Chapter 438: The third day after everyone arrived on the front lines
The third day after everyone had left for the front lines wasn’t as hard as the first day. Kellen planned to keep the rotation that he had for the first class, focusing on Charlie and his newly awakened determination to become the best. His second class came back the second day as if they had the keys to the palace and overwhelmed him with questions.
It was good, and a nice way to keep his mind focused.
Rhys was also a good distraction, and Kellen had enjoyed their cuddling time on the couch once both of them had gotten home the past two days. Rhys was comforting him, not forcing Kellen into anything more intimate than a few kisses here and there.
Kellen was the one who was making things more intimate, and he could tell how much Rhys liked that. Touches over clothes, grabbing him just to hear that little hitch in Rhys’ voice. Kellen was sure a new side of him had awakened, and it was probably to Rhys’ detriment.
He was also very sure that Rhys didn’t view it that way. Rhys seemed very happy with how everything was unfolding, and enjoyed making sure that Kellen knew that he was safe and comforted. Rhys had his hands full, but that didn’t mean that he stopped showing Kellen during the day that he cared for him.
It started on the third day. Rhys would send little gifts to him, mostly food, throughout the day from one of the cafeteria people. Kellen knew that they did deliveries, but this was the first time that Rhys had used them like this. Kellen only knew that they were responsible for stocking the apartments with ingredients, but when someone came knocking at the A Class gym to be let in with a huge platter of fruits cut in the shapes of hearts, Kellen could already feel his face warming.
He could feel how everyone had whipped to stare at him, except Charlie. He had been focusing on his exercise that Kellen had given him. The timer went off as one of the Espers got up and headed over to the door, letting the worker in. Everyone was staring at them, before glancing at Kellen and he made sure to write on his clipboard how many of the exercises that Charlie had done while the worker scanned the room before their eyes landed on Kellen.
They lit up with a smile, and made their way towards Kellen. The platter was twice the size of the worker. There was no way that they weren’t at least an F Class something, and if they weren’t, Kellen hoped they were making good money for this kind of labour. He didn’t have anything on him to tip them with.
"Kellen? What’s the next exercise?" Charlie asked and Kellen cleared his throat.