Chapter 15 : Forgiveness

I turned to the voice and frowned at the sight.

"What do you want Matteo..." I locked up the door and walked down the path with Matteo following closely behind.

"I just wanted to say sorry about the yesterday...I didn't mean anything weird." I ignored him, not knowing whether if I should forgive him or not. My brain is telling me to forgive him but my heart somehow says the opposite.

"Clover are you mad at me?"

"Clover don't ignore me, I'm really sorry..."

"Clover-" I stopped walking and turned to face him.

"Will you stop following me and just get to school." I told him, trying to get him off my tail but I could feel Matteo still following me even if I can't hear his footsteps.

I ignored him, pretending that he wasn't there. I went into the mart getting myself the same things, also getting a chocolate milkshake for Matteo.

I guess let's just try to forgive him, I don't think he means any harm...and I think he'll stop asking me for forgiveness.

"Ah Clover! Your getting sweets again!"

"Yes I am auntie May, I just can't help it you know~" I chuckled.

"A milkshake? Is it for that young man outside there, is he your boyfriend?"

"Ahaha, no his not my boyfriend, his just a classmate friend to me." I laughed, how did she notice him...but anyways his still no match for Zeke, hmph.

"Have a good day at school Clover, remember to stay safe!"

"Thank you and I will, bye~" I waved to auntie May before exiting the mart. I took out the milkshake and handed it to Matteo, without looking at him.

"Here...take it." He looked at me, confused but still took the milkshake I offered.

"What's this for?"

"Just trying to be friendly..."

"Does that mean you forgive me?" I glanced at him, rolling my eyes.

"Fine...but if things like that happens again, I won't be nice." I gave him a warning, showing my fist up at him.

"Thank you Clover!" Matteo tried to give me a hug but I dodged it and continued walking to school.

We both continued to make our way to school, when we reached the schools gate, I could see Millie waiting while looking down at her phone.

"Boo!"

"Ah! Clover!" I laughed at Millies sudden reaction as she turned around, looking at me with a shocked face.

"That scared me! What if I had a heart attack and faint here?!"

"I can call Kevin over to give you CPR." I cheekily said, making Millie shut her mouth and look at me.

"Well nevermind that...what happened yesterday? You just ran off." Millie asked, looking at me with curiosity.

"Oh I just remembered that I needed to rush home to do something, that's why." I said, don't know why I'm covering up for Matteo but I want to give him a chance.

If Millie knew, she'd tear him down into pieces...not sparing him one chance.

"Oh okay...well, wanna hangout after school at the mall? I heard they opened up a new ice cream store." Ice cream store? I looked at Millie with excited eyes.

"Oh oh sure!"

"If you don't mind, Kevin will come too."

"That's fine with me!" I don't care who comes, I just wanna see the new ice cream store. How long has it been since I've last eaten ice cream?

"Can I tag along?" Millie and I turned to Matteo. I stared at him with suspicion in me, he doesn't plan on doing something bad to me, does he.

"Sure I guess..." Millie looked at me and I just nodded. Why not, if he does anything to me, I definitely will give him my fist...and maybe I should invite Zeke along too!

"Let's get going to class, my homeroom teacher asked me to come early for some class clean up duties..." Millie frowned as she fake cried.

"At least your helping out your class."

"Never knew you would be kind to help-" Matteo exclaimed, making Millie look at him with a deadly smile of hers.

"What did you say..." I could sense the fire coming out of her head that was burning, like a volcano that is gonna erupt soon.

I covered Matteo's mouth, preventing him from angering Millie further.

"Ahahah. Don't mind him, his just talking nonsense Millie. Let's get to class." I used my eyes to signal for him to shut up and just walk to class. After a while, I pulled my hand away from his mouth and followed Millie into school.

"Are you not coming?" Matteo seemed to be in a daze as he was smiling to himself. He caught up to us and we headed into our classes.

"I feel like I should put a tape over your mouth next time. So that you won't talk nonsense..." I joked, rolling my eyes at Matteo. I went over to my seat and sat down, turning to look at Zeke, who was lying down on the table, facing the window..

"Hey, thank you for the sandwich~" I whispered lowly to him, smiling brightly but he didn't budge. I layed my head down onto the table and faced him, reaching out my hand and ruffled his hair.

"Wanna hangout after school?"

"No..." I pouted as he replied.

"Why not~ there's a new ice cream store opened at the mall~!"

"No, I hate ice creams."

"Okay then..." I stopped playing with his hair and sat upright. Great, he isn't coming, what fun will there be...I hugged my bag and stared into space when I felt a sudden tug on my hair.

"What is it." I frowned, turning back to look at Matteo who was just giving me a big smile, from ear to ear.

"I just wanted to talk to you~ I'm bored."

"Then read a book or use your phone for music?" I suggested but it seems like he didn't like that.

"I'll treat you later after school at the new ice cream store!" Matteo switched topics, exclaiming with excitement. Hearing that he will treat me, I could not help but nodded my head in happiness.

"Okay!" I chuckled and turned back my focus to the front, hearing the door of the classroom opened and our homeroom teacher came in. We started our morning lessons after our homeroom teacher called out for attendance.

"Great it's math..." I sighed, placing my head on the table without any care, whether if our math teacher had entered the class or not.

Minutes later, I felt something laying softly on my head. I took the paper with annoyance shown on my face. I clutched the paper in my hand, internally crying as it was a bunch of math questions.

"Why...why is there math in this world..." I glanced over at Zeke with my eyes that went wide after seeing that he started doing the math questions.

I looked down at the paper, taking my pen and tried to attempt the questions.

♡ Several minutes later ♡

I looked at the last question and my mind went blank. What in the math is this, I held my pen as i stared, I forgot how to do this kind of open ended math questions...

"Hey Zeke, do you mind if you can teach me how to do this question...?" I sought Zeke for help since he has been always good at maths.

He looked at me, taking the paper from my hands and started teaching me how to do it, I listened attentively, not wanting to miss out any information.

"Ahhh~ I get it now, thank you Zeke!" I took my paper back from him and started doing the last question with ease.

I let out a groan after I was finally done with math, really math isn't my cup of tea...I'd rather have english instead.

I secretly took out a lollipop from my bag and put it into my mouth. Ahhh, this is nice~ I know we aren't suppose to eat in class but just this once, I'll do it. I relaxed a little and waited for the lesson to end.