Kim felt a tense clash of goosebumps fall on her arms. She knew the meaning of that feeling because she has had a few before moving on to her new direction in life. Someone was watching her. She felt it. since she didn't see anyone suspicious, she shrugged her shoulders and walked inside the tall attractive "ADMINISTRATION HALL" building. The hall was huge with beautiful paintings hanged around each of the corners. It was busy with people moving about in and out. She finally spotted the receptionist at the far end at the middle of the hall busily talking on the phone and writing at the same time. Kim waited infront of the receptionist who signaled her to hold on with a sweet smile. From Kim's perspective, she could be in her 20s but counting stress, she thought the receptionist looked 30 but beautiful. The receptionist cleared her throat which got Kim's attention from staring too much. Kim whispered a small sorry but the receptionist smiled in return.
"Hi, how may I help you?". She was a professional, Kim thought to herself.
"Hi, I'm here for my key card and squad outlets please".
"Name please".
"Kimberly Gomez". The receptionist typed something on her computer. She saw the receptionist smile at something on the computer and then back at her.
"Transfer student. Studying law and a cheer member. Impressive profile Miss.kim". Kim smiled back at her quickly and murmured thanks. "I was hoping you would be here so your things were brought in today". She picked a nike training bag from her inward couch and handed it to Kim.
"Your key card is inside. Everything is as it should be. Please sign these for me". She handed a pen to Kim and gave her the printed sheets and showed her where to sign.
"Thank you".
"You're welcome".
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"Do you think Liana still likes Kevin?". Brooke asked Renee who looked like the question caught her off guard. They were in their hostel room resting the time off till dinner. Brooke was busy going through some pictures of the squad and footballers from school and themselves whilst Renee was flipping through a magazine.
"I don't know where that question is coming from but I'm not sure whether she still does", Renee went back to her magazine after replying. Then after a few seconds of silence, she raised her head from her magazine to look at her friend. "But I overhead Brit and Nicole talking about Liana and Josh dating"...Brooke saw the surprised mouth dropping of Renee and continued quickly. ."....but...but they saw me eavesdropping and specifically told me to shut up about it and pretend I never heard them because is supposed to be privately private". She put emphasis on her last statement glaring and daring her friend with a serious face to keep it a secret too.
"Oh come on Renee, is not like I'm gonna tell or something, geez cut a girl some slack here. And quit looking at me like that. Okay but this is confusing, if we all are supposed to shut up about it, how did Brit and Nicole get to know about secretive Liana's love life?".
"That, is the part I don't seem to comprehend. Liana is very secretive, and she hates Brit. Nicole on the other hand barely talks to Liana much less be seen in her company, and the Liana we know, is very protective of her privacy, soo...isn't that weird?". Brooke exchanged curious stares with Renee but ignored the obvious tension.
Brooke thought for a while and said,"if I'm imagining, I think Nicole might have caught the couple and blurted it out to Brit".
Renee tensed up,"Wait a minute,...then I overheard them...technically eavesdropping, which means I know but supposed to keep it a secret. But just think about it, if Nicole knows, and Brit knows, then...". She straightened up on the bed, "Adriana knows, and if Adriana knows....". They exchanged looks.
"...then the whole world knows...Oh No!!! that's very bad", Brooke tensed up with her palm over her mouth.
Renee eyed Brooke annoyingly, "oh come on stop being soo dramatic, she hasn't told anyone yet else we would have known already".
"Yeah we definitely would have. That's new because finally Adriana knows what a secret means". They both laughed at that and went back to their business. Brooke zoomed an image on her laptop and gasped when she saw who that was.
Renee turned to her sharply, "What now?".
"Why don't you see for yourself". Brooke turned her laptop to face Renee who just rolled her eyes at her. She widened her eyes at the image on the screen and fumed with anger burning inside of her.
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