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Chapter Two: Annoying Teachers and Best Friends

Chapter Two: Annoying Teachers and Best Friends

What a morning! I’m late for my class, I haven’t eaten breakfast yet, my hair looks like a bird’s nest, and worst of all, my things are a mess. I hurriedly put all of my things inside my bag and went to inside the bathroom to brush my teeth fast, after I’m done I opened my closet and rummaged through my clothes trying to find something to wear for the day. 

So I just put on some dark skinny jeans, a blue stripped long sleeves shirt which is suitable for the weather ‘cause it’s so cold, and my all time favourite black Ralph Lauren lace up combat boots. 

I looked into the mirror and started to put on my make up; gosh my appearance is so not like the models we see at our fashion school posters, I have light brown skin, black eyes with short eyelashes, short black pixie haircut, my lips are a little bit full and 5 foot 3” is pretty short for a 17 year old college student.

After I put on mascara, my signature kohl black eyeliner, concealer and cherry red lip stain, I’m all set for the day! I grabbed my bag and dashed through the door while combing my hair. Who knew that locking my apartment is so hard to do when you’re in a hurry for class. 

I ran down the building and when I already gotten outside , I didn’t bother to get a cab because I saw how awful the traffic was up in my apartment window and the university where I study is just 3 blocks away.

I practically ran like a madman until I finally reached the building with the sign that says University of Fashion and the Arts. 

Mr. Fern is at the school gate waiting for me with a ‘I knew it’ look. Mr. Fern is the university’s guard. “Wow Elizabeth you said you wouldn’t be late for your class today” he said while laughing at me. “Ha Ha funny Mr. Fern” I said while rolling my eyes at him. Fern just chuckled “Hey haven’t you have a class to attend to?” my eyes widened “Omygosh! Thanks for reminding Mr. Fern! Goodbye!” He just laughed and bid his farewell too.

I finally reached the classroom! As I entered the room, everyone was in their seats and stared at me even Mr. Stroud our textiles teacher was looking at me with an eyebrow raised “It’s good to have you join us Ms. Elizabeth, please take your seat.” He said sarcastically, I flushed with embarrassment and looked for my best friend Krista and went to where she was seated and sat, I looked at my watch and saw that I was 30 minutes late, woah. After I was seated, Mr. Stroud continued the lesson.

“Where the hell have you been?” Krista asked. Kris is my best friend since seventh grade she’s practically my sister. She has brown eyes with long eyelashes, long jet black curly hair, she’s really tall, fair skin and she’s currently wearing black ballet flats with ribbon laces that you tie around your ankles, a dark blue mid- thigh length skirt, a flower patterned shirt and a varsity jacket and her signature red lipstick on 

 “I overslept, duh!”Krista just rolled her eyes at me “Let me guess, you’ve been sketching new designs on your ‘Notebook-slash-Sketchpad’ again.” I sighed “Yeah, you’ve caught me again Kris” I said sarcastically while I emphasized the word ‘again’ “Haven’t I always?!” Krista said with a smiling expression.

“Hey! Stop talking! Especially both of you Krista and Elizabeth!” Mr. Stroud scolded us like some bunch of high school students. Geez, were second year collage already Mr. Stroud! Krista and I just stopped talking, took our notebooks out and listened to Mr. Stroud’s lesson about textiles and fabrics with annoyed expressions.

I sighed, after two hours of textiles class, it’s finally break time! I seriously gotta love my schedule, two hours of break before a boring fashion illustration class with Ms. Edwards. Krista has another class, ha! It’s another hour of class before her precious break, she said that she’ll meet me in an hour at our usual spot at the field under the big ol’ cupcake tree.

I just do the same routine every Wednesday schedule, wait for Krista to finish her one hour class in the morning after the textiles class with that annoying, old and grumpy Mr. Stroud. I looked at my wristwatch and realized that I’ve been walking around the university for fifteen minutes and my stomach growled with hunger, I remember now, I didn’t get to eat breakfast ‘cause I was such in a hurry and Krista has food! Aw this sucks Krista doesn’t come back for another forty five minutes. I’ll just buy from one of the fast food chains out of school for a half an hour.

As I started to walk towards the gate I spotted Mr. Fern grinning like the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland. I approached him with my eyebrows up with curiosity “Hey how you doin’ Mr. Fern! Why is your face like that? So creepy, cut it out!” I exclaimed, but just kept grinning and sighed “I just love this day you know that Lizabeth?” His eyes look like a person madly in love staring out of nowhere.

“Oookay Mr. Fern, I’ll leave you alone now..” Maybe he saw that mystery woman again that he told me about a month ago, but I didn’t know that he’s madly in love with her “I think I really should get going Mr. Fern.” he sighed “Okay, take care Liz!” he exclaimed, still grinning.

So I just left him there standing, grinning like that weird cat. But that still doesn’t change the fact that I’m freakin’ hungry! I walked for like 2 blocks before I reach Subway Sandwiches, it’s my first time to eat something here. And one of the advantages of living here in New York is that everything is in walking distance.

I ordered the meatball sub sandwich with marinara sauce and melted cheese, got out of the store, and started to walk back to the university. The sandwich is still warm in my hands, I’m getting tempted to eat it, but I think it is best for me to wait for Krista so that we could eat together. I finally reached the university gate and didn’t even bother to talk to ‘madly in love’ Mr. Fern.

My phone ringed, ‘one new message’ hmm..maybe it’s from Krista.

‘heyy..where the hell are you?! I’ve been waiting here for like fifteen minutes already dude!’ Wait, what time is it? I looked at my watch and saw that it’s already past one hour. What the?! How could this happen?! Maybe it’s because of how slow I walked, or the line in Subway. I think I should hurry before Krista gets mad at me, I replied to her text ‘i’m so sorry!! :(( imma on mah way :*’ I ran through the gates as fast as I could until I reached the Cupcake Tree.

Krista was standing there under the tree with an annoyed expression on her face “The heck have you been Liz?!” she exclaimed.

“Sorry! I just bought food! I didn’t get to eat this morning ‘cause I was late remember?” I said trying to catch my breath.

“Okay fine let’s just eat. I’m beat, gotta hate biology with Ms. Chima” she said.

We sat down under the big tree and ate our food, and talked about random things like we do every day. It’s really nice to have a best friend.