Tangled Love

Chapter Twelve: Punching Game

I woke up the next morning with an incredibly good mood, maybe because of the little friendly reunion we've had yesterday.

'And maybe because of the touchy moments with Nathan?'

I felt my cheek blushed on that thought. Yeah, it was indeed a superb feeling. I never thought I will be held like that by no other than Nathan. My Nathan. Is it really okay for me to claim him as mine now that Stacy's out of the picture? I guess there's no harm in it anymore and besides everybody knows he's engaged to me. I smiled to myself dreamily.

My daydreaming was cut short when I felt someone sat beside me on the bench. I'm at school right now specifically in the hallway, waiting for Piwie who is currently talking to his Physics Teacher inside the Faculty Room.

"Hi." A blonde girl who sat next to me spoke. I looked at her and checked if I was the one she's talking to, when I see there's no one besides the two of us, I looked at her again pointed to myself which made her chuckle.

"Yeah, I was talking to you. By the way I'm Tracy." She extended her hand to me with a friendly smile on her face. I looked at her intently before clasping my hands to hers  and I swear I've seen her somewhere before. 'Of course you must have seen her, you're at the same school dummy!' Remind me to slap my own subconscious later please?

"Ahehehe, Hi Tracy?" I faked a laugh. This is so awkward. She just snickered at my reaction. Looking at her closely, I can say that she is very pretty. She has this blonde wavy hair that is at shoulder length, fair complexion and a sophisticated facial feature. She looks like an angel.

"You're Nathan's fiance right?" She's still smiling at me, though her question intrigued me. Everyone knows what our relationship are right now and asking that question makes me think that something's off about her.

"Y-yeah, I guess?" I answered skeptically. She just nodded, her smile not leaving her face. I was about to ask her why is she interested about my relationship to Nathan when I heard Piwie called my name while walking towards our direction.

"Hey Kiara, I'm don--, Oh you're with someone." Piwie stood in front of us while examining the person sitting beside me. The girl, Tracy stood up and extended her hand to her. "Hi, I'm Tracy, you're Penelope  right?"

Piwie furrowed her eyebrows at her while I remained seated watching them. "You must know a whole lot of things about us." Nodding her head at Tracy while scanning her from head to toe.

"Yeah, you could say that." Tracy put her hand to her side when Piwie did not bother taking it and turned to face me again. "Anyway, nice meeting you Kiara. This will not be the last, I promise." She flashed me a smile one last time before turning her back to us while I was left there bewildered by what just happened.

"Oh-okay, what was that all about?" Piwie turned to me, confusion is all over her face just like me.

"I don't know... She just came to me and introduced herself and confirmed if I'm indeed Nathan's fiance." I mumbled still trying to figure out what really happened there.

"Oh just forget it Kiara. Maybe she's one of Nathan's fan, you know? They were very much devastated when the issue about the engagement came out. Not as devastated as Stacy though." She said while stretching her arms and feet while sitting comfortably next to me.

"Yeah," I felt guilty all of a sudden. Piwie might have sensed it so she placed her hand on top of mine and squeezed it.

"I know what you're feeling right now Kia, I feel sorry for her too but what can we do? She was free to fight for him but she didn't." I sighed upon hearing her words.