|| Aftermath

SAMANTHA

I woke feeling thirsty, I sped out of my bed to get a glass of water and looked at who greeted me from the outside. Vince.

"Move." I barely said.

I sped my way to the kitchen, and finally, the refreshing taste of water hit my throat. Today isn't my day, I feel like throwing up and I feel really unhealthy.

"Dress up, or you'll be late for school." Vince said in a bossy tone, I looked at the wall clock and I'll be late if I don't get everything done in 10 minutes. So in the next 10 minutes, I did my morning routine and wore my uniform and I was out of my room, Vince was nowhere to be found.

I sighed when I looked at my wristwatch and what seemed to be like 10 minutes was originally 30 minutes. Great. Just great.

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Lunchtime arrived and Sev, Ethan, and I were the first ones to sit down at our usual table. Now I was not worried that Vince would kick me out of the table because I can kick him out of the apartment as soon as he does. Queue the eerie music that is usually seen in horror movies for my not so evil plan. Ethan was the one to order for today's food while Sev avoided me, I eyed him suspiciously while thinking if I did something bad to him.

I was about to touch him when he instantly screamed, which made everyone at the dining haul startled and looked at our table.

"AHHHHH!!"

"Dude! What the hell?!" Ethan clutched his chest and eyed angrily at Sev, while I just looked at him curiously.

"She'll fucking t-touch me man!!" Sev explained scaredly.

Ethan who seems like he suddenly remembered something laughed loudly at both of us. Sev distanced himself from me and is now sitting 4 chairs away.

I really tried to remember if I did something to him yesterday for him to be literally scared of me.

"Dude, move your ass away." Said Colin when he arrived with Stephen. Sev was currently at Colin's usual seat.

"I-I can't man." He replied and pointed at me. "She scared the hell out of me." Colin looked briefly at me and let out a loud laugh while Stephen made his way on the empty seat beside me. Completely ignoring Colin who is now dying from laughing.

"What did I do?" I ask Stephen as soon as he sits beside me.

"A lot of things, Sam." He replied and sighed.

"You ate too many sweets yesterday." Ethan whispered into my ear, which made my eyes widened in shock.

"What did I do now?" I whispered, now I'm the scared one. I just can't imagine the things that I possibly did yesterday. I mentally prepared myself if I'm ready for the embarrassment that I'll face when they'll start to tell stories from yesterday.

"Crazy things." Stephen and Ethan said in unison.

I stood up and marched up to Sev. He automatically grabbed Colin's body and made him his shield. "D-don't come near me!"

"Sev I'm so so sorry about yesterday, I didn't mean anything bad to happen." I must've done a lot of crazy things for Sev to react this way. Now I'm convinced that I broke him.

"You are a crazy woman!" Sev declared, Colin on the other hand just nervously laughed at us.

In the meantime, Harper and Vince finally arrived at the table. Looking at Harper she was trying to hold back a laugh as she saw Sev literally scared for his life. The rest of the gang unanimously agreed to never talk about what happened yesterday, until Sam decided to talk about it.

Today at the academy, the headmistress is celebrating her birthday and as a celebration, they all gave a slice of cake to the students. As soon as the cake was served at my plate they all took it from her.

"Yesterday's fiasco was enough." Harper said, and they all agreed.

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THIRD POV

Days passed and everything was going on smoothly, not for Stephen though.

He was anxious about being caught, every day was a battle for him not to get caught. Stephen walked to his favorite classroom to meet his most favorite person.

"What took you so long?" Ms. Anderson asked, she was their Calculus teacher.

Stephen maintained a 2-year relationship with his Calculus teacher. Ms. Anderson is the type of girl that he likes. The pretty yet elegant, pretty yet smart, a wise woman, and a challenging one. No one in the gang knew his relationship with their teacher because he was afraid, he didn't know what he was afraid of exactly.

Stephen gave her the paper bag filled with chocolates and the bag he bought with Sam. As together they celebrate their anniversary, Stephen knew that celebrating an anniversary isn't usually celebrated in this 4 corner room. Ms. Anderson smiled widely at Stephen, she didn't need this type of gifts, his presence was just enough for her.

As for Ms. Anderson she gave Stephen a necklace with an S as a pendant, he smiled at it, it wasn't made with the most expensive materials in the world but it surely made him smile and feel special.

"Happy anniversary, my world," Stephen said while hugging her. Ms. Anderson hugged him back. "Happy anniversary to you too, my universe." They kissed each other on the lips, smiling while they're at it.

This is the love that Stephen wants, modest. He didn't want anything grand, the woman in his life is enough for him to live.

Stephen and Ms. Anderson stayed in the empty classroom for hours and no one knew they were even there.

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As soon as I stepped inside the house, I immediately knew something was wrong.

"What the hell are you doing?" I asked as I saw Vince at the kitchen reading the labels of each food product that they have in the apartment. All of the food was laid out on the counter table, he didn't take his eyes off his laptop as he typed.

"We'll have to throw out foods that have too much sugar." He said, still looking at his laptop.

"No, you don't!" I was about to stop him but then he took his eyes off the screen and looked into my eyes that made me stop.

"Yes I do, I don't want anyone disturbing me at night, just because she ate too many sweets." He said in a stern voice.

"What did I do now?" I asked tiredly as I sat in front of him.

"Crazy things. Like asking for me to drive you to school when it's only 7:30 PM, and asking me to go to a strawberry farm so you can pick strawberries yourself, or asking me to go to the pizza parlor. You even threatened me, if I didn't take to even just one place that you ask, you said that you wouldn't sleep." Vince does seem a bit sleep deprived and tired.

"Don't worry, we went to the pizza parlor but when we were going home you slept in the car and I had to carry you from the parking lot to your bedroom."

I was now too ashamed to even look at Vince nor Sev. I still couldn't believe that I let myself go freely yesterday. "You even called me a 'class-A brat.'" He added and in response, I groaned because of frustration.

"Now that this is done, I'll put them back into the containers and sleep, I really need sleep." He stated tiredly. I helped him put the things back into the pantry and the two of us went to sleep.

It had been such a crazy day for all of us. I don't even want to know what other things I did.