Clouds 𝓸𝓯 Grey || #3 [working on editing]

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧.

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013| THAT TINY SMILE, AND FORTY-FIVE WORDS

~H A N N I E L~

"This assignment, I can't do it at home. Our next English Language class is tomorrow in the afternoon."

"I swear, library straight up." Dabirah pushed her chair back and stood up. She looked at me, "You coming?"

I thought about it for a moment and shook my head, "Nah."

An 8000 word essay was a piece of cake for me. I could do that at home.

Right now, I just really wanted to speak to Grey eyes.

"Okay bye." My three friends waved at me simultaneously and I waited for them to completely disappear before I turned my chair to face Grey eyes.

She glanced at me for a moment and then let out a sigh. It was almost inaudible. If I wasn't so keen to knowing everything she did, I probably wouldn't have seen her sigh.

"What do you want, Hanniel?" She glared at me.

I smiled at her pronunciation of my name. Her accent, I decided, could drive me crazy.

"You can't be seen talking to me. So, stop smiling."

~K O M I S O L A~

His smile creeped me out.

Made me uneasy.

It was deceiving, cunning and manipulating.

Each time our paths crossed ways, he'd always give me that smile that made my insides feel queasy.

"You haven't spoken to me all morning," Hanniel said to me.

He didn't know me. That's why he was doing all of this, right?

To the extent that he had turned his chair to face me earlier.

"Stop smiling," I found myself telling him. His smile was making me really uncomfortable. "And why do I have to speak to you?"

On a small note, my subconscious forced me to thank Hanniel for helping me the other day when I had a panic attack.

Up until now, I still didn't know who had called me. Seeing as Hanniel turned around immediately I also did, it definitely must have not been him.

But for the fact that someone was actually there to help me... For the fact that for the first time in my life, I wasn't alone through a suffocating moment...

Then maybe, I should've thanked him.

"Why aren't you at the library?"

In CH, we had a weird timetable. Asides from our normal class subjects, there were absurd subjects such as Studying and Library were put on the timetable and we probably had them about a total of five times in a week.

It was only for SS2-SS3 classes.

"Is there any reason for me to be there?"

Normally, the librarian, a woman who was always pregnant, was aware of our class going to the library around this time and she marked attendance.