First Meet

Anika immediately joined them and immediately started the discussion. They gathered together to work on a new task that they had to collect in the next three days, Anika acted as the group leader, so she was the one who arranged the tasks for each member.

"Karin and Syeril search for examples of Contemporary literature, Aidan and Jo looking for history, Kevin and .... I forgot what your name was?"

Anika pointed at Keenan who sat beside Kevin and was right in front of her. Keenan didn't answer right away, he looked at Anika with an astonished look and asked back.

"Are we already acquainted?"

"Pffttt....!!" Kevin and the others couldn't hold back their laughter, it seemed that Anika had forgotten that they hadn't actually met. When she arrived, she immediately sat down and without further ado, started their group work.

"Ah sorry, I forgot I haven't introduce myself yet," Anika extended her right hand towards Keenan, "Anika Jasleen, and you?"

"Keenan Andrew." Keenan shook Anika's hand, and laughter erupted from those who witnessed the phenomenon.

"Haha...what happened to you today? Usually your eyes will sparkle when you see something shine." Jonathan taunts Anika who is desperately trying to stop his laughter, he knows very well that Anika's eyes are the most responsive when she sees a handsome man, usually she will immediately tease them and make them waver.

"Is there something wrong? You look out of focus Jas, and your face has been really sour since you came." Kevin asked who saw a different look on Anika's face when she walked over to them earlier.

"Nothing, I'm just mad at someone." Anika answered briefly, and it only increased the curiosity of her friends.

"Who dares to irritate my baby? Tell me, let me beat him." Syeril asked fieryly while shaking the shoulders of Anika who was sitting beside her.

"Calm dear, I already beat him." Anika replied casually while releasing Syeril's hand from her shoulder.

"WHAT?"

"WHY?"

"WHO?"

"HUH?"

All of a sudden everyone clapped together, except for Keenan of course.

"I slapped him hard enough, so forget about this matter and let's get on with our work."

"Ok if you really don't want to talk about it, I believe you must have deterred that person, and I'm proud of you girl" Syeril patted Anika's shoulder like a proud parent for their child, and it managed to make everyone laugh again.

"Of course dear, who dares to harass Anika Jasleen on this campus." Anika replies with her confidence high level.

They return to focus on the task, Anika explains what everyone has to do, they all pay close attention to Anika, sometimes someone asks if something is not understood. But not with Keenan, he pays attention to Anika not to listen to what she is saying, for some reason he feels there is something interesting about this girl.

Keenan is an anti-social type, he is not easy to get along with strangers. He is close to Kevin because they were friends from middle school, it was Kevin who introduced Jonathan and Aidan to Keenan so at least he has some close friends now.

Then what about girlfriends? Keenan has a handsome face with a cool character, making many women fall in love with him, and there are some who have enough courage to express their feelings to Keenan. Did he reject them? Not all of them, there were some that he accepted and made girlfriends, but they didn't last long. With Keenan's cold character like that, his girlfriend got bored and finally broke up with him.

Basically Keenan accepts them also not based on love, only because Kevin told him to have a relationship with a woman. At first Keenan himself was confused as to why Kevin asked him to date, and only then did he understand when Kevin said that he didn't want Keenan and himself to be thought of as gay.

It sounds funny but that's the fact, many are gossiping about them because they are always together everywhere. And finally Keenan wants to try dating, but what's so special about having a girlfriend? The girls whined too much and were hard to understand, he who didn't understand what they wanted just responded as they asked. But in the end they even asked for a break up, dating is really complicated, that's what Keenan had in mind so now he doesn't want to have a girlfriend anymore, for who knows how long it will.

"Okay, everyone understands right?" Anika asks everyone in her group, while tidying up her books.

"Yep, very clear." Karin replied and the others nodded as a sign that they all understood their respective duties.

"And...you?" Anika pointed to Keenan again, usually she can quickly get along with new people, but Keenan has his own aura that makes Anika reluctant to act friendly to him.

"Well, I understand too, I will contact you directly if there is anything I need to ask."

Keenan's answer made Kevin a little surprised, didn't he hear wrong? Usually Keenan would prefer to ask him first, if there was no other choice then he would ask the person concerned. He's like that because he can't at least make small talk first if he has to deal with people who aren't very familiar with him.

"Oh ok, but don't call me past midnight." Anika said smiling faintly, "Because I'm already in dreamland."

"Yeah...yeah...you should know that she doesn't like being disturbed the most while on a date with her bed and pillow." Now Aidan was chattering at Keenan, while the others just laughed amusedly.

"You mean dating?" Ask Keenan couldn't understand the meaning of Aidan's words.

Anika rolled her eyes and smiled, then answered Keenan's question, "Umm, the point is....one of my main hobbies is...sleeping."

"Ppfftt .." Keenan smiled, and again made Kevin surprised. Keenan now understood why the others were also smiling amused earlier, "Ok, but why does the expression have to be dating?"

"Because her loyal boyfriend is her pillow and bolster, she doesn't want to date a man in real life." Said Sheryl obviously.

"Are you done exposing my disgrace?" Anika said sarcastically to her friends, "When it's finished, let's go back to our respective realms, I have a date with my pillow and bolster tonight."

"HA HA HA HA"

And again, they all laugh together, they are already very close, every time they gather there is always jokes and laughter, and sometimes the envy of other students, many want to join Anika's group because apart from being made up of intelligent people they are also has a good looking face.

And now their group has added one more member, giving a new nuance to their group, while at the same time creating a foreign feeling at the leader as well as the newcomer.

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