Chapter 43: Chapter 43

Chaylen was waiting outside the Campus gate while holding a red umbrella.

A lady gave the umbrella to him, and she left a note for him.

[“You are my type. Here is my number XXXXXXXXXX. Call me~”]

The woman who gave it to him was sexy and pretty. If Chaylen is still the old Chaylen, he would call the lady right away and take her to a hotel.

But Chaylen right now has no interest in other women anymore.

‘It is your fault, Ryan,’ he blamed the woman he saw from afar.

Saw from afar?

Chaylen narrowed his eyes at the car that parked just now. Inside the car, he saw Ryan together with Terban.

Chaylen rarely met Ryan before because she was busy with her thesis. As for Chaylen, his teammate promised to do his thesis for him. The reason? Because he’s handsome.

Now that Ryan finished her thesis, Chaylen thought of seeing her. However, he wasn’t fine seeing her together with another man.

“Why are they together? That’s an odd pair,” Chaylen said.

He was about to run to Terban’s car. But the rain poured down again.

“Sh*t!”

He quickly opened the red umbrella. But when Chaylen saw Ryan coming out of Terban’s car and running under the rain without an umbrella, Chaylen thought of a good idea.

For a guy like Chaylen, he thought that s*x was the only thing to spend with a woman. But every time he saw Ryan, he thought of different things to do with him.

“Miss, use this!”

Chaylen gave his red umbrella to the woman behind him.

The woman blushed as Chaylen winked at her before running away.

She thought that Chaylen gave her his umbrella because he was interested in her.

But no.

He has another plan.

While running, Chaylen took off his leather jacket. She approached Ryan at called, “Hey, hey hey!”

Ryan stopped running while using her bag to cover her head from the rain.

She hadn’t looked back yet when she felt the leather jacket cover above her head. With rounded eyes, Ryan looked at Chaylen.

“What is this?” she asked.

“A new way to flirt. I saw it in movies. Let’s run!”

Chaylen used his jacket as their umbrella as they ran together.

People say that the world will slow down when you are in love.

That was b*llsh*t. Chaylen thought so.

But when he was running in the rain with Ryan, Chaylen was convinced someone’s old perspectives will change once he realized that he was in love.

“Argh!” Ryan complained while looking at her drenched arms.

The two of them took shade outside the library.

“I forgot my umbrella inside his car. Damn it,” Ryan whispered.

Chaylen looked at her and remembered that Ryan came out of Terban’s car.

“Why did you come to school with Terban?” Chaylen asked while drying his jacket.

Ryan didn’t answer, however, her eyes turned red.

Chaylen didn’t like how she reacted when he brought up Terban.

‘But the two of them are mortal enemies. It is impossible,’ Chaylen cheered himself in this way.

“I don’t see any reason why I need to explain everything to you,” Ryan mumbled. “Either way, thank you for lending me your jacket. I still have time before my first class starts. I will go inside the library first. Bye.”

Ever since Ryan saw a part of Chaylen’s life, she rarely says bad words to Chaylen.

‘But I know that she still thinks that I would touch her and score at her that’s why she’s aloof,’ he thought.

“Ryan. Do you still think that I am a pervert?”

Ryan almost burst out laughing as she looked back.

“W-What kind of question is that? If someone hears you, they might misunderstand our relationship. Your fans will attack me.”

“I would prefer it if I’ll be the one who can attack you,” Chaylen said and then gave her a finger heart.

Ryan rolled her eyes as she held her bag tightly. “I am not in the mood today, Chaylen. Shut up.”

Ryan then turned around and entered the library.

Chaylen knew that Ryan would never take his jokes seriously. But now, he wanted her to believe what he was about to say.

And so, he also entered the library at a fast pace. His legs are long, so he caught Ryan’s right away. Then, he pulled her and brought her to a corner where there were no other students except them.

[“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”] Ryan mouthed at him.

Because they can’t make loud sounds, Chaylen leaned closer and whispered in her ear.

“I think I am crazy.”

Ryan stiffened when she felt his breath brushing on her skin. They were so close that his lips will bump into Ryan’s ear if she moved. If only Ryan would only allow him to bite her ear, he might have done it before.

Breathing heavily, Ryan placed her hands between them. She tried to push him away, but Chaylen was too strong.

“Because of you, I can’t look to another woman anymore. So, you need to take responsibility,” Chaylen murmured in a husky voice.

“What kind of responsibility are you talking about? Get away! Or else I will kick your most precious t…”

“I don’t want to get hurt.”

Ryan frowned and looked at his face. She wanted to say, ‘If you don’t want to get hurt, then get lost.’

But Chaylen’s expression looks so serious. So, she stayed and listened.

“I was afraid to love because everyone said that I am nothing but trash.”

‘Is this related to his question before? If I still think of him as a pervert?’ Ryan thought. And so, she replied.

“Chaylen. I don’t really want to butt into someone else’s business. I admit that I worried about you. I knew that the real you weren’t the happy-go-lucky guy that you always show to everyone. But if you want me to treat you better, then change. Just now, you said that you are afraid to give love because everyone treated you like trash. Then why are you playing with women’s hearts? You are doing the same, Chaylen.”

“…”

“Hurting people while looking excuse to pity yourself,” she added. “Don’t do it. I hate how you treat women like they are toys," I added.

“It is my revenge,” Chaylen explained. “I had to hate my life. I had to ruin it to show my father that he made a huge mistake.”

“Then, you’re a liar.”

“What?”

“You said, you don’t want to get hurt. Taking revenge would only lead to pain. Just what you do right now.”

Chaylen leaned closer and said, “So, I want you to take responsibility. I will change because I want to be happy. Help me, Ryan.”

“Huh? Suddenly? Why me?” Ryan asked, pointed herself.

“Because I like you.”

Her eyes widened at the fourth confession she heard today.

‘Oh god. Why are you doing this to me?’ Ryan prayed inwardly.

"I like someone sincerely for the first time,” Chaylen said. “I felt something for the first time. I dreamed of something big for the future. I wanted to receive love, to cry, to do everything for the most special person in my life for the FIRST TIME. I kept on denying it. Believe me, I tried. But when I do, you appear.”

Chaylen held his chest and continued.

“And my heart went crazy. Like damn, I felt shy in front of a woman for the first time.”

To get a confession simultaneously just in one day, this is also a first for Ryan.

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Ryan’s POV

After attending my classes, I went to the library to think.

My eyes went to the corner where Chaylen confessed to me.

“After confessing, he left me alone,” I whispered while leaning my head on the table.

What should I do?

I felt like I was high on drugs.

‘Although I never tried to have one. Never.’

Sylvester’s confession was already shocking. So when Kyle, Terban, and Chaylen did the same, it made me feel like being swallowed by a huge Tsunami wave.

‘Is this a prank? Did they talk to each other and say: Let’s confess to Ryan and make a fool out of her.’?’

I shook my head.

No.

They look so serious when they confess their feelings.

Besides, Terban isn’t the kind of person who will cooperate with them.

‘So, this is for real? Four men like me?’

Many girls dreamed of being in a love triangle.

I was one of them in fact.

But to experience this in real life, that’s a different story.

Moreover, I am living with them under the same roof.

I don’t want to lose my friendship with them. But at the same time, I don’t want to hurt anyone or give false hope.

As of now, I don’t have romantic feelings for any of them.

Yes. Terban was my first love. But now, it’s different.

‘Is this my punishment for all of my wrong decisions in life?’

Time passed by.

I decided to walk back home while thinking of the right answer to my question.

‘I feel like carrying the whole world.’

Before, I used to laugh at those people who were stressed with their love life.

‘So, this is how it feels to take responsibility with people who like you romantically?’

“It’s already late,” Someone asked me.

When I looked up, I saw Vincent. My eyes sparkled when I saw the person who could help me!

“Vincent!” I called and approached him.

Right now, we are outside the school gate.

“Are you busy?” he asked a question that I was about to ask.

“Nope. Actually, I was about to ask that too. There’s something I wanted to say to you.”

“Great. Me too,” he said and then put a helmet on my head.

I took off the helmet and asked him, “Why are you putting this to my head?”

“Because you can’t ride on a motorbike without a helmet,” he said. Vincent wore his helmet and then hopped on his motorbike. "Hop in."

Is he asking me to ride on his motorbike?

A lot of students were looking at us.

“V-Vincent. I know that you are only trying to be a gentleman with a good heart,” I whispered. “But I don’t want other people to misunderstand our relationship.”

He pulled up the shield of his helmet and his eyes met my gaze.

“There’s nothing to misunderstand,” he said.

“That’s right.”

“Because I really like you.”

“Yeah. That is… WHAT?”

“If they think that I am asking you to ride on my motorbike because I like you, that is not a misunderstanding. Don’t worry,” Vincent said before he smiled at me as if he didn’t drop a bomb just now.

I thought I had found my ally.

But my world crumbled when I realized that Vincent was also the same as the others.

THIS IS CRAZY.

EVERYONE IS CRAZY!