Not Into Her

XXXI - The Life Onwards: The New-found Friends

The second quarter of the school year when I feel alone again. The twins are having their vacation in Arizona and Aunt Brenda told me about their leave, in just hours from now. So I didn't have anyone to talk right now. Holly is dead, the twins are away, and Aprielle is on the Philippines. I didn't know who I will be so I gone to my classroom for my first subject for the day.

It was the last year of my school and I just can't to stay alone at this time. Aunt Brenda and her family was on their vacation at this moment and they'll be having their vacation for, maybe, quite, sometime. So I walked to the room with confidence and with happiness, although I haven't someone near me to cheer me up again.

I walked inside my room, for the Criminal Organization subject, and sat on the chair that I picked. The class started and I and my classmates of that class listened to all our professor said. First, she introduced herself and went to our subject for the lesson proper of the subject for the day.

"Someone must never jot down the professor's name by now." a certain someone whispered at me.

I looked at the person who is on my right. He's wearing a checked stripes, black pants and a red shoes as his footwear. I looked at his face and saw his long fringe, hanging on the right side of his face, and an blue transparent-rimmed eyeglasses. He's got a soggy face, with long nose, thin eyebrows and a brown eyes and he's a British, based on his accent.

"What?" I asked the man.

The man looked at me and smiled. "I said all of his students shouldn't jot down the name of the professor." he repeated.

I chuckled and smiled. "Say," I said at him. "what course do you go to?"

"Business Administration." he simply said.

I gave my hand to him and offered a handshake. "I'm Alex." I said. "Alex de Castro."

He took my hand and shook my hand with his right hand. "I'm Erick." he said. "Erick Daniels. I came from London. UK."

"I'm from Philippines." I said in return. "My aunt asked me to send here to continue my education."

Erick Daniels. Age 18, hailed from London, UK. His mother, Laura Sawyer, is a professional ballerina in London for three years when his father, Henry Daniels, offered her marriage. Laura was just eighteen at that time and Henry is just twenty. They're very young at that time and Laura got pregnant of Erick at the age of twenty, two years after their own official marriage.

As a boy, Erick started to get involved to fights around London. When his parents died at his young age of two, he started to get abusive and very arrogant to others. He became orphaned, and got demanded at the age of seven after he got involved in brawls and got bruises from these fights.

At the age of eleven, Erick got adopted by the nuns around London who has been seeing him in streets as beggars and sometimes burglars. He tried escaping the nuns and their orphanage three months after he got adopted but he came back three days after his escape. He managed himself by giving some good actions to the nuns, learned respecting others, meditating and giving thanks to the Lord for giving him a second chance to change.

At the age of fifteen, The Association of Nuns who adopted Erick took Erick to school and they paid the monthly bills for the poor child. After he graduated, he asked the permission of the nuns to make him study in America to continue his dream as a businessman and to take back what the nuns gave him, respect and love.

The next class came and I immediately got friends on the first subject and that's Erick. We separated at the bell ring and immediately walked to our next classes. My next class on my list is Research. The room is quite like the first own but it has windows on it. The shelves are located around the room and the students are allowed to read one of them at a time.