The Inseparable |✏

Chapter 21.

I'd say this was productive. He made me realise that two minds are better than one.

"Want more popcorns?" I yawn from the tiredness. I haven't slept properly in the past three days. I need to catch up on my beauty sleep.

"Please." He smiles politely.

I get up and heat another pot, I make sure that this time I make a bit more just in case he stays a bit longer.

But by six, I want him out. He still has an hour to go.

I switch on the TV with the remote I've been searching for ten to fifteen minutes. Turns out it was in my room on the dressing table. I don't know how it got there but it did.

"What do you want to watch?" I ask as I throw myself on the couch.

"Anything superhero." He scoffs.

"Take." I hand him the remote and stand up, "...check for yourself."

I throw in the popcorn seeds in the pot and go upstairs to fetch my socks. I get cranky if I sit for too long without my socks on.

As I go downstairs, I hear two male voices. I'm not sure if that's the TV or Winter on his phone with the speaker on.

But they sound too lively.

Did Winter invite his friends over? Without my permission?

I take a look at who it is and freeze at my tracks.

BLAZE RIVER!!

What is he doing here?

"What are you doing here?" I ask with my wide eyes opened, as I join them in the living room.

"Study!! Remember?" He looks at me with an expression of 'have you forgotten?'

Shoot!! Of cause I forgot.

How could I forget that I'm also study partners with Blaze? And why is he this late?

With my eyes still wide open, "I totally forgot. I'm sorry!" I state.

"Cool. Mind blinking?" He rolls his eyes, "Nerds are weird." He mumbles the last part. I doubted the fact that I heard him.

"Excuse me?" I ask displeased.

"I said, Cool. Mind blinking?" He gazes at me.

"No... After that?" I ask with my jaws clinched.

"What? Nerds are weird?" He says so smoothly. Obviously not regretting what he said.

"Need I remind you that you're seeking help from the 'So called, Nerd' you're calling me? I might be quiet and stupid to you popular ones, but at least I'm good at something." I'm taken by surprise by my comeback. But I hate being classified as a nerd.

I hate it! I hate it!

"Okay chill. Sorry." He rolls his eyes and goes back to his phone, not sorry about what he said.

Fine. We'll see the chilled one here.

I look at Winter with my apologetic expression. He didn't have to meet my dull-witted partner like that.

He looks totally fine, He even has an amused expression on his face.

This was not amusing. It was maddening.

"Care to continue?" I fake pull out my smile at Winter.

He snorts with a laugh, "Sure."

I sit down and start flipping pages. I'm annoyed by what Blaze said. He has no right to call me that.