Lost Smiles.

Chapter 16:

Claire's POV.

I'm so glad that school is finally over. I happily run out literally, out of my P.E class the moment I heard the bell.

As I walk through the crowd of students, I was able to sight Bei Wei from afar and I ran up to her.

"Hey!" I fling my arm over her shoulder.

"Hey girly. You seem happy." She puts her arm over my shoulder as well.

"Yeah, I am." I smile.

"May I ask why dear chingu?"

"Why of course my sarang. I am just happy because today has being going smoothly so far."

"Really?"

"Yup. No Raymond or Xavier drama."

"Hmmm strange."

"I know right?"

"Maybe they both had fatal accidents and died on the spot." She giggles.

"That's harsh girl." I laugh.

"But I didn't see any of them in class today." I continue.

"Oh well, let's enjoy the moment." She smiles

"Yes we should before something happens." I giggle

Bei Wei and I walk into the school bus and saw only two empty seat; one in front with a junior and one at the back with the demon himself, Raymond.

I look over to Wei who looked confused too.

"Since when do Raymond take the bus, he has a fucking Lamborghini!" Wei wisper-shout to me.

"I'm as confused as you are. What do we do?" I turn to her.

"Okay, I'll seat with Raymond and you should sit with the junior." She suggests.

"You'll do that for me?" I look at her in grateful eyes.

"Well of course, we're besties duh..." She says as she walks over to sit with Raymond.

I mouthed a thank you to her as she sits beside him and I sit down close to the junior.

The ride to the bus stop was just peachy and I could hear some inaudible voices and giggles.

When we finally reach the bus stop and everyone leaves the bus.

I try to stand and I realize that I'm stuck. I try to pull myself up but I her my jeans ripping off my butt. I stay frozen.

Wei walks up to me from the back and asks why I'm not leaving the bus and I explain my condition to her.

Raymond walks up to us with a sly smile and I can easily guess he had something to do with it.

"Well hello there. Aren't you leaving the bus or are your panties in a twist." He laughs at his horrible joke.

"I know this is your doing." I glare at him.

"Well of course honey. I don't mean to brag but I take credit for my work." He smiles.

"I knew you were obviously not going to sit down with me so I decided be a good class mate. We all know that you're clumsy so in order for you not to fall during the ride, I decided to create my own version of a seat belt but it's a butt glue." He continues.

"You are so diabolic." Wei hisses at him.

"Thank you so much for the compliment. Have fun getting off." He smirks and leaves the bus.

"I knew we spoke to soon when we thought the devil won't attack today." Wei sigh.

"What do we do now?" I turn to Wei.

She shrugs and sit beside me.

"Hey! Why are you girls still here?" The driver asks.

"I was glued to my seat by someone." I explain.

"Oh all this teenagers of nowadays are so mean." He shakes his head.

"I think you are going to have to pull your jeans or force yourself up and rip it." Wei suggests.

"I think she's right." The driver says to me.

I nod my head and decide it was better to force myself up than to pull the jeans totally and be in my undies.

"Let me excuse you guys." He leaves and stands outside.

After several pulling and jean ripping I was finally able to get off the chair with my button part of my jeans glued down to the chair.

Fortunately, Wei had a sweater and I was able to tie it around my waist.

We both said thanks to the driver for his patience and bid him good bye.

I also bid Wei goodbye as she takes another route to get to her house.

I get home and immediately took a shower and changed my clothes.

My Mom wasn't back from work yet and I was already hungry so I decided to cook for myself.

I put little water in a pot and place in on the gas. I measure small quantity of rice enough for me and Mom and wash it before putting it in the pot.

When the rice began to boil I change the water and wash it again to get rid of excess starch. I put little water again in the pot, just enough to soften the rice and pour the parboiled rice into it with a pinch of salt.

I walk over to the freezer to check if we had any stew left and I see it was only fish stew that was left. I miss at the stew because I was allergic to fish and so I won't be able to eat it.

I check beside the stew and see that we still had some beef stew left just enough for one meal. I smile as I bring the container out of the freezer and empty it's contents in a small pot.

I also heat the stew up as remove my rice from the gas as the water was all dried up.

I put the portion I would eat in a plate and keep the rest in a warmer.

I pour my stew in a small dish and carry it up to my room. I come back down and carry a bottle of orange and pineapple juice with a cup.

I put on my laptop and pur a Korean movie called Angle's Last Mission.

I watched about nine episodes before I went downstairs to return my empty plates.

As I was about to go back upstairs my Mom opens the door and kick off her shoes.

I run and hug her as she smiles and put her bag on the seater.

"Welcome Mom." I greet her.

"Thank you baby. How was your day?" She slumls on the couch.

"Great." I lie.

"How was your day?" I ask her.

"Oh stressful as usual. I'm starving." She sighs.

"I prepared some cooked rice, it's in the warmer you can eat it with the fish stew in the freezer."

"Oh thanks love." She smiles.

"You're welcome! I need to dress up and go meet up with my friend." I lie again.

"That's nice. Its glad to know that you're making friends already."

"Yeah I guess." I go upstairs.

I open my dresser and put on a big red sweatshirt with white hearts on it.

I slide my bag pack on and go down stairs.

"I'm off Mom!" I scream so she could hear me from the kitchen.

"Okay dear have fun!"

I lock the door behind me and arrange the lace of my sneakers.

Okay I actually off to tutor Kyle but I lied to Mom. I didn't want her to know that I work if not she'd question me and my surprise might be ruined.

I walk down to the bus stop to take a bus to the train station.

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