Chapter 20
The shower of Whitehorn Academy is very different from what I used to know. And I am pretty sure all showers at Kentron are like of what’s in here, or even better. It has electronic switch and adjusts the water’s temperature immediately to our preference with just one command. Even the hair and hand dryers are operated through voice command.
I always love bathing in warm water though most of the time we don’t have the resources to heat our bath. So now that I don’t have to worry about the electric bill and water consumption, I indulge myself in a warm bath. The aroma of lavender and oil make it even better. This is the most relaxing bath I will ever have.
“Keesha, are you here?” asks Nympha. She’s panting and seems worried.
“I’m in the fifth cube. What’s the matter?” I ask, as I caress my skin with a glittering lavender liquid soap. It’s a slice of heaven.
“Terence and Sirius are fighting in the lobby!” she shouts panicking. She taps my shower door very hard and orders me to get down immediately.
Without further ado, I run down to the lobby with only a piece of towel to cover my body. I even forgot to wear slippers. My feet feel the coldness of the floorboards roughly, it sends up to my whole body, making me shiver. When I reach the lobby, students are gathered in circle, shouting and laughing at the same time and I can’t see Sirius or Terence in the crowd. I think they’re in the middle of the circle, fighting. I push some students to get through the crowd to have a better view of the two. What gotten into their minds to fight in this kind of hour, and why at the lobby, to show off? I elbow and kick them hard enough to make myself in with my other hand holding tightly my towel. And there, I see the two covered in blood.
Terence’s right eye is closed and his forehead is bleeding, blood flowing to his face. There are cuts in his lips and his cheeks have scrapes and are bloody red. His shirt has stains of sweat and bloods too, and from the look of it, it is still wet, fresh blood. But Sirius is worst. His mouth is bleeding and he’s drooling with blood as he breathes, his nose is distorted, there are cuts in both of his eyes and there’s blood dropping from his head to his forehead down to his cheeks.
This is serious. This fight has gone too far.
I step closer to them and plan to stop them, though I know that I can’t. Terence notices me in an instant and shifts his looks to me and gives me a disapproving look. He shakes his head slowly and walks to my direction, ignoring Sirius’s presence. He’s limping.
When he reaches me, he puts both of his hands to my shoulder and leans his face closer to my ears. His voice is deep and moving; I close my eyes to feel his warmth. “Cover up, partner.” he whispers. Blood spills as he speaks. His hands are hotter than before and it’s shaking pretty badly.
How embarrassing! I went all the way down here with just a piece of fabric to cover my skin! My cheeks start to feel hot and I think I’m starting to blush, redder than his beaten cheeks.
Terence nods to someone, I’m too embarrassed to scan the crowd and find out who it is. I keep my head tilt down as he moves back and fight with Sirius again. How can I go near and stop them again, if I’m wearing nothing?! Suddenly, I feel that someone is moving closer at my back, it makes me shiver, like there is an electronic charge plug into my system. A suit bigger than mine, wraps my whole body all of a sudden. It stretches down to my lap.
It smells mint, just like my father.
I look behind and to my surprise I see that it’s Luke. His body is closer to mine than expected. He is wearing a fitted white polo with his black necktie perfectly tied in his neck and I admit he looks disturbing hot, I mean it in a good way. His chest and biceps are big, bigger than Terence or my brother…. I think it’s too big for his age, he is only eighteen and yet he has a body of a mature young man.
