One uneventful month had passed, by now I knew my way around the campus perfectly, and I had grown quite close with my friend group, especially Santhush above the others. I often went to places with Santhush or Randan, sometimes the others but those two were far more likely candidates to be a one on one partner for me to go out with. That being said I had spoken to a handful of our other classmates as the friend group had some exterior members that were often not directly involved in the main 6.
I didn't do anything else with anyone in the class, I had exchanged strangely hostile glares with Ludwika Valero, the most popular girl in the class, but maybe I had offended her in some way I don't know. This is why I was stunned by an upcoming proposal.
"Good morning Sakurako, I take it that you will not hesitate to harass and assault me on this lovely morning"
"Good morning, and of course I will, how could a fair maiden such as myself do that to you"
"Yeah fair maiden my ass, you may be fair but you're more like a abusive snake to me"
Sakurako stared at me for a second or two, had I said something out of line? No she didn't seem annoyed, so what was it? Shit. I just called her pretty. Uhh, I don't know if she's just gonna brush past that or what.
"I'd say you're the real snake here Daniel, knowing all the secrets you keep from your best friends and entrust to the fair "Snake" that sits next to you" She did not in fact brush past it, I'm cooked.
"Uhh yeah. You've probably got a point there. I was really hoping you wouldn't notice I'd said that"
"Said what?"
"Oh you wanna play that game huh?"
"Game? What game?"
"You know what I said"
"Don't think I do" She was intending to force me to give up here, but I am not the kind of guy who backs down in this situation, I had never gotten flustered properly before and I wasn't about to let it happen here now.
I decided to take action here, looking Sakurako directly into her bright blue eyes.
"I said that you're fair, you're pretty in other words" I mentally cringed saying these words, made me want to just die honestly.
She stared back at me like it was a contest, but as I said those words she retreated, not quite blushing or anything, but she definitely felt the words I had said. I had won, hell yeah.
"I see, well you're not exactly bad yourself you know" I had in fact, lost.
I had inherited the looks of my mother rather than father, so whilst I was probably considered quite good looking, my features were far more effeminate than most other guys my age, like randan who had a handsome and masculine face.
I wasn't necessarily self-conscious of this fact, but it was something I was never proud of, the only thing I was truly thankful of in this aspect is that I didn't look like my older brother, I had a different eye colour and a completely different build to him.
In all fairness I was rather popular in middle school, unlike Randan I turned down my options.
Classes wrapped up for the day and our group ended up going out to a small restaurant. It was this cozy little place around 15 minutes from the campus, surprisingly the place looked very expensive, and rather fancy one could say.
"Damn what the hell is this place, looks way too good for people like us" Macsen said this, but I had no intention of agreeing with such a stance.
"Maybe too good for YOU, you bum, let's just get a table and get some food" I clapped back.
We got a table, and were served some menus. Looking at these prices they were honestly not insanely high, but were rather exorbitant in comparison to most places we could've gone.
"Man, I'm unemployed, I can't afford these prices.." Oliver said, rather despondent.
"I'll pay for you, just get what you want" I wasn't about to allow this man to suffer in silence.
"I could kiss you right now"
"Maybe later"
I ended up ordering a sponge cake, it was vanilla with strawberry. The others got various different things, all comprising real human food, like sandwiches or whatnot.
"Here are your drinks" The waiter sounded so depressed it was actually ridiculous, I could never. I received my drink, it was English breakfast tea, the only kind I even like.
"What are you Daniel? Why did you get that drink whilst ordering strawberry sponge cake..?"
"Man shut up, let a man like what he wants Holly" I really liked sweet things, but I often got teased for ordering it when we went out to places.
Not long after, our food orders arrived, I got my cake! My friends were talking about upcoming midterms, I was completely absorbed by the cake in question though. I decided to dig in, it was like an 8.5/10, very
good cake.
"Dude you look so cute right now" Randan made me question many things on a daily basis, mainly his sexuality.
"What are you saying??!!"
"He's not wrong you know" Oliver why would you do this to me.
"STOP LOOKING AT ME WITH THAT PERVERTED GAZE YOU ANIMALS"
"Oh don't be shy now"
I felt like Randan was going to smooth-talk me. I shrunk into my seat and pouted a little bit.. I just wanted to eat my cake now.
"Anyway guys, I heard that Mr Estrada is going to be explaining the midterms to us tomorrow, when they'll be and all that stuff." Oliver broached the subject fully now.
"Well I was wondering if you all wanted to get together to study for these exams, you know we have to get good grades after all"
I mean he wasn't wrong but I had no intentions to study for this, that's just a lot of work.
"You know that's not too shabby an idea, you could definitely lend a hand to Macsen and Holly, they're pretty shit at academics" Randan always had a certain bluntness when it came to things like this, he wasn't stupid though.
"Hey!" Holly protested.
"Yeah I'd be fine giving them some help, what about you three, do you need any help?"
Santhush accepted the help for maths only, he decided to do the rest on his own. Randan also accepted help for maths, but wanted assistance in science as well. I relented to join the sessions, but refused outright help from him.
"Well then, how about we all meet up at my house and we can knock some of these out"
I had wondered what Oliver's house looked like, so I was more than willing to go.
"For the time, can we do this tomorrow after school, probably best to do it after the teacher explains it I suppose.." Randan mused.