Chapter 159 Date? (1/2)

After breakfast, everyone headed to their classes. Sarah had to separate from everyone else and as she walked to her class, she couldn't help but watch the Elite Five heading to a different building.

Sage Class.

Her eye narrowed, thinking of the vast gap between her and Kyle. It wasn't just the social class difference. It was basically everything! Right now, she had a hold that no one else had: she is his sister's best friend. Once they graduated, however, anything could happen.

Sarah bit her bottom lip in nervousness.

She was just an average person, from a normal background. She was not smart like the people Kyle normally hung out with. She wasn't striking looking but she was good enough, she believed. Sarah walked on to her class, her head lost in thought.

Taking Wing Chun was but the first step. The first step in improving herself. The longer she stayed by Kyle's side, the more she felt unable to think of the possibility of not being by his side. She had been complacent, thinking of just the status quo.

The last month, however, truly opened her eyes.

Kay's act of opening that Insta account was Godsent. At first, she had used it to simply catch glimpses of Kyle in various situations. It fed her desire to see him all the time. However, at each update, Sarah finally noticed how much work Kyle put in. How much pressure was on him.

She had known how difficult it had been for him to always be under the spotlight but this. This was a whole new level. The rescue he had executed. The company he had turned around. The rock climbing competition he had won.

Every, single, thing he did. He did with flair. With excellence.

While her?

She was only 14, she kept telling herself but looking at Kyle's Insta account ... so was he.

Sarah took a deep breath as she walked through her classroom door. She had a lot of work to do.

✿✿ Sage Class ✿✿

Sam was hunched over at his desk, his face all serious as he was writing a few things in his all trusty notebook. This one, however, was unlike the normal one he had with him.

When he had been following Kyle around, it was a simple black notebook with a spiral coil binding. The one he was writing in at the moment, was a book-type bound (tape bound) light coloured notebook with one rabbit sticker at the top right corner.

He was busy looking at some data on the computer and writing down notes after thinking a while. Sam's computer screen had a privacy filter that he had modified and made himself, so he was not worried about other people seeing what was displayed.

What Sam had done was take an older monitor that he had previously and removed the polarising filter that is between the TFT display and the glass. He then took an old spectacle frame of his and placed a new polarising filter on it. The result?

If other people were to look at his computer screen, the display would be so bright that nothing could be seen. Only by using the glasses he had modified with the polarising filter could the contents be seen.*

Xing Han, being Xing Han, couldn't help but come over to check out what Sam was doing so intently. Sam quickly closed his notebook and glared at the curious Xing Han that stood beside him.

”What research are you doing now?” Xing Han asked unabashedly, trying to make out the words on Sam's computer screen and then at the notebook Sam had under his hands.

”Important research,” Sam answered evasively, ”What about you? Don't you have your own research to do? A follow up from the holiday's project at Company LV?”

”It's done,” Xing Han said, pulling out a chair and sitting next to Sam. He tilted his head to one side, placed his chin on his arm and looked at Sam innocently.

Sam blinked several times and studied Xing Han closely.

How could he have forgotten? Xing Han may be naively innocent with a relatively low EQ, but is IQ was still high. After all, he was in Sage Class. However, with his demeanor, childish behaviour and often obtuse comments, people tend to forget that.

Xing Han's forte was in business. He could grasp the concepts of how a business works easily, from the organizational aspects to the administrative concepts. Xing Han knew the theory and the workings very well but what he lacked was the ruthlessness that would often be required.

That, and the fact that Xing Han trusted people easily. A person could be nice to him and he'll not think badly of the other guy. Easy target for schemes. Though Xing Han would probably be able to get out of it with his skills, one still shouldn't step into the trap willingly, right?

Sam gripped his notebook tighter.

Xing Han's eyes twinkled when he caught sight of the bunny sticker.

”You know, I can probably help you on the bunny issue,” Xing Han said. He deliberately did not say Betty's name as there were people nearby who could probably hear them - especially Beatrice.

”Amongst the four of us, you can't deny I have the widest range of girl friends,” Xing Han said proudly.

He didn't mind being seen as the 'weakest' link of the Elite Five guys. Kyle was unapproachable as he as too elite. Ali was too exotic and mysterious. Sam was too aloof. Xing Han was everyone's best friend - and a potential way to get to know the Elite Five (rather, Kyle) better.

It never worked but people still tried anyway.

”You know all of those contacts of yours are just using you,” Sam pointed out.

”Of course I know that. Nothing wrong so long as they don't cross the line,” Xing Han replied, laying his head on the desk, ”I'm using them as well. As long as I foster good connections, the future is limitless.”

Sam stared at Xing Han.