Author's note: Well, I've decided not to think of subtitles anymore. Yay~ Fell much better now!

Chapter 4

"Five lectures, nine seminars, two projects and a test. What else have you skipped!"

"Probably… Three essays?"

"…"

Tik tok, tik tok, tik tok…

Chilly silence fell in Roger's office room. There stood two persons. Same as a week ago, they were Roger and the little rule-breaker, Eva.

Eva looked at Roger with her blank doll eyes, showing no sign of apology or fear. Roger picked a tissue to wipe his sweat on the forehead, and then he sat down. Trying to calm down, he crossed his fingers and hid his eyes behind his thick glasses.

It was not like no one had ever caused troubles in Wammy's House. But the fact was, the other troublemakers played tricks, fought, threw things, overslept, stole food and so on, but not skipping that many classes. Maybe sometimes, yet definitely not that many. Wammy's House was an institution for highly gifted orphans. In order words, education was probably the most important practice. This strange little girl had really put Roger in a corner.

Putting down his glasses and rubbing his tired eyes, Roger asked with a calm tone, "Eva, what's wrong with you? You hate classes?"

Eva thought for a while, "I… I guess so."

She did not know, actually. She was not the kind of person that likes standing up against everyone or everything. She did not intend to make teachers and Roger angry. But that did not mean she was sorry. In her eyes, Roger's nerve was none of her business.

After a few more minutes, the rule-breaker left Roger's room. Roger ordered her to write a two-thousand-word letter of apology in one day. He also warned her that if she skipped class again, he would lock her in a special room and not let her left except going to classes. Eva did not care about the former, but the latter mattered. She could not stand being locked. She knew she would get mad if she were imprisoned in a restricted area.

"Ai…" she sighed softly. She obviously had no choice.

The next day in the lecture room, she, again, caused surprise.

"Hey the girl who frequents Roger's 'court' is attending a lecture!" though they had already known how to call her, they still tended to use adjectives or verb phrases.

Eva was not embarrassed, but a little bit annoyed. She did not want to be the center of attention, so she picked a seat at the very corner.

"Hey that's supposed to be my seat." someone poked her thin shoulder.

Matt.

Not seeming to move at all, Eva said, "Then now it's mine."

Matt rolled his eyes and sat next to Eva. He dug into his deep pocket for his gameboy and turned it on under the bench.

"So you wanted my seat as you could play this during the lecture?" Eva asked with a blank face.

Matt nodded and muttered, "I have another. Wanna play?"

Eva gave the entering lecturer a slight cool glance, then nodded.

They were enjoying themselves throughout the lecture. Matt did know how to pick right seats. As long as they put notes on the bench and turn off the sound of the game, no one would notice what they are doing. And of course, the redhead gamer was so skilled at this as he did such thing almost all the time.

3 pm. The dull man finally stops his bullshit, Eva thought as the lecturer was walking out of the room.

Matt turned off his game and stared at Eva, "Why do you come today?"

"Is that bugging you?"

Matt rolled his eyes, "That's just… Not usual. I thought you loved skipping classes."

Eva stood up and followed Matt heading out the lecture room. Matt smirked, "Are you gonna follow me to my room?"

Unlike normal girls, she was not embarrassed by this. "Up to you."

I like this strange girl, Matt smirked. Maybe strange people feel at ease when they are with other strange people.

They headed into Matt and Mello's room. There were messy clothes, books and CDs.

Matt cursed, "Shit I forgot to tidy my damn stuff. Mello's gonna freak out." He then started piling his mess at the room's corner.

"You call that tidying?" Eva stared at the pile of "trash".

Matt did not answer. He kept going on with his special style of "tidying". He actually felt awkward to do such thing in front of someone other than Mello, and he hated tidying when Mello was not there to help. Mello was always important to him. He was the only one entirely accepted and maybe, understood him so far. Matt hissed as the piled clothes collapsed and fell on him.

Eva, not like Mello, did not show any intension to help. Well he could not blame her; she was not his roommate after all. And she was kinda invited by him, wasn't she?

Eva stepped forward, picked up one of the books on Mello's desk. Advanced Physics mock tests. This guy is so hard-working indeed, she thought.

"Don't touch Mello's stuff if you want to survive longer." Matt joked. Yes, he knew very well about Mello's temper. Yet at the same time, more clothes fell down and covered his head.

"Shit! I should have continue my game rather than dealing with this shit!" he complained, though he could not believe he had complained to somebody other than Mello.

Eva put down the thick book and kneeled down to help Matt piling up his "trash". She did not like Wammy's House, but being with this redhead was acceptable. She hid her careless smile by lowering her head.