Chapter Seventeen: His Reason To Meet Her

“Yeah, she’s wearing a costume of Maleficent. Can’t you imagine that? When she found out about her blind date, is none other than, me? She walked out and run away on the road, still wearing her cape and headdress. She embarrassed herself in front of me. What a pity.”

“That's because she’s not even equal to your handsomeness. What a pathetic woman.” The girl he doesn’t know her name wearing a very short skirt and cheerleading uniform with her lipstick on commented on him. While waiting for Cara, a group of cheerleaders joined his table at the cafeteria.

“We actually fit if I wore the costume of Hulk.” The girls laughed and giggled at his joke. He tells them a story about one of his terrible experiences on blind dates. After that blind date, he never did it again.

While chatting with the girls, he saw Cara looking at him with her furrowed face. He called her name immediately to wake her attention as she would leave without even seeing him. Despite calling her, she continued her walk at a fast pace.

He left the girls stumped by his action of running after a girl who just ignored him.

When he went outside to hold on to her. He called her name again. He did not ask a single question about why she left the cafeteria without even knowing that he was already inside.

He grabbed her hand to bring her out of the place for them to have a private talk. Taking her out of the blue made him realize he did a thoughtless move. As his feet brought them to an awkward place in their school, which is the school theater.

“What are we going to do here?” She asked, looking skeptical.

“To have a private talk, maybe?” It’s a good thing the theater hasn’t been occupied. And we’re here alone in this dark romantic place. He beamed at the thought of him.

“I thought, you’ll give me a thing regarding our project? You can give me now, and we’re done.” She said fiercely and cutely. He’s thinking of an answer to delay the time she is with him. But doing it will surely make her upset and annoyed.

“Aren’t you hungry? You haven’t eaten your lunch. We can have it together outside. I’m feeling hungry now because I waited for you. I’ll give you the thing after we eat.” Well, he still did it. Hoping for a positive reaction. Until we both heard her stomach growling. Then she chuckled at her embarrassment. He owes her growling stomach for making her smile.

“Since I haven’t thanked you for the ride, you provided me the early morning. I’ll treat you for that. We can settle our thing after we eat.” He admires her psyche for making her embarrassment turned into another topic.

They went outside of the school to look for a nearby restaurant to have their lunch. They agreed to eat in a Korean restaurant as she said she was craving a portion of spicy food. Though he’s not into that kind of food, he still agreed to it just to please her.

He let her order the food she wants. Since she’s the one craving it.

After a couple of minutes, the server set the food she ordered on the table.

“So, what’s the thing you want to give me? Make sure it would help our project to have a 100% passing rate.” She started the conversation to break the silence. He realized she was very stern when it comes to studying and very frank when it comes to him. That he finds her more interesting.

“Can we eat this before we talk about it?” He said touching his stomach, pretending he was famished. But actually, he doesn’t feel much hungry. As he wants to avoid her topic of conversation that he’s really not interested in. Though, it was the reason he gave her to come with him.

“Oh, well, just kidding.” He gave her a sweet smile and speaks again while handing her the piece of sheets that he did on their project. Maybe in her eyes, he looks like a kind of idiot. But he’s a smart one dealing with his study assignments as fast as he could.

She quickly scanned the sheets of paper he gave her. Then she smiled sheepishly. “You know what, I just realized. You’re just giving me a reason to meet with you. Aren’t I right?” She caught him. He reacted to her with an embarrassing smile.

She’s really frank and direct. He thought so.

………

She knew it. Vince is such a playful guy. And his playful charm victimized her. She’s not any different from the cheerleaders in the cafeteria who are laughing and giggling with Vince’s hypnotizing charisma.

After eating with Vince at the Korean restaurant near the school. He went back to his classes, and she went home while realizing the thing that Vince did to her.

“Cheers to you Cara Nathalia, you’re way too smart to be his victim.” She speaks to herself proudly.

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“Cara, you’re forgetting about me. Remember me in your current world.” He said, looking in anguish. He really forgot him in her real-world every time she woke up from her dream.

“I swear, I wish to remember you. But myself becomes different whenever I went back to reality.” She explained to him reasonably.

“Let’s hang out again so you can remember me.” He changed his mood to anticipation but his words are definitely begging her. And she’s feeling guilty about it.

She wanted to be on his side forever, but she was not living in this world.

She woke up again from her dream but this time she was with a man she doesn’t remember his face as she woke up, but his character fascinated her. Remembering her best friend Jean when she told her the story of her recent dreams. She suddenly realized her dream has come back again, troubling her normal mindset in the real world.

She thought, she was not insane but this dream of her is basically telling her to deal with it for herself to heal her broken memory.