THE OLD ME BACK

Chapter 18

Tyler, one of the members of Boylight Group who was the second vocalist next to him. I've known him as a silent guy but when you were only two left, he's a bit wild. In fact, he was the closest friend of his and sometimes our so-called 'bridge' whenever we had arguments.

Up until now, I could not believe he liked me all this time. I was totally blown away! I even understood why Hanky got to be furious about what he knew after reading the card when we were in the food court, even though I should be the one to be mad at him. I never expected that this card was really from him among all the guys who were sending me in my locker.

I must deeply sighed.

"Hi Alesha!" Someone greeted from afar, and I just waved my hand at him and smiled.

Currently, I was walking along the corridor with the students' eyes on me. Whenever I glance at them for a while, their smiles are already shown. The curves of their lips gave me the reason to continue still. Although I already knew the fact that I could not please everyone, and not all could like me, I chose still to look at the brighter side of what happened lately.

A group of students caught my attention while I was taking my steps towards them. It seemed they were in a mess while looking at the bulletin board. By that, I got curious. So I approached them and someone noticed me there.

"Wait, hey, Alesha is here." He said to his friends. When they diverted their attention to me, they automatically smiled shy and gave way. Others waved their hands first before they went their ways.

Uh. I got this feeling of being avoided, but it really helped because I wanted to be alone for now. Sighed.

I was already in front of the bulletin board when I noticed my name encoded on a paper posted. I checked the date and it's today, so I spent time reading the blog. Being curious of other blogs posted in previous updates, I also checked it.

ALESHA AND HANKY HAD THEIR DATE AGAIN AT CARNIVAL

I suddenly smiled out of seriousness because of this title I read. That night was so enjoyable. He really let me feel his love the way how he carried me through even that night was raining.

HANKY CHEATED AGAIN ON ALESHA WITH THE SAME GIRL?

My smile quickly vanished. The mood I had got easily changed. This was the second title of the blog for the month. I gulped as I tried to read the first paragraph. Afterwards, the pictures attached on it.

ALESHA WAS SEEN IN THE CLUB WITH STRANGERS LAST NIGHT

I took a deep breath and read the entry, again. I was in the middle of my reading when I turn the page to a more latest update.

TYLER HAS CRUSH ON ALESHA WHILE SHE'S WITH HANKY?

The bell rang when I was about to read the blog, so I hurriedly went back to our room. Maybe I could read that in some other days when I was not totally busy. After a while, the class resumed. And to our surprise, our class adviser would announce the scores of our periodical exam.

"Congratulations! You got the highest score..." Mrs. Montalban got trailed off as she roamed her eyes to us with a wide smile.

"Congrats Alesha, as always!" My seatmate uttered, and my other classmates kept on shouting my name.

Of course, I had to believe that I should be the one who would get the highest score. I gave my best, anyway. I should be more proud of myself.

"Congratulations to Ms. Almira Gordon! She got 47 over 50! What an excellent score!"

The claps that were about to be applauded was stopped because of my name not mentioned. Almost all in the class got shocked and surprised. Even me who always got the highest score in every exam, I can't help but to heave sigh and wish to disappear so sudden because of shame.

"We feel sorry about what happened. It's just 2 points apart from Almira," Thea said when she approached me while I was putting back my things in my locker. "Better luck next time."

It's already our class dismissal, and currently we're here in locker room with the other girls. Upon hearing what Thea said, I just smiled at her as if nothing that mean to me.

"It's all right, maybe she just studied harder. You study hard too. You can't even reach the passing score."

After closing my locker, she trapped the way that I was not able to get out from the locker room.

"Thank you for the concern, Alesha. I know you can't resist us," Thea responded, and her friends got chuckled.

"We're classmates, after all."

"Exactly, so why avoid us?" She smiled confidently. Her confidence was too much that I got to be shy for her.

"I just wanted to be alone."

"Oh really? But I think you need a hand. Want to grab our help?" She looked at her friends and all of them nodded. Their smiles were so intentional, like they really wanted to welcome me.

"What kind of help? After all, I can still manage myself."

Thea stepped closer to me. She suddenly tapped my shoulder with her smile getting wider.

"I know you can't already bear the pain, so why prolong the agony? I dare you break with him."

I heaved a sigh and stepped backward. I was shocked upon saying those words from her. But there's something that I should bite on her dare. After all, I was already too much of his cheats on me, not just twice but many times.

Back then, I caught him on his first cheat with our classmate who had their holding hands, that up to now I and that girl didn't noticed each other. He felt sorry and I accepted her apology right away because I loved him so much. That's when I thought he deserved to have second chance. But the cheating didn't stop. He's with the other girl from other school, where I caught them in a theater, enjoying each other's company. It came to a point that our supposed to be date would be a caught-act-cheating on him with other girls.

"Fine."

They all laughed and clapped.

"Good job, Alesha! But you know what, it is more great if it would be a dramatic scene, like he could not believe you would break up with him."

I gulped and sighed.

"What do you want to happen then?"

She grinned like she wanted to have my approval.

"Be in a relationship first with Tyler before the break up."