Crimson Desire

☆chapter ~ 1 [Aera]☆

I feel my heart pounding and my breath heaving under my mask. Today was the first day of 6th grade. After 2 years of lockdown, I had no idea I had become so homesick when I started climbing the stairs to my floor, which, by the way, was 3 floor with 60 stairs each.

I entered the classroom, and I saw quite a new faces but I noticed a timid looking guy hiding under his own shadow, thinking that he was scared too I went by my way to greet my friends but for some reason I couldn't help myself from taking small peeks at him.

"Hey, let me introduce you to my new friend!" Said my friend who took my backpack and kept it on my desk and held my hand and dragged me toward his seat, which wasn't so far...

"Yichen!! Meet my friend aera!!" My friend made me stand in front of him like I was a vase. He lifts his eyes to look at me and my God, his black eyes divine their intense, mysterious allure. Their depth and striking appearance were especially captivating and memorable.

For a second, I was lost in his eyes, and the next, his voice, which was like cherry on top of cake.

"Hi, I'm aera." I said nervously

"Yichen," he looked at me once and then back to whatever he was doing since it was the first day we didn't have much to study so we decided to play a game of FLAMES, classic.

Now that I see it, it was really cringe.

Yichen and I got marry which was ironic in a way that I couldn't identify, and i obviously started to clear the atmosphere by saying I wouldn't even date him and all that.

The bell rang, and we all returned to our seats. I took a little look from over my shoulder and saw him looking directly at me, I gasped so loudly it made made the person sitting beside me shook.

We just went on with an introduction for the first period.

Little did I know something was happening way back before than what I had assumed.

"I'm Chen yichen, 12 years old, and I joined the school in 5th."