The morning sky was light grey, there was small a rain, it was like a cool breeze with tiny drops just big enough for your eyes to see it.
Beep.... Beep..... Beep
The sound of the alarm reach my ears.
Beep.... Beep..... Beep
- Go....away....
But, if I don't wake up, I'll be late for the entrance examination, and missing that will cause a lot of troubles.
Beep.... Beep.... Beep.....
-Yeah, I should just get rid of it.
Beep.... Beee-
".....Ah, I'll just get a shower...."
He picked his body up from the bed while thinking if that he should get a new alarm that was more friendly to the ears. Walked in to the bathroom to take a refreshing hot bath in the cold morning, brushed teeth and cleaned face, there was no need to try and fix the hair.
He looked in the mirror and saw the familiar brown eyes and dark brown hair, the same average looking face and the neat hair cut.
- As always, the same face.
After the bath and going back to his room to get dressed, he made a jam sandwich to eat and start prepearing for the university entrance examination, he prepared for the entire three weeks since they released the subject of the examination.
He wasn't the most inteligent or the worts student. He had a above average califications and acceptable apereance.
He was a common student.
A common studen who lives alone in the city and was lucky to win the lottery.
Yeah, he won the lottery.
It was a very weir thing, he was in the convinience store to buy some snacks for his study session at night and bought a ticket just to try, one of those you have to scratch and get seven symbols of the same type.
That day he went home to see if he was lucky and indeed, he was, seven beautiful seven's three times in a row.
He couldn't belive this was happening, he won five hundred thousand like that, it was fortunate you can scan the code hidden in a cornet of the ticked with your cellphone and the money was transfered to the account of your choise, it was possible for cases were the money was stolen, people kidnapped or coerced to hand over the money. So now no one appear in tv with a big check smiling, but even so, he choose to open a new account to hide the money from his grandfather and friends.
Wanting to go to the city and study, but although not poor, hi wasn't rich either, so he quietly got an apartment near the university for six hundred a month were he was currently living in, it was a seven floor building and his apartment was in the fourth floor, paid for five years in advance, and then moved right away, thirty six thousand disappeared just like that.
He told his old man that he got a schoolarship, of course he didn't believe it at first but with the apartment and exam ticked everything was fine.
Now he can live in the city!
After that he only has to enter and it would be alright.
Yes, everything will be alright.
He will do the examination, spend five years living in the city, finish the carreer and go back home with a title for his old man, get a work, maybe, if that's possible, and live contributing to society like a good citizen.
Grabbing a hoodie in case it rains and going down the stairs
It's good, so good when you think like that.
One moment you exit your house like a hopefull student wishing for happyness...
"Seriously.... !?"
And the you see yourself running in the reflection of the stores on your way to the examination because the nice landlord lady fell and hurt her ankle and it just so happend that you were walking past her.
So you have to help her out.
It took a while but he held her to the apartment and then waited for her daughter to come from her house.
- Hope I'm not late...., I still have some minutes left to sign in.
By the time he arrived, the teacher in charge was explaining the rules.
He recived some awkward looks and a hard stare from the teacher but was allowed to take the test.
Once the test was over it was afternoom and the clouds were still lurking in the sky but this time ther was rain falling and some puddles on the side walk.
"Good think I have a hood. Now that this is done, I can read the chapters I'm missing"
Like any other person, his hobbies were some fantasy light novels and some exercice from time to time.
On his way home he took a detour around the park for a short run.
Some may say he was crazy and he did get a few stares from the people taking cover in the stores on the opposite side of the street.
But he couldn't care less, the feeling of running under the rain was just amazing, the water hitting your skin, the cold air in your chest and no one around you, there was freedom in there.
After an hour of running and a rest on a store nearby, he exited the place after buying what he needed and was on his way back.
Then he saw it, the silhouette in font of his building, a beautiful girl under the rain, upon closer inspection, she had long white hair, was tall and have a heavenly figure.
Anyone would just stare at her in shock but he was already familiar with her, very familiar.
"What are you doing here, Ela? "
She turned and opened her pretty eyes a little with a smile."John, is that how you greet people?"
He looked at her "Let's go inside, you're going to cath a cold. "
"Doesn't matter, I know you'll take care of me." She said with a smile
He lifted her suit case and walked into the building while thinking what she was doing here.
Once in the apartment he went to the bathroom and prepared a bath grabbed a pair of towels and took one to Ela so she could dry herself, he showed her the bath and ran into his room, he needed to calm down his heart, her figure wet from the rain was just to hot and he didn't want to cause a misunderstanding with her.
Once calm he went to the kitchen, took a chair and started to ponder on why she was here, maybe she came after him like one of those romantic movies. "Haha, no way, right. ...?"
He wasn't the type of protagonist with handsome face or money.
But if that was true then his plans were taking a turn in a very bad direction.
Although he did treat her like a little sister that stopped some time ago when he started seeing her as a woman, she was just that beautiful, they almost grew up together, her mother passed away when she was little and her father died in a wave whe she was 9, he lost his parents in the same incident, she ended in an orphanage that was near his grandfather house area.
They went to the same school but weren't friends at the start and even went to different classes.
Until one day in they're first year of high school he saw her beign bullied by other girls of the the school, she an orphan, and a beauty so the jealous make them mean to her.
He didn't run like a hero to her rescue and just stood there watching until they went away, then he went close and helped her up without a word, took her hand led her to his house so she could clean her clothes, introduced her to his old man as a friend, they had dinner together and then went with her to the orphanage, since that day whenever he saw her after shcool, he scorted her to his house and spend the rest of the day doing homework or playing until the last year of high school, of course there were rumors about them and he was bothered by his classmates but it wasn't so bad.
While he was remembering the past he felt a pair of soft arms aroud his neck, he looked up and her wet hair was dripping some water on his face, he just sat there like a fool seeing her beautiful blue eyes feeling like he could just stare at them forever, she went around him and sat in front of him, not on the chair but on his legs facing him.
He was first stunned by her appereance and now he was in absolute shock at her actions.
Then she looked at his eyes at zero disrance, he saw some anger but mostly sadness, he was feeling guilty knowing why.
"Why did you left me and ran here?"
"W-what?"
"You left and didn't say anything, your grandfather told me about the scholarship but you didn't say anything to me"
He averted her gaze because he saw some tears. "Well, you see...." He explained the whole winning the lottery thing.
"And you didn't tell me, why?"
He could only keep his silence.
"Before that can you sit on a chair, please?"
"No"
"W-why? "
"Look at me"
She forced his head to move with her hand and the serious yet tearful eyes keept piercing his heart. "We have been toghether for years and you just packed your stuff and left?"
".... We never dated, formaly"
"Shut up, does that matter?"
"I guess not"
"You could tell me about the stupid money and the fake schoolarship, but you just disappeared, your grandfather was surprised to see me with my bag's in your house, you also didn't tell him that you told me to live with you. It was a surprise for us how stupid you are."
"I told him you were going to stay in the house for a while. "
"But I he though it was going to be a few days and I that it was forever!"
"Ela, please calm down, let me explain. "
"Yes, you need to explain, not only to me but your grandfather was also mad about it. "
It hurt his heart to see the tears rolling on her face, using his finger to try and stop them but it was useless as they wouldn't.
"Please stand up. "
"No"
"I'm going to show you something, but it is in my room, I'll go get it. "
"Still no, if you're moving then take me with you. "
-Haaa...you said it yourself.
"Okay, then, let's go."
"Kyaaa!"
He put his hands under her legs and lifted her up, because of the sudden movement and now she was hugging him like a koala.
He went to the his room while carrying her in a not very princess way.
He picked the object from his desk and sat on the bed, he patted her back to calm her.
"Hey, Ela, did you see the apartment?"
"No, what about it?"
"Did you notice that there are 3 rooms?"
"So what?"
He could hear the confucion on her voice.
"Look, there is a big one and two smal ones, one of them is for us and the other two just in case. "
She froze up, pushed his shoulders to see his face and saw that anoying grin that he has every time he was having fun.
"What...do you mean?"
She asked carfully, even with the tears she was still so attractive, he wanted to tease her but that would be too much. Cleaning her face he could see some hopefull shine on her eyes.
He showed her the little box in his hand, she looked down and covered her mouth with her hands, she cried again, but for a different reason now.
"Eleanor Woodville, will you marry me?"
She didn't say anything and just gave him a hug, a strong one, he patted her back and wanted to check on her but before he said anything he felt a soft touch on his lips.
They stayed like that for a while or maybe a moment, it was hard to tell the time. When they stoped there was silence and she said. "You never said you liked me. "
"There's no way I wouldn't. "
"But you didn't say it. "
"I wanted you to stay at home while I prepared the apartment and everything here, I was going to pick you up after the result of the exams were out and that was in three days, couldn't you wait a bit more?"
"Theres no way, I wanted to see you. "
I couldn't help it but kiss her again and looking at her eyes I saw how serious she was. I lay on the bed with her and held the hand with the ring between us, it was a simple one but it looked beautiful in her.
"Do you like the apartment?"
"It's to big just for two and... Did you mean it, about the rooms?"
"Of course I did, but it is to early for that. It was this room or the basement, it was big and cheap but I didn't know what you would think about that. "
She started to blush all the way to her ears. "That's right, to early."
While enjoying the sigh he smiled and said. "Let's go and see the basement, if you like it we can move or we can stay here, whatever yo want. "
Whit a small nod. "Okay" And with a soft voice she said. "Remember to call your grandfather and tell him about us. "
He was having a headache just thinking about how to explain everything and the earfull he was going to get. "I will call him. You rest now, I'll take a shower, make the call and arrange for the basement visit." He got up, but before leavening she pulled his hand back.
"Where are you sleeping?"
Briefly dazed by her blushing face and words he responded. "Here with you, this is our room after all." kissing her forhead. "Rest for now, we'll talk more tomorrow."
She gave a small nod