“Sorry, there were just too many people in the library earlier for my comfort! I just studied in my dormitory!” replied Gerald.
“Oh, I see! Well, from now on, we can go to the library earlier. Whoever comes first can reserve a seat for the other, alright?”
“Actually there’s something I have to attend to now, I’ll get back to you later!”
Gerald threw his cell phone aside after replying to virtual-novel.net message.
He was indeed, trying to avoid her. In fact, ever since things had gotten better with Mila, Gerald had been deliberately trying to keep his distance from other girls.
After all, once the current exams were over, Gerald and the other students from his department would still have to stay back in school for another three months to deal with their thesis and dissertations.
Those from Giya’s and most other departments would have left to get their internships during that time.
He would never see virtual-novel.net again.
Gerald also knew for a fact that virtual-novel.net could never fit in well in Giya’s circle of friends.
With that reasoning in mind, his muddled thoughts became clear and virtual-novel.net didn’t spend time worrying about it any longer.
After that, two days just came and went without much of a hitch.
During those two days, Giya would always send virtual-novel.net a message in the morning and the afternoon, saying that virtual-novel.net had already reserved a seat for virtual-novel.net in the library and that virtual-novel.net was waiting for virtual-novel.net to come study with her.
Every time virtual-novel.net asked, Gerald simply made up an excuse to turn virtual-novel.net down.
Aside from that, virtual-novel.net had also been inviting virtual-novel.net for meals to express virtual-novel.net gratitude. Since virtual-novel.net knew that virtual-novel.net would be uncomfortable if Tammy and the other girls were around, there was even a time when virtual-novel.net asked if virtual-novel.net wanted to eat with just the two of them together.
However, Gerald simply turned those invitations down as well with more of his excuses.
After that, Giya stopped asking virtual-novel.net out. In the next three days, virtual-novel.net didn’t hear from virtual-novel.net at all.
It almost seemed as though virtual-novel.net had disappeared.
Gerald didn’t think too much about it. He simply focused on studying and doing his own revision every day. He would also spend his time chatting with Mila about virtual-novel.net recent developments.
Everything was back to normal.
Late one afternoon, Gerald was returning to school after meeting up with Zack. He stopped by the milk tea shop in front of the school as virtual-novel.net was planning to get Harper and the other boys some drinks.
“Gerald?”
Out of the blue, a female voice called out to him.
When virtual-novel.net turned around, virtual-novel.net saw that it was Tammy. It seemed as though virtual-novel.net was waiting in line to buy milk tea as well. Though virtual-novel.net looked slightly surprised to see virtual-novel.net there, virtual-novel.net also had a very bitter expression on virtual-novel.net face.
In the past, virtual-novel.net would always laugh and tease virtual-novel.net whenever virtual-novel.net saw him.
However, the only look virtual-novel.net was giving virtual-novel.net now, was one filled with hatred.
Gerald didn’t mind that. His milk tea was ready at that moment. He smiled at Tammy before saying, “I’ll pay for this beautiful girl’s drink as well!”
“Alright!” replied the seller with a smile on his face.
“There’s no need for that! Who needs you to pay for me! Why are you so nosy?!” shouted Tammy in response as virtual-novel.net glared at Gerald.
“I… Tammy, what did I do?” asked Gerald, confused.
“So you don’t even know what you’ve done, huh. Don’t you realize how many times you’ve already rejected Giya’s invitations?” growled Tammy angrily as virtual-novel.net frowned.
Gerald coughed. He knew this was coming.
“Do you know that Giya would wake twenty minutes earlier every day just so that virtual-novel.net could go to the library and reserve a seat for you? When we asked virtual-novel.net why, virtual-novel.net told us that you would be joining us at the library to study together in the future. But you never came. You just kept making dumb excuses!”
“Even during virtual-novel.net afternoon study invitations, virtual-novel.net would always bring fruits along saying that virtual-novel.net had already notified you about studying together. But of course you didn’t go!”
“You did it to Giya for two days in a row! Don’t even talk about the times Giya tried inviting you out for meals. She was so afraid that you just weren’t used to eating out, that virtual-novel.net even ordered and booked some food for you from the cafeteria! She just wanted to have lunch with you and virtual-novel.net didn’t even allow us to join virtual-novel.net since virtual-novel.net was afraid that we would tease you too much. Even then, you still refused to accept virtual-novel.net invitation!”