Adam went forward and Drake followed him in the corridor. As they walked, Drake noticed the great silence around the hall and the silence in the corridor that surrounded them, so Adam asked.
"It seems that all the students have gone home."
Adam, who was walking in front of him, looked around at the empty hall and the silence, then nodded at his friend.
"Okay"
Adam thought so, looking at the clock sign on the wall, and especially looking at this day. It was expected that many students would leave and return to their homes. This was because tomorrow was Valentine Day.
The two young men continued to walk in silence after that until they finally reached the location of the student lockers. There, the two young men stopped, each of them in front of his own lockers, which when Drake opened, was his safe.
By opening it, a white paper fell to the ground. Drake was surprised by the fall of this paper and wondered to himself about it.
"What is this paper...?"
After a few seconds of questioning himself, he moved his body and lowered his hands to pick up the item that had fallen to the ground from his cabinets.
"What is this...?"
"message"
After lifting the thing from the ground, it was clear from the white paper that was wrapped in an envelope around it, neatly and well sealed, that it was a letter.
"Could it be a message of love...?"
Adam asked his friend, who was smiling at him cheerfully.
Drake stared for a while at the letter in his hands, wondering who the sender was because he didn't have any friends or many friends.
As the old saying goes, the more intelligent you are, the fewer friends you have.
After a while of thinking about the envelope with the letter in his hands and examining it carefully, he realized that there was no sender's name on the front or back of the letter.
The young man sighed a little, then finally opened it and tried to find out who wrote this letter.
-to open-
[To Mr. Green, since that day you helped me with your studies, he has changed Tamam's life, which was an example of complete failure.
Enlighten me on the right path, and thanks to the fact that I am now able to enter the third year and be accepted, I want to thank you in a special way.
But all this year I have been watching you and I did not find the appropriate time to update you. Thank you for that, I chose this day since it is the last.
On school days, I will be waiting for you behind the university at approximately 4:30]
Drake and Adam, who stared and read the letter in front of him silently, smiled at him and said cheerfully.
"Oh, it seems that heaven has not abandoned you, you virgin genius..."
Drake only smiled at his friend's sarcastic words, but he was unable to respond to him, so he smiled at him, then focused on the paper in front of him.
Even after reading the letter twice and a third time, Drake could only figure out three things from it: the first was that the sender was a girl, the second was that she wanted to thank him for helping him, and the third was that he had chosen such a day, which happened to be a test for that, but other than that, she did not mention anything else. In the letter, there is something like her name, which has been around for a while, guessing who this girl is, but without a clue.
After thinking for a while and unable to figure out anything, he sighed gently, then raised his other hand and took a look at his watch, which was pointing to...
Try the watch.
[4:39]
"It's about four and forty minutes."
Which indicated forty-four minutes, meaning that the time difference between the time in the message was approximately ten minutes, and perhaps even the sender of the message has now returned.
Drake thought about it, for someone who loved and was committed to dating, he thought so.
But his friend Adam, who was near him, told him that he had to go, if it was a girl he asked him to do, perhaps she would now wait there, and he told him that he would wait for him in front of the university gate after he finished speaking to the girl in order to inform him of an event.
***
-Behind the big university -
In a large, spacious place near an elegant garden full of beautiful flowers, there was a beautiful girl from afar, sitting in front of a water fountain, and she was reading from a book in his hand. After finishing it, he looked at the phone, which seemed to be a little amusing. He knew what time it was for the period in which he asked to meet the person. What she was waiting for.
The girl sighed after waiting for a longer period of time. Then, at the moment when she decided to get up and go to her house, a moment from afar, the shadow of someone approached, and she knew who he was from afar from his dark black hair, his large, distinctive gray eyes, and his gentle and calm facial features.
When he approached her, the girl stood, who was about twenty-three years old, with long, distinctive red hair and bright red eyes. She smiled slightly from afar when she noticed the young man who was approaching her.
Drake, who noticed this, could not help but be surprised by not knowing and remembering the name of the girl in front of him until after seeing her, which was Caroline Freeze, the third-year student in his group and the most beautiful girl in the university, who held many titles such as the Red Rose and the first beauty in his university, and all of that was also a show. Azid is an experienced and famous actress.
"Hello, Miss Caroline."
"What is this...?"
Welcome, Mr. Green.
He wanted the girl in front of him after the young man approached him and then asked him to sit, to which he motioned, then he approached the fountain and sat near it.
Silence prevailed for a while -
Then, after another minute, Miss Caroline opened her mouth and broke the silence.
"Mr. Green, I would really like to thank you for helping me..."
"If you had given me the lessons, I would not have been able to enter my final year now."
The lessons that Miss Caroline was referring to in her words were the special prohibitions that Drake taught to some students at the university because he was very successful in his studies, always getting a perfect grade in all subjects. One of the students and the university professor who worked with him were even described in a lecture and a special lesson to help the students. The last two in the exam, from which he also earned money to finance himself from those lessons to continue his studies at the junior professorship, even without having a certificate for that.
"I didn't really do much, Miss Caroline. It was all thanks to my hard work."
After hearing this from him, Miss Caroline turned his gaze in the direction of her, whose light red eyes were so beautiful, and he stared at the young man silently for a while, who was an honest and modest boy of his word. Then he gestured to him after a thought for a long time, and then opened his mouth and said.
"Good,"
After Miss Caroline said that, she took out a piece of paper and then presented it to him, whose eyes could not look at her because of his shyness, and which Miss Caroline thought was nice of him, who could not deal with women, especially because he was extremely shy with the opposite sex.
Welcome, Mr. Green.
He wanted the girl in front of him after the young man approached him and then asked him to sit, to which he motioned, then he approached the fountain and sat near it.
Silence prevailed for a while -
Then, after another minute, Miss Caroline opened her mouth and broke the silence.
"Mr. Green, I would really like to thank you for helping me..."
"If you had given me the lessons, I would not have been able to enter my final year now."
The lessons that Miss Caroline was referring to in her words were the special prohibitions that Drake taught to some students at the university because he was very successful in his studies, always getting a perfect grade in all subjects. One of the students and the university professor who worked with him were even described in a lecture and a special lesson to help the students. The last two in the exam, from which he also earned money to finance himself from those lessons to continue his studies at the junior professorship, even without having a certificate for that.
"I didn't really do much, Miss Caroline. It was all thanks to my hard work."
After hearing this from him, Miss Caroline turned his gaze in the direction of her, whose light red eyes were so beautiful, and he stared at the young man silently for a while, who was an honest and modest boy of his word. Then he gestured to him after a thought for a long time, and then opened his mouth and said.
"Okay,"
After Miss Caroline said that, she took out a piece of paper and then presented it to him, whose eyes could not look at her because of his shyness, and which Miss Caroline thought was nice of him, who could not deal with women, especially because he was extremely shy with the opposite sex.
"What is this...?"
She asked Drake, who took the paper from her, on which was written a contract submitted by her father's Rose Black Laza'i company, which strongly requested that he obtain a special one with two expressions: thank you, first and second, in order to hire, as an example, or offer more to them, which she knew was more talented than Many of the teachers or students at this university, especially his mother, who was the most famous actress in Asia about a few years ago, and who disappeared, leaving the world of statues and entertainment, and no one heard or knew them. To this day, where was she all these years before she met this young man at school, whom many people ghosted? And with a little research into his life with the help of a company, I can find out that he is the only daughter of that famous woman who disappeared years ago. Strangely enough, to this day, not much is known about him at school, and even he does not talk. A lot about his background.
"Signature Contract for My Father's Rose Black Inc."
"I really hope he thinks carefully about the future, Mr. Green."
After Drake understood what Miss Caroline meant by her words, and with a look at the paper in front of him, he gestured to it and was silent for a while, thinking about the contents of this contract. Then he handed the contract paper back to her and then said.
"I'm sorry, Miss Caroline, but I refuse."
"Huh...?"
Miss Caroline was surprised to hear from Rad, which was completely unexpected for her. She knew the difficulty of obtaining such a contract from her father's company, and even for him, obtaining it from her father cost a lot of effort, so he tried again to convince Mr. Green.
"Mr. Green, a contract like this is a rare opportunity and you should not miss it..."
"It is only a 10% chance for some people in the world..."
"If you accept this contract, it may change your life and guarantee a future."
"So another idea, Mr. Greene."
After Drake heard her words, she seemed desperate and sympathetic for the poor life he was living.
Drake thought deeply in her words, but even after thinking about her words, his gentle facial expression turned into a frown, Dakhlin said to himself.
"It's a rare opportunity that doesn't come along every day..."
"But what...I...!"
So, after being silent for a while, Drake thought to himself for a long time, then shook his head, rejecting the contract offer again.
After Mr. Green was about to reject him once again, she did not understand or could understand the reason for that. She was thinking about the reason for his rejection. She could not come up with any relevant answer to that rejection. After thinking for a long time without getting any answer from her mind, she asked the person in front of him that the reason for his rejection was. To view.
"If you don't like it, can I know the reason for your rejection..."
Dakhlinan said to herself, "If it is because of the money in the contract, I will tell my father to raise the amount for him."
Drake raised his head and was not looking at her eyes the entire time he was talking. His head was almost looking down as he spoke to her. After hearing, he asked her about the reason for her refusal to make a contract twice in a row. He was silent for a few seconds and thought about the matter for a minute. Then, instead of wanting to answer her question, he asked her question in turn and said.
"Miss Caroline..."
"What makes a person truly happy...?"
The idea of Miss Caroline, who, instead of getting an answer to what he asked from him, got a question from him, which she knew this side of him and understood a lot, especially since he had been teaching her for a whole year.
***
Miss Caroline's smile at his face, which had the frowning and despairing expression that appeared before he asked him, had something on his face that she had not seen, a line appearing in his face, which always seemed gentle and calm when he came to her house to study her.
"With different people around the world, the answer and meaning of happiness differ among them..."
"To clarify what I mean by example..."
"There are some people who find happiness in having a large amount of money, others who feel it in obtaining fame or glory, and others who see it in falling in love and creating a beautiful wife."
Miss Caroline's smile is clear and happy, especially when saying the last part of his phrase.
Then he added: "Um, I find it in the statue."
Drake listened to her silently until she finished speaking, then he got up from the chair and stood silently, then raised his head slightly to the sky, where long locks of hair framed his features with a dark shadow, and he opened his mouth in a low, calm voice and answered her.
"For me it doesn't exist"
After saying that, Drake asked Miss Caroline to leave, leaving Miss Caroline confused and shocked for a while.
After speaking to Miss Caroline and refusing to sign the contract, Sarah Drake silently thought about the previous conversation with her, which brought back to him a memory of his childhood that he had forgotten or forced his mind to forget, a memory of his mother who died years ago from a serious illness and who since that moment lost his happiness and lived in life without happiness and without... Something he could look forward to, an abstract life of a chicken without a goal, desires, or ambition to continue progressing, if she had given her will before his death, and who asked him to live and continue living, no matter what. The difficulty that was going to be faced, but now he left the teachings and lived in a poor life like other children in a year like the help of one of the helpless man who helped him in his life, whose name was Green, who borrowed his name and added it to his name as his guardian, and who because of that joined the school and completed the teachings, but for the same. Fortunately, even the old man who helped him died more than ten years ago and was left alone once.
He who was a father and did not meet his father or knew his father's real name or even met him. Life for him since he was young was miserable and very difficult.
After walking for a while, Drake arrived at the large gate of a university in front of him, and there his face was Adam, looking at him, who was a little lost in thought, looking at him with a frown, and asked in confusion at the expression on his face.
"So what happened to you? Did you meet a girl...?"
"Yes"
Drake replied in a low voice, still lost in thought.
Adam continued to ask him.
"So how was his conversation with her?"
"Can I get an invitation from him?"
Drake replied to him while he was still lost to himself.
"Yes, but I refuse."
"Huh why...?"
Adam shouted in disbelief at me, who did not understand what Drake meant by the invitation he had rejected.
He started talking about women, his feelings for him, and Valentine's Day in a way that was strange and unique to Drake.
Which made him raise his head and look at his friend with a look of silence, and he understood that he had misunderstood what he meant by the invitation that he rejected because of his slightly unclear speech, but Drake did not try to correct that mistake because he understood his personality, his dreamy and romantic friend, who understood any word from him in a strange way. .
Then Drake stared at the clear sky, showing some clouds, and said to him:
"It looks like it's going to rain soon."
"Huh"
Finally, Adam was brought back to life from his imagination, and he was silent, then he looked at the sky and said with confusion.
"It's raining ...?"
"It is not possible that the news bulletin said that the sun today will be clear and appropriate for Valentine's Day this year."
-Drop, drop, drop-
Just a moment after Adam's sentence ended, some drops of rain from the evening began to fall on his face, whose expression turned from cheerful to strange, and Drake, unaware of his proximity, smiled slightly, then said sarcastically.
"Didn't I tell you..."
"That is why he says that the weather forecast cannot be trusted these days."
Adam smiled at his friend, then looked at him and said strangely.
"Do you have a hunch that stems from weather or something like that?"
But Drake did not want to say to him silently.
"Let's hurry back before the rain gets worse."
After saying that, Drake started running, which caused Adam behind him to scream in fright.
"Wait for me, Derek...!"