Her and Her Unofficial Love Affairs

CHAPTER 11

The morning after as I arrived in school, there was a great commotion going on! Girls were yelling everywhere. I hurriedly looked for my classmates so I could ask them what was happening. But when I passed by the hallway, a friend from the lower section told me that the pictures were already posted!

"Pictures!" I thought sighing. Only pictures and girls go gaga over them!

"How stupid!", I added to myself.

I just passed by the mob of girls looking at the pictures and when I entered our classroom, the section 1 girls were also talking about the pictures.

"What's with the pictures?", I asked them.

And they answered, "They were all so good-looking especially Lance!"

And that was why he wasn't in our cheer dance competition anymore – he shifted to join another contest!

"So he joined Mr. & Ms. Sportsfest?" I asked my classmates.

"Yes!" the girls chorused.

"But he's too shy! Who convinced him to do so?" I asked again.

"Maybe he has changed. People change, you know," one of the girls reckoned.

"Oh, he's just the boy next door type," another girl sighed dreamily.

"For sure, he's gonna win this contest!" then still another chimed in.

So, that was it. The person whom I hated so much in second year high school instantly became a campus heartthrob!

"Just what potion did he use to get you, guys attracted to him?!" I blurted out without expecting for an answer and went straight to my seat before our adviser comes in for homeroom.

Recess came and more freshmen and sophomore girls were now crowding to take a look at the pictures. Lunch came and the scenario was still the same. And in the afternoon dismissal, the more girls were there. But one classmate urged me to come with her so she could take a look at the pictures again. I didn't have a choice but to accompany her. So, I did take a look at the pictures.

"I just can't get enough of his photos," my classmate said and I could see that she's been watching the photos for the nth time.

"Why?" I asked dejectedly.

Those were just normal pictures however, something was stirred up inside of me. There was something in the pictures that transformed him. I evaluated them for a while for flaws and suddenly, I ended up admiring him. Truly, he was not the same person as portrayed in the pictures. He had become different. He stood out among the rest! He surprisingly became the apple of my eyes. I stood there frozen with what I had seen until I noticed my classmate was already poking me for I didn't hear her say that we had to go. So I got back to my senses again.

"Oh, I just can't wait to watch him during the compet!" my classmate exclaimed. "He's a sure win!" she added.

I just nodded and she gave me a quizzical look the moment she took a glance at me.

"Are you okay?" she inquired.

"Mmm, yeah!" I replied absent-mindedly.

"He really is a changed man! He'd grown up so cute. Oh, not just cute but super handsome! How come we haven't noticed him before? We were classmates, right? Then why is it that we haven't took a look at him? He's really really cute now!" my classmate continued to babble.

But my mind was somewhere else. Somewhere very very far that my classmate's words just drifted away.

On my way home, I was not myself. I always thought of the pictures. I said to myself that it could not be. My one and only enemy had become different! He instantly turned out to be a celebrity. I could not believe it! Henceforth, what happened was real and I had to admit that. Even to myself, I could say that he indeed looked good. He had become handsome! At that night, I couldn't sleep. His face was always what I saw. And this paved the way of having my first love – one that branded my entire love life!