Loving You From Stars

Different, but Same Meaning

Slap!

the moment vordelia's palm touched her cheek, corale realized her worst prediction had come true. it can't reply for moment.

"words can't express how disgusted i am now at you," vordelia growl angry, "i shouldn't have helped you first! you are ungrateful!"

"what did you say to my friend!?" it was zoe who retorted, standing in front of corale to protect her, "who do you think you are? hurting my friend! doing something lowly like this in public too!"

"he deserves it!" vordelia snapped back, "everyone should know and be careful when making friends with him! you too, never introduce your lover to him because he will try to take it from you! corale vincent the back stabber!"

although confused, zoe continued to defend, "what did you say? corale didn't do that!" he remembers very well that his friend gave up on vyrion, he is even amazed by it because he is not tempted to have an affair considering vyrion also has the same feeling.

how can corale be called back stabber?

just yesterday they were spending time together late into the night at his cafe!

"you don't know anything better keep quiet," vordelia sneered, "if you're so sure he's innocent, he's definitely defending himself, right?"

zoe couldn't reply to that. it's true that most of them are like that, but corale has so far been silent, not even looking back at the raging vordelia.

but the reflection in aqua corale's eyes seemed to want to fight back, i don't know what was holding him back from doing it.

"i'm sure he has his reasons!" zoe said.

vordelia was stunned for a moment, before letting out a small laugh which slowly grew bigger over time until she clutched her stomach so cutely zoe commented "oh...let me guess, you're the type of friend who will stand up even if your friend is wrong. bravo. you guys are very both fit."

corale was surprised to hear that, "don't bring zoe into this!"

this is specifically a problem in between and vordelia.

zoe only intends to protect him because he hesitates to follow vyrion's advice.

why too?

if seen from vordelia's point of view it is clear he is a pelakor.

"you can finally talk?" vordelia asked, but she continued, "i hope this reminds you that from the start i was a match for destiny, vyrion. i hope we are not on each other throat the next time we meet."

destiny partner?

this is the first time vordelia said that.

from the memories of vyrion that corale knew, vordelia had never claimed such a thing even after knowing the fact that every god had a destiny partner.

vordelia doesn't like it because the fate partner reminds her of her past that she was actually aeon's destiny partner, when she was still a goddess.

for vordelia, her relationship with vyrion transcends a destiny partner.

corale suddenly felt a strong instinct to fight back. he still wasn't sure, but from all these incidents it was clear the vordelia he knew was different from the one he knew, "you're wrong."

"what's wrong? you're just a distraction for vyrion," vordelia quickly retorted, annoyed by the fact corale still has desire to fight, "i can make you regret being born."

"it's not about vyrion," corale defended herself, "you're acting far from the vordelia i know. are you really vordelia...?"

vordelia speechless, "what do you think...?" he mumbled, "vyrion is the only one left of the people i love, and i can't possibly let him go..."

corale hesitated again.

there's some truth to that, in the past there was no such thing except the goddess thea incident.

and it was quickly resolved thanks to the help of the king who cursed the actions of goddess thea who was blinded by love in various ways to destroy vordelia and vyrion's relationship.

hmm?

like déjà vu.

vordelia's current action...

although different, but the essence is the same.

'but as far as i remember goddess thea became a fallen goddess, and was cursed somewhere by the king.'

vyrion didn't go into detail about it because he didn't know what the king was planning either. he was more relieved that finally nothing interfered with his life anymore.

even though goddess thea is vyrion's destiny partner.

exactly the same as vordelia who is aeon's destiny partner.

"excuse me, ladies. you are disturbing the campus environment. i suggest discussing this outside the campus environment," a male guard approached, standing between two women who had been the center of people's attention.

"no need. my job is done here," said vordelia with eyes still locked on corale, "remember what i said. don't make me do anything more than this. i really want us to be friends."

corale looked away.

friend?

just thinking about it made his head spin.

it was hard to imagine he could be good friends with the woman vyrion had chosen.

corale let out a long breath after vordelia walked away from him.

'should i tell this to vyrion?'

this includes vyrion's problem too, but for some reason corale's heart says otherwise.

"so ... care to tell me what's going on?"

corale gasped. he forgot that zoe saw all this.

wrong.

his college people know all of this including vordelia's screams saying she is a pelakor.

corale can smell miles away that she will be in the limelight in the next few days, maybe months too.

it seems that apart from warning, vordelia also gave him social punishment.

"of course," corale responded glumly.

***

plans to go shopping are cancelled, zoe invites to her cafe to talk, and again to compress corale's swollen cheeks.

corale herself was surprised by that, didn't expect her cheeks to be swollen like this even though she was sure that vordelia's slap was normal. what he could deduce from this was likely that vordelia used a bit of her magic to inflict internal wounds.

"corale? what happened to your cheek!?"

cr*p.

corale already knew gael would notice.

this is the reason for refusing the proposal to the cafe, he doesn't want gael to worry about him more.

it's enough for gael to temporarily stop studying for his sake, he doesn't want to add another burden.

"i'm fine," corale hastily turned her face away when gael's hand intended to touch her swollen cheek, "zoe, let's hurry to your study."

"of course."