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After an hour of preparing, we finally arrived at the school. We met Callan and Verrill at the parking lot. For some reason, we always ended up meeting there most of the mornings as if the three guys planned out the exact time they should be there.

As per usual, everyone accompanied me to my classroom—since our department was the nearest, before they all went their way to their own departments. We bid our short farewells when they dropped me off and I went on my way inside the classroom.

Except, Kaiden who seemed to have still lingered around while everyone else was already on their way, called for me before I stepped in the classroom.

"Senara."

I turned around and walked back towards him.

"Hm? Yes?"

He stared at me for a few minutes, smiling warmly at me. Because of that, despite the earliness of the morning, my face flushed red. Having him stare at me was both heart pounding and nerve-wracking for some reason.

"A-ahm, you might be late, you know," I shyly murmured, while scratching my cheeks lightly, "if you keep staring at me."

"Ha-ha-ha! You're right. I should stop."

"Y-yeah."

"Alright, I'm going now."

"Okay. Goodbye. Take care."

But he wasn't moving. And because of that, I hesitated to move from my position, too.

'Come on, Kaiden! As much as I want to be with you and join you in this staring contest, we still need to attend class. P-Please move on now. We can get back to being lovey-dovey later.'

Then, to my surprise, Kaiden suddenly held my face and kissed me! On the lips! AGAIN! In front of so many people! And worse, my classmates!

'OMG OMG OMG!!! K-Kaiden… What are you doing? D-Do you want me to be bullied again today? Oh nooooo. But I love your kiss of course. But still! My peaceful college life is definitely no more.'

Chuuuuuuuuuuu~

That was a really nice kiss. P-passionate even. Kinda like last night's, just shorter. I heard my classmate's gasps from behind me. Some even took pictures, judging by some faint shutter sounds I heard.

'Senara, this is no time for you to daze and bask in his amazing lips. You might want to go inside the classroom now before he becomes late for his own class. Anyway, I better prepare myself in case I get harassed or anything. Goodluck me!'

"I'm really going now," Kaiden smirked. "See you later."

Finally, he walked away, towards his department.

"Haaaaah…" I sighed deeply once he was out of sight.

Badump! Badump! Badump!

'This is not good for my heart. I wonder how long will I survive before dying from a heart attack?'

"That was hot," somebody commented from behind me.

I flinched and quickly turned around to see who it was.

"Marie! Phew! You scared me."

"Ha-ha! Why? You thought I'm a ghost? Or the teacher?"

"… Both?"

"Ha-ha-ha!" Marie chuckled. I didn't know she could laugh like that. She's so pretty when she laughs. "Anyway, this is new. I never thought Mr. Kaiden could kiss anyone. He's mysophobic, right?"

"Yes, he is. Even I was amazed how he's okay with touching me and k-k-kissing."

"He must love you so much."

'KYAAAAAAA!!! OMG. My heart almost exploded there. Even now, I still can't believe Kaiden loves me back. Am I the luckiest girl or what?'

I wasn't able to respond to Marie anymore and just covered my face out of embarrassment. I really needed to get used to this. Anyway, we walked together inside the classroom where as expected, all my classmates were murmuring to each other. Welp. They could murmur and whisper and gossip all they wanted. I'm never giving a damn about it. Go Sena!

Few minutes later, our professor arrived, starting the first lesson of the day. Hours passed with me enjoying the lesson. It was a topic I needed to learn—point of views in writing. Curious about the new knowledge, I decided to try them out later in my free time. I decided to write my new book in third POV omniscient so maybe I'd try writing the first chapter in first person, too, and third person limited, to see which one was better. I'd do the same with other types and let the others judge which they think was best.

Kaiden and Hora gave me nice feedback before so maybe I should ask them again. For more opinions, I'd have to ask Crystal, too, and maybe Rae if she's not so busy. I forgot if Callan liked reading or not—probably not though. And as much as I dislike it, I might need to ask Verrill's opinion, too. Hora mentioned he liked reading as well. Hmm… Was he fine with fantasy romance though?

Later on, lunch arrived and Kaiden was the very first to fetch me in my classroom. That was fast of him. Even Marie was surprised to see him again.

"You're fast," I greeted Kaiden as soon as he arrived. I peeked beside him and noticed that Verrill and Callan were still nowhere to be found. "Did you cut your class short? Or did you go back to skipping boring classes?" I asked, skeptical of his punctuality.

Instead of answering my question, he kissed me again! My eyes widened and my body froze up. Was he planning on kissing me every time we met? T-that's… we shouldn't be doing that! That's too much PDA and I just knew that everyone else would hate me for it.

Marie whistled from beside me. Then, she slowly walked away, putting a distance between her and us.

"K-Kaiden, wait, stop," I pushed him back gently, letting go of his lips. "W-we shouldn't be doing this too often… I think." I could feel my face burn up from all this lovey-doveyness. If I was ice, I probably would have melted by now.

"Eeeh? We can't?" Kaiden cutely pouted.

'This is driving me crazy. How am I supposed to say no to that adorableness?!'