My Nerd

Chapter 5

It is Friday and you know what that means, those crack heads, navya and Cabir both convinced me to come to this basketball game. The whole court is filled with chicks screaming and laughing , yelling for the team players like they are greek gods

"Look a little happy" navya mumbles beside me

"I only came for snacks" I smile

we got popcorn and I also got some M&Ms because I love them, the chocolate is so yummy. Honestly I prefer M&Ms over smarties or gems for some reason

"And for the eye candy" she teases

"Nah, there is no eye candy, it's snacks and some screaming humans"

"You are impossible, how is the project with manik going?" She asks

i sigh hearing it

"It's good but sometimes I am fed up with his requests" I say

"What requests?"

"He keeps asking me to help him with calculus and I have so much on my plate so I keep saying no but he asks at least once a day" I tell her

"Oh"

"What?" I look at her to see her frowning a little

"Cabir and I were talking and he brought up how little sleep manik has been getting because of calculus. He has been trying really hard to keep up and Cabir has been trying to help him as well but he isn't getting it at all. So both Cabir and manik are worried"

"I get why manik is worried but why is Cabir worrying so much?"

"if he doesn't get a certain grade in calculus, well any of his courses, he won't be able to play basketball"

That's why he is so persistent with asking me to help, now I feel bad for not helping but I genuinely have tons on my plate right now.

"Here they come" she says distracting me

I look up at the court and watch the team enter, all of them look alike haha not in a mean way but they all had a smile on their face other than the obvious, everyone's favourite caption.

Aryan makes eye contact with me and I smile awkwardly at him, I don't know if he understands that I don't like him like that, I would like him as a friend but nothing else. I can tell he wants more and no I am not trying to be cocky or anything  but the way he tries to initiate physical contact lets me know

I don't know why I haven't came to watch any games last years in university because god damn basketball games a re very interesting, I mean if they weren't wearing jerseys I wouldn't be able to tell which player belongs to which team but it's nice

"Hey thats mine" I smack navya's hand when she grabs some M&Ms from me

"Sharing is caring babe"

"No you stole them all"

She laughs taking it anyways making em glare at her

Soon the crowd jumps up screaming

"Did they lose?" I ask

"They won silly girl" she laughs

Oh great congratulations to them

I follow navya out of the court, I wasn't really looking around so of course my dumb ass bang against someone and not just anyone but Aryan who stood there sweating

"Hey babe" he mumbles

Oh hell no

"Aryan I"

"I really gotta go but we can text tonight" he says kissing my head but I pull away