"Still, it won't help you."
A sudden voice from Nora's back answered her question.
Hearing someone's voice so close to her Nora got a little baffled. She hastened and turned before bringing some distance between them.
She looked at the boy with narrowed eyes. His face isn't something which one can forget. Just like the one who she slapped just now.
Unlike others who usually have caution in their eyes while talking to others, this boy was staring at Nora with a playful look instead. She got a little flustered by his behaviour.
Normally her guards are always up against strangers but at that moment she didn't feel that way for him, and that's why she felt more flustered by her own behaviour too.
She isn't a newbie to the world, and she knows how to judge people. And right now the person in front of her doesn't look like any threat or fake to her.
With a sigh she asked. "Who are you?"
"..."
Mike's tongue tied by her one question. Although he is glad that he isn't the one who got hit, but he was standing just beside Parth when all that happened. How can someone ignore his presence when he was standing with Parth in the middle of the crowd too.
With a twitched lips he commented. "...you are actually new here."
"..."
Mike waited for her to reply, but all he got was her deadly glare with silence. "Woah... Why is it so cold? Who died?"
"Say."
To her one order Mike instantly stood straight and answered her questions. "Whom you just slapped is a very close friend of mine."
Hearing that, Nora's frowned brows instantly relaxed. Exhaling deeply her tight nerves instantly eased. Looking straight to Mike she hastedly spoke. "Then help me, take me to him."
"..." His mind went blank. He perplexedly looked at her. He came here instead of going to the administration building for more details just because he wanted to help Nora personally.
His help didn't include surrendering herself.
Instead he came so that she won't be scared of Parth after knowing the truth by that culprit girl. However Nora's words were betraying Mike's plan totally. He was here to aid a helpless girl, but the fierce girl never left Nora's side.
"What did you mean by that?"
"I need to apologise to him. I wronged him. I used my anger while slapping him. It must have been swollen by now." Nora right away said.
Mike's lips were pursed. He was trying his best not to laugh. This was the first time he heard someone talking about Parth this casually. Especially after offending him this big.
"Puff ... You really think that a simple apology would help you now. He sent me here to bring you back to him. Not for an apology but to avenge himself."
Nora understandably nodded. "Okay. I deserve that. Let's go. He can slap me back as hard as he wants in front of everyone. I won't mind."
He shook his hands hurriedly in denial. "No. No. No. Wait. You can't go to him. Right now especially. He will kill you without batting an eye."
Her brows raised with puzzlement. "Just for a slap?"
"It wasn't just a slap. You slapped Parth Maurya. Whom even his own parents don't touch without his permission. You being slapped by him in front of everyone is not that much worthy to anyone's eyes. This apology will mean nothing to him."
What he said is what he meant, what he believed and what will surely happen. Parth isn't going to forgive her in any condition. And an apology is totally useless in front of his anger. Right now all Parth could see was his insult.
" ? Is he psycho?"
"..." Mike couldn't help but be astounded by Nora more and more. His reluctance to still be strangers with her was quite on his face.
"You are so new to me too. Shall we become friends?" Saying that he instantly extended his hand for friendship.
" ? Are you psycho too? Your friend is looking for me to kill, and here you are proposing to me your friendship?"
If the first sentence didn't bring a laugh on his face, this one did. "Pfff... Don't worry. I won't let that happen. Now we should become friends. My name is Mike Miller."
"..." Nora didn't react.
"Oh come on I know your name anyway Nora Steave." He rolled his eyes with 'whatever look' and took her resting hand from her side and shook it energetically.
Nora's eyes instantly darkened. Her facial expression changed into a gravely angry look. Pulling away her hand from his hold she asked. "Why?"
"Don't give me that look. You did something wrong to Parth. It's bound to happen, that i have to find your name at the least to calm him for today."
Nora didn't reply to that. She understands that condition. Every action has its own reaction. And that's what she should be expecting. However her protectiveness towards her family still made her warn Mike. "Please don't do this again."
"I won't if you tell me anything basic about you. So that I can lie about doing research on you."
"No need. I'll come with you." Saying that she turned to go back to the college but Mike held her back.
"What! No you can't. At least not today. Why don't you wait till you start your classes. Then you can apologise."
"How-"
"Because I asked the teacher who did your admission today."
"..."
"...You know what? Just go. I'll handle it in my way." Saying that Mike pushed her back and ran back to the college.