Lesson Learned : UNIVERSITY LIFE [COMPLETED]

Chapter 4

"He likes you Nat".

"He doesn't Lex," I replied to Alex. Alex was one of my first guy friends at college. He had became close with me since he encountered me asking about me and Jackson. He said that he heard rumour about us. I hesitantly replied to him after I made him promise not to tell anyone about it and he kept it. He was shocked like the girls and ever thought the same as them, that Jackson had feelings toward me. He said that could see it from his perspective. Well he was wrong.

"What are you two talking about? " Naomi asked while sitting beside Alex. He glanced and stifled a smile when he glanced at her. For your information, Alex had a crush for Naomi. Yep, he admitted to me after I told him about Jackson. Secret for a secret.

"William," Alex replied with a low voice so it only us who heard it. William Hayes was the handsome guy with brown hair and blue eyes that captured my attention since the first time I saw him.

"What about him?" Lana asked. We were currently sitting where Alex the only guy among us. Other guys form our major were sitting on the seats behind us. William, the topic of the conversation, was nowhere to be seen.

"He likes her," Alex pointed at me.

"He doesn't" I exclaimed at him.

"Hey, I'm his friends. He told me," Alex retorted narrowing his eyes on me.

"Doesn't he have a girlfriend?" Hannah said while eating her meal. Lana and Naomi nodded.

"Umm.. yeah," Alex replied with hesitation.

"There you have your answer Lex," I glowered at him. "He has a girlfriend," I said pressing the word.

"But.." he was still trying to reason. I was grateful that someone came interrupting our conversation.

"Hi," Harry stood beside our table. His name was Harry Wilkinson. He was our senior 2 years above us at the same major and responsible to our freshman program, such as guest teacher, training program, and other things. He reported directly to president council.

"Hi Harry," Lana greeted him. Harry had short cut spike blonde hair with green eyes. He was one of the 'senior crush'. You know, where junior had a crush to their senior, Harry was one of the seniors.

"Um..sorry to interrupt whatever you are doing, what I want to say," He paused. "Oh right, don't forget there will be additional session for guest lecturer tomorrow. And do not forget to write a paper and submitted to Natalie"

Yep. To me. I was trapped, plunged, or any other synonym you can find in the dictionary where my friends in my year in my major appointed me without my permission to become their representative to handle all related activities. I could not say no because majority of students had agreed, well, all of them since no one wanted to handle additional assignment. I sighed and half-heartedly agreed with them.

All my friends around us nodded at him. "Tell your friends who isn't here," he added and smiled at us. After patting my head, he walked away from us headed to where his usual seats.

"What was that?" Alex asked

"What? " I asked and looked at him. I glanced the girls. They stifled a giggle seeing Harry's treatment toward me.

"That pat on the head," he raised his eyebrow asking me about Harry's action toward me.

"Nothing," I said then continued eating my meal. Since I became representative, I often meet Harry and we did not only talk about the programs but other things. And sometimes.. sometimes, we had dinner or hung out together. Harry said that we had to keep this a secret since I was a freshman that still under his responsibility and he didn't want my friends suspicious about us. I nodded and tried to understand his reason. Although it didn't make any sense. Well, Harry already had a girlfriend in different city. He had long distance relationship with her. So, I never expect any further relationship with him. We were just friends.

"Will.. ," Alex shouted making me awake from my thought. William was walking to cafeteria with Andre, Dave, and Liam. Alex stood up from his seat then slung his backpack then said goodbye to us. He walked toward them. I only glanced at William. I never trusted what Alex said about William. We never talk to each other although college had started for 2 months, how he can like me.

"We don't have any class after this, do we?" Lana asked.

"No. The professor can't teach. He only give us assignment," Naomi replied.

"Have you finished the simple programming assignment ?" Hannah asked us

"No, I haven't," I said," Alex said he already done it, he will teach us".

"Really?" They squealed in unison.

"Yep. I made him agree to do it," I said. The only reason that made him agreed with it because he would have a chance to get close to Naomi. He willingly accepted it without I needed to persuade him.

"Hiiii.. ," Diana flopped down to sit beside us.

"Hi Diana. Where were you?" I asked her. Diana had red haired with brown eyes. She was an outgoing and cheerful person. I never saw her feeling sad or stress, something that I envied from her.

"With him," She pointed to a guy on the far across us. Owen McAlister. I didn't know much about him. I only knew him from Diana. Owen was Mechanical Engineering student; he was one group with Diana during orientation. He had dark brown haired and brown eyes. Diana was crazy about him. She talked about him all the time. About how she adored him and the act of service he did to her and many other things.

"Why do you like him so much? " Lana asked.

"You should know him first. He is so nice and handsome," Diana said in dreamy voice while ogling at him.

"Why not with Aiden?" Aiden Lawrence was a good friend with Owen. Don't be fooled by his looks. He maybe looked like a sweet nice guy. But he was a player. He had short cut raven black haired and green eyes behind the glasses and was good with sweet talk to girls. I heard it from Alice.

Diana snorted. "Owen is far better than Aiden". We chuckled at her statement.

"What about Caleb? He is cute," Hannah said. Caleb Morgan was one of Owen's close friend, same inner circle like Aiden. He had short curly brown haired with hazel brown eyes. He was famous among the girls because he was a vocalist for a band, and good with guitar and other music instruments. They said that he performed during the closing of orientation program. Although, I didn't see him because I was too busy with Jackson.

I could see they did work out from their appearance. They had this lean muscled feature that could be seen from the way their shirt hung onto their body. Aiden was the tallest among the trio. Although their height difference was not much, Aiden then Caleb then Owen. The trio already had fanbase, that was I heard. I was a good listener.

"He already has girlfriend," Diana said with a shrug.

"Why all the good quality guys already have girlfriend?" Lana exclaimed while groaning. We burst out laughing at her. Lana could become drama queen sometimes.

"We are here"

"Look at us"

"We are behind you"

"We are single"

"Who stole my chicken?"

The guys from our major commented at her statement. She snorted and stuck out her tongue at them. I laughed at her.

Dinged. There was a message at my phone

Harry: what are you laughing at?

I looked up from my handphone and looked around. I saw him sat on the table far in front of us, but I could still see him clearly. He sat with the other seniors.

Natalie: at something.

Harry: playing secret now?

Natalie: yep.

Harry: what will you do tonight?

Natalie: Assignments. I have assignments. Many assignments. You know it.

Harry: can we hang out again? Friday?

Natalie: yeah. But I can only hang out for short time. I've got many things to do.

Harry: yep. Only dinner.

Natalie: okay.