The Wind of My Life

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After a few seconds, the girl gets up first, runs her hand over her clothes to clean herself and looks again at me and Ellyn, who is holding back a laugh and me trying to keep a calm expression.

- What did he do this time? - This time, Ellyn?

- Ask him!

The girl ends up looking with an ugly look at the wolf boy, who only makes an expression of fear. After that, the girl snorts her face, turns to a corridor near her right and she goes towards him, without looking back.

- So? What was that?

Ellyn only looks with a curious face, but it seems very much that she is trying to crack her beak of laughter, while the wolf boy stands up, sighing and making an expression of conformity and acceptance, even with the smile of irony.

- Nothing that a rag in the whole house does not solve. - Apparently, this must have happened many times.

- I know ...

After getting up, Teen Wolf looks me up and down and just makes a very charismatic expression.

- I didn't expect us to know each other that way, but since that was the case ... Nice to meet you, Sebastian. My name is Jack Ace, but you can call me Jack.

I just reach out and start greeting him, keeping my expression calm.

- Nice to meet you, Jack.

For some reason, Jack started looking me up and down.

- Well, that's exactly what I expected. - What did he mean with this?

- (Ellyn) Hey!

- (Jack) I couldn't help it, Ellyn. It really looks like what you've been talking about…

- (Ellyn) Yeeeeee!

Well, at least that explains how he knew my name. But what did Ellyn tell me about me to them?

- (Jack) Anyway ... Are we going in?

Jack turns around and goes inside the apartment and at one point, he turns to the left.

- (Ellyn sighing) Well, you already understand how things are here, right?

Ellyn says this, as she starts to take off her shoe and place it under a small step that separates the floor from the main corridors with the wooden floor of the apartment, much like what appears in Japanese Slice of Life.

- Is it okay for me to come right here? Why even I would do what the girl did if it happened to me.

- (Ellyn being ironic) Okay, you were going to do that. - Yeah, maybe I would give some lame excuse and make the situation worse.

While Ellyn was talking, I took off my sneakers and socks, and when I did, Ellyn just took my left arm lightly.

- Look, it may seem a little comical, but that's their way. Along time, you get used to it. - And is it something to get used to?

As much as the way Ellyn seems to say is that this kind of situation that smells like romantic comedy is normal, maybe I can just be okay with that. Like, I already put up with Ian and Stella in the fight of "who confesses first to whom". But looking at Ellyn's expression, she seems very calm about it.

- (sighing) Okay then.

Ellyn just smiles slightly. She must have liked my answer apparently. After a week of not knowing any news from her, it is good to know that she is getting along with someone here on Earth. So, I will trust her word.

...

Ellyn and I started to go farther into the apartment. This apartment is very simple and basic in my view. As we passed further, I saw the corridor where that girl had entered and had two doors, one of them looking like a closet door with some boxes inside and another door ajar, which by the steam coming out of it, must be the bathroom. Ahead, I notice a living room with a sofa, a television, two tables, one being a medium-sized dining room and the other small, which is in front of the sofa, a computer that is separated from the living room by a sliding glass door and a front door next to the computer, which I assume is the bedroom. And before I get to the living room, I realize that where Jack ended up before was a small kitchen with basic kitchen appliances like a stove and a refrigerator, some cabinets attached to the wall, a medium-sized sink and a small counter that is the front of the living room dining table. It would be an apartment I would buy if I went to work in Madison one day.

- Sit there.

Ellyn picks up a chair from the table and pulls it slightly towards me and I take the edge of the chair to sit on while she sits down on a chair next to me. I look around and notice the computer is on, but out of respect, I don't look to see what was appearing on the monitor. Looking further, I see Jack in the kitchen space, pouring coffee into two cups, and after a few seconds, he picks them up and brings them to the counter.

- I hope you like coffee.

- And who doesn't?

- That's right! - What's that forced face for, Jack?

I take one of the cups and give it to Ellyn, but seeing her expression of disgust and she shaking her head negatively, I start drinking coffee, which by the way is in the middle between bitter and sweet, which is very good, while Jack starts to drink coffee from the other cup.

- (Ellyn looking crooked) How can you handle taking this thing?

- Have you tried it at least, Ellyn?

Out of nowhere, Ellyn starts to make a "don't remind me!" Face.

- (Jack sighing) She spit everything on the floor and dirty a rug that I had just laid out that day. How much I had to scrub that day was… laborious…

- It was just saying that the taste was very bitter that I had not taken, you idiot.

- And do you think I would miss the chance to see you drink something as delicious as coffee? This is a shangri-la of the gods.

- Shangri-la my ass…

And imagine that Ellyn is like that when she's with a friend of hers.

- That's right, Ellyn. Try it more often than after a while you learn to like it.

- Even you, Sebastian?! You won't tell me that you liked that crap the first time you took it.

- Well, I didn't like it at first, but after taking so much, I got used to it and started to appreciate it more willingly. It was the first thing I took every morning.

- (Ellyn looking with disgust) What ???

- Well, my mom always did that, so there was no po…

- What kind of mother would do that to her own child? - Melodramatic…

- Eh… Almost all mothers on Earth who care for their sons and daughters to grow up healthy?

- If it is to grow healthy, isn't it better to give something more natural, like fruits and things like that?

- And they do, but it's not like it's the only thing that happens to a child here. And over time, people eat other foods, if they like it and such.

- Okay, I understand that ... BUT COFFEE ?!

Out of nowhere, I start to hear Jack laughing, and when I turn around, I see him apparently leaning on the counter, with his right hand supporting his head and with the coffee cup in his left hand, with a smile that is having fun with what he is seeing.

- What are you laughing at, flea port? - That was offensive, Ellyn.

- First, that was offensive. Second ... Who knew you were so calm talking like that to someone other than me or Raphaella.

To be honest, even I am slightly surprised. Like, I hoped Ellyn would try to be quiet and behave by letting Jack and the girl make fun of her, which apparently is Raphaella that Jack just talked about. But looking now, Ellyn looks very much like a schoolgirl at a friend's house, gossiping and saying everything she can't in public. It is something I expected, but not to that extent.

- Sebastian, when this hairy man says anything, you can reply and offend him that he doesn't care, okay? - What friend are you, Ellyn?

- And why would I do that? If he who has known you the longest is saying that, I think I trust his word.

At that moment, Jack starts to laugh in a very agitated way, as if someone has just lost his reason in a dark way, and Ellyn is looking at me with an empty face, as if she had reluctantly accepted what I had just said .

- Sebastian, I liked you. Let's be great partners!

Jack stands up and stands on the counter, his fist extended to mine ahead, wanting me to hit her with my hand. I just smile and punch him in the hand.

I turn my gaze to Ellyn, and she is smiling in a different way, as if even though I ended up giving an answer that in theory would be against her, she would have liked what happened. On better understanding, I feel that Ellyn is much more radiant than usual, even more so than when we started walking together. And her smile ... It is very beautiful.

- It would be a beautiful time to kiss her now, Sebastian ~~

Out of nowhere, I see Raphaella propped up against the wall of the corridor, showing a neutral expression but making her way clear. I just make a startled expression, but I avoid being nervous as usual, but when I look at Ellyn, she really got nervous and started making a sullen expression.

- RAPHAELA !!!

- It was bad, but I wasn't going to miss this one. - Apparently, things are like this here and Ellyn is no exception to that ...

Raphaela decides to leave the support of the wall and comes towards the table, until she sits in a chair in front of us. For some reason I don't know, it looks like I'm in front of Stella if she were an adult.

- Well, my name is Raphaela Daviner. And without formality, okay?

- Okay… I'm…

- (Raphaella pointing to Ellyn) Sebastian Rodrigues. Yes, we already know. Ellyn kept talking a lot about you.

- (Looking confidently at Ellyn) Really, Ellyn ~~?

- Eh… E-They should just know who I had the c-contract with, after all…. Haha ~~ - Even I would lie better.

- (Raphaella looking alternately at me and Ellyn) Looking at you, until you are very similar to what she was talking about.

- Like what? - Even I was curious.

- (Ellyn desperate) AHHHHH! LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT HERE, PLEASE !?

- (Raphaella sighing) Sensitive... Okay ... - I think someone didn't like to stop making fun of someone here.

After that loud cry from Ellyn, Jack ended up leaving the kitchen and headed for the table where he ended up sitting in the chair next to Raphaela. And after a quick silence ...

- (Jack) Anyway, Sebastian… You already know why Ellyn and I are here, right?

- (Sebastian) Yes. I know about you being these beings from another world called Gacha and that you came on a mission in search of people with compatibility with magic.

- (Jack) Well, since you have summarized half of the subject that we came to discuss, I think it would be a good idea to have you with everything here, right?

- (Sebastian) It could be.

- (Ellyn) So ...

After a few minutes, Ellyn and Jack talked about a place called All Day N Night, where some hint of magic using bad luck may be from someone who already works with magic. Well, I was just more astonished by the fact that there are spells that mess with luck and bad luck, but maybe I am not used to the idea that there can be magic anywhere and using anything apparently.

- (Raphaela) So, boy ... Say you're better than us.

- (Sebastian) Well, I have two people in mind, but I don't know if they are compatible or work with magic.

- (Ellyn) Two students from his school, to be exact.

- (Raphaela) But suspecting a teenager is a little... you know, convenient... - Tell me about it.

- (Jack) I hate to admit it, but is there any way to say that these two students may be users of magic or whatever, they saw something related?

- (Sebastian) Well, I still don't know. I was going to do this with Ellyn, but she disappeared, so I didn't know where to start.

- (Raphaela) This is cruelty, Ellyn. Leave your boyfriend alone without a way to go...

- (nervous Ellyn) I SAID IT! He is not my boyfriend!

- (Jack) Eh ... Can we come back here for the subject?

As much as it was something that I would also be nervous, you can see that it is a way for Raphaela to make fun of Ellyn, so I'm just ignoring it and keeping up with the important conversation here.

- (Jack) Do you know their names?

- (Sebastian) Yes. Claire Hunnigan and Robert Gallstone.

- (Raphaela) Wait ... GALLSTONE ?!

- (Sebastian) Yes, why?

At that moment, I see Raphaela getting up from her chair and start walking from side to side, with her right hand on her face, with an expression of discomfort.

- (Jack) Raphaela?

- (Raphaela) Didn't you have someone else to suspect?

- (Sebastian) I only considered him because of his family branch.

- (Raphaela with an incredulous expression) Didn't you have any basic criteria for being someone suspicious for you?

- (Sebastian) Sorry to ask, but what's your problem with the Gallstone's family?

- (Ellyn) So ... Raphaela has fallen out with some people and one of the Gallstone is one of those people she fell out with.

- (Sebastian) Really?

- (Jack) Well, I wouldn't say that it fell out ... I would say, she has a certain hatred because of someone close to her who is close to this Gallstone that she knows.

- (Raphaela looking seriously at Jack) Jack ...

- (Jack) I just said what he needs to know. I'm not going to tell you about your personal problems.

I understand that Raphaela is a little uncomfortable with this situation. During the week that Ellyn disappeared, I did a little research on the Gallstone's family and from what I realized, they are a famous family here in Madison because of the ventures they fund and by a notorious amount of complaints and controversies surrounding them. I even wondered why on Earth... Robert is studying at Creast Fall and he has a better chance of doing well here in Madison. But if you were to distance yourself from that side without the privacy of his family, I would understand that point.

- (Ellyn) Look, I asked Sebastian to help me and even if it isn't exactly the kind of search you thought, if we are wrong, we start again. You don't have to be nervous about it, Raphaela.

After a few seconds, Raphaela stopped walking this way and that and looked in the direction of the balcony.

- (Raphaela) Ellyn, I don't want to think that one of the Gallstone is a person who messes with magic.

- (Ellyn) Hey, we don't even know if it's the case yet. Can you calm down a little, Raphaela?

But from the way she's acting, it doesn't seem to be the fact that the Gallstone are a well-commented family in Madison that are making her that way.

After a few seconds, Raphaela seemed to have composed herself, but she stood and looked at us.

- (Jack) Ahem ... Have you talked to these students yet or not yet?

- (Sebastian) Well, with Claire, yes, but I didn't notice anything unusual. And Robert ... We talked before I came here, but it's the same thing.

- (Ellyn) Well, as we're not in a hurry, Sebastian and I can investigate better if these two are the people we're looking for, Jack.

When Ellyn said this, I realized at a glance that Raphaela found it confusing, but she tried to hide it when she looked at me quickly.

- (Jack) What do you think, Sebastian?

- (Sebastian) Fine with me. But Ellyn, aren't you going with them to this cafeteria?

- (Ellyn) Relax, Sebastian. I come in the morning to accompany you and when your class is over, I come here, get ready and go with them.

- (Sebastian) Are you sure?

- (Ellyn) I have, Sebastian. You can trust ~

* smiling at Ellyn

- (Jack) Ah ... It was a lot faster than I thought. Like, I expected us to spend hours talking and stuff, but if that was all, then ...

Out of nowhere, Jack starts to lie down on the table to approach me, but quickly, I only see Ellyn's hand holding Jack's face, with a "quiet" face.

- (Ellyn) Jack, get out. Go.

- (Jack) Okay ... Release, release, release, release ... It hurts!

Out of nowhere, a cell phone noise starts to play, which seems to be only the instrumental of some indie music. Then, Raphaela pulls out the cell phone that was ringing in her pocket and she is slightly surprised.

- (Raphaela) Well, I'm going to have to answer. Stay there.

Raphaela quickly gets up from the table and goes towards the room, in a very hurried and nervous way. The way she behaved before, that connection must be something very important for her to be destabilized, if she was. And after she enters the room, she closes the door, and the remaining three of us are looking in the direction of the room.

- (Jack sighing) She really doesn't make up her mind.

- (Ellyn) It's still because of ...

- (Jack) I think so. But you know ... This is something she should be working on soon.

As much as I am still looking at the room, I hear what Ellyn and Jack are saying. But I will maintain respect.

- (Jack) So, Sebastian ...

- (Sebastian) Huh?