Novel Square
Chapter 68 The Punishment
Chapter 68 The Punishment
Sylvia's POV:
By the time Rufus and I finished talking, it was already very late. After parting, I hurried back to my dorm room and went to sleep. Unfortunately, I had a nightmare. In my dream, I was bleeding profusely out of my nose for some reason while Rufus and Alina laughed at me together.
It was horrible! It was such a humiliating dream that I forced myself to wake up from it. The clock on my bedside table told me that it was three in the morning. Wiping the sweat on my forehead, I lay back down and tried to go back to sleep. Meanwhile, Flora was deep asleep, grinding her teeth.
Finally, after listening to the rhythmic pattern of Flora's teeth grinding, I was able to fall back asleep.
It must have taken a long time for me to fall asleep again, but I almost overslept. Flora technically had to drag me out of bed and into the morning exercise with dark circles around my eyes. NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.
"Sylvia! How many times have you fallen from the horizontal bar today?" Blair came over, wearing his uniform. He scolded me, "Try again!" Naturally, my body couldn't function well because I didn't get enough sleep. My mind was out of sorts and my heart was palpitating, so I fell off of the horizontal bar again.
"What happened to you?" Blair stood before me with a blank expression.
I lowered my head, not daring to give anything away with my reaction. Obviously, I couldn't tell him the reason why I didn't get enough sleep--that it was because I met up with Prince Rufus late at night.
"For that, take twenty laps around the school. Only then can you have your breakfast." Blair gave me a look of disappointment and left.
While I was carrying out my punishment, a group of onlookers watched. They were all from another class and Cherry was one of them. Whenever I would pass by Cherry, she would jeer at me.
"You deserve it, you lazy bitch!" Cherry yelled.
I rolled my eyes to the back of my head. At this point, I was just tired of listening to her empty words.
"Go, Sylvia! You got this!" I had no idea where Flora found a trumpet to cheer me up. I told her to leave, but she insisted to play music for me while I ran laps.
At this, I felt like crying but my body was too weak to produce both tears and sweat at the same time. By the time I passed by Flora again, I found her setting up a stall to sell some dried rat jerky.
After finishing the twenty laps, I was so tired and out of breath that I couldn't even speak. All of a sudden, I felt a gust of wind whizz past me. It was Warren. Why was he running laps too? Right now, however, I didn't really care that much. Immediately, I hurried to the canteen. I hoped there was still food left for me.
But when I arrived at the canteen, breakfast hour was already over and all the food was finished. Not even an extra serving of soup could be found here.
Just when I thought I was going to suffer from hunger again, Flora called me over and waved happily. "Sylvia, over here! I savedyou some food." The sigh of relief that left my chest was satisfying. Flora was such a good friend.
I quickly walked over to her, wolfing down the food as soon as I took a seat. "Flora, you're a lifesaver. I was starving to death!"
"Aw, am I not the greatest friend you've ever had?" Flora gave a smug smile. She stabbed a meatball with her fork and stuffed her mouth with it.
At this time, Harry also came to our table. Today, his hair was dyed a new color, a bright and fiery red.
"How do you even have time to dye your hair another color?" I looked at him in awe. I must have been too sleepy to notice his hair earlier in the morning.
"Oh, I brought a hair stylist with me. If you want your hair done, you can call me up any time." Harry took a forkful of pasta into his mouth. "By the way, where were you last night? You seem like you didn't sleep a wink."
I coughed awkwardly, hoping not to seem guilty. "I just went to bed early. But I ended up not being able to fall asleep well anyway. I was tossing and turning all night. You can even ask Flora."
Flora blinked, taking a bite of her sandwich. After some hesitation, she said, "I guess so, but I was mostly in a daze. I even felt like you left for a while and came back."
"Yeah, I had to go to the bathroom." I quickly found an excuse and thought of another topic to talk about. "Anyway, why was Warren given punishment too?"