{Following Mia}

*be-beep* *be-beep*

"It's morning already? shoot!" I cursed under my breath as I stared down at the loud alarm clock sitting at my bedside table. Just then it dawned on me that I had not slept a wink at all on a school night.

Double shoot

In my defense, StrayKids, my favorite K-pop boy band of all time held a live online concert.

So I Practically had to be there.

Was it worth staying up for? ...Absolutely!

The songs, the stage effects, the dances, the everything! It was so amazing and I was reminded once again why I'm in love with these eight boys.

Speaking of the boys, AKA. The members. Not to sound dramatic or anything but I would legit die for them.

They are just so fine!!!!! Especially my bias: Felix

Felix is like the most perfectest perfect person in the universe!!

No words in the English dictionary can truly capture my love for this Aussie 23 year old man that doesn't know I exist.I would do anything for him.

Literally anything.

If he asked me to burn down an orphanage. I would do it.

If he asked me to rob the White House. I would do it.

If he asked me to hold 20 victims hostage, murder them and then turn the gun on myself. I would do i-

"Girl, you are insane".

Those words interrupted me from my monologue

I turned around to where the voice was coming from and saw Saanvi Verma, My best friend since childhood, leaning on my doorway with her phone out in front of her pointing it at me.

"Saanvi, I know you're recording me" I said in a somewhat whiny tone as I picked up my pillow to cover my face to obscure the camera's view of me. "Stop~" .

"Pfft, no way! Is it that you've finally gone insane?" She said letting out a small chuckle as she turned her phone around to show me what was on her screen "What are you even saying? "

There It was. A recording of me freely expressing my undying love for my future husband Felix while kicking my feet, and rolling around my bed like a mad man. I didn't even realize I was saying all that out loud.

Okay fine, I'll admit, actually seeing myself on screen made me realize how a tad bit insane I sounded- just a bit.

" I am so definitely sending this to the class group chat" Saanvi taunted as she waved her phone back and forth with a wide grin on her face.

I cringed at just the thought of how embarrassing it would be if my stupid classmates saw the video. My reputation as one if the few sane, reasonable people there would be over.

"You wouldn't dare!" I said narrowing my eyes to show how serious I am.

"Oh, I would" She replied still with the same smirk on her face.

An intense stare off inside between us. Saanvi, with a malicious smirk on her face, threatened to click the SnapChat app on her home screen to send the video.

"Girls, I hope you're getting ready for school! " A loud feminine voice called from downstairs. I instantly recognized it as my mom because, well she is the only other person that should be in the house.

"Oh yeah, I completely forgot why I was even here." Saanvi said as she finally turned off her phone and tried to put it in the tiny pockets at the side of her blue denim jeans. "Anyways, get your lazy bum bum ready or else I'll tell your mom and she'll bring out the chancla".

With that, Saanvi left my room to give me some privacy to get my self together.

Ugh. I was so focused on my Felix I completely forgot about the hell hole that is school.

I don't want to go. but not like I have much of a choice since the government is basically forcing us.

I'd rather be in jail than school. Oh, wait, what's the difference?

But at last, I brushed my teeth, changed and packed my bag because as much as I hate school, I'm not trying to get my ass whooped.

After getting myself all ready, I opened my bedroom door and descended the stairs.

Before I could fully get to the last few steps, I heard a loud *Bark*

I stopped in my tracks and looked down to see Mylo, my 5-year-old golden retriever, eagerly waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs.

Seeing him, I continued my descent down, but this time going down faster to get to Mylo

As soon as my right foot touched the cold wooden floors, I knelt and embraced my dog in a tight hug

"Who's a good boy? You are. Yes you are" I said in an overly high pitched gushy voice as I ruffled his light golden brown fur. "hope you had a good night's sleep".

Mylo jumped around, wagging his tail and stuck his tongue out to show his excitement. Safe to assume he slept well last night.

After playing around with him for a bit, I went into the kitchen.

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Where I saw Saanvi sitting on the kitchen table on her phone with a half-eaten bowl of changua, while my mom was busy looking at the mirror attached to the fridge, trying to fix her waist length navy black hair up into a tight military like bun.

"Good morning mama" I greeted her while making my way to the seat across from Saanvi.

"Morning Mimi" Mama greeted back. "Make yourself some toast or something. You two are probably already late." She said but I was honestly not listening to what she said as I was to distracted by the purple necklace that always around her neck.

I swear I have never seen my mother with that thing off. She even showers with it on as if it's a part of her body. Well at least its really pretty as it has a purple gem at the end of it, but the more I stare at it I notice it wasn't it's usual dull purple color- instead it looked blue, and I swear it was glowing too.

I point this abnormality out to my mom, expecting her to tell me it was a different necklace or something and it wasn't a big deal, but instead she looks nervous and covers the gem with her hand saying "oh..this? ...This is... nothing... don't worry about it Mija".

I found her reaction weird, as if she was hiding something...or maybe I'm just being paranoid and looking too much into...but it still seems suspicious

But before I could continue my thoughts, they were interrupted by loud slurping noises. I look to my side and of course it was Saanvi.

"Can you not slurp your food like a child" I snapped at her annoyed by the sound. Saanvi just shrugged pretty much ignoring my complaint "it's not my fault this soup is good. You should try some"

Her suggestion made me look down at the empty plate in front of me and I realized mama hadn't made me breakfast

How could my own mother make breakfast for her and forget about me? That is so unfair. I let my annoyance be known by asking just that.

"Mama, what gives? You didn't cook anything for me" I said crossing my arms like a kid in a toy store that was just told "no" by their mom.

"Well the soup was for you mija, it's just-" Mama's sentence got swiftly interrupted.

"You were taking too long and the soup was getting cold." Saanvi said with a pleased grin on her face. "You know me, I just couldn't let good food go to waste, especially when it was practically begging to be eaten" she added while dramatically while placing her left arm on her forehead and leaning back as if she was about to faint.

I love the girl, but I would be lying if I said sometimes I didn't get the urge to bitch slap her across her face.

But I couldn't be too mad at her. It's just food and after all, she's been my best friend since the day we realized we both had a passionate hatred for the snake that is Vanessa Lim. So like 6th grade.

"Hey Rosa!" Saanvi rudely called out to my mom using her first name. "The soup was great. Make sure to have another bowl ready for me when I get home, okay"

"Hell no! If you want food, make it yourself" my mom yelled back.

Yup, that's how close my mother and Saanvi are. Pretty sure Mom sees her as her second daughter. They laugh together, cry together, hang out together, gossip together and tease each other. Just normal healthy mother-daughter relationship stuff.

You'd think I would be jealous of whatever they have going on, or at least threatened, but really I'm not. I know mom loves us both equally and Saanvi is basically like my sister. That's why she also has the house door keys. She basically lives with us.

Honestly, I'm glad they have a such close relationship because that means she can come over anytime she wants, and not only that, but Saanvi's actual mom isn't someone you would call a "good mother". So I'm glad she has someone to properly fill in that role for her.

"Mimi we have to go now, we can't miss the bus again. Stupid Mrs. Lindsey is going to eat me alive if I'm late to another one of his brainless music classes." She said as she unlocked the front door.

I grabbed my bag and quickly followed suit.

"Have a good day girls and Behave well.'' Mama basically shouted for us to hear her. "Also Mimi, I'm going to come home late today, so ill leave some money on the dining table in case you want to order out"

"okay" I swiftly said while I was trying to catch up to Saanvi.

" I love you Mia" My mom finally called out, but this time I couldn't respond back because all of my breath was being used on trying to run fast enough so we don't miss our bus.

By some miracle we had managed to catch the bus, but still had to do the awkward walk of shame as everyone who wasn't late started at us while we walked down the aisle looking for any empty seats. Fortunately we found two unoccupied seats and settled there.

The journey off quiet- well as quiet as a school bus ride could be since there was the usual screaming and fighting despite it being seven in the freaking morning. Though we were closer to the front, away from the caps that was occurring at the back, so I took the opportunity to bring up my probably trivial concern.

"Did you notice how weird mama was acting today?" I asked Saanvi but she Just looked at me as if I was crazy and shook her head "what do you mean, she seemed normal to me".

So am I the only one who noticed it?. I then explained to her how odd she acted when I brought up the change in color of her necklace but it still seemed Saanvi was convinced anything was up "doesn't seem like a big deal to me, it could have just been a new necklace" she suggested which could make sense but it still didn't explain her odd behavior.

But maybe she's right. Maybe it really isn't a big deal and I'm just being paranoid. Yah that's probably it. I should just forget about this before I worry my self over nothing.

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~ At school ~

UGH! The first class of the day: Advanced Physics. AKA. The second worst subject in the world- first is math obviously.

No words in the English dictionary can express just how much I h.a.t.e grade 12 physics. Why did I even decide to take this stupid subject in the first place?

I should have done biology instead, at least then I don't have to memorize freaking quantum mechanics.

This is why I hate that slimy rat Issac stupid Newton. Without his dumb self, I wouldn't be forced to learn any of this stuff.

Plus I think he's give way to much credit. Like what do you mean he discovered gravity?

Pretty sure the thing was around way before he was, or are you trying to tell me people in The Olden days just floated around like kites? All he did was give a name to it and come up confusing complicated concepts to make everyone's lives harder then it already is

I swear when I die, as soon as I find that old man, it's on sight. I'm gonna beat the crap out of hi-

*bump*

My thoughts were once again interpreted as I felt my head hit something really hard.

"Ouch, what the heck was that?" I muttered to myself trying to rub the immense pain off my head as if it was going to work. Did I hit a brick wall or something?.

I guess I was too caught up in my thoughts to pay attention to my surroundings.

Now I was in the middle of the hallway, plopped on the ground like a loser with my bag on the floor beside me. I could already feel people's eyes on me. this is embarrassing

"Hey, watch where you're going dork" said the dude towering over me.

That voice.

That deep, cold, lifeless, depressed, empty, soulless, "I want to die" type voice. I could recognize it from anywhere.

I felt my heart skip a beat when the guy I thought the voice might belong to came to mind.

No..it can't be him. It just can't. Can't it?I thought to myself.

I looked up to what I just pumped into, and saw a tall, shadowy figure Looming over me and squinted my eyes to get a better look at him just to be sure..,

and... . Holy hell it him!!!!!!!

"Yo, you good? Why does your face look like that" Mr. Mysterious boy asked with clear confusion, and a hint of disgust on his perfectly chiseled, pimple- less face.

No way Alvaro Freaking Gutierrez was talking to ME.

This can't be real.

Am I dreaming?

Am I dead?

Am I even worthy enough to be in such close proximity as him?

We're literally breathing in the same air right now...is that even legal?

Just for context, Alvaro is literally the finest boy in school, which honestly is not saying much considering the majority of this school's male population looks like the ungodly child of Rumpelstiltskin an Shrek himself. But still. Alvaro is above average on the attractive scale.

He's also popular too. Literally the stereotypical high school jock in those Netflix romcom series. Surprised his name isn't something like Chad or Tyler.

He is also rich, which just adds extra points to his likeness

Everyone swoons over this man, including me.

I even heard some teachers got a crush on him, which is very concerning but damn.

Sure he might be a huge jerk with a bad temper, but who cares about personality when you have a pretty face and money. I certainly don't.

With all that said. I hope now you can understand the reason for my completely sane reaction.

At that moment, as I sat in the glorious presence of Alvaro Gutierrez, all I could feel was.... . Pure Panic.

Is my hair okay?

Does he think I'm ugly?

He probably thinks I'm ugly

Shoot. If knew he was going to talk to me today, I would've worn makeup and a nicer outfit.

He must hate me now

Oh no. What if he starts a nasty rumor about me because I bumped into him? Everyone is going to turn on me and think I'm a horrible person. What if they tell the principal and I get expelled

Mom is definitely going to disown me if that happens. I'm Going to be Homeless!!.

No. I can't let that happen. If I just say sorry now, he won't hate me or spread any rumors. Yeah, it's the perfect plan

As I got ready to open my mouth to profusely apologies to him, I realized he left already.

"oh.... I have to tell Saanvi about this!"

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