The Life of Renn Alrose: The Complete Petals

Chapter 10 - The Answer

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4 days later...

Here I am, sitting outside the café I frequent: "Café Peloque", which is located adjacent to Emerald Houston.

It's the weekend again. Sun's shining brightly in the morning sky and I'm happy to sit here and have some strawberry-chocolate cake.

But you might be wondering what I might be doing here on such a day that I have to tutor Syrra.

Well, she moved the tutorial session to tomorrow. Her sister bombarded her with a lot of chores. When it comes to cleaning the house, it's serious business.

"I'm really sorry about this... I hope tomorrow will make up our lost tutorial time today." Syrra said over the phone. I chuckled.

"It's no big deal. How about you give yourself tomorrow to rest instead? You'd certainly need a rest day after getting all that work done." I considerably offered her a rest day.

"EH?! NO, CAN DO! RESTING IS NOT AN OPTION WHEN SCHOLARSHIP IS ON THE LINE HERE, ALROSE! I NEED IT, SO I NEED MORE KNOWLEDGE FROM YOU!" She aggressively rejected my offer. I sighed.

"Syrra, I understand that more knowledge is efficient for a more successful life... But if you do not rest, you'll end up stressing yourself. I may have studied all day but that's because I already trained myself to study for long periods of time, I don't want to pressure you doing just that." Not everyone is trained for being able to do what I do, so that's why I take note of that when it came to the other people who needed help from me. She sighed over the phone.

"You have a point... I'll take a break tomorrow." That's the spirit.

"You should. Now go and work hard over there." I cheered for her.

"Thank you-"

"That's enough time in the phone, get to cleaning the underside of the chairs!"

"I'm hanging up now, Jenna!" And she did hang up. This is the first time I'm hearing Jenna's strict side, she's normally weird. Hard to admit but that weird side can sometimes make me laugh.

I then got another caller. It's written in Japanese. I smiled, knowing who it is as I answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hoi! Hoi! Renn-san, how are you?" I answered and I was immediately greeted by Fey.

"I'm okay, just chilling outside a café. Nothing too special today." I answered.

"Naruhodou... (I see...) Well, anything interesting happened this week?" She asked.

"You wouldn't actually believe it. So there was this girl, a close friend of mine, that was absent for a whole day." I began telling her what happened 4 days back.

"Oh? Shinyuu? (Best friend?) What happened to her?" She wanted to know more.

"I ended up getting worried about her as to why she was absent as she refused to take my calls, but there was nothing to worry about. She actually prepared a surprise for me." I answered.

"EH?! A SURPRISE?! What was it?" She's gonna squeal upon hearing this.

"It was a confession. She wanted to confess to me for a while and I didn't see it coming." And I was right, she squealed on the phone.

"She really liked you, huh? So, what's your answer?" She wanted to know what I answered Jessie.

"Well..." And now I began telling her what my answer was to that very confession.