(Chapter 2) Who is she?

"Because I wanted to go with you", Alex said flirtatiously, in his words, seductively. Ivy noticed how Kate's expression changed as soon as the words slipped out of Alex's mouth.

"Stop fooling around. It's not time for the bus to arrive yet. And it's pretty obvious who you actually want to go with!", Ivy exclaimed with a hidden meaning.

"Can you believe that?", Kate said calmly. "You guys are my childhood buddies and we've known each other since forever and you're probably the only people I can rely on."

Ivy knew that Kate said it to change the topic, so she reassuringly responded, "That was sweet, Kate."

"Sweet? That was creepy. You said it out of the blue."

...

On their way to the class, there was a girl standing in the middle of the long corridor beside the reception who seemed quite confused.

Alex held Ivy by her chin and turned it to direction where the girl was standing in and said, "Look at that girl. She's looks pretty.."

"Oh yeah? She looks pretty then why don't you go ahead and talk to her?", Kate said grinning.

"I was gonna say that she looks pretty confused! But anyway, I think we should go talk to her", as he said this, he went forward to ask her if she was okay.

"Hey! Um.. Are you okay?", Alex asked politely as he slowly approached her.

He wasn't always so polite and confident with girls, which is, until he met Kate. It was a group project that made the three of them best friends. Back in those days, Alex was just another nerd who didn't have any friends and was desperate to become popular.

Alex was a bit worried as he always had social anxieties, and would easily get nervous around new people but surprisingly he got along really well. Though now he's among the cool kids and he flirts with other girls, his behavior always ensures that he has a thing for Kate.

"Oh, hi! I'm new here, I can't find my class", she said with a gentle smile. Her dark brown wavy hair flowing down her shoulder and a white shirt on, tucked in her ankle length pants giving off a confident aura. And with a skin so fair, it almost looked pale.

"We're on our way to the class, we can look for it together maybe?", Alex asked with a slight smile.

"Do we have the same class? I'm in the psychology department", she said with a low confused voice glancing at Ivy and Kate.

Ivy went ahead to jump in the conversation, "We only have our orientation today, all the departments will be there so we can go together", Ivy said cheerishly to break the formalities and make her comfortable. After all, she looks Korean!

"Ah that's great!", she exclaimed and continued, "I'm Kim Hana" , she said with the same excitement. This time, it was certain she was Korean. Just when Ivy was gonna turn into a die hard kpop fan, Kate and Alex started introducing themselves. They were bonding well on their way to class, though Ivy was still deep in thoughts.

I'm certain it's the first time we met, and her name..

"I'm Kim Hana, it's nice to meet you all"

I've never even heard of her before, but somehow, she seems very familiar.

As a matter of fact, this new girl they befriended was actually familiar and someone they already knew. But the question was, who was she?

...

After a few hours, they went to the cafeteria. The 4 hours felt like 12 hours for them. They were starving, so they hurried to the cafeteria and ordered food first. Surprisingly, Kim Hana who seemed so shy, had a big appetite as well.

"It's so frustrating, this university is so big, I haven't laid my eyes on Ian yet."

Kate said disappointedly with her hands in her pockets, she slightly turned to kick the wall and pretended to sob.

"Ian? Ian Somerhalder?"

Kim Hana let out a laugh and was curious to know who she was talking about, "I thought that Alex guy was your boyfriend haha."

"Alex? No way! I only like handsome guys like Ian."

Actually, Kate didn't mean what she just said. She might get head over heels for a handsome guy she just laid her eyes on but deep down she knew that she could never feel the same for any other guy as she feels for Alex. She knows she wouldn't be able to replace him.

"Just another hot, kinky guy, spoilt by his dad's wealth who leads a gang to bully other people.", Ivy said. It was easy to assume as Kate has always been attracted to these kind of guys who in her opinion, need serious therapy.

"Jeez, you're so intuitive. You always guess it right!"

"I can tell, he's also a high ranked student with high popularity", Kim Hana added more to Ivy's assumptions.

Ivy started posing like gang leaders and soon one after another, they kept imitating him assuming his personality but none of them had any idea what kind of a person he could possibly be.

"Since he could manage to catch your attention, he must be really handsome?", Ivy said while posing dramatically with one hand in her pocket and the other on her chin forming a symbolic gesture representing charm which she learnt from her ex boyfriend.

"Maybe he's more than a gang leader. Maybe he's a secret assassin!"