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Chapter 15

Daniel's P.O.V

If I thought getting an approval from my mother to pursue my interest over Angelo was the best thing that might happened on Wednesday, I was wrong. What happened next brought me to Utopia.

A tiny body suddenly slammed on me after I heard a sneeze from the opening elevator door. Then it hit me,it was the person with the familiar sweet rosy scent that I was yearning to smell all day, the comfortable sensation o=in my chest, the twitching of my gut as if thousands of butterflies were flying inside it, the boy I dream to be with.

I couldn't help but to encase my arms over his body, feeling his heat to ease the coldness of the winter. It was as if my body moved by its own accord and decided to wrap that body in front of me to share the unspoken passion of emotional feeling between us.

Right from there, I decided to tell my intention and I wasn't going to change my mind. Right that very moment, I decided to take the risk as long as there will be 'us' against the world.

I asked him to seat with me at the lounge room. My heart was pounding hard in my chest like as if anytime, I'm gonna have a heart attack. My fingers started to fidget each other like I always do whenever I'm nervous.

"So what is it that you want to tell me?" he asked, his eyes were full of confusion, probably from the way I act all of a sudden.

"I...uh....I....uh...." I stuttered. Trying to form the right word to say what I want.

I was about to continue with my proclamation when I was cut off by an unexpected character in our supposed 'love story'.

"ANGELO!!!!!!" came the screeching sound of a woman from the corridor running towards our direction. It was a high pitched sound like a tire gliding on a wet road; the only difference was that it only says 'Angelo' instead of 'SCREECH!

Angelo and I snapped our heads towards the voice's direction. I was star struck when I saw who the woman was- she was running towards us wearing high heels, tight skinny jeans that reveal her nice shape butt, and a formal office suit for her top. Her blonde hair was wavy and follows her every movement.

There she was, coming towards us; the woman that every man and woman idolised. The wonderful Veronica Buenaventura- one of the most popular model in Australia.

But what was she doing in the University? And why does he know Angelo? Does Angelo knows her- I mean personally? As if to answer my confusion, Angelo quickly rose up from his seat.

"Veronica?" he asked, surprised as I was. "What are you doing here?" His expression was clueless.

I look at Angelo and back to Veronica. "Hold on, you two know each other?"

Veronica smirked and was about to answer but she was cut off by Angelo. "Yes. It's a long story. But I know her." He said in a calm tone, his lips a bit quivered in to a smile. "What brought you here?"

"Oh...about that...." She walked beside Angelo and leaned closer to his ear. At first, I thought she was about to kiss him, and to be honest, I felt a little bit of jealousy brewing inside me. A growl escaped from my chest, so soft I thought I was the only one who heard it. But then I was wrong. She threw me an interesting glare before whispering something to Angelo that made the boy massage his temple and heaved a big sigh.

Angelo sniffed. After a second, he sneezed three times in a row.

"Dust mites?" Veronica asked. I thought she was talking to me and she was offering me a dust. Then I realise that she said "dust mites" as in mites in dust- not "dust, mate?"

"I need to go to toilet." Angelo trotted his way to toilet, leaving me with the glittering star model.

Veronica turned to me with a playful and flirty smirk, just right after Angelo disappeared in our sight. "And you are?" she asked, sounding intrigue while leaning closer to my face.

I dared not to make a move. "I..uh..I..." I stuttered.

"Geez....calm down." She whined. "I don't bite, unless you want me too." She added, tracing my arms with her fingers.

If I wasn't feeling something for Angelo, I'll jump her right there and then. Fortunately, my feelings for Angelo were more powerful to eliminate the lust that Veronica was radiating.

I straightened myself and backed up a little bit. "The name is Daniel Bradley." I held out my hand and she gently shook it with her soft one.

"Interesting..." she mused.

"What is?" I asked confused.

"You." she said matter of fact. "You didn't show any interest in me like every other guys would." She studied me from head to toe and it sure gave me goose bumps in the process. "You don't find me attractive?" she whined feigning hurt.

"No..No..No..." I responded, waving my hands in front of her. "You're gorgeous and you look like a goddess...it's just...it's just..." I tried to think something to reason out but she cut me off.

"Either you have a girlfriend or you have your eyes on someone else." she offered.

"I say the latter." I answered, looking around but her.

The hall was starting to get crowded with students; some of them were rushing with their phones drawn. Boys were fixing their clothes and girls were setting up their camera; they were walking towards us.

I nearly forgot that Veronica was a popular personality and its obvious that she was pretty well known by aussies because they started taking photos of her and asking her if they can have a selfie with her.

When I thought that she had forgotten about me-which I really hoped so, she turned to me, ignoring her fans calling out to her.

"Well Daniel, I'm guessing that I know this person that caught your eyes." She said, stressing the word person as if she said in purpose to avoid gender orientation. "Anyways, you're not the reason I came here."

Alex was pushing through the crowd of student while saying 'excuse me', 'coming through', and 'I'm sorry' towards my direction. After some pushing and probably spilling coffees to someone's clothes, he ended up in my side.

He gasped. He opened his mouth and looked at me, as if he was about to say anything. Then he closed his mouth and looked at Veronica, and then he opened his mouth again and looked back at me. I actually had to slap him softly on his face to bring him back to reality.

When he came to his senses, he suddenly blurted out "Holy cow... you're...you're...." he seemed so hopeless to finish his sentence so I jumped in.

"Veronica. And yes, she's real. Nope, I didn't know her in person. And he is Angelo's friend." I offered, answering his possible question that sure running through his mind.

"I'm...I'm Alex." He offered his hands to Veronica to shake it. I threw Veronica a knowing look that he is my friend and so she gladly shook my best friend's hand.

Angelo was taking too long in the toilet and I wanted to follow him and check if he was okay.

"Anyways people, I'm looking for a guy name Derek Munn." Veronica addressed her crowd. Everyone looked around and to each other. Probably thinking why this goddess here was looking a man-whore scumbag dirty genitals Derek.

"That would be me, gorgeous." Derek emerged from the group of guys on the left side. His hands were on his jeans pocket and he wears a black leather jacket matching his black skinny jeans.

Veronica walked towards him and she leaned closer to Derek, so close I thought Derek was about to have an orgasm right there on the spot.

Alex was annoyingly tugging my shirt on the side and mumbling word that I couldn't make out; as if my best friend had either gone crazy or suffered some brain short circuit. Either way, he's ruining my clothes and I'm getting annoyed.

I was about to snapped at Alex when I heard a loud THUMP!  on my side and people gasping in surprised.

The next thing I saw was Veronica picking up a Derek with a bloody nose. "Try to touch and hurt Angelo again or even come near him, I swear I'll cut your balls off and feed it to you!" Veronica roared.

I couldn't help myself but to wince at the idea of getting your balls cut off.

Derek pick himself up and mumbled some incoherent words and fled from the scene using the lift.

"If anyone tried to hurt Angelo Grande, you will have to face my wrath!" she said to the crowd. Instead of getting scared, the crowd seemed to love Veronica even more from her sudden scenario. "Crazy people with crazy philosophy in idolising someone" I huffed, more likely to myself.

"If I see or heard that anyone, I mean anyone- no exceptions!" she boomed and threw me a knowing glare. "Trying or even dared to try hurt Angelo, I'll make your life miserable." After that, she spun towards the corridor from where she came.

From that moment on, I made a mental note not to mess with Veronica Buenaventura.

The crowd followed her, forgetting that we have class for the morning. Just as when people from our class were about to followed Veronica down from the building, Miss Turner came in from the elevator. She was wearing her massive eyeglasses and her hair was tied up in a tight bun-her usual style. She called out our class and threatened them to fail them if they wouldn't get back. I didn't know that she's allowed to do it but students followed her reluctantly.

Miss Turner was the definition of nightmare of university student, and I don't want to discuss her life or else I might have some nightmares at night. Let's just say that she has history in university and it doesn't sound so appealing to a uni student at all.

Angelo came out of the toilet while wiping his red nose. He looked around the hall in a confused manner. He then marched on my side.

"What happened here?" he asked.

"You better asked your friend Veronica" I grinned.

He quirked his eyebrow and looked at me. "What did she do and where is she?"

I was about to give him answers when his phone rang on his bag. He scrambled through his stuff trying to fished out his phone. I offered him help by holding up his bag while he looks for his phone.

Alex was grinning like maniac at my side while looking at both of us. I glared at him and mouthed the word 'what'. He leaned closer to my ear and whispered, 'You two sure looks like a couple'. My faced turned hot and I almost held off  Angelo's bag.

Angelo looked at me confused but he lifted his hand holding his phone. He read the message and sighed.

"Is everything alright?" I asked, sounding concerned.

"Yeah. It's just Veronica. She said she wanna catch up on me later." He answered.

Relieved from knowing that he's alright, I patted his head softly. I didn't know that I was doing it until Alex made a fake cough.

"Uhm.. That's cool. I mean, you can invite her to come with us to the bar too." I said, sounding flustered.

"Huh?" he asked.

"Remember Dianne?" He nodded. "Yeah, she keeps on pestering us on meeting you soon." I explained.

"Oh yeah, Ma'am Dianne." It was my turn to nod. "I couldn't make it today as I'm catching up with Veronica, but tomorrow night I am free." He said.

"Great. So I'll tell Dianne about tomorrow then." Alex jumped in. Angelo smile and nodded.

"Is that what you want to tell me earlier?" Angelo asked.

I was caught off guard by his sudden question because I totally forgotten about my plan of telling him about my feeling.

"I..uhhh..." came back my stuttering. He looked at me deeply in my eyes. "Yes. That's it." I lied.

He nodded and started to walked to our class, Alex and I trailing behind him.

I wanted to tell him that I like him so bad but I couldn't seem to form a perfect sentence for him. Granted that Veronica seems so protective over Angelo and seemed to know about what I'm feeling towards the guy, it definitely wasn't easy to make a move on Angelo.

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