The Accidental Nudes

One

My life was what people would call normal. My life was nothing sort of those movies we see. The characters that people adore are nothing similar to me.

And maybe that was why we adored them. We adore people who are brave and can stay true to themselves even amidst trouble. We adore the people that we would love to become one day.

I rolled the pen in between my fingers and let out a sigh. The classes, these days, were pretty boring to me. My desire to come to school was zero, probably, even a negative number, but just like everyone, I was forced to come.

I yawned. My one hand was on my mouth, covering my nose and my open mouth and with the other hand I was rubbing my eyes.

All I had been doing was to yawn the whole damn day.

Yes, my life was too boring. It was not like I could blame anyone for it. It was partly my fault. I never found the things interesting that our generation found.

I scratched my head. Maybe I’m secretly a thirty year old lady.

That would probably explain my weird behavior, but honestly, living in a fake world like ours was never my dream. I didn’t want to act like I had fun only on social media. I don’t want to have fun because I had to make someone jealous.

All I wanted was genuine happiness.

It was not like I was sad or anything. I was pretty content with my life as it was now, but if I ever get a chance to grab an option of doing something greater, I’d definitely grab it.

I could hear the sighs of relief that everyone let out as soon as the bell rang. Our teacher cleared her throat, “Everyone, please remember to submit your essay by the end of this weak.” But everyone was too busy to listen to our teacher. I could hear chairs being pushed and the laughter of the students.

I rested my head on the desk and closed my eyes, “Finally!” I whispered to myself. I wanted to sleep for a little time but I knew that it was impossible.

When I opened my eyes, I found my best friend giving her signature grin, “Stayed up all night?” she asked even though she already knew my answer.

The dark circles under my eyes were the answer.

The weird thing about me was that even though I want to do great things and achieve happiness, I was too lazy to do it. I really want to do something great but that’s it. It’s just want. A need, I don’t push myself to work hard. I’d busy myself with YouTube videos; there was nothing that I did to benefit myself.

And, at the end of day, I would scroll through social media and just see pictures of people having fun. I would read inspiring quotes to motivate myself but…..

“Get up; we have to go our next class.” Ashley reminded me as she grabbed my hand and tried to pull me.

I let out a loud groan but stood up anyway.

“Let’s burn this place someday, shall we?” I joked as a yawn left my mouth.

“Hell yeah, you just decide the date!”

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“Did you complete the essay yet?” I asked Ashley as we made our way to the cafeteria tables.

She shook her head, “I’ll probably write it the day before I need to submit, just like always.” She told laughing loudly.

“Why do you seem so proud about this?” I mumbled, shaking my head.

“Because my level of procrastination is hard to achieve! HAHAHAHAHA!”

I couldn’t control the giggle that escaped my mouth. Ashley was a comical girl and hanging out with her always led to laughter. I was glad that she was my friend. At first glance, everyone one might think that she is just an immature girl that knew nothing but to joke around, but when you would hang around her, you’d realize that she has got the most amazing response to life. She was way more mature than anyone of us.

“Have you done it?” she asked after our laughter died out and took a bite of her food.

I nodded my head and gave her a smirk, “I completed it on the day she ordered us to write.”

She looked shock. “Are you kidding me?”

“I mean, I’m the perfect student, after all.” I made an offended face in response to her facial expression. She was giving me an ‘are you kidding me?’ look.

She narrowed her eyes, “Perfect student? My ass! Who are you, and what have you done to my lazy Violet?” She stood up and bent her body across the table. Her hands cupped my face and she forced me to look up at her, “Do you have a fever?”

I pushed her hands away and glared at her, “I am serious.”

She let go off me and sat back on her seat, “I was--,” she was interrupted by a voice that was directed towards us, “Hey.”

We both turned to look at the intruder and both of our lively moods dampened.

It was Ashley who opened her mouth first, “What the fuck do you want?” She didn’t like to swear so if a swear word comes out of her mouth, it was because someone had really pissed her off, and it was, indeed, true as her eyes were smoldering with anger.

Chris took a step back in fear and held his hands up, “Whoa! Relax; I just want to talk with both of you.”

Ashley rolled her eyes, “It’s such a shame that we don’t.” A glare was sent to his way, “Vi, Let’s go and eat somewhere else. This place is stinking.” She waved her hand in front of her nose to emphasis her sentence.

I simply nodded my head, stood up and followed Ashley. I avoided eye contact with him, knowing very well that I would feel pity if my eyes met his. He had been our best friend, after all.

“That bastard!” She was uttering all sorts of swear words and I couldn’t help but agree with every word that came out of her mouth.

Chris made us realize that people change and, they would not hesitate to hurt the people that were once close to them. Humans are really a peculiar species.

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Chris didn’t disturb us for the next few days and we both were more than happy with that. Right now, I was texting Ashley about random things.

I was chuckling when I saw her reply and that was when I got a new message. It was from an unknown number.

All hell broke loose when I decided to open it, “What the fuck is this?” It was me who shouted.

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