What are Friends? (10)

"Your engagement got broken?" My eyes widened during my break at the café.

Negotiating with Luke on sitting down during class, he followed me to the café so I could meet with my friends. Pretending that he wasn't sitting beside me, I was shocked when Delia told me that Henry was expelled from school. It wasn't Henry's fault. He was framed by Helena to have me kidnapped in front of him.

"My new partner is Allan," Delia surprised everyone.

"So you'll use the dorms with Allan from now on?" I couldn't imagine them together.

"The school is making some new arrangements," she nodded her head.

"What's the possibility of my engagement getting broken?" I whispered inside her ear.

"I'm not sure," Delia was stiff under Luke's watchful eyes.

"Can you leave?" I turned to Luke.

"We can always return to our dorms," Luke began to rise from his seat.

"And I'll never sit down during class," I tried to counter his threat.

"What's to stop me from throwing some pens towards our teachers?" I shrugged.

Luke held in his anger, knowing he had already used everything he had against me. He attempted to get me to sign another contract, but there was no way I was falling for the same trick twice. I smiled, knowing I was winning our fights. All my otaku supplies were safely hidden away in the rooms he didn't know about. I didn't care when Alex joined him in threatening me.

"Don't think I forgot about everything inside that clubroom," he switched to threatening everyone inside the café.

He was one step behind some desperate people who would do anything to hide their tracks. The mana research club spelled the ancient artifacts club, hiding everything that had happened in the past few months. They would also become a goner if Luke came running after them. In fact, everyone inside the club building was on our side. The teachers were included in that list, not wanting to lose their jobs.

"What clubroom? Does it even exist anymore?" I covered my mouth, trying to hide my smile.

"If you increase the distance, it'll make it easier for the both of us," I pointed out.

I just needed to drive Luke crazy enough to place the necklace off me. It wouldn't be too hard. I could pretend my aim was very poor when targeting the teachers during class. My hopes were going up as Luke sat back down in his seat, silent with nothing to say. Once break was starting to end, Luke dragged me to the classroom. Holding multiple pens in my hand, I accidentally made my aim too accurate, the pen landing near the teacher's head when walking into the classroom.

Luke turned to me, stunned that I wasn't lying about the pens. I ignored him as class time turned into a pen catching game between me and the teachers. Once I ran out of pens, I moved onto throwing airplanes made from ripped pages from the workbooks. Noticing him barely able to maintain his calm demeanor, I brightly smiled. This plan was working better than I thought, pretending that Alex wasn't trembling in anger with him.

"I didn't think class would end so fast," I pretended to be disappointed as the teachers kept on dismissing class early today.

None of the teachers scolded me, knowing that I was saving them from Luke. Break time came five hours earlier today as I waited for Luke to explode. I could continue this for the entire day if he wasn't willing to negotiate some new terms. Alex walked up to us, unable to watch me torture the teachers but also having nothing to use against me.

"Don't you think that placing this necklace off would benefit the both of us?" I smiled.

"It looks like she'll continue this until you put it off her," Charles supported me.

We were all goners once they dug into more details on how they were customers of the things we sold. I was the best chance they had in making sure that Luke wouldn't do anything to all the people who participated in the club activities. Seeing how everyone in the room was against him, Luke didn't have a choice but to give in, "what do you want Rika?"

I gestured to Charles to pass me a contract we had created with the entire school. When Charles passed me the contract, he made both Luke and Alex shocked. It was over hundreds of thousands of pages long, allowing no room for loopholes which the teachers helped with. I never predicted that Luke would chain me to him with the necklace again. But Shelly made sure to account the factor in, making the contract cover everything that could possibly happen.

"Please sign here. The both of you," I passed the contract to them.

"You guys were all a part of this!" Alex slammed the contract on Luke's desk.

"Our offer will only stand until the break ends," I warned them.

Luke quickly began to go through the contract with Alex, trying to look for loopholes. If they signed the contract, we would be free to continue our club activities again. While everyone who participated in the club activities would remain safe. They had nothing to lose except for giving me more freedom in school. I was surprised when they were able to go over the entire thing with around five minutes remaining before break ended.

"So will you sign?" I liked being on the opposite end.