20 years later
Genevieve
I yawn as I finish my last homework, and I look outside my window. The sun was almost up, and the sky was already turning light blue, which made my face turn into a frown.
"I really need time management," I complain to myself as I stretch my numb arms.
I was about to stand up, but I sat back down and groaned as I felt my back hurting. My eyes rolled back, and I stood up again to stretch my back.
"Ugh, why is my body so weak?" I flicked my tongue before walking around my room and decided to get out, so I grabbed the doorknob to open it.
I went outside my room and went to the bathroom to shower to get ready for school since it's Monday today.
I removed my clothes and stepped inside my shower only to be greeted by cold water coming out of the shower head.
"Oohhh great heavens." I giggled and hugged my body from the intense drop in temperature.
I took the shampoo hanging on the wall to wash my hair that I hadn't washed for 2 days during the weekend, as I was too busy.
I bubbled the shampoo into my hair to remove the dirt that had been living rent-free on my scalp before washing it.
Finally, my hair smells like strawberry and not like a cockroach's nest...
I then washed and exfoliated my body to remove dirt, and as soon as I finished, I went out of the bathroom after spending my hour just singing and taking care of myself.
I went back to my room, tiptoeing caused to the cold shower. I glanced at my uniform hanging in my closet door.
I removed my bathrobe and wore my underwear with a bra and put on deodorant.
I yawn as I still feel kind of sleepy, and I put on my black skirt that rests at my thigh length level, but of course, not enough to let it flash my ass in front of everyone at school. I wore my white sleeve uniform and my black uniform vest with a design of my school's logo on the side chest.
I looked at myself in the mirror, and I fixed my hair. I rested my hand at my waist while raising an eyebrow.
"You look good, girl. Can I get your number?" I said, smirking at myself and acting like a street boy.
I grabbed my bag and went to the kitchen to find nothing but just dishes, so I smiled in pain because it's a lot. I sighed and just left the house to go to the bus stop, and there I saw my friend Elysia.
"Girl, you look...are you okay?" She asked me as she looked at me with that weird, worried face.
The bus stopped in front of us, and we immediately sat in the back.
"I got no sleep because of those stupid homeworks." I yawn and put my head on her shoulders to sleep.
"I hate to wake you up after you just got here minutes ago, but we're already at the school."
My eyes widened when I remembered that this bus is literally high speed.
"Ugh, so annoying." I rolled my eyes at her and quickly went outside the bus with my bag, but she ran to me to put her arm on my shoulder.
We went inside the school while I looked at myself in the tiny mirror that I brought.
"Are you going to your date later?" I asked her, and I saw her face curving into a grin through the mirror.
"Yeah, no shit, he's rich and handsome." I put my mirror in my skirt pocket and pushed her playfully with a chuckle.
"What's his name?"
"His name is Ethan, and we're the same age." She said while still smiling like an idiot.
We went to our lockers, and when I opened mine, there was another love letter that someone had probably slipped into my locker, but I ignored it and took some books. Elysia walked up to me when she finished putting her stuff in her locker, and we walked down the hallway together.
"Dude, I hope our math teacher is sick, I don't wanna answer his bullshit math questions, it's so tricky."
"Yeah, I hope so," I responded with a hint of boredom in my tone.
We went inside the classroom and sat next to each other in the back of the class, next to the window, where we saw our other friends.
"Heyyy look who's here looking like she got no sleep," Shai said while laughing, so I pushed her shoulders playfully and rolled my eyes.
I pretended to get something in my hair, and I showed her my middle finger, so she rolled her eyes at me while our other friends laughed.
"Well, she said she was doing homework," Elysia said while putting her makeup on.
"There are two transferees today, I just heard from the teacher's faculty," Nicole said with a playful tone.
"Really? If it's a girl, we don't care." I said, while they agreed with a nod.
We continued talking until the teacher arrived, so we sat down next to each other in the back. I rested my feet on the chair in front of me and crossed my arms while eating the lollipop that Nicole gave me just before the teacher entered.
"Good morning, class."
We all stood up except for my friends, who all looked bored and didn't wanna be here.
"Good morning, Sir Velasquez." The class responded to his greetings, and he signaled us to sit down.
I glanced at Shai bothering the girl in front of her by pushing her chair, which made me scoff.
She's just the way she is, a meanie.
"Class, we have two transferees today from Maxwell Academy. Please come in and introduce yourselves." Elysia gasped, and I noticed her surprised expression.
"Are you ok, girl?" I asked her and held her shoulders, but she held my face to make me look in front, and there I saw two boys looking like fallen angels.
I scoffed at the sight in front of me.
"Finally, there are handsome guys in our class; I can't stand the boys here." I heard Shai's whisper, causing Nicole to giggle.
"Hello everyone, I'm Ethan Anderson, and I'm 18 years old. I hope we can all be friends." He said while smiling, and my eyebrows raised. I glanced at Elysia, gazing at Ethan with her fixated gaze on him.
"Is that him? Your date tonight?" I asked her. She seemed to snap back to reality when she heard my question, and she nodded.
"Yeah, I don't know why he's here, though." My gaze remained on her face, and it was just full of confusion in her eyes, with a mix of excitement.
I gazed at the other guy beside Ethan as he introduced himself.
"Good morning, everyone. I'm Ivan Cooper." He said without the slightest hint of emotion.
"Cooper? he's from there?"
"Wow, one of the Coopers."
"I heard they're crazy rich."
The class whispered, but they could clearly be heard.
"Please sit at the back, it's the only available seat here." The teacher said and pointed to the seat in front of Elysia and me.
Ethan sat in front of Elysia, and I saw them exchange a knowing smile with each other.
I looked at Ivan, who was looking at my feet resting on the chair. I rolled my eyes and removed my feet, so he sat down.
I sighed, and I scanned outside the window. The sky looks cloudy, and no sign of the bright sun. I think it's gonna rain soon cause it's kind of dark.
I closed my eyes and rested my head on my chair's desk. I immediately fell into slumber, not caring about the lesson.
Elysia
The entire hour I was just looking at Ethan's back, completely in love with him, but I'm confused because how did he know which school I go to? Or maybe it's just a coincidence.
My attention caught Genevieve just sleeping on her desk and her chubby cheeks getting squeezed by her arm, I chuckled and secretly grabbed my phone in my pocket, and took a picture of her. I immediately sent it to our friend group chat.
After hours and hours of boring lectures and discussion about God knows what topic it is which I can't even fucking remember, school finally ended, and now we're fixing our things to go home and rest, when suddenly he came to me with his friend Ivan.
"Hey Elys, give me your address, I'm gonna pick you up tonight." He winked at me, which made my cheeks turn rosy red, and I grabbed Genevieve's ballpen from her desk with a paper to write my number.
I noticed Genevieve finally waking up, but I ignored it.
I gave it to him, and he winked at me again. A smile curved on my lips, and I put my hair behind my ears. I noticed Ivan staring at Genevieve, fixing her things.