Chapter 27: XXVI

LAIA WOKE UP IN THEIR SCHOOL CLINIC.

It was obviously the clinic with how white everything was. From the chairs, the curtains, and even the wall clock. Laia sometimes wonders whether the school completely became lazy on deciding what sort of color scheme would be followed or it was on purpose.

Whatever, not worth thinking over. The girl's eyes drifted towards the wall clock again, realizing that it was already 7:45 in the evening. Great! What excuse was she going to give Niel again for being absent on her shift?

Tilting her head to the side, she immediately realizes that Brie was on her side, asleep. Their hands were even entangled in a loose hold.

Brie was clingy like that.

Gently removing her hand from her friend's, Laia proceeds to try catching the attention of their school nurse who was busy with her phone.

"Uhm--"

The nurse, who probably had an amazing pair of ears, placed her phone in her pocket immediately and made her way to Laia. Sitting on the opposite side of where Brie is, she gently feels Laia's temperature through the back of her hand. "No fever,"

"Can I go home now?" Laia abruptly asks.

Despite being obviously taken aback by how blunt Laia was, the nurse only raised an eyebrow at her. "Sure," She glances at Brie's sleeping state. "But at least wake your friend up?"

"Yeah, definitely," Laia immediately made her way to Brie, who apparently was already snoring. "Brie,"

No response. Her friend really did sleep like the dead.

Laia decides to hasten the process by whispering in her friend's ear, "Brie, Jake's here,"

Which proved to be effective as Brie immediately woke up from her sleep and looked around, her head swiftly moving from one side to another. "Where?!"

The short-haired girl couldn't restrain a giggle coming out from her lips. Brie, realizing that her friend was lying, frowns at her. "You're rude, Laia! I really thought he was here.."

"Sorry," Laia sheepishly says. She did feel a bit guilty deceiving her friend, albeit the fact that it was really funny. "I had to wake you up quickly."

Rolling her eyes, Brie stood up from the chair she was previously seated on and looked at the wall clock. "Oh, it's already eight,"

Laia turns to the wall clock again in surprise. She checked earlier and it was still 7:45.

It's really sometimes scary how quickly can time pass, the short-haired girl thinks. Brie looks at her for a moment and nudged her in the shoulder. "Hey, let's go already,"

"Yeah, yeah," Laia murmured before letting her friend pull her towards the door after saying a few words of gratitude to the nurse.

"Ugh, it's cold," Brie complains, hugging herself with her shoulders.

It didn't help that they were still wearing their uniform. Sometimes Laia wished that they wore pants instead, as it would make them more flexible to a huge variety of situations.

Just like running or biking or just to avoid getting mosquito bites.

The only good thing about the whole walk was that Brie didn't park her car that far away from the university's gates which made it easier for the two friends to reach the car quicker.

Sighing in relief, Laia didn't waste time and ran towards the car, Brie behind her complaining all the way there.

"Ugh," Brie groans the moment she sat down on the driver's seat. "I should have had brought my other car,"

Laia nods. "Yeah, this one doesn't help much in fighting against the cold,"

"At least it isn't raining?" The long-haired girl sheepishly smiles at her friend as she starts the engine.

"The lack of rain seems to be the only good thing about everything at the moment,"

Laia took Brie's silence as her agreement. A few minutes later when they were stuck in traffic Brie spoke up, "So, is your head good now?"

"You're acting as if I had a bad accident or something," Laia raises an eyebrow at her friend.

Brie rolls her eyes and drums her fingers against the steering wheel. "Well, you did faint on Sammy's arms earlier," She bit her lip. "And he carried you all the way to the clinic, too."

The short-haired girl's face scrunched in displeasure. "Ugh, what did everybody say?"

Brie doesn't respond for a while as the traffic had subsided and she had to drive.

The girl only replied when they were already about to reach Laia's home, where the lights are still turned off. "They were all either swooning or envious,"

"They should try having a really bad headache that causes them to faint," Laia shivers at the idea of that headache coming back. "And the reason why the asshat did that unnecessary thing is because he likes the attention."

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Brie pushes the door on her side open and walks towards Laia's side. "You do realize you still have to thank him, right? I mean, you're not that heavy but you are still heavier than what he usually carries,"

"Are we supposed to thank men just for having basic human decency and for doing the bare minimum?"

The long-haired girl opens the passenger side's door. "It doesn't hurt to acknowledge his good deeds sometimes, you know?"

Standing up from her seat and making her way to her house's gate, Laia screams out, "I don't want his head to grow even bigger!"

She sees her friend shake her head but Laia ignores it, opting to enter her house than continuing the conversation.

It was only when she was already taking a shower that she realized that she didn't thank her friend for dropping her home.

"Did that headache affect my memory?" Laia mutters to herself as she dries her hair with a towel.

After she had finished drying herself up and wearing clothes, she grabbed her phone at her bedside table.

[Laia: Hey, I forgot to say thanks for dropping me off. Thank you!]

Her phone vibrates after she finished eating dinner.

[Brie: Why you acting as if I don't drop you home every day]

Sure, every day. It only became that way since you and Jake broke up.

[Brie: You don't have to thank me every time]

[Brie: Thank Sammy too through a text message]

[Brie: It's the least you can do after he carried you all the way to the nurse's clinic]

Laia scoffed. The asshat really wanted everyone to think he's some sort of prince charming that saves damsels in distress.

The short-haired girl feigns to barf as she decides to just ignore her friend's latest message. The mere thought of thanking the asshat makes her shiver in disgust.

As she lays down on her bed, she recalls what had happened just a few hours ago. The thought of the asshat carrying her to the nurse's office seemed like a scene from a teen romance film.

And Laia hates teen romance films. Any movies with teenagers on them, Laia hates more than anything.

She was still thinking of the last teen romance film when she felt herself falling into a deep slumber.

The short-haired girl was awakened by her mother the very next day. Rubbing her eyes in faint annoyance, she glares at the light escaping through the curtains of her window.

"Laia," Her mother calls out from outside her room. "Come have breakfast already,"

After a few minutes of trying to find where she placed her phone before she fell asleep last night, the girl was finally able to find it underneath her pillow. Good thing it didn't crack with how heavy Laia's head was.

Heavy from all the information she got from all the studying she did when she woke up earlier at three in the morning, mind you!

Just as she expected, Brie did indeed leave her more messages after Laia left her last message about the asshat on read. Most were repetitions of the messages she sent earlier, so Laia decided to just read and respond to the most recent message.

[Brie: R u mad that I want u to say tnx to Sammy]

Knowing that her friend is possibly already overthinking that Laia was angry with how she didn't respond to her latest message earlier, the short-haired girl hurriedly sends a message regardless of her continuously yawning.

[Laia: Brie, chill. i'm not mad i just woke up. gotta eat bfast first ttyl]

Groaning in annoyance, the girl was barely able to walk straight towards the kitchen with how sleepy she still was. The weird thing is that it's a Saturday, and her mother knew better than waking her daughter up on the only day where she's supposed to lay down on her bed the entire day and binge watch anime or Korean dramas.

Or maybe Japanese dramas. Those are really nice too.

Laia didn't waste time asking her mother about it. "Mom, why'd you have to wake me up so early in a fu- What the hell are you doing here?"

"Laia, language!" Her mother was quick to reprimand her with an intent scowl that turned into a smile as she turns to the elephant in the room.

The elephant being the asshat.

"Yo."

Looks like Laia can't even have a single normal Saturday.

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