Middle Child Syndrome - Chapter 137

Chapter 137: Ch 137: Too deep asleep
“Charon, are you in there? Why have you locked the door from the inside? I need you to open the door for me.”

Rika called out to the person inside her room. But Charon was either not in her room or pretending she did not hear Rika purposely.

‘Or maybe she is asleep. Should I try calling her to see if she picks up the phone? Or should I open the door with my spare copy of the sky?’

Rika had been given a spare copy of her room’s keys in case of emergency. Luckily, she had her keys in her pocket this time to use them.

In her eyes, Charon’s actions of not opening the door were considered an emergency, and Rika needed to deal with this as soon as possible.

The door opened quietly, and Rika entered the dark room.

Shuu wiggled around her feet, but he seemed uncomfortable letting Rika enter the dark room.

A tiny but powerful jaw bit her pant leg and tried to force Rika to step out of the room. But Shuu had no body mass to support its small body, so forcing Rika out of the room was impossible.

She picked up the puppy to calm it down, and Shuu melted in her arms.

“Sorry, Shuu, but this is important to me. If you feel uncomfortable, I can hold you for now. I’m sure you will feel less scared that way.”

The tiny puppy protested and whined as Rika entered the room. But it also understood that Rika would not listen to it and keep away.

“Charon, are you in here? Are you alright? You are not sick or anything like that, right? Can you give me a signal that you are fine?”

Rika asked as she entered the room further.

The curtains had been pulled down, which made the room even darker.

Thankfully, the room was clean, so Rika did not trip over anything.

Charon was just asleep on her bed when Rika checked up on her. Her face looked like it was in a deep sleep, and Rika felt terrible about trying to disturb her.

At the same time, relief filled Rika’s heart as soon as she realised that Charon was not in danger.

“Phew, thank God you are okay. For a second, you had me worried. This must be a deep sleep if you did not wake up even after I banged the door hard. It makes me feel jealous of you.”

Rika almost poked Charon’s sleeping face before she controlled her hands and pulled them away from the sleeping female.

A bottle of sleeping pills was on Charon’s side table, which told Rika how Charon had achieved such a deep sleep.

“It looks like there is nothing we can do to wake Charon now. As much as I want to talk to her, letting her sleep might be best. Who knows how exhausted she must be feeling right now? Shuu, we should head back to our bed and not disturb Charon.”

Shuu growled in agitation when he looked at Charon’s body. His slight whine indicated that Rika should hurry up and go to her bed.

This was not a nod, so Rika picked up Shuu and walked toward her bed.

For some reason, her puppy refused to warm up to Charon.

He reduced himself to warming up to anyone who was not Rika. But Charon was an even more particular case, and at this point, Rika had given up on ever reconciling over this topic.

‘At least Charon tries to be friendly to Shuu. This puppy does not even try. He has it out for Charon ever since it came here.’

That might be the case today, but Rika felt intense and eventually looked like Charonook, like Charon.

*yawn*

“Looking at Charon sleeping so soundly makes me also want to nap. Maybe closing my eyes for a few minutes is not such a bad idea.”

Rika considered falling asleep, but she fell asleep between thinking about it and lying on her bed.

She was woken up by violent shaking, and her eyes flew open. She could only see Fey’s excited face inches away.

“You are finally awake. How deep were you sleeping so you would not even hear me when I kept calling you? Hurry up and come down for dinner. I will go wake up Charon as well.”

Fey’s voice made Rika feel irritated.

She had such a sweet dream, but the older beta had woken her up.

But what Rika should have appreciated was that her body indeed did. It let out a hungry pang, reminding Rika she needed to eat to stay alive.

“Charon, wake up. If you don’t wake up now, I will be forced to wake you up with a kiss. Is that what you want from me? Don’t worry! I am a good kisser, and…why did you have to wake up now?”

Rika looked at Charon’s blank expression when she looked around.

Recognition had not yet entered her eyes, and she looked pretty tired when she yawned.

“Are you finally awake? Good morning. I thought you would be asleep for a lot longer than you were. Were you feeling that tired?”

Rika asked the disoriented female. She also pushed Fey to the side so Charon would feel safe.

It worked since Charon looked much more willing to speak now.

The confusion was also draining out of her eyes, and awareness occurred.

“Ugh, I think I overslept. My head hurts because I am sleeping so much! Fey, can you speak more softly? You’ll make my head worse than it already is.”

Charon complained as she clutched her head.

Fey looked irritated, but Rika could see the relief flooding her eyes when she saw that Charon was all right.

“Tsk, this is your problem. I am speaking at a calm rate. Maybe you should not sleep for such long times next time. You might not wake up next time if you do this.”

Fey was jesting when she said that. But for some reason, Rika felt a shiver go down her spine at those words.