Chapter 414 - Turns (5)

"Can we just switch for today? It's the weekday," Henry became obsessed with the club room.

"Give me your weekends," I wasn't willing to give up today.

"There's no way I'm giving you the weekends," he whispered into my ear.

"Ask Cillian," I turned my head away from him.

"Ever since he entered the room, he's not himself anymore," Henry shuddered.

It had been a week since we began our schedule of turns. Since none of them experienced playing games and other entertainment devices before, they quickly became immersed in the items in the club room. Even the gentle Cillian wasn't willing to give up or exchange any days for his friends and partner. Sienna's pitiful eyes didn't work on him anymore as she begged him to switch turns for a day.

"Then no deal," I walked away from him.

"Please? Just today," he continued to follow me.

"Ask someone else," I increased my pace.

"Is there anything wrong?" Luke noticed us together from coming back from his sword practice.

"Henry won't leave me alone!" I complained.

"It's just a single day," Henry showed he wasn't asking for much.

"You know how much a single day means," I began to raise my voice.

"Cillian ignored me for the entire day today," he started to shout.

"No means no," I turned to him, almost yelling.

"Why are you guys all like this?" He trembled in frustration.

"You're not yourselves anymore," he pointed out.

"And did you ever agree when I asked you two days ago?" I showed why I wasn't generous.

"I'll make it up to you," he began to plead.

"You don't have to, I won't ever agree," I increased my pace while walking.

"Is there anything you want from my partner?" Luke asked Henry.

"Let's see what happens when you ask for the same thing next time!" Henry ignored Luke to stomp away from us.

I sighed as Henry came to me after bothering Sienna, Cillian and Delia who were the others that had their turns today. I would normally be the hardest to convince but the others also had extremely defensive walls around them. I smiled as I wondered what game I should play in the club room today while they stayed at the café.

"Thanks for helping," I turned to Luke.

I knew that Henry would continue to bother me until all the classes ended. Break time was the only time he could persuade us to exchange turns for the day. Since Luke was busy with the fraction work after classes finished, he switched to sparing with Alex during the longer breaks. The school switched to having longer breaks ever since the circus incident, part of another change his family made to the school.

"Our fight is still going on," I didn't mention how intense they were getting.

Begging and pleading became common when no one was willing to switch their turns, knowing they would end up losing their turns instead. Our time at the café was filled with complaining about the cruel people in the clubroom. Meanwhile, the original club members stayed far away from us, trying to not get involved in our fights.

"Rika, Just for today?" Shelly found me while I tried to avoid her for the entire day.

"I'm not, you can ask Delia, Sienna or Cillian," I pointed her in their direction.

"We're friends, aren't we?" She continued to try to convince me.

"Our friendship broke a day ago!" I recalled how she wouldn't switch turns with me yesterday when I did the same.

"Fine! Our friendship is broken!" Shelly turned to walk to the other classroom.

Once Shelly disappeared from us, Delia came running to me to avoid her. Once it was our turns, we tried to hide from the people who would stay at the café since they would try to persuade us to exchange our turns for the day. Delia held my arm, sighing in relief when Ellen, Shelly and Henry weren't here. This was when we formed allies with each other to help each other out.

"They've been after me for the entire day," she looked extremely tired.

"Our friendship is broken again," I sighed.

When Ellen noticed the both of us together, she ran towards us like Shelly had. Both Delia and I flinched, losing the game of hide and seek. I actually preferred learning inside the classroom with shorter breaks since I was too focused on running away during break time. While they accused me to be addicted to the headgears when they never tried it, we turned out to be the same. None of the original members touched the entertainment devices in the room anymore.

"We're not friends anymore! Friends don't pressure someone into agreeing," I declined Ellen before she could ask.

"That's right! You had your fun yesterday!" Delia agreed with me.

"Cillian is softer!" I shouted to convince her to go to him instead.

Seeing how both Delia and I weren't willing to give up on our turns, Ellen gritted her teeth before leaving. Meanwhile, Luke watched me being cold to my previous best friends. He seemed a bit taken aback as Delia and I stuck closer together. If only he knew how everyone cursed him once we were inside the café. We were playing a game of throwing the forks towards the wall, putting a target from someone floating a handkerchief.

"Did you just direct them towards me?" Cillian came out of his hiding spot.