Acting Cold~

The morning comes,

Father went to the dining room to have his breakfast. Brother Clyde, Stephen and Brother Lemuel were already there waiting for him.

There POV,

Father sat at the center chair and my brothers at the sides.

The maids started serving the food and they were ready to eat.

"Wait! Where's Eleanor?" Brother Steph asked one of the maids.

"Don't talk about her here!" Father banged the table and shouted.

Brother Steph was startled and apologized to Father.

"Let's just eat and forget about her" Brother Clyde said trying to ease Father's anger.

After they finished eating they all went outside the dining room together.

I was on my way to the dining room, knowing that they are finished eating.

On my way, I bumped into them going to the opposite directions.

Father looked at me with despise again, while I look at him with dull eyes. I rolled my eyes at them and just passed over them.

I continued walking while they stopped and called me.

"Wait! Eleanor!" Brother Lemuel stopped me.

I stopped from taking another step ang turned to them.

"What?" I asked coldly.

"" Where are you going? "He asked.

" To eat, ofcourse! " I answered.

" Aren't you forgetting something? " He asked.

"What is it?" I asked looking at them all coldly.

He scoffed. "Arent you supposed to greet us?" He asked me.

"Why should I do that? I thought you hated it!" I said.

"What the-"

I didn't let him finish what he wss saying and continued to walk to the dning room to eat.

Father and my brothers was left there confused.

Skip time,

After two weeks of acting cold towards them, I felt amazing and strong.

'it was never bad to do it anyway'  I thought.

But then, it was 7 at night that time and Father called me at his office.

I immediately went there only feeling despised.

I knocked at the door and when he told me to come in, I went inside.

"Father, You called me?" I asked.

"Yeah! Just stand right there!" He said.

"Ok! " I replied.

"What's with your behaviour these weeks? Huh? Do you think acting cold towards us will give you attention?!" Father asked.

"Ofcourse No!" I replied.

"So if you knew, just stop acting like that and behave or you might just leave here! You understand?!" Father shouted at me.

"Sure! I was going to leave anyways. Glad you said that!" I said then smiled at Father.

Father who was doing his work, suddenly stopped and looked at me.

"You're leaving?" He asked.

"Yeah!" I said proudly.

"To where?!" He questioned.

"That's none of your bussines!" I told her.

"Is this just another trick thinking that you'll have my attention! Huh!" Father stand up from his chair and banged the table.

"Think whatever you like! But I want you to know something." I replied.

Father stared at me with anger in his eyes and I stared at him blank.

"From my 17 years of living here, you provide me what I need but never showed me love. Ever since I was a child I tried my best winning you and my brothers affection, but you only see me as your wife's murdered and there Mother's killer, right?! So what's the point of continuing acting like that if nothings gonna change of what you see me as?! Might as well, leave this shithole!" I said in a loud voice.

" You- You dare raise your voice to me?! " Father approached me and shouted.

I backed down a little and a moment later Father slapped me.

" You Murderer! It's you who should be dead! Not  Marian!" He shouted.

I fell on the floor and touched my cheek where Father slapped me. After a few seconds I slowly looked up at Father and stared at him with cold eyes full with hate and anger.

I didn't reply and just stand up and left the room. When I was outside, I saw Brother Clyde and Steph outside the door.

They seem to heard what me and father just conversed. Well whatever, nothing will change.

I only looked at them with the same cold eyes and left.

After that incident, I avoided seeing them and left after a Month.

I left without them knowing and went to the dock to board a ship.

I said my final goodbyes to them and promised to never come back again in my mind.

Well, I turned back to being the happy me. Thinking that I am now free, I don't know where I should go. When I suddenly remembered something.

After days of travelling from the seas, we arrived at the town of Afilya. Where the World's most prestigious noble school Academy is. I first went to take the exam at the school.

There, I bumped into someone I really hate.

"Look who do we have here! The Abandoned Child: Eleanor Marana Rozantezia!" (laugh)

I turned to her to look for a second then turn back again to where I was looking for and ignored her.

'that stupid Kathrisia, can't she just stop pestering me?!' I thought in my mind while walking through the line.

" Hey! Did you just ignore me?!" Kathrisia shouted at my back.

"What is it?!" I shouted back at her.

"You! Did you just shout at me?!" She asked me.

"Why? Am I not allowed to shout at you?! You just shouted at me!!" I confronted her.

"You! I'm the Daughter of Duke Valkira!" She said.

"Whatever!" I said since I wasn't on the mood to fight with her.

"Ms. Eleanor Rozantezia!" The announcer called my name. It was finally my turn to take the test.

"Here!" I responded from his call.

"Wait! Don't tell me, you're going to take the test?!" She asked me mockingly.

"Yeah sure, why not?!" I asked her.

She scoffed. "I'm sure you'll fail this exam. Just watch and learn! I'm going to show you the most highest score in history!" She said and laghed.

"Yeah sure!" I said, not interested in what she was saying.

'Highest score my ass! You can't even solve a single problem from the Arcane problem.' I thouht n my mind remembering how dumb she is.

I entered the test room, and the teachers and the principal was sitting in front of me in a long table.

I wasn't feeling nervous, but I wasn't sure if I will pass.

Not until I saw the test papers.

'theyre too easy!'