Chapter 206: A party you say? (four)

About ten minutes later, Johnathan came out and joined the party. 

He looked fairly normal, cheerful even. He apologized to everyone saying, he had a stomach ache but was now fine. 

The general mood got a lot better and the party moved along just fine. NO one questioned him about anything. 

I didn't really feel that great though. And I didn't get people. 

Besides, I was getting some glares as I had three beautiful girls by my side at all times. People were still too afraid to come near me though.

I wanted to drink some more chocolate but that was a no-go. 

Sigh. 

'Tomorrow, I have school, right?'

"Didn't I say, you are over your sigh quota?" Elsa frowned. 

I kind of wanted to sigh again just to make her mad but since mom would be here tomorrow, I proceeded not to. I didn't want to fan the fumes, no sir!

Now that the mood had improved, this seemed a lot like a real party. Some of my friends were here: mostly people I've talked to twice or maybe on more than three occasions but that was all. The troublemakers weren't there though: they being, Selene, Leilis, and Raea. Lately, I didn't see the three anywhere, and I was glad for that. 

Eve was often winking in my direction though. I had a bad feeling about that. She was really drunk. 

She never made a move on me though, as Marg was almost always right next to me glaring back. Eve was wobbling around, so she couldn't come here even if she wanted to, and I had a feeling he did. I sure wasn't going there. 

Sure didn't stop her from sending a flying kiss or two towards me though. 

Oh boy. 

***

The party went on and by ten almost everyone left. 

Before that though, the headmaster and the teachers actually had congratulated me formerly and even shook my hands. And the headmaster promised to pay me fifty gold for making it to the finals and winning the second position. Though he did make me promise that I'd have to take part in other tournaments from now on too, whether I won or not.

I didn't see why not. I needed money anyway.

The funniest part of the party was something else though. Roughly ten minutes before the party ended, at exactly 9.45, the headmaster's wife had made her entrance. She talked to me sweetly, congratulated me, and held the headmaster's ear. After a nice chat- which probably wasn't nice for the headmaster- she dragged the man, pulling solidly on his ears. The headmaster was powerless, almost as though he was paralyzed. 

Yeah, very painful. He didn't scream in pain- he did grimace though.

I was really glad, Marg wasn't like that. Not that I had any plans on doing what the headmaster did, but- yeah, I was really glad and also relieved. 

***

Since I wasn't living in the dorms, I didn't have any reason to follow its rules. I was still going to go home soon though. 

The reason I stayed, however, was important. 

"Johnathan, got a minute?"

There were three other people here besides us and Johnathan, and the clock was pretty much bang on ten. 

The three being; Amie, Eve, and Mike. Mike only showed up like five minutes ago: he was currently going through the leftovers with Enira. The other two were too drunk and sleeping in a corner, making each other their body pillows: they were holding each other, squeezing this and that in their sleep, rubbing against each other and being sweaty. It was a very tempting sight, but as I had a glaring future wife right next to me, I had to control my gazes. 

It was definitely tempting though. 

"Yes, what is it?" Johnathan prepared himself, almost as though he was expecting me to hit him or something. 

"Why did you bring her out of that house? I believe you already knew about your condition?" This thing was really bothering me. 

"It's not a condition!" He almost snapped but controlled himself a second later. "Sorry, it's just, it's a lifestyle and I can't change it. I learned it the hard way." He sighed. "She was suffering there, and I did have feelings for her. I thought I could make it work. But never once did I get excited by her. I really should have known. If I could just go back in time, I want to punch myself in the face." He let out a dejected chuckle. 

"I could do that for you now, if you want?" Actually, I really wanted to punch him now. 

He let out another defeated chuckle and came near me- "I had to legit watch porn in the bathroom before even going near her and well, it was really tough," He whispered, vigorously. "She's great looking but unless I can look at dicks, I can't get it on."

Uh-huh. I was straight, so I couldn't really relate. 

I kind of didn't care what he did in the past and how he did it. But there was one thing that I really wanted to know. "Why didn't you tell her?" I was this close to punching him. 

Like, this- a centimeter away.

"It's better this way." He smiled. "Besides, the gamble worked out, right?"

And I proceeded to punch him- on the nose: I really didn't feel like holding anything back, so it must have hurt. He groaned and rolled on the floor for eight long seconds and crashed into the wooden wall. It was a miracle he didn't break the whole wall- there were cracks though. 

He continued groaning for about three minutes before eventually getting up a second later. He bled pretty wildly.  The guy was tough though.

"No, it's not okay. You better tell her or I will. You made all this weird situation and you'll fix it! I'm not asking you to even attempt to take responsibility. I'm just asking you to be honest with her! Understood!" I kind of wanted to punch him again. 

He'd probably die though.

"I-"

"We should be going. It's getting late," Elsa said holding my left hand. 

"Well?" But I wasn't backing out. Maybe I wasn't going to hit him again but I wanted an answer. 

Johnathan took a deep breath. "Give me some time to prepare please." He held his nose and spoke kind of awkwardly. 

He looked a bit too miserable.

"Sure. Take your time. Just be honest with her. She at least deserves that much."

I turned around and stood near Marg. Marg hadn't said anything and I guess she was just respecting my decisions. I kind of lost my temper for a second back there but she didn't say a word. 

The sheer amount of the stuff she was okay with was kind of amazing. 

Elsa was just behind me. Enira was nowhere to be found: after literally gobbling down all the leftover food, she disappeared from existence. 

Before getting accused of stealing all the food, I wanted to get out of here, ASAP. "Bye, everyone." There weren't that many people here though. 

Amie and Eve were fast asleep. Mike did wave at me though. He was a disciplinary member and a prefect and yet, he didn't really even say a word when I punched Johnathan. 'I won't have to deal with this tomorrow, will I?' I'd just worry about it then.

Marg held my hand- gently squeezed it and everything went purple. 

A second later we were right in front of our main door again. 

"Honestly, why do you want to hit people so badly?" Elsa mumbled. 

I wanted to explain things to her, but for certain reasons, I proceeded not to. 

***

I pressed the bell and it opened exactly a minute later. 

But instead of the bunny maid, someone else opened the door. 

"Mom." The words escaped my lips subconsciously. 

She smiled as she stood aside from the door.

But as she was about to head back, I ran upto her and hugged her. I had so many frigging emotions coursing through my veins that it was impossible to describe. 

She was going through so much, and yet, she was smiling like that. I couldn't really say anything. I couldn't let go either. 

She patted my head, ruffled my hair, and hugged me back. "Come on in. did you have dinner?"

"Just some chocolate syrup."

She sighed but giggled at the same time.

Elsa was kind of confused about this thing, but she seemed more scared than anything else.

We all went in.

"Go get fresh," Mom said.