Lea felt embarrassed

"Are you done with yours? If not, I pity you. The line's moving at a snail's pace," Will added.

"There is no need for you to worry about that" Liam, who had been overlooked until then, spoke up.

Startled, Will turned towards him. Feeling a twinge of guilt for neglecting Liam, Lea shot him an apologetic glance, which he acknowledged with a smile and a blink.

Without delay, she introduced them. "Will, meet Liam, my classmate. Liam, this is William, my brother's best friend's younger brother."

After a brief exchange, both men nodded and exchanged handshakes.

Suddenly, Will checked his watch, speaking hurriedly. "Look at the time! I'm late for class again. Can't afford to miss another one," he exclaimed, giving Lea a quick hug and bidding Liam farewell before dashing off to complete his task.

For some reason, Liam felt a pang of discomfort seeing Will hug Lea. He couldn't quite explain the surge of irritation towards Will or the feeling of being overlooked. It puzzled him. His reverie was interrupted by Lea addressing him.

"So, what's the plan? What should we do?" she asked.

"Nothing. We'll just wait," Liam replied.

"So what is the plan, what are we going to do" Lea asked. 

"Nothing we are just going to wait," Liam said.

"What?"

Just when Lea wanted to speak more a middle-aged man approached them and asked Liam "Where are the papers". Liam turned towards Lea who was a bit confused at the moment asking her to give her documents. She took out her documents and gave them to Liam obediently. Liam spoke a few words with the man and then the man went inside the admission office.

After she heard what Liam spoke to the man she understood what was happening. She turned towards Liam feeling very thankful for his help, as Will had said if she had to stand in that line it would take the whole day to get done with this small work. 

"He is not as bad as I thought of him to be," Lea thought as a sweet smile emerged on her face.

After the man went inside to complete the work Liam turned towards Lea with a smile. Looking at her he understood the question in her mind, "I had texted asking him to come here when you were talking to William" he said.

"Ho,… Thank you"

"Without your help, I don't know when I could have got done with it. So thanks for helping me out with this" Lea said.

"Yep, you have to be thankful after all I am such a resourceful person. But you can't just get done with a thank you here...

"Ok, what do you want?"

"Hmmm it's a really difficult question that you have asked"

Hahaha... Lea started laughing and then said dramatically, "Take your time dear I will grant your one wish when you have decided."

After she said this both of them started laughing together. 

But ya on a serious note I owe you one, Lea said to which Liam just gave a small smile.

The middle-aged man from the admission office came to them with papers in one hand and a register in the other.

As soon as Liam saw the man he asked if the work was done. The man nodded his head and then he opened the register in his hand and asked Lea to sign it under her name. After she signed he handed the papers in his hand to Lea with the ID cards.

Lea thanked the man and Liam also followed suit.

"Hey pass me your timetable let's see which classes we are in together," Liam said taking the paper from Lea's hand. "We have 6 same classes out of the 8 classes, that's nice"

"Is it so?"

"Yes, that's nice"

"Hope so..." 

"Why? You don't like it?" Liam asked with a frown on his face.