"Oh! The bus is quite filled up today."murmured Luci, while slightly shifting her eyes from the window frame.Her eyes were carrying the baggage of the nightmare from last night but luckily the filled up crowd that climbed the bus had her thinking , what was going on.
She saw quite a few students from her university and also some students from the other university riding the bus which was not quite normal as most of the students from her university used to come via other means and some were even late but today they all seem to be in a hurry.
She slowly removed her pods in order to listen to their conversations.
"Me too, I could have used my car to come to the university but I heard he doesn't like girls, who show off their money at the institution"said the girl sitting at the front, a bright smile engraved in her face with the hint of a little blush on her fair skin.
"Oh my you are to say, but I heard that he doesn't even have a girlfriend ."the other sitting beside her responded.
"Hey, but I heard some girls were seen with him."said the first one.Her eyes crinkled a bit along with her lips that slightly parted in wonder and disappointment.
Luci was hearing their conversation and after hearing a bit she plugged in her pods but this time she just played a mild relaxing piano music from youtube and not her usual songs which mostly consist of mellow pop and sad remix.
Her legs were beating the bus floor and she was constantly looking at her watch, every second that passed by her anxiety and curiosity grew. "It seemed to be a long ride today, time is really not passing ."thought she stretched her eyes far ahead in order to see whether they had arrived yet or not.
After waiting for twenty boring minutes, the bus finally stopped at its destination the famous "yonseil university."
All the students excitedly stood up even before the bus had come to a full stop. They were just too eager to enter the college, Luci sat there staring at the excited running girls who wore a bunch of makeup and neat dresses. Their faces were bubbling pink with excitement, their lips pinkish red tainted.
"How good it must feel, right? I wish I could also have a normal and cheerful life like them, waking up in the morning with a bright smile, looking for the day ahead." As she thought that suddenly her eyes widened, her hands clenched on the pants that she was wearing and cold sweat broke out on her face she had trouble breathing.
Suddenly the scene of her past was broadly flashed into her mind where she could see a little girl doing her homework and eating the freshly cut apples that her mother had prepared for her.
"Mommy .,"said the girl
"Yes? my dumpling.",replied her mother.
"Mommy, today I saw some college girls coming from a university. They were walking in hand and eating ice cream and they were laughing."said the girl with her head bended and looking at the book that she was reading.
Her head was down and her eyes left an impression of loneliness, her voice too toned down as she described the incident and there was a lump in her throat as if she was about to cry after a long pause between both of them.Her mother caressed her and picked her up in her thighs.
"Dumpling, I am sorry. Since we moved here you were not able to make any friends and were always ignored.Your father and I were so busy that we never paid you any attention."Her mother said . She kissed her forehead gently and with her twinkling, gentle eyes filled with immense love and pity gazed at the tiny face.
After a two minute pause she proceeded,"dumpling, don't worry soon you will have a normal life and lots of friends and in college, you can also walk with your friends like that, i promise."
"Can I really have friends?"inquired that little mouth with hope filled eyes.
"You can.Love"replied her mother.
"Mom, please don't leave me. I don't want friends, don't want ice cream.Please just come back, okay?"
"Sweetheart let go of your mother, she is no more here."said a man holding the girl in the entrance of a hospital.
"No, this can't be it was all my fault so why does mom have to go,Why" she shouted desperately crying her eyes out and drying her throat up.
"Mom, please come back, I don't want anybody."
"Miss…miss?" Suddenly a strange man voice was heard.
That voice let her wake up from the dreams and snap out of the imagination.
"Miss, are you okay?" cried that man, he was swapping his palm in front of her face to wake her up from the dream world.
"Oh! yeah , I am" replied she while retreating her neck from his hand as a child would do when they don't like someone.
"Good, now can you get off, all of your classmates are gone and you have been zoning out for fifteen minutes." said he as he retreated his hand towards his own body.
"Oh, I am so sorry I am getting off,"said Luci. She hurriedly got off the bus and ran towards the main entrance.
"Man, that was embarrassing. Why do those memories have to play on at that time." thought she while walking with a grumpy embarrassed face.
"You beat, I caught you. Look at your surroundings when you are walking." said a girl, who suddenly jumped at Luci's back and grabbed her shoulders by both of her hands.
"Min_yun, stop coming at me like a thief."shouted Luci while unbinding the girl's hand from her back. She scowled her bows and scolded her but she was genuinely happy to be greeted by her friend early in the morning.
"Ah, man you really are a mood spoiler."said she, while walking beside Luci.
"Anyway do you know that today is an important day."asked Min_yun, shifting her gaze towards Luci's face to see her bestie's reaction.
"Well, yes I did hear some conversations on the bus . They were saying an important guest is visiting our campus." replied Luci, nonchalantly.
"Man, are you kidding me now," Min_yun said. She jumped in front of Luci to stop her and show her the surprise reaction that she got from her.
"The person who is visiting our school isn't some important person but a vvip, a major donator of funds from our school, the first richest men in our province, the key holder of new fashion and medicals company, the youngest business genius, "mr.Brian""She exclaimed in an excited, energised manner.
"Okay, and why is this super rich man coming to our college." Luci said, rolling her eyes without any curiosity. She was standing there like before without any hint of excitement.
"That I don't know, I just know he donated a lot here and is a major shareholder of our college and also this is only the third time he is visiting here ."said she, moving her hand to her chin to think about the answer.
"Hmmm, such a big man yet he is visiting a mere college. Well That's not my place to judge."thought she.
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