See You In Paris

Chapter 3

"Okay class, we don't have time so I guess this Friday we will be continuing discussing kinematics," Mr Grandioso says. He piles up his book and papers to carry it and leave.

It's our first day of class and this morning just ended up with our physics class. We just carry our bags to go to the cafeteria and some might go somewhere else. I look around and Andrew looks at me with his all smiles. He is quite chubby and nerd, and always wears his smiles. He always smiles at any situation. That's what I just noticed of him. And I feel it very welcome to be his friend.

"Steph," Andrew calls.

I walk towards him. "Let's go to the cafet."

"Yeah, sure." I smile a bit.

Well, we just became friends from the WOW event these past few days. He is really friendly, I forgot to tell you that. He approached me first and friendship began.

"Physics is really an insanity, tsk!" He tells me.

"You say so," I turn to him and smirk. Physics is really complicated, I mean the majority on this planet Earth would say the same thing. But I am telling you people in the world, that it's really interesting and fun. I hope that's fairly convincing.

We are about to step into the cafeteria area when Andrew shakes my shoulder surprisingly.

"Look! That beautiful girl!" He suddenly whispers but in an eager-tensed tone way. He puts his head closely beside me and I follow his gaze where he's looking at.

"Where?" I furrow my eyebrows.

"There. That beautiful lady, mate," he points out his finger. "She is really beautiful," he says and his eyes are as if swirling like a rotating kaleidoscope and his face shows that his stomach is grumbled with butterflies. And yeah, I spot her. Well, she's beautiful. Everyone is talking about her, I think all boys are after her. Her name is Eleanor, from Chemistry department. She's now in her third year. She has a red, long, and sleek hair paired perfectly with her almond-shaped face. She's got whiter skin and when she swims through the crowd, her skin colour glows beyond anyone's. She's also taller like her height fits in the modeling industry. Everyone adores her beauty and her brain, and every boy in the USTP has their on way to court her. Well yeah, I adore her.

After a few seconds I swerve my gaze to the food menu and I catch the face of that guy I bumped into during Week of Welcome. My heart suddenly beats so fast. He walks through inside and turns his head but before he catches me, I quickly turn around.

"What's the matter?" Andrew asks with his furrowed eyebrows.

"Amh? Ah, nothing just..." I hang on a moment but I cut it off. "Come on let's find a table."

"Okay," he smiles.

We are going through the vacant table while carrying our orders when suddenly a guy from behind swoops and I suddenly jolt resulting slipping the cold iced tea and spaghetti and they fall onto not the floor but onto the guy that's sitting beside.

"Oh!" I surprisingly exclaim.

"Holy crap!" He shouts and stands up and turns around. My falls open by what I see. The guy that I spilled my food onto is the guy whom I bumped into before.

"You? Again?!" He raises his voice and his demonic eyebrow. I don't know what to say. Or am I supposed to say sorry again because I know he's not going to take it. I don't think this guy could admit his own mistakes, or am I just being judgemental.

"I'm sorry..." I just say it then.

"Sorry?!" He still raises his voice. "Is that all you just want to say? Huh?!"

"What you want me to say then? That's cool?!" I surprisingly raise my voice too.

"Ohhh... That creeps me out, dude," the one guy that I recognize teases and chuckles sitting opposite Xander, Alfonso. Xander shows his best smug at me and it never ever creeps me out this way. I am totally furious showing me with this attitude of his. He can't take even a 'sorry' phrase and I hate it, totally hate it, ugh!

I am actually surprised by what I am showing an attitude right towards him. His face from a smug to a furious expression. I admit it, I don't know what I'm going to do after this because he's taller than me and way more having bad-boy look. He's way more naughty. Ugh! I don't want to be beaten by this ugly beast.

"You have no respect to seniors huh?!" Xander smirks.

"I have actually but I don't want to waste my time giving such respect to an ugly dude like you!" I show my best smug at him too. His friends at the back boo and tease him. His rage grows like a little flame poured with arousing gas and becomes a wildfire. He narrows his eyes even more and now he looks like a red dragon ready to blow a fire on me. He shakes his head like he's amazed by what I am giving off to him.

"Oh, Really? Don't you know me you asshole?" He slowly walks towards me and I slowly back off then. My heart wants to skip from chest now and I am so nervous. If he's gonna punch me I will do my best to punch him back, no matter what it costs.

Andrew shakes my shoulder then.

"Come on Steph, let's go before anything gets bigger and bigger," He worries. He's also afraid. But I just ignore Andrew because I don't want this punk to think that I am a chickenshit. I just glare at him even though the coldness is running down my spine. I want him to think of me as a wild tiger who never submits himself to big elephant.

Before anything happens like being scourged or I am going to my boarding house with a huge black on my eye someone from behind calls his name.

"Xander, stop!"

I turn around and my eyes get wider and my mouth falls open again.

"Leave him alone. He said sorry, didn't he? And he's just a freshman, don't argue with him you must be a good role model." Ashley walks towards Xander. She then looks at me. I jolt and blink my eyes couple times.

"Don't mind him, you can go," she says in a soothing tone way.

"Don't talk to him like that, babe," Xander complains.

I furrow my eyebrows. Like what?! Babe?! What the hell on Earth. I can't believe they are together.

I want to argue with Xander because I am not done with and I am sure he's not done with me too. But I lower my pride and choose to leave the cafeteria. Before I totally leave I just didn't notice that all people in the cafeteria were watching on us. I am ashamed right now. I really am an asshole and dumbass, ugh! I want to go straight to my boarding house and crouch on my bed and hide my face in my arms. Andrew is just following me.

I look back and see them through the glass doors. I see Ashley helping Xander wipe those stains on his polo shirt. And there is somethig in me that quite hurts. I just completely walk away.