4 Chance Encounter 4 (2/2)

Seeing how incorrectly people assumed what her actions meant and assuming she didn't care, she made a request with the dean to only give her a roommate if she knew about her beforehand and still accepted. When he had accepted, she had accepted the fate of not having a roommate for the rest of the year.

Now that it was time for her to get a new roommate, she was afraid that another person was going to leave her for some reason or another.

Coming to a decision, Aria got dressed quickly and made her way to the staircase. On her way down, she thought about where to go before deciding on a cake shop named Monocled Rabbit across the street from the school's entrance.

At the bottom floor, she swiped her door key and exited through the back door, ignoring the gazes of the people around her.

When she got to the Monocled Rabbit, she walked to her usual seat and pressed the button on the table to call for a waiter.

”Aria!” Devin rushed over to the table with his favorite customer sat at it and slid into the seat across from her.

”Hey Dev” Aria waved at Devin and smiled, glad to see the owner was here and not one of the younger waiters who flirted with her. The last thing she needed right now was for another rumor to start spreading about her keeping sugar babies.

Several months earlier, she had started frequenting the cafe and got somewhat friendly with the staff who worked their because they were all rather nice. After she started to get closer to them, an anonymous account on the school's website posted pictures of her chatting with each one of them and talked about how frequently she went to the cafe.

The rumors would of died away on their own quickly enough if not for Emma taking action to make them a lot worse. She claimed to have seen proof that Aria kept multiple staff members from the Monocled Rabbit as sugar babies. Even though she didn't provide any proof, people took the queen of the school's word over hers and came to the conclusion she was doing everything the anonymous post said.

Ever since then, whenever she came here Devin himself would come to serve her to help her avoid any more rumors floating around.