Chapter 5

The meeting was over. When I came out of the club, thinking to prepare for the lecture in a little while.

"Ruth come here" that was Mr. Kim's voice, I turned back and entered the club again.

"You didn't seem to have much interest in this subject. I noticed that there was no attention during the lecture. Is there something wrong with Jake? I saw the two of them talking in the middle of the lecture. He continued to talk without giving me a space.

" It's not like that, Mr " before I finish he started talking again. " The personal problems of both of them are not relevant to me. But pay attention to the lecture on time and Work cooperatively with everyone. understand ? and if you have any doubt about the subject you can ask me when after the lecture"

" Sure Mr.Kim "I looked down and said.

"Ok then you may leave"

I smiled a little and came out of there. That Evil does not allow anything to be done properly. I told myself.

"Did you say something?" Cross was listening while leaning against the wall. He looked at me with his usual smile.

"I looked for you everywhere. It was Emi who told me to look here. GE Club, wow, you are smart," he said as he approached me.

" Why do I look like a nerd? or something " I asked him. He looked at me in surprise. "Did I say something wrong? You're trying to fight with me, aren't you? "

I smiled "why do I "

" Then why did you say that ? "He said while looking at me.

"Forget it so why are you searching me for .Is there any problem? "

He laughed at that. "Nothing like that, I just looked. So where are you going now?"

" To the library, I have to recover some points "

" Thats good idea Aren't you going to swimming practice?" he asked.

I looked at him in surprise.

"Emi said that too" he laughed.

Finally he also come with me to the library.

Day after day passed as usual. As the days passed, Cross became indispensable friend to all of us. he is easy going person who always be happy. And someone who can say anything with trust. Now he is closer to me than Emi.

Also, I am now working part time in the college lab. It's good there. Not much to do. At the end of the day, it's my duty to clean there. As a medical student i think that's the best part time ever.

It's raining so much these days, it's almost impossible to go out.So I didn't go out with my friends these days and Emi was busy with her work, so we didn't have time to talk. All I did was study.

The work of the Ge club is also going on as usual. These days, we are paying attention to a new project. Jake and I are team partners, What we are got topic was genetic modification of animals and plants. Because of those things, I spent a lot of time in the lab.

A few days ago I noticed that Cross and Jake were always fighting. If look closely, it's Jake who is always trying to get involved with Cross. It's his nature.

After the lecture, when we went to the canteen, Ben and Romy were talking about something. They stopped talking when they saw us coming.

" Why did you guys stop talking" Sam asked while tapping Romy's head.

" what are you doing, crazy" We laughed and sat down.

Others are not visible. So we started eating. Danny and Cross arrived before the end of the meal.

" Have you finished eating? you guys should have waited a little longer." Saying that, they both sat down.

After eating, we walked along the corridor to go to class. then

"since we haven't gone out for a long time, what do you think if we go out for dinner today?"

Cross asked looking at me.

I was thinking about something else, so I asked "what" again.

"Let's go, shall we?" the others left. Where are you going? Wait for me.

When I was about to leave, Cross said, "I asked you something."

" why me ask others too," I walked forward.

Jake was in front of me before I could take two steps. "Can we meet today after college" he asked me politely. He has never talked to me like this.

I just look at him without saying anything.

"I asked, if you could meet today" he said again.

When I look back, Cross is still looking at me.

What to do now, "Say what you have to say right here" I said looking away.

" Look, we can't talk right here now. Meet me at the entrance when the college is over."

Before I could say anything, he gave Cross a mocking smile and left.

After he left, Cross came to me saying, "Really, are you two that close now?" I rolled my eyes and looked at him. I didn't want to explain to him and immediately turned and went to the direction where Jake went.

I wanted to know why he wanted to meet me and why he was behaving so kindly suddenly.

After a while I got to see him surrounded by a group of girls. Surprisingly, Emi was also there.I noticed her at first, but she didn't seem to notice me. It looks like she is trying to talk to Jake. A bit strange. Is he Emi's crush, but why didn't she tell me about it?

I didn't go near him and just watched.After a while, Jake saw me and smiled. He came with that and took my hand and dragged me to a class there. I pulled my hand from his hand and looked around angrily. That's when I saw

The girls who were there stood by the windows of the class and stared angrily. But Emi was not there. I looked around to see where she was.

"Babe you were looking at me. Why didn't you come closer?" he asked with a strangely flirty smile. I looked at him confused and trying to ask why he wanted to talk with me. before I spoke he put his hand on my face and started speaking "Now you don't need to talk out of fear. There is nobody here say what you want." He said in my ear.

I saw Cross leaving then.He was watched from there.

I pushed him away and shouted "What do you want from me huh? Why are you bothering me like this?"

"Relax nerd, I wanted to talk with you about our project, Mr. Kim wanted to know the new status of the project. What do you think, I wanted to go for a walk with you, even in your dream." He started laughing.

"Im not interested at all " I walked away even without glance at him.

"Don't forget Come to the college entrance this evening."he shouted loudly.