My Bothersome Life 26 Getting To Know Alex

I see Alex's flushed cheeks as he silently walks with me back to our room. Maybe he was holding hands with me knowing I was feeling a little dizzy?

I was touched by his actions, but I felt like a older sister watching her younger brother trying to grow up.

I thought of myself as about twenty three years old now. I spent 17 years in my past life and six years in this life. Even though my academic skills were a bit lacking compared to these bright ten and eleven year olds, I was mentally over ten years older than them.

I gave Alex a warm smile to thank him for guiding the way. When our eyes met, he quickly looked away to the other direction and resumed walking while avoiding my face.

Aww. How cute.

Luke wasn't as cute as Alex. He would look at me directly and nag me all the time to behave a certain way.

When we got to our room, Alex didn't let go of my hand as his grip became tighter. "I think we need to have a talk." Alex said in a serious tone.

"What do you want to say?" I asked very confused.

"I'm not as good as Luke when it comes to looking over your health, but I think you shouldn't overexert yourself right after you got out of the infirmary room. I apologize for my behaviour a week ago when I pushed you to study after you asked for a break. However-" (Alex)

Oh. So that awkward atmosphere was because Alex was looking for a timing to apologize. "It's not your fault!" I interrupted him.

"I should have been able to look after my own health more and I didn't. I didn't want to burden you with more minus points," I said with convincingly.

"Well, you don't have to worry about that. Just work on getting better!" Alex said sincerely.

I nodded and got into my bed to rest onto my new pillow and blanket. If Alex was getting this worried, I was going to rest for the weekend.

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Alex's POV

After eating my dinner, I was heading to meet Allan to practice mana together. While I was walking to the mana practice room, I encountered Mich.e.l.le talking to someone using her translucent marble.

"Sure, I'll transfer the files over right now." Mich.e.l.le said cheerfully.

"Thanks!"

The person on the other side of the call, reminded me of Rika. Even though I have only occasionally met Rika few times ever since kindergarten, I had a long-lasting memory of her each time we met due to her eccentric behaviour.

However, there was especially two that stood out lately:

One was when she made Allan kneel down at the field for about six hours. Both Helena and I know that whenever Allan doesn't get what he really wants, he throws tantrums by sitting down somewhere and not moving from that spot until he gets what he wants.

That was the tactic that Allan used to persuade Rika when she thought of doing a very 'Rikthing' to do and decided not to attend any cla.s.ses. Anyone who grew up in the first district couldn't imagine skipping cla.s.ses due to our strict upbringing ingrained within us ever since we were born.

Allan told me he was absolutely shocked when he heard that from Rika (not that I blame him though). At that time, both Allan and I felt even worse for Luke that had to keep Rika in check all the time.

Another one was where we got -110 000 points. Of course, the minus points shocked me, but Rika getting sick for about one week was surprising. When I sneaked into the infirmary room to check up on how she was doing, Rika looked very pale and somber.

I suddenly felt really ashamed of myself for trying to keep Rika awake with a water gun. I knew I had to apologize sometime, but I didn't know how. At that time, I just didn't want to get -100 000 points like Allan did.

I rarely apologized to other people, because my family had a high standing even in the first district. The only families that could rival our status and power was the families of Luke and Mich.e.l.le.

So after pondering for a while, I decided to go where Rika was and get the apology over with and asked Mich.e.l.le where Rika may be.

I hoped Rika wouldn't overexert herself after she got better, or else I would have to continue earning enough points for the two of us.