Chapter Sixteen: To Meet With The Mysterious Guy

She went straight to her first-period class, leaving the guy in a rush. As she felt embarrassed on the way she left him without a word of thank you for giving her a ride.

He made her blush while pondering the question he asked her. It’s a blessing in disguise, they aren’t classmates in her first class. What a first-time feeling to be in such an uncomfortable situation. 

But why is she feeling this way? He just asked her if she has a boyfriend. She’s not imagining he wants to flirt with her. But basically, she’s assuming that. “Scratched away that thought, Cara Nathalia!” She warned herself. She’s not interested in him. “You’re just, schoolmates.” That should be her thought.

“Hey, what are you thinking?” Another guy from X-Men. She means another guy who’s appearing in front of her without giving her prior notice like they have a teleporting ability.

“What’s your name again?” She asked him as she forgot it but remembered him as the neighbor who had just recently transferred.

“You really forgot about me, huh? Will Anderson is my full name. I am your childhood playmate slash childhood friend slash handsome neighbor. Maybe because you were so young back then, you forgot about me. But I remember you, though we have the same age.” Well, nice one for his introduction.

 “You forgot another thing, are we classmates?” She reacted to him, being curious about why he turned up here in her class.

“We’re actually classmates from the beginning.” What? She doesn’t notice him before. She looked at him, feeling wondered.

“You didn’t notice me because you always seem busy while reading books of yours.” He filled in her thoughts.

“Oh, well.” She simply reacted and was amused by herself.

Well, he has a point. Jean is the only person who can talk to her while she’s reading books. And the only person she sees in the class is their professor.

That she calls herself a loner, but she’s not introverted. Talking or gossiping with her classmates is also not her thing.

While being occupied, she also thought to excuse herself from him. As she said, she hates chit-chatting inside the classroom. But this guy continued the conversation.

“By the way, what’s the thing you are thinking about earlier? If you don’t mind my asking. It’s a miracle that you’re not reading a book today.”

“I’m about to do that, but you’re interrupting me.” She reacted in her thoughts.

“Were you studying me?” The thing she actually said.

“No, I’m not.” He answered instantly. Then whispered. “I’m going back to my seat. Talk to you later.” She realized he said it because the professor has finally arrived.

He went back to his seat at the back while she sits in the front. The professor started his anatomy class. She straightened her seat and focused on the lecture. She erased the thoughts that interrupted her normal thinking.

“Let’s meet today. I have something to give you about our project.”

While concentrating on the lecture. She received a text from Vince, disturbing her fixed mind. And what is the thing he wants to give her? She ignored his text and get back to listening to the professor.

A minute later, her phone vibrated again. But she ignored it again by not opening her phone. Then, a little later, her classmate beside her handed her a piece of paper with a note saying; “R.S.V.P.”

She looked out the classroom window to see his shadow, but he wasn’t there. Anyway, she shrugged. Continued back again with the lecture. But she’s feeling uncomfortable with his little annoying game.

She gets her phone and typed a word to reply to him at the very least she expected of herself.  

“Fine, wait for me at the cafeteria before lunch.”

The bell rang, and her anatomy class has ended. She’s taking her time in gathering her things while she’s actually in an alarming mode that Vince is waiting for her in the cafeteria to see her again.

“Hey, are you in a rush to dodge me?” She heard a masculine voice in her behind, walking near her. She had already forgotten this guy who lined up to catch up with her.

She turned to him to explain herself. “I need to meet up with someone in the cafeteria. Let’s catch up later, okay.” She said and excused herself to him. But she remembered a thing her mother wished for them. She looked back at him again and gave him her number.

“Call me later at that number. Mom wants you to help me recall my wonderful childhood memory.” While thinking about it. She remembered something a while ago. She thought her mother wants her to forget her past as Jean told her about it. Yet, she’s feeling skeptical about her mother wanting her to catch up with Will.

She walked out and left him in the classroom, not even seeing his reaction. She arrived at the cafeteria looking for the person she will meet.  

When she noticed some girls laughing and giggling in the middle corner of the cafeteria. Her eyes had suddenly stopped looking and stared at them. As she found out, the only guy who’s sitting with those girls is the one she is about to meet.

She turned her back for her to leave, but Vince called her name that he already had seen her face.

Her face blushed again with the way he called her. She felt embarrassed thinking that she becomes the center of attraction. And because she hates that kind of attraction, she continued her walk outside of the cafeteria.

She looked like an idiot running away from him. She’s like a jealous girlfriend who is hurt by his playful charm. What the heck she was thinking again?

“Hey, Cara!” Vince called her again. But this time, they were outside. She turned to him while doing her best to feign. She’s thinking of a word to tell him, but she’s helpless.

But Vince, instead of asking her. He grabbed her hand to follow his lead while thinking of where are they going. She suddenly remembered this situation of them in her dream, but thinking of it again becomes blurry.