Chapter One : Me
She just wants to be beautiful
She goes unnoticed, she knows no limits
She craves attention, she praises an image
She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor
4 years ago..
9:00 a.m
HBS Campus
“Sigh..” great, 5 minutes into my senior year and I’m already bored, my courses starts in the next hour or something, and here I am wasting my beauty sleep for God knows why reason, I can see myself ditching today’s courses “This better be good”
Adam woke me up at 8:00 freaking a.m, telling me there’s an urgency in our “Single parents” club, aka SP, now now, we’re both off the hook, even though I did adopt my precious little Lily, I don’t really like socializing with people.
Our club, I would’ve called it a sorority it we hadn’t had male members, is obviously for single parents, mostly females who were left behind by some dicks who couldn’t take responsibility for their actions, but as I said, sometimes baby Daddys drop by for an advice. I sighed for the nth time, looking at my wrist watch “I swear to god...”
“Sub’ ”
I give my bestfriend a death glare, he had woken my lazy a** up for nothing?! Does he know how serious my bed and I’s relationship is?!
“Speak up before I kick your precious little brother back into your stomach” I stand up and make my way towards him. Honestly, he looks as bad as I am. Black circles under his beautiful hazel eyes, messy bed hair which makes him stunning, I would’ve dated him if he weren’t my bestest best friend.
His tan skin is just...flawless, he works out, more like “dances out” HAHAHA okay never mind me, he’s an amazing dancer, I mean Michael Jackson level, his dark looks is just short enough to show his ear piercings, and of course, beautiful hazel eyes. He’s also multi-talented, he speaks about 6 languages, sings, plays instruments, writes lyrics, composes...all in all, a true artist, he plays in clubs anyway.
Me?! Well, I’m the “sl*t”, or at least that was me in high school, the popular b*tchy sl*t who slept around and chased the “poor girl” and her boyfriend, if only they knew what heartache I had to go through. Not that I’d let anyone see, they judge everyone. I was more of a bad girl though, getting into fights almost every week, I still can’t understand how I made it here.
“So, how’s your loose p doing?!” we hit the road towards our club, walking as slowly as we can.
“Definitely better than your blue bs” I smirk at Adam, who in return gives me an annoyed look, before smirking.
“You’d be surprised these blues turned red yesterday”
Oh, hell, no!!!
“Adam, I told you this before and I’ll say it again. I, am, not, interested, in, your, Sex, life” he laughes wholeheartedly at that, patting my back a little bit too hard, sending me flying towards our club’s door, jeez “Adam, for God’s sake, I’m a female”
“An iron woman?! Pun intended ” he opens the door and we went inside, “So..?!”
“Okay firstly, that was freaking lame” I roll my eyes at him, but smile nevertheless “So?! Why am I here at 9:00 a.m?!”
“9:07 a.m Ivy, be accurate” he gives me an easy smile and pulls a chair for me “So....”
“Adam speak up before I lose the very little patience I have” this place is a mess! I have to talk to the members about it “The hell happened here?!”
“Perrie’s birthday party” he gives me a cheeky smile “She turned 3 yesterday”
I awed inwardly, Perrie was my classmate’s daughter, Natalie who happens to be a single mom. I met her in my first year here, and she ignited the idea of a single parent club to me, Adam only tacked along because he felt bored, but I knew better, his mom was a single mom after all.
I took the chair opposite to him
“Adam...”
“Did you know that Natalie asked about you?!”
“Adam...”
“Oh, and Mary too”
“Adam..”
“Also, Cecilia..”
“ADAM” I yell at him, he just gives me a ‘hmm’, seriously?! “You’re panicking ”
“Am not..”
“What.is.wrong?!” I shake him lightly “You’re not okay, you haven’t slept”
Silence...
“Is it about your mom?!”
He shakes his head
“Your brother?! Bob?! Your grades?!”
No, no and no..
“Then, what..” he heaves a sigh, rubs his face, then sigh again “Adam..”
“Theo is coming to visit me...” I stare at him “With Camelia”
We both stay still for a moment, his face saying it all, he’s still hopelessly in love with Camelia, even though after friendzoning him for over 5 years now. Let me introduce them very quickly, Theodore Williams was our high school’s heart throb, or like we call him, the bad boy. Adam was not only his bestfriend, but also his wing man, they shared everything, until Theo’s eyes fell on Camelia, the both magically fell in love and he “stopped” being a manwhore, which was proven wrong by the days, at that time, I was the “sl*t” who was in love with the popular boy, they never knew how much I truly loved him, Adam ended up being heartlessly heartbroken, and above that, his so called bff cut all connections with him once we left for college. Surprisingly, me and Adam met here in HBS for the first time 4 years ago, both heartbroken and sad, and never in my life had I imagined I’d be his bestfriend, but I thank God for that.
High school was hell for me, if it weren’t for someone who’s not with me at the moment.
Now, the bastard wants to come back?! For what exactly?! I still don’t know why camelia choose to continue with him after he cheated, she kept on calling Adam and weep to him on the phone for three straight months, then they got back together!!
Girls
“Are you still...?! You know” I stretch a hand and take his in mine, rubbing it softly in a manner to reduce his obviously heartache, I don’t like seeing Adam like that, he deserves all the happiness in this world.
“I...I don’t know honestly” he chuckles, eyes on my hand “I know it’ll be hard” he sighs. We’re both silent for a few moments before he tugs my hand and we stand up “We have to hit the club tonight” he chuckles “I think I need to digest this” he arms drapes over my shoulder and we exit our sorority, nothing on my mind other than what’s to come.
Once outside, we close the doors and head towards our class, from the corner of my eye I see a rather beautiful black motorcycle barking, God look at that beauty. It’s obvious I have a thing for motorcycles, I unfortunately had to sell my Kawasaki because I was short on money, sniff sniff, I miss my baby.
Without intention I realize my body is walking up to that black beauty, it’s rider, dressed in black skinny jeans and a loose black sweater, but I’m only interested in the baby underneath.
“I see you have a sweet ride there” I, again, unintentionally run my hand over its shiny surface, her rider obviously loves it.
“Thanks” comes a female voice with a bit of an accent, she takes her helmet off. Sporting a pixie cut, but her hair is quite thick, her black strands falls over her forehead, before she gathers them behind her ear. She’s also of an olive skin, her eyes though...
“You have heterochromia..” I hear Adam whisper in awe behind me, her right eye is a beautiful mix of hazel and green, while her left is alluring blue, lips painted in a beautiful shade of black.
She looks familiar, way too familiar..
“Err, yeah” she seemed uncomfortable when Adam eyed her, and I can’t blame her, I myself was stunned by her beauty.
And the effing resemblance..
I'm hallucinating..
“I apologize for our behavior” quickly gathering myself and Adam’s, I nudge him in the ribs “Err, you, uh remind us of someone” it wasn’t a lie, she does remind me of..Rafael “We’ll uh..we’ll go”
“Err, yeah” she chuckles, and I see a dimple on her right cheek, she stretches her hand towards me “The name’s Elvira”
“Rayna” I shake her hand “This is Adam” I sense her discomfort when she shakes Adam’s hand, and he must’ve felt it too, because he quickly let go of her hand, putting on a friendly smile “So, you’re not from her right?!”
“No” she shakes her head, slungs her backpack over her shoulder and starts walking with us “I’m just visiting the city with my twin brother”
Twin brother?! If her brother is half her beauty I’m doomed
“I love your outfit by the way” I quickly glance at my black and red karohat shirt, paired with faded jeans and black converse.
“Err thanks, yours is cool too”
We both laugh and start strolling together, Adam trying to give us space but ended up buying us drinks, I can see that Evi - I call her that now, hell how we got on so quickly, I’ll never know- is trying to hide her discomfort, but honestly, Adam is properly the nicest boy I’ve ever know, she’ll come to like him. We ended up in that cute café near my apartment, the manager knows me and Adam so he always gives us discounts. After ditching our first course, I decide that I don’t want to start the semester so we continue wasting time until Evi’s phone buzz.
“Dónde estás?!” is that Spanish?! “vale, vendré a buscarte” she puts her phone down “Sorry, I have to go fetch my brother”
“You’re Spanish?!” Adam asking absentmindedly, and only receives a nod.
“Mexican”
She leaves in a hurry and I eye Adam with a funny expression.
“What?!” he grumbles
“Tune down the staring, you’re scaring her” he scoffs and gulps what’s left of his ice tea in one go. We both stay silent until the cafe’s door bell rings, we both look up, stunned, not by the resemblance, nor her brother’s obvious beauty...
“Ray?!” his deep voice and wide says it all, he still remembers me..
F*ck..
“Rafael...” I whisper his name, this boy had a huge impact on my life, before suddenly disappearing,
Oh well, what a nice way to start my semester.
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I know this is probably so lame you’ll want to throw your phones away, sorry. If you do enjoy this -prays you will- please leave me a comment regarding your thoughts❤❤