Convincing her

When Jen arrived on campus, she remembered that she hadn't talked to Laura and Rachel the previous day. As she was walking to class she tried calling Laura but no one was picking up the call. She hung up and called Rachel who only picked up after five rings.

"Rachel?" Jen called once she heard her pick up the phone.

"Mmh?" Rachel responded.

"Did you two get home safely?" Jen asked.

"Mmh" Rachel responded. She still sounded sleepy even though she was not actively speaking.

"Did you arrive late last night?" Jen asked since she knew Rachel was an early riser.

"Mmh," Rachel responded once more.

"Is Laura back home too?" Jen asked after taking a deep breath. She was starting to get slightly annoyed with the responses.

"She came back with James" Rachel responded, finally using her words.

"Oh, at least she came back. Well let me let you sleep" Jen said and hung up before Rachel responded with 'mmh' again.

Jen finally arrived at her faculty building and walked towards her lecture hall. When she went inside she saw there was already a couple of people who had arrived and Michael who was sitting around the centre of the hall was busy on his laptop and didn't when raise his head when Jen sat next to him.

"Michael" Jen called after she had been ignored for a full five minutes. Michael looked up from his laptop at Jen whose expression changed from the frown she had on, to her eyebrows raising.

"Hi Jen" Michael said with a small smile.

"You got a haircut" Jen said and touched his not shorter hair.

"Mr. Lucas told me I should look my part, he criticized my unkempt hair. Do I look weird?" Michael asked.

"No, it suits you" Jen said with a smile. He was already good looking with the messy hair he had before but after the haircut his facial features became even more pronounced, especially his eyes that used to be hidden by his hair.

"That's a relief" Michael said with a small smile. Jen looked at him and pitied the girl that planned to date him. He was one of those rare cases that was not aware how good looking he actually was. It was either he did not know, or he just did not care at all. He had already gone back to working on whatever was on his laptop.

"What are you working on?" Jen asked curiously since he looked like he was so focused.

"I'm working on a progress report. I'm learning a lot, even though I have so much to do" Michael replied enthusiastically.

"You seem to be enjoying your work" Jen said in amusement.

"It is really interesting" Michael said as he revised his report using the edits that were suggested by Dave.

"Really?" Jen asked still feeling amused.

"Yeah, you should definitely try working at the company" Michael suggested carelessly.

"Ahaha" she laughed briefly before shaking her head. If she was at the company to work, nothing would get done as long as Lucas was there.

She could even imagine how David would look at her with disapproval through his glasses. Besides, she believes that the effort she put in to her own restaurants should be enough for a while since her going back to school was like taking a break.

She understood why he had made such a suggestion since the only information Michael knew about her was that she was Lucas' girlfriend and that they were studying the same course. He would not have made such a careless comment if he was aware she was already a business owner.

Jen looked at him for a while and decided that she would not engage him in anymore conversation since it looked like he was already spending all of his IQ on what he was doing.

She rummaged through her bag and took out her books and her phone as she waited for the lecturer to enter class.

Soon enough, their lecturer entered the lecture room and started on the lesson.

After class Jen texted Leanna to see if she had come to the university. After affirming that she came with Nancy, Jen went to the cafeteria to meet the two girls. When she arrived they had already been there for about ten minutes.

"How are you guys doing?" Jen asked as she sat with them at one of the numerous tables in the cafeteria.

"We're okay" Nancy answered for both her and Leanna.

"How did you guys get home yesterday?" Jen asked curiously.

"I was dropped off by David, Leanna was dropped of by Ethan" Nancy said without a care exposing Leanna in the process.

Jen's eyebrows rose when she heard Nancy. Leanna was hanging around Ethan that weekend?

"You hit it off with Ethan?" Jen asked curiously. Leanna looked at Nancy with a frown on her face. She clearly did not plan on letting anyone know. Infact, Nancy only found out because she saw her get dropped through the balcony of her house when Ethan had dropped her off at night.

"It sort of just happened" Leanna responded while subtly glaring at Nancy.

"Ah, well, just because these guys are Lucas' friends I can not vouch for them. You guys need to be just as careful since they might be good friends but that does not mean that they are good boyfriends" Jen warned.

She was worried since it looked like all her friends took a liking to one of Lucas' friends.

She was especially worried about Laura and Rachel since Laura had zero dating experience and Rachel had no record of good relationships.

Although Leanna had also just gotten out of a bad relationship, she was not too inexperienced, and the fact that she was able to break it off decisively was reassuring.

In the case of Rachel, Jen had to take actively send her abroad with Laura before she filed a report against her boyfriend who had gotten a four year sentence. Rachel just seemed to attract trouble to herself, although she looked cold, at the end of the day she was not as headstrong as she looked.