Fractions (1)

"What did you do this time?" Ben appeared to be in his dorm room.

His hair was messy from just waking up while Alice appeared to be missing. I was used to this appearance since we spent the time together in the second and sixth district. However, the others seemed surprised to know how close I was with him.

"I want to be in your fraction. My fraction is too stingy and annoying." I demanded to him.

"You know that's not possible," He rubbed his eyes.

"Come on, please," I brought out my dazzling eyes that glistened for help.

"Why would you even want to leave the most powerful fraction for an insignificant one?"

"I already told you it's because I don't like my fraction. So I kicked myself out of the group," I declared my plan.

Ben laughed while he was half-awake, "I'll need to talk to the people in my fraction before I let you join."

"Seriously? You'll let me join?" I almost cheered in front of him.

I ended the call before Ben could change his mind. I was officially out of Luke's petty fraction now! I knew Ben couldn't prevent me from joining his fraction from how much dirt I had on him! Maybe this whole fraction thing didn't apply to people who weren't born in the first district.

"You see, I'm out of this fraction!" I jumped in the air.

"You can conduct your fraction meetings or whatnot, but do it without me. I have a new fraction now." I attempted to open the locked doors.

I turned to Lucius to open the door. There was no point in this meeting since I wasn't one of them anymore. Now it was purely only the Roselia name that got sullied from my actions. However, nothing happened as I pulled on the doors to go back to school.

"I'm surprised by how readily the heir of the Nuelle family is giving you the chance to join the fraction that is known to be hardest to join," Jules studied me.

I shrugged as I looked forward to going to school. But, even Luke appeared to be surprised from the brief conversation between Ben and I. His mouth slightly opened as if he was going to speak before remembering to close it when he had no words to say.

I didn't know who was inside Ben's fraction, but I didn't care as long as I could escape from the meetings that interrogated me. Before knowing this whole political thing existed, I thought Lucius and Ben were close to each other during social week. It was slightly unexpected on my end to figure out they weren't as close.

Lucius, who was still deliberating on what to do with this new information, decided to end this meeting early. The doors finally opened as I teleported myself back to the dorm room. When I glanced at the clock, I found out I only had thirty minutes before class started. I wasn't going to starve after skipping dinner last night.

I rushed to change into my school uniform and pulled my hair into a tight ponytail to run to the cafeteria. Thankfully there was no lineup at this late time as I got my food immediately. I chugged into my mouth as Ben came up to sit in the empty spot in front of me.

"My fraction is having a meeting tomorrow night where you're invited to attend," Ben told me his fraction's decision.

"Umm, thanks." I mumbled as I talked while chewing on my food.

I waved to him to leave as I looked around if Luke was in the cafeteria with me. I could just imagine the long lecture if he discovered I spoke with food inside my mouth. But, the decision made by Ben's fraction was fast. Was this really the fraction that was hardest to join?

I could hardly focus on the lessons during class as my mind wavered on the sudden politics news today. Daniel came up to my desk after he noticed I stopped paying any attention to him during homeroom. Allan coughed to warn me to look up, making me drift back into what was happening in the classroom.

"You should continue your lesson," I pretended I was listening.

"Of course, I would continue if someone paid attention," Daniel tapped on my desk.

This wasn't the first time this happened. Charles didn't even bother to mock me after he got used to it. But I would definitely be lectured by Luke later on.

"Of course," I answered while I elegantly smiled each time it happened.

Even Daniel couldn't continue to scold me during class when I remained ignorant. I wasn't interrupting his lesson or creating any discord. Plus, it was especially harder to continue with his disapproval when I acted like a model student.

After Daniel finished with his announcements, I ran out of the classroom to avoid Luke. I didn't feel like going through another intense study session after my brain was dead. Since, I didn't properly look where I was going, I bumped into a high school student on the way and fell onto the ground.

She generously offered me her hand to help me back up. But, noticing that her stuff had fallen onto the ground in the process, I rejected her offer and helped her pick up her possessions. After giving the catalogs with a thin BL comic hidden inside one of them, I walked to my usual café.