My Crazy Housemate: What Makes You Happy

Next morning, Jeremy looked around during the first class and still didn't find Mia. He thought maybe she was running late and would come in before the class ends, but she didn't. 

He grew worried and just before the second class began, he placed a call across to Mia again who still didn't answer her calls after calling her four times. 

"You look worried." A lady said making him raise his head to look at her. 

She was also his classmate but he couldn't remember ever speaking with her since they became classmates. 

"Your new buddy isn't in class? Or is she your girlfriend?" The girl asked with her curious gaze on his face. 

"Something you want?" Jeremy asked her distractedly. He always kept his distance from his classmates so it was surprising she was suddenly talking to him when people stayed away because he was on scholarship and not from a wealthy family like most of them. 

"Yes. To be your friend." She said with a flirty smile before sitting down on the empty space beside him. 

"My friend?" He asked in surprise. 

"Yes. You seem like a pretty cool guy. Your presence is always known, seen how you always stand up for yourself and those around you." She said with a smile. 

He wouldn't lie and say she wasn't pretty. She definitely was. But to him, no woman was as pretty as Chloe. Even though this lady before him was wearing a shirt with the first buttons undone to reveal a bit of her cleavages, he still preferred Chloe's style where she always completely buttoned her shirts completely. He looked at Chloe's direction. She seemed very busy typing something on her phone. He could guess it had to do with work. 

"I'm not sure I'm interested in being your friend." He said casually.

The girl looked a bit surprised but she laughed to hide it. 

"You don't know who I am? I'm Katie. Katie Engels. My father owns—"

"Engels sure ring a bell." Jeremy interrupted her.

Most of the kids in the school were all kids from socialite families so he wasn't surprised that they all had influential parents. Besides, he had been classmates with her for years, it was normal for him to know almost everyone in the same class with him. 

"Good. So I'll be hosting a party this weekend to celebrate my birthday and I'd like you to be there. As my special guest" She said flirtatiously and touched his hair but he quickly held her hand and moved it away from his hair. He had never liked people touching his hair... just a few exceptions though.

"I do not mean to be rude, but I'm not interested in any of it." He said flatly.

He checked his phone immediately it beeped, expecting it was a message from Mia but he was surprised to see it was from Chloe who was sitting at a few seats away from him.

She hadn't looked at him since she arrived at school. Since they've been driving to school together, he had waited for her call in the morning so he would go pick her up and drive her to school but she had sent him a text to tell him she would drive herself to school, and since she arrived, she pretended like he wasn't in the same class with her. She hadn't looked at him once today. Not that she ever looked at him in class anyway, but it seemed this time, she was deliberately trying to avoid him. 

He knew it had to do with what he said last night about missing her. But he wasn't sure he regretted saying it. He had been damn serious when he said he missed her and it felt like a huge weight was lifted off his chest when he said those words to her, but if it was going to make her distant and put a strain on their 'relationship', then he would apologize to her after classes today. 

"Why is Mia not in school?" Chloe asked in her text. 

Jeremy turned to look at her and saw her flipping through the pages of a book indifferently. 

"I have no idea. She's not taking my calls. Can I get your brother's number?" He asked and looked up at Katie who was still seated there. 

"At least can I have your number?" She asked before handing him her phone. She didn't seem too annoyed that he was ignoring her. 

"I made a bet with my friends that I was going to get your number. Please do not embarrass me." She said with a pout and batted her lashes at him.

Jeremy sighed before taking her phone from her. He typed in his number and returned her phone while she smiled at him and took him by surprise when she suddenly kissed his cheek.

As she returned to her group of friends, his eyes went to where Chloe was seated and this time, he saw her staring at him with an unreadable gaze before she returned her attention to her phone. In a second, a message came on his phone and it was a phone number. 

*******

Leo watched Mia as she slept. She hadn't slept at all the entire night so he let her sleep and made sure to silent her phone so she wouldn't be disturbed. 

He felt really bad for her. He could not imagine what she was going through. 

Last night had been a war. Mia totally lost it to the point where Mary had to be taken to the hospital. 

Even when he tried to stop Mia, hearing all of her complaints while she cried and hit her sister, he was torn between letting her vent out her anger or pulling her away. 

But when it looked like Mia was never going to stop and Linda had left Mary's side since Mia was also hitting her, Leo had to pull her away with force. 

"Die! Just die! That's what you deserve." Mia spat angrily with tears in her eyes at Mary who was crying on the floor with bruises all over her body.