Chapter 1

Growing up in a countryside, in a private villa that her family owns, Rinerva grew up to be an outgoing and carefree child. Her parents are not so rich, but you can't say that they're poor either. They are wealthy enough to raise Rinerva and her younger sister in hoping that they can find their own happiness one day. Her parents owned an inn near the villa, and as busy as her parents might be, Rinerva often helped her parents since she's popular amongst younger and older guests at the inn. However, she has a problem with socializing with people around her age. She would find it awkward and rather troublesome. Her days during elementary, middle school, nor high school didn't gain her more friends. Of course, she's every teacher's pet since she's polite and often offers help, but that's what makes her even more difficult to blend in with the others.

Nevertheless, she does have a small group of her own, though they are friends since their parents are friends as well. Still, when it comes to participating and discussing or even gossiping, Rinerva would be the most quiet one in the group, since she's not familiar with what's going on with the world, like what fashion is trending, what do people nowadays do, what words or slangs do young people use. She has no interest in them and doesn't care, perhaps that's one of the factor as to why she's not able to communicate smoothly . Her friends noticed her and gave her the nickname, silence yet deadly, since she would finish every job assigned to her before anyone else realized.

Her friends, Lily and James often wonder, why wouldn't anyone have the courage to befriend her. "Perhaps she would wait till someone comes to her first...I mean, that's how we ended up being friends with her in the first place right?? She's too quiet." "I say, if she didn't cover that pair of emerald green eyes with contact lenses, she would really stand out. Why would she cover them anyway?" Lily saw her giving a chocolate desert to a child that came with his grandmother. "She also has a great personality, I mean, look at her! she greets elderlies, and children wouldn't cry at her presence, it's as if she captured everyone's heart. But then...." Lily and James stared at each other, both seemed to agree on one thing. "She would divert her appearance to a cold stare and sharp gaze that everyone would feel like they were intimidated by her." And they would giggle quietly in the corner of the room until they sensed a chill of a figure getting close by. "And here I thought that you two were actually doing your jobs, turns out you were blabber mouthing me. What do you have to say to yourselves?"

Both Lily and James were shocked to the extend Lily nearly screamed if it wasn't for James' quick reaction to cover her mouth. Rinerva passes 2 lemonades and 2 burgers towards their table. "Nice one James, you two finish your meals quickly so that I can close the restaurant early, we can go somewhere else afterwards" Lily shove James' hand and took her burger and lemonade, "Oh come on! we were highly praising you when there are no more customers left. Besides, have you had your meal? come I'll share you my meal" "And you can have my drink, I brought hot tea with me. I prefer hot  drinks during the night." James passed his lemonade to Rinerva and bring out his tea from his bag. Rinerva, Lily, and James are now on their last year as college student abroad, in Demise. Although all three of them are taking different majors, they would still hang out afterwards. All three of them are working part time job in their mother's other friend's restaurant with different shifts, although Rinerva has the most shifts since she isn't too busy.

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