Chapitre 5

It was noisy when I came inside. There are no professors present and it was the large hall designated for the last class. He must’ve been a very busy person to host a lot of students in just one class. I spotted James and Ciara waving at me, three rows near the front. I frowned a bit before going down to meet them. “Why the seat near the front?” I asked as soon as I reached them and placed my bag down.

“We just want to take a clear look at the new professor, I heard that he is young, probably the same age as Mr. Lee, and a foreign” Ciara replied. “And where did you hear that?” I raised a brow at her before shifting my eyes to the silent James. He looks back at me with his arms up. “I only overheard from the other students he holds. Apparently, he has other classes with other majors, so I had a brief intro of him” he spouted, and I nodded slowly.

I let out a small laugh, “so, what is he like?” I questioned, curious about the new professor. “Told me he’s the same age as Mr. Lee, tall, and not foreign, not sure why they say that but ‘he’s not foreign” he emphasized at Ciara who rolls her eyes at him, making me laugh at them. “Fine, let’s just see for ourselves” I chuckled at them before facing the front.

A few more minutes, or an hour, the professor came in. Strutting inside with papers in his hand, neatly worn dress pants, and a button-up shirt. The common attire you see in a professor. “I am late, I know, so next time be 10 minutes late for this class,” he says before looking around, his eyes landing on me for a brief moment but reverting it to others with a smile on his face.

“Well, we don’t really have to do anything today since it’s our first meeting, I would just be introducing myself to you, a brief background, and hand these papers to you, and you can be dismissed with no complaints coming out of your mouths,” he tells us before turning to the table, placing the papers down.

“My name is Julius Brian Maxxe, double x, with an e, 25 years old, yes, pretty young to be a professor, but who cares,” “Graduated in another country, explains my name, obviously, and your history professor from now on” he spouted, breathing at the end of his words.

“There’s not else to say, really, so, everyone, one-by-one come forward to take your papers before leaving, thank you” he smiled and each of the students went down to take their papers. The three of us, Ciara, James, and I, went down when there aren’t many students around. The two went before me, taking their own papers before I got mine.

“So, Ms. Jamie Lia Choi, right?” I hear Mr. Maxxe talk as soon as it was my turn. I look up at him, “Yes, Sir, that’s right” I gave him a tight smile before reaching to get a copy of the paper. Before I can lift to take it, he presses a post-it sticky note and smiled at me. I looked at him with confusion before bowing my head to acknowledge him at least. ‘The fuck is with that creepy professor’. I look down at my paper to see that it was his number written on the note. I rolled my eyes and shoved the papers into the bag as soon as I got out of the hall.

I caught up with Ciara and James who are walking ahead of me, bickering whether where we should get some snacks or even dinner. I listened to them and my eyes shifted to see Mr. Lee coming out of his classroom. The three of us were startled by his sudden appearance, and his eyes stopping to look at me for a slight second. We all bowed our heads slightly, and him copying the same and went on our way, with him tailing behind us.

The other two don’t seem to care, and I should as well if he’s not bombing my phone with messages. I sigh before walking in between Ciara and James, “We can just go to the usual place we go, that has both, you bicker too much, might as well get married” I smirked at them, walking ahead. Their mouths run with trails of curses and complaints while I laugh at them and roll my eyes.