3. The Incidence (The past)

All the attention he was getting from even her own best friend was getting Ann more and more curious about the new comer. The curious she gets, the angrier she became as time passes. The clock was ticking and her best friend won’t shut up about him, it always,’Oh my gosh! Rex is so handsome, did you see the way he smiled at me? Oh that pants dropping smile, Rex is staring our way’. Ann scoffed when she remembered her lovesick expression.

“Enough already Judith! this craziness have got to stop and it has to stop now! I need my mental health intact and all this craziness with your constant oh Rex is! or oh Rex that! is making me lose my last brain cells and I don’t want to be brain dead before enjoying what's left of my poor life! so please shut up about it for a fu*cking minute!!”,Ann outburst angrily. Her nostrils were already flaring.

Ann sighed in relieve when she didn’t hear anything from her friend for a while but then, she noticed it was too silent, too quiet for their surrounding. They were currently in the canteen and that level of silence shouldn’t be considered normal in the canteen of a prestigious university. She opened one eye, peeped around anxiously and swallowed the lump of saliva that seems to be choking her airway. She soon realized that every pair of eyes in the canteen were on her, she peeped at her bestie and saw her looking around nervously whilst fidgeting in her seat.

Not knowing what to do, she took her friend’s hand quickly and flee the scene in a hurry. When she saw that they were finally alone and far away from the canteen, she unconsciously dropped her friend’s hand with a deep frown on her face.

“Jud? Jud-Judith? what just happened in there?, I had every pair of eyes on me, did I do something wrong or did Avirina and her minions do something to me when I wasn’t looking?, or did........”, Ann asked nervously. Her mind was running a race of it own.

Judith started giggling childishly making Ann glare at her dangerously but she was unfazed and continued giggling,”what happened in there was hilarious! In your attempt to nag me to stop talking about Rex, you shouted it out loud, so loud that everyone heard your dislike for Rex. Their is no doubt you dislike Rex, and he is the school’s golden boy for now. Oh! Oh! by the way, Rex was looking at you with interest. The way Avirina and her minions were looking at you with more hatred than usual. Hmm, that was truly an interesting sight to behold, amazingly I think this year was going to be very bad for you but quite interesting for me”. Judith informed Ann with a grin.

Ann stood frozen,” but I didn’t say I dislike him, I don’t even know the guy for crying out loud!”, Ann stated in frustration.

Judith smile widened when she noticed the person walk towards them from afar and the crowd glaring openly at them,”speak of the devil and he will appear..”, Judith muttered softly.

Ann was lost in thought but was awaken suddenly when she felt a tap on her shoulder, she jumped up a bit startled. Turning around to face the person that tapped heron the shoulder, she shuddered at the sweet smile directed at her. She frowned.

‘Boy! who goes around smiling like that? I almost got blinded by it.’ Ann thought to herself as she eyed him discreetly.

Rex smiled and brought his hand for a handshake, “Hi? I’m Rex, that was quite a show you put on there, those on my table said you want my attention because you are poor and miserable but I beg to differ. That seems to be just one the theories i heard. But I must say you are very beautiful and I’m sure you will have a nice figure hidden in those cheap baggy clothes and.....", Rex stated with a smirk whilst he checked her out.

Ann and Judith had their mouth wide open in shock whilst the people behind him bust out laughing hysterically, Judith was the first to recover,”so beautiful until you opened your mouth and all that came out of you mouth was trash, more trash and blah blah blah..”, Judith scolded him like an angry mother.

Ann would have giggled if not for the seriousness of the matter at hand because she spoke exactly what was on her mind.

Looking at Rex with a lazy and disinterest gaze then to the people laughing, Ann spoke softly but coldly,” by those at your table you mean or? Those good for nothings? Most of them on that table are sl*ts, c*ck suckers, backstabbers, wannabes, cowards, drug abusers and losers who feel they do whatever they want because the are rich. Am I wrong about them? They are your friends right? I actually thought you were a bit sensible from your peers until you opened your mouth and said trash repeatedly. This is unbelievably and people wonder why I don’t like you? I knew you would lack sense from my first gaze of and like always, I’m right”. Ann uttered with a tight fists. She was vivid and the audacity to degrade her like that was making her fume in anger.

With one last glare at the bunch of speechless and annoyed expressions around her, she made a respectful head bow then held the laughing hyena who also happens to be her best friend and walked away silently. Judith kept laughing her head out but Ann ignored her and the glares she was receiving from the crowd.

Without turning to face the people behind him, Rex had his hands balled in a tight fist. Feeling wronged and disrespected, Rex spoke with an angry expression,”I want to know everything about her with twenty four hours!”.