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
Diana Rose POV-“Dian–I mean, Patrice, you need to wash up,” I heard Brena whisper to me as she still helped me walk.“I don’t have makeup, my makeup is in my bag.”“Where’s your bag?”“It’s in the classroom. I sent it to Shin earlier.”“What?!”“Brena, I need to get my bag without anyone seeing my face.” I cried to Brena.I heard Brena sigh. “Fine, I’ll take care of it.”“Thank you so much, Brena.” I’m still crying.I want to cry now because of the mixture of joy and annoyance that I feel. I was disgusted by the students who smeared cake all over my face for nothing, but I cried because Brena came and defended me.“We’re almost in the classroom. We’ll get your bag.”I just nodded.Just for a few moments, I heard the door open, and Brena and I suddenly got quiet.I think we are in the classroom now.“Brena, who is that with you? Why are you covering his–her head?” I heard one of our classmates ask.“Nothing,” Brena answered simply, but a bit distantly.Brena and I continued walking u
Diana Rose POV-I gave Isabelle her cell phone back, then I quickly ran to our classroom. I even heard Brena calling me, but I ignored them.“Alright, try to block Patrice’s path. You will all be responsible to me!” I heard Brena shout when there was a group of women planning to block my path.That’s why, while Brena was also behind me, no one tried to fight me until we got to the classroom.The moment I got to the classroom, I accidentally opened the door loudly, and that’s why all our classmates looked at me except for Shin, who had his head on his desk.“Patrice, are all the pictures of you and Andrew are real?” asked one of my female classmates.I looked at Andrew, who was now just looking at me, then I looked back at my classmates, who were waiting for my answer.But seconds passed until I think a minute passed and the whole classroom was silent.I shouldn’t deny that Andrew and I met on Saturday because we didn’t do anything wrong, but I forgot that everyone who knows us knows