The Hourglass

As I looked beside me, I saw that Aria"s gone, if it were an illusion I shouldn"t be affected, so this is the effect of cultivation immersion while it"s true I felt refreshed as if I just woke up but I didn"t even notice the loud sound of my door opening while my family probably can"t hear it because the illusion Aria set up.

Oh yeah, if Aria could make the illusion of nothingness why did she uses the doll one, well I will ask her later. At the table besides my bed where I usually placed some drink or snack there is a small mirror and when I looked at it I saw a sticky note on my forehead.

Hahaha… it seem she took revenge on me, so I tear it off from my forehead and read "my phone number is x.x.xX66333132 while my address I will tell you two days from now, also I will have a surprise for you at that time and we will met at that time I guarantee you will be surprised." Seeing this I quickly added her to my contact.

I prepared for school, two days now huh it should be Thursday I wonder what her surprise is?. Two days went like a wind to me in these two days everything in the school seem boring except my novels and watching Jessica and Mario getting close to each other, sometimes when I go to canteen and met the five bullies they just glared at me not daring to take action, somehow the antic.i.p.ation waiting to met Aria make my school life seem boring so whenever I already understood the content of what teacher is teaching I sunk into cultivation and whenever I finish one cycle I woke up from it because that"s the time to switch period, at least most of it take that long.

Today is Thursday so I energically go to school and in the first period of cla.s.s, the teacher announce there is a transfer student transferring into here.

Immediately my cla.s.smate begin to gossip around like "is the transfer student girl or boy?" "why do you think someone transferred at this time, when we are just two months away form having the final test of our third year?" and many other trivial gossips but there is only one thought In my head as I begin to sweat, is it her? Then I begin to remember the conversation on Monday afternoon "alright, what a coincidence I am at the age of high school girl too. Now tell me your school"s name so I can register there" "it"s Don Bo*co Highschool and can you continue your previous explanation" and I also remembered that in her note she said we would met and I will definitely be surprised.

Then I focused on the door, when the teacher asked the transfer student to come in I am definitely surprised because my split second prediction turned out correct it"s Aria but I didn"t shout like the main character in anime I just widened my eyes slightly. Yep. definitely Aria with her silky black hair, big adorable eyes with her sharp face and her thin pink lips along her pet.i.te body with her perky b.u.t.t she immediately attracted the attention of the cla.s.s.

After entering the cla.s.sroom she glanced at the whole cla.s.s and when her eyes saw me she stopped for a second before he immediately introduced her as Aria Alivionita , she is sixteen years old, her hobby is, and before she speak she glanced at me, reading novels.

The teacher then asked her to choose an empty seat, I looked around me then I saw that the connected table besides me empty, so that"s why the homeroom teacher moved Andy my seat mate yesterday.

She pretend to look around before she faked a surprised look and said "ah… what a coincidence , Michael you go to school here too" she then walked toward me and sit beside me.

"why are you here?" I asked in plain voice.

"ehehe… didn"t I told you in the note"

"I admit being a surprised"

The surrounding guys glared hatefully at me because even if they couldn"t hear what we spoke they clearly know that we are friendly and know each other. These guys hated me because at first they thought I was dating Jessica, one of top twenty beauty on the school but that thought is destroyed because of Mario, they even saw them on the amus.e.m.e.nt park one time but now a beautiful transfer student that could easily ranked one in the list is friendly too me, how could they not hatefully glared at me.

Even after the teacher started the session we continued to talk but the teacher didn"t notice it and I notice that Aria already used her power, True Illusion.

"so what"s your cultivation stage?, Aria"

"Liquid first stage"

And then we continued our trivial conversation until I asked. "Aria, why did you use the doll illusion instead of nothingness or something else at the alley?"

"well it"s more natural, because if someone with a stronger mental power saw there is a body at "nothingness" it would be suspicious but if they saw a "doll" there it would be more natural, not everyone is like you picking random s.e.x doll on the street, although I set the illusion as doll not s.e.x doll and it"s the first thing to come to mind before I fainted"

"oh..."

Then I said to her that I want to continue to cultivate and when it"s lunch break Aria and me escaped the cla.s.sroom using her illusion, just when I was about to go to canteen to buy lunch, Aria pulled me toward the roof which usually is locked but somehow she have the key to it.

After that she take a lunch box from a corner of the roof, then she feed me the lunch and in return

asked me to feed her too. Finishing the lunch I begin to ask her the most important question.

"why did you do all of this Aria?"

"because our connection" Aria answered plainly.

"is it really that important"

"it is you know 99% of man and woman that have this connection will fall in love with each other and 1% of that is only someone who have a life and death grudge even then they resolve their grudge, didn"t you read it in book?" Aria asked teasingly as if a teacher scolding her student playfully.

"yes I read about it but I didn"t believe the book because the way is see you is the just the same before I have s.e.x with you"

Then a mischievous glint appeared on her eyes "really, then it you must have fallen in love with a doll on a first sight or perhaps your subconscious can perceive me as human, still I think your felling for me will grow even if you didn"t notice it and we will be with each other for a long… time"

Giving up resisting I continued the school along with Aria with an similar excitement that I usually felt with Jessica.