Chapter 5 Past will haunt you

"Hazel? Why are you sitting on the ground?"

Nala ran over to her when she saw Hazel.

Hazel still had tears in her eyes and she didn't want to show them to Nala so she quickly cleared them up.

"You are crying? Did you get hurt?"

Now Nala got anxious at the sight of Hazel's bloodshot eyes.

"I got into a small accident, and I think I got hurt, " Hazel made up a lie, and she didn't know that it is going to cost her that much.

"You got into an accident!!!"

"It was nothing big, I just, "

"No, you have to come with me to the hospital, let's get you all checked up."

"I am fine, it's just a scratch, Oh no!"

Suddenly Hazel's brain realized something.

"What? Is it hurting now? I knew it, "

"It's not that, I didn't attend the seminar, I really wanted to meet the artists, "

Hazel had a gloomy look on her face as she looked at the hall in a distance, she had run in the opposite direction of the seminar hall without realizing.

Nala started at Hazel for a short while before speaking again.

"She won't be attending the seminar so there is no need for you to go there, let's get you back to the room so you can rest, "

Hazel found her words puzzling, and looked at her with a confused expression, "Fine, I will tell you everything once we get back to the dorm, come get up" (Nala)

Nala gave her a hand and helped her up, but Hazel seemed to be really hurt so she stumbled again, but this time another hand supported her.

"Huh?" Hazel looked at the person holding on to her falling body and realized that it was the guy from before, the one who accidentally pushed her onto the road.

"It's you!" Hazel spoke up.

"You know him!" Nala asked in a shocking way as if she didn't like the idea of Hazel having any familiarity with the guy.

"Oh yes, he helped me back there when I fell, " Hazel replied

Nala looked at him with distrust, "You know him?" (Hazel)

"Hmm, my family knows him, " she averted her gaze from him as spoke.

"What do you want now?"

"I am here to help her, "

The handsome made an equally distrustful expression as he talked to Nala and then turned back to Hazel.

"If you don't mind then, "

The guy swooped her up in his arms, Hazel hurting legs were not on the surface of the ground anymore, they were swinging in mid-air as her back rested on the guy's arm.

"Wait what? No, you don't have to do it like that, I can walk by myself, "

"Put her down you perverted person, "

Nala and Hazel protested but he didn't bait an ear to Nala, instead, he talked softly to Hazel.

"Your leg will be more painful if you walk all the way back, let me help, "

He spoke calmly and made Hazel realize the severity of the situation, on which Hazel stopped protesting.

Oliver carried Hazel all the way back to the dorm entrance and left without another word, but the girls in the dorm who saw him carry a girl to the dorm blushed. He was the college hunk, many girls got rejected, and now when there was a girl that was this close to him, many girls got extremely jealous.

"I am telling you to stay away from guys like him, you never know what they are up to, " Nala advised Hazel who was busy adjusting her leg on the ground.

"Umm, " she nodded, "Come in let's get you to the room to have some rest, " Nala held her arm and supported her, as they walked back to the room.

Hazel lied down on the bed, looking at Nala hovering over her head.

"What is it, tell me, " After Hazel had enough of her she asked her to speak up, "Umm, first say that you won't be angry at me, " (Nala)

"Why am I going to be angry at you?" (Hazel)

"You remember the other day, the day, " Nala was repeating her words nervously

"What about the other day?" (Hazel)

"The day when you helped me out with the task that my father gave me, " Nala said in a flustered way.

"Oh, you mean the Business proposals? What about that, did he not like it?" Hazel felt like she didn't do a good job while helping out Nala, "No, no, you did a great job, it's just you remember that you asked me to help you meet the artist, as I am an art student?"

"Flash back"

The way both of them became friends was due to some odd events a few days ago when Hazel was walking down the corridor after seeing the poster of the seminar and bumped into a stressed-out girl who was scolding somebody over the call.

"I am so sorry, I was in a hurry to buy the..."

Hazel looked at the file fallen off the girl's hand, it had a bunch of tickets that Hazel was in a rush to buy, "It's okay, " the girl picked up her files and walked away continuing on her phone.

Hazel too ran off to the art department to ask them for a ticket but they were already sold out, "No, no, no, I really want to see her."

Hazel lightly stomped her feet in the ground in dejection, but suddenly she remembered the girl from a while ago, and went out to look for her and luckily she did find her, she was sitting on a bench with a frowning face.

Hazel approached her, "Uhm! (throat clearing)" (Hazel)

"Yes?" (Nala)

"Well the thing is, I, can you sell me a ticket? I really want to attend the seminar, " Hazel tried to look pitiful in front of her.

"If you want, I, I can give you twice the amount you paid, "

Hazel negotiated like a businesswoman or more accurately she spoke like her past self.

"Are you talking about these?" Nala showed the tickets to her, on which Hazel nodded her head like a happy puppy.

"Go ahead have them, I have no use of them anyway, "

Nala looks least interested in keeping them.

"Are you for really giving me them for free?"

"Sure have them, it didn't cost me a penny to tell you the truth, "

"Oh thank you, thank you so much, you have no ideas how much I wanted to meet her, you know her paintings will be a huge success in the future, "

Hazel started telling her how great the guest of the seminar will be in the future, "You think she will be that recognized in the future, " Nala asked her curiously.

"Of course I know, "

"How do you know that?" Nala asked

"I saw it myself, "

"You saw it? The future?" Nala said while smiling

"No, I mean I know it because I saw how great her art is, haha"

Hazel covered her slip of the tongue and laughed it off.

"By the way, I am Hazel I just transferred majors from business to literature, what about you?" Hazel asked

"I am in the art major, final year, " Nala replied

"You are in the art major too? That means you must know her, the legend?"

"Haha, yes I know her, "

"How is she?" Hazel curiously asked.

"I heard she had a very bad personality, a complete nut job, "

"No way! I don't think so, "

"You do?"

"Hmm, yes, " Hazel replied and looked at the tickets with a grin.

"Oh right, you said you were from business major before, Right?"

"Uhmm..." Hazel nodded, "Do you by any chance know someone who can make a project for me? "

"Project? What kind of project, "

"Just a task I have to complete, " Nala hesitated at first.

"Let me do it for you!" Hazel said with confidence.

"You? Aren't you a major dropout?" Nala said with a curious look on her face.

"I know everything a businessman needs to know while doing business, just take it as I studied it in my previous life, hehe" Hazel wanted to help her because of the tickets she had given her.

"Okay, "

"Send me the details I will make you proud, " Hazel chuckled softly