Chapter1
"How can one love someone so bad and still not get to have that person?"
"How can love bring together the very same people that were up in each others throats not so long ago?"
"Why does love contain more disappointments,hurt and anger instead of the opposite?"
"How can love be so selfish?"
Roselle's words rang throughout the hall as she kept on stealing a few glances at the blank faces that stood back at her.Her bronze short hair and visible freckles were enough to tell which type of group she falls under,or so she could already detect negative thoughts that crossed the minds of the students of Hare Fort Academy about her appearance.
One would ask how does she stand tall and proud in front of the judgemental eyes that would bore holes into her fragile structure and she would say her hopeless romantic poems would only respond to them if they would unmask the hidden message behind them.It was a riddle they failed and hated to solve but then there lay poetic souls that would gladly solve the mysterious pieces that the iris eyed Roselle left behind.
It was not peacefully quite,as there were a few mumbles and mutters so loud that they somehow managed to get in between her words.Of course they were not positive.
"Wrap it up weirdo"
"Cut the romance bull"
"Yeah,cut it.Lunchtime's almost up."
"Shut up!!One more word, and your detention is this afternoon!"Mr Brude half yelled at them and silence once took over.Knowing his influence over the Vice Principal,no one dared to take a swing back at him.
Roselle's voice seemed to be cracking a little bit,maybe the comments had gotten to her or maybe her poem had just gotten emotional,either way nobody could tell if she was crying due to the dark glasses that couldn't give out a single peek at her eyes.
As she kept on reading her poem,O'Maia had already lost focus as the sentence 'How can love be so selfish?'it
seemed to be the only thing lingering in her mind.She took a peek over at the figures covering her sight and there she could see
her
giggling at another guy's company.
Her mind tried to convince her that
she
is laughing because of the fun person
she
is but deep down O'Maia knew that the red colour creeping up her clear cheeks meant something else, something more than a friendly giggle.Not even a second passed and she started to hyperventilate.
She felt numerous stings of pain invade her chest,she couldn't take it no more.Just looking at
her
made her feel thousands of feelings which unfortunately included pain.And no,they were not normal chest pains,they were lovesick chest pains.Every beat of her heart got even more faster as the sight before her scorched up her insides.It was as if she was burning and when she was almost at the verge of exploding...a warm foreign touch occupied her empty hand.Closing her eyes and opening them up once more,her eyes fixed on the now intertwined hands.
She noticed the size of the hand that was in contact with hers was a little bit bigger.Her eyes trailed up the hand to uncover the person who had the guts to hold her hand.Her eyes fell onto a whole Devrouye 'Devi' Kentrell Bouyant,the Captain Hare Fort FieldHawks soccer team(HFFH).His eyes were set on the podium that Roselle stood at,whilst his other hand was in his pocket.
His head slowly tilted to O'Maia and soon he flashed her a pearly white smile.Just as she was about to speak up,he suddenly whispered.
"Hey...you good?"his eyes quickly averted to Mr Brude who was now watching closely,making sure everyone is paying attention.O'Maia gave no response as she looked blankly at him.He gently squeezed her hand and let go.The siren rang and soon followed by commotion.Everyone was heading out to the cafeteria.
Devrouye stood up and joined the commotion,leaving O'Maia dumbstruck.It was as if her whole body froze into place.
"Heyy!! I've been looking for you!"Lucia squeezed her way through pupils that flooded her away to the cafeteria through to O'Maia,who seemingly to be stuck onto her chair.
"Maia!Hey O'Maia!!"she clicked her long fingers in front of a zoned out O'Maia who soon snapped out of her deep thoughts and fixed her eyes on Lucia.Her brown hair was nicely pasted into place,giving her a clean,neat high bun.She was wearing the usual,her all boy(ish) outfit,baggy shirts along with baggy jeans and sneakers added.
It was raining heavily,lucky for them,Lucia had already brought an umbrella to accompany them safely to the cafeteria.
The silence took over once more in their table,making it seem less interesting.Amaranth looked at her green salad with a bored expression on her face.Her face seemed to get dull when they always came into the cafeteria,plus the food she was eating wasn't doing her any justice either.As for Lucia and Onika,they were all up and about with their food.Savouring each bite they took from their chicken pie's,it was the disturbing moans they made when eating something that pleased their taste buds that earned them a disgusted look from the bitter girl herself, Amaranth.
Breaking from their heavenly tasty pies,they took a glance at their quite girlfriends,Onika being a loosemouth she always been,finally broke the silence that was circling at their so 'cool 'table.
"So, anything from Luke?"she looked at Amaranth who threw her a murderous glance before her eyes fell back onto her green salad take away seconds later.O'Maia secretly stole a glimpse at her and back to her book,slowly taking bites from her homemade samoosa.She was no fan of the cafeteria food,hence she always prepared herself a lunchbox with her traditional food.
"Anything from Lukka huh Jansen?"Amaranth fired back,finally filling her mouth with the green leaves and violently crushing on them to indicate how pissed she is at Onika.She knew that Lukka was a touchy subject when it came to Onika,so she brought it up deliberately.
It went quite again as the air started to get even more denser.The two girls always stepped on each others toes from day one they became a squad.One would wonder why did they have to put up with each other's crap when they could just walk out from the toxic ties they had.
They had rich parents, everything about them was upright rich and expensive so why wouldn't they become best of friends,portray a good relationship for both their parent's business association and their reputation.
It was all about the fame,style, and the reputation,they never rooted on the real values of true friendship.Lucia soon changed the subject and directed it at O'Maia,who was caught up on her lovebook.
"Maya.....what were you and Dev talking about?"
Colour drained from O'Maia's face.She knew how much Lucia liked Devrouye,this would totally get her thrown under Lucia's 'Love to hate' list.
She thought to herself.
"He was asking about you."the words slipped away from her tongue causing Lucia's eyes to almost bulge out of their sockets.
"Really?!!"the three of them all said in unison,looking at O'Maia,who already knew she had to explain.
The noise around them started to get even more louder.
Luke Bosman was in the building along with his teammates, each and every one of them holding their pies and some already digging in whilst talking.Typical behaviour...
Devrouye threw O'Maia a quick glance and back at his teammates,trying to keep up with the heated conversation they had going on.
"I'm outta here,Lucia you coming along?"Onika rose from her seat,annoyed to see Lukka on and about with his business,not even an inch of selfish self even bothered to look her direction or check up on her the way he used to.
Grabbing her bag and silently made her way out,Lucia soon following her out.
"Did you see that?"Amaranth asked, sliding her silky blonde hair behind her ear.
"He didn't even bother to greet me,or spare me a single glance.I..It's like he repulses the sight of me.I swear that I never had sex with Cody...."she trailed off.Fiddling with her fingers as her eyes looked blankly at the table.It was as if she was shivering,deep down O'Maia knew that this was all an act for her to gain attention from Luke.
"Look,this guy isn't even worth your time-"O'Maia closed her book and tried to talk Amaranth out of this,to get her to forget about Luke.It didn't even last long and Amaranth snapped at her.
"Do NOT say that!What do you know what's worthy for me?What do YOU know about love? You've never had someone look at you twice and here you preaching to me about what's right for me and what's not.Here, you're good at this anyway.. Don't ever stick your nose in my business again, GOT IT?"Amaranth banged her homework notebooks on to the table and stormed off,drawing a few glances on to their table.
O'Maia being Amaranth's loyal minion,she did just as she was told,write half of Amaranth's homeworks.They weren't doing the same stream, linguistics was the only study that appeared on their different streams,hence Amaranth always bombarded Lucia with loads of homeworks.
How better could it get?The circle was getting colder and unbearable each day,the ties that used to keep these four girls together were broken into shambles.
It only took deceit,lies and betrayal to get them where they are.And now there's nothing that they can't do except pretending while all along they hate each other.
