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Chapter #67

“Shut up and come with me!”

Leonna bawled for a few seconds. His wrist had suddenly been pulled by an all-black tall figure who stepped leisurely with one hand pushing the black-red handlebars of the bicycle to his right. The dark-haired figure with a half-sleepy face dragged forcibly Leonna in the opposite direction from where their school was located.

The eyes of Leonna who had been staring blankly then wide-eyed when she realized that the handsome creature in front of her was Reid. Although Reid's face did not look fresh, but saw the grip that was arbitrarily coiled on Leonna's slender wrist, making the owner so gurgle himself and thanks to the rhythm of the swish behind the recesses of his chest, Leonna with a face with pink instinctive sprinkles tried to hit the rough grip of Reid's hand.

But predictably, Leonna failed. Given the size of Leonna's body adrift much smaller than Reid, it is clear Reid's energy will be many times greater than Leonna's power.

“Stop! Hey, you! What the hell are you doing?! Quickly release! Let go of me!”

“You're so noisy!”

Reid yelled at Leonna pretty tight. Leonna reflexes gnawed in fear. The feathers bristled tensely, more so after a small glance to the right and to the left. There was only a whispering roar from the lush trees, so quiet and not knowing where to make Leonna think things through.

‘What does Reid intend to avenge and ask for compensation because of an unpleasant event yesterday morning? But then, how could Reid be kind enough to help me from the collision of motorcyclists at school?’

“Quick! Do you want to stand there all day?!”

Leonna stopped daydreaming. His mouth was gaping wide, deeply shocked by the anti-mainstream scene a few meters away from his standing distance. Reid looks with maximum calm already crouched on the wall without paint alias pure only in a rough cement and looks so worn again ugly, almost or could be more than three meters high.

It's unclear when and how Reid was up there. But it makes Leonna wonder, because there is not a speck of sweat that just perched let alone busy skating down from the temple Reid.

Does it make sense that this creature named Reid has superpowers? A kind of Peter Parker spider web in Marvel's fictional Spider-Man? Or more realistically, the traceur and traceuse—first generation parking practitioners? Well the point is, Leonna is really not out of thought with the Reid method can get up on the wall there.

“What are you doing?! Are you tired of living?!”

Leonna screamed anxiously. Horror once in his shadow if it had to be the only eyewitness to the ridiculous death tragedy of a twelfth grader who had to die because of falling from the roof of the wall and increasingly embarrassing, the, because in the background of his own negligence who came late to school and still forced to want to enter, although in an unusual way was not recommended for the sake of the safety of the soul and especially, for the golden reputation of their educational institutions.

“As far as you want to come or not, there is no harm if you do not come.”

“W-woah! You told me to climb this wall?! Do you think I'm a lizard demon like you?”

Reid evaporated wide. Obviously not at all interested, even to busy just give a little review of the analysis without evidence Leonna who calls it a stealth lizard. But a bit strange in Reid's eyes, if he did not see wrong, Leonna with a super face extinguished until both ears now even turned his eyes toward the ends of his footwear.

I don't know, what kind of thoughts are milling around behind a pile of golden strands of Leonna's hair and are so crazy, because Reid still had time to think that Leonna's behavior was adorable.

Reid suddenly took a long breath. His rationality was like being struck by lightning and increasingly abnormal when he realized his drowsiness suddenly disappeared without silence. “From and stick out your hands.”

“What?”

Leonna looked confused at Reid's long fingers and predicted, even two minutes later, Reid bent as much as possible so that Leonna would not have to breeze through to reach his fingers. But, Leonna just kept quiet. Freezing like a mannequin behind a row of clear glass fashion stores.

“Three, two, sat-..”

“Good, but... WAHH! J-my heart.”

Both of Leonna's blue eyes widened in horror. His throat hurt after screaming a few seconds ago, because who could have thought, in just one pull and he was already on the wall, next to Reid with cold fingers tucked between the coarse epidermal layers of Reid's major palm.

“Jump. Quick jump! What are you doing, hey! Are you deaf?!”

The deafening beat, the sensation of heat and electric shock in the bloodstream and the nerves of Leonna so noisy that it makes the focus dead-end and only realized after the word deaf out of the mouth as sharp as a razor Reid.

“E-eh? Me? Jump up? There's no way I..”

Leonna shook her head reluctantly with both arms tightly hugging her smooth, hairless legs while drowning her half-face groggy behind a slightly sticky kneecap of sweat from the scorching sun rising in the air the sky was clean with no dark fog and only slightly decorated with wisps of thin white clouds here and there.

“Quick! I'll catch you!”

Reid positioned his arm, preparing to capture Leonna. Both of Reid's black eyes looked steadily at Leonna's nervous blue irises and after several breaths of interest, Leonna with as little courage as a anchovy jumped up and yup! Leonna smoothly, managed to land into the catch of Reid that could not be refuted, so romantic ala-ala the sling of the newlyweds.

The real silence that had shrouded the sanity of the two young people quickly collapsed, shortly after Leonna muttered very slowly and somewhat funny, because the earlobes to the nape of the two immediately reddened. Even Reid involuntarily lowered his haste and was quite rude to Leonna's body.

Lucky Leonna is the same, so she also does not comment as much as before and even still able to say a piece of gratitude. Although when Leonna looked up to glance at Reid's charming face, she immediately had to smile blandly, finding Reid's back long out of sight.

But because Leonna does not know how to, even though she has now successfully climbed the back area of the Stuyvesant High School building, inevitably Leonna also ran around small chasing Reid's long steps. It was about five seven minutes and Leonna had been less than two yards behind Reid. His breath was a bit stingy and after passing through many turns as well as small large passages, both Leonna's eyes were oddly rounded.

“Hm, isn't this the way to.. cafeteria?”

“Oh, Reid!”

A woman in the four-head age phase with a mole or it could be said to be more similar to a wart on the left side near her bangir nose line exclaims Reid's name. The activity of his fatty fingers wiping the surface of the cashier table also stopped and immediately ruffled his waist while staring ferociously at the towering high figure who immediately stood four and a half tiles in front of him.

“Again, Bu Wira.”

“You're Reid, late habits continue. Must not be breakfast again, right? Yeah, I went in first, but um! Tumben you brought a girlfriend! Plus, your taste really is Reid... Where did you get this beautiful girl? Hm? What is his name, tell mom.”

Madam Wira, madam cafeteria guard smiling mesem-mesem. Both of his old neutrals even left only a long curved line decorated with wrinkles signs of aging around the corners of his eyes. Leonna flashed a clumsy smile back, another with Reid rolling his lazy eyeballs.

“Come, tell mom. What is the name of this beautiful girl, hm?”

“Leonna.”

“Not.”

Question marks printed simultaneously on the faces of Bu Wira and also Leonna. Reid as the subject of confusion they then exhaled a breath of puff and without courtesy stepped casually with fingers tucked cool pretentious in the pocket of pants past Bu Wira. “Not?”

“Not a girlfriend. He's a stranger.”

“Reid, you are talking! Wherever you may bring a stranger, my friend you never see. Already, admit it. This beautiful girl is your boyfriend, right?! Dare to lie again with mom. There might also be a girl who is not interested in your handsome face Reid. Yeah, right? What was your name, son?”

Missa suddenly grabbed a fingers as soft as Leonna's cotton and cheerfully stroked while rummaging around as if Leonna was a squishy toy or perhaps a living panda doll and her movements grew even more vigorous when Leonna with a bit of a broken answer to the curiosity of Bu Wira.

“L-Leonna, madam.”

“Kan, from the name alone is beautiful. You are Reid, if there is only one woman as beautiful as this son of Leonna, you will not refuse. Yeah, right? Oh, and call me Lady. Don't madam, it's weird in the ear.”

Leonna pulled quickly Miss Wira towards the cafeteria kitchen door. Reid inside with an expressionless face looked straight at the surface covered in olive green checkered tablecloth.

“Whatever, mom wants to say what. But correction, Reid will not want to be the same person even though only one species of female Homo sapiens on earth.”

“Your mouth huh, Reid?! What else is a homo sap-sopi, what is it called? Already want Leonna, you do not need to put into the heart of Reid's speech. The real prestige of Reid is and better, just keep your mouth busy with food. Son Leonna too and immediately go back to class. Worried mom, if suddenly there is a check and there are even students here.”

Bu Wira spoke at length and immediately left after receiving a flat nod response Reid also smiled at Leonna. The atmosphere of the room instantly became heavy and there was no need to go at length to explain the state of the two incarnate beings, perhaps, the angels in that previous life, they both ate in silence. So silent.

But I don't know why. Something from Reid's last sentence some time ago, instantly flashed and kept spinning in Leonna's head. ‘Ah, this stifling feeling, what is its name?’

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To be continue...

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