That night when everyone who lived in this country had fallen asleep, only Kaylee still hadn''t closed her eyes. She did not know why her eyelids refuse to close, and her thoughts drifted to her previous date with Den.


    Sometimes she smiled to herself while covering her face with her pillow, and sometimes she shifted to worry when she remembered that she would meet Den as Nick.


    What should she do when she met that man?


    If only Den hadn''t confessed his feelings, and she had never heard what endear name he called her, Kaylee was pretty sure she could act normal when she met him.


    But… how could she act normal when her heart was pounding every time she remembered her date?


    Even just thinking about that man, her heart was already beating so wild that it made her want to scold her heart so that it would behave like a good girl.


    After what seemed like an eternity, finally, Kaylee fell asleep without her realizing it.


    The next day Kaylee left for the campus at eleven o''clock in the afternoon because her ss schedule started from noon. That''s why she could rest in her house longer while working on the rest of the song''s arrangement requests from her clients.


    After that, she returned to ying the ck Moon''s masterpiece, Require to Live. It seemed like she would never get tired of ying this song. But why is it that every time she ys the first note of ck Moon''s theme song, she reminisced about her date yesterday?


    In the end, she couldn''t focus at ying it, and she often made mistakes when she yed a bunch of seemingly intricate quaver notes with pentatonic motifs.


    Kaylee decided to stop ying the piano and carried out the rituals of her role-costume.


    Kaylee walked out of her apartment and headed to the bus stop to campus. Every now and then, she would rub her stomach to relieve the pain of the cramps. Even though the cramps weren''t as painful as yesterday''s, Kaylee still felt uneasy.


    Fortunately, her period cramp only urred on the first day. She hardly felt cramped again from the second day to the next. Kaylee just needs to avoid extreme activities to not go to the bathroom too often to change her sanitary.


    Unfortunately... her wish was not fulfilled. Her college friends immediately flocked to her as soon as her ss was over.


    "Yo, Nick! Let''s have a basketball match!"


    No way!


    "I''ll pass today."


    "What? Why? We are short on people."


    "You know I can''t y Basketball. I suck at it. "


    "But girls from singing ss only show up to see you y."


    "…"


    It felt like Kaylee wanted to cry. Is there a way to avoid her friends'' requests?


    "Hey, guys, what''s up?"


    Kaylee''s hopes soared as Jacob walked over to them. "Jack, they are short on yers. How about you join them?"


    "Sure, why not? What are we ying?"


    "Basketball! Let''s go!"


    Jacobughed at his friends'' enthusiasm as he pulled Kaylee''s hand and made the girl shrieked in surprise. Kaylee tried to keep up with Jacob''s pace and only breathed a sigh of relief when Jacob let go of her hand as soon as they reached the basketball court.


    Kaylee joined other friends in multi-story seats to watch a basketball game between music and painting majors ss.


    "Hey, Nick, you''re not joining?" one of her friends asked Kaylee as if they were all waiting for Kaylee toe to y.


    Don''t they know that she is terrible at ying Basketball?


    Kaylee''s team always loses every time she joined them because of her weak throws or often misses. Surprisingly, the girls even liked her and cheered her even more.


    Kaylee was a girl inside, but she couldn''t understand the way of thinking of a girl who was not her mind.


    "I will bring defeat on our team."


    "That is precisely what we are waiting for!"


    Kaylee raised an eyebrow at her friend to wait for the continuation of the young man''s sentence.


    "We''ve already ced a bet on your opposing team."


    What? So they made a bet to see her lose? Kaylee wanted to reprimand them and scold them, but she knew they would look at her so sarcastically that Kaylee did what she didn''t want to do.


    "Hohoho, that''s why I don''t want to y. I expected that you would bet on my loss," boasted Kaylee while rubbing her nose proudly, making her friends joke at her witty.


    "Whooo-hooo! Go go, Jacob! Go go, Jacob!"


    Kaylee could hear the girls cheering for Jacob, who was now dribbling the ball towards his opponent''s ring. Like the other girls, Kaylee also wanted to cheer on her friend. Even more so, she hoped that the young man managed to put the ball into the opponent''s goal ring.


    Jacob continued to dominate the match and got past the opposing members trying to grab the ball. He made a misleading movement expertly and made it to the area of ??the opposing team''s ring. As soon as he felt close, Jacob caught the ball with both hands and threw it straight into the opponent''s circle goal.


    "WHOOOOO!!!" eximed the girls simultaneously as the ball went in and out of the goal ring against Jacob''s team.


    "Go for it, Jake!"


    Jacob''s friends'' cheers were no less exciting, making Kaylee also get influenced and cheered on her best friend.


    "Go beat them, Jack!" Kaylee''s cheer made Jacob smile broadly at her and threw a hand at Kaylee as if he were doing a fistbump.


    Kayleeughed at Jacob''s reaction and threw her right hand towards Jacob to greet the young man''s fist bump.


    Among other friends, Kaylee felt veryfortable with Jacob. There was alreadymon knowledge circting the kids. Wherever they saw Jacob, they would see Nick also and vice versa. Hence, if one wished to find Nick, they could search Jacob first and vice versa.


    No one knew who started it first, but Jacob and Nick often bumped into each other and finally decided to go to the cafeteria or the library together.


    Unfortunately, the two of them couldn''t always be together because they take different ss schedules. Kaylee took guitar ss while Jacob was a percussion student.


    "Hey, look at the girls there. They all forget about the other yers and only look at Jacob. What an eyesore. He shouldn''t be here."


    Kaylee rolled her eyeszily when someone mocked Jacob. She nced at the young man with a look of displeasure to make the person think Kaylee was challenging him even though she didn''t.


    "What are you looking at?"


    Gulp!


    Why did it turn out like this?