Chapter 4

Rendezvous

Looking straight, karen sat with balcon to his left, while Charlotte started to teach

"Now we will officially enter into Calculus maths,

"Now what do you know about Calculus? Why is it needed? How is it used in modern society?

"Come on, peeps, answer me"

"No one?"

"*Sigh* I wanted this class to be entertaining, instead of boring sums, square of x and cosine, sine

"But it seems like none of you know anything about calculus"

"What's the purpose of learning it?! So we didn't pay fucking attention"

A voice rang out as the students nodded their heads

Seeing her students Charlotte took a deep breath, while waving her hands aside

"Yea right, Okay quiet down now, calculus is mainly used to calculate-"

Charlotte started to teach about calculus while karen listened attentively trying to ignore balcon

"What you doing girl?"

"What's up balcon?"

"Where are the others? Dude?"

"They coming, bitch Yasmine's boyfriend is dropping them by, well i came by early, i don't want to see those two suckers kissing again bleaugh"

"Right, but damn still her guy buys us alcohol"

"Of course, anything for booze and snacks but... she is thinking about breaking up!"

"Shit! what for?"

"You see-"

"Bitch, you fucking left us! Why didn't you wait, my bf josh would've left us by"

"Yea no shit Sherlock, i don't want you two fuckers kissing in my fucking face"

"Babe are you jealous?"

"Shit no, Jasmine... But I gotta say, that hunk kisses good"

"That's what I'm saying, girl!"

"So, balcon, this part ma'am is currently teaching you-"

Karen wanted to teach them despite them nagging, since he did take it as his duty

"Bro please... No"

Balcon looked at karen with raised eyebrows and just straight up said no as he went back to talk with girls

Karen was unfazed knowing very well this would've been the case as his eyes wandered at the front seat filled with three girls

The person, balcon was talking from the first, her name seems to be Amanda

"Okay guys, come on balcon i will teach you"

Hearing these words Karen sighed, since for the past few days it was the same case

He will try to teach balcon, since he took it upon himself as his duty, but he would be ignored but when it comes to this

"Balcon, please do this sum!"

"What? Bro you know how? Bro bro?"

He wanted to say no every time like why should he help a guy who ignored him despite him repeatedly trying to teach him and he also couldn't understand why the fuck doesn't he say no straight up to her

But still despite what he thinks, his hands moved showing the answers in his notes as he opened his mouth, shaking his head slightly

"This part-"

He started to teach balcon with a eased brows

'of course I love teaching'

"Okay class dismissed"

"Ohh karen why don't you have lunch with us?"

Hearing the voice karen sighed, he taught the sum Charlotte asked balcon, now seeing the person standing before him he nodded

"Yes, Daniel"

For the past two days, Daniel would come up to karen, along with the Indian looking guy, sam

Following those two back to their seats,

They were seated two benches before the last row, sam was seated at the far corner while Daniel sat at the corner

With that karen sat at the place he usually sat, like it's predefined

"Bro how was your day?"

"So-so I would say Daniel, how was your day?"

"It was well enough yo, i and sam went around the campus taking snaps, why aren't you in snap?"

"I just don't like photos"

"Then why the fuck are you in Instagram?"

"Reels"

"Fair enough, I would say, still how was teaching balcon went by?"

"As usual, you know what it's like"

"Hmm that's fair enough, yo see this"

"What's that?"

Karen asked, closing his lunch box while standing to leave his eyes scanned through Daniel's phone, he asked

"Ohh a webnovel?"

"Nah, bro, it's just me, writing these stories about, reincarnation, isekai, about a male character who gets reincarnated into a game based world"

"Ohh i see, what's the-"

"Bro, sit with me"

He heard a voice looking back karen tilted his head slightly

'me?'

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Klein went to his usual spot, well for starters his usual spot changed to the centre row

sitting along with Harry and balcon, he saw Rohan open his mouth, so he looked up at him from his phone

"Bro, im leaving this University"

"What you dropping out?"

"Yea dude, I'm dropping out"

Hearing Rohan, Klein sighed, he thought Rohan might be one among many people he is going to spend his time around in college

'well, i don't care people don't stay for long, all people will leave at some point'

Nodding so, he didn't take it so deep into his heart and so Klein took a deep sigh and nodded at Rohan

"Don't worry bro, I think at least there you will get a girl, man"

"Yea no shit bro, i will get a girl and hook up with her!"

"fuck yeah homie!"

Klein said so with his eyes seeing Rohan go with Harry and his group, he didn't care much about it as his ears perked to insta reels

"Heeh hee"

with his usual snickerings but still his eyes this time wandered around

Seeing two fat guys, Klein called out to one

"Bro, sit with me"

Hearing his voice, a fat guy, with his pants to his belly button, belt on, tucked in, wearing formals and a black watch on his hand

Looked straight at his eyes as Klein nodded pointing towards the seat near him while seeing Karen's tilted head

'i want him to sit with me'

That's all he thought, looking at karen, for some reason he wanted karen to sit with him and he didn't care about any details as to why

"Is it okay for you?"

"Of course"

"Fine, i will sit with you"

Hearing these words, Klein smiled slightly but shaking his head to his heart, stopping his smile, he started to scroll away at reels

"I'm karen"

"Klein"

"What are you doing?"

"Insta"

"What reels are you seeing?"

"Simply scrolling through"

"Hmm I see"

"Yes"

The conversation ended

Karen looked at Klein, seeing the conversation end, he didn't understand why Klein called out to sit with him

Klein simply nodded his head seeing karen sit quietly near him for some reason he felt himself slightly in a joyous mood

Maybe it's because of the reels, as he heard Karen's voice

"Did you eat?"

Klein looked nonchalant as he shook his head looking at karen but his eyes shook slightly

Karen looked at Klein's face as he could notice the changes in Klein's eyes observing his face as a whole and asked

"Why?"

"Not now"

"Eat"

"Okay"

The conversation ended but still karen saw Klein reach out to take his lunch box

While Klein wondered why was this day becoming slower all of a sudden, out of blue, he wondered while chewing at a chicken slowly

Karen became quiet seeing Klein eat, while Klein's face didn't show it

Klein freaked out inside himself,

'whats this about?'

'why did he ask me whether I ate?'

'why did he ask me to eat?'

'why is he looking at me like that?'

'what the fuck is going on?'

'hahaha why is he so concerned about me eating?'

He wondered while karen was in his own world with a single thought

'he asked me to sit with him'

With his head striking around this sentence he came to the most logical conclusion

'he needs something, of course I should not judge it this fast, i will look through his behaviour first, then I will know'

Thinking so both of them nodded looking at each other simultaneously

Klein as he finished eating he again lunged towards Karen's side to keep his lunch box

"Give it to me"

Hearing these words Klein just handed it over to karen who swiftly put it inside while giving him a water bottle, a green colour water bottle

"Drink it"

Taking it from Karen's hand, Klein drank it, while his head drummed with countless thoughts

'whats going on!'

'why did he keep it inside?'

'why did he gave me water?'

'why is he taking care of me like that'

While he wanted to question things like this, his face still remained calm while his brain rang with a single thought

'he is near my bag, he did that, that's it, ohh see that!'

"Hee heeh"

Hearing the laugh, karen couldn't help but laugh along at how ridiculous the laugh sounded, Klein sounded like a dying dog

"See here"

Seeing karen laugh, Klein pushed his phone towards him

"Heeh hee"

"Hahaha"

Karen laughed not at the reels but at the unique laugh from Klein

'why does he laugh like that?'

The reel was about a car crashing into a tree with some funny bgm playing seeing that Klein was snickering again

While karen, He couldn't care less about what the reels were about but he sees Klein's laugh being more interesting than the reels

the day passed by entertaining for the both of them with a feeling that this day was different from their usual University days

Klein, as usual came by with his bike, driving it under the speed limit, his eyes focused the road but his mind shouted

'why? Ohh should I play valorant or something else today?'

'what the fuck is Arjun doing?'

'but still today was nice, karen was his name- haah shit I should drink something'

While mulling over many things in a spiral, Klein went back to his home

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