Chapter 7

*Clunk Clunk*

Siana froze as she heard the sound of heels coming toward her. Her heart stopped beating for a second; all she focused on was that sound. 

Closing her eyes tightly, Siana hoped that it would be Verona who’d be standing behind her. She calmed down her panic for she didn’t want to look so bad if she met her again. Wiping the invisible tears off her face, she was ready to turn around. A new hope took over her heart as she felt like Verona was near and she would meet her now. 

Siana turned around slowly, a suppressed smile on her face as she hid her excitement from her lover who was apparently walking towards her. 

“Oh I finally found you!” Siana’s heart dropped immediately as she heard that voice. She tried her best to keep a neutral expression on her face cause she didn’t want this person to know any of her secrets. 

“What is she even doing here?” Siana thought to herself as she clenched her fists tightly. 

Forcing a smile on her face, Siana finally turned around to face that person, and there she was. Chloe Adams was walking towards her with a bright smile on her face like always. She was dressed nicely like always and had changed her clothes since that morning cause of the coffee that was spilled all over them. 

Her blonde hair was tied in a ponytail, swinging around with every step she took. The 4-inch heels echoed in the quiet library but no one dared questioned her about it. 

It was surprising to see that there was no one around her. Otherwise, Miss Chloe was always surrounded by admirers and people trying to get in her good books. Being the most popular girl wasn’t easy indeed and she too had her own secrets to it. 

Siana bit her lip as she watched her walk towards her. But before Chloe could see properly, that expression was turned into a bright smile again. 

Chloe walked up to her and held her hand as she bowed forward to catch her breath. It seemed as if she had been running around trying to find Siana for quite some time. 

Siana looked at her with a confused expression. She didn’t like anyone touching her and Chloe knew that very well but still, she was holding her hand. She slowly tried to break away from her grip but that just made her tighten the grip around her wrist. This wasn’t like her at all and usually, when Chloe wanted to meet her, she always messaged her. 

Miss perfect Chloe never ran around looking for someone like that and never even held her best friend’s hand. 

“C…Chloe…” Siana whispered slowly as she tried to pull her hand away but Chloe seemed to have too much strength for some reason.

“Gosh! I’ve been looking for you for so freaking long! I came to the library before as well but I couldn’t find you at all…” 

Chloe finally looked up and was surprised to see Siana staring at her with a blank expression. 

“W…what is that?” Siana thought to herself as she tilted her head slowly. “Are her eyes glowing amber?” 

Siana blinked once because she couldn’t believe her eyes but still it was the same. Chloe’s usual brown eyes were glowing Amber for some reason. Siana didn’t say anything and just kept staring cause she couldn’t quite grasp what was happening. There seemed to be too many questions on her mind. 

“What happened?” Chloe snapped her finger in front of Siana and she finally broke eye contact with her. She noticed that the more Chloe blinked the more faded the glow in her eyes got and they soon returned back to normal. 

No matter how confused or taken aback she was, Siana didn’t dare ask any questions from Chloe. She didn’t feel like she’d be getting any honest answers. 

Ever since they had met, Siana had always had a feeling that Chloe was never as sweet as she appeared to be. She had always sensed bad energy from her. Chloe tried her best to know her but it never seemed like she was truly interested but was just pretending to be so…maybe for sake of Alex. 

Siana therefore, never truly believed her and didn’t get too close to her. She knew very well though that Alex loved her a lot and therefore, she never told him anything. She was happy for him and she also liked being free and by herself so she liked how things were. She was finally away from the overprotective and controlling Alex and she liked it. 

“Oh- nothing!” Siana put on a bright smile on her face again. “I’m sorry I just zoned out for a second…” She shrugged her shoulders as she looked at her innocently. 

Chloe sighed and let go of her hand immediately. She turned around and walked around a little to catch her breath. 

“Oh god…why is she so stupid!” Chloe thought to herself. “If only I didn’t have to deal with her…” 

There it was! The dark energy. The hateful and resentful feeling that Siana always got from her. Her expression changed and turned into a facade of happiness like they always did. 

“So…what are you doing here?” Siana asked her as she put her hands behind her back and walked close to her. 

“Oh-” That was all she got for a few seconds. Siana just stood there staring at the ground as Chloe tumbled on her words again and again. Just how hard was it to create a fake story? 

“I…um…I wanted to apologize to you for this morning…” Siana tilted her head again as she put on an innocent face. She was laughing on the inside cause she knew very well what the truth was. 

Sitting there on the ground, it wasn’t so hard to see Chloe’s smile while her friend was shouting at Siana. That expression of satisfaction when she saw Siana panicking and apologizing constantly and that feeling of pride as she acted like a good person and stopped her friend. They were all visible to Siana and she understood them all very well. 

“But it wasn’t even your fault, it was your friend who shouted at me…you even tried to stop her so you don’t have to apologize.” Siana said in a sweet voice as she caressed Chloe’s shoulder slowly. 

There! That suppressed smirk on Chloe’s face was clearly visible to Siana as she played along in her play of perfection. It amused her that she was pretending so much in front of everyone to just remain the popular girl that she had always been.

“I know…but still I wanted to let you know that I talked to that friend of mine and she won’t ever do anything like that again.” Chloe said as she caressed Siana’s hand lightly. 

Her grip on her wrist from earlier had surprisingly left a pretty bad mark behind but that was completely ignored by the two of them. 

“Well thank you for worrying for me so much, Chloe. It means a lot to me.” Siana got a sympathetic smile in return but the evil smirk behind it couldn’t be hidden from her. 

“I’m gonna go then, I have a lesson now…” Chloe looked at her with sorry eyes and left in no time. 

Siana’s eyes were fixed on her back till she disappeared. Her brain still trying to figure out why this person pretended to love her when she hated her so much. Was it cause of Alex? Or some other reason that she wasn’t aware of yet?

She was about to turn around and get her stuff to leave the library. Her hopes to meet Verona again were crushed cause she didn’t seem to be anywhere around her. And if she was, she chose to leave Siana behind and that ached her the most. 

“Hiss!” Siana felt a stinging pain in her wrist suddenly and when she looked down at it, her eyes widened in shock. She still had the finger marks left on it and they were turning purple and had swollen up. Siana couldn’t believe her eyes but at the same time, she could believe what had happened. She had always suspected Chloe of hiding something behind that facade of perfection.

“She hadn’t come to say sorry at all…” Siana thought to herself as she looked towards the door from where Chloe had left. Her wrists closed tightly as she tried to control her anger.