~Chapter 8~

Thanks to the proper facility of the hospital, the boy was immediately carried away by the nursing staff, but it has been almost a day now ever since the girl saw her friend. She couldn't find him in his designated ward, his name plate hung in a lonely way at the end of the bed. A week passed and there hasn't been a day when she didn't visit him but every time she met with nothing but disappointment. Despite her loneliness without him, she was showing signs of improvement that made her designated doctors happy.

The following Monday Rio dreaded going to school. He hated that Sunday went along so quickly that it's already Monday and he have to drag himself out by force to attend school. Being in his senior year, he can't afford to miss any classes unless he's sick. Even if he calls in sick today, what tomorrow? Or the day after? Moreover, nobody saw his face he presumes, everybody were pretty conked out so he held on to this thin thread of hope that nobody would recognize him at all.

Now that he thinks of it, Rio stopped in his tracks, was he really out of his mind?????

Others were drunk but he was completely sober! So what came upon him to do that! His face burned as he continued to walk as the memory from last Saturday night played in his mind for the umpteenth time.

After they shut the door of the closet, the booming music was muffled quite a bit and so did the constant noise from the bunch of teenagers who were outside. The closet that they are at present, is a walk in closet that had some cleaning supplies and some aprons in there; probably a closet meant for the servants of this mansion. The closet was old so it had a bit of moldy smell coming from it, the door too is old and could not be shut fully since a ray of outside party's light slightly illuminated the closet. Emilia let go of Rio's hand that burned with the comfortable warmth which emanated from her hand.

"Take deep breaths, Rio." Emilia spoke in a soothing voice. Rio's heartbeat instantly calmed down and his nausea vanished without a trace. It's been a while since anyone has spoken to him in that way.

"I'm sorry." Emily blurted after some awkward moments. "I dragged you purposely to that game and forced you to play it, you...you see I always see you engaged in studies and minding your business, keeping to yourself so I thought that if you play with us maybe you'll smile....I mean—" Emilia blushed as she continued her rambling. Rio didn't know why if it was because of alcohol or the atmosphere but she really looked cute all flustered and rambling. So he couldn't help but lean forward.

The kiss lasted for barely two seconds before he pulled back wide eyed, realization settling on him that he kissed Daniel Fleabagh's girlfriend. He felt like sinking deep inside the ground in embarrassment. He lowered his cap even more. She whispered something which he couldn't catch at first so she repeated again; "Was that your first kiss?"

Still embarrassed he nodded. "S-sorry I just—"

"Rio." His cap was taken off suddenly exposing his entire face and he was commanded, "Open your mouth."

"Wha—"He was silenced by a pair of soft lips that tasted like cotton candy. He flinched when an unknown muscle invaded his mouth, which he recognised to be Emilia's tongue. There remained zero distance between them. Her entire body touched him in every places, he too followed his instincts and wrapped his arms around her, pulling her back a bit forcibly just as when she was about to pull back.

What started with an innocent peck from Rio and a searing short smooch of Emilia, turned out to be hot, passionate kiss from both the individuals as they ravenously devoured each other's mouth, fought tongue battles to dominate each other. It felt as if a sleeping beast of lust was awakened from slumber.

Both followed their own instincts and allowed their hands to explore their bodies.

They didn't know how much time had passed but a knock on the closet door brought both of them back to senses. The knock was followed by a playful jab along with some snickers; "Don't turn seven minutes in heaven into one hour now peeps~!"

Emilia responded in a steady voice that she could muster up in between pants; "We won't!"

Right after she finished her sentence, her voice died down once again amongst moans and pants. Reluctantly, Emilia forced Rio to pull back. They both panted like wild animals, hair askew, clothes disheveled, and irises still dazed. Her hands had long disappeared under his t shirt and his fingers still drawing sensual lines on her breasts over her bra, her one piece dress long been pooled around her waist.

"We should go out."

After that no words were exchanged between them as they fixed themselves before stepping out of the closet, nor did they look at each other when Emilia escorted him back to the streets where his delivery bike was parked.

No further communication was exchanged between them on Sunday, not that any of them had each other's number.

Today is Monday and Rio still wished for some kind of miraculous natural phenomena to occur with him so that it could prevent him from going to school.

He totally cannot face her.

He hurriedly proceeded into the hallways to fetch his books from the locker. He almost jumped out of his bones when someone slapped him on the back.

It turned out to be Luke.

"Yooo dude you totally missed a spectacle at RonCorr's party!"

"Oh? W-what is it?" Rio feigned innocence.

Luke settled on his homeroom seat and whispered at him; "Emilia Johnson finally broke up with Daniel!"

"What!" Rio was surprised.

"Yeah! Apparently she was dared to spend seven minutes in heaven with a random pizza guy and they totally did it! After she returned back Daniel almost punched her had RonCorr themselves didn't hold him back and then!" Luke relished the attentive face of Rio, it's been a while since he showed interest in these kind of gossips even though he's a great listener; "Then Emily dumped Daniel's sorry ass in front of everyone!"

"And then—" Luke was about to say more but upon the arrival of Mrs. Okum he shut his mouth and went to his newly assigned seat.

Rio felt guilty of him being the reason of Emilia and Daniel's breakup. He should've strongly refused to do such ridiculous dare. Heck he would've protested but he doesn't know what happened with him that night!

His guilty thoughts were interrupted by a familiar musk whose owner sat beside him. It was none other than Emilia. Once again she never made any eye contact with him but attended the class diligently making Rio somewhat relived and hurt at her normalcy. Only one thought came to his mind as she exited the class after it was dismissed.

Did she forget about us?