Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 9: Fairy

          In the morning, Orion woke up as usual, cleaned up, and carried his laptop to the canteen.

　　The canteen had just opened for business and the hall was empty.

　　"A cup of coffee, two croissants, an omelette!"

　　"Okay! You're so early again, young man."

　　"Thank you!"

　　Orion Crest has a sweet mouth, whether it's to his classmates, teachers or strangers. That's what his old man taught him, to be kind to others and never suffer. Of course, the words were not so absolute, his old dad had been a worker in the steel mill for so many years and had suffered a lot of losses and anger. As for Orion himself, sometimes he can't control his own mouth, and he may speak out of turn when he shouldn't.

　　With the coffee in hand, Orion took out his card and stuck it on the card reader. However, the next second, he was embarrassed.

　　[Insufficient Balance]

　　Seeing Orion's embarrassment, the canteen lady smiled and said unconcernedly, "It's fine, it's okay to use money, I can get change here."

　　Orion became even more embarrassed; the wallet was empty...

　　At that moment, like a sound from heaven, the card reader ding-donged. Orion turned his head back, only to see a girl with airy fringes, standing behind him with a smile on her face, and the right hand that was pinching the card even shook gently.

　　"Hi, good morning."

　　"Morning ......" Orion froze and nodded. "This girl ......, Who was it?"

　　"Wawa, I can't believe that you don't recognise me!" Isabel could easily notice that Orion hadn't recognised who she was.

　　"Em, sorry ...... thanks, why don't you add me on WhatsApp, and I'll give it back to you?"

　　"That's fine, it's only $7.50, I'm not that stingy, and we already linked in WhatsApp, ok!" Shaking hair, Isabel extending her right hand, "My name is Isabel Cheung, from Business school. and I'm senior, em..., freshman."

　　Orion didn't know why she had to bite the word "senior" so hard, nor the way how she knew the truth. But when he heard her say that WhatsApp, he remembered who she was for a moment. Just ......

　　Below the waist were crisp denim shorts, and further down a pair of long legs that made you wonder where to put your eyes, and a pair of white sandals. On top was a cool white boat-necked small t-shirt, which was actually geometrically three-dimensional for her to wear. Her face was painted with a bit of light make-up, and her lip colour was a fresh but not too bright pale red, especially since the round framed glasses had been removed ...... and presumably replaced with contact lenses?

　　Looking at Orion frozen in silence, Isabel was slightly pleased. Originally, her roommate had spent a lot of effort to dress her up, which had annoyed her a bit, but now she instantly felt that the time wasted was not too much of a loss. Of course, this was also because she herself was in good shape, and usually that was just a habit of not dressing up.

　　"What's wrong? freshman?" Isabel ruffled her long hair between her ears and looked at Orion mischievously, pursing her lips and smiling, signalling with her eyes that he wasn't going to say something?

　　Orion was silent for a while, looking Isabel up and down, pondering whether he should say something or not, but finally spoke in a small voice, "It's getting colder...... You're like this, you'll catch a cold. "

　　"......"

　　Isabel suddenly felt that it was stupid to expect anything from him.

　　Both of them finished eating at about the same time and walked towards the library together. As usual, Isabel took the seat next to Orion, and pulled out her exercise book to study. The revamped look was just for a change of mood and to satisfy her roommate's interest, and it didn't bring any change to her study rhythm.

　　Orion, on the other hand, took out his notebook and continued to meticulously edit his paper. The algorithm that Old Tang had shown him yesterday had greatly inspired his thesis, and he intended to select the important parts of that argumentation process and write them into his thesis. In this way, there are only three difficult points left to figure out and trying to get the whole paper done before the end of the month! SCI journals are very slow in reviewing manuscripts, he didn't want to delay for half a year before completing the task of the system.

　　Just like this, time passed without realising it, and it was soon noon. After doing a whole morning's practice, Isabel stretched her back, glanced at Orion sitting next to her, stood up and walked over, gently poked his arm and said, "Hi, do you want to go to lunch together?"

　　Orion hesitated and shook his head, "No, I'm not very hungry yet, you go first." Today is Sunday, the person who manages to recharge the card in the canteen is not in office, and he left his mobile phone in the dormitory, so how embarrassing would it be to borrow her card again?

　　"Really? I'll treat you." Isabel asked.

　　Finally, the temptation for food won out over any reasons, and he nodded his head embarrassedly, "Then ...... let's go together, I'll treat you next time."

　　"Ah, I'll remember that. Let's go then, we'll catch the dining rush if we're late." Isabel stood up, the corner of her mouth curled up the moment she turned her back, full of mirth, and grunted twice in her heart. "So, what if you have a high IQ? It still has to be suppressed under the Fairy's mature and elegant school sister temperament."

　　However, Orion, who followed her out of the library, didn't even notice the complacency on her face, because at this moment, he was thinking about a very serious issue.

　　Will it be Swedish meatballs or seafood spaghetti??

　　Is it pizza, or is it mashed potatoes??