Chapter 1
1-Andre and the Bus Seat
(Zara’s POV)
Again and again every day I am woken up by my mother from my small little world of fabulous dreams in my head and when I finally wake up after listening to my mother’s bickering of how my room is so messy for a girl’s room “Why will I clean my room mum when you always do it for me before I return home from college” I say with a smirk.
So like my normal every day I go brush my teeth leaving the toothpaste open without the cap on and then I rummage through my wardrobe for my Forever 21 jeans and gap hoodie and get dressed then I hear a loud honk and I groan, I’m late again. I hurried and grabbed a grilled cheese sandwich from the kitchen and jumped onto the bus just as it was about to leave.I have done this at least a hundred times during middle school and now again in my third week of high school. I’m going to use the bus only for more 3 weeks as my birthday comes up on 4th June and I will turn 18 and get my own car.
I walk up to my seat but there is someone else sitting in my place and to no surprise ,Ariana and her gang are surrounding the particular person sitting in my place (that’s an understatement) they are practically swooning over my place trying to get the student’s attention probably the new student is a super-rich fake-dolly looks ,phone-addicted girly-girl with short skirts ,stilettoes ,lipstick and hair extensions or a super fierce-hot and sexy boy ,whoever it is the particular he or she is going to regret it, first things first:
1. You NEVER mess with me.{I have a bad record of hitting people who mess with me actually who super annoy me I remain calm most of the times but if they cross the line they will never forget that moment for life }
2.My seat is the most comfortable and coziest seat you will find in the whole bus.
3. When I am with my friends I am super fun.
4. When you play a song I know or love in my room or the car I cannot resist singing it along aloud (I have a bad voice but I do not care)
5. I love to do new things, go to new places, meet and explore more people and like doing anything that is new
6. I love Shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7. I love sleeping in my bed or lying down watching Netflix
8. My sense of style and dressing is fabulous.
So that’s me anyway where are we heading to and from where .So I walk up to the person and saw that it was a boy but something perked me up, his smell it was intoxicating like I was attracted to him what the hell is happening to me snapping out of my thoughts, “Hello!” I say sweetly but of course (sarcasm) he does not listen because he has his earplugs on and then I yell “Hello Mr. ” he finally takes his earphones off and stares deep into my eyes, his eyes were deep blue nearly black with the proper streaks of golden and my thoughts go haywire and after a few seconds I bring my thoughts together and say “You are in my seat” And then I hear a familiar voice behind my back “Let him take your place Zara he is a new student, come to sit with me”
I immediately recognized the voice as Emily’s. We’ve been best friends since kindergarten. We have gone to the same school and have laughed on the same jokes and did many pranks together in school, we three (3rd person is Belinda) are harry potter fans and are always there for each other in the good and the bad times. “Coming Em!” I replied. Hearing this he stopped staring into my eyes and said ” Sorry, there will be no need for that I’ll find a place to sit you can take your cozy seat “,
“No , not a problem you can take this seat the rest of the bus is full anyway, enjoy the seat, There ain’t any like it in the whole bus, I’ll go sit with Em I mean Emily she is my best friend anyway and welcome to your first day at Candlelight , I’m Zara”
I replied faster than anyone would expect me too and god knows what made me give up my seat because it is very comfortable compared to all the seats in the bus, the seat is also not broken it does not come out if you pull it up by mistake, it is situated by the window and has a charging socket which no seat has there are many advantages of that seat which is why nobody will ever give it up.
“Nice to meet you, I’m Andre and you look breathless BTW”,
“Ooooh! Some one’s finally straightforward, welcome aboard!!! I became tired of being the only one to be straightforward here, and importantly if you want to avoid Ariana and her group just tell them you have a girlfriend if you have one or not and not a word will be spoken to you, they annoy hot boys” I replied smiling, happy that there is someone like me at Candlelight.
He chuckled and said “Thought I would be the only one – wait you just told that Aalianki or whatever her name is and her gang annoy “hot”-he says this using air quotes- boys then you indirectly mean that I am hot Eh!” I flushed a very deep shade of red but acted like I did not and raised an eyebrow,
”You are red because of someone huh! Was it me? ” he said looking up at me laughing a great deal
“Ha, you wish!!”I joked God I was red like a and sat in the seat beside Emily’s. She reserves two seats to herself because she sleeps in the bus like almost every day “Holy Sh*t! How do you get every boy in Candlelight to like you they are always staring, I’m telling you I need tips!” she exclaimed and I was attentive enough to notice a pinch of jealousy in her voice.
It’s obvious you would feel this way if boys keep moving their attention towards your best friend and not you I would feel the same way if our places were switched, “Come on Em, It’s not like I am casting a spell over them and attracting them I’m not Hermione Granger and not like Ariana and her girl gang who pounce on every boy they find hot and why will anyone stare at me I’m not even beautiful”,
“For your information, if you just turn around and look over in his direction you might just notice him staring at you and you could give him your death stare it would scare anyone try it ” Em replied so I brought up my courage wait what! Why do I need courage it’s just a boy I turned my face slightly in his direction and hell!!! He really was staring at me seeing me turn Andre started gazing out the window and I saw that Andre’s face flushed with embarrassment on being caught staring. “Nick, can I have some gum,” I asked Nick faking the whole thing so that Andre does not think I was looking over at him “Why do you always ask me Zara? Take it, you won’t stop until I give it to you anyway”,
“I always ask you Nicky because you always have one ready for me every day.” I replied all of us called Nick as Nicky (after Nicky Minaj) “What do I have to do to for you to stop calling me that Zara?”, “Bring me to gum everyday Nicky!!” and then my group of friends started laughing , this happened every day but I just suddenly thought could Andre like me? I mean he was staring at me wasn’t he and he even complimented on my looks, What the hell am I thinking- and just then Em snapped me out of my thoughts “What are you thinking dream girl?” she is someone who knows how am I feeling by just the look of my face “Nothing Em, How was your weekend?” I asked with a completely nonchalant face and locked away the thought of Andre in some corner of my fuzzy brain as Em and I started our chit-chat and cracking our not-so-funny jokes but we still laugh at them anyway.
