Melancholy

Chapter 10

In a beautiful scenery of afternoon rise, Quinn tried to catch Atlas after his class and in a very great fortune his class wasn't finish yet so she sat in wait on the ground beside the door of his room all students are passing by her while she's so busy reviewing her notes for her quiz bee and upcoming exam when her phone suddenly ringed.

"Where are you? Dad won't pick us up" the other line speak.

"I wanted to investigate, will you help me?" Quinn replied.

"Investigate what?"

"Not what, who"

"Atlas?"

Quinn answered yes and peak through the door to see him. She got surprised when she saw Atlas standing in front of her looking down so eerie that made her clamor.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

To the contrary Ivory was quickly walking, laterally she saw Charlotte walking pass through but she didn't notice her. So she came up calling her name — "Charlotte" she prudently shouted as long as she can hear her until someone also called her at the other side. It was a man standing straight at the center of the hallway waving his arms looking at Charlotte with a big bright smile. She briefly looked towards Ivory and walked away. She ran through the man standing and hugged him tight like she was so comfortable with him. Ivory decided to talk to her before she even go.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Ivory asked.

The man agread positively so they bothe stepped away from that man while Ivory llooked around if there's no one could listen to them, they went through the corner of the hall way and talked while on the phone it was Quinn and the phone call was still on.

"Is that your dad?" Ivory asked.

Charlotte said that it was her step father because her mother told her that her dad was dead, he died with his elder brother when she was just a baby. Ivory felt sad about Charlotte and so she stromed her cheek and asked something.

"Would you tell your parents?" Charlotte looked down and felt scared.

She tried to think for a minute but she know her step dad was waiting for her. She know what would happen to Atlas when she tell this to her parents and she also know that they would ve mad at her if they would knew this from stranger.

"Could we keep this a secret until we find a way to solve this problem?" Charlotte asked.

Ivory nodded as an agreement and let her go home with her step dad, before she even disappeared on Ivory's sight she looked back again and smiled. Her face looks like a poor little girl who needs help, literally. Her eyes melts someone's heart and wip the heat to turn into coldness. And suddenly Atlas came, he tapped ivory's shoulder to notice hum while Ivory saw him looking at Charlotte joyfully walking away with her step dad supposedly faking her smile.

"She can't tell that to her parents" Atlas said.

"She said, we need to keep this a secret until we find way to solve this problem"

"I think she's just trying to protect Atlas but commencing her justice" Quinn emerge.

Atlas suddenly faced them and asked if they would go home now. Quin said their step mother would be mad if they got home late but Ivory replied that they don't need to listed to that old witchy woman and so Atlas merely chuckled and asked once again.

"Would you guys go home now?"

Ivory said she beeds to go to library to review their up coming exam and Liam was there waiting for her, she said he's willing to brought them home with Quinn if they come home late. Quinn have a huge trust with her sister so she agreed but a phone suddenly rings.

Atlas hewed his vibrating phone and looked at it, his smile disappeared and her face looked opposite, it looked like a hungry tiger who's ready to eat a mouse. He turned off his phone.

"Why did you do that?" Quinn asked.

"It wasn't that important" he replied and fake a smile.

They ambulates bound to the library but while walking they converged his brothers group. An eyes of an eagle burst out into them as it simply glanced when the wind caresses thair presence, a both group of fire and anger just crossed their both path together with a commencung revenge eaiting for each other.

They all passed through as they ignored each other and continued walking again.

"Why did you changed your mind?" Ivory asked and so Quinn annexed with also a question.

"What did they told you at the canteen?"

"It's a long story. I wanted to have a younger sister, but I failed to protect a little stranger, now I'm thinking, is it why I don't have any?"

"No, maybe you deserve to have a younger sister but you failed to protect because of fear, fear that swallowed your pride, fear that changed your life and fear that sacrificed everyone's life" Quinn deeply replied.

"How could I ve a good brother when, I can't even protect a girl by a monster like them?"

" I thought you wanted to protect him?" Ivory suddenly asked.

"Protect wrong?" He replied that sounds like a question and proves like a question when he srugged his shoulder as he turned through the door of the library.

"What just brought you here?" Liam asked looking at Atlas.

"I'm sorry, I tried to secretly investigate him to try if he was telling the truth and I think I have some trust issues and I don't know why?" Quinn answered.

"Having trust issue was a protection and now I'm having a huge trust issue too." Atlas merged.

"I'm so sorry" Quinn replued ince again but Atlas blocked it and told her it's not about her, he tried to comfort her and tell her some stuffs when suddenly Ivory came up asking a question once again.

"What long story? Sorry I'm exceeding my line."

Atlas put his both hands in the table and started to tell a story.

"Once upon a time there was a boy who's always treated like a poor by his parents, he always hurts but the good thing about it is his family was so rich and he has a n elder brother, the favorite one, the boy got so insecured since then, but after a year he was now old and he woke up in reality as his brother told him he was adopted with a proof holding by his hands."

All of them was looking at Atlas having a clue for a big deal sequence.

"Yes, i was adopted."