12 Days Until Christmas✔️

I walk into the pits of hell with tired eyes and a hungry stomach. Stupid Noah could have just picked me up as usual but no! He had to go to school early to finish a stupid assignment, so my dad had to drop me off half an hour earlier than usual making me miss my breakfast. You really couldn't blame me for being such a monster. It's a Monday morning and I didn't have my morning coffee. All I want to do is go back home and sleep.

I lazily drag my feet towards my locker and put in the combination. After 3 failed attempts it finally opens.

As usual, my books look as if there was a tornado in my locker but today something's different. On top of one of my books is a red card. I look to my left and right to see if I can see any suspicious looking people but the passage is empty.

I carefully pick up the note, as though it were a bomb and open it slowly. In messy handwriting, clearly a boy's, it says:

Juliet,

I've liked you for a while now but I wanted to tell you in the most unique way possible and this is what came to mind. If you haven't noticed yet, there are 12 days before Christmas, so every day you will get a clue card to different places. At each location you'll find a prize representing something that you like or something that I like about you. On Christmas day your prize will be finding out who I am.

Here's the clue to your first prize:

THIS PLACE IS FILLED WITH KNOWLEDGE BUT NO ONE KNOWS WHAT'S HIDDEN BEHIND IT ALL

Have fun

Your secret admirer

PS. The chain at the back of your locker will be very useful.

I look at the back of the locker and find a silver chain with a thin red ribbon threaded through it. It's simple and I love it. It obviously goes on my wrist but what is it for?

I slip it onto my wrist, thinking about the clue. I'm guessing the place is the library, located north of the school building but I don't understand the rest of the clue.

Before I can investigate further, my best friends launch themselves at me in a group hug, causing all of us to fall to the floor with a THUD.

"What the hell guys!" I shout while checking that all my body parts are intact. Even though I'm trying hard to be angry, I can't keep the smile off of my face. I have the best and craziest bunch of friends. There are 4 of us to be exact, including myself.

There's Nora with her flaming red hair and chocolate brown eyes. Daniel with his blonde bush of hair and blue eyes. Noah with his soft brown hair, breath taking green eyes, long eyelashes, pearly white teeth, amazing personality, predominant muscles showing from underneath his black tee... Wait, what was I saying? Oh and there's me, Juliet Kingsley. Typical 18 year old with pitch black hair and plain brown eyes. I'm the shortest out of the group at 5ft4, Daniel being the tallest at 6ft1.

"We just wanted to see our favourite girl. We missed you." Noah says earning a blush from me and a push from Nora.

If you haven't noticed from my extremely detailed description of Noah earlier, you would see that I may have a teeny weeny crush on him. We've all been friends since we were in diapers so feelings are bound to form along the line. Unfortunately for me, he thinks of me as a sister. If you think that being friend-zoned is bad, try being family-zoned. There's no way to escape that category, trust me.

"Sorry, I don't talk to traitors." I stick my nose in the air and cross my arms. I haven't forgotten about how he left me last minute this morning.