Chapter 564 - Secret Room (1)

"What? Repeat everything again," I faced Oili in a call.

"Haruka gave Luke a document on that room since he's the next fraction leader," Oili sighed.

"Why?" I felt my mind going blank.

"Normally, fraction leaders do an inspection of all the storage rooms to see if they're being used. Most of the storage rooms get rearranged whenever social week comes around," Oili explained.

This was extremely bad. Social week was coming up a month from now. Luke was very busy working on the documents that he mostly left me alone in the mansion lately. He was definitely going to burn everything in that room once he discovered it. I would become a goner with everyone else in that plan. Since Oili knew this, he was depending on me to get rid of the document on my end.

"Let's start by moving everything out of that room," I needed help.

"I can move some of it into my dorm room," Oili agreed.

I quickly ended the call, running to Charles�� room. Charles used his bedroom in the daytime while sharing a bed with Luke during the nights. Without knocking, I slammed his door open, being pressed for time. Charles would equally get in trouble for giving me that room if the whole thing got revealed. Unexpectedly, he was in the middle of changing. He swiftly pulled down the other half of his shirt as I closed the door behind me while placing a sound barrier.

"Get out," he was close to yelling.

"This is more important," I sat on his bed.

"Haruka gave Luke a document on that room and we have to destroy it before Luke touches it," I summarized.

Charles instantly froze, thinking along the same lines as me. Ever since Luke started to treat him differently, he began to fear him more than Kristie. I waited for him to finish changing while trying to think of more ideas. The first thing I needed to do was to distract Luke from touching the work from the rival fraction. I was also going to become busy later on from contacting everyone I knew to move my stuff into their dorm rooms.

"I can search for the document," Charles had access to the office.

"Luke will know there's something going on if anything is out of place," I warned him.

"We'll have to sneak into the office at night and return everything back to normal in the morning," I suggested.

"He won't be suspicious if I quickly go through the work in the morning," Charles knew he had no other choice.

"We can do both. I'll do what I can from him touching more work," I was allied with Charles.

"And from now on, we need to have a sound barrier inside your room to update each other on everything," I was telling him about my lack of privacy from Luke.

"We should meet after every dinner," Charles agreed.

"I'm already starting to move everything out," I hoped Oili had a big dorm room.

When someone knocked on his door, both of us stiffened, knowing the person on the other side. Since this was no time to be panicking, I quickly unfroze to place the sound barrier down. Was it because I was usually in my bedroom by this time? Luke knew how I usually spent my days from limiting me to certain places in the mansion. After letting me go from finishing his planned schedule, I normally ordered many desserts like I did at school.

"Is Rika here?" Luke was looking for me.

"You really don't have any privacy," Charles pitied me.

"I know how to handle this," I walked to open the door.

"What do you want?" I faced Luke.

"You weren't in your bedroom," Luke studied Charles and me.

"I'm not always in my bedroom. You promised to leave me alone after finishing that schedule for the day," I reminded him.

"And aren't you busy lately?" I pointed out the piling documents in his office.

"We need to choose your outfits for social week," Luke was already preparing.

"You'll let me choose everything?" I was surprised.

"I have to make adjustments based on how you fit in them," he chose everything in advance.

Luke didn't have time this year to choose my outfits with me. He was likely going over the tiny details on how everything would go along together when I wore them. I ġrȯȧnėd as I followed him to my room. I knew I may end up with uncomfortable ones if I refused. However, this was the perfect time for Charles to go through the documents. I sent him a quick look that I would stall for time.

"I'm not wearing that," I crossed my arms.

"Try them," Luke passed me the dress.

"You try them," I smiled as I discovered I could stall lots of time from this.

I wondered how Charles was doing with the documents. While Luke was getting fed up with me, I continued to push him to his limits.. I really didn't want to sneak into the office at night, the chance of getting discovered would be higher.