Chapter 3

“Here.” Kianne gave Rence a broom together with other cleaning tools. He smiled devilishly while handling it to Rence.

"Don't stop until you've cleaned the entire hallway on the second floor and downstairs. Oh, and by the way, please clean the attic too.” Kianne told Rence which made him to give him a questioning look.

Kianne’s words keep echoing in Rence’s mind over and over again. He doesn’t know why Kianne treated him that way. He’s not doing anything wrong to him, but he's treating him like that. He thought of the things that might be the reason why. Is it because he’s not okay for Kianne to have an additional boarder? Is it because Kianne thought he might steal something from the other boarders? Rence was full of questions.

“His name has an Angel to it (Angel Kianne Lorenzo”, but his attitude is as bad as the devil's. If only I had another boarding house to move to, I wouldn't have to endure this one.” Rence’s thought in his mind.

Rence Eite Villaflores, he’s just 17 years old and a transferee to the school where Kianne studies. And yes, he’s Reu’s best friend.

Hours have passed, Rence’s been cleaning the first floor for a while now and he’s super tired. It's already 12:44 am. He’s pretty sure his head will hurt again tomorrow, he might not get enough sleep because of what he was doing. And their class will start early.

“That guy’s got the nerve to ask one of the boarders to clean almost the whole house. What a heartless man! Does he really think it is possible to clean the whole house for a small amount of time? Just wow!” Rence, told himself as he went to the end of the hallway. He find it so creepy, but he also find it interesting. Actually, Kianne asked him to also clean that very room. And it makes Rence wonder why. What is so special about this room.

He got chills as he enter the room. The creepy sound of the door, the darkness that devoured the whole room.

He’s not afraid of the dark, but Rence felt like there's something there. He walked inside and startled, he had only taken a few steps when suddenly…

*Shut!*

The door closed! Rence hurried towards the door, nervous.

“Oh my God! Why wouldn’t the door open? It’s locked? I don't want to be locked up!” Rence told himself. He was about to knock loudly on the door to ask for help, but then he remembered Kianne’s rule.

“First, I don't want noise. You might disturb my other boarders here if it happens.”

He felt scared from making any noise, so he stepped back quietly, not making any sound. The darkness made him uneasy. He gathered courage and looked for a light switch, or any source of light. He’s slowly backing down when felt something behind.

He suddenly felt something crawling on his neck. He panicked but he stopped himself from screaming. He stepped back and stepped on a round object, and lost his balance.

*Blag!*

He lost his balance and fell. He accidentally hit his head on the wall and felt dizzy. Just then, the door opened, and he saw a man.

"Oh my God!” Kianne shouted and ran towards him.

Kianne was actually in his room and couldn’t sleep. In the middle of nowhere, he was alerted by a familiar banging of the door. He clearly remembered the sound of that door. That's the one in the end of the balcony. He just remembered that he hasn’t fixed the lock on that door yet. If you get left inside and it suddenly closes, you're in trouble unless someone opens it from the outside. There was actually a boarder who got locked in there before, and luckily he happened to pass by that time, so he was able to open the door. He thought for a moment. Who could it be that got locked in there at this time. And then he remembered. He quickly went to the location of the room. He was already in front of the door when suddenly there was a loud noise again, so and there he saw Rence.

"Rence," he shouted. Even though it was a bit dark there, he still saw him, so he quickly approached him and checked what had happened to him.

“Rence, what happened? Why was there a loud noise? Are you okay-----"

*Shut!”

He was frozen at the moment for he thought of what happened. The door closed.

He noticed that Rence’s dizzy and kinda hurt, so he helped him sit down and he felt something wet on the back of his head. He immediately thought it was blood for he heard that Rence hit his head a while ago. He immediately figured out what happened

"Silly! Why are you here in the this room?” Kianne asked him. He’s kinda mad for he thought that Rence was again making trouble.

Rence gave him a frustrated look, though he can’t really he Rence’s expression.

"Why? Weren’t you the one who asked me to clean the entire boarding house, including the room? That's why I'm here. Sorry, because of me, you also got locked up here too." Rence said while holding the part of his head that was bleeding. At some point, Kianne felt guilty. That means Rence started cleaning the house from 9:00 when he arrived until now, a quarter to 1:00. Kianne didn’t really mean it, a little bit.

"Ahhhh" Recnce groaned in pain. His head is throbbing, which made Kianne up feeling guilty.

"Just stay there..." he told Rence and rummaged through the cabinet there. He remember that he put a bedsheet there, and it just so happened that it was indeed there. He laid it on the floor.

"He, go to sleep and rest." Kianne told him.

"I don't have classes on Tuesday," Rence replied. Actually Kianne also didn’t have any classes on Tuesdays. The shrugged off that and didn’t mind. He didn't respond anymore, and then he lay down on the floor where he had spread the bedsheet. And he done something that he never imagined.