How To End a Crush - Chapter 8.1

“Look at that. He’s here to walk you to class again.”

I mindlessly looked outside the door to the classroom and saw Noah standing there. I held my hand to my face and sighed.

“Whoa! He’s so handsome,” Mallory exclaimed, glancing over at the door.

“It seems he can’t live without Kate.”

“Is it that serious?” Aiko teased. I glowered at her before slowly getting up from my seat.

“… I’m going.”

“Keep an eye on what you like.”

“Yeah, have fun!”

Mallory started whispering in Aiko’s ear as Dora waved over at me, whistling.

I covered my ears while taking big strides over to the exit. Eh-hem, I cleared my throat and started opening the door slowly.

“Oh, you’re here again.”

Noah, who was waiting just outside the door, raised his head as I approached him.

“Ah.”

His golden eyes sparkled with joy through his glasses.

“Hi.”

His appearance was so dazzling that I couldn’t keep my eyes off him.

“Did you have a good class?”

Look at that exceptionally gentle smile… I think I’m going to lose my mind.

I felt the heat rising in my face, so I took my book and covered my face with it. I was only able to mumble a few words, “You… You don’t have to keep doing this.”

“It’s okay,” he sharply replied.

I let out a slight sigh.

If you’re unsatisfied with yourself, then I guess it’s to be expected that the person you have feelings for is likely to turn you down. I didn’t need to feel guilty about that and I didn’t have to blame Noah for not liking me in that way.

“Noah, you don’t have to feel sorry for me.”

Noah blinked before giving his response. “Feel sorry for what?”

I guess it’s true what they say, nobody is perfect. Noah seemed to have somewhat of a soft temperament.

I accidentally put on a serious face that seemed to cause Noah’s golden eyes to flood with worry.

“Is there something wrong?”

“No,” I said as I shook my head, sending my hair fluttering in the air.

Nothing. There’s nothing wrong. My mind and body are healthy and trouble-free. I’m comfortable and everything is peaceful.

“That’s good.”

“Yes, everything’s fine…”

We continued on our way without another word until the female dormitory finally came into view. I turned to him to tell him that he could let me go on alone from here.

“Uh, I can go on alone from…”

However, before I could finish, I heard someone suddenly call my name from the other end of the hallway.

“Kate!”

Click, clack. I heard the sound of a girl’s heels hitting the floor, quickly approaching.

“Kate.”

It was Flora. She came running up to me and suddenly grabbed me by the shoulders. She was panting and gasping for breath.

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“You quit the club? That’s what Noah told me.”

I saw my reflection in her big blue eyes. They were shaking.

Ah, what’s this? I didn’t know she’d find out this way.

I didn’t know what to say and in-between my incoherent stuttering, Noah opened his mouth to speak, seemingly a little embarrassed.

“Flora, wait…”

“Wouldn’t it be alright to stay on just for this year? At least until the end of the term?” However, Flora just ignored him and continued to look at me with an earnest face. She grabbed my hands and pulled them to her chest.

“The club isn’t so popular as it is and could be discontinued… I want it to stay active, at least until the end of this year.”

What should I do?

I bit my lower lip as I thought about what to say.

This is worrying. If I quit and the club is discontinued, Flora will undoubtedly become very upset. I wouldn’t want that to happen to Flora.

Flora was such a wonderful person. Regardless of that novel, I didn’t want to give Flora a hard time.

“Uhh…”

Thinking about it now, it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to quit the club so suddenly like this, but…

My brain felt overloaded.

“Noah is also really busy with other things, and while he can’t always make it to every meeting, he comes when he can because he really cares for the club. Me too, that club is like my second home.”

Okay, so it’s one of two things. Either Noah really likes reading books or he just goes to the club meetings because of Flora.

“I’m not trying to pressure you. If you really want to quit, I won’t stop you,” Flora said to me. I was biting my lip, feeling very worried.

“If you say it like that to her, how can she not feel pressured, Flora?”

What?

I was astonished and raised my head.

I found it hard to believe what had come out of Noah’s mouth just now.

Did Noah just call Flora out?

Was it because of me?

I was confused for a moment and wrapped my hands around my head.

“I know that, but if Kate leaves…” Flora mumbled with an expression on her face that gave me the impression that she didn’t want to drop the issue.

“You know as well as I do that the club is hard enough to keep together as it is.”

During the early days of the club, there were quite a lot of people who joined and participated. This was primarily because Noah was in it. However, Flora didn’t exactly make the club entertaining… In fact, it was on another level of boring so much so that pretty much everyone had quit halfway through the year, leaving mainly Noah and I as the remaining club members.

The club actually was quite beneficial to me. I was quite surprised to see my grade in literature go up significantly after attending only a few meetings.

It was a real shame that I had to quit the club now that I had become so fond of it.

“Umm… Uhh…”

As I searched for the right words to say, Noah seemed to feel sorry for me.

“Kate, I only attended the club meetings because I knew you would always be there. Please don’t leave.”

What’s this all of the sudden?

I blinked my eyes several times in surprise. Upon hearing Noah’s words, Flora turned around to look at him and opened her mouth to speak. “Yeah, you like it when Kate is there too, right?”

“Of course.”

Calm down, you hopeless girl.

I grabbed my throbbing heart with my hand. I couldn’t grasp what was going on.