Chapter 4: When Faithful Love Turns Betrayal Part 1

---Catastrophe---

"Are all of these things belongs to your girlfriend?" I asked Nick who showed me to Adhiti's old room. Her things are still there. All neat and tidy. The room feels so cold too.

"Yes. She got lots of unused clothes there. You can use it."

"What about my bike?" I asked him while roaming my eyes around the roam.

"Your bike is still alive. I am going to fix it for you." Honestly, I can fix it by myself. I am quite good at mechanics but since he's insisting, who am I to reject it?

"Is there any chance that a shop or boutique is near here for me to buy my things rather than using other people's things?"

"It is far away from here," he said leaning on the wall next to the door. "You have to use her clothes at least temporarily. Then this weekend I can drive you to the mall."

"I can dri—"

"Sure, you can drive alone together with the people chasing you and wanted your head." He cut me off from talking and said it sardonically. He's right though. I can't drive alone because of the people who wanted me dead.

Marissa entered the room with a beautiful smile. She handed me two uniforms that are still covered in plastic. Then she gave me a small bag and when I open it, it contains make-ups and other personal things for girls.

"The size of the uniform suits you. I am perfectly sure of it. And oh, there are shoes you will love that I just bought yesterday. Boots and leather shoes you love right?" she asked. I looked at the boots that I am wearing. She's right.

She explained to me a few things about the room which is a little bit wide. The bed has a four-poster with curtains. Then she left the room and Nick or should I say Mister Professor who is still leaning on the wall. I stopped and looked at my feet where a black Persian cat is purring and rubbing herself or himself on me. I immediately stepped back which makes her purr more and complains.

"That's Katherine, Adhiti's cat."

"I am allergic to cats," I told him. I hold my nose and I sneeze really, sneeze. Good, I am expecting a sneeze. Good thing that it's real, so I don't have to act that I was allergic to one.

"Sorry." He said walking towards me and then he picks the cat in front of me. "I didn't know that you are allergic to cats. I will bring med for you."

He left the room with the cat. So much for my lies. I roam around the room and it is sweet that they kept things around here. I went to the closet and see the pajama collections on the drawers. I pick the black one and an unused panty.

I went to the bathroom to take a long hot bath. When I stepped on the shower after putting all the loose clothes that Nick put on me while I am unconscious, I can't help to get excited to bathe myself. I scrub the new soap on my body. I still got small bruises on my sides and my wounds are gone leaving pinkish circles and lines.

After bathing, I wrapped the soft towel around my nude body and walk to the sink to brush my teeth. I open the cabinet behind the mirror and took the new toothbrush. I brush my teeth thoroughly while staring at my face in the mirror. I had grown up and my facial features changed a little or get a little matured than the last time. I am more serious, and fiercer. My playful sides are gone. I am a new person now. I temporarily washed out all those old attitudes for me to find out what I am.

When I got out of the bathroom, I almost jump when I saw Nick beside the bed, staring at the picture frame. I immediately changed my expression. A boring and emotionless one and calm. He looked at me. His eyes sparkle on me.

"I—Uh..." he murmured. "Here's your schedule." He said putting the paper on the side table. He stares at the picture frame for a moment.

"Mister—"

"Call me Nick." He said cutting me off walking directly to me.

"Nick, I would like to ask if the girl on that picture is Adhiti?"

"Yes." He said looking directly into my eyes. His eyes traced my naked shoulders and arms. "Those marks?" I look down on my shoulders where my marks are. I have to lie about it too.

"I like tattoos that is why," I said. The truth was it is my marks. It glows when I am attached to nature or it glows when I am controlling the four elements. In my years, I almost completed it. George helped me with it.

"Can I see the rest of it?" he asked.

"You mean you wanted to see me nude?" I asked. He chuckled at my bluntness. Of course, it is hilarious. My marks are at my back and spine and I only got a towel around me.

"No, just the marks..."

Should I show him my marks that I said to be tattooed? It might make him more curious about me. I know that he didn't believe that I was another person... that I wasn't Adhiti. But my game is on, I need to be Catastrophe. Because I am a Catastrophe and that wouldn't change.

"Maybe not." He said when I didn't say anything. "I will leave now." He walks out the door closing it gently.

I let out a sigh and hold on to my towel tight. After I had put my pajamas on, I walk towards the study table. Adhiti's laptop is sitting there. They had kept her things clean and in the right place. I sit on the swivel chair and open her laptop. I watch a few slides show of the people that she is with and most of them are her pictures with Nicholas Gregory. I still remember the password.

"Time to move on, Nick," I murmur.

My phone rang. I pick it beside the laptop to see Jake's name on it. He's a guy who is always around me, helping me with everything. He's a kinda hot guy and one of the popular because he's a football player. We just dated a few weeks where I am always cold toward him because he's sometimes a bully and most of all, a douche bag. But I have to at least have a record for my cover-up.

"Yes?" I asked coldly after I answer his call.

"C, where are you? I had been calling you for ages and you are not even answering my calls and text. Are you fine? Mr. Canfield left the town and everyone is worried about you. Your house is a wreck!"

"I am in my new school. Why are you still calling and texting me?" I asked him bluntly.

"Because I missed you. Why didn't you even say a single thing about leaving? You know how much I am in love with you." Yeah, he's in love with me since my first time at their University. He said that, but he's jerking around, making out at every sluts. What kind of person tell you that he loves you but f-cking with others?

He has this crazy fantasy of two girls making out with each other and he would watch and join them. Then he wanted me to make out with a girl or two. It is just gross because they might have STI or STD. I don't want to be like them. He had tried to get into my panty but, I punch him in one shot, then he's asleep.

"Well, how much are you in love with me?"

"Infinite... please, come back to the town. Or you can tell me where your school and I can visit you there." He's importunate.

"Move on, Jake. I am not coming back to that school of yours. Besides, we aren't together and you can't force me to do what you wanted." Before I hang up my cell phone it shuts down. Just great.