𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗠𝗲 ✓ Usui Takumi

Chapter 8

I watched as he dug his nails into his hair. Is he angry? I questioned in my head, completely unaware of what was going through his mind at the moment.

"Uhhh....Usui?" I called out to him slowly. "A-are you okay?" His hands fell from his face to his sides. I saw them clenched into fists, his veins were now fully visible on his arms.

For a full minute the muscles on his face were tense, his jaws were clenched and rage was burning in his eyes.

"Yeah I'm fine" he said with a smile.

Did I hallucinate earlier or was he full of anger just now?

"Anyways! I don't know how long this stupid rumor will keep spreading but I gotta find a way to stop it. I have to find who started this in the first place!" I wasn't joking when I said I was going to find out who started it. I couldn't let people believe such ridiculous lies! Especially when my life was the total opposite of it.

What would they think of me when they find out I'm actually poor?

"I'll help you for sure! They don't even know half of what you're going through yet they're spreading this. They must have planned it from the start. They must have known about you." He narrated with a frown.

"Right! That's what I'm thinking...but I don't recall having any problems with anyone..." I tried thinking of all the persons who I possibly did wrong to but there was none. Was it students from my old school? Do they know I'm going here?!

"What if it's Nezu?" Usui deadpanned. When he called her name I felt by body tense up. "Well— there's a high chance it's her since she already knew we lied about being cousins but I don't see why she'd go this far to do that to me. Is she seriously jealous?" I said sheepishly not knowing if Usui understood where the jealousy came from.

He looked at me with a raised brow but didn't bother to further question it. "How do we know it's her for sure?" Usui asked. I thought hard about how we could come up with a plan to expose it was her but when I finally put together my thoughts the bell rang.

"Shoot! Classes!" I cursed under my breath. "I am not in the mood to sit in class and hear all the students ramble on and on about me being crazy rich and wouldn't listen to me when I wanted to correct the misunderstanding. They also despise me because of that other rumor. No one talks to me now! It's so infuriating!" I accidentally shouted out while grabbing at a clump of hair on my head.

"Calm down", Usui patted my head and fixed my ruffled hair properly. "You don't need anyone else when you have me~" there he went again with saying those stuff. One thing's for certain, I made sure I kept my distance from Usui every time he'd be a bit too clingy since I didn't want to hurt Yui's feelings due to the fact that she really likes him and is planning on confessing. Why would I want to get in the way of that?! No-- wait! What if what happened last time made Yui not like me??!

-Flashback-

"Natsukiiiiiiii!" His annoying voice called out to me for the 5th time for today. "What do you need now?" I questioned in annoyance. "Get me a nature valley and a lemonade", he smiled. He was torturing me through that smile of his.

"What are you his maid or something?" Yui interrupted. She looked disgusted for some reason. "It's really irritating to look at you two being like that, don't you agree Nezu?" Yui asked. Usui, Nezu, Yui, Hina, Leonna and Yuta were all sitting at the cafeteria table with us but only Yui and Nezu seemed to be troubled by how Usui was behaving. As for me, I had no say in Usui's behavior or attitude. Sometimes he'd act so cold towards me then next it's like he's dying to get my attention, whichever way he was, I still had to follow his orders.

All Nezu did was glare at me. She hadn't spoken a word to me since the incident in the classroom.

"What is it to you anyways?" Usui cleared his throat and spoke loudly.

Yui rolled her eyes at me and got up from her seat. She slammed her tray of food on the desk then left in a grumpy mood.

Why is she mad at ME?! Why didn't she roll her eyes at Usui?! HE was the one who was rude!

I swear now she really hates me!

"Hey! Why are you even here anyways?! You're sitting with us and you aren't even in our class!" I exhaled deeply to let him know I was bothered.

"I don't want to be separated from what's mine." He said once again with a straight face. I bit my lip, trying to stay clam. "You really need to stop saying things like that!" I felt like my face was heating up which made me look away from him. He also mumbled something under his breath but I couldn't understand what he said.

"Ugh!" Nezu looked at us with disgust on her face then walked away from the table. 

They're jealous. 

-back to present time-

Judging by the way they reacted, I can use this as a way to get to them.

"Hey, meet me at that same place we met for ice cream those couple weeks ago. I'll be there soon so wait for me."  I said. I made up my mind  to get to the bottom of this and the only way to do it was to use Usui since he was the one who was partially responsible for this. 

"Okay then. See you there." With that, we both went our separate ways. 

~

While I was walking towards the convenience store to meet Usui I was thinking through the plan I came up with. Will it work? I have no idea but it's worth a try! I have to find out who caused this insane rumor. 

When I finally reached, Usui was already there, sitting on one of the empty chairs closest to the ocean view. He was scrolling through his phone while listening to music with his earphones plugged in. He was slightly rocking his head back and forth and his hair just swayed in different directions as the wind blew. 

I quietly sat opposite him and watched as he was in a state of being half asleep. My head was in my hand and I just observed his clam, gentle face. He looks familiar.....

When his eyes slowly fluttered open I moved back in embarrassment. "You're here...."  he said in a slightly husky voice. "Y-yeah, I just got here."  I fell back in the chair and watched as he pulled himself together. No matter how I look at it, he seems familiar for some reason. 

"Okay, what's the plan?" He sat up straight in his chair and brought all his attention to me. 

"About that....."