Former Queen (1)

I pulled out all the machines to get ready to sprint soon. I had to escape from this room, I couldn't stay when he was bound to find out Rika was me. In fact, it was better to leave the mansion itself. Charlotte was more generous than Luke and all she wanted was more pictures and videos of me in return. She usually wore gloves anyways, mostly harmless unless you began to escape from her.

Although Charlotte wasn't a human being, I always wondered if Luke was human as well. He had to be a demon in the disguise of an angel with his appearance. I began to sprint towards the door, hoping it would open. I hoped he left his guard down since it was Charles in my body for the past few days. However, I slowly turned my head when he managed to tightly grab onto my wrist.

"Rika?" Luke was fully conscious now.

"I'm not Rika!" I tried to imitate Charles.

"You have to be Rika," he studied me.

"I'm not," I pretended to be extremely annoyed.

"No one but you would pull out all the machines," he pointed out.

"I thought our relationship ended," I desperately hoped.

"That's only if you continued to stay inside his body," Luke reminded me.

"Can we end our relationship now?" I tried to break his grip.

"Don't make me call Alex while I do another checkup," he began to threaten me.

I felt like I was about to cry. It was better to stay still on the bed than Alex joining us. He would be excited to know I was back in my original body again. I didn't think much back then when I noticed the anger burning in his eyes. Since Luke didn't have a grudge against me yet, he would be nicer to me than Charles or Alex. Tears began to stream down my face as Luke continued to go through all the medical equipment.

"How do you feel?" He tried to confirm the results.

"There's nothing wrong," I was telling the truth.

"We can return to your bedroom now," he decided I could leave this room.

"Can you hide me from Alex?" I blurted before he could drag me.

"You can apologize to both of them again," he wasn't letting me go.

"You know there's no way they'll forgive me, especially Alex," I shuddered.

"I'll study really hard. I'll listen to you from now on. I won't complain about anything again," I desperately pleaded.

"The most time I can give you is until next morning, seeing how everything goes," he wanted me to walk with him to my bedroom.

I nodded my head, finding it to be better than nothing. Fortunately the hallway was empty, everyone sleeping during this time. I tried to walk as quietly to my room as possible, hoping that I wouldn't run into anymore. But when Charles opened his bedroom door at the exact timing, I sprinted into my bedroom and hurriedly closed the door. Although Luke opened my door behind me, no one would be suspicious of him.

I was glad I had practice in closing the door silently. It was becoming more useful lately, all those times when I had to run away from people. I stiffened when someone knocked on my bedroom door, about to crawl under the bed to hide. Luke opened the door, finding Charles at the entrance. I knew he was awake from switching back into his original body like I did. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to hide behind a pillow from under the bed, I could feel his gaze directly landing on me.

"Rika is under the bed, isn't she?" Charles waited for Luke to let him in.

Luke gestured for him to come inside, knowing Alex would wake from the ruckus. After closing the door, Charles looked under the bed to directly face me. Surprisingly he didn't seem as angry as I thought he would be. I guessed suffering in my place had changed his thoughts in some way. I decided to come out to apologize to him, trying to negotiate some reasonable terms to make it up to him.

"I apologize for breaking all your swords. I knew I shouldn't have touched any of your belongings. Can you please forgive me?" I made sure to add some tears.

"You know I can't completely forgive you. I'm only letting you go since I know Alex won't in my place," Charles was being generous.

This was better than what I expected, only having to deal with Alex now. Charles decided to leave the room, closing the door silently behind him. I knew he was trying to not wake Alex, erasing all the sounds of his footsteps. I was definitely going to die tomorrow, as soon as Alex figured out I was back in my original body. I turned to Luke for some tips, he had to have some ideas. Maybe he could help me tomorrow in appeasing him.

"Would hitting me help?" I wondered.

"Alex is not going to hit you," Luke could predict how things would play out.

"His anger will start to subside when you show signs of reflecting," he revealed my only option.

"How do I show the signs?" I could plan the entire thing.

"When you listen to everything he says," Luke suggested.

"For how long?" I needed to know the crucial part.