❝𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒 𝕜𝕚𝕤𝕤❝ | haikaveh fic | boarding school AU

⁰⁰⁵. ᵏᵃᵛᵉʰ: ˢᵗʳᵃⁿᵍᵉ ᶠᵉᵉˡⁱⁿᵍ

Life is toying with me.

Perhaps the Dendro Archon Lesser Lord Kusanali enjoys seeing me suffer like this.

I certainly don't like this though.

I was doing so good... I barely thought about Alhaitham. I was finally getting over him, then this happened.

First he became my roommate, then I had to personally show him around school, and now this.

This.

Seating charts usually don't change throughout the year unless something unusual happens. So...

I'm stuck with the bastard for the rest of the year.

Tighnari is standing behind the podium, talking about some announcements. I do my best to focus and listen, but the other parts of me don't agree with me. My eyes keep unconsciously looking over to Alhaitham. My eyes keep unconsciously looking over to Alhaitham. My mind keeps accidentally wandering to thoughts about him...

This morning... When I glanced over to Alhaitham, he was trembling uncomfortably under his covers. His eyelashes got wet as tears started appearing at the very corners of his closed eyes. When I saw that, I started panicking, wanting to help but unsure of what to do.

I wanted to wipe away his tears so he would be happy, but that thought was way too impulsive... I made sure to get rid of those kinds of thoughts before I did anything too crazy. Anything I will regret.

Alhaitham doesn't look at me. I feel... Disappointed? But why? Probably because of how much I want him to suffer. Yes, that's probably why.

Tighnari is back at his seat now. He sits in front of me, with Cyno next to him. Cyno whispers into Tighnari's ears, and Tighnari grins, ruffling the other's hair.

Suddenly I feel lonely. I glance at Alhaitham

The gray-haired boy is hyper focused in his book, something about economics. Too boring for me. I feel my gaze trail down his jaw line, to his chin, then up to his lips...

I blink, looking away.

Sighing, I decide to also start reading. I finished all my homework last night, and I know I should be studying, but...

Tighnari, being the star student he is, is reviewing what we just learned about a few days in Physics. Cyno is on his phone, playing some random game. Cyno doesn't really study, but he gets good grades regardless. Unlike me... I have to pull dozens of all nighters to get average grades. Chatter starts to slowly fill up the classroom, as conversations start to get loud and heated until someone suddenly yells, "The teacher is here!"

During M.S. or E.S, sometimes there will be teachers pacing around the hallways, making sure there's no one trying to skip class. Occasionally, they would also enter the classrooms at random times, making sure the students are doing what they're supposed to do.

I freeze up trying to get my book, Cyno quickly stuffs his phone in his pocket as the classroom miraculously falls in complete silence. A few minutes pass, then another few minutes when the same student says, "Alarm over. She walked away."

Collective sighs of relief echoes across the room, I finally managed to get my book out. "Who was it?" A student asks.

"Katz."

My book, being Powerless, the first book of a trilogy series. In the corner of my eyes, I see Alhaitham reading the book cover.

"A Romance girlie, huh?"

He says, I glare.

"It's fantasy."

He shrugs, "Romance with a fantasy setting."