LAUREL
It's been four years, I don't know if my feelings for you are love or an obsession. The funny thing is you didn't even know my existence.
"Laurel, you should atleast have your breakfast. You already skipped your dinner last night for that bitch" Tessa gets annoyed for my help to violet. Her concerning amber eyes piercing through my soul and says " get your ass to the cafeteria and have your breakfast you, brat"
Tessa white, my one and only friend who knows me better than I do about myself. Today is our medical camp at another university which is a popular university across the country with well developed technology built by their students and professors. They are famous for their coaching and their inventions. Every year, students from that university are nominated for a National award for their invention and won sometimes. It's a one week camp of public health awareness campaigns and exhibition of their medical inventions. Yep, it's gonna be fun. My pensive green eyes unwillingly pierced through the soul of the old man who lost his way in our university's cafeteria instead of our hospital and fought for his life between my serial killer's eyes.
I returned to my senses and gave him a gentle smile. He gets confused and goes away. Apart from one week of camping, it's a university where he is studying. At Least i have a chance to meet him in person. I don't know if I can meet him but I hope.
YEAH!!!! The Cregard University. We arrived finally. "Laurel, oh my love you look beautiful as always' ' Violet gave me a tight hug from behind with a cheesy smile. Her eyes searched my hands for her project which she asked for my help. I gave it to her with a gentle smile. To be honest, it's not a help, it's a bargain for future use. Yep, business.
Tessa behind me rolled her eyes to her and pulled me towards her. "Seriously Laurel, how can you be so calm? Her personality became increasingly irksome. It's not a lovable hug but to wrinkle your shirt" She gave me a look as if I'm an idiot who doesn't know the world. We wore our coats and got ready for a general checkup, starting with the university's janitor.
I already got tired before noon cause I didn't sleep last night to finish Violet's project. "Laurel, come on, let's grab lunch, it's already 2." Tessa snatched my phone and got away wanting me to go to the university's cafeteria with her. On our way to the cafeteria, I witnessed a stray dog which is skinny as taxidermy. Even taxidermy itself looks healthy near her(dog). I tried to reach it, but it growled. "Laurel apart from its appearance, it looks ferocious.you should leave it alone" Tessa warned me by her shaking voice.
I tilted my head right and arched my left eyebrow. Then I grabbed a packet of biscuits with a gentle smile. I gave her(dog) all the biscuits except the last piece and demanded that she let me touch her. At first she hesitated, then she gently placed her head under my palm and allowed me to caress her.
"I think she is pregnant yet no one offers even a bit of food for her. Look at her body, there are bruises. Someone threw a stone at her and she got a severe bruise. That's why she growled at me first. The ferocious thing here is not her but we, the human" I get disgusted by the fact that I am human too.
Then we finished our lunch and returned to our camp to continue our work. Dr Kym, general medicine department lecturer. She is the coolest professor that I have ever seen in my life. Her way of handling the emergency patients and her way of teaching, I fell in love with her as soon as I first met her in my first year. She is not kind but also not a mean person. She symbolises the word "Power".
She found out that the project about "STD awareness" was given by me to Violet. She asked me to present it to the Cregard CS students with a speech. Nick, Violet's boyfriend who is more annoying than her. He is the one who told the real creator of the project to Dr Kym when he finds out the project also includes speech. He doesn't want his girlfriend to be humiliated by other university students.
"Well, the ppt creator will only know how to present it in a speech.Laurel tomorrow is a day of your presentation. The time is so short that's why I gave it to the creator" Dr Kym's eyes make me can't reject it. "Remember, it's a competition" she smiles at me and walks away. It's none other than Dr kym, my favourite person and it's her first word to me. I'm screaming inside. I'm straight except for her. I love confident women.
Nick gets annoyed, I can see through his brown eyes. The ugliest eye expression that I ever encountered today. He fakes his smile and says blankly "All the best for tomorrow Laurel".
It's already 12am and I didn't get enough rest yesterday either. But I won't give up. It's a request from one of my favorite lady and I made it happen. The room was so silent when I stopped typing on the laptop. I turned to Tessa, she was in a deep sleep. She worked really hard today and she is so tired yet she worried about me when we got to our dorm. She even brought dinner to our room for me.
I covered her with a soft white blanket and got to my chair to continue to upgrade my project. I blew a strong sigh when I thought about him. I didn't have a chance to meet him today as well, but it's not the final day, right?
I unlock my phone and open insta to check him. Well it's not checking but a harmless stalking may be. I'm just going through his insta account and youtube account that doesn't mean I'm stalking. I'm just curious, maybe four years of love as a fan of an influencer.
I unconsciously smile when I look at his picture, he uploaded it recently. The way his chocolate brown eyes pierced through the camera with a small grin on his lips. His black t-shirt highlights his broad neck and his silky black hair gets messy by the air. I can see the whole situation happening in his body by looking at his single picture.
I flinched when I heard a sound from Tessa's cot and unknowingly liked his picture. Oh shoot. Actually I didn't like or follow his account. I left it as it was, cause he didn't notice it at all. Then I get back to work.
Yes, I can do it. I enter the big hall with 120 pairs of eyes on me. I climbed the steps to the big screen where I projected my presentation of "STD awareness". I start my speech with a gentle smile to make myself and them comfortable as it's a sensitive topic. I treated and looked at them maturely as they are one year younger than me. Yes, Nick told me that they are second year students so I treat them like a kid and make it clear to them. While I addressed them as a second year kid, Everyone laughed at me and the blonde girl in the front row told me that they are final year students.
My eyes bulged when I heard it. I look at everyone then I realise some of them look mature. Especially boys. I turned outside and looked at Nick. He chuckles at me with an innocent face. I took a deep breath and made my movement slow and steady. I threw a smile with an unrecognisable expression and said "My mistake. So don't trust looks".
"Did you say we look younger than our age to hide your amateurish speech? At Least you should have known for whom you presented such a sensible project" A voice raised from a Hall.
I can't find who asked the question but I turned to that direction and said " There is nothing sensible when you come to your physician. To me, everyone is a patient. One Day everyone may face it for you or for your family or friends. It's just an awareness nonetheless of people's age".Then I smiled at everyone and smoothly finished my speech.
When I got outside of the hall, I threw my file at Nick who was laughing at me. "This is not a joke Nick. You just make me on edge in front of those students". " Take it easy brother, nothing happens, it's just a prank. Come on, age doesn't matters" He makes it sound like a simple thing but it is not. Fuck you Bastard. He is really annoying.