Laughing, the boy excused himself from their noisy midst "hey Bunny, how are you" he greeted when he picked the phone. The girl he was talking to was none other then Elara, she had just arrived at her father's place so after settling in she decide to call and inform him.
"I'm good, how's your end?" her clear melodious voice rang through the receiver.
"I'm also good, have you arrived?"
"yeah just settled in"
He asked "How do you see the place?"
Elara paused a second with which she took a quick glance around her new pink painted room "it's beautiful but kind of feels foreign"
"it's natural, it's a new city you'll fell foreign for a while then everything will be back to feeling normal"
Elara nodded to his words, He was right, she knew that but couldn't still help but feel nervous, how cant she be? she was in a new city and about to resume in an unfamiliar college.
Ahh it was a bit exciting!
"when will you be back to oakswood" School was officially resuming in two days time and she felt very anxious about the whole thing. Oakswood was Jacob home town and he had also enrolled into the same University as her. she knew being in his company would make her less anxious in school.
"Sorry bunny, I would only be back in one months time" He apologized, he seemed to have predicted she was asking because of school.
"Hey that's not fair! you promised to be give a tour round school when we resumed" Her grumbling voice rang into his ears.
He apologized again "yeah I know, I'm sorry I really didn't expect to be caught up with something the moment I returned"
"okay there's no problem but just know that you owe me one"
He chuckled "yes ma'am I agree"
"fine I'll hang up now, dad is taking me on a city tour" she said.
"bye BunBun"
she chuckled to how he used the nickname "bye pudon"
He ended the call and walked back to sit with his friends.
"so is that her?" Marcus winked playfully as he asked, he wasn't the only one with a funny expression on his face, the others looked at Jacob with a smirking expression.
"her who?"
"oh come on!" Rexitt cut in "is that the girl you like?"
Surprised that they misunderstood his call, he quickly corrected them "oh no you guys got it wrong, she's just a friend"
Even Marzen joined in the teasing "really? I could have sworn you liked her from the way you sounded... especially when you called her when you called her Bunny" He didn't forget to mimick Jacob's voice when he said it
"Bunny"
"Oh hey Bunny"
"bye BunBun" Marcus and Rexitt took turns mimicking the way he spoke, their expression and body language was so funny that even Jacob couldn't stop himself from laughing.
"okay okay stop...stop it" He said in-between chuckles "she really just a friend, a very special friend"
Olcan cracked "uh huh, special enough to be your girlfriend"
Jacob shook his head resolutely "No she's a friend above a girlfriend".
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"how was classes?" Flynn who was in the kitchen didn't need to turn to notice the young girl shuffling into the house like a haunted ghost.
with exhausted eyes, Elara walked towards the kitchen and said "classes were exhausting"
Her expression did not lie, it really showed that she was in a depleted state, not only did she look physically exhausted but she looked mentally exhausted too. College was truly a hundredfold different from high school, in high school no matter how beautiful she was, she was able to have some peace and quiet cause student would get a detention if they openly flirted in the class but here was a while lot different.
since the beginning of this week, she had spent a lot of mental and physical strength trying to pay attention in class and also ward off her entourage of admirers. First week in college made her miss Jacob more. If only he was around then his presence would have been a warning to other guys like it was in high school plus he was very protective when it came to such issues.
Aish this is stressful!
Dispirited Elara asked "dad you want chocolate?"
thinking she was craving for chocolate, the caring father offered to go and buy some "you want some? I could go get it for you".
"Nah, no need for that, I have some already" she opened the backpack on her back and emptied the content on the kitchen counter. Lots and lots of candies began pouring out of her bag, different flavors, different shapes, different products. It was almost like she had robbed a candy store.
Flynn could already guess what have brought about the large collection of candies. He could tell she was having boys problems in school and it totally was understandable, Elara was a very beautiful girl both in face and figure .