Chapter 282 MISSING SOTHING ASH stared at the black-haired teenager sitting on his left. The other was smiling at him in a very friendly manner. Frankly speaking, if he didn’t already have soone in his heart, he would definitely be tempted by that smile. So, right now, all he could feel was amazent. Because he truly couldn’t wrap his head on the fact that this guy was actually Reas’ twin.
”Are you really Reas’ twin?” he couldn’t help but asked.
Astrid looked at this guy nad Ash with amusent. One look and he could tell that the other was probably the type to babble nonsense often. With such a personality, it was surprising that the other could actually get close to Reas.
”Well, last ti I check, I still am,” he said in a playful tone.
Kiran, who was listening at the conversation, was totally shocked hearing that. In fact, he was so shock that he couldn’t help but exclaim, “You’re twins?”
Ash looked at the teenager with sunset-colored eyes. They had already introduced themselves to each other earlier. This kid’s na was Kiran, Astrid’s schoolmate. He suddenly felt a bit of camaraderie for the other because he had the sa reaction as him when he found out that the twin Reas talked about before was actually this black-haired beauty.
”I know, right? They totally don’t look alike!” he said with an expression of ‘I knew I’m not the only one who thought so!’.
Seeing the proud expression on Ash’s face, Kiran suddenly felt that his reaction was a bit rude and exaggerated. “Sorry, I didn’t an anything bad. It’s just… well, surprising.”
”It’s fine. We always get the sa reaction every ti people found out that we’re twins. We’re used to it,” Astrid said.
”Personally, I find it quite magical,” Lauren comnted.
Reas had increasing black lines on his face because of the comnts from these three. “If it’s so unbelievable, why don’t we go to a DNA testing center to see if Aster and I are really twins?” he said in the most sarcastic voice he could muster.
Sadly, this wasn’t what attracted others attention but the na he called Astrid.
”Is Aster your nickna?” Kiran asked. “Can I, ahm, can I also call you that?”
After hearing Kiran asked that, Lauren who had been wanting to call Astrid by that nickna cleared his throat. “I have actually been wanting to call you Aster ever since I heard Reas call you by that nickna. I was just too shy to ask. So, can I also call you Aster?”
Reas glanced at Lauren as if seeing an alien. “You actually know how to be shy?”
Lauren glared at the other and punched Reas’ shoulder in a joking manner. “So, in your opinion I’m so shaless?”
Reas shrugged. “You’re the one who said that.”
Ash actually also wanted to ask if he could call Astrid ‘Aster’. But he felt that that would be the real epito of shalessness. After all, he just t the other. He’s not like Lauren and Kiran who obviously knew Astrid for far longer.
But what really caught his attention was more was Reas’ attitude towards Lauren. This was probably the first ti he had seen the other act playful. Or at least, Reas’ version of being playful. He looked at the two with interest. He couldn’t wait to tease the other once they returned to the military academy.
Astrid chuckled. “It’s fine, you can call ‘Aster’ if you like.”
”It’s a sha that Snow already left,” Kiran said. “I’m sure he would also want to call you Aster.”
Ash was startled when he heard that na. He was instantly reminded of the person he had been looking for. “Snow?”
”He’s my friend from school,” Astrid answered. “He just left when you ca.”
”Maybe you passed by him,” Lauren added. “Silvery blue hair, snowy white skin, light gray eyes.”
Ash then rembered the teenager he passed by the elevator. The other perfectly matched Lauren’s description. Although there was sothing familiar about the other, his facial features simply didn’t match the ‘Snow’ he knew.
Reas noticed the abnormal expression on Ash’s face when Snow’s na was ntioned. “Do you know him?” he asked.
Ash shook his head. “No. He just has the sa na as soone I know.”
Even though he said that, for so reason, there was a nagging feeling telling him that he was missing sothing.
What it was, he didn’t know.
Still, he smiled and simply changed the subject.
———-
It was almost ten in the evening when they left the piano lounge. Since four of them still had school tomorrow and the other one still had a job, they didn’t go anywhere else after and just went straight ho.
Coming back to the apartnt, the first thing Astrid did was to go to the kitchen and make tea.
”That room mate of yours is quite interesting,” he said. “How did the two of you beco friends?”
Reas sat down on the couch. “I’m not really sure. It just happened, I guess.”
”So say that’s the best kind of friendship,” Astrid said before looking at his brother. “I’m glad there’s soone like him by your side at the military academy.”
Knowing Reas, this guy would probably not mind being alone for the rest of his ti at the military academy. But Astrid didn’t want his brother to go through that all by himself. That’s why he’s glad that soone like Ash appeared and befriended his brother.
”I’m also glad that your school friends both seem like good kids,” Reas said.
Astrid chuckled. “What kids? They are both older than you, you know?”
After making tea, he poured Reas a cup and gave it to the other. He was about to pour one for himself when his Terminal sounded a ssage notification. He opened it and saw that it was from Wulfric.
[Wulfric: Aster, my army is about to leave the capital star by the end of next week. Can we et before that?]
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