A Path To Happiness And Sorrow

8: For those who seek happiness; For those who found happiness.

Carlo's POV

"I see. You're here again." , I looked up to the person who spoke.

"Kei", I said when I saw her face looking at me.

She sat down to the chair beside mine. Actually, I'm here at the New Library to continue my project. It's half past noon and all of my classes already ended. Since, I don't want to go home yet, I decided to stay here.

"You've been here more frequently these days. Are you that eager to see me?"

"What? No!", I exclaimed at her.

"Calm down, hahaha. I'm just joking.", I watched her laugh at my reaction instead of feeling annoyed, I just smiled at her laughing face.

As usual, she's wearing her lab coat and male version of their uniform. To be honest, the reason of my frequent stay here is because this is the only place on where I can be so sure that she's present. Her department is far from ours and I don't know her schedule. I found out that her duty in the library is always around noon.

It's not like I have a feelings for her or what. I just wanted to be close to her. Thankfully, she's not hard to approach.

"That's beautiful."

"What is?", I asked.

"Your artwork.", I was so focused at her that I didn't even notice that she's looking at my drawing tablet. I cleared my throat to composed myself and to hide my damn embarrassment.

"Really? Thanks." , I replied at her. I remove my gaze away from her to the drawing tablet. I picked up the digital pen and started doing my project.

"Is it me, or your art style somewhat change?", she asked with much curiosity in her tone.

"Oh, you noticed?"

"Well, you've been here frequently and every time I saw you, you're busy drawing at your tablet. While watching you, I grew accustom to your art style. But, today seems different.", yeah, whenever she finds out that I'm here she always sit beside me and watch me draw.

I didn't expect that she really paid attention to me. I mean, to my work.

"This is a partner project. So, obviously the art style is quite different because the design was made by my partner. We're given a task, to draw an art work with a theme."

"What theme?"

"The theme that our professor gave us is 'dream like reality'."

"Oh, I see. That's why it's pretty dreamy."

"You have a good eyes when it comes to art.", I compliment at her while my hands and eyes are focused to drawing.

"Your partner. Is it a girl?", she asked, ignoring my comment about her. I flinched a little at her question.

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Because the character in that art is a girl. You usually draw a guy, I once saw Ian's work and it seems that he's not the type to draw cute girls like this. Actually, I'm not really sure until you confirmed it."

"Your correct. My partner is a girl. I also admire her style because it's so pretty."

"Why not Ian?"