Chapter 18: The Cryptic Image of Dusk

SAGE

So far, everything was going great between Val and I. My friends eventually accepted my relationship with her but still too adamant about letting them get closer for some reason. So whenever it was lunch break, we still couldn't share tables but it was quite fine for me because Val would still pick me up and drop me off after school. We were spending a lot of time with each other as much as we could. Because why the hell not?

On the contrary, Primrose finally found out that I was always hanging out with Val, giving her a hint about why the new Aphrodite of the school declined to join her team. She lost a bet and I hoped that she wasn't the type of person who would back down on her words. I was hesitating to call out my win to her though and just decided to ask her for a one-time favor instead of making her a slave for a week. That was going to be ugly on her part, considering her infamous popularity. I wasn't that evil in this story, you know. I knew that she was waiting for me t