Parallel Us

3.

•~In the parallel universe~•

•~Jennifer~•

I took a deep inhale of my morning coffee.

“Dont drink so much coffee, it's not good for your skin”

“Coffee increases calories, it'll just ruin your body shape”

“It's the reason why people age fast, coffee increases aging”

I sighed remembering my mom's words in the morning. It had been a routine to hear those words whenever I had my morning coffee. But now that I've moved out it feels peaceful yet weird not hearing anything like that.

I may sound rude and disrespectful but my parents are the main reason why I decided to move out.

They are..... How do I say this?

Well..... They are....way too controlling....

They do love me a lot but their parental methods are something which I dislike a lot.

Back in my school days, I was not allowed to use my phone after dinner neither was I allowed to stay up till late midnight.

I was not allowed to go outside to places with friends where boys would be present.

No eating junk food because it ruins the body shape and health.

My parents were furious when I told them that I'm interested in designing and that I wanted my own jewellery business.

Of course they wanted me to be a doctor but I didn't listen to them and did what I wanted to do.

So here I am, living independently since the past 2 weeks in my great grandma's house.

I once again took a deep inhale from my black coffee and took a sip.

ptui!!

Ewwww...

I coughed a few times and opened my mouth, vigorously fanning some cool air on my burnt tongue using my hands.

Should have waited a little longer to let it cool down.

I looked down on my white T-shirt which was already stained with coffee drops.

I placed my mug and robe both on the round glass table and rushed inside to change.

Thud.

I stopped midway. I looked around and behind me. I heard something fall. But there was nothing around me.

I slowly looked up, expecting some creepy face with blood running down from it's eyes looking down at me.

But to my relief there was nothing.

I looked down quickly and tip toed towards the stairway and looked down.

I couldn't see anything or anyone in the living room...

Maybe it was a mouse?! Oh dear namjesus, I hate mice!

I walked away to my room, making sure I look below on my way to avoid any rats.

I got a blue TaTa T-shirt out of my cupboard and replaced my dirtied white shirt with it.

As I was about to go out, as a notification from my phone stopped me.

I picked my phone from the bed and saw 5 missed calls from Kylie.

I dialed back but strangely she didn't pick up... She never misses one of my calls...

I tried again but it went straight to voicemail.

Her classes don't start till 11 am... Maybe her phone's on silent?

Should I call-

I smiled seeing Kylie calling me back, I picked up instantly.

“Hey Jen, sorry Kylie's phone was with me and she's a little.. busy?”
Joy spoke.

My smile immediately faded as I heard grunting and painful loud noises in the background.

“Did she get herself into another fight?! ”
I asked a bit too loudly.

“Whaaaat pfffttt no way.... It's the starting of the week, she wouldn't”
The nervousness in her voice didn't convince me at all.

“Kylie, beat him up, he deserves that!”

“No one messes with you, YAAASSSS QUEEN!! YOU ROCK!!”

“Another punch, yeah! Yeah just like that! C'mon Kylie!”

“Kylie! Kylie! Kylie! Kylie!!!”

And the people in the background definitely told me that she's in big trouble.

“Ahem, Joy?”

“Haha... yeah...?”

“What damage level is she on?”

“By the looks of it and how the guy's still miserably trying to save himself she's still on level 3”

“Explain everything before she gets to level 5”

I could hear her getting away from the crowd, because their voices started to get low and low.

“Ok, so this guy that I rejected at the club yesterday, followed me to our usual meeting place behind campus and he told me that he'll pay me if I date him but I rejected him again and then he threatened me that he'll upload my pictures on adult websites, so I slapped him and before he could hit me back, Kylie stopped him and now here we are”

Suddenly I could hear people loudly screaming and whistling.

“Joy! Go to her now!!”

“Yeah, I'm going to her and she's definitely on level 5 and I don't think the guy's gonna have any kids in the future.... ”

Oh shit...

“Tell her I'm on the call”

“Hey Kylie Kylie! KYLIEEEEE!!! ”

I placed my phone away from my ear due to how loud Joy was screaming.

“Hello?”

“Kylie!”

“Hey, what's up”

“What's up? Seriously what's up?! Young lady what do think you're doing, Joy just told me that you caused some really huge damage to that guy, a punch or so would have been enough, you didn't have to show your boxing skills to the whole world!”

She didn't reply.

“Hey Jen...”
It was Joy.

“She's mad, shouldn't have told her to stop like that...”

I sighed.

“Bring her here after your classes”

“K, I'll see ya”

“See ya soon”

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