Jealous (2)

Dior's face slowly approached Claire's face as if to kiss the man. Fein who witnessed it intended to stop that, but Claire's hand was faster than that. Claire held Dior's face with the book in his hand.

"What are you trying to do?" asked Claire suspiciously.

"Huh? No, I don't intend to do anything," Dior replied looking for an excuse. He clearly wanted to kiss Claire.

"You're very suspicious. Don't think anything of the sort. Just finish your part quickly. I want to go home quickly after this."

"Okay, okay." Dior picked up his book and pen and started working on the assignment he had.

It was at that moment that Fein came over to the two of them. Claire immediately looked up to Fein who was standing in front of their table with a displeased look on his face.

"What did you come here for?" Claire asked.

"I came here because I saw your inappropriate activities in the library. How could you want to desecrate the library with your behavior."

"Huh? What are you talking about?!"

"You two almost kissed earlier. Do you really think the library is a place where you can make out together?"

Claire who heard that immediately gave Fein an annoyed look and said it wasn't true. They hadn't even done anything since earlier. But Fein did not want to accept Claire's excuse like that. The man who was getting annoyed got up and pulled Fein's collar.

"Listen grape hair, don't act like I made a big mistake!"

"You just did." Fein grinned with his eyes glancing at the students who were peering at them because of the commotion Claire had made.

Due to his annoyance, Claire did not realize that he had shouted loud enough in the library to attract the attention of many people.

"I'm on duty in the library today, and I've noted that you will receive your punishment for making a scene in the library. You have to tidy up the library after school for one week," Fein said with a triumphant smile.

"Huh?! There's no way I have to do that!"

"See, you're starting trouble again. Do you want more punishment? If you're still not here after school, I'll report it to the teacher," Fein replied as he released Claire's grip on his collar.

"You're trying to punish Claire on purpose, aren't you?" asked Dior who was trying to defend his best friend.

Fein glanced at Dior with a displeased glance then glared at him. "That's none of your business. You'd better keep quiet," he said and left the two of them.

Claire could only curse himself. Why did he always get so angry every time Fein did something that he was the one who ended up getting into trouble.

But he didn't want to bother and continued to blame himself, after his business was done, they immediately left the library to return to class.

*****

After school, accompanied by Dior, Claire returned to the library. He was actually reluctant to go back there, but what to do? He didn't want the problem from this afternoon to escalate if Fein did complain to the teacher.

"I thought you wouldn't come."

Claire turned around and saw Fein already waiting for him. The man just sighed and walked into the library. When Dior was about to follow him, Fein held Dior's shoulder right in front of the door.

"Those who have no business should just leave," he said.

"I just want to accompany Claire."

"He doesn't need company. This is a library, not a playground. Go already!" Fein waved his hand to shoo Dior away.

Since he was not allowed to enter, Dior finally chose to leave. Fein smiled with satisfaction as he entered the library and found Claire who was looking at the books piled up on the table.

"I should put all these books back on their shelves?"

"Exactly. Make sure all the books are in their proper places, don't mess them up. You should be able to put them neatly."

"That's a lot, you're working on me on purpose!" Claire was annoyed.

"No, it's usually like this. Let's do it quickly, these books won't go back to the shelves by themselves," Fein said and sat down on the chair.

Claire clucked in annoyance and picked up the books and started going around to tidy up the books. One by one, he put the books on the shelves. Starting from biology, physics, sports and even Italian books. The library room was quite large, making her quite exhausted.

Moreover, the books he carried were quite a lot, the book trolley that was supposed to carry the books was broken and could not be used at all.

Occasionally Claire glanced at Fein who was just silently watching him work without helping in the slightest.

"What? Just do it," Fein said.

"I know!" Claire returned to the front desk and picked up the remaining pile of books.

It was already 6:15 in the evening. The sky was already quite dark and Claire had little work left to do. His stomach was already so hungry, usually by 4:30 he was already at home, but until six o'clock he was still at school.

'If it wasn't for that ugly guy, I would have been home by now,' he grumbled.

The silver-haired man went to the French shelf. There he tried to place the French dictionary on the shelf which was difficult to reach. Claire even had to stand on tiptoe to place the thick book, but he still couldn't place it because it was too high.

"Come here." The book was suddenly grabbed from behind by Fein and he put the book on the shelf.

Claire was quite surprised as his body was suddenly pushed from behind. Now he was crushed between the bookshelf and Fein's body behind him. When he tried to turn around, Fein was still there. Their faces were close to each other. He tried to push Fein away, but both of his hands were busy holding the remaining books.

Fein who had put the book down didn't move away at all, he just pushed Claire's body further into the shelf with one hand on top of the man's head. Claire was trapped by Fein's body that was taller and bigger than him. His eyes were glued to Fein's eyes who was also staring at him.

'Wh-what is this? Why is he doing this to me? I can't move,' Claire thought at that moment.

"M-move aside, Fein. I have to return all these books immediately. I want to go home!"

"Hmn... Why the rush? It's just the two of us here, aren't you happy being alone with someone else?"

"What do you mean by that? I'm not what you think. Now move aside!" Claire pushed Fein's body with his own.

Fein let go of Claire and saw the man running in the other direction. Somehow a smile was etched on Fein's handsome face. It was as if he was happy to see Claire's face which momentarily looked so cute to him.

"Heh, we'll see."