Eleanora Azarola had it all - looks, money, attitude. 3 new students arriving threaten to turn her life upside down even more than it already is. Forbidden love, drama, secrets emerge as Eleanora tries to handle the high school life. Everything howe...
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There was one thing Eleanora knew for a fact, and that was that the new scholarship students were about to be eaten alive.
At Las Encinas, it was as if all of the teenagers were thrown into a jungle to determine which of them were survivors. Eleanora was one, and as the daughter of one of the richest business magnate - as well as a fashion designer - Eleanora was placed at the top of the food chain. It would have been a lie to say that the girl didn't enjoy all of the perks her wealth brought her; alongside her best friends Carla and Lucrezia, the trio were seen almost every weekend wasting their money at various boutiques and clubs. The girls were almost royalties, not one of them ready to surrender their thrones as the leaders of the school.
The brunette didn't bother to spend not one thought on the new students. Even when Lu frantically texted her in the morning to remind her of the two new boys and one girl, Eleanora didn't care. She had other things to worry about, as in how to get rid of that random guy in her bed with whom she had hooked up last night. Her parents would have a fit if they found him on her bed naked, only a sheet covering his body - a body that made Eleanora forgot her mission for a second, a mission to wake up the boy and throw him out of the house before anyone noticed him.
What was his name? Something with an N. Nicolas? Natanael? Nano. Pretty sure it was Nano.
"Get up." The young girl commanded, throwing his jeans on top of his head. He responded with a loud groan, rubbing his eyes and staring around her room, looking clueless. She didn't have the time to remind him what had happened last night; instead she focused on getting ready for the next dreadful day of school. Luckily for her, he seemed to regain his memory rather quickly and now Eleanora was fully ready to get rid of him and never see him again.
"You need to leave." She declared loudly, taking a seat in front of her vanity table. He didn't reply and stood still to which the girl raised her eyebrow. From the mirror their eyes met, and with a small smile Nano left, stopping just for a minute to write down his phone number onto a piece of paper which the girl crumbled in her hands and threw into the trash can.
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"Have you seen them already? They look like lost puppies." Lucrezia chuckled, linking her arms with Eleanora who greeted her best friend with a smile and an eye roll. She couldn't understand the obsession - especially Lucrezia's - with a bunch of lowlife students. If anything, the attention should have been on the girls whose adventures last weekend were always a hot topic amongst the teenagers of Las Encinas.
"Lu, why do you care so much about them?" Eleanora questioned, coming to a stop which forced Lucrezia to stop along with her. Lu stared at her as if she had asked her an especially stupid question.
"I'm not about to let a bunch of coños take what I have worked for. Neither should you." She explained with a low voice, continuing on her journey towards the classroom where their Russian lesson took place every Monday morning. Eleanora followed her with her eyes, her mind wondering whether Lu had a point and the right mindset towards the new students.
The girl was about to fall when someone suddenly pushed her. Adjusting her skirt, Eleanora sent an angry glare to the person - in front of her stood the famous trio; Eleanora had to admit that the way they stared at everything made them indeed look like lost puppies.
Looking at them, the girl couldn't understand what was so special about them. She instantly disliked the loud one, the one who had bumped into her, apologized and was now talking about something Eleanora didn't bother to listen to. Next to him were the quiet ones - one boy and a girl. As much as she didn't want to, she had to admit that the girl was gorgeous. She now understood clearly why Lucrezia felt so threatened by them.
The final one was the quiet boy who mumbled only a couple of words to her. Eleanora had to admit that there was something handsome about the boy. If he'd only be rich like her, then she would have already made a move towards him. Now that she really thought about it, she was sure she had seen him at one of the cafes she and her friends frequently visited. Not that it mattered, anyway - someone like her couldn't bother to spend her time with someone like him.
Without saying anything, Eleanora turned on her heels and silently followed Lucrezia. She heard the loud one yell something to her, attracting the attention of many of her classmates who all stared at him as if he was an alien. In some ways he was - Eleanora and her friends had known each other ever since they were small children, and had spent most of their time alongside each other. Even the boys and girls Eleanora hadn't spoken to belonged to Las Encinas, something that could not be said about the trio.
Eleanora entered the classroom with the scholarship students right behind her. Students were scattered all through the room - the brunette instantly went to her usual seat in front of Guzmán and Lucrezia, and was immediately pulled into a conversation about Marina's party, one that she had no desire to attend.
"Hey! What's up, guys? I'm Christian." The loud one yelled behind Eleanora, forcing her to roll her eyes at the immaturity of him. She had barely said one word to him, and she already wanted to stab him to shut him up.
"Hello." Christian said, moving next to Guzmán in order to sit next to him, an action that was denied right away by Guzmán. With a defeat Christian moved away in search of another seat as Eleanora and Guzmán let out a small chuckle. When the teacher entered she focused her attention fully on him - the last thing the girl needed was even worse grades than she already had.
Eleanora didn't bother to listen to Christian's introduction, focusing instead on her manicured nails. Her attention, however, was caught by the girl Nadia. It was obvious she was ambitious, perhaps even more so that Eleanora herself. Yet the fact remained that she was a competition to her - with one glance to one another she and Lucrezia realized that the most threatening of the trio was Nadia.
The final one was Samuel. Due to Guzmán's provocation he refused to say much; Eleanor had to admit that the boy was smarter than he looked. Within hour he had already managed to figure out the hierarchy between the walls of Las Encinas.
Perhaps he was the one who would survive in the jungle.
