Ditched Cheating Alpha, I Led My Daughter to Life's Peak novel Chapter 19

She puts a hand up as if to silence me. "I don't want to have sympathy for her. I want her to have sympathy for me already," she laughs.

I shake my head.

"Oh, this is your hallway," she points to the right.

I see the big number 400 over it. "Where's your class?"

"All the way on the other side of the building."

"Well," I keep going. "What do you have next?"

She shakes her head. "I looked at your schedule. It's not the same."

I frown. There goes the one person in this school who's treating me nicely.

She smiles, gently. "Don't worry. We have the same lunch and English class, so I'll see you soon."

I sigh but force out a smile. "Alright. See you."

We part ways and I walk down the dim hallway. It's not that it's improperly lit, it's just... there's an aura about it that I can't quite put my finger on. A few people pass in the halls, shuffling from here to there. They stare at me from the corner of their eyes, but when I look, they look away.

I check the numbers on the classrooms. Mine is 411. I'm passing 402 now. I look into a door I'm passing and I see students staring at a board with illegible characters written all across it. They speak in a language with harsh syllables and intonations. It's something I've never heard before. The next few classrooms have more common languages, like German and French, but I can't get the sound of that first language out of my head. I pass another classroom with more students speaking it, and I pause. What is it?

"You're going to be late to class."

I turn around. Aiden. I take a step back and cross my arms. "I can get to class just fine, thank you."

He grumbles something under his breath and keeps walking. I turn back to the classroom, and the teacher is staring at me. I pause. "Uh, sorry." I walk away.

Aiden is still walking in the same direction as me. I noticed it before, but I just can't stop noticing it. My eyes only make it a little past his mid back. How tall is he? I know I'm short, but wow.

"What was so interesting about that language?" he asks.

I look up. He's staring at me over his shoulder.