She sat beside her bed, touching her head. Dizziness made her closing her eyes. That was not the first time she felt dizzy as strong as that morning. She tried to stand up by holding on her bed. She had to go to Huntingfold. The class began at 7.30 that morning.
Suddenly the dizziness she had felt was gone. She thought she must have done medical check up this week. Some friends scared her by saying the dizziness could be one indication of brain cancer.
Less than fifteen minutes she had been sitting in the back of one of the room in Huntingfold campus, starting a new day, maybe a new beauty or another new tragedy. She was sitting in the back, reading Dan Brown’s book.
The lecturer came to class. She stopped to read and closed her book. She was in Biology Program in Huntingfold. The lecturer had explained about something, but Xiara couldn’t concentrate. She looked at someone in the front seat. Zack cut her hair, and he looked different, more charming. Xiara didn’t realize that the lecturer had come to her.
“So, Miss Xiara, what is the neufron which has function to filter?” the lecturer asked her. Xiara woke up from her fancy. She didn’t know the answer. She didn’t read anything tonight except her novel.
“Corpuscula!”
“Corpuscula!” a voice in her mind tell her the answer, but Xiara was not sure enough.
“Corpuscula?” she answered doubtfully.
“Right!” the lecturer answered. Xiara was shocked. She even never memorized that word.
“Actually, in your opinion, of course, based on theory, what is the function of neufron?” the lecturer asked her again. Xiara didn’t think she could answer that if the voice in her head didn’t appear again.
“As a regulator of water and filtered substance by filtering the blood, then reabsorb liquid and molecule which is still needed by the body,” she spoke what her mind said although she added and reduced some words.
“Great!” the lecturer finally said. Xiara was confused. She didn’t know what came to her mind. She felt like an oracle. She was amazed by herself and smiled. She could guess a very specific answer of her lecturer whereas she didn’t memorize anything last night. She tried to focus then she could get what she wanted to know easily. She thought that just happened by accident. While she was smiling at her self, she looked at someone who is sitting in the front seat. Zack was smiling at her. Xiara was confused. She finally smiled at Zack clumsily.
“He is cute, isn’t he?” Layla who had been sitting beside her during class suddenly asked her that question.
“What? Who? ” Xiara was clumsy again.
“Don’t pretend. Zack! Who else? ” Layla tempted her.
“O, Zack?? Well, I don’t really know him anyway,” Xiara seemed to pay attention to the lecturer.
“You don’t have to know him to say that he’s cute!” Layla tempted again but Xiara was pretending that she didn’t hear Layla.
A hundred minutes later, the class was over. Xiara looked very busy when she was tiding her stuff up. There was only her and Zack who’s left in the class. She didn’t want to be in the class any longer with him. She never talked to him whereas they had been in the same classes for three months. She always felt awkward every time she met him. Zack was popular and she knew how popular students acted. She really hated their superior actions. What was the point of being popular? She often thought.
She never believed many girls who said that Zack was different and nice and polite and sweet, etc., etc. Of course they said like that. They were crazy about Zack.
But Xiara did know that Zack was a smart guy and he had his style because they were often in the same class. Xiara just had never known Zack personally.
She was hurrying to go out of the class when somebody called him.
“You dropped your pen, Miss,” Zack was talking when she looked back to the class. Xiara had to admit no matter how bad she knew Zack, he was really sweet.
“Oh, thank you,” Xiara smiled whatever there was and walked out of the class, left Zack alone in the class.
“You look very busy, Miss,” Zack was walking faster so that he could walk beside Xiara. Xiara smiled and didn’t answer anything. She felt awkward when Zack was closer.
“Do you want to go home now?” Zack asked her again. Xiara nodded again.
“Are you really busy?” Zack asked again.
What did he really want? She was confused. She never thought that she had a business with this guy and she didn’t want to.
“Oh, I don’t think so. I just…um…um…,”Xiara lost her words but she kept walking fast. Zack kept walking beside her like Xiara was the princess and he was the body guard.
Xiara suddenly stopped and looked at Zack.
“What do you want?” she said coldly.
“I just….um…um…,” Zack was stumbled after that. “I just want to have lunch with you. Would you mind?” Zack looked very panic like Xiara wanted to eat him or something.
Xiara was surprised. First, she never thought that she would have stopped and acted as cold as that to Zack. She never acted like that even though she really hated a person. She didn’t understand why she could be that sensitive. Second, she never thought that Zack could have been stumbled just because of her action and put his most panic face like that. And third, Zack wanted to have lunch with her?
Zack smiled nervously. Xiara didn’t know what comes to her mind but Zack looked sweeter when he was nervous.
“Well, it’s okay if you can’t. Um…I am sorry that I waste your time,” Zack said again. Xiara didn’t say anything. Zack was really funny with that face and he didn’t seem lie about his expressions. She laughed up her sleeve at Zack. They had looked each other for some seconds. Zack smiled again but he didn’t look nervous any more.
“Actually, I just want to be your friend, Xiara,” Zack spoke again even though Xiara hadn’t been said anything except,” What do you want?” and waited for Zack’s next sentences.
Xiara couldn’t restrain her smile. She was embarrassed. Zack was totally natural. She started to believe that the girls didn’t lie about Zack.
“I thought we had been friend, Mr. Zack. We had been in the same classes,” Xiara answered him. Zack smiled to her.
“I mean closer,” Zack responded.
“That was brilliant answer, anyway,” Zack spoke again. Xiara was confused but then she remembered about the miracle that had just happened in the class.
“Oh, I don’t know, I just tell what I thought. Hey, I have to go home now, Zack. See you,” Xiara had nothing to say any more but she actually expected Zack would mind if she had left him.
And he did.
“Hey, do you have to kill somebody or what??” Zack tried to arrest her.
“Have you heard about Christmas Party in Damon’s house?” Zack started to walk and Xiara also walked beside Zack reflectively.
“Yes, but I don’t know him well. So, I don’t think I’d go there.”
“He’s my close friend actually. Would you mind if we go there together?”
Xiara was surprised. She couldn’t speak. Ten minutes ago she still thought that Zack was evil but he looked totally different now. It was just too fast to say “yes” anyway.
“Why do you always give away from me? Did I ever hurt you or…,” Zack looked so desperate.
“No, not at all. But…,” Xiara really didn’t know what to say. She shouldn’t have had negative thought about somebody while she didn’t know him well, but she didn’t want to trust somebody that fast. Now Xiara wished she could have been able to read Zack’s mind to know if he was honest or not.
Suddenly Xiara got dizziness again. It was like there was someone whispered in his head,” I really want to know you but you are so difficult. Do you believe that I am popular like what they said? I even don’t have any girlfriend! I never have had, anyway!”
“Are you okay?” Zack asked her while she touched her head.
Now the dizziness she felt has gone. The voice came to her just like the voice she heard in the class. She was confused about the voice she heard but she thought that was Zack’s mind.
“Don’t tell me that you never have had any girl friend since you were born in this world!!” Xiara spoke about what she heard directly. Zack was surprised.
“How do you know that?”
“Um… from my friend, I think,” she lied.
Zack smiled,” Unfortunately, yes!!”
“How come? I think you are… ,e….,” Xiara wanted to say that you were charming and smart but she didn’t want to be looked like another girls who were crazy about him.
Zack seemed waiting for Xiara’s sentence.
“You are admired by many girls. Don’t you know how crazy they are about you?”
“Well, maybe I don’t really understand how crazy they are about me and I don’t really care. Anyway, I don’t want to talk about them further,” Zack laughed. They didn’t say anything for seconds. They were really clumsy.
“I’m waiting,” Zack suddenly spoke. Xiara’s face showed that she didn’t understand what Zack mean by “waiting”.
“Christmas party?” Zack reminded her again.
“Oh, eh… Why not?” Xiara answered him.
“That’s great!” Zack smiled to Xiara and she felt she got dizziness again. But the dizziness that time was caused by her heart which beat suddenly fast when she wasn’t purposely look at Zack’s eyes. Maybe Zack was really different.
