Patrice POV-I took a breath after dividing what could be my waking schedule to avoid being late, but just looking at my schedule, I just want to cry and at the same time I immediately feel sleepy.If I follow my schedule of waking up at 03:30 am, I won’t be able to sleep anymore. But, if I don’t follow it, I’m sure that I can’t avoid being late one of these days and my parents won’t be able to visit me here or even my brother, I’m sure I will be so doom.They don’t know what I’m doing here. “Patrice?”I almost jumped in surprise after I heard Andrew’s voice.I quickly hid my notebook in my bag. Following I saw Andrew walking towards me—he was walking on his seat to get his wallet.“What else are you doing here?” Andrew asked me.I felt like I lost myself when Andrew talked to me while we were just the two of us in the classroom.Suddenly, a lot of ideas entered my mind about how I could be very close to Andrew, the idea that I would never think about that. Maybe tomorrow we two wou
Patrice POV-I quickly jumped out of bed after I heard my cell phone ring again.I groped the large space of my bed until I found my cell phone, then I immediately answer the call. “I think you slept again, Patrice?”I fell asleep?I quickly got up and checked the time on my phone.“Oh, my gosh!” I exclaimed afterwards. I saw that it was only ten minutes before 03:30 in the morning.I put my cell phone to my ear again. “How did you know I fell asleep again?” I laughed and asked Andrew who I was talking to on the other line.“It’s been almost two weeks since we talked at this time and I don’t think you’re used to waking up at this time.”I breathed a sigh of relief when Andrew said that.Andrew is right. In the almost two weeks that he has been my alarm clock, I am still not used to waking up this early.Even though I know Andrew is the one I will talk to when I wake up early, that’s still not enough motivation for me to wake up early.“Hey, Patrice. Are you still there or maybe you
Patrice POV-My spirit just woke up after I heard my phone ring.I shouldn’t have paid attention to my phone ringing, it just didn’t stop ringing, so I got up first and looked for my phone all over my bed until I found it under my extra pillow.“Andrew?”I suddenly wiped my eyes to see if I was seeing the correct caller's name.“It’s really Andrew.”I was about to answer, but he suddenly ended the call.When I saw that today is Saturday, that means we don’t have a class today and it’s only 10 in the morning.“Didn’t Andrew forget that today is Saturday?”I called Andrew back, and he immediately answered after one ring. This is quite surprising.“Hey! Why were you calling me?”“I just wanted to ask if you have anything to do today?” Andrew suddenly asked me from another line. “Nothing?” I answered a question. “I want to ask you if you want to hang out today?”I opened my mouth to speak, but I quickly stopped without any words coming out of my mouth.“Patrice, are you still there?”I
Patrice POV-At these times, I think I need to look in the mirror to see if my lips are chapped.Throughout the day, I didn’t do anything with Andrew other than laugh or smile.This morning when both Andrew and I didn’t know what we could do inside the mall, we just watched a movie at the cinema but we both didn’t like that romance movie so we decided to just go to the amusement park near the mall.It was only a five-minute drive from the mall. Andrew and I rode almost all the rides at the amusement park.I didn’t even feel with Andrew that he hesitated to hold my hand or not, so when someone else was looking at us, it was like nothing to him, that he wasn’t ashamed to be with me.Andrew doesn’t seem to care what other people have to say whenever we hear that his partner is like a walking rag and that the walking rag in is me.Andrew and I were so happy and excited about the rides we rode that we didn’t have a chance to talk and I didn’t get a chance to get to know him better, but by
Patrice POV-Since yesterday, I couldn’t get rid of my suspicions about Andrew—that maybe he knows about the two of us and knows the truth about me.Is it possible that Andrew already knows the truth?I quickly got up from my bed after I realized something.Right. It is possible that Andrew already knows the truth. Maybe he invited me to hang out yesterday because he wanted to know me better also?Andrew is the type of person that doesn’t talk to other people except his friends and maybe that’s why in the past few days he is often the first to talk to me, because he already knows.Sh*t.Why didn’t I realize that right away? Why didn’t I immediately think of that thing?If only I had realized that thing sooner...If I immediately realized that thing? What exactly should I do?“Ouch!”I looked at the shameless person who attacked me suddenly and looked at none other than my jerk older brother Darryl.“What’s your problem?!” I shouted at Darryl in my annoyance.“I’ve been calling you fr
Diana Rose Soleta POV-I quickly closed the door of my room, then locked it.I went in front of the mirror and there I confirmed that I wasn’t even wearing makeup.Brena already saw my bare face, my true face.Did she not recognize me? But if Brena doesn’t know my real face, why is she here at our mansion? How did she know the address where I live?“Diana? Are you okay there?”Brena, call me by my real name. Does that mean she really didn’t recognize me?Maybe I should pretend that I don’t know her, since she just saw me now—with my face like this.That’s right.I went back to the front door of my room, then I opened it again and saw Brena smiling at me. That’s why I smiled back.“I’m sorry, but who are you?” modest and pretending to have curiosity in my voice when I asked.“She is Brena Quin Baesa.”Brena and I looked at Darryl, who suddenly appeared towards us.When Darryl approached, he extended his hand to Brena. “Hi, I’m Darryl Soleta.”“Soleta?” Brena asked with a smile. “Are y
Diana Rose Soleta POV-Should I just shut the door on Brena and continue the behavior I showed to her earlier? Or, apologize to her and confess that I am her friend. “Can I come inside your room?” Brena asked me calmly, now with a smile on her face.I did not answer, and even though I nodded, I didn’t give her an answer, but she still entered my room.I just closed the door and then I looked at Brena.When I looked at Brena, she was looking at the picture frames on display.“We have the same picture on display in the room, this one.” Brena’s pointing in one picture.Meanwhile, I want to cry at Brena’s reaction now.She already knows, and she’s not mad at me.“Brena...”Brena looked away from my picture frames, then I approached her and hugged her.“You’re not mad?” I asked, almost crying.I heard her laugh a little. “Why would I get mad?”I looked away from Brena and saw that she wasn’t even smiling at me.“Are you really not mad?”“No. Just annoyed.” Straight and she confessed to m
Diana Rose POV-I woke up early today, even before Andrew called me earlier at three in the morning. I sent him a text message so as not to waste time waking me up and sending me a text message or call.Now it’s only 06:08 am and I’m already at school. I’m still a little sleepy, of course, but I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep right away in the classroom either, so I went straight to the cafeteria to eat breakfast.I think for the next few days until my 18th birthday, my day will be fine. I have a trusted friend and most of all, I am getting closer to Andrew.When I arrived at the cafeteria, I was a bit shocked to see that there were other students also eating the breakfast menu at this time.The past few days because I used to go to school early, I just went straight to our classroom to sleep.I immediately went to the sellers of hot dishes. “Two pancakes with strawberry syrup, a bowl of mushroom soup too and... uh... bacon and hotdog—also two boiled eggs.”After I bought hot dish