Cliche (Love Series # 1)

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Valentine's Day

(noun)
 
variants: or less commonly Valentine Day

: February 14 observed as a time for sending valentines

Full Definition
: February 14 observed in honor of St. Valentine and as a time for sending valentines

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Today is like any other day, I wake up in five thirty and clean myself before going down to eat. Then I would wear our uniform, a white blouse with a camouflage like color skirt that ends right below my knees and a ribbon in the same color.

School continues to be a pain the ass, my classmates cramming to copy and do their assignments that the rest of the class didn't bother to do and our drafting subject. My goodness, our drafting subject, you'll cry buckets of tears and shed sweat all over your body when working with your plates.

I remember the time where I would look at a blank sheet of oslo paper laying nearly on my desk and hope that it'll somehow work on itself. Drafting is a very time consuming subject and you would want to bang your head everytime your teacher gave you another plate to work on when you're still not finish on the other, and the borders my goodness, you have to do the borders manually.

Thankfully, I always do my school works first before surfing the net and is always on time when it comes to passing any school works and assignments.

Two weeks of doing the same thing, two weeks of going home and exhausting myself for another plate to finish and two weeks of having an ambiguous status with him.

Finally, February has started and it's just a matter of time before I blurt out my true feelings for him.
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I guess when you have a crush on someone, you would always look for him, even if he's beyond reach, you would always think of him. Just seeing his familiar figure in the sea  of people feels like an accomplishment for you and the fact that you have a great relationship with him just puts the cherry in top of an ice cream to shame.

Time is something that I both love and hate at the same time, it's basically a love-hate relationship and that honestly explains my feelings towards my situation.

"Jamie, what'd you gonna wear for Valentine's?" Hanie asked before she popped her food on her mouth.

"Uniform?" I said in a tone of obviousness.

"We're going to wear black this Wednesday" Tintin suddenly replied and I look behind me to see her taking some piattos out of Hanie's hands. "Want some?" She offered as if she was the one who bought the food.

"No thanks, but why black?"

"It means 'Walang forever' and white means 'NBSB' so what's yours?

Oh, I already know, it's the color coding for the Valentine's day program. The student council had always managed to do some program for every occasion and this time, there doing it flamboyantly and catch every students eye. Since there's a program, there would also be some activities for the occasion and that includes:

A dance and singing competition, broadcasting students confession, prison booth and marriage booth as well as some food stands with cheesy titles surrounding the entire court. There's also the famous color coding where red means 'You're in a relationship', black means 'Walang forever', white means 'NBSB', green means 'Bitter', pink mean 'You're ready to mingle' and lastly, blue means 'Friend-zone'.

I haven't decided what I would wear yet but it doesn't matter, my thoughts had already flown into another topic and that concerns him.

He's famous and I know he'll get so many confession, I wouldn't stand a chance yet I still hope since we've been getting closer.

I know that he would purposely lengthen our conversation, his messages would always bring me laughter and joy throughout the night but there's something holding me back.

I knew him as the popular sporty guy in the school, I know him as a classmate and as a friend but I feel like I was always in the sidelines as the others.

I can't believe I'll say this cheesy line but he's so near to me yet so far away, I know such a classy movie line but I can't help but revel to the fact that it's so relatable.

"A penny for your thoughts?"

I blinked out of my stupor and looked to my right to see his usual pair of teasing eyes. I gulped and smiled weakly at him before turning to my friends.

I didn't notice the concern in his eyes and avoided him. I couldn't help but avoid his gaze on me, it's as if I was a guilty kid who stole her mommy's lipstick. I know I'm a coward for doing this but I can't help but feel hopeless in this situation.

"Willmark!"

He was being called by his teammates and I managed to sneak a peek on him when I met his gaze, I turned away and fidget on my seat before sighing in relief at his leaving figure.

"I'm going to find Hao" I told my friends while they looked at me and continued their talk.

I managed to get to Hao, he was still working on his plate when he find me looking for him.

"Oh, why are you here?"

"Just wanted to chat" I said nonchalantly, my tone a bit tense.

"You mean release all your pent up frustrations?" He said with a smirk while I collapsed in the seat next to him.

"I just... I just don't like the fact that he have so many girls to choose from. I mean I'm not the most beautiful in this school but I know I am in this class" I pouted at his deadpanned face before continuing. " I really like him, like really, really and it's kinda painful" I whispered the last word before he smiled at me.

"It's fine, it'll get better and don't worry, I don't think he's the type of person who plays with someone's feelings" he assured me once more. "Besides, he's a good guy in my opinion, I think the two of you suits each other"

I can only laugh as he continued to comfort me, but I can only dream of it, I don't know if it'll happen but one things for sure, I really do like him.

Notes:

• Drafting, it's an art subject in my highschool and i think it's for grade nine and ten students. It's second to the list if my hated subjects because I am not picasso, I cannot draw and I'm not patient.
• Oslo paper – is a rough 9′ x 12′ piece of thick white paper, commonly used by elementary students for arts and crafts. You would need this when you're drafting like you would really, really have a pile of it in your house.
• Piattos are kinds of potato chips and a Filipino snack. They have a triangle-like shape
• Walang forever, in essence, it means ‘It is not forever’, which goes on to say that relationships are not meant to be forever or absolute. Often, this is uttered when one faces a failed relationship, in which two lovers call quits.
• NBSB abbreviation for the word. I boyfriend since birth.

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