Chapter 579 - New Roommate (6)

"I can't believe you managed to pull this for so long," Charles joined me inside my storage room.

A week had passed as I used the teachers to hide from Luke and Alex. The teachers were passionate to teach a student that would normally look outside the window. I was actually able to answer the questions they asked without Shelly's help more than half of the time. Once I spent an hour with the teacher after all the classes ended, I immediately teleported near the storage room. Since Oili was going to come back a week later, I desperately needed another place to stay.

"How furious are they?" I couldn't look at their faces.

"You're dead once you're caught," Charles brightly smiled.

"What are you going to do once social week starts?" He slightly worried for me.

"Luke can go to the events alone. I have another hideout in the first district," I revealed.

"Luke is definitely not going to leave you alone if it happens," Charles seemed amused.

"You'll be humiliating him," he explained.

"It's not the first time he attended him alone," I pointed out.

"That's different. Everyone knew what happened back then. It couldn't be helped," Charles leaned against his chair.

"Oh, you're here," Jules joined us, opening the door.

"You don't normally come here," I found it strange.

"You have to apologize to Luke and return to the dorms with him. He's beginning to plan something that goes over the line," Jules warned me.

"What is it?" I wondered.

"He's planning to seal your mana with the conditions that only he will be able to release them when needed," Jules went into the details.

"He's already done that before," I shrugged.

"Permanently in addition to chaining you to him," Jules' face hardened.

"What?" I shouted.

"Why? Just because I'm not using the same dorms as him?" I became dumbfounded.

Jules nodded his head, pitying me at the same time. As expected, I could only rely on my childhood friends. It was nice to have Jules back on my side again. Only a few people knew about the new storage room. Even Cillian didn't know since he signed a contract with Luke. We had to be extremely careful in giving access. Currently, the people who knew its location was limited to me, Jules, Charles and Oili.

"You're going to have to beg them really hard," Charles continued to smile.

"I have to leave now. He wants everyone helping him in this," Jules opened the door.

"Wait. Where is he right now? Isn't he busy with fraction work?" I stopped him.

"He was inside his dorm room when he made the calls. I think he's giving you a chance to return. You know that you come first to him compared to fraction work," Jules left the room.

"Let me practice my acting on you," I turned to Charles.

"Sure," Charles was enjoying this.

After Charles helped me perfect my begging skills, I stood in front of the door to my dorm room. I took a deep breath before I began to knock on the door. I really didn't want to come here, but I had no other choice. Who knew Luke would take extreme measures? I waited for someone to open the door, not confident enough to go inside on my own.

Unfortunately, Alex was the one who opened the door, instantly pulling me inside. My head went blank as the door closed behind me, almost jumping from the loud noise. I started to regret coming so early when I felt unprepared. He gestured to me to sit down on the couch as he sent a message to Luke. Within three seconds, Luke teleported to the living room, joining us on the couches.

"I apologize for not letting you know I would be staying with Delia during the nights. I didn't cause any trouble," I blurted.

"You weren't with Delia during the nights. We visited them several times during the night," Alex knew I was lying.

��I was with Sienna and Cillian for some nights and the other times with Shelly," I was glad Charles had helped me with this.

"We checked all of their rooms several times every night," Luke wanted the truth from me.

"I'm close with Miliana. I stayed with her sometimes," I revealed.

"Charles let us check their rooms too," Alex narrowed his eyes.

"What about the club room?" I was running out of ideas.

"We placed an alarm inside the club room," he had a counter.

"I slept outside!" I couldn't think of anything else.

"Tell us the truth Rika. We searched for you every night, including the courtyards and classrooms," Luke waited for me.

"Let me go for this and I'll tell you," I started to negotiate.

"As long as you don't know, I can run away the same way again," I pointed out.

What was I going to do without Charles? He knew exactly how they thought, better than I did. Although he was impressed by my begging skills, he had good ideas on improving them. He enjoyed watching someone beg him, pretending he was the king. He was the one who taught me how to mix threats in the midst of my pleading.

"You expect us to let you go for this? Who runs away from their dorm room?" Alex yelled in Luke's place.

"I do," I confidently faced them.