✧ Lovelorn ✧

A r c T w o ❥❥❥ N e w G a m e

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L O V E L O R N
❝ the feeling of sadness due to unrequited love ❞

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C L A R A

Lo and behold so he appears!

Aristotle Oriel- the most elusive and sanest capture target also known as the Student Council President, walked up to the podium. He looked pristine and crisp, not a single crumple in his perfectly ironed uniform. He looked every bit friendly and welcoming, although it was in the way his emerald eyes scanned the cheering crowd morosely which gave him away. To me though, for I've read articles and walkthroughs on how to capture him a lifetime ago and I don't think his followers even notice his exasperation at all.

Something tells me that he'd rather crawl in a library and hide rather than give a speech to a batch of new faces. But despite that, as if having composed himself, he grinned, causing the female population to swoon at him. He pushed his rimmed glasses up the bridge of his nose, which somehow caused the entire school to swoon even more.

What a scary appeal, considering I just met him right now. I was not enthralled however a pretty face he is. I've met the worst (let's hide him by the name Avarys Diatiro) and I wasn't oggling him anytime soon.

"Welcome to a brand new school year everyone- it seems that there's quite a lot of new faces this year eh? I would like to-"

He sounded so genuinely jovial and so incredibly plastic at the same time. In my many years as the prized daughter of Duke Skotadi, I know flatterly and faux kindness when I see it. President Oriel gave a brief background about the school's history (basically clippings form Gardenia : A Magical History), the absurd levels of social ranking, magical aptitude tests for nobles, extra-curricular activities and quarterly academic examinations and other boring stuff that are important to the game. Needless to say, I find myself absently drowning out his speech. I don't usually listen to speeches, and Aristotle Oriel doesn't seem to mind if people don't listen to him, he just wants to get this thing over with.

I narrowed my eyes uncomfortably, lips set in a straight line.

Nevermind Oriel's speech. What's unsettling is the horrifying amount of eyes are pinned on the back of my head. Okay, so maybe not directly at me but at the people sitting next to me. To my left was my supposed best friend- Elena Margavine who was probably the only one who's seriously listening to the President's speech, on her left was Adrien Rosemond, looking bored as fuck and openly yawning. From what I heard from Elena, they're still frosty with each other since he pushed her away on my debutante ball. That was the final straw and she snapped like a twig. Elena got the point alright- stay away from me Adrien said, and she did but that doesn't mean it didn't break her. For the life of me I will never understand why Elena had ever loved such a guy and why Adrien Rosemond seemed so insistent on pushing her away.

In the game, their relationship was just hinted to be frigid and frosty. For the commoner heroine entering high society and capturing the prized son of the prime minister, Elena Nicola Margavine was the high hurdle MC has to cross. Elena was beautiful and every bit of a noble down to the deepest marrow of her bones. She was respected by everyone and loved by everyone- except by her own fiance. In the game, Adrien Rosemond vehemently refused Elena's affections because she reminded him so much of his parents. She had Duke Aima's cunning and Duchess Celestine's elegance. She was the metamorphical chain holding him down to noble society,for reasons never stated, that he so wanted to escape. Game-Elena was the type who smile gently while besting the heroine at embroidery, arithmacy, music and poetry. Game-Elena would not even bat an eyelash while degrading the heroine with the sugary sweet poison of her words. Game-Elena might be the definition of  perfect and detached beauty queen but she was hopelessly in love with Adrien Rosemond. That was her fatal flaw and as much as I didn't want to die, I didn't want Elena to be in a loveless relationship with Rosemond.