𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

The Boys on the Top Floor

ⓒ Baek Nara

Ding

The sound of the living room's clock chiming was heard. I looked at my wrist watch. It was four o'clock in the afternoon. As expected, a knocking sound came from outside soon after. Simon left the room while undoing his cuffs, and then the sound of the door opening followed.

Simon said,

<It was raining, did you go horse riding anyways?>

<Jerome> replied,

<Yeah, I just went for a light walk. Did you have a good time with your nanny, Simon?>

Simon returned to our room while answering <Jerome> :

<I had a very good time.>
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<Jerome> did not follow him into the room. I intently listened to the sound of his boots stepping on the carpet. He seemed to have sat on the sofa near the fireplace again. I had been tensing up without realizing it, and only then was I finally able to relax.

As I let out a sigh, Simon, who was putting his cuffs in a box, turned to look at me. I lay on my side on the bed to avoid his gaze. Instead of asking anything, Simon silently changed his clothes. Nothing else would happen today since Simon was here. Of course, I couldn't completely let my guard down. What was the relationship between Simon and <Jerome>? No, what was the relationship between the three people living in our room and <Jerome>? Were they just friends and everyone was being deceived by <Jerome>? What kind of bastard was <Jerome> in truth?

I quietly exhaled, surrounded by unanswerable doubts. The rustling sound stopped, so Simon probably finished changing his clothes. After a while, the sound of a computer being turned on was heard. When I opened my eyes, Simon was sitting upright on his chair, looking at me.

Simon asked,

<Should I turn the sound off?>

<What are you going to watch?>

<Today I am watching Jurassic Park.>

His blunt but extremely carefree words put me at ease.

<Okay. I want to watch it too.>

We brought over chairs and started watching the movie side by side. <Jerome> was outside, but there was no sound to hint to what he was doing. He only returned to his room at six o'clock, as usual. I watched the movie with Simon and had dinner in the cafeteria. Hugh returned close to midnight that day, and George finally came back on Monday evening, filling up our rooms with people. I felt a little more relieved.
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After that incident, I started paying more attention to <Jerome>, but I couldn't find anything particularly special. Nobody except me seemed to notice that <Jerome> was a crazy bastard. However, I was able to find out one suspicious thing. Everyone pretended to treat <Jerome> normally, but at the same time, everyone kept a step away from him.

Come to think of it, it was really the case. Hugh was an exception since he treated <Jerome> the same way he treated everyone, but even the talkative George only agreed with what <Jerome> said in front of him, and Simon, who wasn't a very talkative person to begin with, listened obediently to <Jerome>'s chatter. Even the teachers seemed somehow uncomfortable around <Jerome>.

The answer to that secret was soon revealed by George.

<You didn't know yet? <Jerome> is British royalty. Someone said he's even in the line of succession to the throne.>