130 Family Gathering 3 (2/2)

”He's just saying how hard it has been for us to cover for all of your mistakes, which is the whole reason why we've gathered here,” Yulee directly announced.

”Umm, you don't have to cover for me. I can leave your fraction or whatsoever,” I raised my hand.

Yulee laughed at my response, not bothering to hold it in while Belle slightly cringed. But she soon stopped when Lucius sent a glare in her direction. I guessed this meant I couldn't even leave their fraction even if I wanted to. It was laughable on my end too how I was forced into this fraction even without knowing about it.

”You can't leave as long as you're engaged to Luke, which we know isn't ever going to not happen,” Yulee wiped her tears from laughing too hard.

”Can we pretend that I don't exist then? You can just ignore me and pretend you have nothing to do with me,” I suggested to benefit both ends.

”But, we can't, it would show how our fraction had weakened,” Yulee was about to go into another fit of laughter.

”That's why we're trying to work together to come up with a better solution,” Belle cut off my routes to escape while placing her hands together.

I guessed this was the life of the top students in the school. They had enough time to care about these insignificant things. How did they even 'cover' up my mistakes in the first place? Weren't they all busy with gathering more points?

”Let's go through the situation first. Who are all your connections in the first district? Who is Rika close with?” Lucius asked us.

”She seems to be close with the Nuelle family in the neutral fraction,” Shelly recalled how I stayed in Ben's summer villa shamelessly.

”She also spent some time with the heir to the Lumiere family in the sixth district with the heir to the Nuelle family,” Alex remembered Charles retelling the tale of how we got back when he first transferred into our class.

Luke closed his book, and joined in, ”The Auclair family has also spent time with us in the fifth district and she hangs out with Helena from the Nicole family who is partnered to the heir to the Krista family.”

Lucius nodded with approval, ”it's hard to get close to one of the people in the neutral fractions.”

Was that really the case? Ben was pretty friendly to me while I did have some blackmail on him from exploring his villa. Charles also didn't treat me too bad after spending some time together in the sixth district. I had literally saved his life with a hefty healing spell while he used his precious sword. But, Cillian was a mistake where he followed us into the fifth district.

I didn't know anything about what stance and fractions they were in, but didn't care. I didn't need to fill my head with more complicated stuff when my head felt like exploding every day from attending class.