The day ended and Amy and I walked out of our class and went to the car lot. There was Andrew with Lily and Zinnia. Upon seeing Amy beside, Zinnia was staring at me cluelessly.

"Hey," I said as I approached them.

Zinnia was still looking at me.

"Amy's gonna come with us. To home," I said, looking at Zinnia and Lily.

"Oh, that's great. It's been some time, right?" asked Lily.

"Yeah," replied Amy, smiling.

I took a look at Zinnia through the corner of my eyes with a sly smile on my face. She was already looking at me and when our eyes met, she gave me an air kiss without anyone noticing. I chuckled, looking down at my feet, so that no one asked me why I was laughing.

"Yeah, we can have fun," Zinnia said, joining Lily and Amy's conversation.

I knew that Zinnia was doing somersaults inside. It was funny seeing Zinnia trying to act normal when she was internally screaming on top of her lungs. I looked at my side to see Andrew standing quietly.

"Hey," I said, looking at him.

Andrew was astounded by my greeting that he was gaping at me. After a few seconds of astonishment, he responded, "Hi."

I smiled at him. When I looked at my friends, the three of them were goggling at me, not much of a difference from Andrew's reaction. I smiled at them timidly.

"You guys are friends now?" Lily asked, still with that face.

"Yeah, I guess we are," I said, tucking my hands inside my hoodie pocket. "Right, Andrew?" I asked, looking at him.

"Ye- yeah. We are," he said, stuttering.

It looked like he was forced to say it by me with a gun pointed at his back.

Is this third year guy scared of me? A first year? No shit!

"Well then, that's great," Lily said, tittering.

I flashed a smile at Lily who was still trying to figure out what happened right now.

"Heya, homeboy."

I turned my head towards Andrew, hearing another voice. I saw that black hoodie guy again, standing next to Andrew with his one arm over Andrew's shoulder.

His face was now clear under the broad sunlight.

His hair was black and wavy and messy and a bit long. Messy and long hair were lowkey one of my kinks. His dark brown eyes, long nose, taut cheeks, thin lips, chiselled jaw and stubble beard were flaunting. He was a bit taller than Andrew, probably around 5'10. He had a small tattoo that had something written in some other language on his side neck. Tattoos were also in my list of kinks. He was well-built, muscular but lean.

I was well conscious about looking away quickly without him noticing me, so that I wouldn't have to witness him being a big mouth later.

"Hey, ladies," he said, grinning at us.

His cheerful face turned into a smug face the second he made eye contact with me. I narrowed my eyes and looked at Zinnia who was staring at him. She looked at me in perplexity and I returned her a shrug.

"Hey bro," Andrew said, giving him a side hug. "Everyone, this is Danish. He's new here."

We turned our heads towards Andrew when he introduced his friend.

How do they know each other?

"And Danish, this is Lily, my girlfriend."

Lily and him exchanged smiles.

"This is Zinnia and Elka, Lily's friends."

"Oh we met already," Danish said.

"Really? When?" asked Andrew, surprised.

"Morning. In fact, these guys are the first I met after coming here," said Danish, taking his hands from Andrew's shoulder.

Lily looked at me and Zinnia to which we just nodded our heads.

"That's great. So you already made friends?" Andrew asked him.

"Yeah, kinda," he said, smirking at me.

He and his fucking smirk. Did he come from his mother's womb smirking instead of crying like normal newborns?

"Wow, Elka being friends with someone this quick? Impressive!" Lily said, joshing me which earned a death glare from me.

"Yeah, she's a pretty tough one." Danish pointed at me.

"I'll take that as a compliment," I said, giving him a phony smile.

"Indeed it was," he said, winking.

I rolled my eyes again.

When I looked at Lily, she was giving me this 'I want an explanation' look with her arms crossing her chest.

"And who's this?" Danish asked, pointing at Amy.

"She's Annie," Andrew said.

"Who's Annie? It's Amy," I said but it came more as a retort.

"Oh, I'm sorry, my mistake. It's Amy," Andrew apologized looking at me and Amy.

"It's fine. Actually, we haven't met before," Amy said shyly.

"Yeah, you're right," Andrew said, giggling.

"How do you guys know each other?" asked Zinnia, pointing back and forth between Andrew and bozo.

"He's my roommate Daniel's brother. Remember that day I couldn't make it to the party as I had to do some urgent errands for Daniel?"

"Yeah, the night you ditched Lily," I said scornfully.

Lily narrowed her eyes at me.

"Yeah, that night," Andrew said nervously. "Well I had to pick Danish up from the airport. Daniel caught up with some stuff at work so he told me to go instead," said Andrew.

We all nodded our heads.

"Which course, Danish?" asked Amy.

"Physics," he replied.

Physics? He must be a genius then. Maybe the 'exceptional case'?

"Welcome to St. Peter's, Danish. Do you like it here?" asked Lily.

"Yeah, somewhat. I'm still taking a look at college so it's hard to say now," Danish said, rolling up his hoodie sleeves, showing off his veiny hands.

Oh God, my another kink!

I averted my gaze quickly again and turned to the girls.

"Ok, then. Let's go," I said, taking car keys from my pocket.

"Yeah, ok," Lily said. "Bye Danish. Will see you tomorrow," Lily said to which Danish smiled at her.

"Bye, Drew," she said, leaning to kiss him.

"Bye, baby", Andrew said.

While Andrew and Lily were having their small goodbye session, Danish moved closer to me and whispered,

"So this was the Andrew and Lily you were talking about this morning?"

I love you, baby
And if it's quite all right
I need you, baby
To warm these lonely nights
I love you, baby
Trust in me when I say

If any readers resemble Danish in any way, it's pure coincidence. ( also dm me😜😜)