AMY'S POV:
I did something out of my damn character and ran out of the class.
If this stupid hand of mine didn't stop shaking then I don't freaking want this attached to my body. Suddenly the image of Ash Williams* from Evil Dead appeared in my damn mind. Bloody hand! Well, if someone is into horror movies, they'll know what I'm imagining right now.
I walk for more like five steps and found two guys standing shoulder to shoulder, blocking my way. What the hell!
For a split second, I thought to change my route and go to the other way, but then... I freaking walked into them and make my own damn way. They both tilted to their sides - in opposite directions. I didn't even bother to look up at their faces.
"What the hell are you both good-for-nothing doing here?" I heard a more than enough familiar high-pitched voice of someone I'm running from.
And as if someone put wheels under my shoes I half fly, half run away. When I was running away, I felt my cell phone buzzing continuously. But I'm too busy at the moment to check it.
I ran and ran until... I finally ran into someone... Pink hell!?
I looked up and found a pair of hostile eyes staring down at me. I'm not exaggerating but he looks at me as if I bullied him in his past life. He keeps staring at me with his greenish eyes. Like I have time to gave a damn about them. I lowered my gaze before continue walking as if nothing happens.
As soon as I took a step, I got blocked, again. I looked up at whoever he is...
Is he messing with me? If yes! then sir you choose the wrong person...and time... and place. I don't know what expression he was showing as his face was covered in black mask.
"Move aside." I said calmly as if it's a usual thing to get blocked and stopped by others, he raised a brow.
I waited and waited... he just stands tall.
Sigh. I just freaking want one single day without sighing in exasperation...
Buzz~ I took a breath and checked my cell phone.
Joy: "Where in the hell are you?"
Nanon: "Why are you running? Did you do something wrong!"
Joy: "Yeah, tell Nanon! *Laughing emoji"
I rolled my eyes at my friends' texts. I was about to put my cell in pants pocket when I saw another message.
Unknown: "I thought you were smarter!"
I took a deep breath and looked up from my cell phone at the guy who was looking intently at me. I narrowed my eyes at him. Is he waiting for a reaction or something?
Sigh~
"Even though the day is beautiful... things keep happening one after one. So, will you just step aside so that I can continue my day pretending like nothing is wrong with my life nowadays?" I asked softly feeling tired of getting this kind of disturbing feelings.
I am literally on my nerves end.
After hearing what I said something changed in his eyes. Now he was just looking at me...as if... as if he finds me.... fascinating?
Nahhh... I shudder at the thought.
"Someone I didn't even know thinks I'm smart." I said in a little voice and smiled sadly "I wish I was not." Smile disappear at once.
He tilted his head slightly, furrowing his brows as if he didn't like my facial expressions at the moment. But I can't help it. What should I do? I'm bored of getting polite threats on regular basis and being followed outside.
It's more than five times that I felt like someone was following me. I'm kinda lose counting here. And that is so very serious.
As he kept tilted his head a strand of hair fell all the way down to his chin escaped from his top knot bun. I wonder what he looks like behind the mask.
HOLD ON!!!!!
Get yourself together Amy. I scolded myself. No more strands of hair, no more staring, no more wondering, no more anything.
"Now I'm getting late for my class. So just..." I motioned with my hands in a certain voice that I get when I minus softness, calmness and politeness out of my tone. He lifted his eyebrows at me in surprise.
'Yeah, I can be rude if I really wanted to...' I thought to myself and took a step ahead without minding if he moved or not.
Unconsciously he turned to give me space. I passed by him. After a few steps, I stopped and look back. And to my surprise, he was still standing still without moving an inch... looking at me for some reason.
"One more thing! No offense but... can you take of your jacket? It's kinda eyesore."
He looked down as if he didn't know what he was wearing. Then he clenched his fists tightly. Oh boy! Did I make him angry? Hope not. He looked...actually glared at me. As if I made him dressed like this. I grinned a little, took a step back, getting ready to dashed out if necessary.
"Little bit of smiling won't hurt you, you know." I said loudly and ran for my damn life.
When in the hell my life took a wrong turn!
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Vin's POV:
"Hey Rex! Why are you touching your chest? Are you having a heart attack?" I asked loudly getting attention of not only his but also many other students' who were walking around.
Hah! Bunch of white pigeons!
He just looked at me with his normal 24/7 hostile eyes. Stupid T-Rex. But for some reason as soon as he saw me, he bowed down as if... ashamed?
Did he do something wrong when I was not watching him? Maybe he's shy. Why, did some blind girl asks for his number or something?
I wanted to ignored him but stopped myself when he took off his mask and looked down at my jacket that he was wearing since morning. Pfft
He sighed... sadly. Even he looked a little down-down.
Don't tell me he's sad because he gets to wear this most expensive jacket for the first time in his whole life! Well, I can't let him be sad because of me. I liked him better in his Angry bird mode.
"If you hated this jacket that much, you should have thrown it away." I said while looking at him. He looked up at me surprised. "What! Do you think if you threw it away, I can't buy it again?" I yelled at him.
He first looked at me dumbfounded then he... chuckled???????
I widen my eyes to their freaking limits. Oh, my dear life! I almost called my half brother Enzo and asked him to take his guy back.
Like for hell's sake, I don't want to be accused of making a guy go nuts.
"H..hey Rexxy! Stop it already." I stutter while taking a step back, just for precautions. He looked puzzled. "I said, stop it at once! You look creepy as hell!" I shouted just to make him realize who's the boss here. Realization hit him and he smiled some more while rolling his eyes at me as if I was joking around with him.
"W..why are you even smiling?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Because..." He took off the jacket "...a little bit of smiling won't hurt you." He said in a voice I never hear coming from him.
Sorry Enzo I think I broke your forever-angry-at-the-world-T-Rex! Poor guy learnt to smile and it's hella creepy
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I was happy as hell and Rex was looking at me from time to time in his rear-view mirror. I wanted to share this new feeling with someone... but with who? It's not like anyone is interested in me...
Sigh~
I blinked a few times trying to feel sad for myself...
Sigh~~
I failed at that tragically.
"Hey Rex! Let go to Valenti's."
"..?"
"Let's go, I want to see my Erin immediately."
"Yes signorino!" He replied shortly and turned the vehicle to the Erin's house.
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As we entered in Valenti's house, Rex was alerted as hell, he even started to stare at every single living thing existed there.
Like seriously, I saw him glaring at a crow sitting on a branch of a giant tree. I almost died laughing when the crow stare back at him and then turned his head to look the other way.
"Haha, even the crow didn't like you, Rexxy!" I laughed extra hard when he makes a face as if he wanted to shoot the damn crow.
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Erin was surprised to see me... with Rex.
I rolled my eyes at her, like seriously she didn't see the pictures I sent this morning!
I just blinked readying myself for a mile long story.
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Erin served us black coffee with Tiramisu. I looked at her face and she smiled brightly I just patted her shoulder affectionately.
How naive of her! Serving coffee with coffee-flavored desert.
Rex raised his amused brow at the tray. Haha, even he knows how adorable she is... unbelievable!
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Later I took Erin to a corner of her house and peek out the window for no reason. Then took a long breath and narrated the whole series of events that happened today.
Her mouth fell open when I told her shyly that I intentionally make my Amy touched me. Heehee. She was looking at me in awe and I just sway around my body like a wind and batted my eyelashes at her.
"Poor Amy trying her best to only brush my free strand of hair away but I leaned forward and..." I started giggling at the memory while hiding my face behind the curtains.
"Then what happened? What did she do after that?" Erin asked in astonishment. She looked too interested - more than ever I've seen her before.
"She ran away." I made a face. Tsk!
"..."
"Don't give me that look. Everything happened so fast. And I didn't expect that reaction from her." I accidently shouted but then lower my voice.
World must be ending because now even Erin gave me The Look.
Sigh!
"Actually, I low-key expected it...from her. I mean she doesn't like to get touched - which is a good thing by the way. But I didn't know that she didn't like to touch others too." I tried to reason with her.
Like seriously, getting touched and touching others are too different things, right?
"Young master..." Erin started after a while.
"Hm?"
"Are you... sure?" She furrowed her brows as if in worry.
"About?"
"You and... Her."
"..." At first, I tried to understand what she said then...
That's it! I'm leaving!
"Young master...?" She was surprised as I started to walk away. I didn't utter a word after that, I just walked as fast as I can. I wanted to run but that would look pathetic and out of style. "Listen! I didn't mean to... please stop!" She was panicking but I don't want to hear her explanation... not at the moment at least.
Even though I love her like a sister I've never had but how dare she. Taking me for a... whatever!!!
How can she question my feelings! Do I looked like a type who freaking approach someone for a mere flirt...!?
Did I ask her if she was sure about her and that psycho cousin on mine! Freaking No!
I just simply asked her to leave Carl and come back to me.
I was running down the stairs, and she kept shouting politely to stop me.
Rex was busy eating Tiramisu when he looked up at me and Erin and make a puzzled face. Well, I don't have time to put the pieces of his stupid puzzle together. I kept rushing towards the entrance.
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As I was walking towards my car, I heard Rex swiftly following behind me. When I opened the door for myself, I saw a bike and a familiar figure on it. He took off his helmet and raised an amazed brow at me.
"Hey first brother what are you..." Carl started but I sat inside the car, and his voice cut off when I shut the door with a loud thud.
Then the door opened almost immediately giving me a heart attack. Erin ignored my yelling and rudeness and sat inside shamelessly, forcing me to move to the other side.
Rex was used to this kind of things, he took the driving seat and fastened his damn seat belt as if there's no one on the back seat. As he started the engine, the door of the passenger seat open and another guy sit inside.
Psycho Carl!
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For the whole ride, I just stared blankly outside ignoring two unwanted companies.
I know Erin kept looking at me but choose not to say a word. Maybe because of the presence of two other guys who are not in my favourite person's list.
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As we stopped, Rex glanced at everyone and go outside the car silently. I waited for him to open the door for me.
I felt two pairs of eyes staring at me.
"Young master I'm sorry! I didn't mean to offend you." Erin said softly.
"I don't want to talk about it." I said flatly. She first looks at me then at Carl.
"Valenti, can you please go out for a second?" She requested but I didn't hear any answer from my cousin, not even any door open-shut sounds.
Bloody Carl didn't leave us alone... Well, who cares I know Erin will tell him every thing later anyway so why bother to kick him out! I rolled my eyes and tried to open the door myself. For some reason, the door was locked. I look at ignition to see if there's the key then I looked outside and...
Bloody T-Rex was spinning the car keys on his first finger. Is he for real!
I start banging on the window but he was looking the other way as if he gone deaf all of the sudden. That man never missed a chance to annoy me. Urgh!
I will take my revenge on you! I glared at his stupid back.
"Vin, talk to me..." Erin started for the hundredth time.
"No!" I didn't even look at her.
"..."
"Carl, do you have a gun?" I asked and he raised an eyebrow, half amused half confused. "Just shot at the window, I want to go outside."
"The car is bullet proof," He said flatly and looked at me like I'm the dumbest idiot on earth or something.
Sigh, I grabbed my hair anxiously, then rubbed my whole face like Enzo does when he's irritated over something. Erin want me to say something that I don't even want to think about... not yet... not ever.
"Crazy brother, I think I've already seen enough of your melo-drama I don't know what's going on here but I think Erin's going to cry at any moment." Carl said casually but then he turned around to look me in the eye and said in a voice, not-so-politely. "And if she does, I'll freaking shoot you."
I felt a chill running through my whole body. Carl doesn't bluff. He's a man of action. Morbid action. Being a smart guy, I turned my neck to look at Erin. And yes, she looked on the verge of crying, at any second a tear would drop.
Well, I too don't want to see her cry so... I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"You were asking if I were sure about..." I closed my eyes tightly and then open them to look at him. "Well, I'm not. Not even a little bit." I tried to make a I-don't-give-a-damn face but Erin knows me better. She was my therapist after all.
Carl just looked at us trying to add one and one together.
"Vin..." She gave a sympathize look.
"I don't know what I want... never did. But when it comes to her... still I don't know." I shrugged. "If you met her personally you would know from a single meeting that she's different from others."
From the corner of my eye, I saw Carl stupid head nodding in yes as if he met her personally. Did he? My eyes widen a little at the thought. How did she managed to come out alive and even impressed my psycho cousin! Something is telling me that knowing would be more disturbing so, forget it. For now.
I tried to arrange my thoughts, they both just looked at me patiently. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes, as if I hypnotized myself or something - I saw her face before my closed eyes. I tried to remember every single moment in which we were together.
In a trance I start talking in a low voice... I'm gonna hate them for making me do this.
"She never treated me differently not even once. She talks to me like I'm one of the normal human beings she met every other day. She didn't rolled her eyes to insult my opinion. She always smiled at me... in an honorable way. She doesn't give me The Looks that I get from literally everyone. She never ignored me because of my crazy indulgence."
I stop to laugh a little then continued.
"She even gave me a chance to explain myself when I freaking hurt her. You should have seen the mark I left on her. The bruise was...horrifying. Even then she managed to smile a little at me.
She didn't give a damn no matter how big shot I am. When the other girls tried to approach me because of my affluent, she remains the same. I mean her eyes never changed no matter how expensive things I wore...
She never pass comments about my peculiar style that everyone hates in my damn house.
Look at my beautiful light blonde hair, my custom-made pink shoes. I walked around the whole college and didn't find a single soul who look out-of-ordinary or different in any way. Only I was the one. Even then she looked at me like..." I gulped "...I am freaking normal. And that make me feel special.
She never treated me like... Well, I know better than anyone that I'm a nutjob who didn't give a damn about what other thinks of me but that doesn't mean I deserve to be treated like an alien wherever I go."
I stopped as I felt my face getting wet, I touched it.
Ahh my tears... why are you crying V. Hart!
All the things I mentioned are good... then why?
A solid minute passed but the stupid tears keep flowing.
Another minute passes, I took a grip on myself. Stop being uncool!
I grinned at the two befuddled faces. "You know what, she's smart. Sharp-witted actually. Let's just wait and see if she's smart enough to run away from me when she's still had the chance." I held my head high and wiped leftover tears with back of my hand, harshly.
"What if she turned out to be silly girl?" Carl smirked at me. His eyes shining darkly.
What is going on in this devil's mind?
Erin just remains silent, thinking something too.
What is going on in this angel's mind!
I took a deep breath and give my psycho cousin an equally evil look. After all I'm the eldest among Lucchese brothers.
"As I mentioned earlier in my soliloquy, she doesn't give a damn about my wealth. And my sparkle doesn't burn her eyes*. She never smiled at me because of my charming looks. She possessed over-the-roof tolerance. She brings the worst out of me that I didn't even know existed..." I leaned forward a little and looked him in the eye.
"So, if she ever chose to held my hand I won't let her go. Never!" I grinned hard at both of them "Just say I am self-indulgent narcissist who can kill millions for a beauty's smile. After all I am freaking Vincent Hart Lucchese, the eldest one! The crazy one!"
I saw their eyes widened for a fraction of second. Good!
The killing part was just a joke by the way. Haha!
I took out my cell phone and dialled a number.
"You damn T-Rex! Unlock the car!" I yelled making Rex took away the phone from his ear. Humph!
He came and opened the door for me. Posing as if he just stepped outside from the driving seat and came for me. Bloody hell! No one is normal around me.
As soon as I stepped outside, I kicked him a few times randomly. At first, he looked mad but then grinned at me. Bloody creep!
I snatch the car keys from his hand and throw it at my psycho cousin who catched it easily.
"Take the damn car and get lost. Both of you..." I pointed at both Carl and Erin equally. "You are not welcome here today." I held my head high and turned to go.
Leaving them stupefied.
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Later that night...
Footsteps were approaching my door.
I grabbed the cushion tightly.
Ready to throw it at the guy who's about to enter.
"Signorino, it's time for your study. Where's your bag?" Rob asked in his robotic voice I throw the cushion at his face, he caught it without even reacting.
Foe of my happiness and joy!
"I don't know! Rex was carrying it around..." I said casually and looked the other way.
Rob called Rex.
"Hello! Rex?"
[Yes!] He put his phone on speaker.
"Where is signorino's backpack?"
[Oh that! That was in the car and...] Rexxy sounded amused getting my attention too.
[Mr. and Mrs. Valenti took it with them.] He started laughing and I just bite my cheek making a neutral face. Mr.&Mrs. Valenti is how people in this house called my Erin and psycho cousin. It's like an inside joke, only I don't find it funny.
Don't gave away V. Hart!
My Robot tilted his head as if calculating what Rex said. Then he turned his head to give me his four-eyes stare.
"You did this on purpose." I don't know if he's asking or telling.
I tucked my hair behind my ear gently.
Then stood up from my couch.
Then took small steps towards the door.
And finally I ran while laughing hard.
At least something good happened because of those two unwanted companies.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA~~~~
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