I flipped through the pages of my notebook and slammed it back, closed and shut. My lips created a sound when I smack it twice before licking my lower lip. I gasped for air when I suddenly remembered something that happened earlier.
And now that I remembered it again, I thought I was going crazy. Even the heavens aren't helping me now and it felt like a grave sin that I committed unknowingly just because I am unlucky enough to experienced it.
'Hah~I just met the second male lead, Asterion.' I mentally hissed.
His eyes that resembles the sun directly complimented his gorgeous silver flocks of hair. It never occured to me that it will looked so divine even after seeing the second male lead that I only met through the book, in my past life. And instead of feeling the childish fluttering inside my chest, I somehow felt annoyed upon meeting him instead.
I mean, I already promised myself that I will stay away from the main characters but it seems like nothing's working out my way.
Looking around the noisy atmosphere inside our brightly lit classroom, I saw my classmates whose too busy with their own thing. The seat besides me, whose owner was someone I never met before, was still empty. This is my fourth day here in school, and I'm still counting. Alone on my seat, I wished that the unknown seat mate of mine would never appear forever so, I can have the whole place for my own. But my one and only wish to never cross paths with the main characters in the novel, was never been fruitful since day one.
It came to me and realized it late that the rude 'umbrella guy' that time, was also one of the male leads.
The dark green coloured hair and tall, varsity player of El Grandeur High, the third male lead, Maxwell Rossell.
And I just found out that it was him, earlier when he walk passed our classroom. I heard my female classmates whispering about him while some were squealing as they held their breath, watching the 'third male lead' outside the classroom. They kept saying his name that my memory suddenly brought me back to my realization.
I remembered reading his name several times in the novel.
In my memory, I was holding the book in my hand and my phone on the other, while sipping the homemade brewed coffee I had prepared for myself.
Reading the book, I saw the name of the third male lead, Maxwell Rossell, and his character profile. A high school student with a height of 179 cm and the so-called dark green coloured hair, prince of the basketball court, in El Grandeur High. Those words that seemingly flown out of the pages of the book and was absorbed by my head, lingered like a pest that kept crawling inside.
I remembered him turning his head to look inside our room and met eyes with him. His gaze were enchanting and deep. Although it was only a quick glance, I still felt the shivers tingling on my scalp because I suddenly remembered our first meeting.
It's annoying.
He's annoying.
I do find kids in high school as cute kids but the male leads in this world were far from being a cute beings. Aside from having a handsome face, they all lack the so-called manners. The other one doesn't know how to greet, and the other guy has a very high self-esteem.
I really hate them.
Damn, kids.
"Should I transfer to another school?" I murmured, swallowing a sigh while keeping my eyes outside the window. As if I was keeping a grave problem that I couldn't handle, a piece of a wrapped candy appeared on my table. I looked up to see Jake scratching his nape, again.
Blinking my eyes, twice, I threw a gentle gaze on him before smiling. "Thank you." I whispered softly.
His ears turned bright red again but I just laugh it off, realizing what it meant. Well, Penelope is a pretty, no, a very beautiful girl. And it is not an exaggeration to say it because it's true. If I were a man, I would definitely fell for Penelope but maybe because of Penelope's condition and personality, her beauty didn't attract any of the male leads in the original novel.
And it's also a pity that she died in the end.
Thinking about Penelope's ending in the novel, my body felt like shrinking as I felt a cold sweat run through my back. The chills of the forgotten death flag that I should start avoiding, feels like a call that has woken me up.
Right, I'm already Penelope, but why did I forget about her role in the novel?
"Are you okay? You looked pale." Jake asked me worriedly.
Before finally answering, the bell rang. It's already time to go home. I smile at him, covering my worries with a gentle expression I always put on ny face whenever I face a student as a customer. It's not bad when I think about using this skill I honed to serve a customer but I do feel the guilt when I remember that in this world, I need to act as a genuine kid to socialize.
Right, be a generous person, Penelope.
That's how we will erase your vicious past in the present and in the future.
"I'm fine." I told him with a gentle smile.
"But I think, I heard you speaking about," he let out a sigh then shook his head. Jake has a gentle smile on his lips as he continued, "well, it's nothing. If it's fine then it's fine."
I raised my eyebrows when he didn't tell me what he wanted to say but it's fine then if he thinks that it's also fine now. I'm a bit curious but it didn't matters now. We both stood up and started gathering our own things as we continue to talk with each other. After that, I face the path to the backdoor when I saw Ariana smiling face to face with me.
"What's wrong, Ari?" I asked her but her smile just get wider before clasping both of my hands with hers and answered with her eyelashes fluttering like a butterfly wings.
"You said you'll go out with us after school, remember?" She said as I continue looking at her. My head turned to her side and saw Jen and Meryl behind her. Their eyes were the same, as if looking back at me, eyes full of expectations. I remembered promising them in my first day and I did fulfill it by the second day.
But now that they were expecting me to hang out with them again, I couldn't find any reason to reject them.
"Then, let's do that." I answered.
The three girsl giggled and clapped their hands. Most of our classmates where still inside the room and I noticed them looking on our group. I flashed a smile to them then saw them flinched before waving their hands at me while smiling.
"Hey Jen, we also wanted to come." A tall guy on his uniform approached Jen. "I mean, I also wanted to come along. Can I?" His gazed moved from her to Meryl and Ari, with his eyes drooping like a begging huge puppy. I secretly pursed my lips to control myself from laughing then meet his begging eyes with mine.
"Err~no way. This is a girls' night out. And you're not a girl, aren't you? So, you're not welcome." Ari sneered.
Jake laughed beside me and said, "But I wanted to come too. Can I?"
I turned my head sideways to see him smiling. His crystal-clear eyes were still shine and his upturned lips were beaming with a smile. I pressed my lips and thought of something.
'Why does it feels like, Jake wasn't just an extra in this world?'
Well, I don't mean it in a bad way but, Jake's good looks doesn't seem to fit in with some extra in the novel. But on the other hand, I also think it's possible to have a good looking extra like him when looking at the tall guy besides Jen. And it's also possible that the people in this world are all good looking especially when this world is inside a novel.
This is a real world now, inside a fictitious book.
Well, let's not think about that.
"Let them join. Just like the saying, 'the more the merrier', let's just hang out with them." I suggested with a satisfying smile on my lips.
As I waited for their reply, all of them seemed to fell in silence as they looked back at me. Their eyes seemed to look at me with an unknown expression that I couldn't guess, but I know that it wasn't bad.
"Wow. As expected of our class goddess." Meryl first spoke as she put her fingers into a thumbs up.
The two other girls has a teary eyes as they stare at me then nodded their heads. "Right Meryl. I agree." Jen said.
"G-goddess? It was too much for me to be called a goddess, you see." I tried protesting but it seems like they don't have the reason to listen to my words, as of the moment.
"Penelope, you can call me Adrian." The tall guy who called himself Adrian, spoke. I just nod my head helplessly.
"Let's just go, shall we?" I said, trying to escaoe from this awkward situation but the moment I turn to the backdoor, right before stepping out, a tanned lengthy and muscled arms blocked my way. I stopped my steps and immediately looked at the owner of the arms blocking my way but tongue seemed to tied itself and leave me speechless.
'What the hell~'
"Can I join you?" His smile beamed into a hearty one and his dark green and silky hair waved as he moved his head to look down at me, due to his height then look at the people behind me.
I didn't answered him but Adrian did.
"Oh~Max!" Adrian called his name. I turned my head and saw Adrian waving his hand. He's eyes moved to me but his smiling eyes didn't disappear.
Now that I think about it, Adrian has a body that was fitted for sports. He's tall and he doesn't lack any muscles in his yet, skinny body. I gulped twice when my brain finally connects the dots into a line of information.
"Hi, we meet again. So, let me introduce myself properly." He started leaving me dumbfounded as I looked back at him, silently. I remembered cursing him earlier and now I'm suddenly facing his annoyingly handsome face. His lopsided smirk brought me back to reality, but still overlaps with the same face I saw the night I thought of him as a rude kid with umbrella.
"My name is Maxwell Rossell."
Just~why oh, God?
Why...