Catastrophe: Mysteries Part 2

Patrick left with Marissa. Nicholas is still inside my room writing something on my study. The pup is sitting in front of me looking up at me. I smiled at how adorable he is. I pick the piece of grapes and feed him. He eats it and that's adorable. The pup licks my fingers and I patted his head. Katherine walks at my back as she slowly rubbed herself against me and walked around me telling me that I am hers only.

"Don't be jealous Katherine," I told her and patter her.

"I had bought a collar for the wolf. What's his name?" he asked me. I looked at him who is facing my direction while sitting on my swivel chair.

"Ruin." I simply answer.

"Ruin? That's quite… unusual." He noted.

"Ruin will be going to help me destroy people who shouldn't be in this world," I told him with all my fierce. He was quite taken aback by what I said.

"Alright then, Ruin it is. Don't put yourself into danger again without me around." He stood and walk towards me. "I will be just here to protect you." He gently bent out and kissed my forehead. I felt an iciness sensation from his kiss as it crosses inside my veins like it is fixing my vitals. My eyes dilated and I feel fully energized. "Tomorrow, at four, you need to meet me at the gymnasium and please bring Ruin with you. He needs to walk outside." I just nod. "I am going outside the Academy to buy a few things. Do you have any requests?"

"Uhm, I wanted to go outside the Academy to visit someone." I kind of missed Mr. Sanders. I wanted to visit him.

"No. Not now." He said it more like a demand and stood. "Everyone is too busy and nobody can accompany you."

"I am not a child," I said it to tell him that. "Besides, I am on my own, since you're just my instructor. I can leave this academy anytime I wanted to." He looked offended on what I said.

"If you are going to leave this academy, where are you going to go? Those things that wanted to kill you are not humans. They are almost immortals and you can't fight them all."

So, he's concerned. I can't blame him for being concerned but at least he should be formal sometimes. I am his apprentice and he's my mentor. There should be a barrier and if possible no emotion attached. He also thinks that I am Adhiti. Patrick knows who I am because he can read minds and get into people's minds.

"I am fully aware of it, Mr. Gregory. Just so you know, I had survived many times from those things. If you still think that I was Adhiti, please don't get yourself involved." I said it calmly and clear and show my bored lazy eyes on him.

"I don't think that you are Adhiti, I think that you are Catastrophe if that's you. All I just think is that I am fully responsible for you. Don't think that I was attracted to you, though, I am." I was quite puzzled about what he said and get too puzzled when he kissed my forehead and leave me baffled.

If Ruin whimper and looked at me as he tilted his head, I won't get on what Nicholas did. He's attracted to Adhiti, not to Catastrophe. He needs to stop admiring Adhiti. That is going to break his job.

After taking a bath and feel fully relieved, I went to the study desk and noticed the list he gave to me. Feed Ruin milk even in Midnight. Wow, that's something about raising a pup. That's what I also did on raising Katherine. She will wake me up at midnight for her to drink milk.

I was about to settle my alarm on my smartwatch but it is already settled. He's something. So, he's been taking care of Ruin while I was asleep. Ruin wasn't sleeping. He's on my bed and kept on rolling and biting on the covers. Katherine was sleeping on the couch. That lazy fat cat.

I open the door and peek outside my door. The corridors are clear so I pick Ruin and closes the door behind me. I covered him around my jacket and walk outside the dormitory. At this moment there might be some professors or securities walking around to check on a few things. Ruin whimpers so I hushed him. He kept quiet until we are outside the dormitory building.

I sigh as the chilly wind blows on my face, brushing my hair like it's playing on me. I smiled at the thought that even the wind is communicating with me. I put down Ruin and he runs around. Good thing that there is a light post near the apple tree where I used to stay sleep, sit, and study and hang out.

"Come, Ruin!" I called the pup but it didn't come. "Ruin, your name is Ruin," I told the pup. He runs to me and scratch on my jeans. I kneel and patter his silky hair. "You will be my guard, Ruin." The dog barks as a response. Sometimes, I think that I can get into an animal's mind. I lift my hand to get a piece of small branch and it flies to my palm. "Now, Ruin. You will learn a few basic on fetching." I throw the branch a little far. "Fetch," I told him. The dog sits in front of me as his tail is wiggling, looking at me quizzically with a tilt head. "Go, now. Get it." I told him. He whimpers and sneezed. "Come on, Ruin. Get it." The dog barks and ran towards the small branch and gets it. He runs back and puts it down in front of me. I patted his head and gave him a small puppy biscuit.

"It was too dark to train him here." I turn around to see Andrew whose hands are tucked inside his jacket. He's grinning from ear to ear with twinkling eyes. He pulls something out from his pocket and walked towards me. He put the bonnet on my head and push it a little deeper. "I miss you," he said.

"Really? Why?" I still asked though I know the answer.

"Because you looked like my baby sister." He answers.

"What if I tell you that she's already dead?"

"She died for a reason, two years ago. I am still searching for the mastermind though. I still live in that year."

"Why didn't you moved on?" I kneel and pick my pup.

"My half died two years ago. There's no reason to move on. But still, I have a reason to move forward. I had been in love before and after she's gone. I take that reason to move forward."

"You are still in love with the Head Mistress? I heard that you dated her before she became the head."

"Yes. We dated a lot and make out a lot. My sister caught me three times, in my room with her." He laughed a little thinking about those memories, his smile faded. "Because of my grieve, I forget being in love. I don't know why. Love never forgets. The thing that I don't understand is, why I stop loving her and why I stop being in love."

"Is that a question?" I asked him. "I know nothing about love. I am Catastrophe and all I do is to destroy and make disastrous things." I told him to stop being dramatic in front of me. He laughed at me as if I just said a joke. But it wasn't a joke, I was serious at my words.

"Yeah, right. Do you know why Catastrophe only wanted is to destroy and break things? Because she hates things around her. And that hate is love before." He got a point, but I stay emotionless. "People won't feel hatred if they never get heartbroken because of love."

"If you say so," I said with shrug.

"I understand that you grow up with an aspie. How did he manage to raise a normal person?"

"Because he's a natural genius. He's lack of empathy but he knows how to take care of a child because of his mother who advised him to adopt me."

"His mother seemed lovable."

"Of course, though I was raised by a person who has Asperger's syndrome, I was also surrounded by lovable people. However, I never get used to them."

He nods like he fully understands me. I sat down the grass and put down Ruin. He runs around and started gnawing on small wood. Andrew sat beside me as our arms are touching each other.

"You said you were allergic to cats and dogs."

"I was," I said as a lie and too cool so that I wouldn't be caught and in the hot seat. "George was allergic to cats and dogs, I was too so instead he bought me an aquarium with three golden fishes. After I had discovered that I make a fire on my hands, I had adopted things around me."

"That's good to know." He agreed. I know that he already knew the truth. He's just denying the truth to protect me. "I started to think that you are my baby sister's twin or doppelganger. I just wished that you are her identical than being her doppelganger."

"Why would you think of that? Does Adhiti has a twin sister?"

"There are things that stay as a mystery in our family. There might be an incident that you are my sister's twin. You know, like telenovela… something… chu-chu…" he mumbles. I don't get him. He can't explain it clearly.

"What?" I asked. He sighed and rolled his eyes.

"Oh, forget it." I did forget it. So, we stay silent for a moment while watching Ruin playing.

"Are you still dating the Head Mistress? Last time, I saw was she's seducing you."

"That's not the right question, C."

"Then, what's the right question?"

"I and she are finished. She dumped me a year ago because I lack presence."

I am unaware of raising my left eyebrow with a surprised look. It doesn't seem that Leona dumped him. Because last time I check she looks like seducing him. Or worse, wanted to rip off his clothes and fuck him on the table in front of the students. I shook the idea, but it is what it seemed like.