"Hey! You're so mean to me. At the very least I know how to place my loving nature, no!" Mario defended himself and looked sharply at Matthew.
"Loving nature my *ss! You just made it sound better, just admit it. You're a womanizer!"
"It's not Mario's fault. M is really mad at me," Aki interjected in the argument between the two men and looked back at M's path.
"Why is that? Did you two fight?" Mario asked with curiosity as Matthew listened quietly and sat back on his seat.
"I don't know. He was angry last night," Aki said weakly and still sulky.
"Don't pout, you looked like a duck," Matthew interjected, looking at Aki's face.
Mario laughed a little on the other side of Aki. "What the hell is that, LQ this soon?" said Mario.
The girl couldn't figure out if Mario was laughing at what he was saying LQ or because of Matthew calling her a duck. She wasn't sure if there was something funny about LQ because she didn't know what those two letter words meant—l and q.
"What do you mean LQ?" she couldn't bear to ask her companions.
Mario looked at her in disbelief. 'Is she fooling around or does she really know nothing about LQ?' he thought.
On the other hand, Matthew secretly smiled at Aki's ignorance.
"LQ—lover's quarrel. You guys are fighting right away, when did you become in a relationship?" said Mario.
Aki thought about Mario's question, 'When did we become in a relationship? What relationship?'
"Hmmn...the other day,' she said pertaining to the day she and M first met.
"See? It's not even been a week. You're already fighting. Tsk. Tsk. You're going to break up early," said Mario, shaking his head. Aki's face was filled with anxiety.
For the second time today, Mario received another slap on the head from Matthew. "Don't scare her, you're really stupid."
'What if he kicks me out of the house when we break up?' This was what runs through Aki's mind. This was her understanding of what Mario was telling her.
Since this morning, Aki has not tried to talk to M. She felt that if she tried to open her mouth, the latter would get angry again.
When break time came, Aki still tried to avoid M but he didn't seem to like that.
'Tss. Does she really think I wouldn't buy her? She even had the guts to approach others. What will these people think?' M muttered to himself. He admitted that this scenario was crushing his what the Mortals called "pride". Because they think he was this girl's boyfriend but he doesn't seem to be doing his responsibilities well.
M consciously looked around for a moment. 'Can Aki's parents see us? Those people will not think that I am not taking care of this angel. Right?' A whole lot of trepidation went through his mind.
When the class was almost over, Aki and M were still not talking to each other. "Are you two really not going to talk? Are the both of you mute?" Mario complained to his friends. Aki just smiled at him while M didn't even look at him.
"Why aren't you talking to each other? Even at break-time, you ignored each other."
Since Aki had no money, Mario bought her food. M was about to buy food for her but she approached Mario first which fueled M's bad mood.
"Shit! You're noisy! Will you just shut up?" M whined to his friends.
"Hey! I was just—"
"Shss. Mario, lower down your voice," Aki restrained Mario calmly and in a whisper.
"Tsk. What's your problem? Even we were affected," he asked irritably, to which Aki just smiled. Whenever there were questions or things she didn't understand, she just always gave them a smile. 'I don't even know what the problem is. I do everything to avoid him. But why is he still angry with me?' Aki thought.
When their last teacher was about to leave, they were still ignoring and avoiding one another.
"Okay, class. Just pass that on to your president. Jessica, just put your papers on my table, alright? Goodbye, class." She left immediately after giving instructions to the class and their class president.
M got up from the chair and was ready to leave but Aki was still sitting in her chair.
"Aren't you planning to go home? Come on!" said M, irritated.
"Oh, just chill, Bro. Don't be so hot," Mario immediately retorted, now raising both hands.
"That's enough, Mario. As for you, why are you so hot-headed, M?" Matthew reprimanded his friends from arguing.
"Sorry," Aki couldn't help but say. She thought that she was to blame for M's temper if the reason for it was about how he woke up this morning. Because she tried to wake him up earlier.