"Ten more minutes…" Her hand is trembling for every second that passes.
"J-just a little bit more…" Sweat drops from her temples and a clear line as she crosses her brows. The atmosphere is so thick and there's a clear tension.
"Cana…"
"Last five minutes…" the intense gaze makes her nervous.
"W-wait!" In a blink of an eye she jumped out from her seat and raised her arms in the air.
"I'm done!"
"Finally Chelsea! I thought you'd be caught by the professor!" Meng exaggerates her tone teasing her friend.
"Oh! Now give me my notes!" Cana on the other hand grabs her notebook and immediately puts it back on her bag.
"You're a lifesaver Cana, thank you!"
"Just make sure to jot down your own notes next lecture." Cana replied.
"I just don't get it why the professor uses manual teaching when the rest are using tablets and modules already." Chelsea continues to complain as they walk along the hallway.
"It's for students like you that won't even bother to read their lecture, that's why the professor still prefers the manual method." Meng on the other hand bluntly told her off.
Their bickering was fun, not until someone screamed and caught their attention.
"Be careful!" One of the students screamed that the three turned their head to look where the voice was coming from, and not just from a distance a pot has fallen on the path that they have passed by.
"Kyaah!" Bea shrieked in surprise, it was just a meter away and the pot almost hit them.
"What the- Where did that come from?!"
Chelsea looked up and saw that it was one of the pots in the window still on the fourth floor.
"One pot is missing on the slot, must be misplaced." Meng looked carefully and waited for someone from that room to show up but no one. A few more students and some passerby came near, the other student that is from the agriculture department came running.
"Did anyone get hurt? They said one of the pot experiments felt like I came running."
"Is your department the one using that room on the fourth?" Cana asked the worried student.
"Yes, we have been using it since this morning."
"Aren't the Agri - Dept supposed to be on the ground? See how dangerous it is to place pots on high places?!" Meng reverted back.
"We're supposed to be using the room on the ground , but since it was pre-occupied by the other department we ended up transferring the experiment upstairs." The student in charge felt so apologetic that they let go of the incident and went their separate ways.
"Hey…" There was a serious tension around them as the four of them were seated at the round table in a cafe.
"I don't believe in curses or bad luck, but…" Meng with her fingers crossed before her face has a sharp look.
"Me either, I know that I am clumsy but not to the point like this." Be on the other hand has a dark circle under her eye for not sleeping well.
"Just seriously, is this the end of the world? Why on Earth are we getting a series of accidents lately?" Cana is also anxious and worried, for the past days after the pot falls, there were other incidents that came across the four of them.
The next day Cana and Chelsea were headed to buy lunch at the cafeteria, just right after buying from the cashier another student who was passing by tripped and almost soiled Chelsea's clothes, luckily she was grabbed by Cana at the hood and the boiling soup did not splatter over her.
"Hey, that was dangerous!" Cana scolded the other student who quickly apologized, but in the end the one tripped was sent to the clinic for scraping the knees. While walking on the side street a motorcycle losts its brake and passed by them by an inch, hitting the postlight that was ahead of the four of them. During the physical education class Cana, one of their teammates was also sent to the clinic after losing consciousness when the ball that's supposed to be received by Cana hits the student behind her on the face instead.
All four of them are now pondering on why such a series of events happened.
"Are any of you related to Baudelaire's that series of unfortunate events happens around us?" Meng sarcastically joked with the three of the remaining three girls.
"I am sure I am not related to them and that I am not a hidden daughter or sort." Chelsea argued back on the tease that Meng dared to throw at them. Laughing heartily, Bea joined them with another silly argument.
"You might not know it, but what if we also have shoeboxes of gold and diamonds? I wanna be rich." The rest of the girls continued with their silliness, while Cana was left unspoken and thinking of what had happened the previous days.
On the other hand, Mia just went out of the campus and met Simone who had been waiting at the entrance.
"Simone!" She gladly ran and gave him a hug which he accepted with open arms.
"It's been awhile sweetie, how have you been?" Ever since the semester started, they have been seeing each other less, with Mia studying far from the University belt where Cana and Simone's campus are located. Still once a month, they planned to see each other to hang out.
"I'm fine, how's the campus? Have you been meeting with Cana?"
"Ah, Cana is just fine, anyways i'll be jealous if you only keep on asking about her." Teasing his girlfriend she gave out a playful chuckle to Simone.
"You know she's like a sister to me, and of course she is like a sister-in-law to you son, is brother Samuel still busy at work? Does he find time to meet Cana?" She kept on throwing questions, Simone who has been acting upset slowly smiled and answered everything that Mia wants to know. He is under the impression that she has been asking him to ill the gap of missing each other, they are no longer high school students and their peers are expanding. Mia, who has been busy taking the medicine course, has a lot to catch up unlike those who can meet in a distance ride in just a few minutes.
"It'll be nice, we should have a summer vacation together, let's ask the rest to come!" Mia, who is looking forward to the coming break, suggested an outing.
"It'll be nice, we have a lot of time to be together. I'll tell brother Samuel ahead of time so he can file a vacation for a day." The conversation continued when a familiar name caught Simone's attention.
A few of the students wearing the lanyards of Caloan University were meeting with other students of Astro University.
"Is this her? What did this simple looking girl do to piss you guys?" The one from Astro spoke to the other.
"It was just a request, the girls gave quite a sum just to scare this girl."
"Simone what is it?" Mia who noticed looked at them, then he signaled her to keep quiet and now they are both eavesdropping at the conversation.
"Cannary Lienne? Her name is pretty, she's just unlucky to receive hate from the girl boss huh?"