Thus, the case seemed to come to an end by Rosé getting the attention she wanted and Colin getting a chance to eat with the great actor.
But the next afternoon, rumors began to circulate here and there that the man who had given Rosé flowers was Colin.
The rumor soon reached the ears of Flora. As she was desperate to find the boy who sneaked into the girls’ dormitory, she immediately called Colin in.
Lucy touched her forehead when she heard that Colin had been called by the landlady. She sincerely hoped that his only childhood friend would not be punished.
But contrary to her nervousness, Colin reappeared in the classroom with a nonchalant air. His expression was as calm as usual. He didn’t look like a person who was discouraged after being scolded.
“How did it go?” asked Lucy.
“She let me go.”
“What?”
“Flora just looked at me and told me to go.”
Colin said something incomprehensible. Lucy stared blankly at his face in bewilderment.
“There’s no way you were the one who gave flowers to Rosé. With a body like this, I don’t think you can even climb the first floor.”
Funny how Flora never doubted Colin. It was because she had no idea that he came into the dormitory dressed up like a schoolgirl.
“Even Dylan, who everyone thought would succeed, failed. I think she’s only suspicious of big boys, unlike me. Well, I’d love to be off the list of suspects.”
Colin gave Lucy a naughty smile. Looking at such a friend, Lucy couldn’t decide whether she should be angry or relieved.
“You’re lucky.”
In the end, Lucy said with a pathetic expression on his face, but relieved inside.
* * *
Everyone was busy chatting about the flowers Rosé received from an unidentified man, but Lucy was not interested in whatever she received.
Recently, as soon as she returned to the dormitory after class, she ran straight to the bedside table. And she would pick up the snow globe and look at it for a long time.
Nowadays, it has become her habit to look at it several times a day.
The sparkling sand and red coral reefs in the transparent sphere always made Lucy’s heart flutter. Whenever she looks at it, a smile automatically appears on her face.
Each time, the words she heard from Felix were clearly and vividly revived like the touch of the snow globe in her hand. As if it’s constantly saying that her relationship with Felix is not a dream but a reality.
So much had changed from the past when Felix didn’t even notice her presence.
Now he recognized Lucy at a glance wherever she was. No matter how far Lucy was, no matter how little she speaks.
* * *
“You guys go first; I’ll sit down for a while.”
Lucy looked up at Felix’s voice from somewhere. She was sitting on the bench for a while and organizing her bag.
When she looked around, she saw three boys passing by the street nearby. Of course, the first person she noticed was Felix who has bright blond hair.
Just as Lucy recognized him at a glance, Felix also seemed to have noticed right away that she was sitting there.
But he didn’t hastily pretend to know or wave his hand to greet her. Instead, he suddenly stretched with a subtle smile around his mouth. He mumbled to his friends.
“I’m tired, so I’ll sit down for a while.”
His friends looked at him, bewildered, at his words.
“What?”
“You just said we should go back to the dorm quickly.”
But Felix didn’t care and came near Lucy, scrambling his hair for no reason.
He glanced at Lucy and sat on a bench a little away. He didn’t forget to look at Lucy and smile lightly at that short moment.
His friends looked at him with a confused expression as he suddenly stopped on the bench. But the confusion soon came naturally to Felix. Felix frowned openly as his friends sat next to him.
“Aren’t you going?”
“Where?”
“Are you not going back to the dorm?”
“You said we’d sit on the bench and go.”
“When did I…!”
Felix, who was trying to say something in an annoyed voice, continued in a soft voice as if he had been forced to squeeze it.
“……you can go in first.”
“Just go with us.”
Felix’s friends seemed unwilling to leave him, and one of them even lay on the bench.
“Oh, that’s nice.”
“How long has it been since I looked up at the sky like this?”
Unlike Felix, who has a disapproving look on his face, they began to talk leisurely looking around the campus.
Lucy glanced at Felix’s sullen expression and secretly burst out laughing. The expression on his face, which was slightly distressed, seemed cute as the situation did not go according to his plan.
“Hey, Felix.”
His friend who was staring blankly at the blue sky suddenly called him.
“By the way, why are you working so hard these days?”
“What?”
“I mean the class. Why are you taking classes so hard?”
“I wanted to ask that, too. I thought Adrian and your soul were finally the same.”
At first, they were asking questions with playful faces, but gradually they became serious and began to ask questions.