As Time Passes By

Chapter Six: Girl! Tomorrow is..

The twelfth of December 2022 has come. I rose from my bed to prepare for another day with my uniform on.

My mind was exhausted terribly from all the dramatic things that happened. I took forty long minutes to finally get the bubbles off my hair. This day wasn't getting any better.
I slid my upper body to my blazer and slapped my own face to pull things together. Then, I ran down the stairs to catch the cab. It was almost seven o'clock, I was always early! But now, what the hell happened?

I ran as fast as I could when the cab stopped in front of the gates. From every corridor, I never had the 'teen problem' my whole life.
I reached the room just before the prayer started. Humiliation crept on me while all eyes were glued to me. I walked to my seat and placed down my backpack, setting down my school books in place. "Dang it.." I murmured to myself while I pinched the bridge of my nose. This day wasn't getting any better..

At 12:30 p.m., I rushed to the cafeteria to grab a quick brunch. I patiently stood in line while wondering where Noah actually was. My sight never caught his heavenly appearance ever since that incident behind the school grounds happened.
Then, my shoulder felt heavy all of a sudden. It was Ru, her lively Korean-looking eyes met mine. "Noelle," She started.

"I heard that -"

"I know, Ruby. I messed up with him." I snapped. Her eyes slightly widened as she heard me call her name. She never heard me call her by her first name ever since I knew her. It was rare.
"No, not that. Chill, Noah forgave you. I went to his house last weekend and he was terribly sick. He told me about you rejecting him, yet he didn't want that to stop him from having you!" She exclaimed in the most dramatic way. My eyes caught her word, I tried to snap back from everything that happened.
I know that Ru and Noah are like people who knew each other since they were still in their mother's womb, but this? Amazing! But, wait. Noah? Sick? What the flip? What type of sickness? Is he dying?!

Ru snapped her fingers at me while I was lost in thought about him being sick.

"Uh, Elle? Noelle? CATALINA?!"

She snapped her newly extensioned pink nails at my nose.
Finally, I snapped back to reality. Ru's face was filled with dramatic disappointment as she looked at me.

I sighed and grabbed a meal that couldn't fit my budget.
It wasn't just about five flipping seconds when suddenly Ru's mouth activated again. "Oh, and by the way," She started. My blood was already reaching my anger when she talked while I sat down in my usual spot in the cafeteria.
"Noah's birthday is tomorrow and... you're his guest. "
What the hell?! Me? Guest? In just a day of a person surviving another year? Ehh? I almost spitted out the soda I was drinking, but now it ended up running on my nostrils.

"Uh, Elle, are you OK?"

"Do I look like a person who is so happy having soda all over the inside of her nostrils? Disgusting!"

I cleaned up my nose while Ru ate her apple she just kept in her blazer with the most sassy way. Sheesh! I was a bit frustrated about what was happening right now. My life isn't in God's rightful plan, and my first year is CRAZY. I was always known as that one anti-lover girl who hates boys so much out of all high school batches in this academy,Noww I am known as the boy danger's baby!
Ru noticed that I was lost in thought again and decided to comfort me. Her voice was soft, not like the sassy ones I always hear when I talk to her.
"Noelle, um... I know you're kinda stressed out because of everyone shipping you with a seventh grader, but, chill! Calm down! You know?"

I looked at Ru's direction, then saw one little woman with her eyelids filled with pink eyeshadow while her lips filled with deep red lipstick and that sassy voice of hers. Ruby might be so stubborn and an overreacting person, but she was like the one who dives in my imagination and my love for books and writing even though it was never her thing.
After an awkward moment, I spoke up.

"Can you help me?"

"For what, dear sister?"

"I want to give Noah a gift for his surviving year and also an apology."

Ru smirked and dragged me out of there.

She was the someone who treated me like a normal girl...