I walk back with a smile into the room and close the door and I can not help the grin that slowly crawled its way to my face and decide to spend the rest of the day there.
I decide to get my mind off Eros' charming self and get back on trying to get stronger, and with that I sit down comfortably on the floor and start all the training I had done back in serenity class to calm myself and channel my power faster.
After some hours sitting in the same position I decide to get a few minutes break, walking into the kitchen I turn to the freezer to get some snacks to munch on and head back to the room and lie down for a bit, and then I hear a ding from the door and I rush to see who it was, when I get to the door I see no one but a black box and a note on it, I carry the box inside the apartment and read the note
"You are going to need something so you do not stick out like a sore thumb. And that brat says you did not bring anything else so you will have to make do with those." - D. Kinn.
And then I open the box to see three sets of the school's uniform, but I notice there was no jacket just the usual white tee-shirt with a black tie and trousers. I make a little mental note to thank the Dean when next I see him, maybe I would participate in the upcoming tournament to show my appreciation.
I go into one of the room to try the clothes and I see they are a perfect fit. I guess Justin must have done some adjustments, after taking them off I check the box and I find other regular clothes but just like the trousers, they are all black, I guess black was sort of a general or neutral color in this school, after changing into a tee and jeans I decide to leave the room but what I saw next caught my eye, it was a picture of the four of us on the day of my introduction, it was laying on the night stand and I would have missed it if I was not planning on looking around the room.
I quickly rush to pick it up and I see he had used a green marker to make a circle round my face and that just scares me the more cause I know I have never seen his face anywhere before and neither Jeremy, Jason nor Justin had mentioned him before, I decide to channel my energy to look back to the introduction day, it did not take me long this time and I try to scan the faces of the large crowd and the face I see first is the dean's face, Dean Anakinn, on his left was a man I had never seen before and beside him was the man who escorted us to the dean's office, I look back to the dean's right side and see his daughter, Jackie and beside her were some people I didn't know, I decide to check the row behind them and that was when I see him, Eros in his uniform and beside him was another person in a uniform similar to his, he also had two emblems on his jacket and I realize he must have been another head and that is when it hits me, they must have been invited by Jason and so they decided to bring the Dean, his assistant and the head of some student's party. That is when I calm down and decide to leave and head back to the room.
I conclude that seeing as the left the picture here means this was his room, but did he not say he does not spend his nights here, I walk to the closet and open it to see a few clothes in it, probably he does not really use this room like he does his other room. I decide to take my mind of it and look at the room, I notice it was painted a deep shade of green, almost black. The bed was queen sized, even the spread and pillow case were green, the night stand beside the bed was a deep shade of chocolate brown and I notice that was the color for the remaining furnitures, by the side of the bed was a ceiling to floor curtain that I suspect is hiding a ceiling to floor window, in front of the bed was a large oil painting of a young man and a little child standing with their backs against each other playing the violin in a snow covered forest, creating a very beautiful scene, I look closer at the boys and I see the older one is Eros while the younger one is a younger version of him, I reach out to touch it and it felt cold, I guess it was enchanted to stay that way. After admiring it for a while longer I decide to leave the room and head back to the living room and decide to practice the basics I had learnt from professor Sam cause one thing he taught me was no matter how good one becomes, they should never forget their basics and that is what I do.
After some hours I hear a ding, and I rush to the door to see who it is, but just like before I see no one and so I look down to see a tray, like those ones used in hotels by room services to give food to their customers, I drag it inside and shut the door and then open it to see a large spread of various delicacies, if it was before this would have left my mouth watering and made my belly rumble but after spending some time with professor Sam I just smiled and took a small portion of it and helped myself to the generous spread of fruits and kept the rest in the freezer. After I was done with that I enter Eros' room and decide to take a quick bath, after I was done I step out and put on a robe and decided to have my meal and after I was done with my meal, I change out of the robe and decide to go back to channeling my energy through serenity exercises and after a few hours I head to lay down in Eros' room as it was night time already
The next morning I wake up feeling better than the day before, I go to do my morning routine and I check his drawers and find a new toothbrush and I used those, after I was done I strip and step into his bathroom and have a bath, probably because I was a bit tired yesterday I did not notice the sweet scent of his soap, almost intoxicating and I smile a little and my mind begins to wander but I immediately reel it back in, after a long bath I step out and put the robe on and decide to step out today and take a look at the library but then I realize I do not know where the library is located and instead of expending my energy while looking at the whole school with my powers I decide to just look for Eros, and as I spread my energy I find him immediately, walking down the hallway, close to the apartment door.
I immediately decide to change out of the robe into something more appealing, as I start I stop and realize that would take too much time and as I start to panic on what to do next I immediately hear it, the ding and without thinking I rush to the door to open it and I see him, with his head hung low just like yesterday, as I am about to check him out he immediately raises his head to look at me and then his eyes widen and his cheeks flush immediately with a light shade of red and I was left perplexed until I see his eyes raking my body and then I look down and see the robe I was putting on did only one good thing, covered my place where the sun does not shine, it had slipped from my shoulder to my elbow and left my shoulder, chest and stomach bare, I immediately turn my back to him and try to adjust myself and then he coughs a little and I turn back and smile and step aside so he can come in
After he steps in he greets me with a good morning and says he is here to show me to the library, I notice since he stepped in he did not bother to raise his head up and I smile a little and decide to go and change to avoid another unexpected awkward situation, I quickly change into the uniform that was sent to me yesterday and when I come out I see him sitting on one of the stools in the kitchen eating a red apple I walk in and decide to have one myself cause I do not know when I will be done in the library and I do not wish to come back here just to have a meal and leave again so I reach into the bowl and take an apple, I notice the one I took was a green one and I smile a little and so we ate in silence.
After he was done he waited till I was done and after we step out he asks if I need anything and I reply with a no and so we walk in silence till we reach the school ground, I expect him to tell me how I would get there but he just kept walking, I guess he is taking me there himself and so I follow without saying anything, after walking for a few minutes, he takes a turn and walks into a hallway I had not noticed, thank God I did not try to go out myself as I would have gotten lost, as I follow him into the hallway I notice something different but I keep walking and as we near the end of the hallway I hear something like waves but decide to ignore it and keep following him, when I reach the end of the hall I was taken back a little, everywhere and everything was blue like the only color this place had heard of was blue, everything was painted in every possible shade of blue and I hear it loudly this time around, the waves crashing, and then he says
"Welcome to Aqus, everyone here is a water-related elementalist, mist, crystal, ice and even snow"
I figured that was the reason of the color and decide to ask him about the waves
"The formation placed here allows us to have a little beach in the school, it allows the fresh students have a better connection and understanding of the nature of water"
He tries to explain but that just made me look at him funny
"As a fresher I was made to spend approximately 20 hours doing everything on the beach, and during my free time I was even made to sit on the beach and watch the movement of the water, I ate there, slept there, read there, basically everything but take my bath or wash in the water and after a few weeks, I was allowed to leave and made never to enter, I was happy at first until I missed the calm feeling the beach brought and so after the first week I began to hallucinate I was back on the beach, into the week, I could not do anything without thinking I was back on the beach and I was surrounded by the water and then I began to feel it, I began to feel the presence of water around me, in the air, in the soil, the plant and even the sweat on the body of humans and animals and then on the third week we were told we were ready to start classes"
He took his time explaining and I finally understood, it was like giving a teenager his favorite meal and then taking it from him and after a while handing him the ingredients to prepare it, obviously he was going to miss it and so when he receives the ingredient he would try to recreate it, not giving up until he got the perfect result. It was a smart training regime, one that fitted these students.
After walking for a while, we pass the buildings and then I see the beach and it was not small like he mentioned, but that must be because he was used to it already, he leads me to it and just like yesterday as we pass by people bow but unlike yesterday nobody bothers to look at me, we walk to the beach and he points to a little building that looks no larger than a cottage, and I wonder how anyone ever got there and who decided it was alright to build a library in the middle of a beach, but then recalling his explanation it would seem weird if a water elementalist did not know how to swim and so I shrug it off but then it came back with full force, we were going to swim to get to the library and I shouted
"What!"
Looking at him in shock and in turn he looked at me
"What?"
"What do you mean 'what'? you did not inform me we were going to swim, I do not know how to swim"
I looked at him with wide eyes and with a smile on his face he asks
"Who says we are swimming ?"
And then he grabs my hand and pulls me close and places his hands around my neck and then, with his other hand he snaps his fingers.