Chapter 144 - Ch. 144 You Make Her Uncomfortable

As expected, their rival team chose the song they liked the most. They played Katleen Morse's song that had been number one for a whole year with such skill.

In fact, their seniors could play the improvisation part and musical arrangements that have been modified by Jacob and Letti expertly. It was the best song they liked, and they planned to use it tomorrow to win the musical talent show. Yet, the seniors already stole their modified music and used it to win the election.

Kaylee could only shake her head in disappointment. She noticed the seniors' skills were not much different from the abilities of her friends, but why did they have to choose fiendish ways to win?

Despite dealing with seniors who had cheated and brazenly performed the arrangement music that should have belonged to Kaylee's group, Jacob and the others were miraculously less angry.

Instead, they were busy thinking about the song they would play after these cheating seniors.

"Gosh! I'm so nervous. Look, my hand is freezing!" Fritz waved his hands quickly as if to shake off the chill in his hands.

He knew the cold weather around him didn't cause this chill, but because he was too nervous. What if he made a mistake? What if the group fails because of him?

Kaylee cupped Fritz's hands with hers, then rubbed them together to provide warmth to her friend's hands. Unbeknownst to her, her small gesture left Fritz speechless and stunned.

'What a small hand! Were Nicholas' hands always small and soft like this?' Fritz felt his heart pounding for some unknown reason so that his adrenaline surged as if he had found something exciting.

Fritz even felt like he saw a fluffy pink cloud over Nick's face making his face instantly heat up.

What is this? Why did he suddenly feel…

Alas, his heart stopped beating for a moment, and his vision of the fluffy pink cloud shattered as soon as Jacob's rough bulky hand replaced Nick's soft tiny hand.

"Your hands will stay cold if he holds you. Here, let me do it," said Jacob, mimicking the way Kaylee rubbed her hand against Fritz's.

Kaylee's mouth opened wide, and she looked at her best friend in disbelief. She didn't know why Jacob suddenly tossed her hand away from Fritz's and pushed her aside.

What was Jacob thinking? Is he still mad at her to the point he dislikes to see her with his friend? And why did the young man seem eager to warm Fritz's hands?

Kaylee couldn't understand her best friend's way of thinking at all, while Fritz was silent and motionless for a moment.

Surprisingly, instead of feeling as warm as he felt when Nick held him, Fritz shuddered in disgust. Without a second thought, Fritz pulled his hand out of Jacob's grip and stepped back away from Jacob as if his best friend were a dangerous bacterium.

"What are you doing? It's ridiculous." Fritz promptly hid behind Letti, making the poor girl stayed still in puzzlement.

"Uhm. What are you doing?"

"I'd rather be with you than him."

"Eh?" Letti didn't know what kind of reaction she should give and could only stand there in silence.

"Hey. You're making her uncomfortable." Jacob grumbled as he looked at Letti, who could barely hide her blush.

Jacob walked towards them to push Fritz away from Letti. For some reason, he didn't like seeing her around other men.

Miraculously, Fritz was no longer nervous and was now too busy winning his bickering with Jacob.

"How childish," Adam added before he pulled Letti's arm out between Jacob and Fritz and led her towards Kaylee.

"ADAM!!" yelled Jacob and Fritz simultaneously.

"What? You make her feel uncomfortable."

Instantly two pairs of eyes looked at Letti with regret making Letti even more speechless.

"That… It's not like that. It's just… this is the first time I saw you guys bickering each other. It felt like I had been accepted as your friend."

"What? Of course, you are our friend. Why do you think otherwise?"

Letti sighed. "It's because you guys are my first close friends."

"No way. You have a lot of friends in your class, right?" Fritz felt sure that a girl as beautiful and amazing as Leticia Campbell must have had many friends in her class.

They all don't know that many people avoid Letti, thanks to Ayana and her small gangs. There were only a few who wanted to be friends with her, that too... if they don't see Ayana around.

As soon as Ayana appeared, no one dared to speak to Letti.

"No. I'm not as popular as you guys." was her honest answer.

Kaylee investigated Letti's expression carefully, and it made her recall what happened to the girl last week. She remembered that a group of girls had indeed cornered Letti, and from their gazes, it looked like they were going to oppress this poor girl.

Luckily Declan was defending her at the time; otherwise, Kaylee didn't know what the girl group would do to Letti.

"Letti, have you become the target of your friend's bullying?" Kaylee's guess made her three friends fall silent and wait patiently for Letti's answer.

Letti swallowed hard while biting her lower lip nervously. She didn't expect Nicholas to question her directly in front of the others.

She knew they were all waiting for her answer, but Letti was afraid that if she admitted that she was the target of Ayana's bullying, they would turn off and not want to be friends with her anymore.

Fortunately, the song of their rival senior team has ended, and now the host of the show was calling them to perform their chosen song.

"It's our turn. We'd better get ready." Letti avoided Nick's questions and urged her friends despondently not to talk about her college life.

"Wait." stopped Jacob while holding Letti's wrist lightly.

Letti was surprised by the way Jacob gripped her wrist because this was the first time she had come into contact with a man other than Nick.

Why does her heart seem to stop when she feels the firm yet gentle grip on her wrist?

"Now you are our friend and a member of our band. No one has the right to oppress you."

Thump!