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Days passed by with me and Hora just lazing around like Snorlax at the Ma residence. There wasn't much to do except to read, write, or try to learn their language. We're attending an international school so everyone knew how to speak in English but still, it wouldn't hurt to learn the language. Aside from that, we mostly laze around—eating, sleeping, listening to music, playing games, wandering around the house, or hanging out with the twins.

On some days, Crystal would invite us to go outside to shop for clothes, shoes, or accessories, and on some days, Kaiden would take us to interesting tourist spots. Honestly, I preferred Kaiden's choice of places—I don't really enjoy walking nonstop and buying things I didn't need much. It seems I still had my thrifty self intact within me. I just couldn't leisurely waste money even if I had plenty of allowance to use. Oh well, it's better this way. I might need it in the future. At least I'd have a few savings in case of emergency.

And so, days turned to weeks. Finally, it's our first day as college students!

I woke up early as usual since I was so excited to attend the most prestigious school in the eastern continent—Red Dragon International University! RDIU! I was so excited to learn lots of things about writing, and literature, and everything related to it.

My mouth was fixed into a smile the entire time I was preparing. I made sure everything I needed was in my bag, and made sure to dress properly. My fashion sense was mostly influenced by the modern world I was in during my past life but I made sure that I would at least blend in. We didn't have any uniforms so the students were free to dress the way they wanted to.

It was the year 2010, just the time where knee-length dresses or skirts got popular in contrast to previous year's denim pants that grew fitted as years went by. I chose to wear a white collared black dress with chiffon sleeves—something mom designed for me. Actually, my whole wardrobe was filled with clothes made by her. I paired it with a black belt with silver metal designs at the middle. The cuffs were white, with black and silver buttons, same with the buttons from my neck to my chest area.

"Hmm… Nothing could go wrong with black, right?" I asked myself as I looked into the mirror. Suddenly, Hora popped up from my back which surprised me.

"Wow! That's a beautiful dress, Sena!" she gawked at my dress.

I chuckled and flipped my hair saying, "Well, you can thank mom for that."

"Auntie created that?"

"Uh-huh."

"I want to place an order, please—no, I'm begging you. I want one!"

"Ha-ha-ha-ha! I'll ask mom to make more for us. And Crystal, too. Do you think she'd like wearing unbranded clothes?"

"I think so? She looks good in everything to the point she can wear ridiculous clothes and others will still mistake it as fashion sense."

"Yeah, you're right. She's too gorgeous for her own good. I wonder if she has a boyfriend?"

Hora raised her eyebrows at me.

"Why?"

"I can use it as research! You know, like how couples are. The book I'm writing right now is a fantasy romance but obviously, I don't have experience in that area so I need to study it."

"Pft! Why don't you use your experience with Kaiden?"

My eyes widened. "W-what? I don't—" I felt my cheeks blush. Why do I easily blush these days?

"Yeah, yeah, if you say so."

"Well, actually… I already used him as a reference for my male lead named Elliot."

"For real? That's awesome! So does he have a grumpy personality and enjoys teasing your female lead, too?"

"What? N-no…"

I could see her smirk from my attempt to lie.

"A-anyway, let's just go to school."

Phew! I managed to dodge more interrogations.

And so, we had our breakfast with the twins—Mr. And Mrs. Ma would often be busy or in some other country so they seldom joined us for meals. After that, we rode Kaiden's car which was a dark purple "Lamborghini Gallardo GT 600", as he explained to us when I asked him before what kind of car it was due to my lack of knowledge. All cars looked the same to me for some reason, and only their color made me distinguish which was which.

Looking at it, I remembered how it was originally white in color but ever since Kaiden learned of the fact about my alarming car-retention abilities from Hora, he decided to change its color to dark purple like his hair so I wouldn't have problems locating it in the midst of any car parking spaces. We couldn't afford myself to get inside someone else's car, right? It would be both dangerous and embarrassing.

I said my dozen apologies to him that time. Still, I could have just taken a picture and compared, but he insisted it was easier and faster that way. He never really cared about colors. At least, that's what he said.

After reminiscing about another shameful memory of mine, we went on our way to the school. Kaiden drove for us and for some reason, I sat beside him—yes, beside the driver's seat. Crystal was supposed to sit there but she pushed me to go instead, much to my surprise. I peeked at Kaiden's reaction and he seemed fine. Maybe I'm the only one thinking maliciously about it. It's not like sitting beside him meant anything anyway so I just shrugged it off.

It was a 20 minute ride from their mansion to RDIU. With just a few minutes, I could already see the buildings of the university we're going to attend. I felt nervous as we got nearer the school gate. Kaiden drove straight inside and onto the parking lot. I enjoyed looking at the falling leaves, and the long series of trees on our way to it.

At last, we arrived. I kept on smiling the whole time. I was so eager to get out that my bag fell on the car's floor and my books spilled out. Due to that, I was the last one to get off the car and Kaiden even opened the door for me. He's really such a gentleman. I smiled at him as I said my thanks when he opened the door for me.

When I finally got a look of my surroundings, instead of the beautiful view of the buildings, I was welcomed by a lot of stares from the sudden influx of people around us. Yes… suddenly, a huge crowd appeared before us! I felt myself blink multiple times in my surprise.

'Where did all these people come from?' I asked myself. 'Or were they all waiting for… Kaiden and Crystal?'