MY PRETEND BOYFRIEND

Chapter 13

TODAY was the first promotional activity. Sophia dragged herself to the central building where they had to distribute leaflets to the students passing by. She also helped the club carry the instruments from the room to the cafeteria, while her friends discussed strategies against Adrian. As everyone knew, the university cafeteria was the busiest place in the campus. But that was just Sophia's opinion. The seniors handed out leaflets to her and her clubmates, each with a thick stack of them. They divided them into groups to distribute at points where there were more people. Next up was David’s mission... to grab everyone’s attention. And when the right moment came... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

"Hello~"

"Ahhhhhhh!"

"What. What are they doing here? Oh, that’s David."

"Daviddddd~"

Damn! Those girls were scary. It was like they had telescopes in their eyes.

The song "About You" by The 1975 started playing amidst the screams from the people in the cafeteria. They all dropped their forks and spoons just to run to the front of the stage. Of course, they didn’t forget to pull out their phones to record videos. Most importantly, the target for these videos was David. The vocalist was also handsome, the other guitarist was cute, but no one cared about them. They all focused on David. Sophia couldn’t blame them though because even she couldn’t stop looking at him. Even though he was standing so far away, he was the most prominent among the members. When the song ended, the vocalist grabbed the mic and spoke in an excited voice.

"Thank you! We are the representatives of the music club."

"David! I like you!"

"Wooooooooo."

"David, you’re so hot!"

"Our friend here is so popular," they teased him. But David didn’t show any emotion. He was unaffected by all the attention.

"Today, we would like to invite all of you to our upcoming concert, The Alter Matter Fair, to be held on June 22 at 5 p.m. If you like music, come join us! We’ll also have food stalls."

"Can we eat David too?"

"Kyaaaa~"

Sophia saw the group of girls screaming and teasing shamelessly. They were flirting so hard that David had to look down. Sophia ignored the ongoing stage activity and continued distributing leaflets to the passing students.

After the event, the group finally broke up. The music club members were smiling again because they were finally able to eat lunch like normal people.

"Where are you sitting?" David asked as he stepped down from the stage.

"Here. Leave your bag here." Sophia said, and he nodded without saying anything.

He went to a food stall to order his food, and Sophia followed him from a distance. But before she could get in line, the girls immediately rushed to the stall, pretending to buy food as well, leaving her stuck at the end of the line with a growling stomach. Fortunately, Sophia had already bought her favorite Blue Hawaii earlier. So, while waiting in line, she sipped her drink with some satisfaction. However, after a long wait, it felt like she would never get to eat. Her eyes were locked on David’s plate, like a hungry dog when he walked out of the line with food in hand.

David walked toward her, placing the plate of food in her hand and shamelessly taking the drink from her hand to sip it using the straw she had used.

"What’s this?" he asked, as Sophia stood there dumbfounded.

"B... Blue Hawaii."

"Hmm. It’s delicious. Let’s trade." He said before walking off, leaving her standing there with strange looks from David's fans.

How is Blue Hawaii with her saliva so tasty? And why isn’t David eating the food she was holding? What was the point of this? Sophia couldn’t help but wonder because there were no answers. Adrian wasn’t around, so why did David have to go through all this just for the act? She didn’t get it, but since she was starving, she ate the food with delight. So damn good!

When she returned to her room, she immediately rolled into her bed, too tired to do anything else but sleep. She finally drifted off to sleep, only to be woken up by constant beeping in the darkness. She had forgotten to turn on the lights. Let the lights of her phone do their work. But the annoying part was the phone noise. Why does it keep beeping? Doesn’t everyone know she’s handsome every day? Why couldn’t they divide the likes for different days?

Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.

Enough! Is this the bleachers?

She was so annoyed from lack of sleep. She pulled her hand out from under the covers and picked up her phone, hoping to turn it off so she could go back to sleep. When she checked the notifications, she saw it was from i********:. Her curiosity quickly erased her sleepiness.

Her hand clicked on it, and she saw a post from the music club on i********:.

❤ ️ 4,266 people liked

AssociationofPopularMusic David Horan’s clip

Sophia clicked to watch the clip and saw David singing ‘English Love Affair’ by 5SOS. Nothing really caught her interest, so she immediately scrolled down to read the comments. She looked at the character in front of her with a dreamy look. The first comment she read was from someone she didn’t know. Wait, maybe she did know? She wasn’t sure…

David Horan:

[Hoe do you maje Instafean privare?]

Does this guy even know how to type in human language? Since she had a talent for guessing words, Sophia figured he meant to type "How do you make i********: private." What a real idiot. He couldn’t even type properly. She slid down the comments and focused on his name for a while. It took a while before the dark world suddenly lit up. Her drowsiness disappeared instantly.

Wow, David Horan! Finally, he got an i********: account like everyone else.

@Francsxc.Chn - @David.Horan David, please don’t make it private.

@Kcypehd - @David.Horan please make it public. Pleaseee.

David’s i********: didn’t even have a private option anymore.

Various comments flooded the page within seconds.

But that wasn’t the main point. The thing that caught Sophia’s attention was that she was tagged in the video clip. She wondered why they tagged her in David’s video. She scrolled down until she read countless comments and realized why her phone had been buzzing earlier...

@Fern1012 Is that you? @Laurel

@Jujuspammer - @Laurel Since when were you close?

@Sxtphny - I heard not even David’s friends have been to his place, so how come Laurel’s allowed?

Wait. Wait. Wait. In the room? What is this? What happened? She watched the video again. And…

Shit.

There was a creature rolling around with a pillow full of saliva... and that creature was her. Shit...

Appearing like a ghost shutter, but!

David: How do I maek ir private?

The idiot was still asking how to make his account private. He was the one who registered it, yet he had no idea what he was doing! His followers had reached thousands, but he was still making a fuss about locking his account. Sophia sighed and focused on the comments again.

@Laurel - @David.Horan What mood are you in to be on Insta?

@Wanamaziiing - @David.Horan @Laurel I signed up for him.

@Laurel - @David.Horan Oh, to post music clips?