Life at the Top

It was the same idea.

At that moment, neither Anna nor Wendy cared how beautiful the other looked. They were both shameless witches in the other’s eyes.

A flask of tea was shared between the three of them.

In a little less than half an hour, Jasper found himself fully understanding what people meant when they said ‘minutes ticked on like hours’.

Wendy kept her cool the entire time, seeing that the last thing she should do as Jasper’s other half was to cower in fear. She had to defend her position.

Meanwhile, Anna drank tea and began to search for topics of interest. Wendy would reply and give her own two cents without an ounce of fear.

Jasper, however, was completely isolated, for the two women had tacitly decided to ignore him.

Half an hour later, Anna finally got up and excused herself. “I’m a little tired, so I’ll get back to my room now.”

‘You should’ve left long ago.’ That was what Wendy thought internally, but she merely replied with a sympathetic expression on her face, “I’ve had a lot of fun talking to you, Miss Law. We should do this again sometime.”

‘How about we don’t…’

Jasper wanted nothing more at that moment than to toss Wendy to the North Pole and Anna to the South Pole so the two would never meet again.

small smile. “Sounds great. I had a lot of fun talking to you today too, Miss Schuler. We should talk

then turned to Jasper and asked softly, “Won’t you send me off,

fist angrily at her suggestion and bit her red lip, but she

got up and smiled dryly. “I’ll walk

and Anna slightly closed the door behind her

and was overwhelmed with the urge to run over to look at what the two of them were doing, but she

the door, Jasper was about to speak when an air

her hands wrapped around Jasper’s neck, Anna

did not know whether to laugh or to cry as he pulled Anna’s arms

was just on the other side of the door. The last thing Jasper wanted to

“Coward.”

attend a fashion show on behalf of my teacher. It’ll be three to

hide the surprise

felt slightly

Anna was teasing

I’ll stop. Go comfort your

then turned

with both his hands at the sight of Anna’s retreating figure and turned to push open the room door.