Manipulation

Today in the first lesson, Clare entered philosophy class with Gavin. They sat in the middle row and looked at the table filled with learning materials.

Professor Mike was just about to explain some material first, suddenly someone just came and sat to the left of Clare who was still empty. Prof. Mike looks annoyed with the reckless girl, he goes to Clare's table where there is a girl who irritates him.

"Students are prohibited from entering when class has started, have you forgotten the Academy rules?" reprimanded Professor Mike.

She glanced at his watch briefly, "Lesson starts at 9, I'm on time. Still 2 minutes before class starts from now on."

Prof. Mike frowned as did the other students including Clare. Clare glanced at her watch which turned out to be correct, she remembered it was past 9 but why back now? Prof. Mike opened his cellphone to find out the truth as well as the others and it turned out that what the girl said was true.

"I'm not wrong?" She said raising an eyebrow.

Prof. Mike shook his head slowly couldn't believe what just happened. How could it be that time suddenly retreated, especially since he didn't feel like someone was doing magic.

Clare glanced at the girl next to her who just smirked, she was sure this was her doing, but how?

The girl turned to Clare. "What's wrong? Can't believe it?" she said looking deeply at Clare.

Clare turned her face back to focus on the lesson, she felt the girl next to her watching her carefully as if something was wrong with Clare. Clare turned back and looked at her questioningly.

"What?" Clare asked and she just shook her head and returned to her original look.

The girl looked away before Clare turned her head back to focus on the lesson this time.

Class was over, Clare packed up some of the things she had just used back in its place, just as she was about to leave class someone tapped her on the shoulder. Clare looked back to see that it was the girl who had just pushed back time.

"Clare Davish?" she said.

"Ya?" said Clare as if to ask 'what's wrong?'

"I heard a lot about you, the non-aristocrat kid who entered the noble's dormitory and..."

"There's no need to continue, I don't know how that happened myself." Clare shrugged her shoulders.

She chuckled. "Ah, maybe it's because you're different from the others so..."

"Different?" Clare grew even more confused.

She blinked slightly stiffly. "Forget it, pardon my reckless speech."

Clare was stunned for a moment and realized something. "I've never seen you before, did you change classes?"

She shook his head quickly and laughed. "Absolutely not, I just entered the Academy today. It's only natural that I'm so late."

"Just logged in? Doesn't the Academy accept new students other than the new school year?" Clare wondered.

She sighed and smiled sadly as she walked. "My experience was very bad. First I fell asleep on the train until I got back to the subway, the driver refused to take me to the Academy so I went home until the orientation period was over. I went back to the subway but the driver still refused me, so I went to the Academy by car alone. Who would have thought that in the middle of the road I got lost for days and only arrived last night. "

"Get lost...." Clare muttered imagining herself if Gavin didn't wake her.

She continues emotionally. "Unfortunately, I lost a lot of points and barely received. The head of the academy said I should have entered the 1st class dormitory, but because of my mistake I could have entered the 5th class dorm if there was one."

Clare smiled sadly. "If you're not late, we're in the same dorm. But whatever the dormitory, the room is the same, only the gathering is different."

"Is it true? I think 1st class dorms get VIP like 5 star hotels, individual rooms and bigger." she's exaggerating.

Clare laughed. "I've been around and it's all the same. No need to worry about points, you just need to fix them."

"How?" she looked at Clare hoping she could help her.

Clare scratched the nape of the neck that didn't itch, confused about what to do. "Maybe you should just ask the Head of the Academy."

She chuckles. "The head of the Academy is so annoying. I don't want to face him anymore, I just forgot his name."

"Just met you last night, forgot about it."

"I always forget what I don't want to remember and I hate." she spoke casually.

"Well," Clare reads the name tag on the suit. "Zoya Barker—"

She interrupts. "Zoey alone, Zoey is more comfortable than Zoya."

"Zoey, which class are you going to next?"

"Divination, I love divination. I want to know what my future will be, I want to know who my future soul mate will be so I can rest easy. You alone?"

"Biology" short Clare.

Her face turned sour. "Ah, boring. Honestly, I have a phobia of blood. I'm too innocent for things that smell like biology."

Clare doesn't understand how she thinks, Zoya goes to Philosophy but doesn't like biology. Though the two lessons are slightly different.

They continued to walk towards their respective classes which happened to be in the same direction. The two of them, as fellow women, could not just stay silent during the trip. Along the way, they talked to each other a lot without stopping.

"Clare!" someone called making them both stop in their tracks and look back. Apparently Gavin called him while running towards Clare. "You were here so fast."

"What's wrong?" Clare asked.

"Did you forget we're in the same class? We walk together." he said then glanced at Zoya.

"Zoya, just call me Zoey." Zoya extends her hand with a teasing smile, either Zoya is attracted to Gavin or that's the way it is.

Gavin shook hands with her and briefly introduced her by name. "Gavin."

Zoya continued to stare deeply at Gavin, just like when she first looked at Clare who knows what she was doing. Then their handshake fell off but Clare still felt something was wrong.

"Zoey, we're in one direction right?" Gavin said getting Zoya's nod and instead walked away leaving Clare who looked like an idiot.

Clare shook her head slowly not believing what she was seeing. She sighed and walked at the same pace as those who seemed easy to get along with, suddenly Clare was forgotten.

Suddenly, someone grabbed Clare's hand until she almost fell over. The noise made Zoya and Gavin turn towards him and see the figure of the man who always gets into trouble with Clare, Louis.

"I thought you were dead." Louis looked irritated. Shouldn't it be Clare who was annoyed?

"In fact I want you to die quickly." Clare snapped trying to release his grip but to no avail.

Louis snorted. "You stingy child, yesterday's crop you only took 2, not 3."

Clare rolled her eyes in disgust at Louis' words. "Only one less what's wrong? I almost died trapped there without Jules"

"Jules the damn kid, so you guys? No wonder you look braver." Louis sneered at him.

"You...." Clare raised her hand intending to hit Louis but she refused and lowered her hand again, "If you want me to go there again I won't do it."

"Why would I ask a useless person?" Louis muttered.

"You.... " again Clare is about to hit him but Zoya immediately holds her hand.

"It's a shame to waste it." Zoya then stood in front of Louis releasing Louis' grip on Clare and looking at her intently. "Zoya ... Zoey, just call that."

Louis smirked at Zoya's strange behavior. "I have nothing to do with you." Louis said flatly making Zoya narrow her eyes and then looked at her straight like that made Clare even more confused.

Suddenly Louis's initially sharp gaze calmed down making Zoya smile. "Kau senior Louis? Boleh pandu aku keliling Academy, aku baru disini."

Clare initially thought that Louis would argue with it. But unexpectedly, suddenly Louis nodded in agreement who knows what actually happened. Clare shuddered in horror, Zoya looks like a typical fuckgirl

The three of them walk together except for Clare who is forgotten. Grateful that Clare is still normal unlike the 2 youngmen who walk with Zoya. Clare jogged ahead of them making Zoya giggle at Clare like an idiot who was left behind.

Because Clare was running without paying attention to the road in annoyance, she bumped into someone and nearly fell over. Luckily Clare's balance was good or she would have fallen unaesthetically.

Clare's eyes widened when she saw the mysterious young man in front of her who had saved her from the secret room of Louis' trap. Clare gulped down her saliva and slowly avoided the intimidating stare and looked down and walked in the opposite direction without saying anything.

Clare's steps stopped when she again felt something odd. He glanced behind him where there was Zoya whose eyes lit up at the boy who was supposedly named Luke. Zoya approached Luke who was still expressionless. Clare looked at it carefully, Zoya seemed to want to hypnotize Luke like the two men behind Zoya but it seems Luke still has a flat expression like before, even more than flat.

"Can I get to know you?" Zoya said, who started the action. Instead of being answered by Luke, he got a super sharp look that made Zoya frown..

Luke walked ignoring Zoya and hit Zoya's shoulder almost toppling over. Zoya looked at Luke's back in both annoyance and disbelief, while Clare, who desperately wanted to laugh out loud.

Zoya's expression looks disappointed. Instantly the two youngmen behind Zoya returned to normal and looked confused. Clare is sure Zoya hypnotized everyone except Luke because she couldn't. Clare? Maybe Zoya can't hypnotize her like Blaire can't see when Clare will die.

Louis left them while Zoya and Gavin both approached Clare.

"What's wrong?" Gavin scolded seeing Clare holding back a laugh.

"I should be the one asking, why are you guys? Suddenly acting weird as if hypnotized." Clare almost laughed again.

Gavin shakes his head looking confused while Zoya remains with a disappointed expression not getting a more attractive young man

Clare glanced at her watch. "Class is about to start, we have to hurry." said Clare Gavin nodded and started walking. Clare immediately pulled Zoya who was too slow to go to class.

Today's class was so tiring. After passing the last class of Dark arts, Clare and Blaire went to the library where Zoya was reading a book on a flying chair. Zoya noticed Clare's presence, she shouted at Clare and waved her hands making Clare and Blaire frown at the behavior of this one child.

"Who dis?" asked Blaire.

"Zoey, looks like she can be hypnotized. But this morning she hypnotized a lot of people." Clare said remembering what happened this morning.

Hearing that, Blaire sighed as she shook her head slowly. Then he went through the bookshelves with Clare. Zoya who saw it, immediately landed the flying chair and went from there to meet Clare.

"Apparently you like books." said Clare before Zoya scolded her first.

"Love poison, I want to make a potion that is more potent than hypnosis."

"You can be hypnotized, if you use it excessively you can get into trouble," said Clare.

Zoya chuckles. "Not too much, just for fun. It's rare to have a high level of hypnosis like me."

"High level, but can't hypnotize Luke, it's useless." Clare snickered.

Zoya lowers her lips remembering just now, that's what made her want to make potions. "I will make this potion, you will be my guinea pig."

"Me?"

"Who else? Only you and Luke I can't hypnotize." Zoya responds innocently.

"Why not just try it on another kid? Or the professor? I don't want to be a victim," said Clare.

Zoya hissed. "Come on...."

"Nope," said Clare who already got the book then went to the reading table where Blaire already had it.

Zoya followed him until he sat next to Clare and kept on seducing her to be a guinea pig. After all, who wants to be a guinea pig for nothing? Zoya is stingy!

"Clare...would ya~~" Zoya cooed making her ears heat up.

Blaire glanced at Clare and frowned wondering what the problem was. Then he glanced at Blaire and their eyes met. Again Clare felt that Zoya would do the same to Blaire but on the other hand Clare also felt that Blaire saw something that Zoya didn't want to see in her.