Chapter 20: 20


    Before Varys could catch up to her she turned around and ran. Not actually run, of course, otherwise


    he would get suspicious. She just wanted to get away from him without letting him get a hint of what


    she was feeling. She was still angry, alright! And she did not know how to express her anger except like


    this. Running away? Heck yeah. She could run from him until he stops chasing her. It is going to hurt


    for some time for sure but whatever. She needed him out of her sight.


    She hurriedly passes between the groups of students, pushed them aside if she had to like a brat and


    immediately started going towards her ss. It had already started and she just wanted to reach there


    before the professor did to avoid awkward confrontation like her first day.


    "Hope!" she heard Varys shout.


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    She ignored.


    He called out a couple more times. She ignored every time.


    "Hope STOP!" Varys shouted but she was hell-bent on running away from him and there was no way in


    hell he was going to get to talk to her after he left her to die in the burning sunlight for three fucking


    hours.


    He was just about to reach her. From hindsight, she saw him closing in as she reached the door of her


    ssroom. He was just a few feet away from her when she dashed inside the ssroom and found an


    empty seat. The professor was already here and this was not Varys'' ss so obviously he was not


    going to enter it.


    Well, she was wrong.


    As soon as she was seated, Varys stormed in.


    Her eyes widened despite trying to control her reactions in front of him. He did one scan of the


    ssroom, found her sitting, and immediately stormed ahead to sit next to her.


    But the seats on her each side were already full. Thankfully.


    She had just started to take a sigh in relief when he came to stand near the corner seat.


    "Do you mind sitting elsewhere?" Varys said to the boy sitting beside her.


    The boy beside her gave one look to Varys, recognition filled his eyes, immediately picked up his things


    and moved to the seat right behind them.


    Fuck.


    And now she was stuck. She could not move away because there was not an empty seat. She could


    not openly ignore him if he talked because then he would definitely get suspicious.


    Varys settled beside her. She held her breath, waiting for him to say anything. She knew he was going


    to say. She was sure as hell. Five minutes passed by, the professor started teaching, the ss was


    going to be one and a half-hour long and she was stuck.


    Her life was officially a hell.


    The silence stretched between both of them. And just when she thought that he will not say anything


    and surprising had missed her attempts of running away from him, he said,


    "Is it enough or there is more?"


    She thought of ignoring him. She really, really did. But as she did not want him to think that she was


    actually ignoring him, she gulped down the nervousness and replied softly,


    "What?" her tone thankfully came out just as innocent as she wanted it to be.


    "Your running." He gritted through clenched teeth, letting her know how angry he actually was, "You


    want to take part in a marathon?"


    "I am not running away." Hope gasped in surprise but did not look in his direction. She kept staring at


    the professor, pretending to be giving him the full focus but in reality, her focus was nowhere near that


    old man''s useless spouting.


    "You are, Hope." Varys mumbled, "I am not an idiot if you have noticed."


    Her lips pursed in a thin line. Yeah, definitely not an idiot for leaving someone stranded.


    "Well, you are mistaken." she snapped in a low tone.


    "Oh, I am?" Varys grabbed her chin and turned her face to himself, making her eyes finally collide with


    his, "Say it now again. Tell me you are not ignoring me."


    His face was set in a deep frown as he red at her. In any other sitiuation, she would not have dared


    toe across him when he was looking like this but right now she was angry too and fuck him if he


    thought he could get his way out of her right now.


    "I. AM NOT. IGNORING YOU!" she snapped through clenched teeth in a low voice as she could


    muster.


    "Then why are you so angry, huh?" He pulled her face closer to his, almost close enough to kiss her as


    he growled, "Why the fuck are you angry if you are not trying to run away from me?"


    "I am not..." she started saying but he interrupted,


    "And stop fucking lying to me!" he gritted.


    "I am not ly..."


    "And ignoring my calls! And messages! And meetings!"


    "I didn''t tr..."


    "Were you even sick? You blocked me out for four fucking days!"


    "I was! I..."


    "You even told your mother to not let me in!"


    "I was sick! I did not..."


    "You keep lying!" he snapped in a louder voice, "You keep ignoring and you keep lying and you ask me


    to believe you? Are you fucking serious right now?"


    And then that was it for her. He kept on stating his point, saying things to her without even listening to


    her and he kept on spouting truth and she could not take it anymore. Wrenching her face out of his


    grasp she let herself free,


    "ALRIGHT!" she shouted, "Yes, I am angry! Yes, I am ignoring you! So WHAT?!"


    She hadpletely forgotten where she was and what she was doing and how much louder she had


    said the words.


    As soon as she stopped speaking the whole ssroom got filled with snickers and whispers. And then


    the booming voice of professor snatched her attention,


    "OUT YOU BOTH! RIGHT NOW!"