Like a black spot on a mirage, My gaze swept through the class only to stop upon my fellow classmate, a girl of medium height (for girls), generic brown eyes like a weed in front of a herd of lotuses and a fashion sense of a 2009 girl wearing a simple colored top, skirt and white stocking to go along with it.
All round, one can definitely say her as the most generic girl you can ever find and nobody, even she herself wouldn't take any offence to it as it is the truth, like a background character in a series, noticeable yet certainly not worthy to remember.
Yet, I can't help but look at her, she just has a peculiar presence like a short tree in a forest full of over blossoming flowers, you can ignore her and enjoy the scenery but she definitely strikes out as a odd being.
Just when I was being detective all over her, I hear a familiar voice
"Sup dude!" I tried to change my view from her to him only to be stopped suddenly by his abrupt question
"Oh, you're still looking at her, don't worry man, I won't stop your rendezvous adventures, INDEED! If one can't have experiences like that now, then when can they?"
Fuck. He knows. Fuck.
The guy beside me is a behometh of a being, casually being the most tallest person I sawn with a appropriate build and solid humour skill to go along, he is your typical charismatic guy... ah his name is Taylor btw.
Today, He wore a classic black shirt with some flower embroideries? and a white pant like a specimen from the early 2010's museum, his face was round with some wrinkles and black spot near his eyes which makes his face even more daunting to look at, yet just being near his side can calm most of your worries.
I look at him at last and say what I wanted to say from the start
"Before whatever you wanna say dude, it's not like that, got it bud?"
But the response I got is completely out of what I could imagine
"Oh c'mon, Ryler LIKES Hailey WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL IN HERE?"
This motherfucker seriously! I can already feel the gazes or my fellow classmates like I'm a bait thrown at millions of eels, they are going to completely fuck me over with this for the rest of the year!
...wait a second, what name did he say again?
Before I could fully comprehend the Pandora box he unleashed upon me, I was forced to answer my classmate's unwaveringly determined questions
"Wait Really?" "No wayyy, I know it!" "I won the bet!!!!!" "You can do it brother, we will always believe in you!" "Wha- he isn't a furry? Damn, here man, have this"
The storm of questions took over me like I'm nothing but a cardboard box in a lonely valley, some people were surprised, some were stupified, some were angry, some were indifferent and some gone so far as to bet on my life, wait what the fu-
The girl in question, that is the girl my friend called out to has come near my seat oblivious to other's reaction and my own flagger blasted expression.
"I'm not interested btw."
The girl rejected me, even though this isn't the girl I was even looking at, this still hurts me.
Oh yeah, that mf thought I was looking at Hailey instead of Stacey, Was she so ordinary that he subconsciously thought I wouldn't look at her? Or does his subconsciousness ignore her?
Before I could respond, she continued with her relentless response
"But, y'know... If you wanted to, we could start by talking and feeling each other out y'know?"
Once again I was blue balled into who knows what, the girl who was misunderstood as my crush by others holds out a torch out for me like I'm a lost bug at a underground labyrinth.
Of course a wise man knows when to accept his outcome, so naturally I wouldn't let lose of this opportunity.
"Yeah, I'm free this weekend, what about you?"
As far as I know, Hailey is one of the most popular girls with an arrogant mean personality, slick ponytails, fashion style of... the present, wearing a high-waisted jeans paired with cropped jacket, leather shoes and some small piercing over her ears and nose.
Oh- she also used to bully some girls, minor details, I know.
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"This weekend right?, yeah I'm free, you already have my number right? Hit me up there when you're all prepared btw"
"Yeah I will make sure to not disappoint you, my lady-"
She gave me a look of disgust as if she regretted ever talking to me after hearing my sense of humor and turned to leave, I of course sawn her leave only to be awestruck yet again by a very ordinary girl, I looked at her for some time before putting my focus back to this world.
Of course, I was met by that behemoth, no, the evil behemoth's gaze and his question which seems so full of pride that you wonder if he thinks anything in that brain-free head.
"I did good right? Hehe"
I refuted him thoroughly as if to put down a growing fire.
"Nope, just the worst but thanks tho, if it isn't for you, who knows if I will ever get to speak with that infamous delinquent queen or whatever her nickname was"
Naturally, he flared back up as if to ask "why do you seem to care so little about your very own crush?"
"I get what you're about to ask, As I said before, it really isn't like that but who knows, maybe I can go somewhere with her"
His eyes seemed to jump out of his eyeball as he looked at me and contemplated in silence before going back to his usual way of life, that is turning his brains off.
"Righttt, I helped right? Hahaha Who wouldn't help their homies? Right brother?"
My fellow classmates who still don't know the full story agreed with him as if they are old powerless nobles kissing the ass of the king to get into a good position.
"Yeah!" "Exactly brother" "you're always correct vro"
"We will defeat even the opps for our brother!" "Yeahhhhhh!!!"
I once again look back at Stacy, This time, our eyes lock for the first time, she seems so distant yet so near, her eyes seemed indifferent to everything as if to say that nothing in this mortal world interests likes of her and that everyone should just fall for her supremacy, only that, everyone would be still left wondering why they serve her even if the whole world knows that she is is a God incarnate.
*Smirk*
I felt a indescribable sense of disgust at that moment but all she did was smile?, no, at least I think she is trying to smile, her lips are always curved down but now that she is trying to get it back up and smile forcefully like a new born baby just knowing about laughing and smiling.
It was an awful smile that you wonder if anyone have even told her about this peculiar activity of hers.
In that small gap of time, her smile faded to return to a indifferent expression as if her previous expression is a glitch in reality and I was unfortunate enough to see such a thing, yes, that must be it.
Everything after that incident flown like a daze as if I'm a princess captivated by a evil witch and soon, I'm back at my home, alone yet again.
....
The school continued on like a daze, the classes gone on like usual, the usual chatting between students during lunch break and lastly, a bus trip to my home.
I wondered how others are doing in their life as I slowly drift to my home.
And...
Fuck. A new realisation brings me back to this world once again from that weird daze, Only now do I realised that I forgot to smile back at her.
I scratch the back of my left hand at this sudden upravel and seeing as if no one is around for me to complain or rat about, I slowly turn on the old squared television box to let out my stress.
That's what I hoped to achieve at the very least,
"A new strings of coincidental killings have appeared in the new apple street at *****, the victims are said to be found missing at different times of places and many more are said to be implicated in this gruesome kidnapping or worse, killing spree by a vicious psycho, so we ask you to be careful on your way back home, and to the next string of news, we ha-"
*Shuts off sound*
*Sigh*
It just had to be near my house, doesn't it?, I wonder if the school will take any type of action depending on this.
....Ah, I wish they wouldn't and maybe I can meet the kil-
.... whatever, let's just get some sleep!
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