Unexpectedly

Chapter 36: Mysterious Message

The next day, Arianne is busy preparing for school when Erick texted.

Erick's text: "hey, I just go to school early to deal with something. Bring me an extra tshirt, meet me at the gymnasium.

PS: don't be late :P"

Arianne replied to him.

Arianne's reply: "how dare you tell me not to be late >:("

After sending that message, Erick immediately replied back.

Erick's reply: "stupid, we have class later >:P"

Arianne's mind: ( ugh! I really can't win between our quarrel.. Well, I better hurry up before Mr. Andersen gets mad at me for being "late". But I haven't been inside his room... I wonder what it looks like?)

Arianne can't wait to get inside Erick's room (for the first time). While twisting the doorknob, she's already imaging how messy his room is. But when she opened the door, she was totally suprised.

Arianne: "what the?! He's room is even cleaner than mine."

Arianne explored the room. She looked at the shoes rack, wondering what are the shoe brand. The hanging bookself, with thick books, different kinds namely: novels, graphic novels, his school textbooks, and other random books. Before opening the closet, she lay on his bed to see if it's comfortable.

Arianne: "wow!" *sniff* "it smells like him!! So fragrant!"

But then, she realizes what she's saying. She starts talking to herself, again.

Arianne: "woah, woah, woah! What am I doing?"
Arianne2: "obviously, you're smelling his scent because you're addicted to him."
Arianne: "huh? No I'm not."
Arianne2: "oh yes, you are. You just don't know that you are."
Arianne: "I'm not that addicted to him, okay? I really don't love him like a crazy girlfriend that is willing to kill people for him."
Arianne2: "so... like a yandere?"
Arianne: "yeah, I'm not like that. I just like him, because he's unexpectedly sweet and kind to me. Do you know what I mean?"
Arianne2: "then why did you said 'love' instead of 'like' when Erick forced you to confess?"
Arianne: *speechless* "w-whatever.. I'd better hurry, I'm gonna be late for class."

Finally, the wardrobe (closet). When she opened it, she can smell Erick's fragant scent. While finding the perfect extra T-shirt, she stumbled upon random clothes. First she saw fox-designed jumpsuit, she imagined what would Erick look like if he wear that. It made her face flushed in red and said "cute.." with a tiny voice.

Arianne finally found an extra shirt for Erick. She hold and put it inside her bag, and hurriedly rush to school.

When she arrive at the campus, she immediately head to the gymnasium. She entered, and saw that the boys are practicing basketball for the intramurals. She looked for Erick, bit then a guy cheered "go Erick!". She followed where that voice come from and then there's Erick. He is shooting the ball and.. it did! His body is full of sweat, but he doesn't look like he's tired. Though he look quite fierce. He might be serious about the bet, that's why he's practicing very hard.

That expression on his face made Arianne to blush, she can't stop looking at him. She just realized that he have a very high sex appeal and he's very sexy, she bit her lower lip while thinking about it.

Erick noticed that some girl looked frozen at the entrance of the gymnasium. Then he realize that it's Arianne, so he walk towards her. Though Arianne is still busy daydreaming about Erick.

Erick: "oi!"

It woke Arianne from her fantasy.

Arianne: "h-huh?! Oh! Hey!"
Erick: "you're late. 2 minutes late."
Arianne: "wow! You really timed that? Well, I was just busy looking for the perfect shirt for you."
Erick: "wait, are you sure that's the reason or was it something else? What did you do inside my room?"
Arianne: "what? I didn't do anything."
She notice the sweat that is dripping on his face. Luckily, she brought a face towel. She gently wipe Erick's sweat on his face. Erick was surprised at Arianne, he looked at her face while she's wiping his face. Arianne noticed that Erick is looking directly at her. After a few strokes, she give up. She can feel her face heating up, she's blushing because Erick is staring at her.

Arianne: "I-I uh.. s-sorry. I didn't ask any p-permission..."
Erick: "no, no. It's.. it's okay. I really would have wipe my face too.", "hey"
Arianne: "eh?"
Erick: "did you eat something weird today? Why is your face so red?"
Arianne: "e-eh?! I-I.. uh..." *looks away* "I-I'd better go. The arts club might be waiting for me."

Arianne is too distracted to look at him so, she gave him his shirt and made an excuse to leave. Erick have a confused expression on his face, but then he just laughed about it.

Erick: "heh, you really are weird, Arianne. You suck at hiding your emotions." *grinned*

He return back at practicing basketball.

Back to Arianne, she head to the Arts room to get her materials for her artwork.

While arranging her materials in her bag, she receives a text message from an unknown number.

Text message: "hey, Ari! It's been a while.... how are you?"

Arianne: "what the? Who's this? Does he know me?"