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"Are you alright, Scarlet?" Lei asked just as she caught Scarlet wandering off deep in thoughts for the 17th time and Scarlet shook her head.

"Yea, no, I'm fine," she reassured just as her mind wandered to what had happened That night at the library. After that night, It was as though Vance had snapped out of it and he went back to the full Ice Jade maiden mode, one that would seemingly never seem to break out in hot sweat on a hot balmy weather, cool and cold as ice. Scarlet struggled to push that mental image of Vance with his hair ruffled and his enraged mood out of her mind resolutely.

After that night, it was as though she had been the one who had violated him and he avoided her like the plague. Or he simply did not acknowledge her presence, which was fine...

Be strangers then! Strangers' good.

"So what happened at the library the other night?" Lei asked innocently and Scarlet nearly dropped her cup of tea. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Did you manage to see Sam?" Lei repeated her question. Realising that Lei wasn't referring to the incident, Scarlet shook her head, "I didn't manage to see him..."

"Strange, the two of you seem to always miss each other narrowly. But you do always seem to bump into my brother. Forgive him for assuming that you don't exist," Lei shuddered when she spoke of Vance, "I think he's going through an early mid-life crisis. You know, quite strangely, I think he's finally interested in girls. And to think I used to think he would swing the other team."

No shit, Scarlet thought, given the way he hounded her that night. There was no denying the fact that he was straight like a rod.

"Anyways, Sam left a note for you! I almost forgot, here!" Lei handed the note to Scarlet and she read it.

See me tonight, hidden library.

Scarlet crushed the note, what is up with that place? You'll have to go, of course, the system chimed dutifully. Scarlet sighed in her head, of course she she knew that. She only had barely a month to make things work with Sam in hopes that he'll drop the notion of destroying this world.

She would really like to have that HTHT with him.