Chapter 138 - Planning (3)

I ran to hide behind Sienna hoping Luke and Alex would pass by without noticing me. How did the hover car land at school at such a horrible timing? It wasn't like I could change now, outside where the campus was filled with students. But I did wear a tank top under my t-shirt. Couldn't I just take off the t-shirt and put on the long dress on top of it?

I proceeded to take off my shirt, but in the process, both Luke and Alex had noticed me behind Sienna with the flashy hover car that didn't leave its place yet. Oh great! Luke wasn't ever going to forgive this mistake since it appeared like I was stripping in public. They got angry last year when I pretended to even take off my cardigan. But in many ways, this was worse since Luke was especially focused on keeping up my image in school.

I pulled my shirt back down as I continued to hide behind Sienna who looked at me with pity. "It's not what it seems," I blurted when both Luke and Alex walked closer.

I grabbed Sienna's shoulders to use her as a shield. Each time Luke stepped closer to me, I pushed Sienna toward his face. He frowned when he noticed my short shorts that revealed almost all of my entire leg.

"Sienna is also wearing running shoes too!" I silently mumbled my apologies into Sienna before placing us both into a precocious situation.

"Where did you get these from?" Luke scanned my outfit.

I stared in the direction of Alex who most likely didn't tell him about the time I had run away. Luke raised one of his eyebrows before turning to Alex who briefly glared at me before summarizing a biased view of what had really happened.

"Rika threatened Julian into taking off the necklace and she ran away to the third district as soon the restraint was gone," Alex helplessly sighed like he had no choice in the decision.

"Please, excuse us," Luke politely asked Sienna to move away from me.

"Don't!" I shouted while gathering a crowd of attention.

"Sienna is mine! Enna can't ever betray me," I pushed her closer to my chest to tightly hug her.

Sienna frantically waved her hands to deny any thoughts of betrayal as she hugged me back and dropped the bag. Unfortunately, this made me break away from using her as a shield where my back burned from their stares. I was glad she didn't mind when I created a new nickname for her.

"Wasn't the Roselia family one of the leaders of their own fraction?" Someone in the crowd mumbled.

"Look how close they are to a member of the neutral fraction," Another person pointed out.

"Maybe they're trying to gain control of the neutral fraction too."

Why couldn't the people stick to their own business? Eventually, almost everyone in the courtyard tried to hide their frequent glances toward our direction. I could virtually spot the traces of annoyance present on Alex's scrunched forehead while Luke had smoke coming out of his head from embarrassment.

"Would you please let my cousin talk to his partner in private? It would be beneficial for both of us when that trade deal is coming up soon," Alex warned Sienna of the influence he had.

Sienna shuddered as she soon let me go with a look of apology and pity mixed in. It didn't take long to be dragged into the dorm room with the door slammed shut. I was officially in loads of trouble with two against one in this room that seemed to shrink in size.

"What did I say?" Luke asked me to repeat a firm unspoken rule between us.

"I can do anything I want as long as I don't sully the Roselia family name," I mumbled quietly.

"But taking your clothes off in public?" Luke pressed his head against his forehand.

"I had a tank top underneath." I gently countered.

I cowered into the corner of the room as I rubbed my arms for comfort. Luke stared at me silently in more disappointment as Alex tried to quickly formulate a plan to cover this incident. The tension in the room was high as Alex tried to calm Luke down, reminding him that he had his support.

There wasn't much Luke could do anyways since he didn't have anything against me anymore with all my collection hidden. I knew he let some of my collection off to a certain extent to use it against me in these kinds of situations. I flopped onto my bed as I opened a book to wait to see what they came up with.

"This is something serious Rika," Luke held in his anger.

"I never said it wasn't," I flipped to the next page.

"We can go visit my parents during the holidays instead of yours if you really want to," Luke knew exactly how much I despised the hell-like schedule given to us.

But Luke hated that schedule as much as I did. Knowing that I didn't have a choice in who to visit during the holidays, I got up to apologize. It was much better than spending years in that mansion through space-time magic.

"Fine, I'm sorry," I yelled.

I sulked as I changed into my regular dress with the embellished Roselia crest sewn subtly into the clothes and passed him my perfectly good running shoes and cheap clothing.

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