The Pandemic

I am a 3rd year High School student. I am ignorant, selfish, naive and quiet. When someone asks me about my friends, they would always say "People like her still have friends?". What they don't understand is my best friends are like me. We are an outcast in the Social World. My best friends are Yna and Avery. Yna is a 15-year old sensitive student in St. Joseph High. Avery is a 16-year old defensive young lady, also in St. Joseph High. Our differences make our intimacy strong. People refuse to come in to our shadows because they are afraid that they might get bullied by students who afflict us. But what is in our shadows? not even I know.

Yna, Avery and I always called weekends "Ours" because it's the only time where we get to express ourselves. Every weekend, we felt like the world was ours, we can do anything. Sometimes we would skip our martial arts lessons to buy food and lock ourselves inside a room. It was fun. I lied on a bed and a conversation started. Avery asked:

"Hey how's Lex?"

I pretended to act as if I don't know lex. "Who's Lex?" I asked. Yna jumped on me and said "Ishh. Now that's not a good Sasha, C'mon tell us about Lex!". They both stood up in front of me dancing with each other while yelling "Lex! Lex! Lex! Tell us about Lex!". I sighed and I said "Ok ok just lower your voices, If mom hears me I'm dead." "YEY!" both yelled. "Well, it happened a few days ago..."

It was raining heavily, I forgot to bring my umbrella. I got stranded in my room, again, fantasizing about me and "My Lex". The rain poured heavier, I decided to just walk in the rain, I thought that it would calm my mind. I raised my chin up and felt the raindrops touching my face, running down my soaked body, I stopped walking and closed my eyes, I wanted to feel the rain more, for once I thought I was special because rain touched me.. Suddenly, I haven't felt the raindrops anymore, then I heard a calm voice saying "You're gonna get sick if you do that often." To my surprise, it was... LEX! I quickly wore my poker face and said "Thank you for your concern, people usually treat me like a nonexistent person. I'm flattered." I ran as fast as I could away from him while blushing.

"Wew. well that escalated quickly" Avery whispered

"Yeah I know, did you notice? Sasha is a little bit lucky in love." Yna whispered back

I raised my voice and said "I can hear both of you! and seriously, was that sarcasm?"

"Nope" they replied.

Yna had a crazy idea. She said "What if we make a path now? Only us three, no friends nor family."

"And by that, what do you mean?" Avery asked.

"I mean, it should only be us. Just us. People treat us like we don't exist. We are the nonexistent in their world and they should be the nonexistent in ours."

I thought it was a good idea because happiness only existed when the three of us are together. When we are parted, we act like weirdos. We refuse to show any emotion on the outside, but inside, we are hurt. Avery and I agree and from that day, we became "The Equilateral". The Equilateral is a name Yna came up with because she's a geometry-freak.

"Night time!" Avery shouted.

"Yeah! we can finally go out! hey Sasha, Yna, wanna watch a Zombie Apocalypse Movie?"

"Sure" we both replied. Avery wanted to take the car but Yna and I preferred to walk. Avery asked "Why do you guys wanna walk?"

"We want to release all the pain that the world gave us." Yna stated. Avery walked with them while saying "You're right. All the pain is suddenly going away." The Equilateral headed to the movies.

After watching the movies, Yna, Avery and I exited the movies with a poker face. When we reached my room we sat down quietly...

"Oh my god.. I was awesome!!!!" Avery yelled

"Yeah! It really was. What if a zombie apocalypse happens?" Yna asked. I answered

"Then we would do everything to survive. Just the three of us." We held our hands together then we said "Just Us!". We jumped on my king size bed and we watched anime until we fell asleep.