The Violet Book

Chapter One

It was a lovely day for everyone, especially for Deshna. This day was her birthday and as usual, every time there was a vacancy in her schedule, she walked towards the library of the university where she was currently studying.

"Too early today Deshna?" the librarian said when she saw Deshna passing by in front of her

She chuckled then smiled. "A professor didn't attend his class today."

The librarian just nodded and came back to what she was doing but still thinking of how the girl's charm was different from everybody. She has a typical straight black hair down to her waist, a small but curvy body, a small face that looks ethereal and unreal. She has the kind of beauty that is not irresistible. A girl with that angelic face and bookworm? You would think she's one of those girls who is quiet, shy, and nice right? But yeah, we'll see about that.

"Hmm.....what to read?" she asked herself as she walked through the shelves of books that were full of famous novels from different well-known authors. A minute later when she was about to move to the other shelves a weak purple light from a book caught her eye. A glowing book? That's new...

Deshna immediately took a step toward the book and grabbed it. Huh? The confusion got into her mind when the book had no Title and no content, it was just a plain violet-colored book where you could write anything you wanted. "What even is this?"

She decided to bring the book down to the librarian to surrender it, she thought that maybe a student left her/his newly bought journal in the library. She can't tell that it is just a notebook because it has an estimated page of about five hundred. Too much for just a notebook right?

"Hey Queen!! There you go, we finally found you." A short-haired girl with wavy hair said. I rolled my eyes when most of the students in the library looked angrily at Vivien. She's the Beauty queen.

I walked towards her and smacked the book on her head. "Shut your mouth bitch, we're in the fucking library."

"That is the reason why Vivien is almost banned here, she can't shut her mouth even just for a minute." A man in his unbuttoned uniform and untied necktie interrupted our conversation. He's Nick, the chick magnet of our circle. He beds every woman he likes but that was before, he's now tied with Vivien.

Although I heard from some students that they had seen Nick with other women, while Vivien was seen with another man too. I don't know about these lovebirds, they're both complicated. Maybe that's the reason why they got together.

Then two men and two women entered the scene. Paul in his jersey; he's the sporty one—a basketball player. "Damn, our training is so tiring, I wanna have some sleep here." He said while looking around the library for a table to sit in. When he found one, he left us and walked towards it.

Zara in her painted uniform; is one of the participants in the current competition of mural painting—artistically inclined to be exact. "I might wanna have some rest too, I can't feel my arms anymore." She then followed Paul.

Kion with his nose stuck in the book, he's a bookworm like me but the difference is he reads both educational and novel books. I only like novels. "Hmm..." he said then followed Zara.

Last but not least, Eliya or Eli. She's the president of our university. She may appear nice and calm but she's not, she's much more dangerous than the lion. I heard she kicked a lot of students out of this university, everyone feared her. At the same time, most students admire her too. "Tsk, Button up your uniform and tie your necktie, Nick. Do it if you don't want me to kick you out of this school." She said with a threatening tone.

Nick immediately followed her order, afraid of what she could do. I chuckled when I remembered the first time when Nick didn't follow her. She gave him the punishment of cleaning all of the men's bathrooms of one of the buildings of the university in a week. Nick almost cried and begged for his father's help because of what Eli had done but his father didn't mind him and told him that he deserved it.

So yeah, we're a group of popular and best students. I followed my gaze to Nick and Vivien when they left me and Eli. They sat down with the others on the table that Paul found.

"Where are you off to?" Eli asked.

I changed my gaze to her and showed her the book. "I was about to go to the librarian and give her this book. Not even one letter is written here. Strange isn't it?" I said.

"Hand it over," she gestured, and I immediately handed it to her. I watched her open the book. Her eyebrows met on the very first page. "There's an image."

My eyes widened and quickly moved to her side to see if what she said was true. It is! I tilted my head and looked closely at the image. It was a girl—grabbing a book in the library?

Eli turned it to the next page and familiar but not understandable letters were written on it. It seems like it is written with gold ink. "I swear, it's all a blank page when I checked it earlier," I swear in Eli who's currently looking at me with one of her eyebrows raised.

I heard her sigh heavily and walked toward where our friend was. I followed her of course. She sat beside Kion and I sat beside Eli. I rest my left arm on the table and curiously look at them.

"Do you know these letters?" She asked and showed the book to Kion which immediately caught Kion's attention. 

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