ஃ✿ Chapter 1 ✿ஃ

ஃ✿ Chapter 1 ✿ஃ

Wherever I go... you're gonna follow me. Sometimes I wish life had a delete button, then I could block all your images… forever. But whatever I do... I just can't bring myself to do that. I can't make you disappear. I can't even wish you away. Maybe it's because... I don't want you to leave. I don't want to stop thinking about you, Jadrien. Maybe it's because I love you.

“Leela, wake up… you sleepy head” I heard you whispered as you looked down on me.

I was lying down on my back, thinking I'd fall asleep under the pink breeze of the cherry tree. You disappeared. I got up and looked around. There weren't any sign of you. Were you even there to begin with…?

I called out for you, thinking you were hiding behind the cherry tree. There was no answer. I helped myself up and went rounding around the tree... but you weren't there. I was beginning to think that my mind was playing tricks on me. I thought about crying... cause I was alone up that hill. Nobody would care to see me cry. So tear drops began to pour down. I miss you… I miss Jadrien. Why did you leave so suddenly?  we didn't even had a proper ‘goodbye’…

I look at your photo everyday before going to school. I wish you could see it. My school looked pretty nice from the outside. Jocelyn high school, one of the top schools in the country. People would pay a fortune just to enroll their kids at this school. The only reason I go to this school is that my dad has good connections. I thought once I graduate elementary I'd start a new chapter and make some friends at last, but it didn't turn out the way I wanted... at all. I'm at my third year and I'm known as the little friendless lady who carries a lollipop. Yes, I always carried a lollipop. I wanted to hide my misery... but I guess that never worked.

As I was walking towards my building, I got distracted by all the shouting and cheering coming from the tennis court on my left. I stopped by to take a look, I thought it was probably a match between freshmen students. I wasn't at all interested in tennis matches, until I got there... I figured that it wasn't a match everyone was cheering on. It was a fight!

“Take that back, you bastard” a guy shouted as I heard the disturbing punching sound.

Two freshmen boys rolling on the ground, punching and kicking each other like pro wrestlers. Everybody seemed to be entertained and nobody dared to stop them. I tried to identify them but it was hard to tell who they were with all the punching and rolling. I squeezed through the crowd to get a better view. I still couldn't recognize them, I probably never seen them before. One of them was in his gym clothes, his really messed-up gym clothes, probably got dirty when they rolled on the ground. The other one was wearing the school uniform improperly. I hated violence, I couldn't stand to watch them fight like animals.

I immediately jumped in between them as they were grabbing each other's shirt. “Stop it” I yelled at the guy with the improper uniform while I tried to push him away from the other guy.

“Ced, stop hiding behind your girlfriend and come fight me like a man” said the other guy as he wiped the blood off his lips. “We're in a middle of a fight, sweetie”

“She's not my girlfriend!” He took a look at my face. “I don't even know who she is”

“Stop lying, wimp”

“I'm not lying” he yelled. “I'm gonna chop your head off”

Apparently I couldn't stop him from attacking. He got loose from my arms and ran towards that guy with a punch. I should have known that being a third-year student doesn't make me any tougher than them. They were taller than me, huger than me and a whole lot stronger than me. They both had fully packed muscles, I looked like a cookie compared to them. Though I still tried to pull them back from each other and received some painful punches. Luckily the gym teacher appeared from somewhere behind me and stopped the fight. After a long angry lecture from the gym teacher, both of the boys were taken to the principal's office and I was forced to join them as a witness. We received another long angry lecture from the principal, and from the look on his face, it wasn't their first time. He seemed really familiar with these guys but then he looked at me.

“And did you have anything to do with this?” he approached.

“Um… I'm just a witness, Sir” I gulped. It was my first time to come face to face with the principal and I was scared to death, I wanted to run out of the room. The atmosphere in his office was like a surgery room, you can tell that you won't make it out of here alive. I was more than relieved when he told us to dismiss. We were then taken to the nurse's office.

“Welcome back, you two” The nurse greeted the boys so familiarly. I was then sure that it wasn't their first time. She started to scold the guys before treating our injuries. I looked at the guy with the improper uniform, he was lying on the bed with his hands under his head. He didn't look like a freshman at all, he was really handsome. He had pure brown eyes… I somehow started to blush just be looking at him. He could tell that I was staring at him so I quickly looked away. He let out a sigh and shifted his body the other way. The other guy was lying on the other bed.

“I can't stand your face, I'm getting out of here” the guy in gym clothes hissed as he got up. He went out of the room, so I was left out alone with this insanely handsome freshman.

“So you're a freshman, right?” I said, wanting to start a conversation with him. There was no reply at all. Not even a single breath. He just stretched himself on the bed and ignored me the whole time. “I'm Leela, what's your name?”

He sighed. “Figure that out”

It was very rude of him. I felt like a piece of crap talking to him. He didn't even look at me. If it was coming from a less-attractive-looking guy, I might learn to accept it, but he was so damn good looking. It was humiliating!

“That's not very nice” I said to him angrily. “You can at least pretend to be nice… I'm a girl, you know”

He didn't reply, so I added “And I was trying to be friendly with you and ask for your name… but you look like a judgmental person who judges people before he gets to know them… and you're very rude too, if I wasn't so nice I'd show you a side of me you don't wanna see…”

He turned around to face me. “If I tell you my name, will you shut up?”

I was glad that he turned around to look at me, but at the same time I was furious with his attitude.

“Yes, please” I said, keeping it cool and smiling.

“Cedrick” he said. “Can I go now?”

“Nice to meet you, Cedrick” I smiled at him, though he looked totally annoyed. “Now answer my first question”

“Look missy, I just wanna get the hell out of here…” he groused.

“I told you to be nice”

“Fine, fine… what's your stinking first question?” he sighed heavily.

“You're a freshman, right?” I knew it was a ‘yes no’ lame question, but I wanted to keep the conversation going. I don't know why… but I didn't want him to leave.

“Yes, yes I am” he nodded annoyingly. “NOW can I leave?”

I wanted to come up with a topic we would talk about, but then again, he'd give me short answers… I didn't had any choice but to set him free. “Yes, thank you… you can leave”

He sighed and went for the door. I could tell that he was dying to get out of here. I took a final look at him as he left. Despite his awfully rude attitude, he was amazingly handsome. I finally have a purpose to come to school everyday!

Jadrien… I never had this feeling for a long time. Ever since you went away… all I felt was sadness, despair and loneliness… but when I met Cedrick, I started to feel you again. He looks nothing like you, you were a lot taller than him. But somehow he's got your warm brown eyes… I loved your eyes…