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"It must be a date! Oh, how foolish you are! Yes, it's obviously a date, Ava," Debra said to Ava.

Abigail nodded her head in agreement.

After attending their classes, the three friends were walking on campus.

"I am not a fool. I also thought the same. But he was casual and said that he just wanted to talk to me, so..."

Ava paused, mumbling, as she reflected on what Luke had said to her.

He said he wanted to take her to a coffee shop. He had something in his mind that he wanted to discuss. They were such good friends that she did not take it that way.

"Trust me. Luke likes you. I have seen it in his eyes," Abigail said.

"Me too," Debra added.

Ava was stunned. She had never seen Luke that way before. He was her friend—a very good friend. She had never thought of him more than that.

"I-I..."

Ava's lips halted as she glanced at Ian, who was walking out of a building where the head office was. The dean may have summoned him for what he did to the boy this morning.

Abigail and Debra followe