THE SECRET OF DEATH

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She had just finished pampering himself.  Her hair is black but when exposed to light it looks wet brown and now she is reaching for the towel on her bed.  A blue towel depicting a cat robot cartoon character who is currently floating in the world.  She rubbed has hair while dancing and muttering like she was singing a song I don't know what?

Then she brought has feet which were wrapped in white slippers beside a dark brown cupboard with a large size in front of the mirror.  She looked at himself there standing with a pale face and only a bathrobe clinging to his body.  For a few seconds she smiled and then faded away.  "Oh, that's enough. I haven't even spent 24 hours here yet, but why do I look like I'm enjoying it."  She said annoyed as she threw the towel she used earlier to dry has hair.

Alexa who threw her towel on the wooden floor walked quickly towards the bed with a white bad-cover.  She quickly lay down there, "comfortable enough."  She muttered again.  Then she looked at the ceiling of his room which was colorless and there were only 4 lights.  2 neon yellow and 2 of them are white and large.  There was nothing special about this place, she closed his eyes for a moment trying to suggest himself who was tired of reality.  She suggested himself to like this new exile.  She smiled to himself behind those closed eyes as she remembered haus old room.  The spacious room of this room, shades of sky blue, the ceiling of the room that has been painted neatly with stars and some of his favorite paintings.  Oh, she can't equate his room with this room before.  It looks very difficult.

A knock as much as 4 times sounded from behind the carved wooden door is not clear.  Doors that have been polished in such a way with brown lacquer.  Alexa, who was nostalgic, slowly opened her eyes full of disgust.  She glanced at the door, she remembered that she had a roommate, she thought.  She stared at the door bored but still the annoying soft knock still sounded, "did she lose the key or something?"  she complained, she then got up from that comforting lay.  Then she saw his reflection in the mirror who was still wearing a plain white bathrobe, and around her neck was a white gold necklace with the letter 'A'.  She smiled briefly and chose what a good mask to wear.

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Her slender white hands put the key in the keyhole on the door. After turning it twice, she turned the golden round doorknob and pulled it slowly.  She exhaled first and lifted has face with a fake smile.  "I..." she said but was stopped.  Has eyes that had been sad now widened as she glanced right and left.  "Wait.." she said after that she closed the door quickly and didn't forget to lock it tightly.

Has heart was pounding and his throat seemed dry, she was still standing behind the door with a raging feeling.  "What is this."  She sighed, "strange school, why mix boys and girls."  She added.  She returned with some strange assumptions, but she quickly went from behind the door when she got a response from outside and a knock.  "Wait!!"  Alexa shouted loudly and headed for the mirrorless cupboard where she had arranged her subordinates' belongings.  She flung open the wardrobe door and her eyes began to roam wildly for a pair of pajamas to wear before meeting the man outside.

Her eyes now stopped at the point of a pair of brown pajamas and grabbed them quickly.  She went to the toilet and put it on.

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Again, Alexa turned the doorknob slowly and tried to control herself while shaking herself.  His eyes with light brown irises staring at the man with blond hair, pale white skin, green eyes with red thin lips and stunning.

"Sorry to interrupt, it's this late!"  She said then then he didn't forget to smile, when the man smiled it was clearly engraved on the man's right cheek that had a sweet dimple.  He raised his right hand, "Patter."  The boy said and smiled.

"Alexa Brown, just Alexa.." Alexa replied Patter's outstretched hand, and quickly let go of his hand.  "Sorry to keep you waiting."

"That's all right," Patter said quickly.  "I should have been the one being polite from earlier. You must have felt uncomfortable with my arrival."  He added, then he took out a notebook from his almo mater pocket.

"May I ask?"  Alexa spoke carefully.

Patter raised an eyebrow without looking up as he flipped through the pages of his notebook.  "Please."

"Why does this school allow boys and girls in one room?"  she asked then, then she fanned himself with has fingers even though she wasn't really hot at all.  She shook for a moment, when she saw Patter who had been busy reading something had now stopped silent for a few minutes.  Making Alexa feel even more strange and cursing herself for asking questions that could have offended Patter or made Patter complain to the principal for being crazy about business.  But, what does it matter.  She probably wasn't wrong to ask that because she really didn't intend to share a room with boy.

Patter looked up slowly, he put the black notebook back in his pocket.  He looked at Alexa's stiff face, "roommate?"  he repeated, "Son and daughter?"  Patter frowned "where did you get that assumption from?"  asked Patter in amazement mixed with a sudden tickle in his stomach.

Alexa stared in surprise at Patter who was holding his stomach with a red face, he knew that kind of expression.  Patter was laughing at himself, but what was he laughing at.  Himself?  Oh, Alexa is feeling played.  He wanted to punch Patter's annoyed face with a blunt object, or he had to shut Patter's door.

"Are you kidding me?"  said Patter who held back his laughter making his white face blush.

"You mean?"

"Roomgirls? I can't even imagine what happened after that."  Patter now let out a laugh.

Not funny at all, thought Alexa.  Alexa stared flatly at Patter who was releasing his laughter.  Has hands that were folded across has chest were now holding the golden door knob, "if not, can you go I want to rest.!"  Asked Alexa and pushed open the lacquered brown door quickly.  But his urge was halted when a black shoe rang on the sidelines of the door.

Alexa snorted again, she pulled the door and her hand was still holding the knob and would not let anyone else see the contents of the room.  "What else? I'm not here to be laughed at or anything. So I hope you go away and don't bother me."

Patter, who wasn't laughing now, scratched the nape of his neck, which didn't itch and made a sorry face.  "Oh, I'm sorry Alexa.!"  he said.  "I didn't mean to laugh at you or anything. But your question earlier made me really weird and funny."

"And sooo?"  Alexa replied coldly.

"I came here because of my duty. I'm the leader of the dormitory."

The Head of the House, thought Alexa.  So what now, Alexa was now asking herself.  Then his eyes rounded like the levers of a machine in Alexa's brain functioned until a white cloud burst there.

She remembered when Mrs. Helena would leave her with Albert this afternoon.  He remembered that Mrs. Helena would send the head of the hostel to him.  Alexa Brown once again snorted inwardly cursing herself she lowered her face for a moment and bit her lower lip.  She wanted to scream because he always had negative thoughts about anyone.

"Alexa?"  Patter called softly when he saw Alexa looking down and her hair covering her face.  He felt something strange had happened to Alexa since the first time they met, even though it was only a few tens of minutes.  "Are you all right?"  worried Patter.

Alexa released her hand on the round, gold-colored doorknob while raising her hand.  "It doesn't matter."  She replied then she raised his face and his hands quickly covered his face which felt hot with embarrassment.  "I'm fine."  he said again.

"I thought something happened to you."  Patter was now relieved when Alexa looked up.  "Oh yes, let me explain when I came here."  "I'm here because of my job as the head of the dormitory. And I will carry out my duty, which is to get you oriented at this school."  Patter smiled at the end of the sentence.  "If you have time now, let me ask you out and introduce the do's and don'ts of this school. And also invite you to find a class and pick up your uniform."

Alexa returned Patter's smile slowly.  Has head was pointed at a bakker clock on the table beside his bed.  A red bakker clock in the shape of an apple was given by Park Ji-Hoo when she was in Korea.  At least it's been two months.

Alexa stared at the clock from afar with narrowed eyes and then returned to normal.  "I think it's already 11 pm."  Alexa said slowly.  "Okay!"  Alexa now hastily grabbed a pair of white socks with a blue girl and a pair of white boats shoes mixed with black on the hem.  She quickly put on the socks and shoes he had grabbed earlier.  She threw the bedroom slippers under the table that was as tall as Alexa's stomach, without thinking too much.

"Come on!"  said Alexa quickly.  She pulled open the door and quickly locked it.  This time he unlocked it with 2 rounds but those 5 rounds were the most full.  She doesn't care if at any time his roommates are confused about why he fully locked the bedroom door.  She will not bother, the important thing is the room and its contents, in other words, the goods have not changed and there are no shortages.  What she wanted was no theft.

She remembered about Park Ji-Ho's experience regarding his brother who was in the dormitory always calling and complaining because his things were always missing.  And after tracing the cause because Park Ji-Ho's brother did not lock the room tightly so that the room was easy to break into.  For some reason, remembering that, she won't stay silent, she now has to set an alarm danger for the specified time.

Alexa had fully locked the door and now turned to look at Patter who was full of question marks.  She even made a bet with himself if the man in front of him said he was weird.

"Already?"  asked Patter quietly.  And all he got was a nod.  It means that Patter can start his duties as the head of the hostel.

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