Julia rummaged through her satchel after class and found some crumpled up glossy pages. There were three flyers, one was for the art club. It had a background of an abstract artwork, and had plain textboxes. Julia, however, wasn’t interested so she folded it up and put it inside her bag to throw it away later. The other flyer was for the dance club, and after seeing the dancing figure on the poster, she put it away at once. The last flyer had clip art that looked like instant photos, buttons, and stickers.
“Join the scrapbooking club now!”
Cole was standing beside her in the indoor sports area, getting ready to play basketball with some unknown students. He had transformed his outfit to a t-shirt and Bermuda shorts, and was holding an orange basketball.
“Come play with us, Julia!” said Cole
Julia was still focused on the benefits and disadvantages of joining a club, and if it was suitable for people who don’t speak much. She figured that a scrapbooking club would be the only club where you weren’t expected to be outgoing.
“Julia…?”
She finally put the flyer down. Julia saw that he was dressed in a blue t-shirt which read “Be Free” and grey shorts. He was pale and his eyes were bright and lavender.
“I’m rather clumsy… I don’t know if I’m fit to play,” said Julia
She saw Aqua with a jersey and track pants. Julia remembered she was wearing a dress up to the ankles, and it wouldn’t be suitable.
“Try once and if you don’t like it, you can stop,” said Cole
“If you say so,” said Julia
She kept the flyer inside.
“Come on, my class will start soon,” said Aqua
Julia took her magic wand and said, “Creative vision, enter this world and exit my mind.”
She twirled around and she changed into a jersey and shorts with sneakers.
“Hey guys…” said Silvio
Silvio was wearing a white t shirt with track pants. He paused after he saw Julia.
“You play?” said Silvio
“Not really… Cole, meet my friend Silvio,” said Julia
“Oh. Hi there,” Said Cole
“Nice to meet you,” said Silvio
“The pleasure is all mine,” said Cole, shaking hands with Silvio
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They didn’t look happy to see each other. Both of them had cold expressions, with Cole with a smile that looked forced and angry eyes, and with Silvio staring at Cole with deep concentration and a frown.
The game began. Cole, Silvio and Julia were on one team. The other team had Aqua and two other students.
Julia failed to run fast enough to get a hold of the basketball. She kept running to and fro across the small court, unable to allow her teammates to pass the ball. Aqua was shooting hoops as often as Silvio. There were many spectators.
Cole dunked the ball into the basket for the first time. The match was over.
“We won,” said Cole
“By one point… Oh my goodness, class!” said Aqua, running off
Cole gave Silvio a hi-five.
“Good work,” said Silvio
“I should be saying that to you,” said Cole
Julia was already panting, and she sat down on the bench. She still had enough energy to notice that the two guys were walking towards her.
“Do you need water?” said Silvio
“Have some water,” said Cole, at the exact same time
The two of them went into some sort of staring match with each other while each of them were holding a water bottle.
“Uh, go ahead,” said Silvio, still looking at Cole with stern eyes
They didn’t notice that Julia had already gone to the vending machine. She touched her chin with her hand.
Julia turned to get her wallet when Cole said, “You can have water,”
“Thanks,” said Julia
She somehow managed to drink the water without touching the bottle with her mouth.
“Did you get my message last night?” said Silvio, with his deep voice
“Sorry, I forgot to check,” said Julia
Julia was about to leave for the last class of the day. However, on the way to class, Julia eavesdropped on their conversation. It was a normal conversation between two people meeting for the first time. Julia looked behind and saw that they split ways.
“Julia!” yelled Cole
“Yes?” said Julia
“Are you sure about this guy? He seems kind of fishy,” said Cole
“I knew you’d say that,” said Julia
Cole sighed and said, “I see.”
“Anyway, I should get to class.”
“Right,” said Cole
Julia had a thought that maybe it was her fault that the two of them weren’t getting along. Ever since that day when Cole said Julia reminded him of that flower, she couldn’t help but think he likes her. Maybe she was wrong. But in the hypothetical situation that Cole had a small crush on her, he was misunderstanding Silvio and thinking that Silvio also had a crush on Julia. This was a hypothetical situation however, and maybe their personalities and egos got in the way of friendship.
Anyway, the spell construction class was dismissed earlier. Thank goodness, since Julia couldn’t concentrate. She kept thinking of Cole’s frown and lowered gaze as he walked away forty five minutes ago. Julia stayed sitting on the same desk as the class ended and everyone left. She let out a breath as she got up, still staring out the window.
On the way to the dorm room, she had her flyer clutched in her hands. She walked up to the scrapbooking club booth.
She shook a little as she said, “I’d like to join the scrapbooking club.”
“Sure, fill up this form please,” said a member at the booth. “Then we’ll take your interview at the clubroom.”
During the interview, Julia was so lost in her thoughts that she answered without shaking, or becoming silent all of a sudden.
“Great, you can join us from tomorrow,” said a girl with lavender hair
She looked familiar. Julia must have met her during a class.
Right before bed, Julia checked her texts.
Cole <24 minutes ago>: How are you?
Julia: I’m fine.
Aqua: @JuliaBlossom01 Here is your part of the assignment.
Julia: Okay. I’ll get to it tonight.
Silvio: I hope we all get to know each other.
Julia: Yeah. Me too.
Cole: Good.
Julia: I’ve joined the scrapbooking club.
Cole: Great. Sadly I don’t have time for a club.
Julia somehow finished her part of the assignment, got ready and went to bed.