"CAN YOU WALK FASTER, YOU HUMAN EMBODIMENT OF A SNAIL?!" Willia yelled at me as we made our way to the gym.

"I'm not in the mood," I grumbled.

Earlier, during the training session, I had to endure watching Argenta and Sean laugh as they fought as partners. And I couldn't help but miss my partner. Argenta and I always fought together. She was my partner in crime and my partner in fights. No matter what that "Nina" girl does, she cannot anticipate what I would do next during a bout as Cupcake did.

I had to watch my Cupcake laugh and giggle while Sean cracked jokes and smiled like a dumb fuck. There was really no need to be that smiley. It was rude.

"Ugh!" Willia exhaled loudly before grabbing my wrist and pulling me towards the gym in tow.

"Okay! Okay! I'll walk faster, jeez!"

"Good,"

Once we reached the gym, Willia let go of me and stared at the gate.

"What are you looking at?" I asked her.

"Put on your shield," She said, seriousness dripping from her tone.

"Why?"

"Put it on,"

So I willed my shield to go up.

By this time, I had learned to control both my powers; elemental control and my shield.

We then went to the boxing floor since Willia wanted to meet Antonio.

"Hey, kid!" Antonio greeted me.

"Hi, Antonio,"

"Who's your friend?" He eyed Willia weirdly, so I turned to look at her to introduce her and figured out why.

She was gaping at Antonio as if she was looking at the leader of the Fallen. In other words, with utter shock and disapproval.

"Tell him you like her," Willia said, breaking her awkward eye contact with Antonio.

"Argenta?"

"Obviously," She deadpanned.

I like her.

A lot.

"I like Argenta, Antonio," I stated with determination. There was no countering me. It felt like I was voicing a multiversal truth. I liked Argenta, and that was as true as truth could be.

"I will not stay away from her," I continued, "No matter how much I try to ignore it, ever since I've felt what it's like to have her in my life, life without her seems impossible. Everything I do reminds me of her. I want to talk to her, I want to admire that dorky smile thing she does, I want to feed her so many cupcakes that she bursts, I want to hold her in my arms and forget about the damn world, I want to tease her. I wa-"

"Let me stop you right there," Antonio interjected rather rudely, "Do you like her?"

"Yes, of course, I like her. Did you not just hear me? Come on, man!"

Antonio's eyes widened to twice their size with shock, and I couldn't understand why. Almost half of the school knew I liked her. So what was the big surprise?

"I knew it!" I turned to see Willia smirking.

"Knew what?" I asked.

"He hypnotised you. He has powers."

Oh shit.

Of course!

How could I be so stupid?!

"You did that to me." I said, my voice low while I tried to control my anger.

I clenched my fists to keep myself from punching him.

"You are the reason I wasn't talking to my Cupcake," I growled out and looked him dead in the eyes.

"Why?" I asked.

"That's for me to know, and you to never find out," He smirked maliciously and started walking away.

Oh no, you don't.

"Let him go," Willia's voice reached my ears, and I stopped my hand that had raised on its own and was about to crush Antonio's windpipes, "There's nothing we can do about him,"

"I want to kill him," I snarled lowly.

"I know you do. But there are more important things to do."

"I need to apologise to Cupcake,"

"Yes, you do."

"How could I do that to her?" My voice broke slightly, and my throat felt dry as I spoke.

All the hurtful things I had said to her came flooding back to me. So did all the times I ignored her like she was unimportant.

How could I do that to her?!

I need to set this right.

"You coming?" Willia asked from the top of the staircase.

"Yeah,"

We walked out of the gym and towards the dorms at a hauntingly fast pace.

"There are sooo many things I need to say to her," I said, "Damn, how was I doing it? Living without her. It's so boring!"

"The simp is back bitches!" Willia hooted excitedly.

I was practically running towards Cupcake's dorm until I reached the cafeteria, where Nina stopped me.

"Hi, Lorcan." She batted her eyelashes as she walked up to me weirdly.

"Is your back alright?" I blurted out, leaving her a little shocked, but she was quick to regain herself.

"Yes, yes, it is." She said through gritted teeth but swiftly changed her embarrassed expression to a wannabe flirty one.

She looked worse than shit, not gonna lie.

And absolutely horrible compared to my Cupcake.

No offence to her shit face.

"Sooo, where are you going?" She said as she twirled some of her hair with one finger.

"He's going to uh none of your fucking business," Willia spat from behind me as she glared at Nina.

"No one asked you, blondie," Nina said and then turned her attention towards me again.

"Nina, we'll talk to you later," I said while trying to hold back Willia from going all hulk on Nina, "We have to be somewhere right now,"

And then we ran away as fast as our feet would take us.

Cupcake, here I come.

~~~~~~~~~~~

"Really?"

"Yes," Reyna said for the millionth time.

"But I'm sorry, and I need to tell her that," I said yet again.

"Well, she's not here, so I can't help you,"

"Where is she?"

"I don't know," She sighed, "Ever since you two fought, she has buried herself in unnecessary work. She's got extra credit that she doesn't need, hours and hours of krav maga, bruises that come from god knows where. She's tired all the time, and she hardly smiles. In conclusion, she's a mess,"

Hearing all this, I looked down and shut my eyes as guilt weighed me down.

And this is all my fault.

What have I done?!

My Cupcake is tiring herself out because of me.

"I saw her smiling after a very long time today," Reyna continued, and I looked at her see her watching me with concern, "When she was with Sean,"

Of course.

"But-"

"You know what," I interrupted her, "I'm going to go get some sleep. I'll come back in a few to apologise to her,"

With that, I turned around, entered my dorm and dived face-first into my bed.

GRRAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

I feel like punching a wall

No, I feel like punching that dumb fucker Sean.

God, I'm a mess.

I'm so sorry, Cupcake. I really am.

A/N:

Hellewwsss!  Sorry for posting a day late, my schedule is crazy these days.

Anyway, there you have it, the reason why Lory was being so stupid.

The next few chapters are going to be a bumpy and exciting ride, so tighten your seat belts!

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