𝐴𝑙𝑙 𝐼𝑡 𝑇𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠

3. Teasing Games

Just why? Why do students want to pair up their classmates with each other so much? Is it just because they want to tease the pair? Or do they want to create a diversion that'll amuse them? To be honest, I don't know and understand why.

Even if I wasn't interested in being in a relationship, I wasn't able to escape the fate of being teased by my classmates. In first grade, I remembered being teased for having a crush on my classmate just because I found him the most handsome out of all my male classmates. When the teasing game started, I was so flustered that I started acting awkward whenever he was around since that was the very first time I was linked to someone.

Fortunately, after a few weeks, my classmates started to forget about it seeing that we didn't interact that much which I am very thankful for. After that incident, I spent my whole elementary without being paired up with a boy.

My high school life didn't go as peacefully as I wanted as I remember being paired with two boys. I was first paired with a boy in eighth grade. At that time, our mathematics teacher arranged our seats in pairs and every pair consisted of the opposite gender so I had no choice but to sit beside a boy. Unfortunately, I was seated beside a classmate that I'm not close with.

Even if we had been classmates ever since seventh grade, the two of us had never had the chance to interact since we were never put into the same group in the past. I remember being annoyed when everyone teased us as they witnessed how awkward we were around each other.

I spent a few months restraining myself from just smacking anyone since this ridiculous pairing continued not until the boy started pursuing another female classmate which regained my peaceful high school life once again. At that time, I thought that would be the last time I would be paired with someone, but I guess we can never dictate what the future holds.

Then comes tenth grade, wherein we had a transferee in our class. Seeing he was quite normal, I treated him nicely only to end up regretting it as he became close to the boys in our class. For the whole year, I always found myself gritting my teeth from annoyance as he addressed me with different endearments even if we weren't in a relationship.

Transferring schools in my eleventh grade made me feel lucky as I wasn't paired up with anyone and reaching college made me think such immature games would end, but no, they didn't. As I reached my fourth year, I was once again paired up with one of my classmates. The difference? I just ignored it and treated it as a joke even though I was really fuming on the inside. Still, even if I am bearing all this teasing, I cannot help but wonder, just when will it end? These teasing games.

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Hey guys, it's been a while! This chapter has been in my drafts for almost a year now so I decided to post it today. To be honest, I am currently so stressed and burned out that I decided to just edit this chapter as a form of relaxation before I go back to doing what I am doing. As always, I'll be attaching my proof below this message. Enjoy reading everyone!