Melodious Love

Ch-1 : Friends?!

Edward

An 11 year old boy was sitting in the living room of the obnoxiously big and cold mansion at Upper East Side, Manhattan.

Dressed in black jeans and white t shirt, Edward was waiting for his dad to get the car out and drive him to his first day at middle school.

Most children would've been excited or nervous for their first day.
But Edward wasn't like most children, he had no feelings about starting his grade 6.
He thought, 'I spent 10 years without any friends, how bad can middle school be'.

He heard the horn outside the house and made his way to the front door. "I'm going mom" he called out.
His mother merely nodded and went back to what she was doing.
Edward was used to his mother not being interested in anything he had to show or say.

He went outside, down the steps and sat in the front seat putting his bag in his lap.
School was 20 mins away from the house and the whole drive was silent except for songs, which Edward was playing in the car through AUX using his dad's phone, and his father tutting at every single one.

His father never liked music, said it was really low level and didn't suit their standards.

Edward on the other hand loved music, he was even thinking about applying for summer music program which he saw on the school's online website while he was researching.

He had no intention of socializing but joining the program would save him from dying of boredom during summer break and having to go to stupidly rich and show off business trips with his father all around U.S.
He could even play his guitar in peace without anyone judging or tutting at him.

Soon they reached school and Edward was snapped out of his thoughts.
He climbed out of his car and his dad gave him a "pep talk".

"Don't do anything to ruin your image, you're better than most kids in there alright?" His dad said.
"Yes dad" he gave an uninterested reply.
"Have a good day, I'll come pick you up" with this he closed the door and saw his father driving away.

He turned towards the school entrance and thought 'just gotta keep my head down and not talk to anyone, alright I can do that'.
He walked inside and towards the principal office.

As Edward entered, 2 more students, a boy and girl, same age as him, went in at the same time.

"Ah, you must be Mr. Lightwood, Mr. Wystan and Ms. Wystan" said the principal, Mr. Johnson.
They all nodded.
"Right, here are your schedules and all 6 grade classes are on 1st floor" he told them, handing them schedules.

All of them walked out of the office and reached 1st floor.
Edward's first class was english.
He turned to see if those other two kids had same classes as him.

He heard both of them talking,
"What a great way to start school, maths!!" Girl says while rolling her eyes.
Boy chuckles and says bye to her and walks towards where Edward was standing.

"Hi, I'm Chris" he introduces himself.

Chris, Edward noticed, was same height as him. He had dark brown hair and light brown eyes. He's wearing yellow t shirt and blue jeans and shoes.

"Hi" Edward mumbles back slightly.

"Hey look! We have same class" the brown haired kid suddenly exclaims, scaring Edward as he suddenly turns towards him.
He checks and says "oh yeah........nice"
And hopes silently that this is the only one class they share, because this kid talks too much.

But as the day went on, Edward realises that this kid, Chris, is gonna be his classmate for every class.
And maybe he had made it his mission to talk to Edward because the whole day he doesn't leave his side for one minute.

At lunch Chris makes his way to his sister Jennifer (Edward had unwillingly found out that they are twins).
Edward thinks finally he's gonna be alone, though his relief was short lived as he sees Chris and (much to his horror) his sister coming to sit with him.

"Hi, I'm Jennifer. Chris's twin sister" the girl introduces herself.

'Yeah I found out' he thinks but just says a silent "Hey" and goes back to lunch.

She was a bit shorter than Chris, but had same eye and hair color. She was wearing a pink top and blue jeans.

Whole time the twins kept trying to talk to him, he just gave them short replies like, "yes" or "no" or "ok".
But either they didn't get the hint that Edward didn't want to talk or they ignored it because they did not leave.

By the end of the day, Edward had the whole knowledge about Chris's life, even if he didn't want to know.

He had found out about Chris's full name, his mother's name, father's name, dog's name, his hobbies, fav sports (Chris was horrified when Edward said he didn't have any fav sport), and even his fav movie.

When it was end of school, all the students were outside. Some going home with their parents, others waiting.
Chris and Jennie were also waiting for their dad among the crowd.

Edward made his way to a secluded area and sat on a bench away from everyone.

He feels someone walking towards him and sees chris making his way toward him and sitting next to him, "What are you doing here?"

Edward sighs before replying, "waiting".

"You never told me your name" says Chris.
"Yeah, well you kept talking the whole day." Edward shrugs.
Chris laughs, "I guess I got a little excited to make a new friend."

Edward stares at him, "friend??"
"Yes, obviously. Why else would I be talking like crazy the whole day"
He feels a small smile growing on his face.

"Now you gonna tell me the name or do I have to guess it?"
"It's Edward"
"Well you don't talk much, do you Edward" says Chris
"And you talk too much, don't you chris" Edward replies and they both laugh.

Chris hears Jennie calling him and says, "see you tomorrow Eddie"
Edward looks at Chris, shocked at the nickname before replying, "see you."

Sitting in the car with his father, Edward thinks back about his day and realises he actually made a friend.
After 11 years of his life being alone, he made a friend.

When they reach home, he directly goes to his room knowing his mother wouldn't want to hear about his day and, frankly, he didn't want to tell her either.

He was going to keep his happy day to himself.

He just picks up his guitar, shuts his door and plays his favorite song.
Little things by One Direction.

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After 11 years of his lonely life, Edward has made a friend. (That's some Harry potter type shit lol)
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