Chapter 3: From Yesterday to Present

Beee---e! Beeeeep!

Another Monday morning again for Dash. He was awakened by the sound of his alarm clock. He stared at the ceiling for a couple of minutes while doing his morning routine. He first raises his feet in the air and rolls his ankle gently. He did the same with his hands. This is how he starts his morning. He believes that doing stretching after a deep sleep could make the body feel better.

After a couple of minutes of doing some flexing, Dash gets up and started to fix his bed.

He took a shower and went down to eat his breakfast prepared by his loving mother.

He kissed his mom and dad before going to school. Yes, he is 18 and yet he can’t help himself to show his affection to his parents.

“Would you like me to drop you in your school?” Damian asked.

“No, Dad. I can manage.” Dash responded.

“Alright then,” Damian said.

Dash gets out of their house quickly as he just noticed that the bus going to their school will be leaving in 15 minutes' time.

He walks as fast as he could going to the waiting shed. After a couple of minutes of waiting, the bus finally arrived. Fortunately, there is one more seat vacant for him. However, for some reason, there are books on it and the girl sitting next to it is sleeping.

“Sit down, Mr. so we can leave now.” The driver said.

Dash doesn’t know what to say until the driver noticed the books on the vacant seat.

“Hey, Miss!” the driver shouted expressing a bit of irritation. Dash understands since lots of students will be late if the girl won’t move. Their arrival will be delayed.

“Mr. please wake her up or you choose to carry her books until we arrive at school. Everyone will be late if we delay this for another minute.” The driver said giving him those options.

Dash grabbed all the books and sat down. He does not want to wake up the girl from sleep since it is possible that she slept late last night studying.

The girl suddenly laid her head down to Dash’s shoulder giving him a full view of the girl’s face.

God, this is Cassy!

She just looks like a typical schoolgirl but with soft and delicate skin. Since the girl is sleeping, he noticed how extraordinary her eyelashes are. Those are long and silken.

He thought that Cassy might get hysterical if she saw him. This is the first time they met after their breakup a couple of weeks ago.

Yes, Cassy is his ex-girlfriend. He just let the girl’s head on his shoulder. He is being careful not to awaken her up and crossing his fingers that he can get out of the bus even before she wakes up.

Ten minutes later, they finally arrived at school and it’s time for him to wake up the Cassy.

Instead of tapping the girl’s shoulder to wake her up, Dash quickly gets out of the bus to avoid confrontation.

Cassy's POV

It took a couple of minutes before Cassy recovered of what happened and to her surprise, he was sitting beside Dash all along during the trip! That’s asshole. He quickly gets out of the bus so he won’t be hearing tongue-lashing words from her.

She just grabbed her book and went out of the bus. Yes, she feels hurt that she wanted to curse Dash and shove to his face that he is a man without balls.

It is as if her heart is being smashed on top of a thousand needles.

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What the! He said on his mind.

He has lots of things to do since they will be organizing their club today to recruit more members so they can get a budget for their activities.

He sat down, get his planner in his bag, and look at what is his schedule for today.

He is looking down his to-do list when a man walked inside the classroom with his head up high. He is tall for his age standing around 5’9 in height.

“Dash!” the guy shouted as he walks towards him.

“Hi, Nate!” Dash greeted him with a smile.

“Urgh! I hope I can see you next time talking with girls rather than reviewing your notes in this early morning” Nathan said. He is my best friend. They have been classmates since they are in nursery, and he treats him like a brother.

He just smiled at what Nathan said. Yes, he might be playing with girls but this friend of he changes girlfriends every now and then just like shirts. He isn’t surprised though. Aside from having good looks, Nathan is also part of the school’s basketball them so there are really lots of girls chasing him and wanting to get his attention.

Well, just like now, every girl is looking at her as if wanting to devour both of them. They treat them as if they are both gift for women.

“What are you up today, Dash?” Nathan asked him.

“Based on my schedule, I will be in the gym for the school club’s activities. We need to recruit more members so we can ask for budget and start to hold activities.” He answered.

“I see. We actually have a game this afternoon as well just in case you will get the chance.” Nathan said to him.

“No problem, Bro. Don’t you have any girls to cheer for you?” he said as he put a smile on his face. He doubts what he said.

Usually, when Nathan will play, the court is always full because of his girl fans.

Nathan laughs at what he said.” I want you to come because I want you to meet someone!”.

He can’t help to shake his head at what his friend plans to do.

He set him up multiple times and it fails either he leaves the girl if she isn’t his type or not to go to the place at all.

It’s not because he doesn’t want to have a serious girlfriend but maybe since he cannot fail his parents he is trying to hold of his heart.

As a guy for him love is a very powerful word that he cannot mistaken it for something else. He knows how powerful love can be and he doesn’t want it to be a hindrance to his dreams. So he can play but not be serious at all.

Unlike typical playboys, Dash still dreams of a relationship with a girl he truly loves but not at this stage. That serious relationship has to wait until he reaches his dreams and made his parents proud.

At school, he was also given the name Mr. Perfect.

Mr. Perfect. Yes, everyone at school, his teachers, and schoolmates respect him because they thought he has everything a student should have.

A handsome face with a brain and a good attitude.

He cannot deny it since those are facts but naming Mr. Perfect is too much. He has his flaws no doubt. He is a playboy but he keeps his feet to be on the ground.

“Alrighty. I will be heading to the court to meet my teammates.” Nathan said which interrupted Dash from thinking. “See you later, Bro”.

He nodded without confirming that he will be watching his game. He feels that he will be busy with his club to show the existing members of his passion and dedication so they can encourage other students to join.

From being a playboy, he can be the student that can excel academically. So, he can say that girls don’t just flirt with him because of his looks but he also has the brain. He flirts but knows his limitation and when to stop. Yeah, thinking of knowing his limitations, this is exactly what happens to Cassy.

He let out a deep sigh. It’s a picture-perfect relationship. He knows how much Cassy has been hurt when he broke up with her, but he needs to do it.

He must admit that he was also hurt the way their relationship ended but as for him their relationship is getting too serious which is a kind of a relationship he doesn’t want to be involved in right now.

He has dreams and plans he wanted to achieve. He knows how powerful, and love can do that’s why he isn’t willing to take the risk yet. He can flirt but he is afraid of commitment at his age right now.

He witnessed how love took over his parents’ lives.

He witnessed a lot of people stop chasing their dreams because of this crazy thing called love.

He isn’t ready to do that. He wants to chase his dream and make his parents proud.

Someday, Cassy will understand.

He didn’t explain this much with Cassy as he knows that there will be no words and there’s no easy way to ease a woman’s broken heart.

He felt a pinch in his heart. He badly misses her. He misses the scent of her hair, the way she laughs, and her lips. He closed his eyes. “Stop.” He said to himself.

He must stop himself as he might beg Cassy to come back to his life. Dash needs to have a lot of control whenever he sees Cassy just like earlier in the bus. He doesn’t know what to say and feel when Cassy confronts him.