By day, Yale and I are just ordinary students that live considerably normal lives. We have our own problems to take care of, like our family issues and all that nonsense.
But, at exactly three in the morning, we will get ready in our uniforms, well I am the only one that actually wears the uniform so … I wear the uniform while Rumant prepares himself.
Contrary to popular belief, he and I do not live together. He has his own life and his own family also. They are upper-class, fancy tea party types of people.
His father works as a senator and his mother is a businesswoman with a booming designer brand. But he refuses to wear any of her designs and only wears the ones I bought for him.
I never understood why but I am not one to pry into his private life, like he doesn't pry into mine. That is how we lived for the past two years since we started dating.
Getting out of bed, I stared at the clock on the wall, "Six-thirty. Time to get up I think."
Turning to the boy sleeping peacefully beside me, I couldn't help but smile before patting him on the head as I covered him in the blanket.
Making my way to the kitchen, I got started at making breakfast. Thinking back on what happened the night before.
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There are many cleaners like us in this city alone. We all belong to a single organization and that is where we are able to get our missions from.
The appearance of those creatures started a year before I started dating Rumant. There was this shockwave that burst throughout the world.
I was working at a construction site when that shockwave broke out and I watched as my coworkers fell from the top of buildings to their death.
Everything came crumbling down and I watched as the beams of the building fell on me.
But I didn't die, for some reason. Instead, I woke up without a scratch on my body and a freezing atmosphere around me. There was snow everywhere and it was so cold that I could see ice sickles growing on some of the metal.
I thought I died that day because I couldn't feel a bit of the cold. Maybe I was having hypothermia. They say that you feel hot suddenly when your body starts to freeze.
But I didn't feel hot. I didn't feel anything at all for that fact.
That was when a group of people suddenly appeared in front of me and took me to a vehicle, keeping my face hidden as they took me away to the HQ.
I was not the only one in the vehicle but I was the only conscious one. Most of the people were knocked out cold and laying on the seats.
"Are you not in shock?" The woman that pulled me out of the rubble asked, looking at me from the rearview mirror.
"I am sure there is an explanation," I said shrugging. I didn't tell her that I could still feel the cold in my fingers, nor that I noticed faint markings all over my hands.
I knew I didn't have them before. I couldn't look out the window though, everything was blacked out and we were in something like the back of an ambulance.
One of the kids beside me, a girl about my age, was breathing heavily before a little burst of fire escaped her mouth. Carefully, I looked over her and saw the same faint markings on her neck.
That was when I knew something was not right with our bodies. There must have been some kind of mutation from that shock wave.
"You are strange." She mumbled, looking at me from the rearview mirror. "I thought you would be in a panic or something."
"So you don't know what's wrong?" I asked, frowning at her.
If she doesn't know, I should leave. She might be more trouble than help. That was what I thought but she just laughed instead.
"I like you, kid." She said, her deep purple eyes gleaming at me. "There is someone I want you to meet when we get there. I am sure you will both get along."
"Huh?"
She didn't say anything else and I kept silent as well, waiting until we got to the large white building surrounded by high walls and people in uniforms with weapons.
Where am I? I thought, looking around the place as the men in uniforms stepped in front of me, their guns held to me. Ok. What the hell?
"Who are you?" One of them asked.
"I owe no obligation to tell my name to people that kidnapped me," I said, turning my head from them.
"You-!
"Sargent!" The woman called out, getting down from the vehicle. "What do you think you are doing?"
"But- he is awake." One of the men said, saluting the woman.
So she is the more powerful one between them. I see.
"So? You think he is a stowaway?" She laughed, poking him on the side. "There is no way anyone would want to be here. You know that."
"Yeah, bu-"
"Ignore him, kid." She said, walking to me though I towered over her.
Was I ever this tall? I thought, frowning slightly. Wait, where are my glasses? And … why can I see everything properly?
"Come with me." She said, hand on my shoulder as those that surrounded me took the other people out of the van and carrying them to the opposite door to the one we were going to.
I followed her out of pure curiosity. There really was nothing else I can do after all.
She took me into the large building and then up the stairs, passing many, many people in white lab coats. They were running past the woman with clipboards and vials of blood and some other things.
"Where are we going?" I asked, keeping close to the woman as everyone stopped to take a glance at me. Making me uncomfortable immediately.
"You will know."
"Where are those others in the vehicle going then?" I tried asking again, trying to ignore the stares I kept getting.
"They are going to the observation wart." She explained, not slowing down or even looking at me.
"Observation wart?"
"Yes." She said, stopping in front of a door. I watched as she took out a card from her pocket and scanned it at the door before it opened for her. "There we are. Come in."
The moment I stepped into the place, I stopped at the doorway. Not wanting to go further.
There were many, many people, some my age and others older than me. Though there was no one that looked younger. They were all wearing the same white shirt and pant set with a black line running down the sides.
The entire room looked like another world in itself. There was a waterfall and vegetation everywhere.
What is this place? I thought. Should I try to run out of here?
"Hey! Kid!" The woman waved at me, someone hiding behind her. "I want you to meet someone."
Against my better judgement, I walked to her and that was where I met the Princess of my School.
I may not be very involved with the school but I did hear about her. And I have also seen her here and there. Other than that, I never paid her that much attention.
"Say hello, you two." The woman said, as we stared at each other coldly. "What's wrong? Starstruck?"
"Why are you introducing us?" She asked, looking down on me instantly. "What do I need to know about him?"
"It wasn't like I asked," I said, shrugging. "I see that your personality matches your face well."
"What is that supposed to mean?!" She asked, ready to throw hands.
"I mean, you look haughty and you are," I said, tilting my head to the side. "Am I wrong?"
"You-!"
"Now, now. I can see just how much you two like each other." The woman said, putting her arms around the both of us. "I hope you two will get along in the future as well."
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I don't know what the woman was talking about at that time. And even now I still don't know.
She was the strange one. I turned to see Rumant walking out of the room, hair sticking everywhere without a shirt on and loosely fitted pants.
He yawned, laying his head on the table as he promptly fell asleep once again, hair covering the entire table.
No matter how sleepy he is, Rumant will come out of the room and start eating whatever I for cook him.
The only compliment he ever gave me was that I was a good cook. So I worked to improve on my cooking, even signing up for classes in between my hectic schedule.
That woman was strange, for sure. But I will never not be grateful to her for allowing me to meet Rumant that day.
Well, she could see what was going to happen in the future … so she must have seen this.