Chapter 22: Chapter 22
Calista was sitting in the class and Ezlyn was sitting next to her and was playing with her mobile phone. A little while ago, the professor left with the class after finishing the lesson. So some students were sitting in the class, and some had gone out after finishing the class. Calista had been sitting solving math for a long time. But she couldn't understand anything.
After a while she asked Ezlyn, "Hey Ezlyn, have you understood this math? If you understand, please explain it to me."
Ezlyn said with a foolish smile on her lips, "Calista, you have not found another person in the world? You have no idea about my talent? Where you do not understand, there is no chance for me to understand. And you know how bad I am at math."
Calista said with a sigh, "Hmm, what to do now? You know I don't have money or time for separate coaching. Somehow I am continuing my studies with the money given by my uncle. Separate coaching costs a lot of money. And the most important thing is that my stepmom will never let me leave home and go for coaching. If there was any problem in school and college, my uncle would show it to me. Now he is not there either. But now I don't understand this new math at all. What can I do now, Ezlyn? Give me a solution."
Ezlyn thought for a while and said, "Hey, don't worry. Let's see if there is a way out."
Ezlyn looked at the front seat and saw a boy.
Ezlyn uttered to Calista with a mysterious smile, "Look at the front, Calista."
Calista looked forward and then looked at Ezlyn.
Ezlyn continued, "You can see that boy, right?"
Calista looked at the boy once and then looked at Ezlyn and said in a tone of annoyance, "I am in my tension and you are watching the boy?"
Ezlyn rolled her eyes and uttered, "Hey, listen to the whole story. I heard that the boy is a very brilliant student. He topped the college. He is especially good at math."
Calista said with furrowed brows, "So?"
Ezlyn explained, "So if we go to that boy and ask for some help he will definitely agree."
Calista exclaimed, "What are you saying, Ezlyn! What does it look like to ask for help from a boy I don't know? And you know that I feel uncomfortable talking to a stranger like this."
"Hey, why are you tensing? I am here, I will tell you what to say to him. And we are classmates. It is natural that classmates will help each other. What's so embarrassing about it? We should go."
Ezlyn took Calista's hand and pulled her. Ezlyn and Calista came and stood in front of the boy. Suddenly, seeing the two of them in front of him, the boy was shocked.
He asked, looking at them, "Yes? Any problem? Do you want to say something?"
Calista felt very uncomfortable. She was standing with her head down.
Ezlyn uttered to the boy with a little smile, "Hello buddy, I am Ezlyn and she is Calista."
The boy replied, "Oh, I'm Kevin. Nice to meet you both."
Ezlyn pointed to Calista in a modest tone and said to the boy, "Actually, she needed a little help. If you don't mind, can you please explain this math to her?"
Kevin looked at Calista once.
Then he said with a polite smile, "Ya sure, why not? We are classmates. We can help each other. Show me what you don't understand. I'll try my best to explain it to you."
Ezlyn happily said to Calista, "See, what I told ya? He will surely help us. Now show him the math."
Calista nodded and agreed. Then she opened the book and showed the math to Kevin.
Kevin saw the problem and said, "Well, it's a long process. It will take some time. The professor can come to the class at any time. So if you want we can go to the library. No one will disturb us there. I can explain it to you well there. And you can also take notes if you want. What do you say?"
Ezlyn said immediately, "Yeah yeah ok. That would be good. What do you say, Calista?"
Calista didn't know what to do. She was feeling very uncomfortable. But there was nothing to do. If she has to understand the math, she has to take his help. So she agreed. Then the three of them went out to the library. As soon as they came out of the class, Ezlyn received a message from Harold on her phone. Ezlyn smiled and took Calista to one side.
She said to Calista, "Calista, listen, you go with Kevin. I'll come later."
Calista giggled, "Where are you going now? And how can I go alone with him?"
Ezlyn responded, "Actually, Harold called me to meet with him. You go, I'll be back soon, okay. And don't panic."
Ezlyn went to Kevin again and said, "Kevin, I have some work, I'll be back a little later. You can go to the library with Calista, okay?"
Kevin answered with a polite smile, "Yeah, it's totally fine. You go get to work."
Ezlyn left from there. Calista reluctantly went with Kevin. Kevin is very cheerful and sociable. As they were walking, Kevin talked to Calista and laughed. Calista was upset but still she was smiling. If she's not responding to Kevin, that would seem rude..
Rhino was standing on one side of the field talking to Harold and Edith. Rhino naturally turned his head forward as he spoke but he paused for a moment and looked at the stairs again. Rhino furrowed his brows and saw that Calista was walking with a boy.
How the boy is repeatedly looking at Calista and smiling and talking. And Calista was also responding. Seeing that, Rhino's mood changed. He got angry. His jaw tightened.
Seeing this expression of Rhino, Harold and Edith were surprised.
"What happened to him suddenly?" They thought.
Both of them looked at Rhino's eyes's direction and understood the reason for his anger. Both Harold and Edith were smiling. Rhino gritted his teeth.
Rhino said, still looking at Calista and Kevin, "You guys stay here, I'll be right back."
Saying this, Rhino quickly went after Calista.
Harold said to Edith, "That poor boy! Who knows what Rhino will do with him! And that our boy Rhino! He still couldn't figure out his feelings yet."
Saying that, Harold clapped one hand to Edith's hand, both of them started laughing.
Calista and Kevin entered the library and saw an empty table and proceeded to sit down. Kevin pulled a chair and asked Calista to sit. As Calista went forward to sit, suddenly Calista's shoe got stuck on the carpet on the floor and started to fall. Calista closed her eyes in fear. As Calista was falling, Kevin held Calista on her waist to stop her from falling. Kevin's one hand was on her waist and the other one was on her back. Their faces were also close to each other.
Just at that moment Rhino comes.
Seeing Calista and Kevin in that state, Rhino's blood swelled all over his body. He reached the seventh limit of anger. His eyes were red in color. The hands were tightly clenched into fists.
He gritted his teeth and said in a thunderous voice, "What is going on here?"
At Rhino's words, Calista suddenly opened her eyes and looked forward to seeing Kevin holding her. Calista flinched away from Kevin. Then, looking at Rhino, Calists rose up. Seeing Rhino's terrible bloodshot eyes, Calista's heart was torn. She couldn't think of the reason for Rhino's sudden anger. Seeing Rhino's anger, everyone who was in the library slowly left. Poor Kevin was also scared. He knew Rhino and had heard about his anger. Rhino stood closer to them.
Once he looked at Calista with a sharp eye and then looked at Kevin and said, "Can someone say what's going on here?"
Kevin said with some trepidation, "There's nothing wrong here. We're just studying and….. "
And Kevin couldn't finish it. Before that, Rhino raised his hand and stopped him.
Then he said to Kevin in a serious voice, "You get out of here now. I'll talk to you later."
Kevin nodded in agreement.
Then he told Calista, "Let's go Calista."