Chapter 575 - New Roommate (2)

Unfortunately, Charles wasn't afraid of dolls anymore. I had to send a message to Miliana to scrap that plan of revenge. It was the first time Jules and Charles were joining the three of us. The room was filled with silence as we all had tea together with Kristie. It was hard being motivated throughout the week to continue playing more childish games with them. After writing a bunch of storylines, an entire hour was dedicated to playing with paper dolls.

"We usually start by having teatime with Kristie," I placed a teacup towards Kristie.

"You're weren't lying," Jules recalled everything Luke said.

"We're going to be playing some different games today since we have more people with us," I shrugged.

Jules had successfully moved everything into a new room. I had nothing against him anymore. Charles sent many messages to most of his connections to help Jules. I had to downplay the usual torture. However, hand games were relatively simple and not much of a pain. Luke began to teach Jules and Charles the rules, surprising them in the process. The room was filled with our singing as they wondered what they were even doing.

"Do you do this every day?" Charles turned to Alex.

"This is just the start," Alex continued to clap his hands to follow the rhythm.

"Where did you come up with this stuff?" Charles was curious.

"Boredom does a lot of things to people," I had the perfect excuse.

"How long do we continue this for?" Jules had no idea what was about to come next.

"For twenty minutes," Luke approximated.

"We can stop here to move onto something else," I made both Luke and Alex freeze.

They knew this was one of the more painless games. Alex glared at Jules to take back what he said. However, Jules didn't seem to understand what Alex was trying to tell him, urging me to stop the game. Thankfully, I had the perfect strategy game to play, "we're going to play mafia. We have to find the murderer by voting whom it may be. Since it's your first time, I'm going to be the intermediator to choose the role."

I placed a sound barrier up so they couldn't hear my footsteps. I made them close their eyes while circling around them. I tapped on Alex's head to choose him as the mafia. Once I was finished, I joined the circle. Everyone opened their eyes as they tried to guess the murderer. I expected it to be a short game since we had a few people, but it went on for a long time.

"Luke should be the mafia, look at his expressionless face," Charles pointed out.

"He's always like this. Maybe it's you since you're talkative," Jules studied him.

"It should be Charles," Alex brightly smiled.

"Let's eliminate Charles," Luke agreed.

"Is this your final choice?" I asked for their confirmation.

"It should be Alex," Jules changed his mind.

"Why should it be me?" Alex continued his façade.

"Your smile is slightly faltering," Luke noticed.

"It should be Alex," Charles agreed.

"The two hours are up. The game ends at a truce. Alex was the mafia," I checked the time in my marble.

"Spending time with Rika isn't bad," Charles enjoyed the game.

"Why did you guys tell me you play with dolls together?" Jules found the games to be fine.

"It was only for today," Alex tried to explain.

However, both Charles and Jules didn't believe Alex. It was pretty hard to believe if I wasn't the one who came up with it. I had more similar games planned out for tomorrow. I wanted to avoid playing with dolls as much as they did. Unexpectedly, Alex knocked on my bedroom door early in the morning, interrupting Luke and me. He normally joined us after we ate breakfast together.

"Is there anything wrong?" Luke continued to brush my hair.

"What's in your plan for today?" Alex wanted to know.

"How do I know? You're the one who creates the schedule with Luke," I remained ignorant.

"You know I'm talking about the two hours," Alex narrowed his eyes.

"I don't know. I just do whatever that comes to my head," I decided to be honest.

"Why?" I coldly faced him.

"Add the dolls in," Alex wanted them to suffer.

"Why should I do that? There's better games to play with more people," I had a set plan.

"Ten minutes and I swear on my family name that you can continue this the next time we're stuck together," Alex was sick of people not believing him.

"Luke didn't agree to the promise," I couldn't do it without Luke together with him.

"I don't mind spending more time with you Rika," Luke was impressed by the mafia game.

"Only ten minutes," I brightly smiled.

I knew another day would eventually come where I would need to distract them from something. It was pretty handy if they agreed in advance. I would be free from spending more time with them once I entered school anyways. I was excited since that day would be coming tomorrow. Although I had another round of exams, I was mostly prepared from all the intense study sessions. After several rounds of mafia, the leftover time went to fulfilling my promise with Alex.

"It was real," Jules watched me pull out some paper dolls.

"I told you not to get too surprised," I equally wanted to rip them apart.