Love Brings You Hone

Brakkk...

The sound of slamming doors and clattering shoe steps deafened Louise.

"What have you been complaining to my parents about, Miss Louise?!" a man shouted suddenly.

Suddenly, Louise put down the exam papers she was holding and lifted her chin up to find the source of the voice. It was the student known as the 'eternal student' who had snuck into her office.

"Calm down, sit down Prince, we can talk this through." Louise said as she got up from her chair.

Prince, instead of obeying his lecturer's orders, kicked the chair in front of him.

"Hey, behave yourself, Prince, remember where you are and who you're dealing with?" she snapped, her heart beating faster every time she saw her "special" student.

"You're a very annoying lecturer. Do you enjoy seeing your students always fighting with their guardians?"

"I do it for your own good too, Prince."

"What good do you mean, lecturer?!"

"Of course, so that your grades will improve, you'll graduate soon and there won't be any more bad rumours about you from people out there."

"Ah... You mean their taunts against me being a perpetual student at this college, right?! I don't care what they say anymore!"

"How can you not care? Do you want to be an eternal resident of this campus?!"

"Arghhh... You're all the same!!!"

He kicked the chair for the second time, as if he no longer remembered the figure standing in front of him. Without permission and as if losing her sense of honour, she simply walked away, leaving her lecturer still in a state of shock.

Suddenly, Louise's eyes watered, which immediately invaded the airspace.

Once out of Louise's room, Prince chose to sit casually in the campus canteen with anger still brewing in his chest.

His appearance, which looked like an old man with dishevelled hair, seemed to indicate his current living conditions, which were 'messy'. He lit a cigarette sandwiched between his fingers with an electric lighter while occasionally sipping a cup of coffee served in front of him.

Prince's pupils flashed in all directions. However, until the cup was left with only its dregs, there was no 'something' that could catch his attention.

For a moment, he remained pensive until regret dawned on him. He realised that what he did to Louise earlier was too harsh, "Should I apologise to her?"

Kringgg…

The deafening sound of the mobile phone inevitably made Louise immediately need to pick it up.

"Huh... What the heck?! Alright, I'll be right there."

Louise hurriedly cleared up the things scattered on the desk. She grabbed her bag and walked towards the campus car park. Louise felt her stomach muscles tighten in an instant as she was forced to drive her car at high speed by herself.

Upon hearing the news of Lucas' brother's death, Louise immediately decided to make the long journey to the funeral parlour.

She had to take the winding road that was quite a distance from the capital city. Along the way, there wasn't much scenery to enjoy, with only bushes on either side of the road.

"Damn it!" cursed Louise as her car struggled with rocky, gravelly and even muddy roads on the way.

The loud ringing of bells and the rustling of leaves in the wind filled her auditory passageway when she was almost there.

Taking almost four hours, Louise finally reached the place of mourning, the Onnuri church.

From some distance away, she saw Lucas standing in the doorway. Slowly, she stepped closer to Lucas.

The tall man reflexively turned around when Louise tapped his shoulder.

Behind the charisma hidden in Lucas, there was an implied look of sadness captured by Louise's green eyes.