Tutor Lance Fletcher? Are you serious?!" Liza exclaimed. "Liza, what’s the big fuss? Ali does deserve extra credit~.” Frey asked. “ Yea, but not torture. Ali, believe me. The guy is a total scare bear.”
And his fashion is sooo last season.” Tori added.
“The important thing is that you’re okay with it.” Frey answered. “Well,…”
“Just try be-friending him a bit. Maybe he’s not used to school or something. It’s just the first day after all, anything could happen!” Elaina advised. “OH OH! You could even have a chance in dating him –“
“What MHIA here wanted to say is that maybe you could get a closer look on that mysterious side of his.” Moni covered Mhia’s mouth.
Actually, Mhia wasn’t wrong. Lance’s mysteriousness really intrigues me. And yes, I do want some extra credit.
Tomorrow came fast. I took a head-start reviewing for Education 101 at the library before the first period. “A teacher, huh?” I got stiff hearing Lance’s voice. I turned around and said quickly said “hi” without thinking. “Pft. So that’s why you dithered talking to me yesterday.” He smirked.
“Uhhhh.. huh. I’m sorry, what are you doing here?” I said mischievously.
“I’m studying Trigonometry.” He raised the book on his hand for proof. “I see. So, I just noticed that you weren’t at the freshmen list but you joined Science class as a first year. Why is that?”
“You looked me up? That’s cute. But next time, mid you own business.” He walked away.
What was that about? Is it wrong to ask him questions now? He was the one who started the conversation. I just followed. What a temper.
The bell rang and now, I get to spend the next two hours with an irritating guy beside me for the next four months. Hu-rraaaah. Luckily, we could choose partners during pair works though most of the time? I pray that I’d be put out of my misery with Lance as my seatmate.
He is really disturbing. He used his earphones in class and putshis feet on our classmate Zebediah’s chair. Poor Zebee. Sometimes, I’d even smell alcohol around him.
During lunch time, “I can’t believe you have five classes with him during MWF?! “
“Shh. Liza, you’re making her feel more miserable.” Tori apprised.
“Maybe he’s just taciturn or dissembling” Frey comforted.
“Uhh, English please? Ahahahaha!” (Mhia) we all started laughing. “Now that’s better, we girls should really smile more often!” Moni grinned.
It was nice hanging around with them again. I felt alive without a single worry to think of! It was the best.
“Liza! I got these for you. Happy Anniversary.” Ric came hurdling.
“Oh-em-G ! This is sooo sweet, Ric. Thank you!”
For everyone’s information, Ric is Liza’s two-year boyfriend. He’s actually Liza’s longest. By the way, every one of us is SSB as in ‘single since birth’ except for Liza and Moni of course. However Moni just broke up with hers before summer break.
“Hey Al, what happened to that guy that Liza introduced you to?” Elaina randomly popped a question.
“oh yeah, the one who fell in love with you even when he haven’t actually met. He was super cute.” Tori added.
“Aha-ha. Funny you should ask. Uhh, well, let’s just say I’m too young.” I replied
“YOU LET HIM GO?!!” They shouted. A new topic arises. It was six months ago.
This guy’s name is Chris. He’s really like girl’s idea of a perfect boyfriend, even for me ever since I learned the meaning of the word ‘crush’. I mean really. He has the perfect body fig, the most angelic-looking face, smart and talented. What is there to hate? Apparently, we only text, chat and do voice recording so I got a bit uncomfortable with how he worry so much. I wasn’t used to it and I fear I never will so I stopped everything just like that. We’re staying friends now but I feel he’s still a bit ‘bitter’. I didn’t hear anything about him after that.
“For me, Ali here did the right decision. She never even met the guy in person. For all we know, he could be bald hoodlum.” Mhia supported.
“But wasn’t it a hasty decision too? No offense, Al.” Frey said. “Nah, I understand what you mean but it’s just not my time to step up to the ‘lady’ hood level.”
“And we eat to that!” Liza made an uproar.
“Woooooh! Ahahahaha!” we dug in.
The clock is ticking quite slower than usual when we bore ourselves to death in History class. So, I started sketching on my notebook again. I drew lots of stuff; from sceneries to animals, Abstract to portraits snd s little bit of manga—a kind of Japanese style drawing for comics.
“Who’s that you’re drawing?” a crawling voice behind my ear creepily whispered. It made me shudder that I carelessly push everything that was on my armchair off to the floor. “Oh shit!” I mumbled, palpitating.
“Is everything alright, Ms. Scarlet?”
“Y-yes sir. I’m sorry.” The professor continued his lecture. I heard Lance chuckling as he enjoys the embarrassment I played. I took a deep sigh and concentrated back to the lecture.
“Like seriously, what was his problem? He keeps on pestering me like some kind of bug. Well I had had it. He went too far. I’ll really ignore him.
YOU ARE READING
My not so Perfect Love
Genç KurguAlison Grey Scarlet, a freshman, wants nothing else than being with her family and friends and enjoy the rest of her life. But as reality forbids, a mysterious guy named Lance got in the way of this and made Ali's life in school miserable as it is...
