“Thank you Luna,” whispers Parker, but I just nod my head in response without looking away from the monitor, needing to break the hold he had over me.
I need to lie down. There must be something in the water here. Fucking with me.
Well it can fuck right off, thank you very much.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
(Luna)
Time is finally called as the bell rings. I finished fifteen minutes ago, but I chose to stare at the monitor to avoid making eye contact with either of my table buddies.
I feel like I don’t know anything about myself at the moment, my mind and body are doing things completely out of character, and I’m drained trying to figure myself out.
At least I made it through the assessment. It was based on knowledge, from data input to coding and understanding gadgets. Iconsidered my skill level with tech and decided I wanted to downplay my abilities, choosing to get a few questions wrong or just leaving them blank on purpose. Seeing as the Head is after me I need to hold my cards as close to my chest as possible.
Grabbing my bag, I’m up and making my way across the room as quickly as possible, when I hear Parker.
“Luna, wait up,” he calls, but I carry on.
He’s messed with my brain enough for today. I head straight for my locker, making quick work of the finger recognition, and grabbing my suitcase. I climb into the lift with a few others, praying for it to start moving. With my current luck the doors are stopped by Parker, who is closely followed by Kai and who I believe to be Roman.
This is why I should always take the stairs.
Roman wasn’t in our class so why is he even up here?
“Hey, I was calling you,” says Parker, standing closer to me, making me look up to meet his eyes.
I don’t know what he wants me to say so I continue to stare, but I don’t need to say anything anyway.
“Everybody out,” shouts Roman.
Yes please, I make to get around Parker but I’m all out of luck.
“Not you Princess.” Roman says, stretching his arm out in front of me.
For fucks sake, I sigh but stay where I am. When everybody gets out it leaves me with Parker, Roman and Kai in the elevator. Roman waits until the doors shut and we’re moving before he suddenly smacks the stop button.
What the hell?
“So, who wants to catch me up to speed?” asks Roman.
The three of us just look around at each other. Not knowing what he wants, nobody says anything. He shakes his head at us and sighs heavily.
“Okay, I’ll be more specific. Parker, you wanna tell me why you’re chasing this girl down in front of everyone, when I specifically told you to stay away from her? We know nothing about this bitch Parker ...”
Parker's back straightens and his jaw tightens.
“That’s enough Roman,” he growls, his hands clenched at his side.
I’m stunned, like jaw on the floor, I didn’t think he had a growl in him.
Glancing around the elevator it seems I’m not the only one surprised by his outburst.
“The fuck Parker?” fumes Roman, but Parker doesn’t back down.
If anything, he’s moved slightly to block me from Roman’s view. This is getting out of hand and it's only going to get worse if I don’t calm the situation down.
I gently place my hand on Parker's arm to gain his attention.
“Hey, it’s okay. Don’t argue with your friends, he’s just trying to protect you, alright?” I calmly say, because as rude as Roman is, that’s what he’s trying to do, and I get it with Parker, and I barely know him.
I get the pull to want to protect him, even though it seems he doesn’t need it, so as much as Roman is a dick towards me I can’t fault his protective nature.
“No Luna, you don’t get it.”
He quickly glances my way before returning his stare to Roman.
“I had an episode, a bad one Roman, over the smallest of triggers, and Luna ... She helped me climb back out of the black hole okay? So, I get that you don’t know her, but I know enough, and you will not use your crude language towards her.” He grits through his teeth.
Crude language? Who is this guy?
Everyone seems frozen, I don’t think it’s my place to say anything just yet, so I take in the others. Roman looks like his brain is trying to process what Parker just said and Kai is looking up at the ceiling as if he’d rather be anywhere but here, me and you both buddy.
“It’s true Rome. We’ve been assigned seating together and I hadn’t even noticed anything was wrong until I caught sight of Luna leaning towards Parker.” Kai offers, pausing to look me over, before continuing to Roman.
“It was bad Rome, his leg was bouncing, his face was blotchy and he wasn’t responsive. I was trying to figure out how to intervene without drawing attention, but before I could do anything she had the color back in his eyes, and within minutes he was talking. Then just like that he carried on like nothing had happened,” he breathes out.
This has Parker nodding and Roman drilling holes into my head like whatever he wants to know will just pop out, sadly that wasn’t going to happen. He must decide that I’m not a current threat because he presses a button on the panel and we’re moving again. He steps closer to Parker and they talk quietly. As soon as we come to a stop and the doors open I’m out of there without a backwards glance.
I spot Red waving at me like a lunatic, and race over to her.
“Hey bestie, how was your first class?” she asks.
“It was fine Red, drama as always though. So, let’s get over to Business so I can avoid everyone.” I say, pulling
