Chapter 484 - What are Friends? (4)

Finding out the reason why everyone was fainting and having nosebleeds around them, both Luke and Alex turned extremely cold. I gulped, being right when everything was revealed that they would turn into an existence worse than Henry. Cillian couldn't stop trembling in fear as he told them about the headgears, the time-space function, our incidents with pouring water and batter over other people in the club building. Confessing how we made everyone sign a pledge to hide the smoothies and books from them.

"Ri-ka!!!!" Alex yelled at me once Cillian finished revealing everything.

"I'm sorry," I muttered, almost drilling a hole on the ground from my stare.

"Do you have the volumes with you?" Luke wanted to go through them.

"We only sold physical copies," Cillian squeaked out.

Ending the call after extorting the information from Cillian, everyone in the room turned to me. Luke's grip on my wrist tightened, making sure that I wouldn't be able to run away. My heart rapidly thumped, almost skipping a beat when Luke opened his mouth again. My feet felt cold, goosebumps also on the back of my neck.

"So fighting over the desserts at the café?" Luke decided to go over lying to him first.

"I'm sorry for hiding them from you," I decided to start by apologizing.

"You're never leaving the dorm room once we go back to school," he trembled in anger.

"Apologize to Alex. I'm going to make sure you will never have any thoughts of hiding things from us again," Luke gestured to Alex who was trying not to kill me.

Suffering under the three of them in addition to Luke's parents until they managed to reorganize the school again, I almost cried when I was inside the hover car, heading towards the school. I was forced to wear the same necklace that I freed myself from when I nearly burnt down the school on my birthday. My ears also hurt, needing to recover from all the never-ending lectures, none of them taking a break.

"Rika, focus on your workbook," Luke wasn't giving me a chance to rest.

"I told you that I was sorry!" I needed a break.

"We don't want you to be behind since you missed some classes," he warned me to stay focused.

"You'll also have to attend all the fraction meetings with me from now on," Luke had set the distance between us to be at most a few meters apart.

"I told you that you should have done this earlier," Alex brightly smiled.

"And Rika, you have to maintain your chin at a certain level when someone is talking to you," he was determined to make my life miserable.

"I'm done!" I threw the workbook on the floor.

"What are you going to do if I don't finish this book? So what if my etiquette isn't perfect?" I turned to Luke before Alex.

"Pick it up Rika," Luke icily waited for me to listen to him.

"I can decrease the distance to a meter," he began to threaten me.

"Do it then! How is it any different than now?" I had enough of trying to beg for their forgiveness.

Luke opened a screen to adjust the distance to a meter. I knew both of us would suffer from this. Other than adjusting the distance, he couldn't do much anyways. He already planned on visiting his parents every weekend with no room with negotiation. In fact, it was his parents that suggested it from hearing about what had happened. Leaving the workbook on the floor, I looked out the window.

"Pick up the workbook Rika," Luke repeated his words.

"Or we're turning the car back to the mansion," he began to punch in a new location when I continued to ignore him.

"Then turn the car back," I wasn't going to cooperate with them anymore.

I was stunned when the hover car was in front of the mansion again. Since Luke set the distance a meter apart, an invisible wall pushed me out of the hover car. Alex smirked as we entered the mansion again. This was why I liked my kidnappers so much. I considered them to be better than suffering from Luke's family. Tugging on Luke's sleeve before we met his parents, my voice trembled, "I'll pick up the workbook. I'll listen to you now."

However, Luke continued to walk further into the mansion. When we ran into his father, he immediately assigned us to more tutors from hearing what had happened from Alex. Although we were in the same room, we all received different work from the tutors. With my tears filling my workbook in front of me, the tutor yelled at me to concentrate on her lesson. But I couldn't lift my head from the desk.

I started to believe Luke. Blaming Ellen for everything, selling information about me, revealing everything about the club in the process. She didn't even deserve my nickname for her. I etched her name, Helena from the Nicole family into my mind. Stepping out of the hover car while accepting Luke's hand after suffering from his family again, my eyes were dripping with anger when I spotted her nearby.

"I can't believe I considered you as my friend this entire time! How could you sell my information to the criminals?" I yelled at Helena.

"Rika, it's a waste of your time to talk to someone like her," Luke didn't like me creating a scene.

When Helena didn't deny my accusations, I was shocked by Luke's family being right. She really did sell my information.