
5 minutes later- asleep on my laptop.
So, yea, it was basically like that. Except for you know more distractions.