People I Don't Know

A clear warning

Later that day, I spent most of the time in my room. I had a little conversation with my mom today, I didn't mention anything about the party, Luis, his slap and his mean behaviour. It was just a normal conversation still a little awkward because every time I need to talk with her I feel like I'm talking to a stranger.

Helen served me dinner, she's the head of the maids in the mansion. She's sweet, humble and always smiling. And an extraordinary cook takes good care of me.

After my dinner, I went back to my room and relaxed on my bed laying on my stomach. I kept scrolling down my phone through various social media sites until 10:30 at night, then I decided to take a shower and then sleep.

I went inside the bathroom, turned on the shower, started washing my hair. After 10mins I heard some noise, someone entered my room, I was not sure but still, I asked "who is it?" loud enough. I received no answer, maybe it was just my imagination. I spent more than 20mins in the bathroom, I wrapped a towel around my body and stepped outside.

Surprisingly I saw Luis in my room, sitting on the couch, must be waiting for me. He didn't see me yet and I don't want him to see me in a towel like this, I quickly turned around, went inside the closet and put on some random sweatshirt and sweatpants.

Few questions running inside my head, What he's doing here in my room? It's already 11, maybe he thought I am stupid because I took a shower late at night at this time. Huh!! Whatever it's my fucking life, I can do anything thing I want to do. I don't care what he thinks about me. I stepped out of the closet, frowning my eyes.

I walked towards him, he was looking into his phone, my hair was still wet, I went close to him and started glaring. When he noticed me he suddenly stood up from the couch, he didn't look at me, he started looking somewhere else. He clutched his jaw, he was wearing his sweatpants and a hoodie, with his messy hair he looked at his right side then to his left side, looked back at his phone and finally looked at me.

He's so tall and I looked so tiny in front of him.
"I came to apologize" finally he spoke out and shrugged. Then he looked away, said "I'm sorry" and clutched his jaw.
He's not sorry, I don't know why he decided to say sorry but he didn't look like he really wanted to apologise. He just said sorry but he didn't mean it, his aggressive face said everything.

I didn't say anything, I thought he's done speaking but he wasn't. He came to a step closer to me this time, I needed to lift my head to look at his face and he warned me "And don't you dare to come in between my friends" with a sharp voice looking into my eyes, I never heard his voice before this is the first time, I widened my eyes a little and gulped hearing his words, he looked away and sniffed. I was standing still, he looked at me again, stepped back from me and turned around and walked out of my room so aggressively.

"What the fuck??" I screamed in a low voice in the silence standing still.
"What he's thinking about me? Ughhh... it's none of his business" I murmured falling on my bed and punching the pillow next to me. His words made me angry. I know it was a clear warning but I didn't do anything that wrong. Why is he making a big deal of it? Shittt! I started groaning with anger, I know there's nothing I can do about it.

I buried my face into the pillow, hating myself for not reacting, being a  dumbass. Then I heard a notification from my phone. It's Rachel's message.

"Hey! Are you still up?"

It is almost 12 in the night, why she's texting me now?

"Yes, I guess" I replied.

"Why are you still awake, what are you doing?" She replied.

"Planning to kill Luis" I replied.

"Lol.. that doesn't sound like a good idea" She replied.

I ignored her reply, right now I don't feel like talking to anybody so I tried to sleep.

******

After classes, I decided to go to our college library. Rachel said she had to attend an extra class today, she would drop me off after her class, so I went to the library. It's a huge one, with wooden flooring, so many shelves, it smelled like old books and so many "please keep quiet" signboards. I searched for books according to my subjects and looked for a perfect place to sit down. It was almost empty, I settled down on a corner table next to a big window and started turning the pages of a book.

A guy came towards my table, he's the one who smiled at me yesterday, the one I ignored.
"Can I sit here?" I heard him ask, already pulling out the chair under the table.
"Yeh!" I said and smiled.

He seemed so excited to start a conversation, but for few seconds I acted like I didn't care.
"I'm Colin Williams" he introduced himself stretching his hand with a wide smile.
"I'm Neely Jones, nice to meet you," I said in a way too formal style.
He chuckled at me, he leaned over the table with his two elbows placing on it. He's not that tall as Luis and his boys, but still tall enough.  He got a solid body with really dark brown hair that almost looks like black from distance. He's wearing study glasses, they made him look like a hot nerd.
We exchanged few words about college, he was interested in me, I can understand the way he's talking and the way he's looking at me.

We spent an hour in the library forgetting about the time. Time to go, I packed my things and started making my move out.

He followed me, "Wanna go out for a coffee?" he asked and smirked at me while walking beside me.
I should not mess up with him, without knowing whether he's Luis friend or not, yeah I still got his words on my mind.
"Some other time," I said and smiled at him tucking my hair behind my ear.
He shrugged and smiled back without saying anything, we walked to the parking area, where I saw Rachel standing and leaning on her car and I walked towards her. She saw me with Colin and smiled mischievously.

"Bye!" I said, he smiled and walked to his car.
"Having fun?" Rachel asked funnily.
"Not really" I snapped.
" Then why didn't you answer my calls?" She questioned me raising one of the eyebrows.
"Oops, I kept my phone on silent mode after reading all those signboards and forgot about it," I said showing her my phone.
"Alright," she said and started the engine.

"What's up with Colin?" she asked me focusing on the roads.
"You know him?" I asked her eagerly waiting for her to answer.
"Yeah, actually it was his birthday party." She said and winked at me.
"Really" I widened my eyes with shock.
"Yeah" she started laughing, keeping one hand on her mouth and the other on the steering wheel.
"Well he asked me out for a coffee," I said to her with a low voice, leaning back on my seat.

"Then why don't you?" She asked.
I told her everything about Luis and his warning in the morning when she came to pick me up at the college.
"I don't want to take any risks right now," I said throwing up my hands.
"I have never seen him with Luis, but he's at his birthday party, Soo we need to research," she said.
"Research?? How??" I asked her with excitement.
"Stalking on social media sites," she said and continued "You know it is really fun" and chuckled.

******

Later that night, I started stalking Colin on Instagram. Not only, Colin, but I also stalked Erin, Luis and their friends too. Like Rachel said it was fun, knowing them. By the end of it, I ended up knowing all the names of Luis friends. Colin is definitely not a friend of Luis, maybe he attended the party just like me. Then my phone buzzed.

"How's stalking going on?" Rachel texted me.

"Mission accomplished!!" I replied her.

"Well done girl" she replied.

I love talking with Rachel, she's fun to be with.

The next day morning in our college parking area, I saw Colin. He started waving at me while sitting in his car looking through the window. I smiled at him, Rachel forced me to go and talk with him. But then I saw Luis and Erin walking in between the parked cars. And suddenly my heartbeat increased and I felt anxious.