Project Bata

Chapter Twenty : Hot & Cold

"The end of the semester is fast approaching, how many weeks remaining? Less than three weeks! All of you are graduating," said Miss Violeta in her lecture.

Vanness then raises his hand, "Ako lang ang hindi gagraduate sa section na'to Ma'am." The class snickered at his jest. I shook my head and grinned at him. From the beginning of the semester, he keeps on saying that. The whole class knows his course covers five years and that he is the only Architecture student in this section.

Ms. Violeta continued to speak, after Vanness's short intermission number. Who would've thought that through this class and because of Ms. Violeta, I would meet Vanness? Who would have thought that we would be partners in our most hated subject? Yes, maybe Ms. Violeta thought of us as partners first but really who would? I wouldn't neither do Vanness, we did argue way back because of the pair up! Unexpected incidents could actually happen and it was the reason that made me happy, unexpectedly.

"-- I knew all of you hated the idea first. But look at you now! See there?!" Ms. Violeta waved and gestured her left hand towards us, the class then turned to us, "We have our own Van and Van! Vans Couple!"

The class nodded in agreement and snickered at Ms. Violeta's obnoxious witty ship name. I scrunched up my nose at them and shook my head. I was stopped because of something, rather someone hit my left foot. I turned to my left and cocked my brows at him mouthing 'what?'

"Vans Couple nga gabs! See...," he pointed my shoes and his shoes. Surprisingly, I forgot that I was wearing his gift for me last Valentine's day. It was a custom-made Vans sneakers, that Vanness designed it himself. I looked at his Vans, it matches my shoes too. "What do they call it, nowadays? Couple Goals?"

Like the Cheshire cat, I was grinning at him like a lunatic. "Thank you babs," it was Vanness turn to cocked a brow on me.

He straightened his back and sit properly, "For what exactly?" I copied him and faced the front of the class-- Ms. Violeta, before she caught us talking.

"For making me happy," through my peripheral vision, I saw him shifted and leaned his left arm on my arm table. "Likewise baby."

"For being with me," I whispered and continued. "I love spending time with you."

"For finding me in a sea of women," I said with a low chuckle. He snorted, "You stand out the most gabs. Let me correct you, we found each other."

I turned to look at him and he met my eyes, "We found each other," I stated with affirmation.

"Through this class," he countered with a stern voice. "Through this class," I followed him once more.

"2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays," I slapped his arms at his mischief, but it was true though and I could not help but laugh at it. A clearing of throat shattered our oblivious world, I then shut my mouth and looked at our professor who is clearly distaste at our created predicament. I was expecting for her to give a lecture and probably lowkey humiliate us in front of the ton but she didn't.

I focused myself on the lecture and take down notes as she reiterates some major highlights of the lecture. Vanness, my greatest distraction made it his job to distract me like, blowing air to my ears, tugging my arms, hitting my legs with his legs, those were just some of his attempts to distract me. But I am pretty indestructible when it comes to focusing and learning, he knew of that. His attempts were a major flop, he did stop for like five minutes. Thanking God, that he stopped--- a white post-it note was passed and placed on my notebook. Since Vanness folded it in half, I was unable to see its content. I picked the note and opened it, I was greeted by a doodle made of a black fine pen, Vann obviously drew himself animatedly-- blowing me a heart. The heart was fully colored with red ink, making it stand out against the black ink animation.