𝙾𝚞𝚛 𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚋𝚒𝚍𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 [ C̶y̶n̶t̶h̶i̶a̶ X̶ A̶s̶h̶ X Astrid ]

ACT 61 | FAR FROM YOU

"His hands are saying that he want to hold her.. His feet's are saying he wants to chase after her.. But how could he.. When they were right next to each other..."
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"It was never supposed to happen... I tried everything in my power to not let it happen..." Marine looked at Calem slamming his hand on the president desk as hard as he could... Everything shook at the impact and flew down... Marnie saw the sheer frustration seep out in the form of that punch...

Her eyes viciously narrowed as if eyeing a prey... "Power? Does it mean perhaps you had something to do with Ash's weird behavior around the new teacher Cynthia and the fucking coincidence of the woman he was in love with being Cynthia also..." Marnie was manupilatve but knew basic human behavior and the behavior Ash was showing was definitely not basic even on any human levels... 

'Cynthia can be pain sometime... She was the one who forced me to write this report...' Cynthia.. Was he referring to his teacher as Cynthia all the time.. No honorifics? No titles... Marnie had seen Ash for whole two years from shadows.. But never once had she seen him flush out beet red at a name, mumble nonsense like he used to do when her name was taken....

If anything Ash had been a loner for the whole second year...

Marnie looked at the file of the teacher in front of her.. Her eyes couldn't help but notice it, the sharp features on her face.. She was the woman who could control someone like Ash and save him from crumbling... Just what kind of relationship they had between them.. Friend? Acquaintances.. But the talk of age gap came in her mind... It all was fitting in a puzzle no one was willing to solve...

May noticed it and so did Dawn... Calem was perspective since the beginning but how, she didn't knew.. Paul seemed to have noted it too despite not being in contact with neither Ash nor Cynthia.. It was something deeper... That grey eye was sharp... Dull but still lively.. They gave an essense of someone who experienced a lot in life and wanted to save others...

"Something happened in the teacher's longue between them yesterday... Ash isn't at school today..." Calem tried to divert her question... But he was right.. Something did happened...

"Don't.." Marnie started out, anger audible in her voice.... "Don't fucking divert the topic.. Cynthia had applied for this school in past too... Why was she accepted even after being rejected first time... And don't you fucking dare lie.." She snapped at him... This time everything on the table flung off from the impact of her slamming her hand on the table... Desperation clawed their mind and clouded their judgment...

The rules of Jubilife high were looking pretty unclear here... A teacher who have been rejected once cannot apply for the same positiom once again but Cynthia was in the same post she applied for before...