2. The Cold and Mysterious Guy

The student lounge, a place where scholarship kids and social outcasts, who are usually criticized by the elite ones once they step their foot inside the cafeteria, can eat their food in peace without being bullied by anyone.

These students have usually packed lunches with them and would occupy an empty wooden table while being blessed with the cool shade brought by the Acacia Trees.

This is the ideal place for Miyazaki Nana to go to whenever she seeks some refuge from the noise of her own little rich world.

Once the multi-billionaire heir and the school idol set her foot on the student lounge's premises, all students present here literally stopped from what they were doing and sneak a glance in the girl's direction.

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"Why is she here?"

"Is she here to pick a fight with us?"

"Is she here to brag her riches like other spoiled, rich brats of this school are doing?"

"Or maybe she is just here as a normal student and she is different from the rest of those scumbags."

"Oh, I heard she started building a charity program on her own to help the homeless and the sick people."

"Right! Miyazaki Nana is that girl who's beautiful inside and out."

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As the fuss about her presence within the perimeters of the student lounge continued, Miyazaki Nana tried to ignore them and proceeded with finding a vacant table.

Seeing that there's only one left, Miyazaki Nana turned on her heels and tried to get there as fast as she can.

She was then relieved when she was able to get the spot and merrily placed her bag beside her while taking out the snacks that she brought with her from their house.

The students around her eyed the girl with envy and astonishment as they saw Nana grabbing a large pack of Lays from her bag, Snickers, Skittles, granola bars, and a pack of Cheetos.

They can't believe it! How the hell did those things fitted inside her bag? It reminds them of how many things can fit inside Doraemon's pocket.

Seeing their envious stares, Miyazaki Nana dart a look around her and happily announced, "You can all pick one from here for free! It's not like I can consume all of this, right?"

Truth be told, Nana actually brought these things for her to share with her friends earlier. But hearing those nasty comments from them, even when they are not speaking at all, still bothers her so instead, she went out and share these snacks with everyone else in this lounge.

Soon enough, Miyazaki Nana was quickly surrounded mostly with the scholarship kids who can't even afford to have one small bar of Snickers.

Seeing how happy they were after receiving her snacks, it also made Nana happy as well after receiving so many thank you's from them all. Some stayed with Nana and have friendly chitchat with her about certain random topics under the sun.

In a good distance to where Miyazaki Nana is currently seated with this new set of people in her life, a pair of cold, mysterious eyes cast a look in her direction.

While his head was lying on his right hand, his lips pursed as he eyed the girl with the utmost interest. He used his other hand to fish out something from the pocket of his black slacks and slowly reads the contents of the index card he got from his pocket.

"Miyazaki Nana, eighteen. Possibly a telepath."

His mouth formed an 'o" after he carefully reads the sentence for the second time.

"Another red tag, huh? This should be interesting."

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As Miyazaki Nana walked towards her third-period class, she happened to notice this certain guy who walks from the opposite direction.

She may not know the guy, but there is something in his powerful presence that makes him stand out from the rest of the male students who are also walking in the same hallway where they're currently passing by as well.

Just by keenly observing his stature, this guy has messy jet black hair, like he just got out of his bed, with tanned skin. He also is tall, Nana must say, and has a slender body that's a bit well-toned like that of a commercial model.

His almond-shaped silver-like eyes are also hard to miss, along with his straight nose, and luscious, red lips.

In short, all about him radiates sexiness and authority in it that had her wondered.

Who is this guy? How come I haven't seen him here on this campus before?

In just a matter of time, Miyazaki Nana noticed how their paths had coincided, forcing her to peel her gaze away from this gorgeous man on his right.

It's as if time itself slowed down in that exact moment.

However, before she totally removes her gaze from him, she had deliberately witnessed how their eyes also met for a split second.

And when all of that happened all at once, Nana could have sworn she saw this man smirked right in front of her-- in a way as if he already had an idea of who she was as a human being-- before switching back to his cold, stoic self once more.

Nana could feel her cheeks burning as she contemplated what just happened. When they had already walked past each other, that's when time went back to its normal pace.

What the heck just happened?

She was already a few inches away from that person when Nana stopped and quickly turned around to face that mysterious boy she crossed paths with a while ago.

"Hey, you!" Nana called, in hopes of getting the guy's attention.

The man who was just called out also stopped in his tracks and slowly made a turn to face the girl who called him without any emotions on his face at all.

"What is it?" The guy asked in a toneless voice that somehow gave Nana the creeps on how cold his voice can be.

Nana was already thinking of backing down and be on her merry way. However, since she already called his attention without much thinking about it, she decided to just deal with it as soon as possible and carry on with her life after.

"Do we..." Nana trailed off, her eyebrows were hunched together at him. "... know each other?"