LB 29

The five of them left the infirmary and were about to part ways. "school is almost over", said Sara after looking at her silver watch. "Do you want to wait until the bell rings or go home now?", she asked Rem while patting his right shoulder. Before he could answer, Iory interfered and said, "how could you make this poor brother of mine stay in this hellish place?!"

He took Rem's bag and slung it over his shoulder. "Come on, brother. We're going home", he turned around and cat walked through the hallway.

"I can't believe he hasn't changed yet", Sara mumbled. Mellow glanced at her and took Rem's hand. "Well, I guess you could say that it's part of his charms", he said with a side grin. "Rem, we're going home"

Rem nodded at him and waved goodbye to Sara and Jose.

"See you tomorrow!"

Jose waved back and said, "get some rest! Byebye!"

The two of them walked up to Iory, who was waiting for them at the school entrance. "Ready to go now?", he asked.

Mellow responded, "sure, let's go"

The three of them stood in front of Iory's car, waiting for Iory's sister.

"Ariy won't be long. You two can wait inside the car", he said while leaning his back against the car. Mellow glanced at him and said, "you like her, don't you?"

Iory slowly turned his head towards Mellow while looking surprised.

"Like who?", he raised his voice a little. Mellow smirked at him and said, "you know who"

Iory looked away from him and calmly said, "no, I have no idea"

"Really?"

"uh-huh", Iory responded.

Just then, a girl who was 6 centimetres taller than Rem ran towards them. As soon as she noticed Mellow and Rem, she stopped running and walked normally.

"arghh... how embarrassing", she muttered to herself.

"Hey, hurry up!", Iory waved at her. As Ariy reached closer to them, the three of them went inside the car. Rem opened the door for Ariy and she got inside. "Thank you", she smiled. Rem, feeling a little shy, nodded and looked away.

Iory was fixing the rear view mirror and noticed that Ariy was looking at Rem while Rem looked outside. "Young lady, didn't I told you that it's inappropriate to stare at people?"

Ariy turned red and looked away. "I'm not staring at anything", she muttered.

Mellow looked at Rem's reflection in the mirror and saw that he looked tired than usual. "We have chicken at home, might as well make some chicken soup for dinner", he thought to himself while taking his phone out. He got a message from Sara about 30 minutes ago. As he was about to delete the message, he took a glance at Iory and thought of teasing him.

He pretended to tap his phone with both of his thumbs and smiled. Iory noticed that he was smiling. "That's unusual. You don't get messages very often", said Iory while making a left turn.

Mellow managed to held in his laughter and replied, "I don't. It's only Sara"

Hearing this, Iory felt his heart beating rapidly all of the sudden.

"Oh, I see", was all he managed to say as he frequently tapped one of his fingers on the steering wheel. Mellow recognised this gesture instantly. Iory would always tapped his fingers on something whenever he felt anxious.

"So, what are you two talking about?", he tried to remain calm. Mellow showed his phone to Iory and said, "we talked about Rem and the conversation ended about 30 minutes ago"

Iory stopped tapping his fingers and let out a small sigh. Mellow put his phone back inside his pocket and leaned his back against the seat. "You know, you could try and say hi to her sometimes", Mellow yawned. "Wake me up when you reached my house, yeaa?", he said as folded his arms and dozed off.