The Nine and a Love (ON HIATUS)

36.

Evelyn walked out from the examination hall and was soon greeted by Eleanor who was waiting for her outside the hall.

"How was it?" Eleanor asked cheerfully as she tugged her arm into Evelyn's arm. Evelyn glanced at her with a light chuckle as they continued to walk through the hallway.

"It was too easy," Evelyn answered cockily making Eleanor fake pout at her. The questions were average and the MCQs were too easy for her to answer.

"Wish I could say the same for me too," Eleanor sighed dramatically. "But mine was not bad either," She added cheerfully. 

"Did you talk with Adrian?" Eleanor asked, her expression slowly turning pensive. 

Evelyn glanced at her and chuckled amusedly looking at Eleanor's serious expression. "You look ugly," She jested, earning a light slap on her arm from Eleanor. 

"Don't worry about what happened that day. Nothing's changed. We just didn't get the time to talk coz of this exam." Evelyn said with a warm smile. But then her smile slowly worn off when her eyes caught on Nathan. He was some good distance ahead of them and Carla was with him. Nathan was leaned against the wall while Carla was looking straight into his eyes with a bright smile playing on her lips.

Evelyn sighed inwardly. She hadn't talk with him for the past two days- after she told him to leave her alone. Eleanor turned to look at Evelyn only to see her staring at a distance ahead of them. Her expression turned deadpanned the moment she saw Carla and rolled her eyes over. 

"C'mon, let's go grab some coffee," Eleanor said softly but her eyes were glaring at Carla as she dragged Evelyn towards the opposite direction, away from them.

*

Evelyn and Eleanor walked into the cafeteria only to see Cornelia and Genesis glaring at each other, ready to pull each other's hair any second. Evelyn sighed and shook her head before hurrying towards them. Eleanor mirrored her.

"What's going on?" Evelyn asked as she and Eleanor came beside Cornelia.

"They just wanted some attention," Victoria mocked under her smirk. She was seated on the chair, enjoying her coffee. 

"Shut up, Vic," Genesis said glancing at her. Victoria simply shrugged off before continuing to enjoy her coffee.

"And you, I'm telling you for the last time, stay away from my boyfriend," Genesis warned glaring at Cornelia. Evelyn raised both her eyebrows and shot a looked at Cornelia.

"Oh really! Then tell your boyfriend to stop flirting with me. And FYI, I am not the only girl that he keeps flirting around. You should keep a check on your so-called boyfriend, bitch," Cornelia retorted back with a mocking smirk playing on her face. Eleanor couldn't help but snort out loud. There were also some mocking laughs heard inside the cafeteria.

Genesis glared around before angrily stomping out of the cafeteria. Victoria sighed inwardly and rolled her eyes over before standing from her seat. She then turned towards Evelyn and stared at her for a moment as she thought about her words,

Why don't you be that good friend to someone then?

Victoria rolled her eyes over and shook off her thought. She cursed under her breath before chasing after Genesis.  Evelyn glanced at her back before drifting her attention to her friends.

"You could've ignored that jerk," Evelyn said looking at Cornelia.

"I couldn't help but flirt back," Cornelia said cheekily.

"You have a boyfriend," Evelyn reminded her. 

They settled down for coffee and after some minutes, Aaleyah and Emilia joined them and talked about matters of their examinations. They decided to leave soon after their coffee as they had to prepare for tomorrow's exam.