Chapter 7

It's their last week before term break. The school grounds looks so populated even it's so big.

The issue scattered around the campus. Pair of eyes landed on her, whispers can be heard.

Monica thinks that it was because of what happened between her and Dean's ex that day, and to add Tristan's appearance also.

They were in a Philosophy class. Monica doesn't care about people around her. She just got her notebook from her tote bag and started making notes.

She was focused, not until Tristan entered the room.

"He's from college of engineering right, what is he doing here?"

"Yo slutty gesture from her"

"Is this vacant?" Tristan pointed on the seat beside Monica's.

"Are you crazy? Hey!"

Tristan said. "Seems like there's no one sitting here"

"You don't take this class okay!" Monica panicked.

He just slept beside her. Falling a sleep on the table. "I'll just be here. It's so noisy outside"

Here he was, looking so perfect and better than what campus girl described him to be like.

Women all over the campus were already fawning over him, over his perfect scent and stance. If he isn't her cousin, surely she had crush on him. He will be the one of the few male crushes.

He just sat there and slept but many girls are looking at him, wishing they'll be featured in his dream. Some of the girls shown an angry-looking face at Monica.

If they knew that it's her his cousin. Surely they'll just bother her to be a bridge to him. It's better that it'll be like this.

"Mister beside you Monica" Monica tapped Tristan's shoulder.

"Hey our prof is calling you"

"Mister, please leave my class. I'm not familiar that I have a student in college of engineering iho. You're disturbing my class."

Tristan just got his things and left. "Sorry sir"

He signaled her to just call him after class.

She just listed to that 3 hour class full of boring thingz, lastly, the prof dismissed them and gave few things to accomplish.

"Hello, group 4 heree" Monica heard someone in the class shouted. It's to gather the teammates for the sem's term paper.

"Hi hellooo, I'm one of your groupmate" she said with a smile. The leader returned it back with a fake  sarcastic smile.

"We'll just meet tomorrow, since this is now the end of our class, vacation will be up soon. We'll just finish this as early as we can" the leader said. "We'll just meet on my house. 9am sharp. Monica do some advanced research."

Monica just nodded.

Tristan is at outside of her classroom, waiting for her. When there are no people, she hit Tristan's arms hard. "Are you looking for trouble, and you're bringing me into your mess?! Dumbshit"

"Ey calm down HAHAHHA calmm downnn"

"How could I calm down???"

"Okay okay, I'll treat you to dinner, my treat."

"Good" Monica tapped his head. "I want samgyup.

They headed to the nearest samgyup, called samgyupsalamat. It's not near on their school, but near on his home. The smokey atmosphere surrounded them.

Tristan wished to have a sister like her. His youngest sister died, before she sees the world. Now, the burden is in Tristan, managing the Olympus Construction company.

"Why won't you eat? It's delicious hmm...Next time, lend me your credit card for shopping ok?"

"Whatever you want" Tristan continues cooking.

They ate a lot. Because of that, they forget about their phone.

She got missed calls from Dean and 3 texts. "Hey I ordered takeout. I'm at your condo." dean said in the message.

"Oh my"

"What's wrong?" Tristan asked

"I have to do something okay? I'll just take a cab" Monica said.

She find it so nervous, it's not because she's afraid of him but she felt apologetic towards her action last time. And Dean is being nice to her, she can't just abandon him like his ex did. She knew him and it's just rare to see these sides of him.

She immediately went back home and saw Dean patiently waiting on the table.

She felt bad. He was just so innocent and she felt pity towards him. He looks so understanding and kind, so she always look up to him.

Even she had eaten, she also ate what Dean bought to her.

"I'll be meeting classmates tomorrow for our final paper"

"What time?"

"9 am. All right. I have to do advance readings today."

Their relationship is just awkward, switching on and off. Sometimes they're okay but sometimes they can't just express their emotions without misinterpreting it.

She just headed to her bed and browsed some notes.

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Her alarmclock rang at 7 am. She made cereal and milk for her breakfast. Dean is still asleep.

She'll need to find some clothes, tshirts rather. She opened her closet, and she saw pants and orange strife tshirt.

She just left a note on the table that don't wait for her.

As she reaches the station she stops in her tracks. Monica is once again perched up on the street legs crossed, looking what time is it now.

"8:27 am"

When she arived on the venue, the girls are just playing games.

"Hi Monica! I have distributed the task. Let's just do it on gdocs"

Why didn't she just texted it???

"Let's just play a game?

"Nah. Not into it."

"Really? You're not into it?" Riana just lifts an eyebrow at that. They just laugh at Monica though. "You're no fun"

"Okay. Can I leave now?"

For one, Monica's a total nerd when it comes to these things. She doesn't play childish games.

Monica's pretty sure at one point that Riana has guts towards her. She was just a hardworking student who wanted to pass, Riana is just a blockmate who complicates things and treats everything a competition.

"Then I'll just be straight" Riana said frankly.

"I have no time to discuss that"

"Are you the reason why Dean and his girlfriend broke up?"

Monica stopped a moment.

"Oops my bad, and you were now hooking with Tristan? How slutty you are"

As much as she want to pull her hair, she just smiled and confronted her. "At least I'm that pretty for guys to fell inlove with me, unlike you, trying so hard"

Even it's just all fake news, she just babbled all those thoughts out of her. It was just stressing !! And she just want Riana to stop.

She was about to exit the scene when Dean appeared having her phone. Probably he did see their scheduled time and meeting place.

His face turned into an angry face.

Another misunderstanding argh