Let Me Save You Then

Chapter 3

HELLO, NEIGHBOR

ACE's POV // Present.

Right after Ace got inside the car, her phone rings; indicating that someone is calling her. She grabbed her phone and looked at the screen where the caller ID is. Seeing that it was Neesha - one of her best friend, she answered the call

"Hey, Nee! What's up?" she asked, and out of nowhere, Ace's head turned to look out the window. Eyes scanning for a particular curly headed lady with eyes as blue as the morning sky

When Ace spotted her, her smile automatically formed within her face. The girl who bumped into her earlier was still standing on the same spot Ace left her. Face flushed pink, it's more visible now that the sun's light was hitting her. Ace had just noticed that the girl was wearing a black turtle neck long sleeved shirt, paired with a faded black tight jeans and a blue vans shoe. Simple yet effective. Ace smiled at her own thoughts

She had totally forgotten that she was on the phone, talking to someone when she heard a shout on the other line

"ACE HARRIET ARE YOU STILL FUCKING ALIVE?! OR SHOULD I NEED TO CALL 911?!" Ace needs to take her phone away from her ears to save her eardrums from getting damaged. She rolled her eyes and sighed before responding

"Yeah yeah. Calm your tits, Neesha Jasmin. 'm still here" Eyes trailed back to the girl with beautiful blue eyes who's now walking towards a car. The driver went out and helped her with her luggage.

Ace's ride finally move after getting caught from a quick traffic. Philippines really has some bad traffic management, not gonna lie.

"Oi! Piss off. Where are you? You back from Palawan?" She heard her friend ask from the other line. Voice thick with Irish accent.

Ace adjusted her position in the car to get more comfortable. She straightened out her crumpled long sleeved summer polo before responding, again

"Yes, though I'm still at the airport. Damn this traffic" She sighed again, responding with much lower and slower voice than usual. She's getting quite annoyed

"Yeah, this traffic is really getting into our nerves too. Anyway, you still coming to school? Or you're ditching Mondays again?" Right when she said those, as if on cue, their school bell rings and she heard incoherent noises on the other line

"'m ditching it, obviously. First period's done?" Ace asked. Both her and Neesha's first class starts at 9 and ends around 11, so she's guessing her friend's about to go to lunch.

With a sigh, she turned her head to look ahead, averting her attention to the driver in front of her. She covered her phone before speaking to her driver

"Let's take a quick stop at Starbucks" 's all she said before turning her attention back to her friend when she saw her driver nodding as a response

"Sorry, what was that again?"

"I said, yes. But 't was postponed since Ms. Mariano called a sudden meeting for all of the Seniors in all departments" Ace scrunched her nose, forehead creased. Who would call a gathering on Mondays? Ace then clicked her tongue, their school's really weird.

"Fuck yeah! No class for today, bitches!" Ace then heard noises of cheering on the background. Oh? That's a first

"Said something about having a teachers conference or something like that. Didn't quite heard it though" Neesha explained as if she read her mind