While Ashley was holding Louise's arm, she did this unknowingly, and Louise let it go, not letting go of Ashley's fingers tightly holding his arm. Shut up, and he looked at Ashley back with a look that was hard to decipher.

Ashley said she would take him to her mom's drug store; yeah, Louise knew where the store was because she saw Ashley there. His attention was focused only on the pretty girl's long curling fingers.

He kept avoiding her, refusing to get close to her, knowing and the like, but he was the one who approached Ashley, so he said it was annoying. Louise threw his face away, but he refused to look at Ashley anymore.

Ashley entered Lana's drug store and found her mother serving a buyer, their eyes crossed. The forty-year-old woman wrinkled her forehead; she looked at Ashley and Louise alternating. She was finished filling Lana's shoppers with those two in the chairs.

"What's wrong?" Lana asked her in amazement.

"There's a first-aid kit, isn't there, mom? My friend got hurt, saving my life back there." Ashley raised Louise's wounded little arm.

"Wait a minute." Lana took the medkit off his desk. "This." She gave the medkit to Ashley.

By slowly tending to Louise's wounds. The wound was quite long and relatively deep, so it seems that when it helped her, he scratched a sharp piece—probably some kind of metal.

"I'm sorry you got hurt like this because of me." She said regretfully.

"It's okay; I'm fine." He answered flatly.

"Fine, how? Your arm is cut deep enough because of me; how can you say that!" Ashley unwittingly raised her voice. A scratch like this would leave a mark, and how Louise could not care less.

Louise was astonished; for the first time, he saw Ashley angry, is this even anger? Yeah, think of it like that. His eyes blinked a few times; Louise looked around and couldn't find Ashley's mother, so now he was alone with this girl.

"Do you feel pain?"

Ashley didn't realize that Louise made no sound at all, and judging by the wounds, people would be in so much pain to make sounds. But Louise did not, as if his arm had never been broken.

"Not really."

Ashley smiled sideways; she was surprised at how slow Louise was and the wounds she could endure. She didn't know what to do with it. Ashley didn't know Louise very well; they were just classmates and classmates, nothing more. Somehow Louise emitted an unpleasant aura, which was precisely horrible in Ashley's eyes, so she drew distance from him. When Louise's two friends were friendly, Louise was the only one who wasn't.

"It's done." Ashley smiled proudly at her work, merely putting antiseptic on it, medicine on a wound, and wrapping a bandage on Louise's arm, that's all.

"Thanks." Louise even got back from justifying his clothes.

"I should be the one to say that. Thank you for helping me."

"You said that already."

Ashley stammered; Louise got her irritated and uncomfortable at the same time.

"I'm going."

He left the drug store without waiting for Ashley to say something. He was uncomfortable around the girl. Ashley looked at Louise's back with disbelief, then smiled sideways.

"What's wrong with him? Why he's so bad." She said, annoyed.

"Where's your friend?" Lana's already beside Ashley.

Ashley was shocked. "Don't startle me, mom."

Lana's not buying into what did Ashley say. "Your friend left already?"

"Yeah." She said, annoyed.

"Why did he get hurt?"

Ashley sighed, glancing at her mother. "There was a car out of control, and I could get hit if he didn't help me in time."

"What!" Lana's eyes are round. "You're not hurt, are you?" Lana approached Ashley and checked her body.

"No, I'm not hurt."

"Thank God." Lana breathed a sigh of relief. "Bring your friend something to say thank you." Ashley nodded.

***

Ferra and Vina looked at each other as Ashley told her what had happened yesterday; they looked down and up to ensure their friend wasn't hurt.

Ashley sighed. "I told you I wasn't hurt an inch." She rolled his eyes and splashed.

"Well, who knows." Vina retorted.

"I don't believe he could act that way." Ferra wrinkled her forehead

"You can't judge a person by the way he looks." Ferra rolled Her eyes at Vina's response.

Ashley was busy picking out the book in her locker. The corner of her eye accidentally captured the images of three people she had known enough to know, and Ashley turned. On the opposite were already standing three men, they seemed to be talking about something; Ashley couldn't hear what they were talking about because they were far enough away. But she could conclude that the three men were having a good conversation, more like Dale and Galan, while Louise seemed uninterested in the subject of his two friends.

"Got a nice view, early in the morning." The girl said behind Ashley.

"The three of them were always the center of attention." She called her friend. "Galan was handsome, but he was occasionally stiff. Dale is also lovely; he is the ideal type of woman, and Louise is not to be asked; he is at a different level of handsome, intelligence, and perfection.

"Agreed. If Louise hadn't been so cold, I would have gone after him by now."

"I thought you already did."

"I dare to look at him from afar; Louise is hard to approach." She is pouting.

"Like Dale and Galan being approachable."

"At least they're still within reach. When Louise is so complex, he is so quiet and mysterious."

"But the more mysterious, the more attractive the man." The girls moved away.

Ashley did admit that the three men were handsome, especially Louise's being said to be rather extraordinary and stunning. When she first saw Louise, honestly, she was amazed, but it wasn't long before she got scared. Ashley did not understand her feelings, but Louise let out a chilling aura that warned her not to come closer. It's hard to explain in words, but that's how Ashley felt.

"Is it finished? Let's go to class," take Ferra.

"A moment." Hurry Ashley into her book, and her eyes fix on the parcel inside the bag; she sighs.

It was her mother's gift, and Lana told me to give it to Louise. She was going to give it to us when she saw Louise. But her daunted braw, she refused to give up the ship, which she noticed many people, and the aura Louise exuded made her a bit afraid to approach.

Ashley closed her bag. "Come on."

She'll find time to deliver it to Louise later, somehow. Let's hope, and there's an opportunity, Ashley hoping in the heart.

During class, she did not focus on listening to the material presented by the teacher; her focus was only on Louise sitting in the front instead of on the left side of her front seat of Ashley. Her eyes glued to the man's back, Ashley smiled slightly.

Hurry Ashley confident her book pretend to write, because Louise suddenly looked back, not knowing who she was lyin 'at, but her hand ad the feeling that if he saw herself, Ashley's finger trembled; she was afraid of getting caught in the act.

Louise glared at Ashley; the girl lowered her head and seemed focused on her book, one of Louise's eyebrows rising, knowing; that someone was watching him, and from Ashley's act, he realized that it was her who was watching. Not to mention, Louise is looking straight ahead.

He had forgotten the bandage wrapped around his arm this morning, and he could still feel the white sheet closing his wound. Louise smiled faintly, very faintly that if anyone saw him now, it's inevitable they won't even notice him smiling.

"Why is there always a single job, why?" Dale said, frustrated. He ruffled his hair when he walked to the library with Galan and Louise.

"Don't complain so much; it's better from now on you're getting serious about your future." Galan replied.

"Your words hurt my heart."

Galan rolled his eyes. "I know very well that you're brilliant, only you're lazy and change your bad habits."

Dale sniffed, he didn't like being bullied, but he couldn't get mad at Galan for saying it.

"I'm going to the bathroom." Louise turns into the bathroom.

"Sometimes I wonder about the kid; I have trouble guessing what's in his head." Dale shook his head and looked at Louise's back.

"Me too, but I'm okay with that." They turned to the left corridor.

Ashley saw Louise heading to the bathroom by himself, smiling. She finally found an opportunity to present it to her mother.

"You two go ahead; I'm going to the bathroom."

"We wait in the library," replied vina. They separated.

Ashley looks around and is lucky no one's around. She waited for the requireid that someone would suddenly go to the bathroom. Louise was surprised to see Ashley standing in front of the men's bathroom, looking at her feet, her feet moving comically.

"Why are you here?"

Ashley gasped; she was caught red-handed. "Th-that's ...." Ashley scratched her nape but didn't itch.

Feeling Louise walking unnecessarily, he ignored Ashley's savior. Ashley opened her eyes, and she didn't expect him to do that.

"I require you." She said pretty loudly. Louise halted his steps and turned.

"What?"

'Jeez, why is this guy so rude.' She thought.

Ashley pulled a parcel out of the bag and came closer to Louise. She presented the box.

"My mom, it's my mom's; thanks for helping me out the other day."

One of Louise's eyebrows raised, he looked at Ashley, and it was an alternated parcel. Not comfortable with Louise's suspicious stare, Ashley grabbed Louise's hand and placed the box in it.

"Don't refuse a gift from my mother." She warned. Ashley left Louise.

Louise watched Ashley until she veered off, then smiled, an undeciphered smile.

"You didn't have to give me this." He said softly. "What for? Anyway, my wounds have healed completely."

Louise's reason for going to the bathroom was not to pee or anything but to take off a bandage that made him uncomfortable. Beneath the application, yesterday's scratch completely healed and left no trace.