Mixed Signals

From the Start..

This story starts with a girl named Eliana Soleil but her friends call her Ellie, she's a third-year college student in Athens University. Ellie has shoulder length hair, morena, just around 5'2 and medium built. She has small, round eyes, and a perfect nose with small lips but perfect straight teeth, thanks to braces. She is quite pretty but for her, she does not see herself that way. She is shy but not scared to speak her mind when needed. She is tough and a strong, independent woman but still yearns for TLC. She is currently taking up BS in Nursing.

Ellie lives in one of the dormitories in the campus as she lives far from their school. She is staying in Fables Hall because it is just near the classrooms compared to the other dorms. For two years, she enjoys the dorm life, and she is mostly with her friends from the dorm. She never had a boyfriend since she started College as she is focused with her studies. There were a few crushes but nothing that will really make her want to be in a relationship. Not until this school year...

June came and Ellie is back in the campus. She's excited to be back because she will see her friends and she will start her duty already. The night before their first day, Ellie went out with her friends and ate dinner in Martin's.

Ellie's POV

"I am excited and scared of going to school tomorrow. We will finally have our duty in DR,"Ellie said while eating her food.

"Me, too. We will start with our major already for ND. We will have clinical hours so I might be busy," Felize said after drinking her coke.

"Same. We have a lot of lab classes based on our schedule. Ugh, moving exams!"Sabrina said after a huge sigh.

"I know we can survive this semester, and even this year. No to distractions." Ellie said while looking by the door, she saw her crush, one of the ushers in Adamson Auditorium. She does not know his name, but she finds him cute, and she saw him a couple of times in the dorm before. She suddenly smiled at herself and then looked down when she saw that he's coming in and might see her.

"Who are you looking at?" Sabrina said and looked at the direction that Ellie's been checking.

"Is that the usher guy?" Felize chimed in.

"What are you two talking about? I'm not looking at anybody. I just thought he looks familiar. But I don't know him." Ellie denied and continued to eat her food.

"Suuuss! If I know you have a crush on that guy. But he is fine, he's really cute and handsome. I think he's friends with Ate Mae," Felize said again, teasing Ellie.

"Oh, that's why he's familiar. So, he's older, right?" Ellie asked, trying to hide that she's interested in him.

"I think so. He's from Engineering department because I saw him one time with Dave," Felize answered.

"I see. Again, no to distractions!" Ellie said, and she saw him sat across their table, and she saw him look at her, too. She looked down immediately, embarrassed.

"Ayiieeee! With eye contact already ha!" Sabrina teased since she saw what happened.

"Nooooo! Let's just finish eating, so we can go home already. We still need to tidy up and prepare for tomorrow," Ellie said, and she started eating again.

They finished eating and then paid their bill. As they were going out, Ellie suddenly felt that someone is watching them, so she looked back. She saw him looking at her, and he winked at her. She was surprised and then looked down quickly and hurriedly went out.

Aiden's POV

Aiden Lim is a 4th year Engineering student; he is currently staying in one of the cottages in the campus. He is part of the ushers and usherettes in their school's auditorium whenever there are shows. He is friendly and close to girls as he's a sweet person. He is tall, mestizo and some people say he looks like Christian Vasquez, younger version.

Just like the other students, Aiden went out with his dorm-mates before class starts. They went to Martin's to have their dinner. Before he came in, he saw her. She was this girl he kept seeing around campus, and in FH whenever he visits Mae or his other classmates. He finds her so cute with her chubby cheeks and when she smiles, her eyes get too small. She's just so cute.

"Aiden, come sit here," Marcus said pointing to the chair in front of him.

"I want to sit there instead, I prefer seeing people come in,"Aiden said so he can sit across her. He kept on looking at her and was so amused because as she was saying something to her friends, she's blushing and looks so embarrassed. He wondered what they were talking about though.

"Why are you smiling, bai?" Kean said and he looked at what Aiden was looking at. "Oh, crush mo?" Referring to the girl he was checking out earlier.

"She looks cute lang, ang sarap kurutin ng chubby cheeks niya,"Aiden answered with matching action like he's pinching her cheeks for real.

"Gigils yern?" Marcus chimed in and checked the girl they were talking about. "Yeah, she's cute. I think I saw her before from Fables. Is that right?"

"Yes, she's staying in Fables. I saw her there before,"Aiden said and he looked at her again, she's now eating her food quietly.

"Stalker!" Marcus said and added "Stop looking at her, Aiden!"

"I can't help it, but okay," he said and started eating his food.

Then after a few minutes, Aiden saw them pay their bill and they are about to leave. He saw her look back at him, and he winked at her. She blushed and looked so embarrassed that she hurriedly went out with her friends.

"They're gone. Maybe you can eat now noh?" Kean said while bumping Aiden's shoulder.

Aiden laughed and they started talking about other things until they went home.