Despite my belief that Hayden would be gone the following day, Hayden spent the next couple of days living together at my place. I liked having him around and I was getting used to spending my days with him; however, after a couple of days I realized that this wasn’t normal. He stuck to me like glue and followed me wherever I went. I didn’t want to tell him this, but he was getting in the way of my daily life.
“Hayden…when are you heading back to your place?” I asked one evening while we were having dinner together in my small apartment.
“You don’t like having me around?” He asked as he placed down the fork that he had been holding.
I sighed, knowing that he would say something like that.
“It’s not like that. It’s just…you’ve been around me all the time and…I guess it affects my work…” I told him hesitantly.
Hayden was silent for a while as he took my words in. I used that time to silently pray that he would not completely flip out. The issue was that I got a call from work earlier about this issue.
“Hi Malissa, sorry for calling you but there’s something that I want to discuss,” the lady’s voice through the phone was quite stern.
I wondered what she wanted. Usually, she’s always in a good mood and I hardly hear her sounding so serious like this.
“Hi. No worries. What is it?” I asked.
There was a pause followed by a sigh from the other end of the line and that was enough to let me know that it wasn’t good news.
“I’m sorry that I have to say this but we think it would be best if you stopped bringing your friend along with you to the classes,” she said hesitantly.
“Oh…ok…” I replied.
“The thing is some parents are concern with having an observer all the time and they think it’s distracting for the students,” she explained.
“Right. I completely understand…” I said apologetically.
“Great. Sorry about this but I thought letting you know would be better. See you!” the lady said and quickly hung up.
Basically, it wasn’t a good idea for Hayden to be stuck to my side like glue. I knew that that would be the case. He did bother me a little so it wasn’t a huge surprise that his presence would be a bother to the others. His sparkly prince-like aura also attracted a lot of attention, but it was better than his dark mafia aura when he was in a bad mood. Regardless, he attracted too much attention.
“I guess I’ll take my leave for now,” Hayden said defeatedly.
“We can always meet up when I’m off work,” I said, trying to lighten the mood.
“Malissa, watch yourself,” Hayden warned.
“Huh?” I said in surprise.
“Be careful. If anything happens just give me a call,” Hayden insisted.
“Umm…sure,” I agreed with a nod.
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