With enraged strides, fists and teeth clenched, face flushed, Cali went back and forth like a raging tornado through the college playground, then, she stopped running when she spotted her target, rushed at him like a bull in a bullfight
"Beauregard Klaus Vander Staudt!!!!!" she screamed so that everyone turned in her direction
Cali went and stood in front of Klan who was chatting cheerfully with the _boys_ friends he had made. Like a bull ready to charge, she breathed noisily in great puffs of air, one would have thought that steam was escaping from her ears.
"I'm fed up!"…
"Don't act like you don't know. almost every girl in college, senior and junior, bothers me because of you." She caught her breath, "Even the girls in my class got into it too. If it wasn't threats it was crying for me to 'break up' with the love of their life," Cali was truly at her wit's end.
She leaned over Klan so close that their noses and foreheads touched. Through gritted teeth she told him
"You're going to stop this rumor!" "
Wow…! these two are such a lovey dovey couple, thought Klan's friends who hadn't heard Cali's last sentence. they slip away to give the 'lovebirds' some privacy
…
Three months earlier, when the semester began, each department of the university organized outings to allow new and old students to get to know each other and to foster good relations.
These outings were above all an opportunity to flirt. Klan definitely couldn't let Cali swim alone in this sea of hungry sharks so on the day of the economics department's gathering, he didn't miss the call.
Cali was irritated because Klan had gotten comfortable and was chatting and drinking comfortably, like old acquaintances, with Cali's classmates sitting at the same table.
Suddenly, Cali felt several eyes on her. Klan indeed had casually put his hand on Cali's shoulder. This gesture aroused the curiosity of more than one
"Say, you're definitely not from the economics department, right?" asked someone
This question was directed at Klan, so he answered "Yes indeed…"
Klan was from the communications department which also had their gathering at the same time but in a different location
"The girls in your department must be disappointed with your absence!" pointed out a boy apparently annoyed by Klan's attendance, since all the prettiest girls only had eyes for him.
Cali had turned her head away, she didn't appreciate this conversation, neither Klan attendance to their outing and the fact that he was chatting casually with people he didn't even meet before, nor the flirtatious gazes that the other girls gave him sometimes.
"It's pretty normal, why spend time with other girls when I can spend this time with my darling", he brought Cali's head close to his, positioning it in such a way that everyone thought he was kissing her on the lips.
This is how the news of this couple spreads like powder all over campus.
…
For Klan, having everyone think Cali was his lover was the best way to ward off all those wolves that swarmed around her.
However, this rumor had two side effects, the first was that Cali had become the target of the jealousy of almost all the girls in university, when they were all rejected by Klan under the pretext that he wanted to remain faithful to Cali.
Secondly, Klan had finally made friends with the boys in his department who, at first, only saw him as their out of league love rival, since all the girls were after him.
Well, most of the girls continued to be after Klan _the persistent ones_ but thanks to the fact that he was in a relationship and didn't think of looking elsewhere, some, for the boys greatest happiness, had thrown in the towel.
Basically, this whole thing that was supposed to protect Cali only benefited a Klan.