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"By the look on Catherine's face, I'm dying to know it." Avery chirped as Quinn cocked a perfect brow at Catherine, completely saying, 'what did I miss?'

"So the professor introduced a new student today." Joseph started as Avery put her spoon down and grasped her hands together giving him her utmost attention.

"I'm all ears." She said, 

These two should join a circus. Catherine thought with an eye roll as her eyes landed on someone sitting on the table, two tables away from theirs. He sat alone with his food and didn't bother to spare anyone a single glance. The dude looked as if someone had forced the crap out of him to attend the university. 

"Catherine was checking him out when that dude rolled his eyes at her," Joseph said with a low laugh, causing Catherine to scrunch her nose at him in annoyance.

"Woah. He must be something to roll his eyes at such beauty." Avery said dramatically.

"Shut up, Avery," Catherine muttered.

"That's not it." Joseph mused.

"Oh, there's more?" Samuel asked with raised brows as he took a big bite of his burger.

"Professor asked him to take a seat and there were a total of 3 seats available, two at the front and one beside Catherine. Guess what?" Joseph chirped like a girl.

"You don't have to be that specific, Joseph," Catherine muttered, annoyed.

"What?" Avery, Samuel, and even Quinn, the three of them said simultaneously causing Catherine to glare at them with slight shock. Even Quinn was enjoying it. Great.

"That dude walked to the back of the class, sat beside Catherine, and Catherine, being over smart said 'Hey!' To him..." Joseph was snorting a type of laughing while telling the adventurous tale. He deliberately said Hey in a girlish voice as mimicking her.

"Then?" Avery inquired as Joseph tried to control his laughter.

"He ignored her existence, hahaha." Joseph laughed and everyone else busted into laughter as well.

"Not funny," Catherine muttered as she ate her pasta ignoring her laughing friends.

"I would love to see the hunk who ignored her." Avery mused as she ate her salad. She and her love for dieting.

Joseph's ears perked up as he rounded his eyes around the cafeteria until they finally landed on the man of their conversation. 

"There to my right two tables away. The lone guy. That is Rasmus Colt." Joseph mused as Avery's jaw dropped and she gaped at Rasmus. Not only her, but Quinn also stared at Rasmus.

"He's f**king hot." Avery sang while eye-f*cking the guy. "I agree." Quinn quipped in and Catherine's eyes widened slightly because Quinn never finds anyone attractive. 

Excellent.

"No wonder he ignored your existence. He looks like a Greek God." Avery mumbled.

"He didn't ignore me. He just didn't hear my voice. Yeah." Catherine said as if telling herself, causing the four of them to scoff at her.

"Is that so?" Avery cocked a perfect brow at her as Catherine hummed in response while eating her food.

"Why don't you go and get me his number?" Avery suggested with the waggle of her brows as Catherine let out a low laugh.

"Well, why don't you go get it yourself?" Catherine suggested.

"But that guy ignored you and you said he didn't hear you. Why not check it now?" Joseph joined in with Avery as Catherine narrowed her eyes at him in anger.

"I won't do all this just to prove you guys wrong." She muttered while munching on her food.

"What are you afraid of?" Joseph asked, clearly fuelling her anger.

"I'm not afraid of anything." She growled slowly.

"So why not prove these idiots wrong?" Samuel asked with a tilt of his head.

"I'm not in the mood." She said dryly.

"He ignored her, that's why she's not going, I can bet on it," Quinn said, causing others to titter.

"What will I get if I prove you guys wrong?" She asked calmly while moving back on her seat in a relaxed stance.

When the four of them drowned in thinking, she spoke up herself. 

"Funfair." One word and the four of them groaned. "Not that," Joseph said like a scared puppy.

"Funfair or I'm not going." She mused.

She knew her friends hate rides, especially Joseph and Avery. They would run miles away from scary rides which simply means they would take their bet back.

"Fine. If you get his number. We all would go to a funfair and yes we'll sit on all those absurd rides which you would say." Joseph said with a smirk and Catherine's confidence wavered. The jerk knows that Rasmus dude would ignore her again.

But she was Catherine the Great. She would make the silent man talk.

"Fine." She muttered and stood up as her chair creaked and she walked towards him.

"Here goes nothing." She muttered with a deep breath.