"The only people you should care about should be the people who know the real horrors of your life." [Jacqueline]
*******[Jacqueline's POV]The embarrassment took over me and washed my nerves into a nervous wreck. Even my ears were burning in shame. I hated the way his eyes shined with interest sparkling under the white light of the classroom. I wanted to dig a hole and bury myself in it. I patted my cheeks and pulled my hands back to the knees. Rohan however smiled uncontrollably and cupped my hand in his warm ones under the table. I pinched him from the other hand but he didn't let go.
"Let go of my hand Rohan."
"Nope Cinderella." He muttered quietly and ignored me. I pinched him again, he just hissed and didn't even look at me. His eyes observing the surroundings. Scrutinizing everyone. Few of the classmates were looking our way, with disgust, and surprise in their eyes. My eyes followed his and I caught Nina Grinning at us while showing a thumbs u
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"When you start to get to know someone from the heart, you can recognize their moods, their essence without them telling you about it." [Jacqueline] ******* [Jacqueline's POV] After the teacher let me off the hook with a warning. I sat back down on the seat and glared at Rohan who in turn rolled his eyes at me mouthing 'it's no big deal.' My mind raced with anger. I was not the person who was even scolded once by the teacher. Neither I was the kind of student who won't pay attention to her classes. My biggest dream was to either die or perhaps get away from my home which was only possible if I could make myself something in life. Someone who can pay for her life. Someone who can gain freedom. This was the first time I was scolded by a teacher just because of him. I felt my eyes stung with tears. "You m
"Every human needs a friend, someone who can curse the people who hurt you more than you do, someone who will want to hurt the people who hurt you more than you do, someone who will make you laugh in situations you know nothing other than crying, someone who can listen to your nonsense overthinking imaginations. Just someone!"[Jacqueline] [Jacqueline's POV] I grew up hearing the admonition that friends are the root of all evil, that your company will decide who you are going to be. Today, however, my perception changed. Friends, in and of themselves, are neither evil nor good; it is only what happens with us once we make friends that what qualities we absorb from them. But friends can be a bubble of happiness, for maintaining our happy lives. We need to have friends to keep us alive and not just simply living a boring life. Rohan was livid at her response." And what makes you think Jacqueline wants you to do this for her? What makes you think
"Sooner or later, you will find your way!" [Remo] ******* [Remo's POV] My level of frustration was at its peak today, no matter how much I tried to stay calm. It wasn't helping in anyway. Granted I do have confined patience, but staying in the sunlight as one and another girl play hard to get has sent me back into the rage I was trying to control. I stared up at the building of my school, the front although painted in red still appeared darker than red, almost maroon. Even with the sunlight, it didn't shine. But I hoped at least my future would! I was at the top position of the school, the head boy. Perhaps there was a time when I wasn't the best but I was one now and it has served me well. Remo D'souza was the perfect student, star singer of the school band. But he wasn't still what I wanted him to be. I wanted to be at the top of my city, or maybe the world. I craved stardom. I needed it to s
"Cry in front of a mirror when you are hurt enough, you will be a witness to your sufferings. And then you will realize your reality."*******[Jacqueline]"You can fill your form over there." The receptionist pointed to a chair in the outside corner of the doctor's room. One wall was of all glass doors and there was a garden outside while the opposite wall was filled with different rooms of different doctors where everybody was sitting, perhaps waiting for their time to be called for their appointment. The garden outside though had a calming effect on me and I exhaled thanking her with a smile.I pulled out a pen from my backpack seeing as the phone had managed to work its way up to the top again. It was flaring with notifications, one after another. I shoved it farther inside without looking at it.I held the form to my chest and walked up to the chair, and started filling in my mom's info. Writing all the age and diseases related info, I held it to my chest and wal
"Your emotions will first break you and then make you. Let the process take its course." [Jacqueline] …………….. [Jacqueline] For the next five minutes, I was going crazy waiting for his response. Perhaps I shouldn't have said that. I was wrong, I shouldn't have judged him. He must have his reasons for whatever he said. He didn't reply though. "Would you like some tea? Jacky?" I looked up from my phone, almost lifting my hand to shield my eyes from her notice. Thankfully, she was busy dragging the table from the door near my bed to place the tray on the table. Her shoulders slouched as she tried to balance the tray in her other hand. Her hair was tied in a bun, with few falling over her face. She was wearing a black night suit.
"The self is reformed from inside, the heart is reformed by love, and the soul is reformed by positivity." [Remo] ******* [Remo] My head pounds. I dug my face deeper in the pillow when I heard the door being slammed open, I knew who dared to open my door like that and I was in no mood to tolerate her today, not after having a depressing night. I hear the rustling of clothes as she peels the blanket off me. A weight dropped on my back, even though I was expecting it. It didn't mean the damage was less. The wind was knocked out of my lungs. I groan loudly to portray my discomfort when she settles on top of me, her tiny hands banging on my back as she musters all her vocal cords power to scream. "Wake up Bhai. Wake up."
'How can you feel scared, when you have blood to shed.'[Rohan] [Rohan] "So, it was all a drama? The attack, the injury on him?" I exclaimed, my mind jumping from being pissed off to going crazy beyond reason. It was last evening, and my father was attacked when he was enjoying in the garden. The guards were sleeping, while Sam was nowhere to be found when I reached home. The only thing I got to know was that the bodyguard we hired two months ago, A man who vowed to protect me with his life, was a traitor. He had somehow gotten his hands to the direction of our warehouses and his sole reason seemed to destroy us. I kept pacing back and forth in the bedroom of my bodyguard, my glare moving from all of my father's men to Uncle Sam who was supposed to watch over my sick bodygua
"You have to learn to be alone. Learn to do everything individually, people are going to leave you sooner or later anyway." [Jacky]*******[Jacqueline] It's been three days since Remo talked to me. Aside from sending me a two-word text, after my apology "it's okay" there was nothing. He didn't chat with me. Not even for once, he tried even though he was online most of the time. As if he specifically wanted to show me that he was online, he changed his display picture. I scrolled through his pictures like a souvenir, like trophies on the shelf. Watching as one by one his friends, beautiful girls commented on his pictures and he replied to each one of them nicely. I honestly had no idea what I should do. I wanted to talk to him but I didn't want to come out as a bother. I wanted to ask him if he was still angry, but I didn't know I should. 'Did I say something that touched his borderline?' Sometimes it was better for
"Life is a series of unfortunate incidents, so don't always wallow in life's unfairness. Instead, do something even if it's little." [Author][Jacqueline]Jacqueline: You can be.Remo: Jacqueline Please, if you don't want to be my friend. Just say so. You don't have to force me to become your brother.Jacqueline: I think you are overreacting. Why can't you be my brother?Remo: Because God already gave me one sister. I don't want more.There was a reason I was calling him brother again and again. It was because I wanted to irritate him. Though our future was still uncertain since I didn't know if I could forget his words or not.Jacqueline: Okay. Fine. Good night.Remo: Good Night.I didn't send another message to him and left our conversation at that. After all, I was a mere time past. Why should I try to be more than that? Switching off the phone, and the lights. I went to sleep.But the noise of my parent's fight didn't let me sleep. I walked down and saw mommy on top of daddy as sh
Dear Readers, In the last few chapters, I made a mistake and Nina and Tina's names were swapped. I apologize for that, please remember wherever you see Tina behaving nicely with Jacqueline, that just means it's her friend Nina, not that bully Tina. Hope you have a good time reading it. If you like the chapter, don't forget to leave a review.Your author,Ifveen"There will be a beautiful time, and then there will be hard times, people, places, and feelings, and your way of dealing with them will change, but what won't change is how you feel. So always stay true to yourself and others." [Jacqueline] Jacqueline:Jacqueline: It's Okay. Please don't do this again. Also, I wanted to ask you what you meant about you talking to me as a time-Pass. Am I a time-pass to you?I sent another text to him, just to clear my misunderstanding or maybe if I was understanding it right.'I mean, who in their right mind would want me?' I rolled my neck and flung my hair to the side. My heart pounded in m
"Forgiving a person, who is not at all apologetic is good for yourself. But giving the same person a chance to hurt you again, is the worst thing you will do to yourself." [Jacqueline]*******[Jacqueline]It's been Four days since I and Remo talked, he didn't send me any messages, nor did I. His words, even though he didn't say them, were still ringing in my ears. It was a feeling I didn't want to feel again. Though I did have thought about his words and concluded that he was just being brutally honest with me. And it wasn't like he said it because he wanted to hurt me, it was me who pushed him to answer me like that. "Hey who are you dreaming about?"Rohan questioned me, with furrowed brows. He had been missing school for a few days. It was a surprise for him to come to school today. I didn't think he would come today. Now that I looked at him, he looked rather haggard. "No one, you tell me where have you been these past days?" I questioned him back. His fingers are drumming on
There was no future of mine with them, my paternal cousins, yet I loved them with all my heart. They were bad most of the time in all of the memories we had. There was this once when the same girl who Remo identified as I used her foot to make me fall from three feet high stairs. I remember it very vividly, I think we were playing run and catch. Where she had to catch one of us, between me and my sister. And since it was her second time as the one to catch someone. She was angry to the point she pushed me down. Of course, the damage wasn't that great. I got wounded on my knees and elbows since the place where I fell was an area of small stones.Mom at that time wasn't depressed. So she raised a question against my paternal aunt and demanded that my cousin Jenny apologize to me. However, the arrogant aunt took it as a threat and made a drama out of nothing. First, she was adamant about how her daughter didn't push me, and I was lying which proved to be a wrong move. Since the people in
Jacqueline: "Well, I thought you don't want to talk to me, since you never replied to my apology."Remo: "What are you talking about? I forgot about it a long time ago."Jacqueline: "Then maybe you could have texted me."Remo: "I assumed that you were busy, so I didn't."Jacqueline: "Oh, okay. I get it."There was a strange pause in my breathing, I did not know why I felt like he didn't miss me. Because if he would have, he would have texted me. Without giving it much thought, I asked him directly."So, Did you miss me?""Nope."His response saddened me to the point I asked myself if I even meant something to him. Or was I just a time pass? 'You are thinking too much Jacqueline, it's just your insecurities playing with you.' My reasonable side gave me a reason that I did feel somewhat acceptable. So instead of telling him how I am feeling. I asked him a single question just to kill my curiosity. Jacqueline: "Why?"Remo: "Well, I was pretty busy."Jacqueline: "Oh. Okay. I understand.
"Don't make one person; Your everything. Instead invest in your goals, dreams." [Jacqueline]********[Jacqueline]Sweat was ticking down my back. The nervousness I felt today was like pressing me to dig a hole in the ground and hide in it. Finally, I heard the title track play out. We were lined up just behind the curtains all dolled up on our stance. Our dance teacher was a complete sucker for this show and so she was instructing us to perform well from the last fifteen minutes. It was a big day for her, and I thought it would be a big day for me as well. After all, this would be the first performance of my life. I never did anything that involved stage.Of course, I had my insecurities about messing it all up but t
"A Bad guy with trust issues, will love you more." [Remo] [Rohan] The day was finally here. Today was the massive annual function day. And I was looking forward to dancing with Jacqueline. After those gruesome practice sessions where she practically pressed my ankle with her weight millions of times before learning the right step. I was her counselor for days and I should not have been thinking about her; there should be rules against that kind of thought. I believe. But I still did. She was stripping in my dreams and gyrating to a dirty song, eliciting emotions even more than I have. Our families would be attending the function, not that mine would be coming but many students were excited for the same reason. The Celebrations were bound to be grand considering the stage was well equipped and beautiful
"When your mental health isn't in the best state. Give yourself a break. And don't feel guilty about it."[Author] ******* Jacqueline: I felt bad for Tina. Like real bad! But I was sure she didn't need my empathy. I looked at her face once more, she looked terrible. Blood, blood, everywhere on her face. I could feel that her bleeding had not stopped despite her friends filling her nose with tissues. Her friends helped her up as they took her away shouting profanities in a much lower tone than I would have expected from them. Unexpectedly Rohan's head popped in front of me blocking my view of her back. I grabbed the corner of the table to balance myself. Hi
"You have to learn to be alone. Learn to do everything individually, people are going to leave you sooner or later anyway." [Jacky]*******[Jacqueline] It's been three days since Remo talked to me. Aside from sending me a two-word text, after my apology "it's okay" there was nothing. He didn't chat with me. Not even for once, he tried even though he was online most of the time. As if he specifically wanted to show me that he was online, he changed his display picture. I scrolled through his pictures like a souvenir, like trophies on the shelf. Watching as one by one his friends, beautiful girls commented on his pictures and he replied to each one of them nicely. I honestly had no idea what I should do. I wanted to talk to him but I didn't want to come out as a bother. I wanted to ask him if he was still angry, but I didn't know I should. 'Did I say something that touched his borderline?' Sometimes it was better for