"Morning Jo, morning Rose, morning Lisa," Nelly greeted as she entered the lecture hall. They all greeted each other and started chatting up a little while waiting for the lecturer to start with his lessons for the day. Johnson moved away from them and went close to a guy next to him to give the girls some space.
The semester was quickly coming to an end, all student wanted to round up with their project, quizzes and assignment. The lecturer came in and lectured for two hours and left. Johnson and comfort quickly went to meet their HOD as they were instructed to.
"Nelly someone is here to see you one of her course mate said to her as she and Johnson made their way out of the HOD office. Nelly looked up and her eyes meet with Ray's, she diverted her gaze and made to ignore and walk away even without looking back. Ray saw that she wasn't showing any sign of talking to him he followed her while she hastened her step with Johnson. Johnson wondered who the guy was, he wanted badly to ask her but her face was tightened up.
Ray caught up with them and pleaded with Nelly to hear him out at least. Nelly never wanted to have another conversation with him owing to their past encounter that nearly cost her chance at being at the competition.
"Nelly just stop and listen to whatever it is he has to say please" Johnson persuaded, until Nelly gave in. Ray requested that they go to a restaurant in the school to talk, which Nelly blatantly refused to.
"How do you expect me to sit with a guy at the restaurant, what do you expect people to think" Nelly blurted out but Ray persisted and begged like his depended on it, which made Nelly to start wondering why he wanted to talk to her badly so she decided to give in to his pleas.
"Alright then, I'll go ahead, see you tomorrow" Johnson said as he left. "which restaurant are we going to" Nelly fired immediately.
"Let's get to the car" Ray said
"what car?" she said
"my car" he replied
"you must be out of your mind, there's no way I'm getting into that car with you, if we are not taking the school mini bus, then forget it"
"Alright fine" he said.