Chapter 158
I halted my wandering mind when I reached the bustling food court. It was a small area full of different stalls. I took my time in looking around. I haven't been here since I enrolled. I slowly walked up to the sushi corner and faced the guy behind the counter.
"Hey, what can I help you with?" He flashed me a pearly white smile and I gave him a brief small one before placing my orders.
After I gave him some notes to pay for my food, he handed me my sushi in a clear plastic container, some tissues and chopsticks and my change.
"Enjoy!" He gave me one last smile and winked at me. I tried not to grimace at how flirty he was being.
Have I ever mentioned how bad I was at handling flirts?
I sat down at one of the empty tables and opened up the plastic container. I opened up the small bottle of soy sauce inside and poured some on top of the sushi.
I was about to wipe my soy sauce stained fingers with the tissue when I caught the numbers scribbled on it.
I could feel my eyebrows furrowing at the sight. I didn't see him picking up a pen and scribble anything. He was picking out the sushi I wanted and putting them into the container the entire time.
How the hell did he manage to scribble his number on the tissue paper then? Did he keep a stash of tissue papers that has his number scribbled on them?
‘Now that's not desperate at all,' my conscience sarcastically stated and I rolled my eyes along.
I wiped my fingers on the other side of the tissue and picked up my chopsticks. I broke the chopsticks in half and started eating my sushi while considering saving the guy's number.
I mean sure, it looked pretty desperate but he might turn out to be a nice guy with charming qualities. Nice enough to give out free sushi on a date?
I almost laughed at myself. Who was I kidding. I shuddered lightly when I realized how much I sounded like a manipulative bitch. The thought of manipulative bitches reminded me of Sonia; ol' good queen bitch Sonia who loved making my high school life a living hell.
I gobbled down the sushi, lost in my thoughts as I reminisced my high school experiences. High school wasn't that bad after Adam came along. I started having fun after he popped into my life.
When I finished all my sushi, I threw away all my trash and braced myself for the ruthless current of students I'd have to fight against to get to class. Not to mention the excruciatingly painful looking stairs.
I sighed to myself.
Come on, Case. You've been through worse, this should be a cakewalk.
I mentally patted myself on the back for the pep talk and started my walk back to the building where my next class was at.
After what felt like a decade later, I was finally at the base of the stairs. I was going to be late if I didn't get on with it. So, I took one last deep breath to prepared myself and gripped on the stairs' handrail.
I pulled myself onto the first step of the stairs using the handrail and kept doing so until I was almost ten steps up the stairs.
I was about to take another step when someone tapped my shoulder. I turned around only to come face-to-face with a redheaded girl.
"Hey, are you okay?" She asked me.
I gave her a tight smile and nodded my head. The truth was that my body was straining to keep going. All of my sore limbs were flaring up in pain with every step I took.
"Let me help you, you look like you're struggling." She offered, a worried look on her face.
She had a fairly medium build and I had no doubt that she was strong enough to help me up these stairs. But still, I hesitated, doubts and fears clouding up my mind.
What if she started asking questions? I really didn't want to lie to a potential friend. Or worse, what if she was one of the bad guys?
"Come on, if we don't get moving, we're both going to be late." She smiled, offering her arm.
I finally caved in, dismissing my thoughts and letting her lift my arm to wrap it around her shoulder. Her arm wrapped itself around my waist and I bit in the hiss of pain on the tip of my tongue when she applied slight pressure on my side to hold me up.
I let her bear some of my weight as we climbed the remaining steps of the stairs.
When we finally reached the top of the stairs, we let each other go and I blew out a relieved breath. I hoped going down wouldn't be as hard as climbing up.
I only had three classes for today and I hoped that my body would feeling better the next day.
"Thank you for helping me," I said to her, making my voice as sincere and gratifying as I could. She turned to me with a smile, "No problem."
"I'm Raven," she offered her hand out and I took it. "Cassandra."
"Well, I'll see you when I see you, Cassandra." Raven said, glancing at the watch around her wrist.
"Right, better get to class. Thanks again for helping me," I told her, waving as we parted ways.
As I walked down the halls, I smiled to myself in relief when I realized I didn't have to lie to her.
The fighting will end soon and I might already have someone to befriend when it's all over.
