Chapter 451 - Author (3) - Delia's POV

"Maybe I should send a message to Cillian to check up on her," Luke typed a message.

"Rika is probably fine," Alex tried to reassure him.

I couldn't look at their faces since I was helping Cillian hide that she was kidnapped a half an hour ago. Both of them didn't know how the others took her out of school. Closing my bedroom door, I needed a plan to prevent Luke from figuring out. He was close to confining Rika to her dorm room after she got a burning fever last time.

"You're right. As long as they didn't take her out of school, it should be fine," Luke switched the topic back to their fraction work.

Making sure to put a soundproof barrier on my room, I decided to check up on their progress. Unfortunately, the next place I found them was inside the hover car going back to school. Cillian wasn't the type to give up unless it was hopeless. This was more serious than I thought it would be. We had to find her before the weekends finished since the teachers would figure out.

"We tried everything," Michelle was almost in tears.

"How did we know she would be the only one to get kidnapped?" Henry still didn't believe their current situation.

"Tell me everything that happened again," I waited for them to explain.

I wondered if it was just extremely bad luck. Cillian was more worried since it wasn't the first time Rika had gotten kidnapped and Luke had warned him about it. Finding Ellen to be the only sane person in the car, she calmly explained how Rika was taken from two a.d.u.l.t males who asked her about show business. She was taken by them who took her by force and shoved her into a hover car before any of them could react.

"So you don't think you can find her," I got the final answer.

"They walked in all the blind spots and the signal in her marble is gone," Cillian was pressured with most of the burden as her partner.

"If she stays missing during the weekday, we can tell the teachers that she got sick again," I knew Rika wouldn't want Luke to figure out about her kidnapping like we did.

On an early Monday morning, I teleported to the club room, finding everyone already gathered together. We had failed to find any traces of her like she had disappeared from this world. Cillian appeared like he hadn't gotten any sleep while he dizzily responded to Luke's messages to check up on her. I made sure to help Luke with the neutral fraction work while he didn't hesitate to accept my offer. This was how Luke never went out of our dorm room during the weekends other than to eat with me.

"It would have taken me a lot more time to finish them on my own," Luke thanked me.

"I'm used to doing them with Henry," I smiled back.

"Why do you hang out with Rika anyways?" Alex had a better impression of me.

"She introduces me to a lot of new things," I liked how she didn't bring politics into everything like other people did with me.

"She does," Alex didn't finish his sentence.

Both Alex and Luke were very polite when I helped them with their work. Thanking me multiple times, they didn't ever take my help for granted. They also gave me plenty of room to relax, trying not to bother me as much as possible. Unlike Henry, Luke greeted me every morning, asking if he could possibly offer me some help, making sure everything was comfortable. He was the perfect partner, respecting my boundaries while subtly taking care of the tiny details.

When I accidentally missed an important part in the lecture, he shifted his detailed notes to me so I could catch up instead of asking the teacher during the break. Luke also made sure my horrible classmates wouldn't treat me as usual, intercepting all their comments when they tried to pressure my fraction. Seeing how they couldn't do anything with Luke covering for me, my cruel classmates quickly gave up and didn't bother me beyond our first day together.

Michelle was right. Luke was only strict towards Rika and she was missing now. Cillian started to panic, "What if Luke finds out she's not in the infirmary?"

"Rika has skipped classes before during her first year while partnering with Alan," Michelle reminded us of the rumors.

"But he's going to check our dorm room," he shook his head.

"I'll make sure he won't know for today," I sighed.

The emergency meeting was disjoint as I quickly teleported back to my bedroom. After quickly getting ready for school, I found Luke waiting for me to walk to the cafeteria together to eat breakfast. I cautiously watched him chattering with Alex while he didn't look for Rika. Maybe he thought she was sleeping in again. The day quickly flew by as I spent my breaks with him to help with more of the fraction work with Alex.

While walking with him to our dorm room after all the classes finished, my eyes widened as I noticed someone jumping out of a hover car far above the school barrier. When I squinted my eyes, I was surprised to find the Nuelle family crest on the hover car before it exploded. I ran closer to where they would land with the rest of the people who were curious what was happening. I gasped when I discovered Ben was the one looking for a safe landing while holding a girl in his arms. Having Alice beside him, the girl wearing the Nuelle family crest was a mystery.

"Rika," Luke whispered beside me.