It's a new week, and it's an unsettling one for Daniel.
Daniel had had the uneasy feeling that someone was secretly watching him wherever he went on campus ever since he locked eyes with Alora in the cafeteria. And it was making him very uncomfortable.
"What do you mean?" Andres inquired, tucking a book into his back pack, they had just finished class.
"I have a feeling that someone is constantly watching me.
It could be that Alora girl!" Daniel stated.
Andres laughed softly, shaking his head.
"You're just overacting. It can't be her. She's not that jobless!" Andres explained.
"You have no idea how difficult this is for me. I can't even breathe freely anymore." Daniel expressed his dissatisfaction.
"I understand how difficult it is. Girls stare at me all the time, and even though it makes me uncomfortable, I enjoy it." Andres said this just as he was being pushed by some girls.
"Get out of my way!" One of them screamed.
"Hello, Daniel." Another of them stated.
"You girls are so cruel!" Andres yelled after them.
_^
Few minutes later.
Daniel and Andres were both walking down the hallway.
"How certain are you that it was Alora who was watching you? You could be completely wrong and blaming the wrong person." Andres explained.
"Well, whoever it is. They have to stop, it's getting too uncomfortable." Daniel grumbled.
"She probably likes you." Andres explained.
Daniel turned to face him. "Who are we talking about here?" He enquired.
"Alora,Of course." Andres replied.
"But you just said she can't be the one watching me."
"Well, you never know. Love appears in a variety of situations." Andres said and immediately wondered if it was the correct phrase.
"I'm not sure that's how the saying goes. But whatever, I don't want to know why she's following me or what she wants." Daniel stated.
Andres came to a halt, a wide grin on his face.
"What?."
"She probably wants to go on a date with you!" Andres explained.
"Get out, man." Daniel said as he walked away.
Andres laughed quietly.
"But where are you going?" He inquired as he noticed Daniel walking away.
"To get a drink!"
"I need too." He yelled after him.
_^
Daniel sighed loudly as he approached the drink machine.
He was out of money.
He turned to leave but ran into Alora, who seemed to have been there all along.
"I have some change on me... take it if you want." Alora proposed.
Daniel shivered slightly.
'How long has she been here?' 'What is she looking for?'
As those thoughts raced through his mind, he fixed his gaze on her.
"Have you been watching me the whole time?" Daniel inquired.
Alora shrieked and dashed away.
Some of Andres' words began to play back in Daniel's mind.
"What exactly does she want?" She's so strange." He muttered to himself.
_^
Daniel was in class, taking notes on what the lecturer was saying, when his thoughts wandered to how Alora had fled and what Andres had said about her probably wanting a date with him.
He shook his head constantly to keep the thought from entering, but as he turned, he saw Alora walking and gisting with a friend through the visible glass walls.
He gave her a stern look but quickly covered his face with his laptop when she turned to face him.
"Why do I have to hide. Why?.There was nothing I did wrong!" As he set the laptop down, he murmured to himself. He sighed deeply.
Since the whole Student ID card thing.
Daniel had been seeing Alora literally everywhere he went on campus, and he wasn't happy about it.
It was getting on his nerves; she was just some strange gullible girl with whom he rarely spoke with.
It would be best to simply ignore her.
_^
Several days later. Daniel was completely exhausted. He'd spent half his life energy attempting to avoid Alora the whole week at the campus.
"Yo". Andres yelled from behind him.
Daniel turned around to face him.
He took three deep breaths to keep himself from lashing out at Andres because it was partly his fault that he felt uneasy about Alora, a girl he had barely spoken to or knew anything about.
Three deep breaths didn't work; in a split second, Daniel had Andres by the collar of his hoodie.
"It's all your fault.You are the reason I no longer have peace of mind. Telling me things about Alora that I didn't want to know in the first place. "It's entirely your fault." Daniel yelled half-heartedly.
"How is that my fault?" You were the one who first accused her of following you around campus and spying on you!!".
Andres half-yelled back, attempting to break free from Daniel's tight grip.
Just as Daniel was about to say something else, he is hit on the head with a book by a member of the school staff.
"Because you have so much time and energy to fight!! Why don't you help me distribute these handouts to the theater club? Now!!". The staff stated.
Daniel and Andres both frowned.
"Thank you for this unwelcome stress!" Andres murmured to Daniel before taking some of the handouts from the staff's hands and walking away.
"The rest is yours!" The staff stated.
Daniel knocked on the door of the theater room.
As Alora opened the door, he almost exclaimed in surprise.
'What is she doing here?' 'How come she's always everywhere?'
Daniel reflected to himself.
Alora's face began to perspire as he realized he hadn't expected to see Daniel.
"Um...here, take this." "The school assigned me to pass them!" Daniel quickly said, handing the handouts to Alora and walking away.
Evening arrived. Some of the students on campus were leaving for the day, as were Alora and Daniel.
Daniel trailed behind Alora slowly.
He didn't want to be in front of Alora, though he needed to get home and feed Lucky, his dog.
When he heard a small yell from Alora, he turned to face her.
She abruptly began to flee from the crows in the corner.
Daniel couldn't stop himself from smiling.
"She is scared of Crows!" He muttered something to himself.
"What's wrong with me?"