Aster Veren
Episode 121

-Sean

"You ate wrong?" Hendric asked me to give him a whimper, "your expression looks agitated, what's the matter? Didn't you manage to make a deal with your stepbrother?" He continued asking, making me even more annoyed. How not? He obviously knew everything, still asking such stupid questions!

If you have to say, yes I did intend to make a deal with Kalea. I will help him and protect him from all sorts of distractions in the academy. On condition, he'll have to help me get closer to Aster. But that annoying blonde got in the way of my plans and somehow the story goes, now that she's Kalea's boyfriend. Of course Kalea who started the relationship, made me unable to dwell when watching how she expressed her heart to the blonde.

"Maybe she make Teo her lover!" I was angry with myself.

"Your deal's not dong huh?" Hendric asked while playing his phone, making me reflexively throw the package book in my hand over his head.

"Shut your mouth!" I cried along with his ringing.

"The more days you're getting mean, huh?" Grunts while rubbing the top of his head.

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- Esther

"... Are you serious?" I asked after pecking long enough beside Kalea who looked shy with a red hue on her face when she finished telling me about the incident this afternoon.

The incident when he met Nathan's brother was accompanied by Teo and Sean. Then unexpectedly, this woman beside me even dragged Teo into his problem, admitting the child as his lover before Nathan's brother so that he could be free from Nathan's interference.

"I even expressed my heart after Nathan left before me, and . somehow the story goes, anyway Teo accepted me as his lover. I'm very happy and–" Obviously cut off by the sound of the door of the room that has been opened featuring the figures of Nadin and Tia on the doorstep. Then they quickly set foot on me and Kalea after closing our door.

"You're not kidding, are you?" Nadin's question made me cringe with his question.

"No! I really–" Kalea replied back to a standstill as Nadin hugged her body abruptly.

"It's great! Recently Kalea confessed her feelings for Teo to us. Then today, all of a sudden he became Teo's lover. You're so brave Lea!" Tia continued while patting Kalea on the back while she was hugged by Nadin.

What Tia said was indeed true, I never even thought the relationship between Kalea and Teo would go this easy. Can Kalea express her heart that easily? And again the boy, he also easily accepted Kalea as his lover.

... So my guess all along was right huh? My mind recalls the times when Teo treated Kalea so well.

"They both like each other, only their expressions are not easy to read. But now ...," I continued muttering remembering the expression of the wall of Teo and the cold expression of Kalea, then I noticed the expression of Kalea who looked more human because she looked timid. I don't know why I feel grateful to see him express like that.

Though I guess he would never show such an expression again because of his past memories. But I was wrong for concluding it in a hurry. Thank goodness now Lea looks better after making up with Nadin and befriending Tia.

"What about Nathan? Did he see you?" I continued asking, stopping Nadin and Kalea's embrace.

"What did he say?" Tia asked who was already sitting on the Kalea study chair that she dragged from near her study table.

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- Kalea

It was 10:00 p.m., Nadin and Tia had returned to their rooms, and Aster had also fallen asleep in his sleep after chatting together. Talking about the relationship of Nadin and brother Nathan who will be taken somewhere.

What is clear is that I am very satisfied because I had scolded Nathan's brother who had dared to incise a wound in Nadin's heart. Although the edges of Teo stopped me, but thanks to him I had a way to get away from Nathan's brother.

All of a sudden, that thought popped into my head! Especially if you don't recognize Teo as my fake girlfriend and make the man surprised, including with Sean. But after Nathan's departure, I sincerely expressed my heart to Teo. And without ever expecting it, it turns out Teo wants to accept my feelings.

I don't know what sinking? I have the courage to express my heart to that wall guy? It's embarrassing, my mind as it rubs all over my body with my blanket. Imagining the expression Teo showed me just made my body temperature heat up.

A thin smile with her green bead that looked at me warmly, then her laugh sounding adorable when accepting me as her lover. I can't imagine what else is going to happen in the future. But, I'm sure I'm very happy now.

"It's okay if I'm happy?" I muttered while opening the blanket that covered my face, then I saw the figure of Aster who was sleeping facing towards me on his bed.

When I saw her fall asleep like that, I somehow always felt a sense of guilt towards her, my mind remembers all the bad things I did to Aster in the past. I don't know if there's gonna be anything bad going on in the future, which I'm gonna protect. The thought suddenly popped into my head as I recalled my conversation with Sean this afternoon.

"I won't let that kid ruin Aster's happiness!" I continued while trying to brush off Sean's voice that began to fill my head, asking me to get closer to Aster. Of course I rejected it because at a glance Aster was freer when he was with Carel.

But that doesn't mean Aster won't be happy with Sean, it's just. Her female fans were more fearsome than the female fans who were unemployed of Carel's figure. Did he not realize it? My mind recalls several incidents when it caught wet groups of women who harassed other women who intended to express their feelings for Sean to make the person who was bullied cancel their intentions.

"It could be that the boy has a female fan like that!" I muttered with goosebumps of my own, imagining what a scary thing it would be if I were in Sean's position.

In addition to not being able to get close to a freely liked person, maybe his life will also be made to suffer with various frightening terrors from his fans. I even heard Hendric talk about Sean being stressed by a bunch of girls stuffing presents in front of his locker.

I wanted to see his expression, my mind could not imagine the expression Sean had made back then.

Besides, I just found out that that kid is so famous in the academy. Though there were bad rumors about him and his family, but miraculously all the rumors were forgotten. Like it never happened before.

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