The bell rang to signal the end of the class and students scrambled to get the hell out of the classroom to go wherever they needed to go to. For Patrick, it was to somewhere romantic so that he could ask Jasmine to be his girlfriend. Ella was told it was to the Italian Restaurant where he had a reservation for the two of them, while for her, it was to wait for her uncle at the school gate to tell him that Jasmine had to go to Bella’s house for a group study. That was the task Patrick gave her when he saw her after lunch. After that, she had to go to the coffee shop to meet her Math teacher and tutor for their lessons. Everything should go according to the plan, Ella thought.
As she walked down the hallway, she thought of her reaction to the scene at the canteen earlier and her conversati
