"Hehehe."
A pleasant giggle reached my ears and I tilted my head to find Selena hugged onto my arm with a smile on her face.
Why did this world have to give a face like that to someone like her? Just looking at her I felt conflicted, she didn't look like someone who could hurt a fly, yet she'd almost killed me a few minutes ago.
[Did she actually believe your answer?]
'Of course not. I know her too well, she's not someone you can deceive that easily. She may not look it but her IQ is frightening, she probably saw through the lie the moment it left my mouth, but that only makes this situation more complicated. I don't know what's going on in her head, and what happened back in that elevator has put this fear in me that I can't shake, I can't even push her away because I don't know what she'd do next.'
I hated how unpredictable she was. There was no telling what she might do at any given moment, and even in the novel she was flat out overpowered from the very start. I thought it had something to do with her bloodline or blessing, and that was probably also the catalyst for her insanity.
Suddenly she stepped in front of me to block the path, her hand still clasped around mine. "I'll give you two options and you have to choose one before ten seconds," she said with a mischievous smirk.
"What?" I asked, feeling a bit apprehensive.
"What would you prefer to eat right now, food," she said, then leaned close to my ear, "or me~" she purred, and the effect was instant, my imagination already running ahead of me while I felt heat pool in my lower half.
Wait.
Am I actually considering that?
"I just want to go to my dorm," I said flatly.
[This girl, I can't even figure out what she's planning.]
'Don't even try, you'll fry your brain,' I thought, resigning myself to the situation.
She puffed her cheeks into a pout, then her arm moved so fast I couldn't track it.
Thud.
A dull thud echoed and I blinked.
Oh.
She was just messing with me. She had punched me but with no real strength behind it at all, I could barely feel her hand on my chest.
"Does that mean I'm not tempting enough?" she said, then grabbed the collar of my tracksuit and pulled me down to her level, and our lips met.
Chu.
A quick peck, and then she grabbed my arm again and started walking in the opposite direction.
"Why are you going that way? The dorms are on the other side," I said, trying to pull back, but it was pointless.
"Stop trying to act tough, I already know you're flat broke," she said, stopping for a moment to look up at me, "I heard what happened to you too, the points that got taken from you, so I'll help you get them back," she said, flashing a smile that hit me somewhere in the chest.
She was acting an awful lot like...
[Your nameless lover?]
'Don't call her that.'
[But it's true, and you refuse to say her name.]
'That's because I can't remember it,' I admitted. 'Since I woke up in this world I've had that problem, her name's right at the tip of my tongue but I can never say it. I remember everything we went through together, I remember her face, I remember my own name, but I can't remember hers.'
[...]
But it was similar, this whole thing. Some strange girl becoming the main source of chaos in my life, refusing to leave me alone no matter what I did, and there was always some jealous fool getting on my nerves in the background.
"How did you even get them to give it to you?" I asked, looking at her, though I already had a rough guess.
"I asked politely," she smirked, then pulled me toward a more crowded area.
"So are you going to give me the points?" I asked, feeling a small bit of hope.
"No," she said.
Well, great.
Isn't that essentially the same thing as not having them?
"I'll hold onto them for you instead, so something like that doesn't happen again. So don't worry about food, I've got you covered," she smiled.
I see.
'She's using this as a way to make me dependent on her, and it might actually work.'