Becoming Number One with Confession Attacks - Chapter 14

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#14

Sonnet felt anger surge in her heart for a moment. She had barely managed to find the bracelet Aiden gave her and come back, but was this really something to get so angry about?

No, she couldn’t understand why he was being so obsessive and trying to find out the truth when he could have just been fooled by whatever lie she told him.

Sonnet didn’t answer and took off the bracelet she had been wearing on her wrist. This bracelet was the root cause of all this trouble.

“Don’t ever give me something like this again.”

Aiden didn’t take it and just stared intently at the bracelet. With hardened eyes.

“Don’t give me things that are precious to you.”

Sonnet’s voice trembled. With resentment over the difficult hardships she had endured all night long.

Aiden raised his head. His eyes were sharp, as if he too was angry.

“I gave it to you because it’s precious.”

“….”

“Because it’s precious. …I hoped you would think of me as much as it’s precious to me.”

Unlike the atmosphere that seemed ready to explode with anger at any moment, Aiden’s words were the same as before. Like when he had put the bracelet on Sonnet.

Sonnet thought of the hardships she had suffered because of this bracelet and said.

“I can’t handle that.”

Her eyelids were heavy and her whole body was tired. Anger and resentment were rising, but in the midst of it all, Aiden’s attitude made her heart feel heavier and more uncomfortable.

Aiden ran his hand through his hair and spoke calmly.

“Just tell me who tormented you like that. I’ll take care of the rest.”

His tone was gentle, but his eyes were still sharp.

“No one tormented me. I just did it to myself.”

Sonnet was tired of the constantly repeating conversation and didn’t want to be with him anymore.

She threw the bracelet into Aiden’s hand and walked quickly toward the dormitory.

Before she knew it, tears were leaking from her eyes.

‘He could just let it slide, so why is he being so persistent about this?’

Sonnet just wanted to quickly wash this dirty body and sleep.

When she gathered her shower supplies and entered the public bathroom and looked in the mirror, she paused for a moment.

Her hair was disheveled as if someone had torn at it, her arms had blue bruises here and there, scratches with dried blood stuck to them, and her legs were the same.

She really looked like a mess, as if someone had beaten her.

Looking at Sonnet objectively, it was understandable that Aiden would be mistaken.

‘Is that why he was even angrier?’

But Sonnet wasn’t the type of person to just take a beating.

If someone hit her once, she would somehow fight back… but there would still be wounds left on her body.

Sonnet looked at her body for a moment, then washed herself with mixed feelings. The bruises and scabs made it sting and hurt the entire time she washed.

When she came to the front of her dormitory room, a first aid kit and a black notebook were placed side by side. Above them, she could see concise and neat handwriting.

[It might get infected, so make sure to apply ointment to your wounds.

The notebook will help with your assignment.]

The note didn’t have a name written on it indicating who wrote it, but Sonnet immediately recognized who it was.

It was Aiden. Sonnet picked up the first aid kit and notebook and entered her room.

Now that she thought about it, she seemed to have been too tired when she encountered Aiden. That’s probably why she was more sensitive.

Sonnet opened the notebook first without even thinking about applying ointment to her wounds.

One notebook contained notes from the morning lecture content that Sonnet had missed, and the other notebook was an assignment that Aiden had submitted to Professor Edor.

Professor Edor was famous for never returning notebooks once they were submitted.

‘How did he get it back?’

While thinking that and looking inside the notebook, it only contained important content, making it very easy to grasp the key points.

Moreover, explanations were added, which seemed to have been written separately by Aiden.

She had already finished the assignment, but to get a better grade, she would need to revise what she had written.

If she just made corrections according to Aiden’s notes, Sonnet’s grades would undoubtedly improve.

She should definitely feel good about it, but somehow Sonnet felt completely drained. She slumped down in her chair.

She didn’t know Aiden could be so considerate. Sonnet had selfishly said she needed his help, and he had given her help quite seriously. On top of that, he was even worried about her injuries.

This was almost the first time someone had taken care of her like this. Of course, Tester also cared for her and worried about her, but he didn’t take care of her to this extent.

“There must be some other meaning behind him giving you such a gift.”

Those were the words Tester had said about Aiden.

At this moment, Sonnet thought that Aiden’s reason for helping her to this extent probably didn’t have any malicious meaning.

The ointment in the first aid kit, the notebook that could improve Sonnet’s grades, seemed sincere to her.

Sonnet opened the first aid kit and applied ointment to her arms and legs. It stung and hurt, but it was bearable. Like the hardships she had endured all night long.

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The next day, Sonnet left the dormitory early in the morning. To be exact, it was 8:10.

Aiden was always waiting in front of the dormitory, and he would have been waiting since earlier than 8:40, when she usually came out.

In Aiden’s hand was a red Deliter jerky wrapper.

Deliter jerky was a snack sold near the women’s dormitory only from 7 AM to 8:20 AM.

That meant Aiden came here at least by 8:20.

Anyway, yesterday Sonnet had been too sensitive because she hadn’t slept all night, and it was a situation that could be misunderstood, so she wanted to at least speak to him properly.

Thanks to Aiden, her stinging wounds no longer hurt.

The ointment Aiden had given her was certainly excellent for treating wounds. It did look expensive too.

Sonnet looked around here and there. She could see an elderly woman wearing a floral apron selling jerky in the shade of a tree, with several people gathered around her.

In front of the bulletin board, several people were gathered making noise about something, but she didn’t see any familiar faces.

Sonnet carefully examined her surroundings. Even the faces of people coming from far away.

Still, Aiden was nowhere to be seen. He was someone who stood out even at a glance, but now he was nowhere to be found no matter where she looked.

Along with inexplicable disappointment, her heart felt empty as if it had been hollowed out.

“Why is this suddenly happening? We prepared everything to have a really fun time.”

“Right, it doesn’t seem like anything happened, so what’s going on?”

The complaining voices were quite loud. Come to think of it, people had been bustling around in front of the bulletin board since earlier.

Thinking of the previous incident when furniture was carelessly discarded from the dormitory, Sonnet walked toward the bulletin board.

With an expressionless face, she pushed through several people to see the writing on the bulletin board, where the word “Notice” was quite large. Below it, the content was neatly written.

[As of today, all activities in the nearby forest are prohibited.]

“We should tell Lawrence in advance, right? At this rate, we won’t even be able to play in the forest, let alone have our campfire.”

“He prepared everything, so what do we do now?”

Laments were followed by a string of curses about the school. Sonnet listened to their words absentmindedly while reading down the content written on the bulletin board.

[Bullying fellow students and causing injury was previously punishable by grade retention, but as of today, it has been changed to expulsion.]

Sonnet stared blankly at the somewhat aggressively written text. The more she looked at it, the more it reminded her of Aiden.

It seemed like he had carried out everything he could do based on his misunderstanding. All night long.

Sonnet turned her head this way and that. Apart from hearing curses about the school and disappointment about the much-anticipated campfire, she didn’t hear anything that concerned her.

No matter how much she looked around, Aiden wasn’t there, and just as she was turning her head in disappointment, a voice rang out nearby.

“Didn’t Aiden say he would join the campfire too?”

“He said he would do it together with the kids who play Madou matches.”

“Then why was it suddenly prohibited?”

“I don’t know. Did something really happen in the forest?”

“What could have happened? It’s just a forest where deer and rabbits roam around.”

Sonnet wanted to look for Aiden more. But she didn’t have enough time. She had to go to the morning lecture right away, and it happened to be the same lecture as Aiden’s.

Sonnet walked quickly. Since the sun hadn’t become hot yet, the weather was very pleasant.

The wind blowing between her arms was gentle, and the drooping green leaves looked even more refreshing in the sunlight.

Nevertheless, none of it looked beautiful to Sonnet.

Though it was a path she had always walked alone, today it strangely felt unfamiliar and empty.

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