Chapter 11 - Her Feet Turned In His Direction

They soon finished writing their notes and waited for the class to finish. The professor was making rounds to see whether anyone required his assistance, however, the experiment was so simple that everyone was able to quickly complete it so he simply returned to his chair. Noticing that most of the students had finished their experiments, he asked them to submit their lab notebooks and leave.

Both Niiya and Adrianna were amongst the first ones to leave the class. Adrianna wanted to meet Okashi so she headed towards her wing. Niiya wanted to accompany her, but he was dragged away by a group of theater club members who wanted Niiya to write their play. Niiya had been the editor of his high school's magazine and had directed many school plays. And that was just one of his talents. His other talents included rifle shooting and swimming.​​

"Guys, I am sorry, but you had better write your own play. I can help you with editing and maybe even help you with some scenes, but I won't write the entire thing from scratch," he said, walking away from them.

A cute girl with curly brown hair tugged at his shirt and pleaded, "Please Niiya? As english majors, we are already burdened with so much. Apart from writing this play, we still have to write our own plays and perform them in front of the class. You are so talented. Your creative side will come out and you will feel alive."

"What?" Niiya looked at her with bewilderment while the rest of the group started laughing at her futile effort.

She shrugged it off and said, "Basically, please help us!"

Adrianna, who was watching them, smiled. Niiya was indeed very popular. She looked at him with interest as the girl practically begged him. She wondered just how many girls were waiting in line for a chance to talk to him whereas he hardly cared for them. He had rejected as many as five girls who had asked him out. Every time, the girl would urge him to go with her, but he would refuse on the pretext that he had someone else in his heart even though they were not understanding his gestures.

Adrianna really wanted to meet that mysterious girl who had taken his heart unknowingly. She had even offered to talk to her, but Niiya would always ask her to forget about it.

"Come on, Niiya," shouted the girl, bringing Adrianna to the present.

Niiya looked at Adrianna and again became enticed by her smile. He just wanted to spend his time with her. He removed that girl's hand from his shirt and said, "No! I have to go somewhere. I don't have time."

The entire group fell into disappointment. The cute girl was all the more dejected, as she had to do the most work out of all of them and this had been her last resort. One look at Adrianna and she knew that Niiya wanted to stay with her. Growing jealous, she said with a smirk, "Adrianna, please allow him to leave your side for a minute so he can help us."

Adrianna felt extremely awkward. Her smile disappeared and she embarrassingly said, "We were just going to meet his sister. Niiya, I will go on my own. You should help them out." As soon as she finished her sentence, she left to look for Okashi. It had become so awkward that she couldn't even look at Niiya when she spoke.

"Adrianna! Wait!" Niiya shouted as he tried to run after her, but the drama club members literally dragged him away. "Come on Niiya. Help us, please."

Okashi's wing was two wings away and if she wanted she could have run fast and reached her destination in no time, but after staying around humans for so long, she had learnt to do things their way. She walked slowly towards the wing, wondering if Okashi's class was over or not. Halfway there, she felt a strange presence - a familiar scent - something not human. She looked around wildly to locate the source of the smell and located it coming from a young, pale boy in a hood who was standing and gazing at all the people around him with a crazy look in his eyes. Instead of heading to Okashi's wing, her feet turned in his direction.