Say My Name

Chapter 3

The next day, Becky hurried towards the campus hoping she would bump into Freen in the school gate. She was pacing back and forth in each passing moment anxious about how she would apologize to Freen about David's behavior the other day. When the clock strike 7 AM, Becky's eyes became attentive to each student entering the campus, yet... She never saw Freen.

"Waiting for who?" It was Kade, her cousin.

"I'm waiting for Freen, I have to give her something." She replied, eyes still glued on the gate.

"Oh? So you're going for Camila Freen Sarocha now?" Her cousin retorted.

"Why not?" She asked. "I can't see anything wrong with trying with her right?"

"Oh shut up Becca! You would never!" Kade replied.

"We'll see." She exclaimed with a grin in her lips. "Where is she? It's like almost class hour and she still hasn't entered the campus." She mumbled.

"Well babe you didn't pay attention enough. She just happened to slip through the school gate earlier. She's probably in class right now."

"What? How? Where did she slipped through?"

"Well cars and parkings exist dumbass." Becky groaned. So she's been waiting for an hour in here when she's literally in the class? She thought.

"I need to go. I have to see her." Without waiting for Kade to reply, Becky sprinted all the way from the ground floor to the fourth floor. She and Freen has history class together, only Freen is a little advanced than her.

When she opened the AVR, her eyes scanned for Freen in the room. She was seated on the east wing upper row, the light in their was low and dim and mostly students don't want to sit their. Only Freen like that area.

Becky walked towards her, Freen have her headphones on, her head nodding to the rhythm of the music she's listening to, fingers tapping on her note and lips softly murmuring the lyrics.

"Hey." Becky's soft voice elided, yet, Freen's music was loud enough to conceal Rebecca so voice. "Hey Freen." She poked Freen's arm making the other woman turn her head to the person who disturb her mini concert. "I just came to—" Before she can continue what she was about to say, Freen stood up and gathered her things and moved to a different row.

Becky scraped her nape. She didn't know it's gonna be this hard to sway someone's feet. She followed Freen, this time she settled on the last second row from the top.

"Freen." She prompted. "Can you just sit down for a minute? I just want to— Argh! Not again!" She groaned. Freen moved to another row again for the third time. She's glad there's not enough students to hear them and see them being tom and Jerry this early in the morning. Becky followed Freen again, this time she cornered her by raising both her arms above her head.

"Can we talk like adults do? Please? I just wanna apologize to you." She exclaimed, her voice sincere enough to touch Freen's hard heart somehow.

This time, Freen didn't resist. "Look, i'm sorry if David was a jerk yesterday, I made sure to punch his face after yesterday. And for your phone, I bought a new replacement for you." Becky took the box in her bag before handing it to her.

"You don't have to." Freen signed. Becky can read her sign language because she has a cousin who has the same needs.

"I wanted to. I broke your phone." She replied. She pushed the box towards Freen who didn't budge touch it. "It's yours. I bought it for you."

"I don't need it. I can buy it myself." Freen replied, she rolled her eyes at Becky and ignore the phone.

"I know you can buy it, but can you at least just appreciate the things I did? I didn't do such things for other people you know." Becky replied guilt tripping the older woman and somehow manage to work.