Author's Note- Finally, that chapter came for which I was too waiting for.
Chapter 9-That one!
It was a Friday. I came back tired at about 8 PM.
"Hi, Elinor!" Regina said.
"Hello!"
"You're so late today," she said.
Heavens! It was the first time Regina had talked to me in that way.
"Well," I replied, "I have taken up tuitions and baby-sitting too."
"Baby-sitting?" Regina laughed.
"Yes."
"How will you manage it?"
"Um-I'll be comfortable. Never mind. It's for some time only. I need to make money somehow to afford my tuition," I replied.
"Alright. Well, whose baby is that?" asked Regna.
"Well, that's Mrs. Fairfax's baby."
Regina let out a chuckle.
"That Fairfax has a baby. She looks old though."
"May be, it's her baby. Or-I do not know anything else."
Regina nodded.
"Whose your tutor?" asked
"Someone called…um-yeah! Edward Rochester. He's-"
"Edward Rochester!" sighed Regina interrupting me. "Edward Rochester! Edward Rochester! That hot one!"
"What!" I exclaimed
"Isn't he hot, Elinor?"
"Well…..yes. But-"
"Yes. That HOT one. I'm going to tell all of them."
"So," I said, "that was the man you all were talking about."
"Exactly," said Regina.
I laughed.
"Do you have his number, Elinor?" Regina asked.
"Not yet," I replied.
"I'm gonna take his number then," said Regina.
"Regina. I beg you," I said. "You're half mad. You'll be ill if you become too excited."
Regina didn't listen to me.
"Regina."
At last, I just walked away from there. Regina Ingram was uncontrollable.
It was a merry Sunday at about four when a so-called Elinor Eyre walked up the steps of a bright green building with some fright yet a little excitement.
I ringed the bell. There was no answer. I ringed the bell again.
The door flew open.
"Good Afternoon, sir," I said to the man.
"Good Afternoon," he said in a strange way.
"May I come in?" I said.
"Sure."
The inside was dark. It was frankly, a bit scary and I hated darkness.
"Sit down," he said.
I sat on a sofa on the drawing room. Dusty!
Anyways, my first response was a sneeze.
"You were Regina Ingram?" he asked me.
I smiled and said "No, Elinor Eyre" but I had something in my mind troubling me. What was Regina doing here?
"Oh, yes. I remember you now," he said. "You've come for the tuitions, haven't you? I presume we met before."
"Yes, sir," I replied.
"Wait," he said and left for some minutes to a room.
Therefore, it was Professor Edward Rochester, the head of the History department of Thornfield University.
"What a hot man!" I thought, "Those vampire eyes are stunning."
"Those lips!"
"The jet black fine hair!"
"He's not that handsome though. The voice is a little rough. Well, that doesn't matter so much."
The man came again and this time with some books.
"Okay, Elinor concentrate to what he's saying."
"Shall we start?" he asked.
"What?" I asked with 100% stupidity.
"What have you come for here, Miss Eyre?" he asked. "Tuitions, isn't it?"
I nodded.
"Let's start, then," he said.
Professor Rochester took me to another chamber.
We started with our lessons.
I was keener in studying Professor Rochester's face than keeping my lessons in mind.
Once, Professor Rochester awoke me.
"Am I handsome?" he asked.
I was just staring at his face.
"Elinor, I'm asking something," he said and suddenly his hand was with mine.
I strode away the hand from mine. It was really, so strange.
I shook my head and came to the present.
"Um," I said, "Sir, what did you ask me?"
"Am I handsome?"
"Not that much," I said simply.
"Than how do you find me?"
"I can't say that," I replied.
Professor Rochester smiled.
"Let's continue, shall we?" he said.
"Yes, sir."
I was totally messed up.
Regina was barely in the hostel from the day my tuitions started. Always, she would go somewhere or the other. What was her secret?
