The Villainous Goddess

Chapter 37

They kept getting swarmed by females. It irritated Charlotte a lot but Huston liked the attention, Ain thought nothing of this matter.

The people were swarming them when they were walking and Charlotte snapped.

"Get within 6 meters of me and I'll put you 6 feet under." She threatened with a ball of fire in her hand. The girls ran away scared of Charlotte.

"Thank god. I was practically suffocating."

Huston was standing there sulking while Ain was unbothered.

"You scared them away." Huston said.

"I mean I know I did, you don't have to state the obvious. If I wasn't patient I would've burnt them already."

"You cruel woman."

"Whatever you say."

"I need to hurry up to my office and complete my assignments. I'll see you two later I guess."

"Since when did you have an office?"

"Since I officially entered the academy. Did you guys not know?"

Both of them shook their head, not knowing that she had her own office.

"Wanna come in then? We can complete assignments together I guess."

"Sure." Ain said while Huston nodded.

"Okay, follow me."

They arrived at her office, inside was a white desk with shelves. It was similar to the head mistress's office but slightly smaller. Although it still looked eye catching.

"Woah. You have this all to yourself?"

"Yeah the head mistress's insisted. I'm glad since I have my own private space to study. Anyway let's get to work."

They sit at the table in the office and started doing their assignments. Charlotte kept tutoring Huston while Ain was quietly doing his assignments, not having a trouble at all.

"Ain, you've been very quiet lately." Charlotte said.

"Oh. I am?"

"Yeah." Huston responded.

"Is anything bothering you?"

"Nah, I'm just really bored."

"Then shall we all have a picnic later? I'll skip dinner if you guys are up."

"Sure." Huston and Ain say.

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It was evening and Charlotte had a basket filled with fruit and beverages. Huston followed Charlotte to Ain's room knocking on the door.

"Hey Ain. Let's go."

"Alright."

The three walk out to the garden and placed down a picnic blanket on the green grass. They took out juice and fruit then ate happily. They were chatting merrily.

"I need to go to the bathroom real quick!" Huston said and sprinted.

"Ah."

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"Hm well, Ain. I figured I don't know much about you, wanna tell me a bit more about yourself?" asked Charlotte curiously.

"Well, let's see. I was a very playful child and I only had one friend. His name was Mills, he was the son of a baron and we were great friends. We had many similarities like: liking the same colour, loved running and singing. I considered him closer to me than my own brothers. Hah... little did I know he was terminally ill and passed away before I could even say goodbye. Visiting his funeral was devastating to me, that's not even the worse part. After that Prince Louis of Wynknight threatened to disunite with the Elrod kingdom if I stole his spotlight or whatever. So I had came into hiding till I met him in Wynknight with you awhile ago."

"... How can you say that without shedding a single tear." Charlotte's eyes were teary.

Ain got a napkin and wiped off her tears, "Do you feel bad for me?"

"Of course I do."

"Wanna know what would make me feel better?"

"Hm?"

Ain crawled onto Charlotte, their faces inches apart from each other. Charlotte was flabbergasted and embarrassed. Her face looked flustered and red.

Little did they know Huston was staring eyes wide open, shocked and confused. He was practically afraid of them. Was he about to see them do it? His innocent virgin eyes.

Both of them turned to Huston's direction, looking at him. He was frozen in place unable to do anything and was in a trance.

"I.. uh I'm sorry for ruining the moment!" He says and sprints off.

"Wait!" Charlotte exclaimed.

"Hm.. now where were we." Ain said.

He returned to face Charlotte, closing up to her. Charlotte was about to break a sweat as he cornered her, not knowing what to do. He was about to kiss her on the lips, or so she thought he was. Instead, he kissed her on the cheek which was very unexpected.

"Well, that's it for tonight. Shall we get going? It's getting dark." Ain said with his head up looking at the sky.

"Ah... yeah." Charlotte responded

They returned back to their dorms after tidying up and returning the basket to the cafeteria owner. Huston watched Charlotte come back into the dorm, she adverted her eyes avoiding his suspicions gaze.

"So.. did you guys do it?" He asked.

"Do what?"

"It."

"What's it."

"You know? Woman and man thing."

"..." Charlotte had a ball of wind in her hand and threw it at Huston running back in her room. While shouting, "No we did not!"

Her face stuffed in her pillow, embarrassed. She tried denying it and thought of it as just a pathetic hallucination.

She stood up and ran laps around her room, trying to get the thought of what had happened back then out of her head. She was tired of course but still tried. Charlotte revised a whole semester's worth of subjects again. I guess that's how she copes with things she doesn't want to remember, it was normal to her. She would dive herself in paperwork when she was stressed.

She was up the whole night, when Huston went to check up on her in the morning she looked like a dead person.

"Charlotte, did you stay up all night again?"

"Hah! Me? Of course not. I definitely slept. Yup!"

Charlotte stood up and her vision was blurry, she got ready and went to class with Huston. She fainted half way and had her ass dragged by Huston to the academy's infirmary.

The nurse working there said, "She fainted from exhaustion. She looks like she needs a week of rest in bed, her head was burning. Has she done this before?"

"Yeah she has. Well thanks for informing me."

"Yeah no problem. Anyways, just keep her in bed for a week. I assume you should head to class now, I'll check up on her for you."

Huston thanked the nurse and went off to class.