Chapter 11

"You seem lost in thoughts again, are you sure everything is alright?" Maurice asked for the umpteenth time today.

I asked Maurice about Talia's where about as soon as I saw her today so I could appease the guilt in me for accepting Maurice as a friend, she said Talia had gone on a trip to their hometown which made sense but I didn't understand why Talia left in such a rush.

I looked at her for a while trying to decide whether to tell her or not, she could be another one of Chris' fan girls and literally murder me for throwing him out of my room.

"Fine I'll tell you." I decided to tell her besides what could go wrong.

"Finally, but I have American history in five minutes how 'bout we talk afterwards." She suggested.

"Alright."

"Great, I'll meet you at the library." she said before leaving.

My first class had been cancelled cause our lecturer called in sick so I decided to join a class that seemed filled up so I wouldn't be noticed. It was a Greek history class for level four students which was three levels ahead of mine so I understood next to nothing that was being said, besides I couldn't keep my mind off last night.

Deep down I wanted it to be true and it was crazy cause I had only known Chris for like two weeks and he was most definitely a jerk so why would I want it to be true. 'Ugh'

"Are you okay?" The guy beside me asked.

"Yeah of course, what made you think otherwise." I asked and he snickered a bit.

"The fact that your hand is in the air and the whole class is awaiting your answer to the question." he said.

I brought my hand down immediately when I realized it was actually up.

"What's question?"

Before he could reply the professor spoke. "Well miss do you have an answer to my question or are you just trying to irritate me?"

"I'm sorry sir could you repeat the question?" I asked as I got up.

What was I thinking, I can't answer a fourth level history question, I've barely spent a week in college, I should just apologize for interrupting and leave the class.

Everyone had eyes on the professor now, to see if he would repeat the question.

He cleared his throat suddenly after a long minute of staring at me like I grew horns the asked.

"Name the countries which Greece shares borders with?"

I stared in awe, this must be a revision class or something cause the question seemed easy, why didn't anyone else answer the question or was I just the first to raise my hand.

Now that the professor had given the question the gaze of the whole class was back on me awaiting my answer.

"Greece has an area of 50949sqmile or 131957sqkm and she shares borders with Albania in the northwest, Macedonia in the north and Turkey in the northeast." I said in the smartest and most fluent tone I could muster.

"Well that's correct." The professor said then waved me to sit while he resumed his lesson.

"That was brilliant." The guy beside me whispered. "For a first year that is." he added then directed his attention to the professor.

I tried asking how he knew but he ignored me and left immediately after the class without a word.

I met Maurice and told her everything that was bothering me starting with the weird meetup I had with Chris on Thursday at the field and how he came to my room at almost midnight.

"I'll confront him today." I said after explaining everything.

I noticed a hint of discomfort in her eyes when I said that but in a flash it was gone like it was never there at first.

"That be great, after human biology right?" she asked in her usual chirpy tone.

"Yeah that'd be my last class for the day."

"Right, I can follow you if you want."

"Nah it's fine."

She nodded then we left for the class, it was a long one which had me staring at the clock wondering when it would end.

Once the class was over I went in search of Chris, it wasn't that hard to find him since girls always swarmed wherever he was. I found him training at the football field with other players. I sat and watched then went to meet him after the other players asides from his friends had left.

"What do you want?" he asked the moment I got close. My gut feeling told me that this wasn't the Chris that asked me out but I ignored abd took it as cowardice, how many Chris could there be.

"To profess her undying love for you I suppose." one of his friends said and they all burst into laughter.

I really hated their guts, how in the world did my stupid heart begin to fall for the leader of these jerks.

"Nah not really, rather I came to confront you on your reason for coming to my room to tell me that you'd like to go out with me." I said with a smirk to annoy him more.

His friends stared at him in surprise. "is that true man?" They asked in unison.

Chris suddenly burst into laughter, "I asked you out and you believed?" he said after controlling his laughter a bit then he began another bout of laughter and his friends joined him. I felt like the ground should open up and take down away from their presence.

"Hey boys what's all the commotion about?" Rose said holding Chris arm as she got closer to us, Her minions stood about four meters away.

"Nothing." Chris said setting his arm free from her grip then pulled me towards him. "I was just telling my girlfriend how much I loved her and my friends found it amusing." he said While holding me in an uncomfortable position.

"You said you didn't have a thing for him, ugh, you'd better watch your back new girl." Rose said and stormed off with her minions in pursuit.

The moment she was out of sight Chris pushed me forward out of his arms making me to stumble and fall.

"What the heck did you do that for?" I yelled but he just ignored me and walked out with his friends.

 I met up with Maurice at the gate and explained what happened. I tried to sound as nonchalant as possible but I was pretty sure Maurice already noticed that I was hurt.

"It's okay there are many more fishes in the sea." she said in a lame attempt to console me.

I smiled. "Thanks, I guess I shouldn't have let my guard down to begin with."

"Come on it wasn't your fault." she said as she patted my back.

I chuckled slightly, laughing at myself for actually starting to fall for someone who I knew hated me and was a jerk as well.

"Hey new girl!" I heard Chris call from a distance and turned.

"What now? are here to apologize and say you were just trying to keep your reputation?" I asked in anger .

He laughed then his face turned serious. "I don't even know why you fell for me and what made you think I'd like you back but just so you know don't believe any sweet words I tell you."

"Excuse you, what's that supposed to mean? I should let you toy with me?" I asked even more annoyed I could feel the smoke emitting from my ears.

"No I mean you should either avoid me or kick me out when I say such." He said making me even more confused. "Are you a child or something, do I really have to explain it in simpler terms, fine I get drunk a lot and tend to say the opposite of what I mean when I'm drunk okay." he said and left.

I could have sworn I heard a snicker from either him or Maurice but Maurice seemed like she could tear him apart at any second and Chris' back looked quite rigid like someone that was annoyed as well.