*Edited*

I woke up a little since today is the first day college restarts. I showered quickly and did my business.I really had a bad start. Met three idiots, an arrogant fellow and two perverts. I don't want to face them ever again in my life. Ever. I hope this year of college won't be anything like that. Go to college, do my work, a part time job, go to home, eat and sleep. I prefer being alone, not many friends. Don't get me wrong, I do have friends but not so close. I have a best friend from school and another from high school. I am still in touch with. I just didn't click with anyone in the college. Let us hope that I might find one this year, the last year of my college life. Guys, no guys. I am not interested in such matters nor do I believe in such things. Oh there are two guys who are talking to me recently! So I really want today to be good hence I searched through the closet and wore my favourite light pink and white top with a blue ripped three fourth jeans. I don't if it is just me but when I want the start the day good I wear comfortable and favorite dress so that I can start the day with high spirits.

//Astrea's outfit//

I reached the corridor of my college and as usual it is full of life. So many groups, so many friends, I guess it is even more livelier today because they are meeting after a break. Any ways not much time left I have reach my classroom. I just have five minutes left, oh god! Hectic days start.

"Hi Destiny! Had a nice vacation." Said Aram. "I have the same class." He sat beside me.

"Hi Destiny!" Robert came and sat on the other side sandwiching me between them.

I have to introduce them right? They are the two guys talking to me I mentioned just before. Aram is popular in the college I guess. He has many admirers. He looks good and has a great body. Oh no as I said earlier I am not interested and I don't believe in love. I don't know much about him but I do know that he is a good guy. He talks to me sometimes and I do reply. May be he is relieved that I am not one of his fan girls. Oh yeah, he studies well and is rich too. I don't know much details but I heard he is about to be the CEO of some company. Don't ask me the details.

Robert, in short I have to say he is a nerdy guy, not in an offensive way. I don't know why people think being called a nerd is an insult but I think nerd is a compliment. Sue me if I am wrong but that's my opinion. He has perfect grades, looks nerdy with spectacles and baggy dressing style and he is a good guy too and I don't think he is rich like Aram or else he would have fan following like him. Both of them are good friends and they are good to me. Okay class starts now.

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Lunch break finally. They are killing us right from the start but I do like to study so it shouldn't be much of a problem. Let us hope that I would have enough time with my part time job and all.

"Destiny!" Aram waved and called me to his table so I took my plate and went there.

"So Destiny!" started Robert "I made some inventions this summer and one of it is a lie detecting machine."

"Is it?"

"Yes. I just completed it yesterday and I believe it is working."

"That's great" I smiled. I told you so. He invents things. Some common, some uncommon, whatever peaks his interests.

"I need your help to test it."

"But you said it is working."

"Yes it is." Aram interrupted. "I suggested we test it on you to make his invention popular in college. We both know that his inventions work and are great but not others, they just think he is a nerd, so I thought if we make it popular in college it would be great."

"I appreciate your idea but remember I am not popular. Just some girl in this college who looks after her own work. If we get to the point of popular I think you should do it. I heard you have so many fans."

"I would be the one to ask you questions so it would be popular in the end."

"Why not use it on you? Are you trying to make me laboratory rat?"

"No, no, That's not our intention. If I use that on me I will be asked so many questions and some which I may not want to answer. You are the silent one and a good girl. You are innocent just like your name. It might not be a problem if it is you. They might not ask you much questions."

"But Aram she is also known among our peers..." Aram interrupted Robert by stamping his foot.

"Please Destiny for me! Please!"

"What if there is something which I don't want to answer?"

"Don't worry there won't be such situation. Come on Robert, quick."

Before I can protest much Aram whistled attracting the attention of the people in the corridor. Along with that a guy came pushing some...wirey equipment. Robert came and kept a helmet on my head.

"Helmet?"

"Yes, I made it from available things and it runs on battery." He started typing and doing something on that wiry thing.

"It's ready now!" Robert said.

"Okay Destiny we shall now test this lie detector." Aram started a little loudly to attract attention as if I am not being watched. The whole cafeteria which would be so noisy is now having silence more than a library. Reason number one would be the wiry machines being put one me and the other reason would be Aram himself who is popular. Did I mention that I some girls looked at me dirtily when they saw Aram talking to me as if I did a murder? Anyway I don't care about such things. Or may be I do care a little. Let us hope that this little scene would go on smoothly and my regular life continues.

"What's going on with this wiry thing dude!" Some one, I guess Aram's friend came near him and asked him keeping one hand on his shoulder. I now have a small crowd in front of me and other people are watching from their tables. I think only popcorn is missing for this show.

"Hey guys! Nothing, just Robert made this lie detector machine from normal daily use things and we are just testing it for fun."

I raised an eyebrow at this. "For fun" my foot. I am dragged into this.

"Wow! That would be fun."

Hey! How could that be fun! Sit in this seat and tell that.

"Okay Destiny, to test this we will ask some questions and you would have to answer it honestly, Okay. If you lie this machine will shout." Robert explained.

"Shout?" I asked.

"You will see for yourself." Came the reply. "Let us start with easy questions. Your name?"

"Destiny."

"Gender?"

I felt a little naughty so I replied "male".

'Wrong wrong wrong'

singsonged the machine. I smiled at this. "Guess it's working" I said.

"So how are you feeling now to sit in that seat?" Aram asked.

"Okay"

'Wrong wrong wrong'

I winced at this. I have to tell the truth. "As if I a lamb about to be murdered and you people are the viewers." People laughed loudly at this.

"Is that so?" Aram asked again. The guts of him!

"Try to sit here and then tell that while every one is watching you with great interest as if you are newly released horror movie." I pouted folding my hands.

"Wow! So cute!" Aram pinched my cheeks as if I am five years old. I swatted his hands away.

"Do you like Aram ?" Came a question from somewhere echoing through the room. I looked in the direction of the sound and found Olivia. She looks at me with so much hatred every time just like now. I think this started after Aram started talking to me. I do admit many looked at me like that when they saw Aram talking to me but none like her and not as frequently as her. I looked back at Robert, Aram and others before me in confusion. Am I supposed to answer this question? If before I said it is like library now it is as if there is a wicked librarian in front of each and every student. More silence. I hate this. I hate being the center of attention. Even more so if it is for wrong reasons.

"Why are you not answering?" Olivia asked again.

"Should I? I do like him. He is a good guy." I smiled at him. He is really a good guy. He is sweet and never misbehaves with me. "Always pleasant to be around." I added.

"Har har har." She laughed sarcastically. "Nice try to escape. Tell me that you never thought of sleeping with him."

"No." I said immediately. How can she think of me like that? Wait a second am I behaving like that?

"You never thought of being his girl friend."

"No. Did I behave like that?" I looked at Aram in confusion and horror. "I am really sorry if I appeared or behaved like that. I really don't have any bad intentions. Where did I go wrong?"

"Cool Destiny. Nothing happened like that. You are good with me, never misbehaved. Okay, fine, though I would have enjoyed if you liked me like that. That is a real blow to my ego." He pouted. When did he start pouting like that.

"Is that a joke I am supposed to laugh at?" I questioned in confusion and people laughed.

"But you didn't seriously like him like that? I mean he is the to be C.E.O, good looks, great mind and body, what more does a girl need? You will have your credit card full." Robert's friend I mentioned earlier asked me. I seriously need to know the names of people rather than mentioning this guy and that guy. I have a serious problem to remember names and people.

"I think you answered your very own question. Full credit card balance is not the criteria."

"Then what do you want? What is your dream boy like?"

"I really want to say none of your business."

"Aww. Come on please."

"I too don't know. I just don't believe in love in real life. It is just something that exists in stories and movies for me. But in dreams or stories, my ideal boy friend would be someone with a good heart, I would prefer a handsome guy but sometimes I think it's okay even if he is not, a good character can dominate this, a rich guy would be welcome but I don't mind even if he is not if he is great person. But I am not a noble person so I don't think I can love a cook or someone like that, he should earn more than me but again sometimes I feel it is okay if his heart has more riches, we can be happy with what we have. See no clarity, just confusion."

"Aram is a good guy." Aram justified himself.

"Of course you are. Just when it comes top real life I don't know what's true and what's not true. Love is a complicated concept, don't you think so?"

"Yes." Everyone replied. 

"Don't worry you will love one day" Robert added as if he knows what I am feeling.

"Don't scare me like that. Love is scary too. If I love someone and I won't know whether he loves me back or not. It would be scary to admit. If he loves me and none of us know that we would have to suffer for a time. If all ends good then it might be okay. But what if I am the only one who loves? It is really a scary subject!"

"Don't be like that Destiny. May be the one for you is already around you. You are just scared to know him. Or he might come before you in the future. Don't be scared. Love is a beautiful too."

Before I could say any thing Olivia interrupted. For some reason I think she hates me.

"Don't act Destiny. I know you don't like Aram because you have your eyes on one of the two populars."

I raised an eyebrow at this.

"That could be right? So do you like Kidou?" Aram's friend asked me.

"Kidou? I like kids." Everyone gasped at this.

"No, no not kids, I am saying about Kidou, one of the two most popular guys in the college. I think he can be ranked no. two. He is rich, good looking, good grades and sports."

"I think I heard about him." I said deeply thinking. I remember girls talking about two guys in a some leisure period or is it lunch period. "Those two, I mean those two popular guys are best friends right?" I exclaimed remembering a little from the conversation. I exclaimed happily that I remembered but the looks on everyone's face made me doubt myself. Are they enemies?

"You don't know them?"

"No." I said slowly and carefully. They are looking at me as if they are ready to eat me if I said no. Everyone gasped again. Aram's friend opened his phone and did something, then he gave me the phone with a guy's picture who is none other than yesterday's pervert.

"Please don't tell me he is Kidou."

"He is." I closed my eyes at this. Great start. Let us hope he doesn't remember me.

"I think you want to tell something by the expression on your face." Olivia smiled with a victorious grin on her face. He is Mr.Popular 2 of the school, if I really say out what I am thinking then I might face the wrath of his fans. Surely people won't react that bad as shown in movies and stories right? No big fan following.

"Sorry Destiny there is a big queue for him. Don't even try for him." Some random girl in the crowd warned me.

"Come on, tell me what you think." Olivia said with the same victorious grin.

"Nothing."

'Wrong wrong wrong.'

Correct timing machine. Every one is looking at me expectantly.

"Pervert." I blurted under their heated gaze and cue the gasps. I am dead. "Don't ask details, he misbehaved yesterday, not too much but I was not in a good mood, I know we shouldn't decide a person's character in the first meet but sorry I felt so."

"Then this guy." Aram 'sfriend showed me another guy. I closed my eyes and took the phone praying that he shouldn't be pervert no.1 from the plane. Considering my bad luck as far as I am seeing he might just be. I opened one eye lightly to look at the photo and immediately my eyes and mouth opened wide in shock.

"Don't tell me that he studies here." And cue the gasps. Yeah, yeah be shocked with everything I say but no matter what I am the one who is receiving the biggest shock of century.

"You don't know him." I nodded my head. "He is Mr.Popular No.1. Girls not just from this college but all over the continent, may be all over the world aim for him. He is super good looking like a runway model, richest person, wiser than any one in the century, already working in his company, they call him the unofficial C.E.O and the talk is that when he takes over the company company completely it would be no.1 in the world, skilled in everything, cooking, sports whatever it might be you name it, he is no.1 You don't know him?"

"No."

'Wrong wrong wrong"

"Okay, I don't know him until yesterday."

"I bumped into him." I left the remaining part tactically.

"You don't who he is then?"

"No."

"So, now that you know him what do you think?"

"Good guy." I smiled falsely. But this stupid machine beeped its usual song. I will kill William for making this stupid machine.

"Arrogant. I know I can be wrong but as of now this is my opinion."

"Why do you think so?" Robert asked. He is so dead when I find him next.

"I don't think it is necessary for you to know but you must it was just an accident and he blame me that I did it on purpose claiming girls fall at his feet.."

'Wrong wrong wrong'

"Hey, stupid machine, I said it symbolically, I don't remember his exact words, okay something along those lines. All I can remember is he was so arrogant with me."

Yes, the person to whom I accidentally gave my first kiss, no that doesn't count as kiss idiot, okay turns out Mr.Arrogant is Mr.Popular no.1. My fate is so great today. It can't get any more worse.

"You are lying." Olivia said in disbelief.

"Oh yeah, I don't have a lie detecting machine on my head."

'Wrong wrong wrong'

Yeah, yeah sing your favorite song. I immediately took off the head device before these people can ask me more questions and get the complete details out of me regarding my encounter with Mr.Arrogant and Mr.Pervert. I stood up and turned back to go not wanting to deal with Robert and Aram now and guess my luck. I thought it couldn't be worse but it just did. Just as I turned bacl to escape this crowd there was Mr.Arrogant glaring right at me. I think he heard everything. I gulped and turned right in order to avoid him and just like that found myself in front of Mr.Pervert. He heard everything too. He was not glaring at me but had an amused smirk on his face. Hurray! My lucky day. Note the sarcasm, I turned left to have Olivia glaring so I moved forward parting the shocked people which I don't understand why they are so shocked.

The luckiest day of my life. Let us hope that everyone will forget what happened today and I can continue my calm life.

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