Re: Love & Magic

“Today is the eighth day; it took one more day to finish it finally,” Zevien sighed as he dispersed the magic circle he summoned before a fairy could arrive.

‘Damn! I miss Vernisia. Seven days without seeing her,’ Zevien thought as he was feeling too much discomfort now. Ten days had passed since the time rewind, and now, he could finally talk with her.

“What now? Don’t you want to summon a fairy? Why did you stop?” Yowen asked with doubt.

Zevien walked towards the stairs while saying, “I’m done for now. Thank you for the help. I will contact you after a day, but now I have to go urgently.”

Zevien came out of the basement without waiting for Yowen’s and Electra’s responses.

“Oh, Zevien, come, let’s eat. The breakfast is ready,” aunt Rosey spoke with a caring smile; she was Yowen’s mother.

“Thank you, but I am in a hurry today,” Zevien smiled and nodded, “thank you for your hospitality over the past eight days, aunt Rosey.”

After saying that, Zevien left without waiting for her response.

“Oh my, he seemed to be in a real hurry. Did something bad happen?” Rosey wondered as Zevien left the house in a hurry.

…

Zevien turned on his bike and went straight towards the academy. It was a bit over 9 in the morning, so his friends should be on a break right now.

‘Gotta surprise them, hehe,’ Zevien thought before contacting Vernisia.

On the other hand, Vernisia, Dan, and Erica were sitting at a table in the cafeteria.

“Geez, he said seven days, but it’s been eight days now,” Vernisia grumpily spoke.

“You really miss him, huh?” Erica said with a knowing smile.

“Hehe,” Dan snickered while also looking at Vernisia.

“Why would I miss him?” Vernisia rolled her eyes, “I am just curious as to why he was absent for the past eight days, and since it’s been ten days since we first met, I also want to know why he didn’t talk to me directly in the past ten days.”

Suddenly, she received a contact from Zevien and snorted, “he finally contacted, huh.”

Vernisia—, “who are you?”

Zevien was startled—, “didn’t you save my number? I am Zevien.”

Vernisia—, “Zevien? I am sorry, I don’t know such a person.”

Zevien was speechless—, “you are kidding me, right?”

Vernisia—, “please, why would I joke with you? Anyway, I don’t know any Zevien, and this is probably the wrong number. If you have nothing else, then I am hanging up.”

She then hung up and started eating a sandwich.

Erica and Dan looked at each other with a sarcastic expression before looking at Vernisia.

“Didn’t you say you don’t miss him?” Erica said with a grin.

Vernisia pouted, “I don’t. What are you on about? You think I care enough to miss him?”

“Hehe, if you didn’t care, then why did you talk to him like that?” Dan spoke while chuckling, “you should have just responded normally.”

“You….,” Vernisia’s cheeks turned red as she blushed intensely and stood up, “I am going back!”

“Okay, okay, stop! We are just teasing you.” Erica stood up, trying to stop Vernisia with a smile.

Dan laughed but didn’t say anything and instead contacted Zevien.

Hearing the first thing Zevien said, Dan stood up and went away from the table. After talking to him for a minute, Dan hung up and laughed hysterically, causing everyone in the cafeteria to look at him.

“What the hell? Did your brain turn into mush?” Erica was speechless.

“I can’t, hahaha,” Dan laughed as he returned and sat down, “Zevien was intensely worried and asked me if something bad happened to Vernisia that would cause her to lose her memories. I didn’t tell him the truth since he is rushing here anyway.”

“Hehe, let’s make this the truth then,” Erica mischievously smiled before looking at Vernisia, “now you truly don’t know Zevien, okay? You lost your memories of him and only him.”

“Isn’t that quite weird? We should make it more realistic,” Dan spoke as he rubbed his chin.

“Nah, if we make it realistic, Zevien will really become worried,” Erica said while shaking her head, “let’s just troll him like this, so he will figure that we are just joking.”

“Okay, get ready,” Vernisia nodded with a playful smile, “since he kept us in the dark for eight days, making us worried. Then he should get punished.”

“Eh, didn’t you say you were not worried about him?” Dan snickered.

“Y-you…I am just saying this generally! Generally!” Vernisia pouted. “Now, get ready. You all need to act your part. Don’t slip up with your expressions.”

…

Zevien was really worried sick because anything was possible.

He hurriedly arrived at the academy and went towards the cafeteria as Dan said they were eating there.

When he saw Vernisia, Dan, and Erica eating at a table, he approached them and slowed down after arriving near the table.

Erica and Dan looked at him with a gloomy appearance and shook their heads. They looked sad.

Vernisia also turned to Zevien and raised her eyebrows, “why are you looking at me like that? Do you want anything?”

Zevien frowned and asked, “did you really lose your memories? How come y-“

“What are you talking about? I didn’t lose my memories,” Vernisia frowned.

After that, Dan spoke quickly but softly, “apparently, Vernisia lost memories of you only.”

“What?!” Zevien was startled, “how is that pos-“

Suddenly, he paused and took some steps back with a pale face.

‘Don’t tell me she lost memories of me because of what happened to us with the time rewind? She lost memories about me because I was not affected by the time rewind and kept my memories? Did something go wrong with the time rewind and cause this accident?’

Zevien’s habit of overthinking kicked in as he thought of multiple possibilities.

‘Fuck it! Even if she lost memories of me, I could start over again. It’s not like years have passed between us yet.’

“..vien!”

“Zevien!”

Zevien snapped out of his thoughts after composing himself and saw that Erica and Dan were calling him.

However, he looked at Vernisia and smiled, “Hi, nice to meet you. You may not remember me, but the empty seat beside you in the class belongs to me. I was absent for eight days, but we can get to know each other again.”

Looking at Zevien saying like that, Vernisia’s lips twitched while Dan and Erica were dumbfounded for a second before bursting out in laughter.

“Lol! Hahahaha. You can’t be real, bro!”

Erica laughed while shaking her head, “my stomach hurts, man. How can you believe this bullshit that she only lost memories of you and not others?”

Vernisia also broke her act and burst out laughing, “dummy.”

“What?” Zevien got taken aback before creasing his brows, “so all of that was not true?”

“Of course, humph,” Vernisia snorted, “you disappeared for eight days right after that incident and didn’t even tell us anything.”

Zevien sighed as he took a chair from another table and sat beside Vernisia before grabbing her hand and looking straight into her eyes.

“W-what?” Vernisia stammered at this sudden action of Zevien and tried to pull her hand, but Zevien tightly grabbed them.

“Vernisia,” Zevien spoke with the most severe expression, “even if you forget me thousands of times, I will start thousands of times anew and meet you as if we are meeting for the first time, but the feelings in my heart will never change. In this life and every other, know that you are the only one for me. The only one!”

After saying that, he stood up and turned around before speaking to the three of them, “I’ve been awake the whole night, so I will go to sleep now. I will tell you about what I did in the past eight days and give you a pleasant surprise.”