“The universe will bless you with one person that gives you with everything you you have ever prayed and cried for in other people.
It will be beautiful!”
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EJ dragged her out of the basketball court to the empty corridor. He stopped right there and let her hand free. He stands there with a annoyed face. Kathleen was wondering what’s wrong with him. All people in the court witnessed the way he dragged her out of basketball court. Kathleen glared at him, waiting for him to say something. On the other hand, EJ crossed his hands over his chest and kept staring.
“What’s wrong with you?”, he asked in a serious tone.
“What??! Nothing is wrong with me!! What’s wrong with you?”, she questioned him back.
“Every single time you do this when you are furious!!”, said EJ. Kathleen was confused.
“What did I do?”, Kathleen raises her brow.
“When you are angry at people, you act in a haste. You don’t think of the consequences when you hit them abruptly”, shouted EJ. Kathleen rolled her eyes at his comment.
“So, you tell me, what he did was right?”, hissed Kathleen. They were getting into a serious argument.
“No!! Oh god!! No, I’m not taking sides on right or wrong!! I’m saying you to think for a second before you act or do something. All of a sudden you tell Billy that you will play against in anger, and because of your actions, what if Janice was hurt or what if the boys or you were hurt in the game. I witnessed the boys from that university was really violent throughout the game. Neither our actions nor our words should harm anyone unless they deserve it. Rachel and Billy both deserve what you did. But that doesn’t mean Janice or Noah or Liam getting hurt!”, announced EJ.
EJ was one hundred percent right. What if Janice or Noah got hurt in the game?? It wasn’t just Kathleen who was playing against them, due to her decision four more of her friends joined the game.
Kathleen nodded at him and accepted that he was right.
“How thoughtless of me!!”, she mumbled, rubbing her temples. She found it relieving since none of her friends got hurt in the game.
“But were like a little lioness during the game, fearless, brave with classy attitude. You showed no fright”, confessed EJ with a polite smile.
Kathleen was wide eyed with astonishment. She giggled at his comment and he chuckled at the astonishment on her face. Robert watched them from a distance and he decided to join them shortly.
“Hey!! Hey!! What’s so funny here?”, Robert joined EJ and Kathleen, who stopped laughing.
“Hey, man”, EJ greeted his friend.
“Barbie, how is your hand??”, enquired Robert, looking at her fist which was pastel red in color.
“Are you okay?”, insisted Robert and came forward to witness her fist which was slightly painful. Kathleen moved back before he could touch her hand. EJ watched her.
“I’m fine!! I’m leaving”, she stammered and marched towards the court to find Laura, Noah and Janice.
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Kathleen and Janice changed their costumes back to the original ones and left the basketball court with Laura. They decided to watch few events for the time being.
They planned to look at the event ‘fashion show’ which took place in the conference hall. Students from different University put on makeovers, wore variety of costumes and did a model catwalk.
While they were busy enjoying the informal fashion show, Kathleen’s phone rang. It read ‘Owner’. Kathleen don’t remember having a contact named owner. She was wondering what might have happened to her phone.
“What?? Owner”, Janice looked perplexed.
“I don’t know!! I don’t remember saving such contact”, shrugged Kathleen.? ?
“Landlord??’, teased Laura with a chortle. They insisted her on attending the call.
“Hello?? Who is this??”, questioned Kathleen in a harsh tone.
“Hey, I want our dance costume!! Do you have it now?”, questioned the voice from the other side. It was EJ. Kathleen never had his phone number. She was shocked to hear him speak in the name of ‘Owner’. She stood there frozen. Laura and Janice wondered if it was any kind of bad news.
“Hello!! Speak up!! Bring the costume to our dance studio”, EJ ends the call. Kathleen remained in the state of shock.
“What was that Kath?”, questioned Laura curiously.
“It was Ethan!!”, uttered Kathleen in shock. Janice burst out into laughter, she couldn’t stop herself. Kathleen frowned at her. Laura giggled as well.
“How the hell did he do this?”, grunted Kathleen wondering how EJ put his number into her phone. That’s when it strikes her that he was the one who bought it for her.
“He is right Kath, he is the proprietor of the phone”, teased Janice. The frustrated glower on the face of Kathleen made them giggle. They together took up the costume and walked towards the dance studio.
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Kathleen, Janice and Laura entered the dance studio to find it filled with students of a particular university. They sat in groups and were busy chatting, practicing, arguing. There were totally more than 30 students in the studio. Kathleen searched for EJ but she couldn’t find him in the crowd. A girl from a group walked towards them. She was of Janice’s height, with beautiful protruding black eyes. Her medium length fluffy black hair was combed into a ponytail. She walked towards them with a smile.
“Hey!”, the girl said with a grin. Her accent was different it wasn’t American.
“Hey”, Kathleen, Laura and janice said in unison.
“And may I know your nice name ?”, Laura asked politely.
“Myself Grace Kelly!! We are from the University of Nottingham “, she said with a smile. The girls understood that since she was from United Kingdom, and thus she had a different accent. Few more girls joined Grace from behind. The boys of her class was busy minding their work. They were about 10 boys in her class.
“Hey, Grace!! Myself Kathleen, she is Laura and she is Janice and we belong to this university but different majors. We are in freshman year”, introduced Kathleen, Laura and Janice gestured a Hi.
“Oh, that’s great!! And I’ll introduce my friends, this is Rebecca, she is abigail, she is taelyn and this is Emily, and this is Caroline, she is a reserved person”, Grace spoke with Janice, kathleen and Laura while the other girls of her class were glaring at them. They didn’t come forward like she did, instead the girls of her class sat there staring at Janice and her friends.
“Actually, I know you guys!! Earlier today, I saw Janice giving her Felicitation speech which was awesome while I saw Kathleen playing against some boys in the basketball court. So I could identify you guys”, stated Grace.
“Oh, Great”, Janice and Kathleen giving a genuine shy smile.
“The campus is great”, said Rebecca, she was retound, she had those dimples on her cheeks while caroline was slim and bug eyed.
“Yeah, it is”, shrugged Laura. Kathleen looked at a group of girls and wondered what they were laughing at because it seemed like they were in their own world. There were 5 girls, in which a blonde girl had mid thigh length hair. It was neatly brushed into a french braid. She had close set brown eyes and she had a stern face. A lean girl with short wavy hair who sat near to the blonde was making some kind of joke for which the other three girls laughed. Grace noticed Kathleen looking at Natalie hills and her group.
“Hey, guys!! Come on let me introduce everyone here!!”, Grace insisted. Kathleen, Janice and Laura moved along with them.
“This is Natalie”, said Grace pointing out the blonde girl. She flashed a smile immediately. They thought she was some kind of serious person but she wasn’t.
“She is Helen”, she said pointing out the girl with short wavy hair. She grinned at them.
“Myself, Lily”, greeted a girl with chubby cheeks and a affiliative smile. She was very sweet with that innocent smile of hers.
“Hey there!!”, Janice said with a grin.
“This is Martha and that is Olivia”, Grace introduced them. Olivia was taller than all the other girls here. Her glossy auburn hair was put as a messy bun. Martha smiled at them, she didn’t talk much. But the way she rolled her large oval eyes was different. Kathleen, Laura and Janice had a small chat with them.
“Come on let us introduce others as well!!”, announced Emily and walked towards few other girls who were sitting in groups. All this while, the boys were watching them sitting at the right corner together.
“So, Grace what are you doing here in the Dance studio?? Not participating in the events??”, enquired Janice.
“My event is done and dusted. I took part in oratorical event. And few our girls, Natalie, Olivia participated in brainstorming competition along with our boys. Rebecca, Abigail and Emily were a part of painting event.
Some of the boys took part in sporting event as well”, concludes Grace.
“So almost everything is over for now, we have to do our practice for the upcoming dance events!! So we are here”, she added.
“That’s great!!”, cheered Laura.
“How is your practice for dance going on?”, questioned Kathleen.
“How does it look?”, asked Grace pointing out all the students who were chatting in groups and the boys sitting at the corner like abandoned ones.
“You forgot to introduce them, Grace”, said Laura pointing out the group of boys.
“Well!! If you wish then, I’ll give some intro”, shrugged Grace. Janice and her friends walked along with Grace, Rebecca and Emily while caroline said she would stay with other girls.
“Guys, this is Kathleen, Laura and Janice”, signed Grace.
“And girls, this is warren, Ivan, Jasper, Simon, Theodore, Charlie”, she introduced them. Not everyone smiled at them, Warren, the tallest boy and? Ivan, the one with fluffy brown hair greeted them ‘hi’.
This boy who was tall and had a well built physique, good looking with small brown eyes named? Theodore tried his best to smile and the others did the same as well. Jasper and Simon were a bit alike.
In the meantime, EJ enters the room getting the attention of all the girls there. He walks towards the boys and glared at Kathleen who stood there with a poker face. EJ was carrying a few? number of bags in his hand.
“Did you bring it?”, he questioned her, looked at the bag in her hand. She nodded and gave him the bag.
“Take these!!”, he handed over the costumes to the boys who stood opposite to him. Kathleen gave him a confused look.
“They have asked Noah to arrange for the dance costumes and he said Liam to take it here. But since he is busy, I’ve come. Got the explanation you need?”, enquired EJ with a stern face. Kathleen giggled at his reaction.
The students of Nottingham University began their dance practice. Kathleen, Laura and Janice watches them practice. Janice looked at someone and chuckled.
“What’s so funny?? Jay?”, questioned Kathleen. And Laura looked in the direction that Janice was laughing at. Laura cackled with laughter.
“Look there! Natalie is roasting Theodore!! That boy doesn’t seem to care, he is actually enjoying!! But she is desperately fighting with him! Poor Theodore”, stated Laura. Kathleen giggled at them. The other girls and boys were having a tough time in practice.
“Hey, Natalie!! Easy-peasy, girl!! Go easy on him”, yelled Kathleen with a chortle.
Natalie looked at Kathleen and gave her wistful smile. Theodore stood there giggling at Natalie for what Kathleen said. Grace, Rebecca, Emily, olivia, lily and many students chuckled at Kathleen’s comment.
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