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Chapter Three: Unexpected Meetings

Chapter Three: Unexpected Meetings

Hey, this university isn’t as bad as I thought. The campus itself is huge, every wall has fashion posters and flyers of this fashion design contest that will be held in two months. I’m getting pretty tired from this tour thing myself, I think I’ve seen enough. I saw a glimpse this pretty big shady tree when I was walking down the field, maybe I could take a nap and kill my best friend after what he did to me later after I am fully recharged from my nap.

So I walked towards the tree and saw that there were two students sitting under the shade, eating and chatting. The first one looked tall with black wavy hair, the other one has short hair and looks a little bit small for her age. I approached them “Hey, could I also sit under the shade? I just wanted to take a nap.” I asked

 “Oh, okay sure you can!” the girl with the short hair said with a smile, she and her friend moved over.

With a crooked smile “Thanks” I said while scratching the back of my head.

After they moved over I sat a meter away, leaned on the big tree trunk and tried to take a nap. But how can I when they’re pretty loud?! I thought to myself.

This is how their conversation goes;

“I thought that you’re gonna tell her already that we’re just trolling her!” The girl with the short hair said.

“No, why the hell would I do that? And it’s pretty fun trolling her” 

Long hair said and they both laughed out loud, I winced.

“Hey look some boy’s going in our direction Liz.” Long haired whispered while blushing, so I guess that short hair’s name is Liz.

“Do you think it is Vincent?” Long hair asked, still blushing like mad

“Oh yeah, I think its Vincent. Hey, isn't he the guy from one of the interior design that you're obsessed with?” Liz said.

"Hey! F.Y.I, I'm not obsessed, and yeah he is Vincent." Hissed long hair.

"Okay, okay fine, whatever you say Kris, and look! He's coming!" Whispered Liz.

As I saw the tall boy with a brown ruffled hair wearing a white polo shirt with a black casual waistcoat, approach them “Hey Kris! Ms. Underwood wants to see you.” He said, so the long hair is named Kris, hey, isn’t that Ms. Underwood the hot blonde dean of this school? I asked myself. 

“Really? Why?! I didn’t do anything! Liz! Back me up here!” Kris said looking nervous while shaking Liz.

“Calm down! Krista Danielle Oliver!” Vincent said and gripped Kris’ arm trying to calm her down “Ms. Underwood didn’t say! She just said it’s something important!” He took deep breaths and looked into her eyes and said “I can accompany you if you want” And Liz quirked her eyebrow and look at Vincent with a ‘I know it’ look, and he just rolled his eyes at her.

“Oh, I can go with Liz, Vincent” She told him, and he looked at Liz with a ‘help me!’ look, I just sighed and continued to sit and watch the scene in front of me unfold with an amused expression.

“It’s okay Krista, I’ll just sit here and wait for you, my next class isn’t until forty minutes, and I also want to rest, so go with Vincent” She said with that friendly smile again.

“Are you sure Liz?” she asked “Yeah, what could possibly happen to me while I’m sitting?” She joked “Okay, let’s go Vince.” And after that he blushed and mouthed the words ‘thank you’ to Liz, and Liz just rolled her eyes at him.

The Vincent guy and Kris left together for the dean’s office. So it’s just me and the short haired girl with the friendly smile sitting under the big shady tree then, I took a deep breath, leaned on the tree and tried to take a nap. 

After five minutes, I heard a frustrated sigh I opened my eyes and saw that the Liz girl is just a meter away and she was drawing on a notebook with a couple of crumpled paper balls surrounding her. I raised an eyebrow and observed her. She looked stressed and tired “Hey, are you okay? You look tired” I asked with concern. Looking at me “Yeah, just a having a little art block” She said, smiling weakly, she leaned her head back on the tree, closed eyes and took deep breaths for a couple of minutes. 

I noticed that I kept staring at her the whole time. Oh no, what is happening to you Nick? Why are you suddenly being like this? It was so windy that her hair was getting a little bit messy and ruffled, her hair getting on her eyes, oh my god, why am I getting tempted to brush the hair out of her face? When my hand was reaching for her face, she opened her eyes.

My eyes widened, I froze and I couldn’t move “Uhmm...sorry...I was just, uhh..trying to..you know?” I stammered with a failed poker face expression.

I saw her looking shocked, she blushed and turned her head away “I-it’s okay” she said looking nervous. I leaned back again, I observed her, she was trying to pack her things up. But, why? No! Don’t go! Stay!

“Sorry but I have to go” she said with a shaky smile she hurriedly stood up and started to walked away. OH NO! Omygod! Think about something Nick, and fast! I thought to myself, she’s starting to walk away! “NUMBER!” I shouted at her.

“What?” she turned around looking confused “Y-your number, can I have your number?” I asked, still fidgeting. I saw her walking back “My number?” she asked “Yes” again with that failed poker face of mine. I saw her blush as she took out a pad out of her bag and started to write down something on it “Here’s my number” she said “It’s Nick, Nick Brown” I smiled “Oh okay Nick Brown, here’s my number” she smiled again with that friendly smile, I took the piece of paper from her hands “Well, See you later Liz” She blushed “It’s Elizabeth” She said, what a nice name! I thought to myself “So see you later Elizabeth” I said with a flirtatious tone on her name “O-okay then” she said while walking away. 

I smirked and felt victorious! AHAHA! I stood up and noticed that she dropped the notebook she’s drawing on a while ago, maybe she dropped it while she’s packing her things up.

OH I KNOW! I have an excuse to see her again! I will return her notebook and ask her out sometime! Yes! And I laughed out loud like a maniac slash Dracula that the students walking by looked at me like I was some crazy person. I picked up the notebook and when I was about to open it, my phone rang.