My Bothersome Life 69 Making Amends 1

"Rika! Hey Rika!" Ellen waved her hand in front of my face.

"Rika, you're blanking out again," Sh.e.l.ly commented while laughing.

"What?" I mumbled back.

Sh.e.l.ly and Ellen exchanged gazes. "We don't see you with Charles nowadays, isn't the project due soon?" Sh.e.l.ly asked with concern.

"Oh about that, isn't it due tomorrow morning? Maybe I'll start it today?"

Sh.e.l.ly gasped and Ellen glanced down towards the ground.

"We heard what happened between you and Charles but I think he really did try to apologize to you Rika in his own way although he does have his own faults." Ellen smiled while trying to defend Charles.

"Now that I think about it, I did see Charles working on something really hard alone in the library for the past week that he came to cla.s.s with really dark circles under his eyes." Sh.e.l.ly recalled.

I did get it. Ellen and Sh.e.l.ly were telling me that Charles was working on the project alone right now and I should forgive him as the better person since he tried to apologize.

"At first, I really didn't like Charles after how he behaved around you. But, he just seemed really pitiful being alone all the time." Ellen added.

"Doesn't he have Alex and Luke to hang out with?" I asked curiously.

"That's the thing, ever since the day of that incident, Luke and Alex never talked to Charles again." Ellen replied.

And that meant that Charles was alone this entire time. Usually partners hung out separately away from each other since partners were almost always forced to be together during cla.s.s time, inside the dorms and other events. It was a unusual case seeing groups of both genders hanging out with each other without their partner as it could be seen as having an 'affair' of some sort from Sh.e.l.ly's words.

Although this was not the reason why I spent time with Sh.e.l.ly and Ellen rather than Alex and Allan. Spending time with Sh.e.l.ly and Ellen was truly better than Luke and his friends that liked to study in their spare time rather than truly having fun.

"Ok, fine. I'll talk to him during the break." I harrumphed.

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I went to the empty library to find Charles all alone.

Charles looked terrible. He had dull amber eyes with large dark bags underneath with skin that lost its brightness from when I last saw him.

"What do you want from me?" He scowled.

"I'm not here to apologize. But, I did want to help on the project to do my part too." I stiffly replied.

I was not going to apologize to him first when he made a ruckus in front of my room when he did not get what he wanted when he whacked my head first.

"It's fine I don't need your help, I'm almost finished anyways." Charles answered stubbornly.

"I'm trying to make amends here."

Control your mana Rika. Control. You can't let your mana get out of control just because of your anger.

"It's all your fault anyways," Charles mumbled.

Well, if saying things calmly weren't going to get through to him, I guess another place where we could truly talk was the best next answer. I opened a teleportation gate and pushed Charles into the circle before he had a chance to even respond.

The hover bus was as empty as last time. I looked around to see the large cushy interior and proper windows that showed the scenery outside.

Good. This bus was a actual bus and not a bus leading to another dimension.

"What have you done?" Charles looked both mad and fearful.

"We're on the bus since I thought this was a more appropriate place to have a conversation."

"You do know we're not allowed to ever be off campus without permission right? Do you know what could happen to us?" Charles replied with a bit of panic in his voice.

"Oh please, then I'll just teleport us back to that library." I tried to open another teleportation gate to see it not working.

Huh? Why was it not working all of the sudden? I only brought Charles to the hover bus that had the school as one of its stops to have a conversation where we could yell at each other a bit and not attract attention.

"Why aren't you opening that gate?" Charles asked in mockery.

"It's not working." I said seriously.

"What do you mean it's not working?" Charles sneered.

I tried opening the teleportation gate several times again to see it fail. It was really strange, I learned in cla.s.s that the teleportation gate would work up to the fourth district when Daniel kept was yelling the fact while glaring at me as usual.

"I'm not joking. It's really not working!" I yelled.

Charles' face changed from trying to get back at me to fear.

"You try!"

Charles also tried to open a teleportation gate. He initially looked surprised and had a hint of panic in his actions, but his body started to tremble with more failed attempts.

In disbelief, Charles looked outside the window and then his face looked soulless.

"Please tell me what I'm seeing outside the window is not true."

I never did pay attention to what was truly outside the window. I looked outside the window to see a land full of snow and signs of flame and tents far out in the distance.

"Where the heck are we Rika?" Charles trembled.