Curiosity... Coward... *

In the end, Thunder helped me escape the event, Vin was already waiting for me with the car parked outside. Thunder wanted to come with us, but I stopped him.

Poor Vin seemed to turn into a little ghost from Thunder's gaze directed at him.

It was like a threat, worse than a threat, it was a sentence. I should clarify everything and tell him that Vin was just my disciple and nothing more, but why should I, when that Thunder was nothing to me?

"I'll look for you at school, Eva," he said before I managed to close the door. "Do not run away from me."

I turned and didn't look at him, my heart seemed to be trying to pound out of my chest. This stupid heartbeat was killing my nerves. I didn't understand why it bothered me. I did not understand anything.

We reached Grandpa's mansion in a few minutes. Vin didn't say anything yet. He looked nervous and guilty.

"Forgive me, Eve, I didn't know Thunder would be there."

"It's not your fault, no one knew," I sighed. "But..."

"What's happening?"

I wanted to ask him to investigate Thunder. His real name was David Parker, and if he was in the Lark Foundation database, so would his personal information and his previous school. I could dig up the rumors around him and if he has a girlfriend or girlfriends.

I need to make sure. I don't want him to lie to me and fall into his entanglements. I'm not sure of anything. This is not me. That Thunder is making me paranoid.

"Nothing..." I replied to Vin. "I want to take this makeup off. I think we need to find a way to make it not fall off so fast."

Vin nodded and let out a smile.

"You look like a witch."

"That's what Thunder said."

It wasn't a comment he was meant to say. The awkward silence returned. 

"I'll call Maya to sort this out," I said but I suddenly noticed a jump from Vin. I frowned. I was tired of being left in the shadows, without knowing anything.

"What's going on between you guys? Tell me everything now," I looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

Vin dared to look away. "It's no big deal."

"Then I'll call Maya to come over."

"Don't," he looked at me a little anxiously. He seemed scared and at the same time, it seemed that his eyes were shining. "Now... no, you can call her later."

"I won't, you tell me now what's going on. Did you sleep with her?"

"No!"

"You like her, right? Don't you dare deceive me, Vincel Klein."

I saw him bite his lips. "Yes, but she..."

I frowned. "Have you told her?"

"No."

"So, what are you waiting for?"

"She doesn't see me that way," he replied in frustration and sat down on the couch. "Also, she's been seeing an older… man."

That little woman had not told me that, she always tells me who her new boyfriends are so that I can investigate and evaluate them. If they have something unusual in their history, they are immediately discarded or used for one night and that's it.

"It sounds like they're in a serious relationship," Vin continued angrily. "But…the other night, during graduation, she invited me to celebrate, and… and she kissed me."

I saw him turn red up to his ears. That Maya stole the first kiss from this innocent and simple young man.

"When I asked her what that kiss meant, she simply said that she wanted to, that she wanted to satisfy her curiosity. I… I thought she was playing with me, and I kissed her again, and almost… she and I almost had… sex, but I stopped. I told her that it wasn't just curiosity for me, that I didn't want to do it with someone I didn't care about, so I asked him not to… approach me like that again."

This time I have to applaud Vin. Maya always followed her instincts, and although at times she seemed like she didn't care, I knew it wasn't true.

Once she confessed to me that her first boyfriend was not long before we met. She had deluded herself with him almost to the point of thinking that he would be her future husband. But in the end she discovered that he was a jerk, that he just wanted to experience something with her, to be the boyfriend of a rich, beautiful, and sexy girl, but never get beyond that.

In the end, she became like him, seeking meaningless pleasures, and flirting without looking for something more. Leaving romance and promises in the past.

Vin was the opposite, he would never experience something fleeting, and he wanted a lasting relationship. If he managed to open his heart to her again, perhaps they would be happy together.

"You're a fool," I told him sitting on the other side of the couch. "If you like her and want her, then don't push her away."

"She has a boyfriend."

"So what? Are you sure she loves him? You'll lose your chance if you don't put up a fight! I didn't know you were such a coward, Vin."

"Of course, you did know," he was the nerd of the class, wimpy and sometimes shy, but I never thought he was a complete wimp. We are all afraid of something. "Besides, you are also a coward."

I smiled, but he was right. My situation with Thunder was very similar to his.

We laughed at the same time, it was the same frustration that I saw in his eyes that accompanied me too.

I let Vin go. Then I removed my makeup as best I could. Later that night I messaged Maya to help me come up with a better way to dress up.

After a few hours, I took my phone and looked at the screen trying to concentrate on what I would do next.

I looked at the list of blocked contacts. There it was... Thunder.

I took the courage, but I kept looking at that name as if it were mocking me. I was an idiot.

I finally got it off the blocked list.