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Chapter 6 - 『Are We Or Aren't We』

The dorm building was really gorgeous, painted with red colour and veils hanging around it making a beautiful design and surrounded each window, the balcony were wide and made up of glass, there was also a garden with soothing smell of wet soil and fresh cold breeze, making all that just perfect environment for me, now I just can't wait to see how it's inside. The owner of the dorms, Mr. Will, came to welcome us, he took us inside and told his workers to take our bags. The building was quite high and the lift was not in working yet, "I'm sorry people, the lift is not working yet so we'll have to take stairs." Mr. Will said,

"Where are our rooms?" I asked,

"On the second last floor.",

"And how many total floors are there?" I was getting anxious,

"Umm..15 floors ma'am" Mr. Will was trying to crack out an awkward smile,

"15 floors?! We'll have to climb 14 floors then!" I was already exausted from the journey and now the stairs,

"I apologise, this building was completed constructing recently and you are our first customers, this all was fast, I didn't think that I'll have customers this soon so I took this all slowly and didn't thought of assembling the lift. I am sorry" Mr. Will apologised,

"It's alright, let's get going." I started right away. While we were walking up the stairs, I asked Mr. Will, "Why didn't you assign the rooms on the first floor then?",

"Those rooms aren't completed, and I started from the top." He said,

"Alright.." I sighed. "Can I ask you one favour?" I asked,

"Yeah, sure." Mr. Will said,

"Can I not have any roommate?" I told him,

"You don't have a roommate." He said,

"I don't? But I had before, I saw it in the list that I had roommate named Eros White." I explained,

"No, you don't have any roommate named Eros White, you don't have any roommate ma'am" He repeated,

"Oh thank God! Thank you Mr. Will" He looked a bit confused but I let go of the thought.

"At last.." after 30 minutes we reached our rooms and I rushed in after thanking Mr. Will. "What?!" I shouted,

"This is where I'll be staying?!" I shouted again, the room was really amazing, it contained single bed which was extra spongy. When I lied on the bed, I felt like I had sunken into it, the window was huge and also was the view of just farms and few cottages, "This is one of the best places where anyone can dream of staying." I thought, the designed wallpaper looked really cool and the furniture was really suitable as per other decorations. I heard a knock on the door and I went to open the door and I saw Haru standing with a frown on his face, "Can you not shout?" Said Haru, which was my neighbour, I thought of rolling my eyes at him, but it would be rude,

"I'm sorry Mr. Haru, I'll be careful next time." I said that mockingly. He left after letting out a sigh. "I hate that rude person." I thought by internally pointing at Haru. After some time, I was hungry so I went downstairs to Mr. Will to ask about lunch, "It will be prepared soon, you should go and rest a bit more till then ma'am" said Mr. Will,

"I've rested enough Mr. Will, please inform me once the lunch is ready." I said, I felt like someone was behind me so I flicked my face to see if someone was there, but no-one was there, instead I nearly cracked my neck, "Ouch!" I yelped,

"Is everything ok ma'am, are you hurt?" Mr. Will inspected my neck from afar,

"I'm alright Mr. Will, please inform me when the lunch is ready, I'm really hungr-" with my hand still on my neck, "And yes, please give me an ice pack.",

"Sure ma'am.", Mr. Will handed me an ice pack,

"Is it going to be more than half an hour late in preparing lunch?" I asked,

"Why ma'am?" Mr. Will inquired,

"If it is gonna be less than half an hour, I'll just sit here, because it will take about half an hour just to go upstairs to my room." I said,

"Alright ma'am, you can sit on that couch, please make yourself comfortable." Mr. Will went into the kitchen and I was sitting on the couch soothing my neck.

The lunch was ready in about 20 minutes, it looked delicious so I couldn't control enough to wait for others, so I dug in. I completed my lunch and went upstairs. While climbing the stairs I was thinking about Eros White, "How come the list showed that he was my roommate?" I thought and called my manager to talk about it,

"Hello ma'am, is there a problem?" She asked,

"Yes there is." I said,

"Oh, then what's the problem ma'am?" She questioned,

"You remember Eros white? The boy who came for the interview." I asked,

"Yes, what about him?" She replied,

"How come he was my roommate as per the list you gave me, but when I asked the owner, Mr. Will, he said that I have no roommate at all?" I said,

"I don't know ma'am, as I said before that I don't know anything about it, I was just conveying the information which was given to me." She explained,

"Alright, I think there was some kind of mistake, I'll hang up then." I hung up the call and opened the door of my room and my face was buried in my phone as I sat on my squishy bed. I was playing games when I got the message from my manager "There was no mistake in the list ma'am, I've checked, Mr. Will must have forgotten.",

"How can this be?! Why now, I want to have this room all to myself, why to have a roommate?" I sighed deeply and plopped on my bed. I was still playing games to divert my mind, my phone was above my face and I was still lying on my bed. Then suddenly, I heard someone opening the doorknob of the bathroom the phone fell on my face and it hurt bad, "Ouch! What the-" someone came out of that door, "Ahh! Why are you here?!"