MORE THAN CAPABLE | Riven

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Chapter Six
Date With Disaster

Luella had been sitting cross-legged on Sky's bed for almost an hour now. Since her dad was outside the school transferring the Burned One, which worried her, she had nothing better to do than flicker through the last pages of her book.

Sky had gone out after he and Riven had fought about Beatrix and hadn't returned yet, leaving her and Riven. She didn't mind that he was there, she enjoyed the silent company, and it let her focus more on the book. The specialist didn't seem bothered either; Riven lay on the end side of his bed on his back, still smoking now and then probably drowning in his thoughts.

Small gusts of gentle wind breezed at Luella's skin as she finished the last line of her book, the empty feeling slowly cascading into her chest. She hated but adored the feeling at the same time. It irrupted her when it stuck to her for too long, that's why she always had too many books on her bookshelf at home. She would start a new one, and dive into the character's thoughts and dreams.

She placed the book into her bag which lay beside her, "Riven?" She asked.

"Mmm?" He answered.

"Do you have any books to read?" Luella questioned him in a dazed voice due to the heavy feeling in her chest.

He turned around and pointed and a small section of a wooden shelf near his bed. Lue huffed before she got up, stretching a bit before looking at the selections of books. It was only three or four, and all classics.

Easy to tell he wasn't quite into reading.

Luella looked at Riven, "Classics," She stated.

"So you're going-" Rives stopped before rephrasing. "Book nerd?"

"Sure," she replied, she couldn't care less if he thought reading so many books was a weird thing.

"Here," he said grabbing his textbook close to him and throwing it at her which she caught. "Read that instead."

Lue rolled her eyes and then placed it on his desk which was scattered with papers and equipment. "You're funny," she replied sarcastically.

"So," Riven started taking a blow of his vape. "What'd Beatrix do to you to make you not like her?" He asked turning onto his stomach to face her.

"She offered to help me control my magic but said if anything happened, my death would be a minor inconvenience," She responded irritatingly looking out the window and then back at him, sitting herself at his desk.

Riven didn't reply. After a moment, he extended his hand out holding the vape, offering it to her.

"No thanks," she expressed, gripping it out of his hands before receiving a buzz from her phone. She looked down at her phone which she grabbed from her pocket to see a text from Aisha that read 'need help, there moving the Burned One' and 'Following Bloom and Stella to the barrier.'

Lue turned and grabbed her bag and stuffed her phone in her secure pocket, "I've got to go, suite drama." Lue stated.

"What about my vape?"

Luella contemplated before making a snowflake out of amusement and letting it glide over to Riven unconsciously, "buy a new one."

She then opened the door and started walking to the exit cautiously making sure there wasn't anyone there to catch her.

Footsteps began to catch up with her, "what the fuck Luella?"

Luella smiled, looking onward, "and the specialist knows my name," she announced.