Tankhun's POV:
After coming back, I get fresh and go to the main hall.
I was waiting for Arm to come.
"Khun, these are the notes you were asking." He placed the notes near me and looked at me in awe. I didn't touch them. "Should I read them to you?" He asked.
"No need." I said without looking at his face. I took the notes and he just looked at me.
Chaucer as a Poet, Chaucer's writing style, Use of satire in Chaucer's poetry....
I kept reading the headings in bold letters.
Arm looked at me for a minute or two then excuse himself for something. He was telling me something before leaving but I didn't hear a single word coming out of his robotic mouth. He left. And I read a few lines from each page.
I was trying to choose an easy one to read first. But they all are same to me. Boring as hell!
I looked at the corner of the page where a small doodle is drawn. It looks like three small mountains and a waterfall. Maybe I've seen it before.
Sigh~ I tried to focus on reading the small letters.
What kind of font is this? I don't think I've seen it before.
How in the world am I going to memorize everything on these papers when I can't even focus on reading it? My mind is all over the place now. All because of Amy's smile and that damn letter.
She freaking smiled at that thing, I even saw the way she was biting her lips. As if that was not enough, she even smells the fragrance from her hands.
I was waiting for her to finish reading it so that she can throw it away in the end - satisfying me to heaven and back. But no!! she didn't throw it. She sandwiched it in her damn book with love and care and took it with her.
The imaginative part of my brain keeps wondering if she's going to read it again once she gets home! I clenched my fists tightly. I should have ripped that disgusting paper apart as soon as I read it.
I was so furious that I ripped the papers in my hands into small pieces. And scatter them on the table. I was breathing hard with the burning anger inside me.
I wanted to find the guy who had feelings for Amy... My beautiful Amy. I'm gonna shake him up until all the feelings come out from his stupid body.
Well, it's not his fault if he likes the most beautiful and amazing Amy. But that doesn't mean he's allowed to do that.
No never! Not in this life...
I'll let my people handle that guy and make sure Amy doesn't fall for anyone other than me.
"KHUN!!!!" I heard Arm's... shouting? I looked up at once.
What happened to my robot!? Where did this angry looking guy come from!?
I looked at him in astonishment. He was grabbing his hair while kneeling in front of me.
Wh... what's going on? What did I miss?
I was so damn deep in my thoughts to realize what's going on around me. He was looking at the pieces of papers that I ripped apart and tossed over the table, half of them were lying on the floor now. His eyes widened in shock. Then he looked up and gave me a four-eyed deadly glare. I put my feet on the sofa. I'm not ashamed to admit that he's giving me chills.
"What have you done!!!" He growled. I bet that was not a question. "I left for like ten minutes and you..." He freaking pointed at me with his finger!
"Wh-what?" I held my chin up. Even though I'm afraid, I challenged him in some way. He jumped towards me like a bull. I hide my face with a red cushion, instinctively.
"Why did you do this?" He was mumbling and sitting beside me, I moved away as a precaution and peeked at him while lowering the cushion a little. "She's gonna kill me!" He grabbed his head while leaning forward.
"W-who?" I asked out of my damn curiosity.
He was taking off his vision glasses. Oh boy, it's a sign that I should run away from him.
Where are the other guards?
"Your... Amy!" He said while rubbing his eyes. I felt happy to hear the first word... but hold on.
"Why did my Amy come into the conversation?!?"
"Because this was her treasure that you ripped apart." He gave me an angry look.
My Amy. Her treasure. Ripped apart.
It took me a minute to realize and then it dawned on me.
"No way!!!" I yelled back.
"..."
"W-why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"..." He gave me an accusing look.
"You told me and I didn't hear that, did I?" I read his mind.
"Stop acting, Khun. Even her name was written on it." He pressed his jaw and shook his head.
"Where?" I asked with genuine interest 'cause I didn't see it.
"On each and every damn page." He shouted and cursed. Wow! I just blinked at that.
"You have made a copy of these, right?" I half whispered to him while pointing at the pieces.
I know he's smart, he definitely made more than one copy...
"No!"
See I told you he's smart...
"Wait what!!!!!" I shouted on top of my lungs. Now it's my turn to grab my hair in frustration.
"I haven't had time to copy them yet, that's why I told you not to write anything on it because these notes were original."
"You did?" I asked stupidly and received a death glare.
"She clearly warned me that she would shoot me in the head if I did something to her notes and assignments." He stated not-so-calmly.
I smiled, "That's more like my Amy." I whispered to myself. He gave me The Look. Oh, he heard that.
"Relax Arm, we just put the pieces together like a puzzle. And then you type it on your laptop and print it out and make many copies. We won't tell her and she wouldn't know."
"She will know as soon as she sees them." He mumbled.
"How?"
"All of these were hand written." He said while pointing at the pieces and growled inside.
I was stupefied - utterly and completely. For the first time in my whole damn life, I didn't have a clue what to do now or how to react. He stood up and started collecting the puzzle pieces.
"Where is Pol?" I asked
"Here, Khun?" Pol appears out of nowhere giving me a mini heart attack. Was he standing behind me the whole time?
"Call Pete! Tell him it's a freaking red alert emergency! And I'm in trouble." I ordered Pol who just nodded and started dialing Pete's number on my cell phone, immediately.
Arm was sighing loudly in irritation, making me uneasy.
"If she gave me a minute to explain myself... I'm gonna give her your full name, Khun." He gave me a threat in his robotic voice. I felt a chill running through my whole body giving me goosebumps.
Unconsciously, I placed my palm to my cheek. Her slaps are not pretty. Believe me, I've tasted them two freaking times in just two weeks.
"Hey Arm, don't scare me!!" I yelled "Hey Pol, don't just stay there, come help me!!"
"Pete, I'll tell you the details later just come fast." He said that to Pete and hung up.
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Fifteen minutes later...
We only managed to put three or five pieces together. It's taking too long because none of us read anything on these notes before.
Only if Arm had the time to read it, he could have managed to put these puzzle pieces together in the blink of an eye.
"Pol whoever passes through this hall brings them here, we need more helping hands!" I said while matching a piece with other pieces.
"Yes Khun!" He said without looking at me as he was busy trying to do the same thing.
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Five minutes later...
"What are you guys doing?" I heard a deep voice of my brother. As soon as I heard that I ran towards him to grab him by his strong arm to come and help us.
Kinn is smart when it comes to study. So, it won't be hard for him to put one and one together.
When I jumped and ran, I accidentally flew a few pieces away making Arm angry again. Don't look at me like that, it's my long coat's fault.
But his anger won't make me uneasy now that my brother Kinn is here. Even though Arm was seeing red in HD because of his glasses, he still bowed to Kinn in respect.
"Hey Kinn, come help me!" I half whined
"No." He rejected me almost at once.
"It's an emergency!" I made a horrified face.
"Still no! I'm busy. I had a meeting in two hours..." He was saying and I pushed and pulled him towards the glass table.
"Two hours are enough for a smart guy like you to do this..." I showed him the papers all around. He furrowed his brows.
"What do you want me to do? Throw them away?" He asked in his deep voice.
"NO!!!" Me and my boys shouted together.
"These are some important notes and we need to put them together to make them look like papers so that we can re-create them." Arm explains the whole thing like a robot but respectfully. Kinn was rubbing his thick brows in annoyance.
"Come on Kinn, just help me already. This is a matter of life and death!" I said desperately.
"Now, you're just being dramatic." He said and glanced at Arm who nodded in yes agreeing with me. Kinn tilted his head a little and sat on the sofa, finally.
I clapped my hands and ran to sit on the other side of the table. As I was jumping around, I accidentally flew a few more pieces. This time, all the way to the floor. Arm was so irritated by me that he slapped the glass table, hard. I raised my hands in the air in surrender and Kinn just looked at us back and forth.
"Go and get the pieces that you blew away!" Arm said robotically. Did he just order me?
How dare...well, I'm not in the place to complain so I just stood up to get those pieces. As I was picking them up, I saw another forever-angry guy holding up a piece in his hand while looking at it so intently.
"Hey Big!" I called excitedly and he looked up at my face.
Woah, he didn't look angry for once. He lowered his sight to glance at the pieces in my hand.
"Yes Khun?"
"Come help me!"
"I'm busy." He said flatly.
"Doing what?" I placed one hand on my waist as my other hand was busy and asked.
"Khun Kinn has a meeting in two hou-" He was saying and I pulled him with me repeating the same thing I said to my brother. I know he was making angry faces at me. But who care.?
It's a freaking emergency! I need more hands to get the job done.
He sat with Pol and Arm kneeling on the floor. This time I got to my place... tiptoeing.
Arm raised his head for a second then looked down.
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Fifteen minutes later...
Big proved to be a useless birdbrain as he was not doing anything, just looking at the pieces which had the same doodle on. Weirdo. And Kinn was reading every single piece before putting it with the other. But as I was not in the place to complain, I kept my mouth shut.
I placed half a page together successfully. Arm was way more dedicated as he put one page together. While Pol was looking at everything with a bored expression. But it's not his fault that he doesn't have any clue about Literature.
Sigh~~~
"I need more hands..." As soon as I thought out loud I heard a happy humming sound. I looked around to see where this was coming from...
Ahaa Porchay~ I jumped up to get him and accidentally flew half of the Arm's puzzle-page away. He hides the other half just in time to save it.
"Khun!!!!" He growled, making me stunned in place, my one foot froze in the air. Should I sit down or run away!?
From the corner of my eye, I saw Kinn smiling a little. At least he's enjoying this whole thing.
"Hey Chay, my baby brother!!!" I shouted happily as I chose to run.
"Oh, brother Khun! How are you?" He asked like a happy kid he is.
"Healthy as hell but in a hurry. Come with me."
He's a good boy, as he followed me without even asking. I explained the whole situation to him and made him sit with Big.
His eyes widened as Big looked at him. Bloody Big trying to scare our baby brother. But I know he was just teasing him while showing him an angry face for no good reason.
What a way to enjoy life!
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Six minutes and seventeen seconds later...
I heard the door slam open and familiar footsteps coming running towards us.
Pete!
My eyes turned watery as I saw him coming huffing and puffing. Silly boy! Ran as fast as he could for me.
"Hey Pete, my favorite boy..." I cry out in a high-pitched voice, making others unhappy.
"Khun, are you okay? What's the emergency?" He was panting hard.
"Sit. I'll bring you water." As I was about to move, I felt a chill gaze on myself. Arm was looking at me weirdly.
"Umm Pol? Can you get some water for Pete?" I asked while smiling awkwardly. I caught Big smirking at me. Damn him!
I get back to work. Why do I have to tear five freaking pages into small pieces!?
Next time, if I had to rip any page, I'll just do it in two or four pieces.
Well, I'm a guy who learned from mistakes. Hehe
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Eleven minutes later...
Arm was done with one page and placed a heavy book above it to keep the pieces in place.
The half page, I put together, I get Pete to work on it. Now I placed four corners on the table and tried to find missing pieces that I had to fit in between.
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Seven minutes later...
"What are you guys doing?" I heard a half raspy, half deep voice behind me giving me a heart attack. I placed my hand on the right side of my chest and Pete moved it to my left side and smiled at me for some reason.
I looked around and almost all of them looked up to see the new guy who came out of nowhere and their faces were showing different expressions.
Freaking Kim!
This brother of mine walked around like a cat ghost, without making any noise. I bet you can't even see his shadow when he passes by you. He was looking around still waiting for an answer. No one said a word so I had to open my mouth.
"Does anyone see him coming?" I asked, everyone shook their stupid heads. Kim smirked and jumped over from the back of the sofa to land between me and Kinn.
"So, what are you guys up to?" He asked again.
"Nosy Kim!" I said in a low voice but louder enough to be heard by everyone. He smirked again.
He looked around to get a briefing on current affairs and only a good kid started to explain everything. I just rolled my eyes exaggeratedly.
"Brother Khun ripped... accidentally ripped apart the notes brother Arm borrowed for him from some genius class fellow." Chay told the tragic event with great enthusiasm.
Kim turned his neck to look at me. I know this damn brother of mine was gonna tease me. He's going to ruin the peaceful environment we all created.
Sigh~~~
"Why did you rip it apart in the first place?" Now he's gonna torture me with his interrogation.
"I was angry!" I said shortly.
"Over what?" He asked, I ignored. I don't want to think about that damn letter.
"So now you're back to your senses!"
"Yes!" I made a face.
"Don't you have any copies of these?" He asked casually.
"Yes, I had but it was in my room and I don't want to go all the way up to bring them. It's easy this way. Look, everyone is having fun with the puzzle game." I replied, sarcastically. I heard Kinn chuckled a little.
"Why is it so important?"
"It belongs to my..." I trail off a little "...classfellow."
He raised an amused brow. "So, it's important!" He glanced at me.
"..." I didn't answer as it was not a question. I pretended to be busy, which I actually was.
"You should have thought better... you know before ripping it apart like a crazy guy...you are..." He was enjoying this.
"If you're not going to help, then get lost." I said flatly and loudly like a big brother I am. For some reason, I make him even more interested. Damnit!
"Okay, I'll help you but first tell me..." he paused. "you didn't know who these notes belong to... did you!?" He narrowed his eyes at me, while showing his canine.
How in the hell he comes to that conclusion!
He was asking me what others didn't bother to know before, now this damnable guy is making them curious too. He leaned forward to pick up a piece of the corner of the same page I placed as a guideline.
Urgh... I don't want to tell him about Amy.
"Amy..." He said softly. My eyes widened, almost all of the heads turned and raised to look at Kim at once. He looked around a little surprised and then smirked. He spined the paper in his slender fingers, thinking something.
"Wh-what?" I asked.
"Name on the paper." He showed me the corner on which the doodle was drawn. "So..." He placed the doodle piece down "this puzzle belongs to Amy?" He asked while stressing on her name and started grinning at me. I saw a glint in his eyes that I don't like.
"Yes!" I turned on my armor. Sigh! "I didn't know that before that this belongs to her. Arm said that her name was written on each and every page. But why didn't I see that?" I said casually but annoyingly.
Kim first stared at me. Actually, all of them looked at me as I was speaking.
Well, I am not hiding her anymore, why would I!? The people present here are my brothers - my family. Also, I would be lying if I said that I didn't know Kim would find out about her.
I smiled a little at my brothers, instead of asking me directly they chose to follow her around. Inwardly Sigh!
"Are you an idiot or what..." He blurted out.
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"Look at this. This is her name right here." He picks up the same piece to show me. Except Arm everyone leaned forward to see, including Kinn and Big.
"A-M-Y" Pete spelled out loud. My eyes widened in awe.
"I thought it was just a doodle." I exclaimed half excitedly.
"Well, it is. But these lines look like alphabets." Kim explained.
"Let me ask others." I snatch the piece from his fingers politely cause I don't want it to get ripped in half. "Hey Kinn, look! What do you think?"
"A zigzag." Hah he's worse than me.
"Chay, your turn." I had to lean forward way too much that I almost sat on Kim's lap. He chuckled a little, as I accidently tickled him.
"Umm roller coaster?" Chay said half shyly, half excitedly as everyone was looking at him.
"What about you, Big?" I included him too as he's good in heart, I'm sure. Hehe
"Three mountains and a waterfall." He said flatly with a smile too small for an eye to catch. I narrowed my eyes on him.
"See this is what I thought. Brilliant Big!" I gave him a thumbs up and sat back.
On the other side, Pol was making a face at me so I rolled my eyes and leaned forward again to show him the piece.
"It looks as if she rubbed her stopped pen to make it work." He said thoughtfully, making everyone laugh out loud.
After that Kim helped too as promised.
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An hour later both Kinn and Big left for the meeting, without doing anything helpful. I think Kinn only sat to read the text on all pieces but Big tried to help as he put the half page together with Chay successfully. I didn't know that he was capable of doing that. He's quite a mysterious guy.
Well, Kim was smart enough to put two whole pages together.
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An hour later...
I was giving them scotch tape to fix everything nicely together.
In the end, I realized two things.
One, that the font of the notes was new because it was hand written.
Freaking neat! I wanted to praise Amy for working this hard.
Two, now I know the reason why she got me in her group and gave me the task to memorize all the notes I have.
I laughed out at myself when I remembered that I got the chance to be a group member because of her notes. She knew it all the time but didn't say anything. I'm sure she was enjoying it herself.
Thank heavens! I didn't return it to her. Then she wouldn't think twice before kicking me out of the group. Haha
I took a deep breath as she managed to surprise me once again.
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