Convincing her (Jen and Lucas)

Chapter 52: Back to campus

Jen met up with Leanna and Nancy at the cafeteria and the three girls started catching up with each other.

"Girl, you were all over the news this weekend," Nancy said unable to refrain herself from commenting. Jen decided on not saying anything about her comment.

"So are you guys dating now?" Leanna asked bluntly making Jen feel slightly embarrassed by her suddenness.

"Yeah" Jen answered in a small voice.

"Really? You guys are dating?" Nancy asked a bit too loudly drawing the attention of the people in the cafeteria before the two girls shushed her.

"Sorry, I got too excited" Nancy apologized sheepishly.

"It's okay," Jen said before drinking her juice.

"I thought he was too young for you. What happened?" Leanna asked clearly goading her.

"He obviously succeeded in making her realise how wrong she was," Nancy said suggestively.

"So that's probably why she couldn't come to school yesterday" Leanna mumbled but Jen had obviously heard her. She couldn't help but sigh at this huge misunderstanding that the two girls had managed to concoct all by themselves.

"That's not it," Jen said trying to defend herself. However, her attempt at explaining herself was immediately rebuffed.

"Can you really say that nothing happened over the weekend?" Nancy said continuing with her teasing.

When Jen heard this, her brain automatically brought forward the images of her and Lucas at the garden at the hotel before she had accepted their relationship and she also remembered the scenes of what they did to each other on Sunday night and she couldn't stop her blushing.

When Nancy saw this, a triumphant laugh escaped her lips while Leanna looked at her with eyes filled with amusement.

"How was it? Was it that good?" Nancy asked trying to fish for details.

However, Jen was not about to sit down and give them the details of what happened. She wouldn't do it even if she was held at gunpoint, so she decided not to acknowledge Nancy's question.

"Stop embarrassing her," Leanna said lightly and looked at Nancy who had suddenly become so obedient. When Jen saw their interaction she couldn't help but shake her head in amusement.

"By the way, do you have time later today? We wanted to go out for dinner" Nancy said sweetly. If Jen hadn't seen it herself she wouldn't have believed that Nancy was the one that was making fun of her relentlessly.

"I have been slacking off with my studying so I had planned to study in the library until later. I don't think I'll make it today" Jen was regretful but she had really slacked off in her studying from the previous week.

"Then what about on Thursday? Or Friday maybe?" Nancy asked

"Let's do Thursday, it'll be better that way" Jen replied, keeping in mind that she didn't have to come for classes on Friday and she wanted to keep it open in case she had other plans with Lucas over the weekend.

"We'll meet on Thursday then" Leanna concluded making their plans final.

"Sure," Jen said with a smile.

"Then we'll be going to class," Nancy said reminding Leanna that they had an afternoon lecture. The three of them left the cafeteria but split up when they were outside with two of the girls going to the lecture hall and Jen heading for the library.

***

Michael had met with Jared after their lecture and told him about his failed attempt at talking with Jen. Jared laughed at him for a while before calming down.

"So what do you want to do?" Jared asked.

"I'm not sure myself," Michael said while brushing his slightly overgrown black hair away from his face.

His action exposed his handsome forehead leaving some of the people who were close to them in a daze. Jared was already used to his friend so he didn't show any outward reaction, but he couldn't help but lament on how his good looks were completely wasted on him.

"You know it really isn't your business, and you have tried to warn her already so I don't see the point in you continuing to stress over this whole situation," Jared said.

"She is someone's daughter, or sister and girlfriend. As a guy who has sisters, I would rather someone let them know if they are being stalked by a strange person rather than watch as their situation continued to decline" Michael replied as if it was common sense.

Jared couldn't help but feel slightly guilty when he heard his friend's words. He could honestly admit to himself that he probably would not have bothered with her at all after trying to inform her the first time. He looked at his friend with a hint of admiration in his gaze.

"Can you get me her boyfriend's contacts?" Michael asked Jared. It should be known that he was not asking blindly because Jared could be described as a social butterfly and he made a lot of friends and acquaintances.

"I can't say, but I'll try. I'll probably wind up with an email or something since most of his friends had finished last semester and we just started studying here recently." Jared mumbled to himself.

"It doesn't matter, I'm not going to bother her anymore or she might think I'm the one stalking her," Michael said. He had managed to surprise Jared with his statement.

"Have you been studying behavioural books recently?" Jared asked.

"I've read them in passing, why?" Michael asked as he lifted an eyebrow, which made him look all the more handsome.

"Never mind, I'll try asking around and I'll let you know if I make any progress" Jared said.

His friend was so predictable, it was enough that he had empathy, his real trouble was in the whole socializing aspect of things. He has often been misunderstood and Jared always thought it was unfair since he was such a good guy.

"Mmmh" Michael replied.

"You'll have to treat me to a meal for this" Jared said as he gathered himself to leave.

"No problem," Michael said with a lopsided smile. Jared couldn't help but think how his looks were completely wasted on him before leaving.