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Mr. Steve stopped the car at the main gate of the campus. Catherine said thank you and hopped out before Mr. Steve would come out and open the door for her. She swung her bag back on her shoulder and started to walk in.

The eyes came on her instantly. She was one of the famous ones here. She and her gang. It was her first year in university and already she has a gang of best friends they already gathered a lot of fame around here with their stupid pranks and fun all the time.

She barely stepped into the corridor when a shrill voice screamed. "CATHERINE!" And Avery jumped on her in a bone-crushing hug as Catherine laughed and hugged her back.

"You scream like-" Catherine was about to say when Avery moved back with wide eyes. "Don't even start," Avery warned as Catherine let out a small chortle. 

Avery aka the melodramatic queen of their group. She's the typical long nails, high heels, red lips, and blonde. But she was just so sweet by heart.

"Aww such a pretty reunion. How many years have passed since you last met? Oh yeah, probably 18 hours or so." Samuel joked with an eye roll as he came to stand beside them. 

Samuel was tall and handsome with tan skin and curly hair and his smile, you could say; his smile causes the heads to turn in his direction.

"Don't be jealous Sam." Catherine mused, causing him to grin at her. 

"Am I missing some party?" Joseph came running wearing his number. Yeah, Joseph was the typical bad boy, Jock of their campus. Famous, absolutely, but his circle of friends involved  Samuel, Avery, Catherine, and Quinn. These five were inseparable. 

Some think they become friends in uni but none knows they were in the same college, they're family friends as well. Sam, Joseph, and Avery were diaper friends. Quinn and Catherine were the ones who became their friends in college and from then the biggest and fantastically psychotic and most fun-loving gang was created. It was not that it was fun all the time, they did study hard to get admission to Stanford University. And gladly they all got admission on merit but poor Quinn had to work hard on Joseph cause the bad boy was null in his studies.

"Where's Quinn?" Joseph asked as he deliberately ruffled Avery's hair causing her to growl at him. "She's the nerd of our circle. The class starts in two minutes, where do you expect her to be?" Avery asked with a cocked brow causing Joseph to chuckle.

"Alright, let's meet at the cafeteria in recess," Sam said and they all nodded heading to their first class.

Quinn, Catherine, and Joseph were majoring in business so almost all their classes were the same. Sam is doing law whereas Avery is totally and unapologetically lost in the deep love of history so yeah she was majoring in history.

They walked into the class and Joseph went to sit in the back not before pulling Quinn's ponytail in his way of greeting, she glared at him as he smirked and sat at the last seat.

Catherine too sat in the last seat beside Joseph's, whereas Quinn was sitting in the first seat. Catherine and her whole group were a backbencher except only the great Quinn. Though this doesn't mean they get bad grades. Nope, they all are blessed with good brains so they enjoy a lot and get good results too, viola.

Within a minute they heard footsteps approaching so everyone straightened up as the professor walked in. He greeted the class as everyone settled down in their seats.

"Class, there's a new student who joined." The professor said and everyone stared at each other confused. A new student! That too in the middle of the semester. 

The footsteps that followed were heavy. All eyes were set at the door when a tall hunk walked in. Probably 6’2. His head down, the dark black hair finger-combed back as one of the rogue strands adorned his forehead. His skin was tan. She instantly noticed the trimmed beard on his sharp jaw, she could bet he was older than her. Her eyes narrowed as she noticed his pink lips sealed in a thin line. High cheekbones, straight nose, thick brows knitted together, was he angry? His lashes were thick. She lowered her eyes down, he was wearing a black T which was full sleeves and fitted, damn his body. Oh damn! She looked at Joseph who was to her left and he looked at her at the same time and she cocked her brow at Joseph, looks like someone would give Joseph a tough time because this dude was giving out pure bad boy vibes.

The dude was wearing black pants, black boots, and Oh la la. She checked him out thoroughly before looking up at his face again.

She took a sharp breath, her eyes widening slightly when she found his olive eyes staring straight back at her. They were cold. He looked mad and she didn't know why. 

'Look away dude.'

She muttered in her head.

'I know I'm pretty. But stop gawking in front of the class. Jeez, where is your etiquette?' She thought while still matching his gaze.

Her jaw dropped when the handsome dude looked away and she saw him rolling his eyes. 

'Wtf! What do you think of yourself huh? Stupid.' She thought with an eye roll. 

Unfortunately, Joseph saw the whole scene and he was controlling his laughter. Great.

"This is Rasmus Colt." The professor introduced as everyone just gawked. "Take a seat, Rasmus," Professor said and unfortunately, there were only three seats left, two in the front row and one just beside Catherine.

The silent man walked back and hopped on the seat beside her.

Silence.

Catherine blinked and made eye contact with Joseph, he was still smirking at her. To prove him wrong and wipe that smirk off of his face. She turned towards the silent guy aka Rasmus.

His name was unique.

"Hey!" She smiled at him and the big guy didn't even spare her a glance.

‘Did he just ignore my existence?’

She heard a snicker from Joseph and she turned to glare at him.

Idiot Joseph.

Stupid, arrogant Rasmus.