Some moments

I thought something else after scanned my card. Then the door closed. And it can't reopen before 2 minutes blackout time. 

On the other side of the door, a girl also stuck for the same.

She was chatting and joking with others. They were waiting for her. 

Then we started to talk. I didn't know how it began. But it just began. 

'Ah, so we can swap our cards and try from the other side instead.'

'That's a good idea.'

So we exchanged cards over the threshold, scanned from the opposite side. The door opened. We smiled, returned the cards back to each other, and waved goodbye.

When I arrived at the north gate, it was just past 2pm, exactly the minute the gate was closed.

A girl sighed next to me, after trying her card, the same result. 

It started to drizzle.

Then she nodded to me: 'Come on over,  in my umbrella.' 

That was the moment I suddenly realized now it was so easy that someone unknown was willing to open up to me, for no reason.

So we walked side by side under the umbrella, detouring to the front gate. She told me how she hated the canteen food, noodles with beef was barely acceptable, but never with chicken or duck. And now she missed the gate time by just one minute. 

In the short moment of silence, it felt peaceful. Slow and peaceful. Like in the old campus.

Then in a drawing session, the teacher said: From your lines, I can see you are so different from each other. Some are very calm, some are passionate.

The first cube drawing was reviewed. It was calm. There were stains on the paper.

Is it the rain? He asked.

Yes, it was raining when I brought it here.

That is good. He said. Including the stains.