" You are not going to change, Ryder. Just take your book for god's sake," she shouted with irritation. But still, Ryder was calm to the core. He's looking like 'I don't give a damn care about anything'. I turned behind to see him. I wish I could say 'Hi'. Can I say it? Will he notice or ignore me? Getting embarrassed is not what I wanted. The teacher was busy writing the sum on the board. My hands took the minute as an advantage and waved at him. Ryder noticed me. He little shakes his hand and smiled at me. Oh god, he does remember me. Of course, he can remember. I only met him yesterday.
" Sorry mam, I won't come late like this. Forgive me. Can I come inside?" I heard my best friend, Pearl's voice at the class entrance. She's back.
" You have never been late to class, Ms.Brown. Try not to make this mistake again," she said and let her inside. Pearl came panting.
" Iam sorry, Em. I caught up in a situation. I had a fight with my boyfriend. He's pissing me off." she complained and sat next to me. Boyfriend?
" You never said you had a boyfriend? Why did you hide that?" Now Iam the one who's pissed off.
" We didn't get time to talk, Em. We didn't get time to talk for the last three months. It all happened in these three months. I will surely fill you up with everything." she assured me with her hands on my shoulder.
" Okay. Iam counting on you. But first what's his name?"
" Andrian. He's a senior student in Edgewood high. He will be graduating sooner. That's where the fight started. Anyways, what did you do while I was gone? I know you would have got so bored. Iam..." I stopped her non-stop by saying two lines.
" I wasn't alone. I met Jason Byrne."
" Jason..Jason Byrce. That Billionaire's son...Are you serious?" she gave a shocking reaction and her voice was little too loud.
" Don't shout to the whole class. I will tell you what happened in the garden." I silently whispered her everything that happened an hour ago.
" Wow...will you introduce me to him? I just want to get an autograph from him and his mother and even his father. My cousins will get jealous." she spoke with a deep silly intention.
" Why do you want an autograph from his whole family?" I said, annoyed by her wish.
"He's a model, his mom's an actress and his father's a doctor and owns a hospital. I want to show off to my friends and cousins. You can only understand if you are a die-hard fan of a celebrity."
" Bla..bla...I get it. Then I choose not to understand." I replied, scribbling in my note. She didn't argue or lengthened the conversation. Instead, she said something which made my heart beat faster.
" Why does our bad boy is looking at me? Did you do something annoying to him? You didn't look angry but it's staring at you since I entered the class." she said, looking at his direction.
" He...I...I know him. He's my neighbour." I try to sound calm. Then, the teacher turned towards us.
" Iam going to make you sit in pairs. Finish the sums for the remaining two class," she said and called out random names to pair us. I wanna sit with Pearl. We won't usually get what we get. But if we don't get what we want, then we may get something bigger than that. That's true. Because the teacher randomly let Ryder sit next to me. OH, MY GOD.
" Hi, Emily. My brother enjoyed the pie cake you gave yesterday. Did you cook it?" he asked me the minute he sat next to me.
" Yeah...I mean no. My mom did it." I nearly forgot what I was saying. He simply nodded his head.
" Could you share me your book? I don't have anything right now," he said and moved closer to me. Why is my heart beating faster? I stayed silent for some minutes and we talked normally about the sum. But then I asked something stupid.
" When did you started having tattoos?"
" I get tattoos when I was six or seven."
" You had the Phoenix and wolf from childhood," I asked with a surprised look.
" I was right. You were enjoying the view yesterday," he said as his one side of his lips corner turned up.
" No. I wasn't," I blushed. Stupid me.
" Can we study for a while?" I changed the topic and turned my gaze towards the book. I did enjoy the view. I can be true to myself.
" I don't want to read," he said closing the view while keeping his eyes on me.
" You don't want another detention. Let's find the balance to this sum." I said, flipping the page.
" I can rather get your ten-digit number than finding this number," he said, keeping his hands on the table getting a full view of myself. Did he just ask my number?
" I can make a deal. This is my number. Can we study now?" I asked him, writing down my number in the note.
" This note belongs to you. Write it here," he said, showing his palm. Okay. I can gladly do that.
" Here you go," then we studied for an hour. Even though we didn't speak anything person, still I had a good time with them. I spoke and thought him the most. I have no idea whether he understands or not. He didn't look like he understood anything. All he did was staring at me and copying the answers from my note.
Finally, the bell rang. It's time for lunch. The class dispersed and Ryder and I are talking instead of leaving the class.
" You are studying pretty well. This is the first time Iam talking with a rank holder. I had a good time. I may have learned something I guess." he said, running his hands over his hair.
" I hope you did. I spent my time on it instead of doing it alone."
" Yeah. It seems like you like being alone a lot. Do you have a boyfriend?"
" You could have guessed it by yourself," I said, getting up from the table. I think I could ask him to eat lunch with me. Atleast, I can talk about something other than studies.
" You don't have a boyfriend. Am I right?"
" Yeah. It's easy to say. What about you?" I asked before asking him to come with me for lunch.
" I don't do the girlfriend-boyfriend thing at all. There's no guarantee for long last relationships for anyone. I can rather hook-up and move on." he simply answered it. I frowned. The way he judges all the relationships isn't good.
Suddenly someone approached Ryder. " He's back in the city, Ryder? What can we do?" the first guy spoke with fear.
" He's back again. Iam not letting him leave alive. Iam coming now." Ryder spoke with anger. He nearly forgets to say 'bye' to me.
" Ryder, are you leavin..." I started.
" I need to go. I will see you later, Emily," he rushed off with that word.
He left just like that. Who's back to the city? What are they talking about? Iam still upset about his opinion in relationships. I absent-mindedly stood up from my table. I stopped myself before I bump into someone." Hey, Milly. Do you want to have lunch with me?" Jason's voice rings in my ears. Of course, I can." Yeah, sure. But I think my friend will be joining us too. Is it okay? She really wants to meet you." I told him, looking for Pearl in the class. She's sitting looking at the ceiling, lost in thoughts." I'm okay with that. I guess." He said with hesitation. I guess he's not comfortable with that. I can't leave my friend alone." I will get her now. Wait here," I walked towards Pearl. " Hey, I know how to get your mind out of Andrian thoughts. Do you want to meet Jason?" I patted her shoulders. Her eyes brightened up." Oh,really. Where is Jason?" she stood up fastly as her eyes wandered over the whole class. When she got a g
" Don't go, Pearl," I called her but she already ran away. She doesn't need to bear her pain all alone. She should have let me stay with her. I can make her feel better. A relationship always comes with trouble. I'm glad I never been in a relationship in my life.I attended the rest of the class without my best friend. I felt a little alone but I practised with that in my life. I always stay alone with myself. Half of my life has been like that. Anyways, the rest of the day goes faster than I could imagine. All the students are walking in groups, laughing with their friends. I was walking absent-mindedly on the road. How am I going to pass the rest of the day in my home? This thought ran in my mind before someone grabbed my waist and pulled me back from crossing the road.Before I could scream, I saw a car passed the way on the road. I would have taken a step without realizing it. Thank god." What are you thinking, Emily? Can't you be careful?" that famil
Jason: It's not a difficult job to get a girl's number...lolBefore I could text back, my phone rang with the same number. Jason is calling me. I stumbled to hold the phone steady and attended the call." Hey, Jason," I spoke." Hey, Milly. What are you doing?"" Nothing. Just going to binge-watch any series on Netflix. What are you doing? " I told the same thing I said to Ryder. That's what I'm going to do. Somethings never changes." I'm standing in my balcony and talking with you."I listened and remembered a moment from the morning. He said he will teach me swimming." Hey, you told, you're going to teach me swimming. When are you going to do that?' I asked out of curiosity." Oh, yeah, I will teach you, if you come to my mansion."" Won't I learn it in school?"" Nope. I have a swimming pool in my mansion. I will teach you here. I don't want any disturbances. We can get some privacy in m
Oh, god. Can you transport me to any somewhere else? I never watched this scene with a boy sitting next to me. I'm having a different sensation between our thighs while watching this sex scene with Ryder. I could have skipped the part. But I didn't. Instead, I choose to watch it till the next scene comes. Unfortunately, the scene continues for more than five minutes." Are you enjoying this scene, Emily? I thought you are a bookworm who doesn't like these things." Ryder asked, trying to make eye contact with me. I choose not to look at him." I'm a bookworm but I like these things. Can't I watch a sex scene?" I said. But I think I sounded more like ' Can't I watch this scene even though I never kissed a boy or had sex.'" Yeah, you can watch it. But it's all a theoretical knowledge. Don't you want to experience it? " He said. At last, he made me look at me. Why am I getting nervous over this silly thing? Maybe, somethings going to happen." I...I..d
" What the fuck? Who is she?" I shouted." Who the hell knows? I don't know. I don't want to know. I stormed off the moment I came to know the truth. Now all the memories I had with him is going in my mind. Even if it's three months, it hurts like a bitch." Pearl complained, still sobbing." Don't worry, Pearl. You should move one. But one thing is bothering me. You should found out and confronted him." I told her." I know. But I'm stupid. I didn't even suspect. I want to take my mind off this issue. I don't know how Iam going to do it." she frowned." You should have told me earlier. I will do anything to get your mind off that asshole. But first, let's get out off here." I told and make her wash her face and guided her outside of the restroom." What are we going to do now? I already missed too many class in these two days." she rubbed her eyes and followed me in the crowdy hall." I will make sure you won't miss any class and
" Yes, I am. Are you one of his fans?" she questioned me. I'm not a fangirl for anyone." Nope. He's my friend. We are classmates." I told her." Oh, I didn't know that. You are studying Edgewood High too," her eyes widened when she realized I'm not a crazy fangirl but the one who really knows her brother. Wait a minute. What's her name?" Yeah. Don't take it wrong. What's your name? Jason only told he has a sister."" You don't even know me. It feels like an insult. Anyways, I'm Eve Byrne," she's saying everything in a friendly way. Even that warning comes in a friendly way." So, what's your name again?" she added." I didn't say it in the first place. I'm Emily Collins." she smiled and shook my hands. We talked for some minutes till the class gets over. Like I guessed, she's a 9th-grade girl studying in a private institution. I told her that I would come to her mansion today. She looked like she's little excited about it.
I followed Jason to his room. It was tidy. Tidy isn't the thing I expected to see in the boy's room. He has a large bookshelf with novels and educational-related books. As a nerd, I can settle here forever to read every single book. Other than his shelf and desk, there's more awards, certificates in his cupboard. I know he's an intelligent boy, rank holder. But I didn't expect to see too many awards. I wonder how many competitions he participated in his life. Then my eyes wandered over to the king-size bed." Do you like my room?" he asked when I was silently observing his whole room in the entrance." Yeah, I didn't think boys room would be so clean. I like this maintenance. I also wish to come here to read your books," I said, looking into the title of the books. He's havingmore hopeless romantic type of books." You can come here any day. You're welcome here," he said with a smile." Thanks. I have one more question. Are you maintaini
I nodded and we both went downstairs. We reached the pool in a few minutes. It's been a long time since I kept my foot inside the pool. Actually, I don't remember a time when I went to a swimming pool. Maybe the first time is with Jason.When I came back to reality from my thoughts, I saw Jason's taking his shirts off. Not taking. He already took his shirt off by exposing his six-packs. I already stared enough at his body in the magazine. I don't know how many hours will I stare at him when he's standing next to me only in his shorts." Take your clothes off," suddenly he said." What??" I gave him a blank stare." Didn't you brought your swimsuit?"I didn't. I don't even own a swimsuit. Atleast, I have my bra and panties. I will be jumping in with that." Nope. I forgot." I said, taking my top and jeans off. I can't eat dinner with his family in wet jeans and top after swimming. When I was done undressing, I noticed Jason's e
I embraced this moment with Jason but I know there will be more memories with him for the rest of my life." Are you calm now, Jason. I don't want you to hide your emotions in front of me." I worried." I can't say I'm a hundred per cent happy, Milly. But you are still in my life. That's the important thing for me. Months ago, you drowned. I can't take the scene out of my mind. This thing is far better than that. You could have died that day and it didn't happen. I'm grateful for it every day."" You are the one who saved me, Jason. I could never forget that. I feel like I don't deserve it." I frowned. He saved my life but what did I do for him." You deserve it, Milly. If we never met, I would have never felt true love. You helped me with Crystal's stupid games. I would have caught in it forever without an idea about it. You took the risk to delete our footages. Overall, you are the best thing that happened to me. All the time I have spent with you is pr
I bite my lips and stared at him for his reply. He doesn't even take a minute to respond." You don't even need to ask me, Emily. I will be your boyfriend. Like you said, officially. I love you so much. I have been longing to hear these words from you. All I want is you to be happy no matter who you choose. But I always wished I could be the one for you. You have no idea how happy Iam feeling right now." Ryder said as his hands went to either side of my hips. He lifted me and swirled in a circle. We both smiled and laughed at each other." I'm feeling much happier than you, Ryder," I told him." No. I feel happier than you," we continued arguing who's more happier. Atleast, he helped me land on my feet.
A week passed by after all the chaos. Patrick was taken to the hospital. He lost more blood and I'm the one who caused it. I wouldn't have done it if he didn't point the gun at Ryder. If Patrick tried to kill me, I would have stood like a statue in fear but it's not me. It's Ryder. I couldn't do that. My hands moved to take the gun within a fraction of second. I can't wonder what would have happened if I didn't shot him. Maybe it's time to get over that incident. The police officers encountered me at the station. But Ryder was with me the whole time. My parents are called to the station. Somehow the news was gone to Jason's ears too. He came to the station for me. Ryder and I told about Patrick's psychotic activity. At last, they filed a case against him and he went straight to jail for all the things he tried to do. Of course, there are a lot of proofs. Patrick almost tried to kill all other students. So, they all stood up for me. It took a week f
" Shut up. We aren't going to do that." I shouted at him while Ryder tapped in his phone. I heard the ring and soon a girl attended the call." Are you still in school, Anna. Meet me in the backstage of the hall." Ryder ordered." What? You haven't talked with me for ages. Now why are you..." the girl is in the call sounded angry." I wouldn't call you unless it's necessary. Just come here. I will explain everything." Ryder tried to keep himself calm." He called her. Now, let us go to get the first aid. I'm not going to let his hand bleed." I shouted at Patrick when Ryder hung his phone.Before he could reply, Pearl spoke. " I know where the first aid is," she said and got the first aid in the same room. Time passes as I helped Ryder wrapping a bandage on his hand and waited for Emma's friend Anna. I almost lost hope in her. What if she doesn't come here? with that one thought, a blonde girl came through the door casually. But when her eyes looked
" Please don't freak out, Em. I will explain it. Don't tell anyone." Pearl pleaded with fear in her eyes." Say it now. Why there's a gun here? I'm still freaking out." I lowered my voice this time." This is a real gun. We are supposed to bring one duplicate gun for the play. You have probably seen it in the play. The main female character tried to use it for self-defence but didn't pull the trigger."" So, are you saying that she used a real gun in a school play?"" Yeah. She bought them here. But something wrong happened in her house. The real ones and duplicate got switched and then we couldn't tell the teachers at the last moment. So, we carefully used it. I'm just keeping it until she comes back and takes it with her." Pearl explained." You got to be kidding me, Pearl. You all should have told the teachers. It's not safe to have a gun in school. Anything
Three months later:" Psst.."" What?" I slightly turned my head towards the backbench to see Ryder's trying to get my attention. Do you know where we are? In the exam hall." Give me your answer sheet," he commandingly asked. He also has the hope that I will help him." You haven't studied anything and now you are..."" No advice, Emily. I could hear all day just to watch your face, but not now. Paper, please..." He told and pleaded in the end with all hope. How could I say no?" Take it. But promise me, we won't get caught,"" I will make sure of it," He smiled and got the paper while the teacher was distracted by eating something which she took from her handbag. I highly doubt that her handbag is a Doraemon pocket. She eats a lot as an invigilator.......Finally, we all headed out of the
" Her iPhone drowned too. It completely destroyed. Now, tell me why you care about it, Milly. You don't need to think about her phone when you could have died today." Jason said seriously. I know he won't say this if he knows what happened." It's the phone which caused this, Jason. Ryder was right on that day when we three went alone to sort this issue. Crystal was spying on me to get photos. She's been following me all this time. She caught the moment on her phone when you proposed to me on my birthday. She did the same when I was with Ryder. She even took a photo of us when we stayed in a hotel for one night. I don't know how she's capable of getting the photos. She threatened me that she send it to my parents and ruin my whole chance of graduating." I started telling him and explained the part happened in the locker." Now, you know why I did that, Jason. Tell me the rest of the part. I want to know what happened after I blackened out. W
It's done. "I did it,"" And then there's a thief. Give it to me." I heard Crystal's harsh voice. My hands started shaking. I ost the grip on her phone but managed to catch it before it falls." I'm just here to delete my personal information. Deep inside your heart, you know who's the thief?" I managed to speak in all the bickering noises coming from all side in the dressing room." Give my phone back, bitch. Where is beck? Beck? I couldn't have trusted her. I should have thought that the stupid girl is your friend." Crystal shouted, making a scene." She's not stupid and she's not here. I won't give your phone unless I know you don't have any backup of these photos."" Do you think I will wait and watch until you find the backup photos? Who do you think you are dealing with? You can't over-smart me, bitch. Don't test my patience." She shouted at the top of her lungs. The one th
I stared at the empty place where Crystal was standing a minute ago. The next batch lined up for the match. Jason already got out of the pool. He's surrounded by his friends. I can't go to him to ask for help by explaining the situation. I have no other friends with me right now. All I have left is me. How am I going to save myself from Crystal's plan? I have to delete the photo. Footage plays a large role in my life." I will wait for you here," Lexi told Crystal and crossed me as she made her w