Stalker (2)

I was close to punching Sienna's screen when I saw the new set of pictures taken. The most talked about post was where Alex, Luke and I slept on the same bed together. Our faces were only separated by a few centimeters, blooming together like it was intentionally done inside a professional photoshoot. I knew they were lying when they told me that I took the most space! Both of my hands were taken as they tightly held one on their side of the bed.

I was close to disliking the comments talking about how cute we appeared together. The only photo worse than this one was where I discovered Alex was telling the truth. While my foot was on his leg, my head was on Luke's arm. It was clear that Luke's bedroom wasn't any safer than mine. I wondered if we could move my bed back to my bedroom again. But I didn't ask when Alex was beside Luke, furious with how there were pictures taken of him.

"You can try sleeping in my bedroom tonight," Shelly offered.

"Mine too!" Sienna joined in.

"The pictures are getting worse," Oili commented how the number of posts increased each day.

The club room wasn't safe as well. Ethan was about to destroy a gaming console when he appeared on the fan site, people talking about how his looks was lackluster compared to Luke. I remembered I was trying to bribe him that day to help me escape from Luke and Alex. Our president stopped checking the fan site when he was attacked by the comments that he didn't deserve to be near us.

There was at least one photo of every member inside the club. Although most of the focus was on me, my stalker made sure their faces could be clearly seen when they were around me. I wasn't surprised when a separate fan site for Luke appeared, everyone praising his beauty on mine. I almost choked when I noticed a new posting on the school forum. Tapping on the screen, I found a newly created fan site for Alex.

"There's one for you too," Shelly tried to hide her happiness on how he deserved it.

"Why isn't the school doing anything?" Alex trembled while going through his fan site.

"There aren't many posts yet," Cillian tried to comfort him.

"Your fan site is on another level," Delia pitied me.

I was pretty impressed with my fan site. No matter how many times it got taken down, there were double the number that replaced it. The fan site master was dedicated to uploading fresh content every day, attracting fellow fans that never got tired of visiting. Recently, the owner started to upload videos, finding the pictures not being enough. This made Luke more careful with his words, always trying to maintain his act.

The lectures were replaced with more elbowing and pokes, subtle hints of threats to fix something. He gave into me more easily when I complained about something, knowing there could be someone listening in. Talking in shorter sentences, he tried to avoid talking in general. Other than Alex moving in yesterday, it wasn't a bad life. I tried to hide my smile when Luke began to warn Alex, "there's videos taken too. You'll have to be careful with your words and actions."

"And we can't do another fraction meeting," Oliver added.

"What happened during the fraction meeting?" I wondered.

"It wasn't normal," Cillian shuddered.

"We reorganized our fractions," Delia explained.

"Your fans are insane," Ethan grumbled.

I never met any of my fans again after the first day. I wondered how aggressive they were from the comments I read. Everyone else seemed to agree with Ethan, saying they were violent. But there was no way I would know as Luke kept a stricter eye on me. It seemed that magical girls suffered under their flashy life. After leaving the club room, I moved into Shelly's dorm room for today. Since the four of us couldn't sleep on one bed, we ended up attaching them together again.

"I want the edge this time!" I claimed my spot.

"Rika," Luke waited for me to get in.

Living with Luke for a long time, it was sad I knew what he was talking about from one look. Since Luke knew about this, all it took was saying my name when he wanted something from me. I sighed as I was inside the worse position on the bed. I was in between Luke and Alex again while Shelly got the edge, one of the better spots. Rubbing my eyes after Luke shook me awake, I began to check my fan page for any updates.

"Is there any safe place inside the school?" I found another round of photos of us sleeping together.

"There's a video too!" Shelly gasped.

"What?" Alex tapped on the screen.

My eyes widened when I watched how I slept. I kept on rolling around, annoying Alex in the process. He chose to hold my hand to make me stay in one position while shooting a look at Luke to do the same with my other hand. But I started to kick the blankets, causing them to wake up again. Luke muttered a spell to calm me down before trying to go back to sleep again. Meanwhile Shelly was pleased that she was barely seen in the video, the camera focusing on the three of us.

"This is why we shouldn't sleep on the same bed," I pointed out.

"Let's get ready for school," Luke sighed.

Luke now knew that there would be no difference even if we changed rooms. Somehow this person always knew where I was.