Eve: Tale of the Crimson Rose

Chapter 7

   After a while of staring at each other, one of the guards noticed me.
"Hey! Who are you?" He shouts, and the other guard turns to see what is happening. I quickly came out from behind the bookshelf.
"I-I am so sorry to be a bother. I didn't mean for any harm -" I say before getting cut off.
"Well, it is impolite to be stalking young sir here, little lady," the guard says with a growl while walking towards me.
"Stop." A calm voice says I look over to see Daniel looking at me with curiosity. He was leaning on his hand, head tilted.
"Come here," he says, patting the chair right next to him, indicating for me to sit next to him.
"But -" the guard stutters. Daniel quietly glared at him before turning back to me.
I just stood there, he gave me a small smile. I slowly made my way over to the seat he told me to sit at. I made sure to sit at the very edge.
"I-uhh,' I stutter before, 'I'M SO SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING YOU! YOU GREATNESS!" I get up to bow my head but hit my leg on the table at the same time. "OUCH!"
Daniel burst out laughing, "Your greatness? That's a new one, for sure." I look up at him. His laugh sounds amazing...wait that sounded creepy.
"I'm sorry," I mutter.
"Stop apologizing. Sure, you were staring at me, but you didn't do anything wrong," his eyes trailed to me, sitting on the edge of the chair. He gives me the "Why-are-you-acting-like-I'm-not-human" look. That's because he isn't, and we all know it. I sit properly on the chair to avoid any more questions.

   "So what's your name?" He asks me with a smile, "I don't think I ever saw you here before."
"My name is Eve Losu, and I just moved here," I say, blushing a little. He smells nice. That is one good cologne.
"Just moved, huh? What do you or your family do for a living? It must be one heck of a job to get into Orgon Building."
I felt like lying, but something about him made me know that he would know if I was lying or not.
"My brother got a job opportunity here. He is a professor here," I say, looking down.
"Losu, right? I think I have a teacher named that tomorrow. Say you are one shy girl," he smirks, noticing my avoidance of eye contact. I look at him. His beautiful brown eyes are gonna make me feel some type of way.
"Woah, blue eyes... they're beautiful and unique."
"Thanks." With that, he tells his guards to go outside to make me feel more comfortable.
"So Eve, how has your first day in the school of succession been," Daniel asks with some sarcasm in his voice.
"Well, everything here is beautiful. The school is huge, and I've seen more Teslas and Lambos here than I've ever seen in my life," I said. He laughed. "The classes provide great information, but the teachers and kids don't seem to care enough to pay attention."
"Yeah, that tends to be a norm in our school. Why learn when you can buy your way to the top? I found myself doing that a few times," he sighs.

   After a while, I started to open up to him more. I told him about the relationship I had with one of my teachers in my old school and how he promised all these things to me. Just to betray me when it was in public. I also explained how he approached me first and begged me to be with him in exchange for good grades. Before that, I was a normal teen girl enjoying high school, but after that, I was bullied. My parents, who already hated me, hated me even more. I left out the part about my brother's weird obsession with me and the tree incident. Throughout this whole explanation, Daniel listened and talked me through it. Damn, what a nice guy, a great guy... the perfect guy.

   "I'm so sorry you had to go through that disgusting experience. I see the start of a beautiful friendship, Eve," he gives me a reassuring smile.
"Yeah, thanks, Mr-" I start.
"Daniel. Just Daniel, please."
"Alright, thank you, Daniel." At that moment, the lunch bell rang.
"Wanna walk together?"
"Sure!"
"Do you mind giving me your number or something? Not in a weird way," he adds.
"I don't have a phone. My parents said if I can't pay for it I can't have one. But I do have a computer and Instagram."
He looked at me, shocked before saying, "Cool, I'll take that." We walk into another building, which seems to be the cafeteria. There were different food places around, kinda like what they have in a mall at the food quarters. All the kids turn to face us, surprised. I would be, too, if I saw the new kid walking side by side with Daniel Acetino. Whispers started to erupt, Daniel turned to me and said bye before waving and walking off to meet his friends.

   I look around at them before putting my head down and walking into one of the lines. After getting my lunch, I had to go sit by myself in a corner. From looking around, I saw the girl with pink hair fuming. She looked mad, real mad... After a while, she and her friends made their way over to me. Shit, what is this another sequel to Mean Girls?
"Hi there, new girl," she smiles at me, "I'm Mona, the daughter of Princess Elizabeth the 4th and Prince Louis, but I'm pretty sure you know me," she smiles. Oh, so that's who she is, I never knew that the British royal family were allowed to dye their hair and dress like "2023 Y2k throw up." Instead of getting shit off, Shein, she bought them from Micheal Kors and Celine.
"I'm Eve," I say.
"Alright, Eve," she replies, sitting right across from me, and her Minions follow. Daniel glances over, and his face turns sour.
"This is Cleopatra," she says, pointing to the blonde to the right of her. "Her mom owns an up-and-coming luxury shoe brand. And this is Rosa her dad makes guns for the general police." She points to the girl on her left.
"Uh? Hello?"
"So now that we are all friends, can you tell me what you were doing with my future." Her future? Is she talking about Daniel? I look over in his direction to see he is laughing with his buddies.
"I got lost, so he showed me to the cafeteria," I lie. I can't tell this girl the truth. She would kill me or even ruin my reputation because of how much power she has.
"Oh, is that all?"
"Yeah, nothing more, Your Highness," I replied. She happily gets up and walks away with Cleopatra and Rosa.

   I don't know what to think about the interaction I just had with that girl, but whatever it was, I figured it was best to avoid it and just move on. The lunch was great, and it tasted so good. After a few minutes, I saw a black-haired girl walk up to Daniel and sit right next to him with all his friends. I can't see her face properly, so I don't know who she might be, but it didn't stop the fact that she stole a kiss from him. Wait, so Mona isn't his girlfriend? Omg, am I gonna be able to witness the kids of celebrities' drama? If so, I'd love to watch it.

   After a long day of what I can call a messy beginning, it was time to go home and finally able to shut myself into my room for the rest of the night. Getting in the bathtub, I take a long hot bath. If we were back where we were a few days ago, my parents would have shut the water on me, and I would have had to figure out a way to finish washing up. After the shower, I popped on some PJs and opened my laptop. There it was: "Daniel🤟🏾 followed you back" and a text. He said "Hey"
I replied: Hi
God, I had so many questions to ask him, but I know I can't just do that. I only talked to him once, I couldn't act as if I knew him my whole life. But at the same time, I don't want things to fall flat. As I waited for a reply, I started doing some research.
'Does Daniel Acetino have a girlfriend?' Yes, that is the question I typed up on my search bar.
'Yes, he is officially in a relationship with the daughter of General Davis, Ariyah Zol. However, some speculate that this was a contractual relationship that was agreed on by their fathers.'
So now I know that Mona is a delusional girl who is madly in love, I think. Let me research her next.
'Princess Mona Windsor, part of the British royal family and a breakthrough to the strict rules set on her. She is a devoted young lady who is rumored to be the next in line for the throne.'
Devoted was used in the wrong way here. Just then, I get a notification for Daniel. It's been at least 2 hours.

Daniel🤟🏾: Sorry, I had soccer practice, mb.
Eve: Oh no, no, no, don't be, it's all good.
Daniel🤟🏾: Ur something else, aren't you?
Eve: I mean, I guess. Am I?
Daniel🤟🏾: Yup, you're different. Anyways, hru?
Eve: I'm doing good, I guess. I'm just locking myself up in my room. Hbu?
Daniel🤟🏾: I'm good, just a little stressed.
Eve: If I may ask, why?
Daniel🤟🏾: LOL, no need to be so formal, but my dad is planning on hosting a "maid preference."
Eve: What's that?
Daniel🤟🏾: A bunch of girls that are around my age get selected to become my maids. There will be like 6 of them that I'll choose out of all the other ones.
Eve: Damn, it would be an opportunity for the girls who need a job or something.
Daniel🤟🏾: That would be true if most of the businessmen and celebrities weren't thinking about sending in their daughters, who I dare to say are obsessed with me.
Eve: Oh wow, I guess that's what power gets you.
Daniel🤟🏾: I gtg my family is having dinner with the president.
Eve: alr bye!

   THE PRESIDENT?! I love how he said it so casually as if it's just another Monday afternoon or something. God, I wonder what day he has dinner with the rappers. After a while of doing homework, I finally lay down to get some well-deserved rest.