None of his roommates even bothered to stir on noticing that he was the one who entered just as he expected since they both just like him ranked lowest on the strength scale and on other occasions suffered such fate.
He continued limping till he got to the bathroom and the noise this caused drew the attention of his roommates who turned to stare at him blankly.
After washing himself to his best he returned to the larger room to meet the waiting gazes of the two boys he shared the room and his facial expression changed immediately as he was not expecting them to even be bothered about his welfare.
"Who did this to you Raf?" The skinnier one asked him with a voice that neither showed pity nor concern.
"Team 50." Rafael replied coldly.
"Oh Bonny and squad." His other roommate commented and went back to his laptop which he was making use of earlier.
Rafael checked the time and on realization rushed straight to his to his bed to sleep since they asked him no more questions; they have done the most they can do which was to feign concern.
"I know the three of us are weak compared to everyone else but don't you think it will be a good idea if we team up and at least fight off the smaller threats? The skinny boy spoke distracting Rafael who eagerly wanted to sleep off and Levi who was on his system.
"Ok it is a good Idea." Rafael spurted and hurriedly shut his eyes.
"Ooohk" Levi replied dragging his words absent mindedly.
"Great!" Jerry exclaimed doubting if they were really positive about the issue.
Though they were roommates this trio was not really close friends. Jerry was free with everyone but in the school they found themselves in, no one considered him a good candidate for friendship because he was viewed as the weakest one and was literally good in nothing known.
The other boy Levi was acknowledged as a technology freak. Everyone knows He would rather make friends with robots or even chips than humans.
"Who will be the leader in our new group?" Jerry joked but he got no reply feeling embarrassed, he turned to Rafael who was more likely to reply him and again spoke to his hearing but Rafael didn't stir.
"Is he already asleep?" Jerry mused before making his bed and laying down.
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On opening of his eyes, Rafael expected to see the beauty who yesterday turned his sixteen years of torments blissful simply by showing up but instead saw the fear instilling relief which always scared him proudly looking straight into his eyes
"She is not yet here." He muttered under his breath.
After waiting fruitlessly for a moment for the strong looking metal door to creak open, he began to admire his bare chested figure as much as he could as his hands were chained far apart from each other and both were slightly inclined at an acute angle upwards from the horizontal.
His torso possessed well sculpted chest and well defined abs if it were not for his hands being chained he would have loved to take a glance at his face and a certain region below his lower abdomen. He had always been in regrets that this figure of his was only displayed before a lifeless sculpture but in real life he was a fatso and every attempts to look better proved futile.
If he can be assured that his face was just as cute as it was in reality he would have surely beseeched the heavens who only knew why he always dreamt of being in this condition as far as he could remember to swap his looks.
For sixteen years Rafael was haunted daily by this dream of being chained opposite a scary sculpture on the wall but the previous night, a very pretty girl who he thought to be older than himself in real life visited him and the feeling of being with someone who could listen to him in that cold room for the first time made him feel better than living in a world where he was rejected and his views no longer matters.
His ears picked up footsteps approaching and his wandering thoughts jolted back. When it became louder his heart began to beat louder. Now he would spend some more time with the beauty who visited him last night.
This he thought but unfortunately his joy did not last long because instead of a slender looking lady with an endearing smile, a hoarse cough was heard and thereafter an evil looking plump man walked in.
"For the first time I have met you awake." He laughed. "And it tracks since it will be rude if you are not informed before your are executed. Even though you are an anomaly your majesty, your mother was a queen so it is wise if you are atleast honored as a prince for the rest of your days!"