Square root of Trouble

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Chapter 4

Aaron's POV

"Dude, where's your brother?" I silently ask Luke, who's seated behind me.

Duke is nowhere to be found and class already started.

"Do I have the face of a fucking oracle?" He whispers back.

"You do have the strange vibe of an oracle going on." I sarcastically reply, turning around to see him rolling his eyes.

"Ha-ah! So funny. L-O-L."

"But seriously now, did he stayed with Ruby?"

He scrunches his brows in confusion, staying like that whilst thinking about it.

"I don't remember."

"He better not, or I'll punch him hard for hitting on her without us there." I murmur, still careful not to drift the teacher's attention to us.

"Why do you care so much if we're there or not?" Luke cautiously inquires, probably also referencing to our lunch's conversation.

I freeze... and maybe stammer a little bit, I don't know.

He continues expectantly waiting my response.

After awhile, a lamp in my head lights up and I come up with something.

"Because I'm her cousin and we all know how Duke is with girls, specially with hot ones, like Ruby."

"Last I heard, you weren't really her cousin" he states, narrowing his eyes in the process. "Besides, we are all like Duke, so I don't see where your problem lays."

"I don't have a problem" I explain, shrugging my shoulders, trying to appear unperturbed. "It's simply a situation I would like to resolve."

Luke stays silent after this.

When a few more minutes pass, it's obvious he's not going to further comment , so I return my mind to today's lesson and wait patiently until school's ending, which will be the time I'll be able to see my new "step-cousin".

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Duke's POV

"Fuck!"

I expel furiously, not used to the excruciating pain Ruby inflicted me with a simple touch.

"What the hell!" I cough. "Huh."

This girl strikes and evacuates like a fucking ninja.

I can't even move or attempt to use my muscles.

Luckily for her, and for me, nobody saw her attack.

Geez...

It's in this lightening occasion - in which I should already be inside my classroom -, I realize Ruby's not like the others, not by a close shot.

She's confident and knows how to carry herself, which nowadays we often don't see on individuals.

She calculates her moves, much like playing real chess.

It's amazing and terrifying at the same time... because only if we pay close attention, we see that.

The real question now lays in how and why she is what she is, a mystery I vow to uncover.

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Ruby's POV

Finally last period, and then home... although it's not really my home, or a home whatsoever, since it can be perfectly described as an uninhabited mansion.