Paula Rouco separated from Susana and followed the class to take the textbooks.
On the way, the girls walk in groups of three or two.
There are four girls in Paula Rouco’s dorm, all in the same class, and we met the night before school started, so it wasn’t bad.
Analeigh, the housemate, took Paula Rouco’s arm and asked with a smile, “Paulita, where were you this morning instead of going to breakfast with us in the dining hall?”
“I have a friend from high school, my iron magnet, who also got into this university, but in the finance department, and I was with her in the morning.”
Analeigh looked at her wistfully, “Is it a man or a woman? So, it’s usually a good story.”
Paula Rouco laughs, “She might even become a man if she goes to Thailand for a sex change.”
Buena, from the same dorm, said, “I envy you for having such good girlfriends in the same school, my best friend went to the far south and now I’m going with her to the south and the airfare to meet her is four figures.”
Analeigh reassured, “We may as well depend on each other.”
“That’s right, by the way, there’s not much to do right after school, why don’t the four of us from the dorm go to a meeting tonight?”
Rio, from the same dorm, agreed, “Yes, to celebrate that we have been tested together from all over the world and have been assigned a dorm.”
In the morning, a welcome assembly for new students is held in the courtyard.
Bored and exuberant, Paula Rouco fell asleep listening to one boring and exuberant leadership speech after another.
Until Buena, who was in front of her, suddenly turned and whispered to her, “Hey Paulita, look, that Severo on the stage, he is the man of the hour in our Imperial University. ”
Paula Rouco looked up and saw, from a distance, the slender, straight male figure standing on the address platform.
Severo Laris’ voice is gravelly and magnetic, with an innate sense of aloofness and coolness that has a hint of coolness that is unmistakably comfortable under Imperial’s scorching September sun.
Buena swooned, “Severo is really handsome, I hear he’s a junior and this is his last year in school.”
Counted Paula Rouco, a junior, who was almost six or seven years older than her?
Buena took a step back and approached Paula Rouco, whispering, “This Severo, he has the face and the talent, plus he went to Imperial University as a student. ”
“Buena, you know a lot about this Severo. ”
“Wow, Severo Laris is one of our school’s most prominent personalities, and when he was still in school, a casual stroll through our school’s forums and publications had his mythical stories circulating everywhere.”
From a distance, Paula Rouco looked at the man in the white shirt on the stage, with a beautiful breeze and a clear moon, as … he struck her as the second most handsome man she had ever seen in a white shirt other than her father.
Buena continued with the gossip: “I also heard that Severo Laris has been studying at the Imperial University for seven years without having a girlfriend, I don’t know if it’s true or not. Posters say that this Severo is either working on projects with his tutor, working part-time to earn money or setting up his own business … I heard that his highest record was working four times a day part-time. Simply put, an exemplary worker.”
Paula Rouco was astonished: “Four jobs a day? Wouldn’t you be exhausted?”.
“I heard that his family was unwell. Severo is a mandatory school scholarship winner every year. ”
Inexplicably, Paula Rouco is both admiring and a little heartbroken.
She grew up in the honey pot of The Rouco family’s parents and was held by the hand of her grandfather. Even when her father was hard on her, he was only stern, but in his heart he was extremely forgiving and loving.
Such a job was far from her.
Only to hear Buena sigh and say, “Hey, this kind of man is only good for love, not marriage.”
Paula Rouco wondered, “Why do you say that?”
“Even if Severo is good in his studies, his family is too poor and he won’t be able to compete with the rich and official generation of society. If you marry him, will you have to suffer alongside him?”
Buena’s opinion is not shared by Paula Rouco.
Severo Laris will surely shine in the future if he is really that good.
My father used to say that there are birds that don’t fly for three years, but if they don’t fly, they fly.
A while later, Paula Rouco’s phone rang and when she opened it she saw it was Susana sending her a video.
Shit, this guy actually recorded a video of Severo Laris talking on line.
Susana: “Look at the video, I think this Severo, he can!”
Paula Rouco pokes the video, which is not in high definition because of the distance between them, but the blurry quality of the image is all Severo Laris’ high, banned. The blurry quality of the video is a reflection of Severo Laris’ high, banned.
The man in the video, with his thick eyebrows and starry eyes like those in a painting, is stunningly handsome at a glance.
Paula Rouco’s hand, holding the phone, inexplicably gets a little warm.
…
In the evening, Paula Rouco followed her housemates back from a dinner at a big booth and had just arrived at the dorm when she received a Facebook message on her phone.
“Your dorm building number.”
Paula Rouco froze for several seconds and sent a question mark.
Severo Laris: “Didn’t you ask me when I was available?”
Oops.
It was Susana, that idiot, who did the stupid thing!
I was thinking about how to explain to Severo Laris that it wasn’t her who had sent him that message.
But on Facebook, Severo Laris seemed to have little patience and sent a direct message: “I’m already free”.
Seeing these few words, Paula Rouco seems to sense his cold tone and slight frown.
Ghostly, she sent the number of the dormitory building, “Girls Dormitory Building 8.”
Then there was no further word from there.
After about five minutes or so.
Severo Laris sent a message on Facebook: “Come down, I’m downstairs”.
Paula Rouco: “…”
She lives on the fourth floor and there is no elevator in the dorm building, so she was out of breath as she ran downstairs.
Just as she ran out of the dorm building, she saw Severo Laris pedaling a cyclocross bike under a large tree not far from the dorm building, with one long leg on the ground and the other foot on the bike pedal, obviously waiting for her.
Paula Rouco takes a deep breath and approaches.
“Severo, what did you want to see me about?”
Severo Laris’ dark eyes lifted slightly with a searing gleam under them, “You called me and now you’re asking me what’s wrong?”
Paula Rouco explained flatly, “…. That, that message was an oops, I didn’t send it!”.
“In that case, I’ll go away.”
With that, Severo Laris pedaled his bike and prepared to leave the residence building.
Paula Rouco called out to him, “Hey, since you’re all here, why don’t we go to the late-night movie.”
After saying that, even she was stunned, what was she doing inviting a male she didn’t know well to go to a movie night?
She must be crazy.
She helped him and the way to thank him was to see a movie night with her?