CHAPTER 211: WHAT DOES HE USUALLY DO?

I woke up alone in the library to find a coat covering me.

It smelled like Ki-hoon. Did he have this coat on him last night? I couldn’t even tell because of how dark it was.

I gripped the coat and then wondered,

How was it that an Alpha, one of the four famous ones at that, had this much compassion to give to a stranger?

He didn’t even know me, yet he went to such lengths. It made it impossible for me to believe that he simply did it out of sympathy.

Maybe he wanted something from me. Or maybe... He knew about my gender?

But I’m sure I didn’t do anything to give myself away so what was it?

"In any case, I have to get ready for classes." I mumbled as I got up from the floor.

My legs were a bit numb from sitting all night but I bet this was better than that ’other’ type of numb feeling. If you know what I mean.

It would’ve definitely been a disaster if I had been found by Seo-Jun, so for whatever reason, Ki-hoon helped me, I was greatly in his debt.

So, as long as he doesn’t demand anything irrational, I will pay back to the best of my abilities.

"Phew." I exclaimed, gently swiping my hair out of my face and peering into the empty library through my non-medicated glasses. "I should probably wash my hair as well."

But do I have time, though?

I should just get back to my room and put on my spare uniform since I was in this one the whole night. I don’t stink but still... I don’t feel comfortable in it.

There was this lingering scent from Ki-hoon.

Can’t really go around announcing to everyone that I got Ki-hoon’s scent on me all night, right?

That would be another disaster on its own.

My quiet life... Sniff... I was supposed to be a wallflower.

Just why did I have such a shitty luck that I ran into three of the four Alphas I desperately wanted to avoid on the first day of school?

But just because I bumped into three of the Alphas by accident, it didn’t mean I would bump into them today as well, right?

This school was so large and they were all my sunbaes. Well, just three of them.

(Sunbae means senior, in a workplace or a school. Whatever institution, so long as they are a step or level ahead of you)

I began making my way back to my dorm, my eyes paying attention to my surroundings with Ki-hoon’s coat folded nearly in my arms.

And then I began to wonder.

It was such a coincidence that I ran into all three of them yesterday, but I didn’t run into the youngest. I didn’t even catch a glimpse of him besides that time at the cafeteria.

What does he usually do?

The pink-haired Alpha... Min-Cheol. He should be around my age, right? The chances of both of us running into each other were relatively higher than the other Alphas since we might be having the same classes together and other activities, but surprisingly, he was the only one I did not meet yesterday.

Was it a stroke of luck?

I knew a thing or two about Min-Cheol. He was no party pleaser, but he had this child-like Attitude, smiling at all times, but his smile wasn’t necessarily pure and happy.

He wasn’t a sadist, I could say that much, but let’s say he was a child with... Issues.

I stopped walking and then shook my head.

I was thinking too much about this. If I continued to think about the Alphas, I just might meet them again.

No matter how I try to deny that we could meet again in this big school, we would still meet.

The first day proved it.

So, I should focus on a new plan.

Instead of trying so hard to avoid them that I catch their attention instead, let’s try hard to act as naturally uninterested as possible so that they don’t hold any interest in me, and give up.

’Yeah, that could work.’

To them, I would just be another plain and boring student.

I began walking again, moving my feet at a time till my steps were evened out.

In this school filled with tigers, I did not plan to be a rat, I planned to be a flower, no, a mere grass growing on the side that could not catch the attention of the predators.

Wait, isn’t that a bit dangerous?

In the forest, though the predator doesn’t pay attention to the weeds and bushes, they tend to step on them and... I gulped, shaking my head thereafter.

"What am I thinking about right now? I need to get ready for class." I said to myself and hastened my steps till I got to my room.

Luckily, there was no one waiting for me so I was safe. I took my bath, dried my hair, put on my other set of uniform, and then my glasses, putting on the perfect wallflower look.

"Okay," I exclaimed, looking in the mirror.

Even if I saw someone like me right now, I wouldn’t pay any attention to me at all.

Still...

I thought back to what Ki-hoon said.

"Maybe it’s because you seem familiar to someone I used to know." He said such words as if he had met me before.

And the look in his eye at that time...

I gently flipped my hair out of my face and exposed my right eye. I stared at it.

Even if he had seen my real face last night, how could he tell it was me? I mean, I had a great memory and I was certain we hadn’t met before.

Wait, speaking of memories... I tried to think back to a point in my life where my memory was very blurry but each time I tried hard to recall it, I would get a headache.

I thought it was natural, because at that time, I was still so young so I couldn’t recall such things.

But with the headaches, I wondered if I had actually lost those memories, instead of naturally forgetting them.

Whatever it was, it had nothing to do with the Alphas... Was what I thought at that time.

"My head hurts." I mumbled as I made my way to the cafeteria to get breakfast. ’Let’s just get breakfast and then hurry to class without any issues.’ I thought as I stood in line but then a hand dropped on my shoulder.

"Hey,"

My insides yelled in fright.

After what I had experienced last night, it was only natural that I was a bit jumpy, but I didn’t want to show it.

While I had been frightened, I did not show it in my reaction, though my heart was still racing from the aftermath.

"How was your first day?" It was Hye-Jin. She was smiling so brightly with her freckles looking as pretty as they were the previous day.

But that did not give her the right to scare me like that.

Jeez, I felt my heart was going to jump out of my chest.

"Fine." I simply said, omitting all the tumultuous experiences that got me on a wild goose chase.

"Goody. I hope you continue to have a great stay at Stevens." She said, still smiling but my eyes dropped.

"Yeah."

If only it were that great if a day, I’d wish all my days were like that, but alas... It was such a pain.

I finally got my food and went to an empty table, not bothering to go near the purchases or the rich. If I sat there, anyone could come sit, and if they asked me to leave, of course, I would leave.

But before then, I’d better finish up my meal so I don’t have to go sit in a corner to finish up.

While it did look like I had zero luck, I actually got lucky during breakfast and not a single fly flew around me.

This was exactly what I was talking about. The kind of quiet life I was hoping for.

’I knew yesterday was just bad karma.’ I thought, nodding to myself as I made my way to my first class.

Gosh, the day was just starting, and yet I was already celebrating and making up fabrications in my head.

This was why I was so unlucky.

I keep jinxing everything.

I realized this as soon as I entered my class and my eyes fell on the pink cotton candy colored hair that belonged to the handsome guy who was sitting in the back seat, staring out the window and flicking his pen between his fingers.

I gulped.

I did expect we would eventually run into each other in class but wasn’t this too early? I mean, I didn’t even see his shadow in any of my classes yesterday.

’It’s fine. I’ll just take a seat somewhere and...’

I stopped, staring at the full classroom, and noticed that the only empty seat was the one right next to Mister handsome over there.

’I think I entered the wrong class.’