My head felt heavy as I tried to massage it. I only slept for two or three hours last night in his room, and I don't know what pushed me to start a conversation with him about random things in our lives. We kept talking to each other until two o'clock in the morning, and it just stopped when I told him that I needed to sleep. It's been three days now that I'm sleeping in his room, and all we talked about was me and my fancy side of life until midnight or maybe even after midnight. I've got nothing to ask about him since I can sense that he doesn't want to talk about his life in the first place.
I respect it, and I know for sure that he's still adjusting to the sudden transition that we made. Like, I never expected that I'd be sleeping in his room comfortably, but look at me now.
I'm on my way to university now, and today is a big day for all of us after a long vacation. My classmates seemed so pleased with what they did during vacation that they even flashed things to get the attention of everyone when I reached our room.
Unfortunately, some of them heard about my upcoming wedding of mine and wanted me to invite them all. I'm not that popular in the room, but all I can see right now is the sparkle in their eyes as they want to please me and expect me to invite all of them.
"I'm pretty sure some of you already know that she will never agree to that," a familiar voice caught their attention, and I just smirked as I heard her voice sounding so insecure.
She's Chrissie, one of my few classmates who's like me—a vampire. She's also snobbish and stubborn like me, but our difference is that I don't boast about anything to my classmates, while she flashes everything she can at them.
In short, she's an attention seeker, while attention is craving only for me.
"Who knows?" I said it teasingly. "Maybe I'll just change my mind and suddenly agree to invite all of them."
She was about to speak when I cut her off.
"But of course, except for you, you're obviously not invited."
"Watch your mouth, suckers," she warned me, as if I was going to get scared at what she did.
"You watch your mouth instead, bitch," I warned her back before I moved to another seat even more away from her.
That girl was too proud of herself. She's a low-ranking vampire anyway, and I could kill her in this instant if I wanted to; I'm just trying to fight the urge to do it because I'm not like that at all.
Because of the embarrassment she got from what I said, she looked at me the whole time, even when our first professor came in. She's glaring at me like she's thinking about all the things she wanted to do to me at that moment. Just to tease her and piss her off even more, I raised my middle finger at her.
She instantly stood up and was about to walk towards me, but since our professor was still in front, she got scolded for what she did and even laughed at by our classmates.
I smirked at what happened and pretended that nothing happened.
New lectures came in with the warm welcome of several professors who said that my study could be a potential thesis study of the year. I could have finished all of it if only I had not been distracted by the whole wedding plan. Nevertheless, all of them still find it good.
When I got out of the room, Chrissie's group was already waiting for me. I rolled my eyes at them, and just before I took a step downstairs, I felt a hand push me, and all I know is that I'm on the floor, lying there with blood on my left arm. Some of my classmates helped me, and when I looked up, I saw Chrissie laughing at me.
"You really know how to piss me off, huh?" I said before that I wiped the blood out of my arm.
She stepped downstairs towards me, and as she walked closer to my face, she whispered.
"You deserve that because you belong to that ground, you trash," she said before she walked away from me.
My classmates checked up on me, and moments later, I could already hear Luke's voice calling out my name. Maybe some witness already told him what happened. He looked at me like I was a hopeless case for him to take care of.
I just smiled at him and told him that I was craving a beef steak outside the campus.
I know he will never let this thing pass, and neither will I. I'm going to let that woman pay for what she did. She already reached her limit, and she's going to pay for it. I know she hates me since we're freshmen; she looked at me like I was her rival at everything.
Well, it's not my fault that I'm always better than her.
Back then, I ignored all the things and all the lies she told our classmates about me. I ignored all of it because I don't want to get caught. Even though the students here and their society as a whole accept my kind and Cooper's, it still doesn't mean that I could just let them know who I am. I still have to be careful about everything I do. But that girl has gone to my limits, and she'll pay for it, I swear.
Luke invited me to eat in a newly opened restaurant just a couple of blocks away from our university. It's a restaurant that offers a buffet-style menu where they serve different recipes from around the world. I find it interesting, so I agreed to tell my brother.
We're already there when I notice a familiar van parked outside the restaurant. I checked the plate number of it, and I was right about my hunch that it's one of Cooper's vans.
Is he inside?
I didn't even get to see him on campus earlier, so I guess he skipped school, or maybe he just didn't have any classes for today. I just followed my brother inside first and roamed my eyes around. He's not here, but when I noticed that there was also someone seated upstairs, I looked up and saw him sitting there, looking so serious with his laptop on, and he was typing something.
I went to his table, and I knew he already saw me, so I eventually called Luke to follow me.
"What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Stop bothering your boyfriend now," Luke held my wrist to stop, but I had already sat down in front of him.
He just took a glance at me before he continued to read something on his laptop. He didn't answer my question, so I just looked at him. I looked at him until he lose and sighed. He moved his laptop to the other side of the table, away from him, and looked back at me now.
"I'm trying to finish something," he coldly said.
Luke on the other hand got a bit scared that he even pulled me to stand up again, but I refused.
"Sit down now, brother; we're going to eat with him today," I said while looking at him eye to eye.
I don't know what's up with him, but he's like another person today, unlike the guy I used to talk with every night. Maybe it's because of work, but that is not his usual aura. Today, his aura is even darker and colder.
What happened to him?
Even though Luke doesn't want the idea of being seated with Cooper at one table, he sat beside me to put down his bag and excuse himself to get food for the both of us. Now I'm left with him, and he's still not saying anything after earlier.
He's just looking at me as he leans his back on his chair now, like he's trying to understand what I'm thinking too. I don't know what's happening, so I cut the silence off and spoke.
"Are you just going to stare at me until I finish eating later?" I asked jokingly.
"You surely know that it's obvious that I want to be alone right now."
I don't know why, but his words felt like a thousand knives slowly ripping my heart and soul all of a sudden. It's like he indirectly told me to move away and get lost. I don't know what to say, and I'm supposed to feel something between anger and hatred, but all I can feel right now is that my heart is kind of aching from what I heard from him.
What did he do to me, and why do I feel like this?
I stood up as I saw Luke coming back from the buffet holding a tray in his hand.
"Fine, go fuck yourself," I said as I walked away from his table and pulled Luke to just sit downstairs on another table.
He wants to humiliate me so badly in public, I guess, huh? Suit himself. He's little bipolar shit are starting to get in my mind. I'm just getting so annoyed with myself because I can't bring myself to hate him now. Is he toying with me the whole weekend, and now that I'm back on campus, he's acting like a cold beast again?
I can't get myself angry at him, but I can easily blame myself for getting him annoyed earlier. I'm blaming myself just because I made a mistake with that guy.
Gosh! Who does he think he is?
Bullshit.
Luke and I were already sitting, and he started to eat as he kept asking me what happened upstairs. I couldn't bring myself to talk about it because, as I remember what happened, I felt knives continuing to stab me all over again. Gosh, this is such bullshit.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
Bullshit.
"Stop thinking too much, bunny," Luke called me by his favorite pet name for me.
"He slapped me," I said.
Luke stopped eating, and he's ready to move, but I spoke again.
"He slapped me with words I didn't expect would come from his mouth," I said as I looked away from Luke.
In my peripheral view, I can see how he got himself calm again. He looked at me, waiting for another thing I wanted to say.
"We're getting better, I guess," I said as I chuckled. "He's treating me as someone that can be appreciated, but just now, he suddenly dumps me right on my face. Who does that sh*t?"
I can't help but ask my brother. I know he will not answer that question since they are different from one another, but I just don't know how I should react to it. I'm getting anxious as I try to think, "What did I do wrong this time?"
Luke reached for my hand and gently squeezed it from time to time.
"Maybe he's having a hard time today," he said, trying to console me.
"Consider the possibility that he doesn't?" I counter.
"Then that is his concern, not yours," he said before he started to eat once more.
I was unable to comprehend what was befalling me, yet I'll just allow it to pass for some time. I actually have something to do this evening for Chrissie.
I'll simply manage him subsequently.
I murmured before I began to dive into the food that Luke got from me. In our lunch, I let him know my arrangement for Chrissie, and he concurred. I advised him to simply startle the shite out of that young lady and afterward let her disagreement the center of the parking area as she weeped for help. I simply need to terrify her and find out how far she turns out.
At the point when we got done with eating and Luke had proactively paid for the feast, I promptly let him know that I'd be returning home today. I actually have a stuff to get done, and I'll require it for my last guard on Friday, simply the day preceding my wedding.
I called one of Cooper's watchmen to get a van for myself and shot in the arm before the eatery. As I glanced back at the café, I actually couldn't envision what had simply happened before. I couldn't say whether he's still there accomplishing something on his PC, yet I simply trust he'll be home this evening.
He ought to be home.
….
Coming back to the penthouse, I halted at the closest store where I could get something to cook for both of us. I don't have the foggiest idea why I'm doing this, yet I feel like I ought to take care of him today since I think he wasn't in the right state of mind prior.
I got a few meat and a few vegetables, yet I actually don't have the foggiest idea what to cook from them. At the point when I arrived at the penthouse, I washed them all and looked for something great to cook. It's just three PM, however I'm beginning to set up every one of the fixings I really want.
I will cook paella.
That is the most straightforward thing I saw on the web, I think, so I'll simply go with it. I'm cutting every one of the vegetables, and I'm now cutting the boneless chicken I purchased when I heard the lift ring and the entryway open.
Cooper came in with his weighty eyes and put his PC on the counter with an envelope on top of it that I don't remember him having prior in the eatery. I'm going to make some noise and let him know that I will cook for him this evening, however all I heard was the banging of his entryway to his room.
I had enough.
I sneered and put the blade down. I toss every one of the vegetables in the sink, even the chicken, and get into my room as well. I likewise hammered the way to allow him to hear that I'm getting disappointed and befuddled by his activities today. I set down on my bed, covered my head in the cushion, and yelled.
Screw his bipolar disposition.
He will lament how he treated me today. I ought to have realized that he'd be this way assuming I let my watchman down. God, I ought to have stood by listening to each fallen angel I have inside my head and not believed that person. Simply check out at me now.
A call came in, and as I saw Luke's guest ID, I replied.
"Where is she now?" I promptly inquired.
"She got found out around five minutes prior, buddy, and this young lady cries so clearly," Luke grumbled.
I finished the call soon after I heard what he said. I messaged him the location of the neglected parking area and let him know that we could meet there around six o'clock at night. I additionally advised them to put something on her mouth so she wouldn't get so clearly later.
With respect to me, I just tidied myself up and cleaned up for around twenty minutes just to let some steam off. I'm as yet restless about Cooper's activity, yet all I need to contemplate right currently is the way to place Chrissie in her legitimate spot.
I wore a basic, curiously large dark shirt matched with white biker shorts and dark elastic shoes. I likewise put on my dark cap to cover my face when I get outside the structure later. As I completed the process of preparing to head outside, somebody thumped on my entryway, and all of a sudden Cooper somewhat made the way for take a gander at me and inquired.
"Did you toss the food in the sink?" He asked, however I overlooked him.
He stood up appropriately and posed a similar inquiry once more, yet I didn't reply too. This is the very thing he needed, correct? To get baffled? Then, at that point, be baffled.
He moaned multiple times before he talked once more.
"At any rate, spend no cash once more in the event that you're about to squander it."
I feigned exacerbation at him.
I keep on blowing dry my hair, as he has previously headed outside. I at last stood up and escaped my room as well, since it was at that point time to go.
I saw him in the foyer; he had quite recently escaped his room, however I behaved as I didn't see him.
He asked me where I was going, however I actually would not reply. He then pulled my wrist to confront him, however I quickly eliminated his hand from mine and escaped the penthouse. I didn't allow him to converse with me.
I got injured by what he did, and consequently, I would rather not fly off the handle contemplating him, so I just let him join my misery.
Presently, we should both get baffled.
…
I've already arrived at the abandoned parking lot where I told them to put Chrissie. When I got outside of the van, I immediately saw her tied up in a chair with a blindfold on, crying hopelessly. I stand in front of her and put away the handkerchief in his mouth. I can see tears in her eyes, but all I can do is laugh about it.
Well, you get what you deserve.
"Please let me out," she pleaded.
I just smirked and pulled her hair. She cried in pain as I pulled it; even more afterwards, I pushed the chair she's sitting on. She fell on the ground, and now her face has a lot of scratches on it.
I didn't want her to hear my voice, so I remained quiet as I pulled her hair again and pushed her chair to the other side to get her to cry even more.
She kept saying sorry, and that's the moment I took the chance to take a video of her crying and saying sorry. This will be in my collection of funny videos. I need to watch this every time I'm annoyed.
As I began to get satisfied by what I did to her, I signaled Luke's men to untie her and let her run on the parking lot. As soon as she stood up, she ran, crying in the middle of a dark parking lot and sounding like a little girl.
Such a baby.
I thanked my brother for all of this, and just as I was about to go home, Luke held my hand to catch my attention.
"I think I already know why your boyfriend acted like an asshole earlier," he said.
"What happened?" I curiously asked.
He gave me an envelope before he walked away, and so I opened it when our driver had already driven to take me home. I suddenly became so nervous, and when I pulled out the papers inside, I frowned as I realized that there was a large sum of money that had been missing for the past three months from Cooper's company.
That is the reason he was so serious before.
I advised the driver to drive quick, and right when he left the vehicle, I in a split second got out and hastily strolled into the lift. At the point when I arrived at the right floor for our penthouse, I opened the entryway, however the lights were all off, and as I opened the one in the front room, I saw Cooper in the gallery. I advance toward him.
He saw my presence, and he glanced toward me. He just grinned at me prior to taking a taste of his red wine.
"For what reason didn't you tell me?" I asked and pushed him delicately when we were simply inches away from one another.
"Enlighten you something regarding what?" He honestly inquired.
"That there is clearly somebody on your organization that is attempting to take cash from you," I said and gazed directly at him.
"I would rather not annoy you," he moaned.
"Be that as it may, I ought to be familiar with it; I need to be aware of it," I dissented.
There's a touch of shock and disarray in his eyes as he hears everything I just said to him.
"You need to know it?" he inquired.
"Obviously I need to!" I shouted.
"How could you need to be familiar with it?" He asked once more.
I was left confused by his inquiry. Indeed, even I was unable to comprehend myself any longer. I'm not my typical self once more.
As he saw that I was unable to express anything about it, he just pulled me in for an embrace and established delicate kisses on my shoulder like he generally used to do.
"I can't afford to bother you anymore, okay?" He said it while he was hugging me.
"But –"
"Besides, you should focus on your thesis defense since I've already finished your paper."
I moved my body away from him a bit and looked at him.
"You did what?" I asked in disbelief.
"Your thesis, I finished it."
What the hell?