My Unlucky Demon

Sleep

“What is your favor?” I asked her, but she did not give me an answer. I remember, the conditions were stated and not written. It’s such a bother to explain...  To make things short, “You won, so I owe you a favor.” is what I typed. 

She glanced at Gab and Raphael. Help signal?

“Mallory can just use her favor when she needs it, right?” Gabriel responded. 

“Fine.” it’s past midnight already. I don’t wanna deal with it now either. Since I lost they get to continue playing.

“We’ll go to sleep then,” Raphael said.

“Good night,” Gabriel waved goodbye. 

Huh? Did I just get duped? They had me play that stupid game and owe Mallory a favor when they were just about to sleep anyway. Urghh, those two!

-- 5 hours later --

5:30 am, *sigh* I could only get 5 hours of sleep. Yet, it is better than nothing.

I stood up and stretched a bit. Huh? Mallory is not in the room. I went out and tried to look around. I was in the hallway when I heard the sound of rushing water. I checked from where the sound was coming from and it was the men’s shower room, I rushed towards the shower room, it might be the guy who stole my towel and clothes. 

It was Mallory, she’s filling up the bucket that she brought home with water on the sink. I didn't expect it to be her. This is the men’s shower room after all, but I do understand if she mistook it for women’s, the stickman on the sign near the door was drawn over with some skirt and pigtails after all. There was also a printed ‘WO’ on paper added to the word ‘MEN’. The urinals cannot be seen by the door as well.

More importantly, what does she plan to do with the bucket of water? I waited for her to finish, she didn’t notice me until it was nearly full, she took her time staring at me that the water overflowed. She couldn't  hear it. Seriously, how annoying... I walked up to her and turned off the faucet. If I knew I was gonna end up at the shower room anyway I could’ve already brought my towel. Ah, I don’t have a towel...

I went to borrow some towel from the guys with Mallory who’s carrying the water bucket, following behind me. 

Raphael is trying to wake Gabriel up. Geez, this guy... Why would does he always play games till midnight when he can’t even wake up in the morning? How nice it would have been if I poured the bucket of water that Mallory is carrying over to him. Gabriel still sleeping is kind of better for me though because I can borrow his towel. I walked in, their towels were folded and placed on the table. It sure is tidy in here, must have been Raphael’s doing. The last time I went to Gabriel’s room, there was barely any space to sit on, not even on the bed. 

There are two towels on the table, a white one and a yellow one. The white ones Raphael’s, I remember when he lent it to me before so I took the yellow one and went back to the shower. Mallory was still standing outside the room, as I walked past her, I was fighting back the temptation of waking Gabriel up with cold water. Such a shame, it would have been satisfactory.

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We are walking to school and Mallory is still carrying the water bucket. It was worrying Raphael because she’s carrying so much weight and the walk from dorm to school is quite a distance, but I worry not. This girl seems to have some wild strength in her, we’ve already walked halfway and she’s not even breaking a sweat, she’s even wandering around with it like it’s a part of her body. 

Raphael has asked her what she plans to do with it. Her reply was “Back.” Whatever that means, I don’t think it’s gonna be a good thing.

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Mallory’s POV

It is much faster when I walk together with these people. Glasses is always sticking to me. Ah, his name was Raphael. It feels great to have someone sticking to you, I feel like nothing will happen. Actually, I can observe that nothing much happens when I’m with these people, especially with Michael, the one who has long hair as Gabriel described. 

We are back to ‘school’ as they called it. It seems they want me to go with Raphael today as well, just as I wanted.

After going in and out of three different classrooms, Raphael and I are still yet to go back to that room where I got this bucket that I’m holding on to right now. I want to go and return this to that guy right now, but Raphael told me to stay close to him and that we can’t just go wherever because there are assigned classrooms.

Yesterday we went in and out of four different rooms. This is the fourth classroom of the day and we are heading to a classroom opposite to that guy’s smell, it seems that I will have to wait for next time was what I thought, but I was mistaken. We were going to a fifth classroom today. I can smell it, his scent is getting closer and closer. A little while later and we reached the room. He’s here, the guy who started the laughter in the room when the water poured over Raphael. His scent is left on the bucket too.

I walked straight to him as soon as I saw him.