Kyle who exited her condo saw Noah and spoke, "Noah, where were you? I have prepared dinner for you too... as a thank you meal."

Noah glanced at her, "I have things to tend to, I will be back to you later."

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Then he turned to the delivery man, "Give me a minute, I will keep these bags inside and check it out."

"Sure Sir." The delivery man respectfully responded and heard Noah ask, "Why is there no sender information?"

The delivery man didn't know how to respond to it.

Kyle didn't leave and waited outside asking the delivery man, "What's wrong? Why didn't you bring it upstairs if it's sent to Noah?"

The delivery man responded, "It's large. I couldn't bring it here Miss."

Kyle tagged with them downstairs scaring those five boys might have pulled up trouble for Noah again.

Noah didn't know why she was in the elevator hence he ignored her. Noah opened the large box to see a hybrid bicycle.

He knew the sender without a word. He called the sender sending the delivery man. "You are such a sweetheart. How did you know I wanted this?"

Aria answered the call while she was on the video call to Alan on her iPad. So she turned on the speaker on her mobile so that Alan could hear Noah.

"Noah, you are calling Alan as a sweetheart. He is the one who managed to get your limited edition bicycle in country E. Thank him, he can hear you."

Noah laughed awkwardly, "Thank you, Brother Alan."

Alan had just hummed Noah continued, "You guys carry on, I'm off." He hung up without hearing anything to stop disturbing the couple.

Kyle spoke, "This must be near 1500$, Your friend seems to be rich too."

Noah didn't say anything for it. "Ms. Mason, I met the dean and got to know about the video. Thank you for that. And there is no need to prepare anything for me."

He took his bicycle out for a ride without caring for confounded Kyle. She couldn't understand what happened to him again.

She felt like Noah acted like a switch. Once friendly and another time like a complete stranger.

She waited at the condo door but Noah just entered his condo without caring about her.

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The next day, Noah continued to ignore Kyle which started to bug her too much.

When it repeated for other days, she couldn't hold it and went to his condo.

She asked right after he opened the door, "Noah, What's wrong with you? Why are you behaving like a stranger? Do you have any idea how your behavior affects others?"

Noah was calm and didn't bother to call her in, "Ms.Mason, I am very grateful when you helped me and I tried my best to help you back when you needed it. And we aren't really strangers, I'm the owner of the condo you are staying in. So you are my tenant. I don't understand what's wrong in that."

Kyle: "..."

She didn't really understand where it went wrong and why Noah was saying all that.

"Look, I didn't get you. You were so good and helped me a lot. I started to feel bothered by your sudden change of behavior. So I wanted to ask." She lowered her head, having no words to say.

Noah had thought Kyle was doing it on purpose. Hearing her sound as if he wronged her, he decided to tell the truth.

"Alright, I will clear your mind. Ms.mason, I don't have time to play guessing mind games regarding your intentions about me. Respect me enough to keep it real so that I can decide on how to treat you. If you are friendly about the topics you want and ignore me whenever you don't want, don't expect me to treat you well. If you are thinking that you could play 'hard to get' with your looks, for your kind information, I am not interested in you. Don't forget, the behavior of a person depends on how you treat them."

Kyle: "..."

Noah saw her blank face for a few seconds and closed the door without caring.

After that, Kyle and Noah behaved like complete strangers even when they went face to face. It was only until Kyle got a roommate.

Mila Theron, she was funny, outgoing, fun-loving, and very sociable. She and Kyle became good friends and she was from country Y.

Knowing Noah was next door, she always dropped by with one or the other reason. She didn't know how to cook and liked his cooking and always asked his help with the studies.

Noah got along well with Chris Patt. He was loud and noisy, full of energy. He was also from country Y and was Mila's friend from school time.

Chris wished to share flat with him but Noah turned down. Noah wasn't ready to share his personal space with new people.

How much ever the livelier Chris and Mila were, Noah wasn't able to open up with them as much as he was with his three loonies.

In between the studies and them, one month passed and the three visited his place excitedly.

Country U, E, S, and N weren't that far as much as country A. So it wasn't that hectic.

First reached one was Rian followed by Eva and Aria. They had a real blast after a long time. Half of the night, they were poking fun and laughing their heart out after like real long time.

Kyle's room was next to their living hall and she lost her sleep hearing them.

Nobody knew how she felt hearing them, in fact, nobody knew she sat in her room balcony and heard them smiling to herself and despising her social awkwardness.

It was three at night all the laughter died out. One had turned off the lights and covered everyone with blankets and the Fourie slept in the living hall.

In the morning around ten, Mila excitedly pulled Kyle to Noah's condo to meet his friends. 

The four groaned hearing the calling bell. Pushing one another to check it, Rian frustratedly opened to see two pretty girls.

One was smiling vividly but she was stunned looking at Rian. Another one didn't bother to raise her eyes and saw how three were snuggled and asleep.

While Aria was poking Noah to check at the door, he had held her hand to stop her poking that looked rather intimate to other's eyes.

Eva had gone closer to Noah when Rian was pushing her to check at the door.

It wasn't odd between the Fourie but it looked completely different to Kyle. Her eyes didn't leave Noah's handsome face.