The Mech Lord

"But, I still don't understand why you are lying about us here?" Leo asked Christina with a confused look on his face.

Christina sighed as she looked at Leo with a complicated look on her face before finally speaking up, "I am sure that my mother has reached the limit, she is a very curious person. If I said that it wasn't you, she would have definitely gone ahead and found my boyfriend herself. And when that happened, it wouldn't go well."

"I am not that worried that they would end our relationship as we were aware of our positions before we even began seeing each other, but what worries me the most is that they might end his career." Christina's face withered into a sad one.

"Actually, I even asked him to break up with me after I slipped my tongue and revealed his existence to my mom." She let out a self deprecating smile on her face. "We had a fight, and from then we are not in contact.."

"I am not even sure whether we are still in a relationship or not.." She shook her head and sighed once again. "I was foolish to have believed that it would work in the past.."

[See, even she understands it-nya..] Aiden muttered in a calm tone. But, Leo still felt all of this was ridiculous.

"So, you are trying to protect him like this?" Leo asked her. Her situation seemed similar to Aiden. But, the two of them were on the different end of the stick for sure.

"That might be right…" Christina nodded. "Aren't you doing the same kind of thing?"

"You know that it wouldn't work between you and Becky. She is a Princess and you are the Marshal's son. There still might have been a little hope if you had talent. But, you don't even have that.."

[This girl sure is starting to act all familiar-nya..] Aiden's face twitched listening to the truth.

"I thought that things would be over, if you just denied it. But, now that you have said yes, have you thought about what to do ahead?" Leo asked her with a serious look on his face.

"Yeah, just let's pretend for a while and later say that it didn't work between us. It's not official after all." Christina casually replied with a smile.

'That works?' Leo asked Aiden in surprise. This was pretty simple in comparison to other things that he had been listening to.

[Yeah, it does-nya.] Aiden confirmed Christina's statement.

"Well, that's fine with me." Leo nodded, "But, what about your boyfriend? The rumors are already floating around, what if he finds out about it?"

"To be honest, this might be the best for him." Christina smiled, it seemed she had something in her head.

"If he will give up after this, then it was all he had to himself. It might be better for us to not have gone any further with such a half assed resolve."

"But, if he insists on still being the one for me, then I will give him an opportunity and tell him that as long as he can prove himself and make a name for himself in the future, I will go against my parents and dump you for him."

"After all, I am sure as long as he has something to back himself up, my parents would reluctantly allow it."

Leo's face twitched a bit.

This girl sure was not as innocent as she looked.

"But, there is only one problem here." She suddenly frowned.

"What is it?" Leo asked her with a confused look on his face.

"This will sure make things awkward between me and Becky." Christina had an odd look on her face, and Leo sure understood what it meant.

"There is nothing wrong here. It's not like she can interfere with other people's choices, and I am sure she is not that kind of person to hold grudges for something like this." Leo muttered after hearing the same from Aiden.

"But, she actually approached and asked me about the rumors a few days before and I denied it." Christina forced a smile on her, and it indeed put a slight frown on Leo's face. But, he soon shook his head.

"There is nothing wrong with trying to keep your things personal. If you really feel odd, just say that I was the one to have asked you to keep quiet about it." Leo just casually laid out a good plan for her to avoid an awkward situation.

"Well, that surely will work. She is kind after all." Christina nodded.

"Bang!"

At this moment, the door was suddenly flung open.

Leo and Christina turned their heads and saw Vanessa standing there.

There was a look of disappointment on her face when she saw the two of them, "Boring, don't couples usually do lewd things alone in a room? I had my hopes up in vain."

Both Leo and Christina's face twitched.

"You really broke my heart, Aiden! You could have said that you had such a cute girlfriend. Why did you have to play with my heart like this?" She came while staggering and stumbled before dropping down at Christina's feet.

"Little Chris...this guy has played with my heart, be careful with him.." She looked at Christina with teary eyes.

Christina's face twitched once again while Leo's face turned dark. She sure was one hell of a person.

"You never change Sis.." Christina just smiled at her. She was obviously acquainted with her as well and seemed to be aware about her antics.

"You used to get all flustered earlier when you were little and acted so cute. You sure have matured now." She smiled before looking at Leo and then back at her. She then moved her mouth closer to Christina's ear and muttered in a low voice, "Did he help you mature?"

It took a second for Christina to realize what she meant, and when she did, her face immediately turned red like a tomato and smoke began to come out of her ears. There had to be a limit to jokes like this.

What was this lady?

A pervert..

"This is what I was talking about.." Vanessa laughed looking at Christina's reaction.

"Grip!"

Suddenly, Vanessa felt a grip on her head and turned her head to see Viona glaring at her with red bloodthirsty eyes.

"N-No..it's not like that Sis..I was just here to greet her.."

"You are coming with me.." Viona dragged Vanessa out of the room as she struggled to escape.

"You guys have fun. I will make sure she doesn't disturb you guys again." Viona smiled at Leo and Christina before quietly closing the door.

Leo finally sighed in relief seeing the trouble gone.

"She sure hasn't changed," Christina said while grinding her teeth, her face was still hot and a bit red.

"Well, she won't be coming here now.." Leo Replied with a forced smile on his face. It seemed it wasn't only him who had hard time with the psycho lady.

The two stayed in the room for a while talking about stuff related to their fake act and Academy until evening.

It seemed they were leaving after dinner.

....

"I didn't think he would be able to get himself such a cute girl." Amelia muttered while looking at Christina. She really was in shock today when her brother's girlfriend popped out of nowhere.

"Thank you, but you are way prettier than me.." Christina replied to her with a smile, and everyone else automatically had a smile on their face seeing her actions.

[What is wrong with her-nya?]

'She sure is raising flags here. I bet your family is impressed and their expectations for the future are reaching sky high. When the time of break up comes, I bet I will be taking all the blame.' Leo sighed inwardly, but he couldn't do anything about it. This seemed like Christina's inner personality.

"Take care.." Vanessa smiled and hugged Christina before whispering into her ear, "If you need any knowledge on how to do it, just contact me. I will teach you."

She then let go of her, but Christina for some reason kept her low while a satisfied expression appeared on Vanessa's face seeing the poor little girl's reactions. She really enjoyed teasing people.

When the group finally left, every gaze turned towards Leo and then came a barrage of questions raining down at him.

"Since when has it been going on?"

"Didn't you lose your memory? How did you guys get back together?" This was one of the questions that everyone was quite interested in.

"How did you got such a cute girl while still being a loser?" Amelia immediately felt several glares being directed at her as she once again let her tongue go out of control. She really needed much practice.

"You have done me proud.." Edgar was the happiest of all. To be able to get a partner was one of the tasks that they had to do as part of their tradition. The ones who had to depend on their parents for arranging it were often looked down upon.

So, he was obviously happy for Aiden.

Leo felt sweat sliding down his face as he looked at all these people staring right at him.. It seemed his troublesome day had yet to end.