Puppy Love

Chapter 8

Chapter 8

It was a usual day for Johanna and her friends, they just went to class and chat during their lunch. They were in their Physics class, the last subject for the day.

Because of their seating arrangement, Johanna is seated at the far end of the room in between her guy friends Richard and Eric.

The teacher started her discussion

During class there was a slight commotion with some of her classmates, but Johanna was engrossed with the discussion.

 She looked at their direction but ignored what they were talking about. She brought back her attention to the discussion, because there would be a quiz after the discussion.

Later, her group is the one in-charge in cleaning the room after class. Unusually Paul was there, he seated himself at the far end of the room where all the cleaning materials were being kept.

 Johanna noticed that Paul looked sad: he just sat there quiet and deep in thought.

She had the urged to talk to him but changed her mind. She just cleaned the class Johanna and her group mates finished cleaning she looked at Paul while walking out of the room.

“Goodbye Johanna, We’ll go ahead.” Arthur said walking outside.

She kept wondering why Paul acted that way. He really seemed sad. She thought of talking to him but changed her mind in the end. She doesn’t want him to think that she still likes him.

At home in her bedroom she lay in bed thinking about Paul. Memories of their childhood days keep coming back.

Flashback

They were classmates since nursery but when they were in kindergarten he fell on a tree and left a mark in his eyebrow, she started to like his eyes. He looked cute, the mark near his eyes made him look like a gangster. And as years go by, her feelings for him gets deeper, he once explained to her their topic in Math but everything changed when her feelings for him went out. He suddenly hates her and always makes her cry.

“Skeleton!!!”

“Pig!!!”

“Hey guys quit it okay!!! You’re always like cats and dogs, don’t you guys ever get tired fighting each other!!!” Melvin shouted at the both of them. They were in the canteen along with their classmates.

“Well he started it! He always makes fun of me!” Johanna said while munching her potato chips.

“I’m just saying the truth, your fat so I call you pig. Oink! Oink! Oink!” Paul said making a pigs sound.

That brought Johanna to stare at him. He really overdo this time.

“You don’t need to state the obvious!” Johanna said then walked out. That left her classmates and Paul silent.

Flashback end

Remembering those, Johanna took her diary and wrote “I Hate Paul!” till she occupies the whole page writing that.

Because of him, she grew up- insecure and became a loner.