by Newbiel
At that moment, a female third year student came close to Keath who was still eyeing the queen of heart on the table, shocked.
"Who the hell was that?"
"I have no freaking idea."
Chapter 55: :
Chuckling softly Nathaniel could not forget the shocked faces of his fellow students when he pulled the trick. It's like they saw a ghost or something. It was so funny that he was going to laugh about it for a long time. He had just taken one of the simplest tricks that he knew to not gather too much attention and it still dazzled them. Magic was about misdirection and the closer you looked, the less you saw. That was the core of the trick.
Replacing the two jacks with queens was easy when he was moving around as it only required hand agility and speed. The thing that awed them was how he replaced the three queens with the queen of heart. The truth was that the queen of heart was glued to the queen of spades. And when the crowd thought he was going to put the queen down with the hand that struck the pile, it was with the other that he removed the three queens. It was simple really, we see with our brain not our eyes. When they were focused on his right hand, their brains ignored everything else and that's why they never understood how he did it.
Continuing his walk, he was idly moving around, going from stand to stand without a worry. He knew that he was currently being spied on by three people. They thought they were stealthy but they were not. Nathaniel spotted them easily and could see the people following him. They were not hitmen or spies, these three individuals were much worse than that. They were sorority girls.
"Wow, He is hot." Said a sexy looking brunette.
"I agree and everything that he wears is expensive. I believe his shirt is a Louis Vuitton." Observed the platinum blonde on the right.
"You are right, I saw it in their shop the other day with Ethan, almost 2 thousand dollars." The cute brunette said.
"Dibs!" Shot called the sexy looking brunette.
"Oh come on, Madison!" The blonde objected.
"Yeah stop it Madison! Hayley is right, we already talked about it!"
"Pfff no fun!" Madison pouted.
"We are sorority sisters, at most we can have fun with him together." The cute brunette said lewdly.
"You are incorrigible Emma!" Hayley said, laughing.
"None of you have seen that guy before? He looks familiar to me." Madison interrupted. Surprised by the interruption, the two girls stopped their banter and started examining Nathaniel closely.
"Now that you mention it, yes, I have seen him before." Hayley affirmed.
"No, I never met that guy before but I want to now." Emma added.
"What about Ethan? You know, the football running back who is your boyfriend?" Madison questioned.
"We are not exclusive!"
"Since when?" Hayley asked, surprised.
"Since now." Emma said, laughing alongside her sisters.
"Let's go talk to him and Emma be good." Madison said.
"I'm always good!" Emma rebelled, following her friends.
Spying them coming his way, Nathaniel could not help but sigh inwardly. Every sophomore man here including some womens would be elated to see three very hot sorority girls coming their way. If they could hear his thoughts at that moment they would curse him for not appreciating his luck.
"Hi there, I'm Madison, the cute blonde here is Hayley and the misleading kind looking brunette is Emma. We belong to the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority."
"Hi, I'm Nathaniel, nice to meet you." Nathaniel welcomed with a slight smile.
"You are Nathaniel Lyndon!" Hayley exclaimed.
His face was familiar to her and she was looking at him intently since coming closer but could not find out where she had seen him before. But hearing his name she immediately remembered. Madison also quickly recalled where she had seen him before. These two were Taylor Swift fans, not hardcore fans but fans nonetheless and they had listen to the song with Nathaniel at least ten times if not more.
"You really are Nathaniel Lyndon, the singer? We loved your song with Taylor!!" Maddison added.
"Yes, I am and thanks. I don't have the right to call myself a singer just yet with only one song but yeah I'm trying." He answered humbly.
"Are you dating Taylor?" Emma asked offhandedly making Nathaniel laugh. He could understand now why Madison referred to her with the term 'misleading kind looking'.
"No no, we are only friends. I'm single."
"Oh good… well I mean I understand." Madison hastily corrected herself, flustered. "We came because we are organizing a party Saturday night to welcome our new sisters into the sorority. It would be a social event so we would like to invite you."
"It would be my pleasure." Nathaniel answered with a smile. Since they were nice to him, he would treat them the same way.
"Awesome!" Madison exclaimed joyfully. Taking a flyer from her purse, she hastily wrote something on the back before giving it to him. "I added my phone number on the back in case you have trouble finding our house." She explained with a flirtatious smile.
"Oh thanks, I will." He said taking the flyer from her hand, looking at the time he realized he needed to go. "I'm sorry but I need to go. I have dinner scheduled with my mother and I don't want her to wait."
"Of course, you should go, don't leave her waiting. We will maybe see each other this week and if not, we will on saturday."
"Yes we will. I hope you have a good day ladies. Bye." He said with a handwave before leaving.
Seeing him leave and paying a decent amount of attention on his ass, they wait for him to be far enough before talking again.
"'Here my phone number in case you don't find our house' That's why we put the address on the flyer. Nicely done Madison" Emma mocked laughingly.
"What? He is hot and he sings like an angel, I had to do it."
"Did you notice?" Hayley asked suddenly.
"Yeah, I did. He never even looked at our body, just at our face."
"My boobs are feeling wronged right now." Emma grumbled, making her sisters laugh.
The three of them were currently wearing her sorority t-shirt and it was complimenting their form quite nicely. The one that Emma was wearing was even tighter than that of her sisters and it displayed her ample bosom for everyone to see. As beautiful girls they were good at spotting people ogling them and that's why they all realized that Nathaniel did not.
"Maybe he's gay?" Hayley asked.
"No he is not. My gay radar did not activate while we were talking. He is hundred percent straight I'm sure of it." Madison confirmed.
"Dibs!" The three of them exclaimed at the same time.
Chapter 56: :
New York, Columbia University. 02/10/2012. 15:00.
"Nathaniel!" A voice called from behind.
Turning around Nathaniel saw that it was Na-Yung who was calling him. Looking at her coming to meet him, he could only look amazed. She was striking. Today, she was wearing tight black pants that showed off her legs quite nicely with a white loose top that displayed a good amount of her porcelain skin. Today her hair had been put up in a bun which was moving behind her back in an enticing manner.
"Hello Na-Yung, how are you?" He asked, taking back control of his raging hormones.
"I'm good and you? I didn't see you the past couple of days." She said with a touch of disappointment in her voice.
"I'm good too. Yes, I know the campus is huge, it's not that surprising that we missed each other. What did you come here to do?" He questioned as she was coming out of the administration office.
"I was completing my registration for a couple of classes."
"Show me your timetable."
Surprised by the demand, she still fished out her agenda from her purse and gave it to him. Since she had met him everything that he did was always thought out carefully, so if he was asking for it he should have a reason to. Taking the page from her hand he scanned at it for a second before giving it back.
"We have the same class Monday, Tuesday and Thu
rsday afternoon, I didn't know that your major was corporate law."
"Really? You looked at the page for a second and you have already read through it?"
"I read fast." He said, shrugging.
"I can tell, and yes my parents insist on it. It will be good for the family company, it's the reason I came here in the first place." She shakes her head, still not really convinced of him reading through the page in a second.
"I know what you are talking about. Family can put a lot of pressure on you, even without saying anything." Nathaniel nodded. Thinking about it if he did not push back his grandfather repeatedly, he would be in the same kind of situation as her right now.
"Yeah, it can be tough sometimes." She said downcast.
Seeing the sadness in her beautiful grey eyes, Nathaniel wanted to comfort her at any price.
"You want to come with me visiting the stands and fooling around?" He proposed with a smile.
"Of course!" She exclaimed joyfully.
Since the first day of welcome week, she had met quite a few people. She even started making friends with a few girls from her archery team who were nice to get along with. But when boys were concerned they were very much not up to pair. The nicest ones were too obvious in their approach while the more straightforward boys were just disgusting. She knew she was beautiful and everywhere that she went she was bound to gather attention, but the way that she was looked at here was making her uncomfortable.
The only exception so far was Nathaniel. When she entered the room, she had seen him looking at her but his stare did not hold that concupiscence that the other had. That's why she had come to sit beside him as she was curious and intrigued. Once they had started talking she was feeling good beside him. He was calm and composed at all times which was refreshing. Her grandfather was the same and she was shocked to see someone that young exude that kind of feeling.
Moreover, he was smart and kind of handsome. She was not familiar with american visage but she thought he could be considered handsome. She would have to talk about it with her archery friends and find out what their thoughts were. As they were walking and playing around she could see a good number of girls looking at him with interest, something she discovered bothered her quite a bit even if she didn't know why.
Nathaniel was having a good time with Na-Yung when they were stopped by four muscular guys. They were looking like they were practicing athletics intently. Nathaniel thought that they must belong to the football team or the basketball team considering their bodies and height.
"Excuse me, are you Nathaniel Lyndon?" The tall black haired guy in the center asked.
"I am and who you are?" Nathaniel asked. He was trying not to show that he was quite angry to be interrupted like that.
"I am Ethan, we are from the Kappa Delta Rho fraternity. Our chapter head wants to have a word with you."
Looking at the guy in front of him, Nathaniel noticed something weird. His body language and tone of voice showed that he was hostile to him and yet Nathaniel was sure that he had never met the guy before.
"Sorry guys but I do not plan to join a fraternity so I would have to refuse, but thanks for the offer." He said kindly.
"You should still meet him. Our head is someone important on campus. You should show some respect." Ethan said with a hint of threat in his voice.
"I already told you no. My answer is not going to change." He was now sure that this guy wanted to make trouble for him.
"Kid, remember that you are a sophomore here. You shouldn't become arrogant just because you were lucky in the LSAT and know how to play the piano. You will have to learn how to respect your elders better in this university."
Since the last couple of days his girlfriend became quite distant and when he went to see her he had stumbled upon a conversation. They were talking about that Nathaniel kid with hushed voices and his girlfriend was among the more eager ones in her talk. When he had come back to his fraternity house his chapter head was talking about that same kid. He hastily proposed himself to bring him back to vent his jealousy. That's why he had asked a few of his friends to come to help him frighten the kid. Surprisingly, he was flat out rejected and the new guy didn't seem bothered by the fact that they were four against one. It made him unsettled deep inside.
"Why are you bothering him? He already told you that he was not interested so leave now." Na-Yung jumped into the conversation. She was quite angry herself for being interrupted while having fun with Nathaniel. Moreover their conduct was really bad.
"Oh? You need a girl to defend you?" One of the guys asked mockingly.
"You are quite nice to look at, you should come with a real man to have fun." Another mocked, coming closer to her and putting his hands on her shoulder.
At that moment, the hand of Na-Yung moved so fast that the guys around her did not even see her move, except for Nathaniel. She had joined her index and middle finger in a powerful thrust forward. Nathaniel knew instinctively that her target was the side of his neck and it would cause a lot of damage. Halfway through the move, she stopped her arm and brought it back to her side. No one around them had seen her even move beside him. Nathaniel realized that he was right about her, she was dangerous.
"Ok that's it, we are leaving." Nathaniel said, flipping off the hand on the shoulder of Na-Yung.
"You really think it would be that easy?" Ethan sneered.
"What the hell is going here!?" A voice exclaimed loudly.
Turning, they could see a middle aged teacher with a stern expression on his face coming in their direction. Looking around, Ethan noticed that their altercation had gathered a fair amount of attention and he was receiving quite a few displeased stares.
"Nothing professor, we are just having fun." Ethan said.
"Is this true?" The teacher questioned Nathaniel.
"Not really but it's not something that I can prove in court."
"Law student?"
"Yes sir, we both are."
"Good but I have been here for quite a while so you have a witness." Turning to the four guys he then said. "You four, bullying sophomores in the welcome week, are you stupid?! All of you will receive a misconduct report as well as your fraternity. Now move out, if I even hear your name again in the next month you will all be suspended."
Ethan and his goons left feeling ashamed, Nathaniel looked at them critically. He did not know why they wanted to pick on him but it was far from over. These kinds of bullies were not people capable of objectivity, they would blame him for this. He would have to settle that.
"Sorry about that, I hope you will not take what happened here to heart. Since it's a competitive school sometimes the nerves snap. But this is not a tribunal here, if something like that ever happens again do not hesitate to report it. We are a community here and we want all of you to study in the best condition. Remember that. Have a good day." The teacher said before leaving.
Chapter 57: :
New York, Columbia University. 03/10/2012. 22:00
Late at night in the Basketball arena there were four people playing. Supposedly the arena was closed at this time but the team captain who was in the arena had a key. The team captain and his three friends were busy playing and cursing. Indeed, the four people there were Ethan and his friends.
Since the altercation with Nathaniel and them being busted by a teacher, they did not get to have a good day. Once their chapter head learned of what happened he yelled at them for almost an hour, threatening to expel them a few times. Getting a misconduct report that early in the year was really significant to a fraternity, more so for one as well known as theirs.
Hence they could not say anything then, but now that they were alone here they could voice their anger without fear of repercussion.
"That fuc*ing brat!"
"He was lucky that teacher was nearby or we would have fu*ked him up real bad!"
"Don't worry guys, the semester did not even start. Remember we own this school! If he wants to be in a team, he will find o
ut it's impossible." Ethan said with a malevolent glint in his eyes.
He was a good friend of the football team captain and among the four here two of them were in the Basketball team and one was in the wrestling team. And among his fraternity brothers, their influence reached far and wide. Even if he was at odds with their head at the moment he knew that he could call on their help at any moment. That was the strength of the brotherhood.
"You are right, that kid can gloat all he wants now, he will realize soon enough that he needs to bow to our will."
"What kind of name is Nathaniel by the way, it sounds retarded?" One of the guys asked to no one in particular.
"Nathaniel came from the hebrew 'Netan'el' which means God given. Oh hi guys, fancy meeting you here." A playful voice interrupted.
Turning the way they heard the voice, they could see Nathaniel standing with a slight smile on his face. To say they were surprised to see him was an understatement to say the least. No one knew they were here and somehow that guy managed to find them.
"WTF are you here for?" One of the guys asked.
"That is a good question. You know I am sure I never did anything to any of you so I'm here to understand why you pick on me and especially you Ethan. Maybe you like to bully sophomores but I seriously doubt it, you seem to have something better to do with your time. Hence my presence here."
"Are you stupid? You seriously came here alone at this hour? Do you really think that we will not beat you up?" Ethan exclaimed menacingly.
"Ethan calm yourself! You know if we touch him, we will all be expelled."
"We just have to tell them that he was the one who jumped on us. It's four voices against one, I remind you."
"It will never hold, especially after what happened today."
��He is right, it will never hold but lucky you, I brought you a gift." Nathaniel said, fishing a folder from his bag and sliding it to them.
The one who was trying to calm Ethan down picked up the folder. Curious, he opened it and after reading the first file, he was dumbfounded.
"What is it?" Ethan questioned, his interest picked.