12 A New Side of Allan

When Allan woke up, he said, \"Please tell me it was a dream. It was a illusion right? You failing every exam and it balancing out to - 100 000 points!\"

Well that was rude! I passed one subject you know! \"Nope, it wasn't a dream, but I have some food in this room that I snuck from home so we won't have to starve,\" I replied cheerfully to cheer him up.

When Allan was about to faint again, I grabbed his shoulders so he wouldn't lose his consciousness again. \"- 100 000 points,\" Allan kept muttering repeatedly afterwards.

Well, I did understand it was going to hard to go back to having at least zero points. I knew this wasn't a good thing, but it was almost a repeat of when I first entered elementary school.

After I took the my first exam in elementary school, I got one 40, some 50s and 60s. This made the points of Luke and I to balance out to -30 000. So it was basically a less extreme version of now. But, it was hard back then to recover to back to zero points. From what I remembered, it took us almost three months to get it back to a stable surplus of points above zero.

However, I wasn't going to spend two weeks trying to recover the impossible. \"Well at least you have some free time to play around! You know that it's absolutely impossible to recover -100 000 points in two weeks anyways no matter what we do. So we can lay back and relax for the next two weeks!\" I said while smiling.

I took some water from the well and boiled it with my mana to put into the two cup ramen that was on the floor. After the noodles were about done, I gave one to Allan.

Allan reluctantly took the cup ramen and finished it within five minutes! Wow. I guess he was really hungry.

After taking care of Allan's meal, I grabbed the light novel that was on my straw bed and resumed reading. Allan was way too traumatized about the -100 000 points incident that he got back into his bed to sleep after eating to convince himself that it was a dream.

The next day, I found a empty bed next to my bed. I wondered what time it was as Allan was nowhere to be seen. Shoot! It was already 2PM! I guess I slept in. Since I already skipped almost half of my classes, I decided to stay inside the room instead of attending the rest of my classes.

Few minutes later I see Allan entering the room while saying, \"I came to wake you up Rika!\"

When Allan opened the door, I replied, \"I'm already awake!\"

\"Then you should get ready for the next class,\" Allan answered back softly.

\"Nay. I'll just skip the rest of the classes for today.\" I said.

Allan suddenly started to search through my bed and pulled out my uniform, \"You should really get going Rika.\"

Allan's face scarily started to resemble Luke as his amber eyes started to narrow in anger with a eery smile plastered all over his face while holding my uniform. I knew this wasn't good news, as I started to back away to eventually break into a run to run away from our room in my pyjamas.

I ran towards the back exit of the school where there was a teleportation gate. I didn't know how to use it, but I would figure it out. However, I was really surprised to see Allan running after me still holding onto my uniform. At this rate, he was going to catch up I thought. And unfortunately he did.

Allan managed to grab onto my wrist while trying to catch his breath. \"This is not what it seems,\" I said to try to calm him down.

However, Allan's amber eyes looked like it was burning in anger. \"Change! Before I get more mad than I am now!\" He yelled.

\"I can't change here though,\" I replied back while reading the mood.

So Allan and I ended up walking back to our rooms again so that I could get changed. When I finally got changed, Allan and I returned back to class late.

My wavy red hair and Allan's navy blue hair looked like a mess when we came inside the classroom. \"Well, you're back.\" The teacher reluctantly said while reading the mood.

After finishing up the last class, Allan walked towards me and said, \"I think we should have a talk.\"

He grabbed my hand and pulled me to the field behind the classroom while the others were still packing their stuff. \"I know that you don't care if you miss class or get more minus points, but I care. It reflects back bad on me that I have a partner who misbehaves even though it's only for two weeks.\"

At this point, I knew I was being cruel to Allan, but I didn't care. I cared more about my freedom that I would even rarely get in the first place. \"So what? So what you care? What are you going to do about it?\" I asked.

\"You weren't like this with Luke,\" Allan replied.

Gosh! And I thought that Allan was the kind of person who liked to laze around with Ellen's constant complaints about him.

\"Well if that's all you wanted to ask, I'm going back to the classroom to finish packing up my stuff and go back to our room.\" (Rika)

Allan tightly grabbed onto my hand and asked, \" What should I do to get you to at least attend class?\"

He kneeled down onto the floor while he started to beg, \"I don't know why you're behaving this way, but please stop. I'll do anything to make you at least attend class. I got really flustered this morning when you wouldn't wake up when I tried waking you up for almost an hour. So I attended class alone to get asked by everyone where you were. If that wasn't enough, I got asked by every teacher who came into the room where you were and got scolded many times for not bringing you to class. I'd be lying to say I wasn't upset about the -100 000 points, but as long you attend class, I'll be willing to overlook that one blunder as the representative of the Krista family. So please at least attend class!\"

At this rate, he was threatening and begging me. After living for 16 years in my past life + almost 7 years my current life, I wasn't falling for his sweet words. I shook his hand off and went back to the classroom to pack up my stuff, not giving Allan an answer.

When I was about to leave the classroom, I got stopped by Ellen near the exit. \"Aren't you being way too harsh Rika?\"

\"Nope. I'm helping you by letting Allan taste a bit of his own medicine,\" I replied.

\"Rika~ You don't have to go this far for me though. Thanks for caring though.\" (Ellen)

Well, I wasn't doing this for her, but for me. However, I couldn't say it like that so I framed it differently.

\"No, Ellen you're way too nice! I'll just do this for a couple of more days and I'll stop!\" (Rika)

Ellen reluctantly got out of my way with a concerned looking face while I started to walk towards my room.

When I got to my room to finish reading the rest of my light novel, I wondered why it wasn't so fun anymore. The plot didn't seem to be going anywhere while the junk food that I was eating started to lose its taste. This was when I heard some voices outside the door, \"I saw Allan still kneeling outside at that field even though it's been over four hours!\" One voice said.

\"That long? When I saw him outside, only two hours has passed!\" Another voice whispered.

\"I wondered what happened.\" The first voice answered back.

Maybe it was the book that was boring, I tried to convince myself. I switched to another book, while I heard someone knocking on the door.

I learned that in kindergarten that no one could open the door to the room if the owner of the room wasn't the pair itself. So it meant the person that was knocking on the door, wasn't Allan.

I ignored the knocking until I heard Luke's voice, \"I know that you're inside Rika. Let me in or you won't know what will happen to you next month.\"

I ignored Luke's threats as I flipped another page in the light novel. I wondered if this book was boring as well, as I began to pick up a new book.

One book later, I began to get thirsty. So I opened the door to get myself some water from the well. Unfortunately, when I opened the door, I saw the angry face of Luke.

I quickly tried to close the door when I saw his face, but Luke already barged into the room. \"What were you thinking Rika?\" Luke asked angrily while grabbing onto my shoulders.

\"Nothing much.\" I replied back.

I started to shrink back as I saw myself reflected back from Luke's genuinely stormy ocean blue eyes.