‘And each one of us has a story: some are good narrators and the rest are just actors!’
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The statistics class comes to an end. Kathleen and Noah walks towards the Cafeteria. They left for their respective classes after having lunch together. The following day comes to an end.
They didn’t have much to do for the night. So, they decided to watch a movie together. There was moviehouse situated at a distance of seven kilometers from the campus.
Since, they all had a mind numbing day and all their days in the campus were dry and monotonous, they decided to have some fun.
The girls groomed themselves, had a fine makeover session and decided to go out and have a perfect girl’s time together. Kathleen chose to wear bright blue hoodie, and white shorts with white sneakers.
“Kath, have you booked a cab?”, asked Laura, taking one final look in the mirror. Laura wore a tank top and a ruffled skirt which matched the color of her kitten heals.
“Yes, and the cab has arrived”, stated Kathleen, scrolling through Laura’s phone.
“Okay, girls!! Come on, let’s have a blast”, beamed Janice and leaves the room to check out the cab.
Janice was wearing a printed tee, and a purple jacket with a box pleated skirts.
Kathleen takes up her leather mini backpack and left the room. They take up the seats and instructed the cab driver about the destination.
“So, how is this film- where’d you go, Bernadette??”, enquired Laura.
“The trailer was good and I thought of watching it in a theatre”, shrugged Kathleen.
“Hey, let me read this, ‘Bernadette, a loving mother and wife, spends years stifling her passion and putting her family first.
One day, she decides to take matters into her own hands and break free’.? I guess this has to be the storyline of the movie”, spoke up Janice, looking at her phone.
“So, it’s gonna be a women centric movie!! Woah, perfect for us, I hope”, chuckled Laura.
They finally reached the ‘The wharf Square’, and this place is filled with shops, restaurants, Cafes, movie halls, etc. This place is usually crowded and a busy one. It was 5. 30 PM in the evening, when they arrived at square.
“Let’s grab something to eat!! I’m starving!!”, blurted Janice, rubbing her tummy.
“She started it again. Come on, Kath, we have to get this hungry bear something to stop her growling stomach”, teased Laura. Kathleen giggled at Janice while she pretended to keep a poker face.
They walked into the nearest Cafeteria.
“I’ll have a ham burger, cookies and milk”, Laura gave her order to the female waiter.
“A cup of noodles, muffins, honey bun, cheese sandwich and finally icecream, you can add chocolate chips as toppings to it”, finishes off Janice. Laura’s mouth was wide open in awe. Janice hit her shoulder hard for making fun of her food list.
“Lemme guess, Janice loves nothing other than food, books, music and bts!! I literally doubt if she loves me at all”, joked Laura, for which Kathleen laughed hard.
“Just a apple pie for me”, said Kathleen.
“So, that would totally cost $18. 35”, stated the female waiter. Kathleen pays off their bill and the waiter told them to wait for their order to arrive.
“Kath, did you know that almost all the students from our university crash at this wharf Square often!”, avowed Janice, scanning the menu card.
“Oh, really!! It’s our first time here!! The place is like a bustling little town”, exclaimed Kathleen.
“Yes, didn’t I tell you guys, I saw Rachel, Marilyn and Zach entering into the restaurant right opposite to ours”, confessed Laura.
“Oh, the bitch is here as well. Anyway who is to be blamed! It’s a public space and every citizen here, has the right to roam around”, signed Janice, still examining the menu card.
“Yeah, she is right!! Let’s leave them alone”, suggested Kathleen.
“Hey morons, I’m trying to tell you people that if they are here then, EJ, Robert, Gerald would be here as well”, concludes Laura. Kathleen’s eyes widened in shock since she doesn’t want Robert or EJ to spoil her day again.
Janice stopped examining the card and looked up with a huge grin on her face.
“Jeez, stop smiling like that!!”, snapped Laura. In the meantime, the food arrived. They filled up their tummies and left the Cafeteria, walking towards the movie hall. It was 10 minutes walk from the Cafeteria.
They collected up their tickets from the counter.
“How about popcorn?”, asked Kathleen pointing out the snacks counter.
“What? No way!! Kath, we had dinner few minutes!!’, shrugged Laura.
“What’s the fun in watching Movies without popcorns ??”, winked Kathleen.
“I totally agree!! Come on, kath! Let’s get some!!”, announced Janice dragging her to the snack counter leaving Laura behind. They got two cups of popcorn for themselves.
“Can we go?”, questioned Kathleen, chewing the popcorn. Laura’s eyes widened on seeing something, while Janice and Kathleen asked her what she was looking at.
“Oh my gosh!! I can’t believe this!!”, yelled Laura.
“What”, Janice and Kathleen asked in unison turning around to see what she was looking at. Kathleen’s eyes shot wide open and her face turned pale on seeing EJ and his friends getting tickets from the counter.
“Oh, gosh!! The bitches are here as well!! But I can’t find my boy!! Where the hell did he go?”, grunted Janice.
Kathleen turns around, trying to cover her face with the hoodie.
“Does this happen only to me!?? Why does he have to watch a movie here on the same day as me, off all the places in the town?? Arggg, oh, god!!”, cried Kathleen.
“Afraid of him??”, giggled Janice looking at Kathleen’s horrified face.
“Hell!! No. I don’t want to create any mess and spoil the day”, insisted Kathleen.
“You are too late for that!! He has already spotted you”, teased Laura.
“What!! Fuck, no!! Come on, guys. Let’s move towards the theatre hall”, spoke Kathleen.
They moved into the cinema hall together. They took up their seats in order while Laura sat in the first seat of the row G4, Janice next to her and Kathleen next to Janice. The seats next to Kathleen was left free for the people to fill it up.
Laura and Janice were busy scrolling through their Instagram pages and updating it with the pictures that they captured today.
Kathleen was busy munching the popcorn, she was startled while she witnessed EJ and his friends walked towards their row.
He took a glance on his ticket and it read row G4, the same as the one in which Kathleen and her friends were present. He smirked on seeing her. Horror stuck her face while she saw EJ walking towards her.
“Jay, Jay, jay!!”, Kathleen cried shaking her shoulders.
“What??”, she whispers.
“Look!!”. Janice could see EJ and his friends walking towards their seat, while EJ moved to sit next to Kathleen.
“Kath, maybe fate has decided this for you”, teased Janice, kathleen eyed him.
“What!! Fuck it”, chided Kathleen in a low tone.
“Have fun, baby girl”, teased Janice while EJ sat beside Kathleen.
“Jay, how about we exchange seats?”, murmured Kathleen into her eyes.
“Sorry, the only thing I need right now is peace”, joked Janice refusing to sit beside EJ.
“Hey, Laura!! Laura, look here!!”, whispered Kathleen while Laura was busy texting someone over the phone.
“Haha. No one can help you now kath”, laughed Janice.
“Screw you, I’ll save myself. I’m gonna pretend that no one is beside me”, stated Kathleen.
Kathleen wanted to act normal but she couldn’t. She sat erect, her feet can’t touch the floor since she was short, so decided to swing her legs and kept munching her popcorn. She could clearly sense that EJ was staring at her actions. This made her uncomfortable.
“Kath, could you do me a favor”, Janice muttered under her breath.
“What??”, asked Kathleen looking at her beady brown eyes.
“Will you ask EJ about Gerald!! Maybe he would know something about him?”, suggested Janice.
“Nooooo!”, yelled Kathleen, then Janice covered her mouth for screaming out of the blue.
“You can’t tell me no, Kath!! Please, please, please, please”, hushed Janice.
“Why don’t you ask him??”, questioned Kathleen.
“I’m afraid that our conversation won’t end well. I’ve never had a talk with him. We haven’t spoken to each other”, Janice said in a low tone.
“Fine!! I’ll ask him but not immediately”, stated Kathleen.
“Whatever, I just wanna know what happened to my boy”, claimed Janice.
Kathleen had no clue on how to start a conversation with him. After few minutes of awkward silence, kathleen slightly turned to see what he was doing.
To her surprise, he was glaring at her with smirk. Kathleen flicks around immediately. Few minutes passed away, she finally got the courage to enquire about Gerald.
“Popcorn?”, kathleen made a gesture.
He glanced at her and without giving a reply, he looked away. Kathleen frowned at his actions.
“Idiot”, she mumbled herself.
“I heard that!!”, he smirked.
“I’m happy you heard it”, she said in a sarcastic tone. A long silence prevailed in the air. EJ was busy chatting with Liam who sat next to him. Kathleen tried to get his attention but he doesn’t look at her. She gently pulled his sleeves of the grey denim shirt he was wearing.
“What”, he asked in a stern voice.
“Ahmm…… Where is Gerald? He is nowhere to be found. What happened to him?”, she enquired.
“Why do you care?”, he snapped back. Kathleen’s face turned crimson red in embarrassment. Janice couldn’t control her laugh. She giggled while Kathleen shoot her a death stare.
“I don’t care but some who does wanted to know”, she replied back.
“Oh, in that case, Janice, he has gone to visit his hometown which happens to be Maryland. He’ll be back tomorrow”, concludes EJ. Janice was astonished to hear him addressing her directly.
“Oh…. well… Thank you!!”, stammered Janice while Kathleen was left dumbfolded. She leaned back into the seat since the movie was about to begin.
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The movie came to end and all the lights were turned on.
“Woah, that was one best movie I have watched in the recent times”, insisted Laura.
“Yeah, it was amazing movie on self discovery and this movie tells us to pursue the purpose that we have been made for!!”, declared Janice.
“That was a perfect movie”, kathleen stretched her arms and legs. She totally forgot the fact that EJ was right beside her when the movie began.
She was engulfed by the movie. She enjoyed each and every frame of the film. But who knew that he was watching her enjoy the movie, laugh at the cringe things and listening her giggle throughout the movie.
“Let’s move out”, said Laura, gesturing Kathleen to move out of the row, so that she can get out as well. Kathleen finds only EJ on his seat while all of his friends left the place.
While Kathleen walked past him, he stretched his leg forward. She knocked over it and trembled but EJ caught her by her arm before she could fell onto the ground.
She balanced herself by using her right hand to hold the seat right before here.
He did that on purpose and enjoyed looking at her frightened face.
Seeing her horrified face, EJ chuckled. She stood there with a scowl on her face. Both glared at each other, while EJ continued to chuckle.
“Now, if you excuse us”, stated Janice, pulling away Kathleen’s hand that EJ was holding. Kathleen came back to her senses and looked away ignoring his face. They moved out of the theater hall having a chat about the movie.
“It was on amazing day”, beamed Janice with a huge grin.
“Everything was great, except his presence”, grunted Kathleen, waiting for the cab to arrive.
“Maybe Kath, he likes messing around but note the point that he likes it only around you!! He enjoys seeing you lose your cool!!”, implies Laura.
“I don’t think so!! He wants to make my life harder, nothing more than that”, hissed Kathleen.
“Well, I don’t think so!!”, teased Laura. Kathleen rolled her eyes. They took a cab and returned to the dormitory around 9 PM.
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Hey guys!! Hope you find it engaging and entertaining!! Read the further chapters to know about the intercollegiate event that is about to take place soon. Have fun reading!