Back in the university,Elise stood across her hostel hallway, exhausted. Unlike what normally happens, she had managed to stir her mother away from the idea of getting her a well guarded apartment in a gated community.Even though she was wild and spoilt with her dad, with her mom, she had to be careful about anything she wanted to do. It was always like living in her shadows. Elise had goals of her own. She wanted a shot at the world on her own.While living in an apartment had been an idea in her mind for quite some time, she didn't want it to be powered by her mother. If she had accepted the offer then the woman would never have stopped making her life miserable.She put her papers on top of the glass table and slumped onto the large leather coach at the corner of the room. The hostel was top-tier. She selected one that met her standards. Not just her standards, her mother’s standards too as it was the best and most expensive one in the school. The best part of it was that
A few days later in the university, The rays of the sun pierced through the curtains of the hostel that beautiful morning. Elise, who had been fast asleep in her bed, is woken up by the soft knock on her door. She stares around, trying to shield her eyes from the burning light of the sun as she sets her feet on the carpet and moves towards the door with haste. She was never a morning person.“What?’’ She asked with irritability. On the other side of the door stood Sandra. When Elise saw her, she rolled her eyes and dropped her shoulders. She had no interest in dealing with this right now.“Good morning to you as well.” Sandra answered sarcastically. She had a big smile on her face as she rests her head lazily over the frame of the door and stares at a lease with a tank top and a pair of shorts. “I happen to have an emergency and I locked myself out of my hostel.’’ Elise could not believe what she was fvcking hearing right now. She had lost a good chunk of sleep while she w
The last few days had been full of work for Richard. Even though he never showed his face, he usually dealt with a lot of things behind the scenes, after all, if someone else could do the things he did, then the company wouldn’t even be his. After finishing up the bulk of it, he decided to make an appearance in school today. From his understanding, they would have already started classes but most of it would most likely just be the introductory. For someone that had done so many real estate projects, his course was not exactly a big deal to him. Besides, his major forte was technology. However, he also respected that a girl like Elise would go for a course like that. She seemed like someone that would go for courses like international relations. Since he had no idea about the school forum, the moment he entered the school, most of the girls hurriedly started passing the news. “See who’s back!” “I knew he was going to come back. He must have just been too ashamed these last few d
The whole class was eager the moment they heard the lecturer’s words. Clearly he had very terrible luck, after all, who didn’t know the kind of person that this professor was very strict. Normally, professors like him won’t take first years but he had asked for it with the claim that he wanted to be sure that the students that came into his class in their final years had a good background. “Okay sir.” Richard accepted calmly his demeanor not changing in the slightest. “First question. How do you affordably capture real-time, equipment-level performance data?” The man asked. The students looked at each other confused, this shouldn’t be a question that a first year student should know right. “Anyone can capture equipment-level data using off-the-shelf hardware from legacy device manufacturers…..” Richard started and the more he talked, the more the look on the lecturer face changed.“In addition, many of these “smart meter” devices can only capture data at 15-minute intervals. Whi
Almost as if it was planned, the moment Richard sat down on one of the couches in the already well furnished house, he got a call from his master. “Little brat! You don’t know to call?” His master, master Kai’s voice sounded over the phone making Richard to wince slightly. “I just managed to settle down, did you have them prepare the house?” He as he stood up and looked around suspiciously. Although the distance from his school wasn’t too much, the most important thing was how beautiful the house was. It had been furnished to the boots for his tastes. Clearly, this wasn’t something his subordinates would do. “Humph! After looking at the houses in those school area, I knew you wouldn’t stay there, after all, your taste is so big now.” The man’s voice was still stern, yet, it was easy to see the doting love in there. Clearly, he adored the young man even though he was talking like he wanted to rip him apart.“Also, unlike overseas where you can just show your faces to the top peo
The next day in school, The professor had asked Richard to see him after school was over. As soon as the students heard that, the erupted in murmurs of dissatisfaction. Richard waited for the buzz around him to die down before he slipped his phone out of his Jean pocket. He had received a message notification earlier but his mind was too distracted to check who the sender was. His lips drew back a snarl as he scrolled through his phone. There was still a lull of noise in the background as several students hung around him.They were talking in hushed times about Richard who had almost been disgraced by their professor. A few of them wondered in disbelief over how he was able to attempt a year four question. The confidence he has used in attacking the question earlier had left a number of them surprised.“Perhaps, he’s not even that smart” One of the male students, who felt slightly threatened by Richard , said in a forced laughter.The guys who huddled around him picked up the cue
Throughout the evening , Elise couldn’t get her mind off the way Richard her publicly humiliated her. He had completely ignored her when she spoke to him but yet , he readily spoke to another girl who was probably a common place person.She fumed inwardly as she sat in the car while her mother drove. Although her eyes were trained on the houses that does past as the car drove, her mind was elsewhere. It was heavy.Every effort by her mother to engage her In a conversation priced abortive. Not only was she insulted by the way Richard had treated her some hours earlier, she felt like it was an irreparable dent in her reputation. It could give other students a reason to disrespect her too, especially when it was convenient for them.She clutched her phone in her right hand, unwilling to check the school platform for the fear that the students had dropped that shameful video of she and Richard on the platform. She didn’t want to be in the spotlight of both students and lecturers and even
The weekend was an unexciting one for Elise because she was stuck alone at home with so much to do.She had cancelled her plans to go on a spa date with one of her friends because of the essays she had to write for school.As she sat at her study table, her open laptop facing her, she wondered if she had not done wrong to turn down the offer of going out to have fun instead of sitting at home in a quiet, lonely too with piles of assignments waiting for her. She placed her head in between both hands and leant on the study table.Her eyes fell on her newly pedicured toenails. Pink. That had always been her color.Her mother never failed to get all her items in pink. She had grown to accept the color as a part of her. She drew in a long, hard breath ,stood up from her seat and pushed the chair backwards.She needed something to distract her from her unfinished projects and just one thing came to mind; it was the new romance movies that had been released only last week.A large grin forme