AMY's POV:
Six of us go out of the class together. I know he was glancing at me from time to time. And I know what is going on in his mind...
Well, I wrote his name because... For one, Arm took my notes and I know who got them.
For two, even if I took my notes back it was too late as he already copied them and I won't let him go to the other group with my treasure.
"So where should we go?" I asked excitedly as we needed to sit together and divide all the work for the project between us.
"To the canteen." Joy shouted matching my excitement. I gave her a look. "What! I didn't had breakfast today." She mumbled. I glanced at Nanon who also second her idea. Great!
"What about you, Bright Day?" I asked teasing the other two who glanced at each other, and turned their faces away at once.
"500. They are going to be a thing~" Joy whispered on my left side while giggling.
"50,000. the Bright boy liked you~" Tankhun leaned forward from the right side and whispered to Joy, loudly.
"My assignments! Everyone heard what you two just whispered." I said in between them. Both Joy and Tankhun looked around, smiling innocently.
"If you are done with your stupid betting, shall we?" Nanon said finally.
From the corner of my eye, I saw Bright's face turn red as Joy glanced at him.
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We sat on one table in the canteen; girls on one side and boys on the other.
Joy make Nanon to go and to bought something for us. He complained a little but left. Tankhun goes to get something for himself too. Well, Nanon offers him that he'll buy something for him too but he flatly declines as he would not take any food from others.
I think that was weird because last night I bought juice for him too and he drank without mentioning anything stupid. Bright left with them and I don't know why but Day goes with them too, maybe because she's not our friend...yet.
Now it's only Joy and I.
"So?" She leaned forward and placed her elbows on the table.
"So..."
"You and him. Huh?" She glanced at where Tankhun left his bag.
"What about us?"
"You took him in the group," she wiggled her brows.
"Oh that. Well, he has notes." I chuckled.
"I'm not buying it." She narrowed her eyes at me.
"My notes!" I stated.
"Sold!" She laughed a little and continued. "Well I was not going to mention it but it looks like you are a little... ahmm... I mean you know nothing what's going on around you." She cleared her throat. I just rolled my eyes as I know she was going to call me stupid for some reason.
"What is going on that I didn't know?"
"Don't play dumb with me." She blurted out. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. "Seriously!" She slapped the table, making me stunned.
"What?"
"You and Him!" She repeated herself while pointing at me and the bag, his bag.
"What?"
She let out an exasperated breath.
"Look! I know the way he looked at you."
"It's nothing. Really. He just stared at literally everyone." I assured her. Well I know what she was trying to say. I'm not stupid.
"Not the way he did to you." She pressed at the last word. "All the time..."
"Don't put anything into my brain, Joy." I said flatly interrupting her.
"I'm not. It's just you are so you to notice anything else."
"Well, good for me as I don't want to indulge myself in stupid groundless ideas."
She remains silent for a second then started again this time in low voice.
"It's not wrong to be in a... relationship, you know!"
"Yeah, I know."
"So, what's the problem?" She asked loudly.
"First of all, it's nothing like that. Secondly, he's out of my league." I murmured lightly with a smile. She stared at me for a long minute making me self-conscious.
"I think it's you. Who's out of his league." she said with a little smile as the others came back.
"..." I just looked her... only if she knew. I glanced at the one who sat beside me, and then looked down.
'It's not like that, I know.'
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Tankhun's POV:
Since I came back from the canteen, she's kinda behaved... oddly.
Maybe because I sat beside her... but she didn't complain about that so maybe something else happened between her and Joy.
I grabbed my bag, opened the front pocket and took out the cell phone to stop voice recording that I started when I was going to buy something to eat.
Well, I would be stupid to eat something that other people got for me. I don't want to die young after eating poisonous food. Dying with a bullet in heart is cool but with poison. Yuck!
I've been getting Joy's attention for quite some time. She always smiled weirdly whenever I was observing... or just gazing at Amy. No matter how long I stared at her, I didn't get bored, plus she became extraordinary.
I placed the juice, I brought for her, she took it without even thanking me let alone looking at me. I narrowed my eyes at her. Something is fishy!
Even Joy was looking at us back and forth. So, I had to point at the Bright boy who happened to be looking at her too, nonstop. Humph!
Even though he's doing the same thing as I... how can someone possibly stare at Joy nonstop. I just shook at the sight of him.
"Are you not going to eat your food?" Nanon asked bringing me back to the real world.
I didn't reply just looked at the cheap food I got. Everything is so low in price here. They didn't have any menu. So, I have to ask Nanon about the most expensive food they've got. He was surprised to know that it was my first time coming to the canteen to buy actual food. Hah! I had an urge to bring him with me at the places my food comes from.
Even Arm and Pol were surprised to see me going towards the counter. They were sitting two tables behind us. When they saw me, they were about to come to me but I motioned them to stay sitting.
I freaking paid with the cash, but instead of getting the arrears I told the woman to give the same food as me to the two guys sitting behind me. I don't know if my boys had breakfast or not. But... If I'm going to eat cheap food, they have to suffer with me too. Hehe.
When I was going back with my three group members, I just tilted my chin to let them know to get their orders. They bowed to me as they got what I was saying. I saw a little smile on both of their stupid faces.
Now I have to put the damn spoon in my mouth to taste it. If I liked it, I'll eat it otherwise it's going to end up in the trash. Oh, surprisingly it tastes plain but good. Maybe I should name it simple-but-tasty-eatable-food-for-poor-students. hahaha
"I see you liked it!" Joy said. Was she looking at me the whole time? At this rate I won't be surprised if she ends up falling for me. Don't do that girl I don't want to break your heart.
I glanced at the girl beside me, she was taking little sips from the bottle. I imagined her moving throat behind the scarf. Damnit! I turned my gaze to my plate almost immediately.
I don't know why she changed her looks today. It's not that she looks bad or anything but it makes me slightly uncomfortable as people around her are looking at her in a certain way I would like to hate.
As we were walking to the class, I tried my best to cover her up from behind but then ended up tying the scarf on her myself. She was dumbfounded as she just stood and looked at me. Haha silly girl!
"You're weird!" A girl commented while looking at me.
"And who are you?" I lifted an arrogant brow at her.
"I'm Day. We're in the same group."
"Oh."
"What oh? We even go to the canteen together."
"Did we?" I play dumb. Her mouth fell open. And I think I saw a little smile on the face of a girl besides me. Well, now she looks fine to me.
"You are weird." Day commented, again.
"You already said that. Everyone hears that. Now you should wonder what you want to do about it." I yelled at her, her face flushed making Joy burst out laughing and watching her like this Bright boy flushed too. Nanon was looking around with his mouth full of food.
Bunch of young idiots! I felt a nudge from my left side. Well, it was a silent sign for me to shut up.
Okay! I nodded a little.
"Okay so let's discuss!" Amy said finally in her leader-like voice. Not bad! "We've got Donne, Shakespeare and Chaucer. I'm sure everyone is going for the first two poets but I think Chaucer is the best option." She said and looked around to see what others thought about that.
Dear, don't look at me! I don't know anything about poetry...yet.
Well, I know Shakespeare but I don't know about his poetry. I don't even know that he was a poet either. I always thought that he was a sad guy who likes to write masterpieces and kill all of his cast in his dramas so that they won't be able to work for other companies. Hehe
She was talking about some saucer, is that something to eat or some poem's title? I was wondering to myself... and as if she heard my thoughts she scoffed.
"Geoffrey Chaucer is one of the first great English poets." She started "...and we should go with his famous work 'The Canterbury tales'." She glanced at me. "The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty-four stories. So, we got so many stories to choose from and cover in only one book. We got many different characters. And we can individually cover the characters without waiting for others to finish or help."
Everyone was nodding to her so I did the same. Well, I like characters. How hard can it be?
"Bright Day Joy..." she chuckled "ahmm you three divide the characters among yourselves and Tankhun, you've got the notes on Chaucer so you memorize all of them. And Nanon when are you free?"
"On weekends." He said with a mouth full.
"Then can you review the characters they worked on?"
"Uh huh" He nodded while chewing a mouthful of food.
"So everyone when you were done. Let Nanon know. Make sure you let him know on weekends. Okay?" Everyone nodded, Nanon smiled happily.
"Why are you not giving him any work? And why did I have to memorize everything alone?" I complained.
"Because you've got the notes." She said flatly without even looking at me, making me even more angry.
"So, if I gave you the notes, you'll memorize everything?" I asked thoughtfully.
"Yes!" She agreed almost at once. Woah, respect!
"And then she kicked you out of the group hahaha" Joy was laughing hitting Nanon to laugh with her too. I shot a glance at Amy.
"Don't look at me. As soon as you lose your worth... You are nothing more than a freeloader to me." She said flatly.
"How dare you!"
"So... when are you giving me the notes?" She smirked and asked sweetly, but more like arrogantly.
"Never!" I shouted near her ear. Mean Amy! I'll show you my true worth! Just wait! She placed a hand on her ear and laughed out loud.
"Hey man calm down! She goes easy on me only because I am busy with my club. So, I can't give much time." Nanon explained something.
"How dare you go to the club when everyone is working hard." I shouted at him. Everyone was stunned and looked at me, I ignored them. "When everyone has to suffer how can you think about a party. I even have to study now because of you." I continue my yelling.
"I'm not going to the club for partying..." He started.
"Then do you work there? Are you a bartender or something?" I asked trying to calm myself down, as I remember my Porsche boy - when he was a poor guy and had to work hard at the bar.
"..." He was speechless for some reason. Then someone hit my back making me flinch and burst out laughing. I turned my neck to look at Amy. What the heaven is wrong with her! But she looked happy so I didn't disturb her, and kept my eyes on her. When she laughed her eyes almost closed making two crescent moons.
Whenever she does that I kinda fall into some trance. Everything else went into the background. Like right now, I know others were laughing too but I don't give a damn about them.
Amy tried to stop herself and started to say something to me. "He was not talking about the night club. He... he's in a swimming club. Here in college." She half-laughed, half explained. Pointing at the floor. I thought it over for a second and looked at Nanon who nodded while smiling.
"So, what do you do in your club?" I asked curiously.
"Swimming."
I almost threw my plate on his grinning face.
"Then leave the club, we got a project to do." I held my chin up. He glanced at Amy and blinked.
"He can't do that." She takes his side.
"Why?" I clenched my jaw for no reason.
"Because here in college once you join a club you can't just leave."
"Why not?"
"Because this club thing is also the part of study, you get some extra marks because of them." Joy explained.
"Yes, and in this group project we also get extra points if all of us have already joined some clubs." Day joins the conversation too.
I think it all over in my head for a second. Wait!! Where's my club!? I wanted to call Arm and ask immediately.
"How many clubs are there?" I asked out of curiosity.
"Many." Amy murmured and took a sip from the bottle.
"..." I forgot what I asked. damnit
"In which club are you?" Bright speak out for the first time.
"None." I said without looking at his side. Well, Arm didn't tell me anything about this club thing. I made a mental note to ask him later. "In which club are you?" I asked the only person, I'm interested in.
"Art." She said proudly making me lift my brows. Oh, I love art and I didn't know that we had that in common. Haha
Then they asked themselves about their stupid clubs and I felt like I was the only one lacking something.
Joy and Day were in the same club, Media. Everyone was excited to hear that Bright was in the Music club. Even Amy looked impressed for some reason.
Should I join the Music club? Nahh my little brother Kim would kick me out in the very minute I stepped in his territory. I accidentally imagined his face and smiled to myself.
"Khun, you should've signed for a club too. Before the due date of our group project." Day said to me.
"She's right, we want extra points." Joy seconds that. I looked at Amy for no good reason she lifted her brows in question that no one can see. Silly girl!
"Fine." I say.
"So, in which club are you interested in?" Joy asked.
"..."
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