Hold Me Closer

Chapter 3

Crystal's POV

I went inside the classroom and saw Scarlet next to an empty chair. I grinned as I walked over and slid next to her.

"Hey purple cakes." Scarlet teased as I punched her shoulder lightly. I smirked and rested my chin on my knuckles.

"I hope this school year is going to be a nice one, I mean, I ran over to someone who just left me on the floor." I shrugged and said it in a sassy-way.

Her eyes widened and smiled. "Is it a guy..?" She asked dreamily as she rested her chin in her both palms.

I chuckled and nodded. "Yah, yah... it was that Zed guy."

Her mouth formed into an 'o'. "I guess, he is not who you think he is, right?"

I just shrugged and arranged my stuff. "Not expecting anything."

We both turned to the door as we saw the teacher walking in. She has brilliant silver hair and red eyes, brightening her youthful face. She looks like in her early twenties.

"Okay, good morning class!" The teacher greeted with a smile. "I am miss Angela Bianca Fluidache, but you can call me teacher Angela!"

We all stood up and greeted her with her name, and she let us sat back down.

"Okay, as you all know, in every first day of school, we have to introduce ourselves, right?"

The whole class groaned while the teacher just chuckled. "Come on guys, you might not want your English teacher miscall your name, right?"

The teacher is about to continue talking when there was someone waiting at the door. All of us turned to that guy, as my eyes widened.

"Sir Aldenheid, what brings you here?" Miss Angela asked as she glared beneath her glasses.

"I'm sorry, ma'am, but I am supposed to be in this class..." he mumbled like he doesn't care.

"Then get inside and take a seat." Miss Angela instructed and he went inside. His eyes search around for a seat. His eyes landed on me as he stared on my purple orbs.

I raised an eyebrow, emphasising a question, "What?". He just shrugged and took the seat at the back of mine.

"Okay guys!" Miss Angela said and excitedly clapped her hands. "Since we are in this introduction, why don't we scramble up the options?"

I exhaled and tugged at my skirt lightly. Now I don't know if its my turn. What if, I will stutter infront of everyone? Well, sort of a stupid mistake, but nah.

I watched as the teacher took out a bowl with many small folded papers inside. She scrambled it up and took a piece. She unfolded it and took a look then smiled.

I crossed my fingers for luck. Please let it not be me.....

"And the lucky GIRL is....."

Goddamit.....

"Crystal!"

I sighed and stood up. I walked at the front while my black boots are clicking. I faced all my classmates. I guess I'm going to be with them the whole year.

I cleared my throat. "Good morning everyone, I am Crystal Skylar Mae Brook, 15 years old. I am half Japanese and half American."

I turned to look at my teacher. She smiled and said, "Thank you, Crystal."

I went back to my seat and the activity goes on.

Later......

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"Goddamit what the hell?!" Zed screamed as he saw a blonde haired girl spilled a juice over her.

"I'm sorry! So sorry..." the girl apologized and wiped his shirt of with a tissue.

Zed swatted her hand away. "Better be careful with me around, you are just a replacement!"

The blonde haired girl widened her eyes and her tears fell, marking her face with some mascara.

She quickly bolted out of the classroom, leaving all of us hanging our mouths open, shocked at the scene.

Scarlet slowly tugged at the sleeve of my shirt. I blinked and turned to look at her giving the same look she has.

People started murmuring about the incident a while ago. Zed, meanwhile, I don't know where he went. But I just hope that jerk is going to say sorry to that poor blonde girl, even tho at first I thought she is a slut.

Scarlet and I slowly stood up, grabbed our stuff and went outside the classroom. We are on the doorstep until we saw dat jerk, Zed talking to another girl. The girl, likewise looking at him in a flirty way.

"Oh my gosh! I know right!" The girl exclaimed and giggled like a witch.

Zed just smirked and brushed back a strand of hair behind the girl's ear and stared at her eyes.

Scarlet nudged on my arm and pretended the "vomit face". I smirked at her joke and passed by the two PDA lovers.

I mean, seriously. Who does that in public?!

We walked out the hall and decided to eat pocky at a cafe. While we are on the way, we saw someone sitting in a bench, facing her back at us.

As we approached her, I heard her crying quietly and wiped her eyes, clutching her glasses. I approached her quietly, patting her back.

"Ehh...?" She murmured as she looked up at me with her teary brown orbs.
"Are you okay..?" I asked her as I took out a tissue and gave it to her.

"No..." she murmured as she took my tissue and wiped her tears. "Thanks for your concern..."

"No problem." Scarlet smiled and held out her hand. "I'm Scarlet. This is Crystal. What's your name?"

"Trixie." She said, smiling. She shook Scarlet's hand and waved at me.

"Hey Trixie, would you like to join us at the cafe? We could snag some pocky together and get along." I told her.

She ran her fingers through her hazelnut brown hair and smiled. "Sure, let's go?"

We walked together outside the school and went to the cafe with our new friend....