Lesson Learned : UNIVERSITY LIFE [COMPLETED]

Chapter 5

"That professor doesn't care about the result. The important thing is you should do the formula correctly although, the results are wrong" Harry said while eating his fries.

"Really?" I asked in disbelief tone.

"Yeah. There is my friend, who just wrote the formula without knowing the result right or wrong and she still got A," he exclaimed.

I snorted and laughed.

"And pay attention to him. Do not be late. Make a good impression on him. I guarantee you all will get B at least," he added the information and gave wide smile to end it.

"Ok. I will tell my friend. Thank you for the information," I said to him, scooping pancake to my mouth.

"Is it good?" he said with mused.

"Yep. Wanna have some? I asked him," He nodded. I cut the pancake and use my fork to take the slice. He ate directly from my fork. I stunned. It was like I spoon-feed him.

"Why didn't you take the fork and eat it by yourself?" I said to him. He returned with a playful smile on his face.

"Its the same and quickest way" he said with a shrug, not feeling guilty at all.

I shook my head at his action. I never wanted to expect any further feeling toward a guy especially since Jackson. But Harry always gave some signals that he had some special feelings towards me.

"How is you girlfriend?" I asked him, wanting to remind him that he was in relationship.

"Yeah. She is good," He replied hesitatingly, grabed his glass, and drank it.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"We a.. we have a little quarrel," he stammered then put his glass back to the table.

"About?"

"Something," He mimicked me, slipping a smirk after he said it.

"Ok. Don't tell me then," I said with a shrug then focus back on my meal.

"Long distance relationship issues," he summarized it for me.

"Trust?" I raised my eyebrow questioning his statement.

He paused.

"Then about trust," I stated while chewing my last bite of pancake. He only nodded but didn't tell me again about the detail.

"I'm done. Let's go home," I said.

"So soon?"

"Yep. I've said that I have many assignments. One of it is from you," I pointed at him. He chuckled and nodded.

We stood up from our seat, paid the bill then walked out from the restaurant heading to his car.

"Can I ask you something? " he asked while driving his car heading to the dorm.

"You already ask a question, Harry," I said and smiled at him. He chuckled and nodded." What do you want to know?" I asked him.

"I heard something between you and a guy from material engineering," he said glancing at me.

There was a pang of hurt in my chest when he said it. He reminded me about the pain caused by Jackson.

"What about it?" I asked calmly. I did not want to show him my reaction yet.

"Is it true that you sent love message to him?"

It was like someone bombed the damn of emotion in my mind. I snapped at him.

"God. Even you know it," I exclaimed. "Can those guys keep their mouth shut? Even girl can keep secret better that those guys," I groaned loudly.

"So it is true," he said again calmly. This guy was acting so cool and calm as if he did not realise what I felt when he asked me that question. Maybe he really didn't realise it. The ignorance!

"Yes, it is true. What else do you need to know? How can that news spread widely like this?" I grunted then crossed my arm and slightly pouted.

"Because it's about you,"

"What do you mean?" I scrunched my eyebrow when he said that. Then gave him a weird look.

"You are popular. Do you realise that?"

I scoffed. "No. I am not popular. If you said Lana or Hannah or Naomi who popular then I believe you".

"Are you kidding me Nat? You don't realise it?"

"No. Why would I become popular? I only popular during middle school because I was a straight A student and would help my friends who needed me. I never popular during highschool because I was a mediocre and only have some close friends,"

"You. You..," he stuttered and glanced at me.

"I'm what?" I scoffed that word at him.

"You are pretty,"

I scoffed. "Yeah right,"

He glanced at me with disbelief.

"People who told me I'm pretty or beautiful only my family, my female friend, and my ex, and now you. Even a friend of my second ex and my neighbours kid told me that I'm ugly".

"You believe that?"

"No. I believe that no one is ugly. It's a harsh word. I'm," I stopped thinking about proper word, " I'm okay. I'm standard".

"What? Look I'm not lying. That's the truth. You can ask your male friends,"

"Whatever," I rolled my eyes "Back to the topic. Why did you ask about the love message?"

"I'm just curious,"

"Curiosity killed a cat," I growled at him.

He chuckled. "Ok I'm sorry. I will never ask about it again".

"Good,"

There was silence hanging after that conversation. The only sound that was heard was the music played on the radio. But I could feel he was looking at me.

"Focus on the road, Wilkinson," I stated to him. He only let out a small chuckle.

Five minutes later, we arrived at the dorm. He unlocked the door, then I hopped out from his car. The night breeze was already felt at that night. I tightened my jacket around me then turned to see Harry again. The passenger window had already been opened by him.

"Thank you Harry," I said to him

"You're welcome,"

"If there anything you want to ask about your assignment just ask me," He said.

"Will do," I said, waving at him then he drove away.

*****

It was 12 am. I was still typing on my laptop working on my paper for one of my subjects. My phone dinged

I peeked at my phone to see who it was. It was Harry. I stopped my activity then took my phone.

Harry: I broke up with her

Natalie: I'm sorry to hear that Harry.

Harry: still awake?

Natalie: yeah. Still have one more assignment that need to be done for today. So, for a weekend I can relax for a bit.

Natalie: what happen?

Harry: I will call you

Then he phoned me after sending the message. His voice was croaked when he told me the reason of why they broke up. I listened to his story while saying some comforting word at him. After 20 minutes conversation, we decided to end it.

"Thank you Natalie" he said.

His voice was slightly back to normal again not as hoarse as before.

"You are welcome, Harry" i looked at the clocked at my phone. It was already 1 am. "You better take a rest now".

"You too Nat,"

"Yeah, I will after I finish this."

"Ok. Bye Nat"

"Bye Harry,"