For the next two days, Sebastian accepted the report of some of the students. Probably the meeting with Mr. Conner had some type of effect on him.
Isabell chose resistance and was ready to defend her topic at any cost, no matter how many times Sebastian told her to change it she never listened and acted rebellious
The second week of their year started and they were peacefully sitting in the class when Ashley came running with expressions of disbelief roaming around her face, she threw her backpack on the side seat of Isabell.
Steve rose from his seat in panic while Isabell stayed on hers, her face similar to Steve
"What? What?" Steve asked, Ashley was barely managing to breathe "You- you guys- won't believe what I- I just saw," She said pulling the words from her trembling breath "What?" Isabell was the one to leave her chair in worry now "I saw- I saw Sebastian smiling"
Seeing someone smiling wasn't breaking news but if it was for someone that casually has an emotionless face, it could be breaking "Ah" was everything Steve said before getting his seat back
"No way"
Isabell was interested in details and didn't realize when she fell back to the chair in between her words, her face was still toward Ashley "You know that young Professor from the faculty of biology? The one who is famous among students and every second student is accused of having a crush on him" Isabell tried to remember using her words as a code "Wilson Franklin?" She guessed
"Yes exactly him, I saw Sebastian talking to him, and the hell- he was smiling from freaking one ear to the other" Ashley's mouth was still opened in surprise, and Isabell cracked a mocking laugh, she didn't even try to hide the surprise
"The hell you've seen that beast smiling" She was still laughing at her unrealistically horrific words when
"I swear on every mythological creature I have ever known and have ever loved" She raised a hand "What" her laugh vanished "No- not true" She tried, she could swear she tried to not believe but Ashley couldn't be lying now and she left Isabell like that
Isabell stopped seeing things around her, she stared at a space in the room, and for an unknown reason, she found herself imagining how Sebastian would look with a grin on his face. Imagining how his dead face would glow, dark eyes shining with a real smile. Isabell didn't realize but she was smiling too but that wasn't something she should be doing because one of the people she hated the most was The Knight and Isabell knew that the chances of Sebastian being The Knight were the highest to her.
She didn't think about it and that was exactly why Isabell didn't stop smiling when it was the time for lecture, not even when Sebastian entered the room, not even when he walked towards her, and definitely not till he snapped his fingers in front of her zoned-out eyes.
Isabell blinked her eyes, Suddenly everything changed. Steve went back to his seat, the Ashley that was just standing in front of her appeared at the side and instead of her there was a man with a fine jawline and the man was
"Mr. Lightwood" She could have been finding a way to die or something like how to get away with the embarrassing moments if they were included in her daily schedule but there was nothing in her head
"Daydreaming?" He asked and it sounded causal
"That's not what-" I was doing. I must have lost my mind and was just imagining you smiling which I possibly am never going to see and if you humiliate me today in front of everyone, again then I'll sincerely wish that no one sees that smile ever again.
To her surprise Sebastian listened to her thoughts "Concentrate" Was the only word he said, and before Isabell could figure out what just happened he was already near his desk, preparing himself to announce something.
Sebastian cleared his throat, adjusted his already perfectly knotted necktie
"The dean of your department asked me to notify you about a tour. The Department of Law has arranged a tour to 'The coastal range' I hope you guys are excited to see mountains"
and that was the most boring way to announce an awaited tour the world has ever seen but the fun had nothing to do with Sebastian and everyone knew that so they weren't expecting much from him. They replied Sebastian with a light wave of hooting which he didn't seem to mind
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"So we are going?" Ashley asked as they stood in the middle of the building with the statue of Themis "Obviously, we are" Said Steve, looking at Isabell for confirmation "Yep, going going" She confirmed "I'm excited like I am excited maybe I got to see Yeti!" Ashley screamed, "Is there anything like a single thing your mind can think of instead of mythology?" Isabell rolled her eyes at Ashley "Of course not" she paused "No no there is one, Izzy Smart Bella" She called stepping in front of her and Isabell realized she shouldn't have teased Ashley a second later "You haven't told us the title of your Legal Case Studies" Suddenly Isabell's throat went dry and she was nervous "Told ya it's a secret" She laughed with the same nervousness "What's your report title, Izzy?" Steve asked ignoring her words "I told you it-" Ashley cut in "Is not a secret and I'm getting suspicious because I really can't trust your troublemaker mind" All Isabell needed now was anything her brain was about to come up within this two seconds so that she could trick her friends
"You know why the eyes of Themis are always covered with a piece of cloth?" And as expected of her mind, it came up with the most random idea in existence
"What the heck are you playing at?" Ashley's irritation was evident
"It's because Law is blind" She continues with her trick anyway "And since the law is blind, it makes a lawyer blind and because you are a lawyer, you are blind and because you are blind you can't see anything and that'll why you can't read the title of my report and if you can not read you can't know it" Isabell finally breath, it took them an entire minute to digest her single-handed rapid fire
"What the heck did you just say?" Ashley's brain didn't coordinate with her ears
"Okay okay, let me explain" Their eyes were glued to Isabell as she demonstrated "So Imagine I'm her" She pointed a finger at the statue of Themis "If I make my eyes blind using my hands I won't be able to see anything, right?" She wrapped her fingers over her eyes, denying to let any piece of light cross them "And if this is a scale of justice" She hung her backpack from strips over her hand as if it was the scale of justice, "I look exactly like her, and I obviously can't read or see like this. So do you guys understand now?" Isabell looked like a clown neither Steve nor Asley told her that instead, they laughed silently.
After a while of no response her ears heard a shout
"WHAT THE HELL DID I JUST SEE?"
Isabell's hands slipped on Ashley's scream
"Wha- what?" She asked in panic "Two times in a row! My eyes need to be washed with antiseptic now" Steve seemed to know exactly what she was trying to say and wasn't helping her come up with words but his face looked irritated
"What are you trying to say, Ash?" Ashley inhaled sharply and deeply
"Sebastian was just smiling at you" There was no way Isabell was going to believe her "Nice one, you can't get me on this" She winked at her adjusting her backpack back over the shoulder again "I swear--" she pinched her throat and was about to make Isabell believe "Yeah, that's indeed a swear," She said ignoring Ashley's words, she took a step forward and then stopped
"Talking about Bastarian, is he going to the tour?" She asked "Izzy" Ashley's fingers were still pinching her neck "I'm serious" If Sebastian was smiling at Isabell then it was a serious matter but she never going to find out because she never saw it "Yeah I'm asking a serious question too, is he going?" Isabell asked "I swear—"
"You've already cursed" She cut her in "Now tell me, is Bastarian coming with us on tour or not" she repeated her question "Izzy you–"
"Do you even know the answer?" Steve was the one to interrupt Ashley with an anxious laugh, more of stopping her than asking "Umm, yeah yeah- of course I know every gossip happening in Veritas University" she forgot what she was just talking about "A friend of mine from Biology told me that the final year of biology will be joining us and so will Mr. Franklin and if he goes then there are high chances of Sebastian to attend the tour as well" Isabell moved her eyes to Steve after her words finished
"Can we cancel, Steve?" She asked considering their mutual hatred towards Sebastian she expected an abrupt yes from him
"I have big plans for the tour and I can't really let them hang in anymore" He replied in a mysterious tone of voice "Wait, what plans?" Ashley poked her elbow into his chest "Not gonna tell you," he said with a laugh "Steve!" Ashley screamed "Not gonna tell you" he repeated, swiftly moving away from Ashley who was about to run
"Tell me!" She said chasing Steve, shouting at him "Not gonna tell you" He kept on repeating the same words while running,
Isabell ran with them in circles while the other two kept on yelling "Sto- stop, guys" Isabell said barely speaking on broken breath but they weren't listening to her in the sound of shouts,
They kept on running like children in the entire corridor, air parting its way from them, laughter and yells echoed throughout the area and they ran until the three of them felt tired, and they finally stopped at their starting point again
"Yo- you are not- not going to tell me," Ashley said breathing heavily, bending to her knees "Nah" he replied spotting himself with a pillar "You- you guys are cra-" Isabell was about to finish her words when she saw someone coming towards them.
Two six-foot guys, she could recognize one in a blink and not want to recognize the other in a thousand
She saw her brother along with his friend walking into the building of law.
Xavier's expression felt like he wasn't considering paying a visit to her twin but since his eyes had already made a connection to Isabell there was no choice left.
He walked towards his sister "What are you doing here?" She asked
"Hello, Ashley. Hey, Steve," He said, Steve greeted him with a nod and Ashley with a "Hi!" with a wavy hand while Jade passed silent greetings.
"Why are you here?" she never said hello to his friend in return.
The siblings still hadn't talked much since the last fight and this was the most number of words they had said to each other since then "I'm here to meet a friend" Said Xavier, Isabell narrowed her eyes "How come I never knew you had a friend in Law?" her confused words asked
"Well I have one and I don't see a reason why I should tell you" A big fat lie or maybe she never wanted herself to be wrong when it came to hebrother
"We'll take our leave now," Xavier said, and without waiting for her sister to ask any other question he took the steps away dragging Jade with him, and in an instant they disappeared to the other corner of the building
"I'll be leaving too," Steve said to an unable-to-speak Isabell and frowned at Ashley "Where are you going?" Ashley asked
"Maybe to do something relating to my big plans" Ashley laughed in surprise making herself remember that Steve hadn't told them about it here yet
"You!" Before she could scream anything else at Steve, he was already five meters away from her in the opposite direction. He jumped on one foot, face filled with happiness throwing the alternative expression at Ashley.
Isabell stayed silent even when her ears were tearing apart from Ashley yelling at Steve