I exited the campus with a triumphant look and a proud face and decided to go to a convenience store to have some ramen for snacks and dumplings with drinks near the university.
"It will be 5 dollars in all," the cashier stated.
I am looking for my wallet in my school bag and I'm about to pay but there's no sign of wallet in my bag!?! I was starting to get sweaty and gave the cashier a nervous smile.
"Wait for a moment. I can't find my wallet,"
I am doing all my might and best to dig my left hand in my bag thoroughly to find my wallet, but the cashier is making me nervous and scared even more because of her raised bitchy left eyebrow with her stare looking at my hand inside my bag. But it's been 15 minutes and I still can find my wallet. Realization struck at me when I remembered I didn't went to my locker to get my wallet because I got distracted and I was being a curious cat of the love confession earlier and encountered Huang Xiaojun. How stupid I am! Karma is really a bitch.
"Miss, can you wait for a minute I will just go back to the university and get my wallet. I forgot to bring it. I will be right back after I found it,"
The cashier just gave me an 'I've heard all this schemes before. You can't fool me' look.
"I promise I will be back. Give me one minute to be back from here and pay you. Please, I'm not a person you're thinking. Pleaseee miss,"
But the cashier just rolled her eyes and swung her head from left to right as a sign of dissatisfaction and disagreement. Her hand started to move to the telephone to call the police, but I gripped her wrist to stop her from touching the numbers from the telephone to make a call.
"Why can't you believe me? Just because my face don't seemed to be trusted that you assume I'm a criminal? How hypocrite the society today is! This isn't fair!"
"You think I can buy that excuses of yours? I've heard all of it. You can't fool me anymore. You scheming ugly people!"
We were both struggling. She tries to pull out her hands from my grip but I won't let it go. And it's been pass 15 minutes and we aren't finished yet with the pull-grip situation. And we both felt tired eventually.
"Well, your face is not to be trusted really. It's not the society's fault, it's your face," A male's voice behind me suddenly spoke. And what he just said pierced my heart too deep. Well, he's right. My face is the problem, but it hurts. Truth be told. The truth really hurts.
I turned my head to face and see who was half insulting me and half telling the truth. And as I saw the face of this handsome man standing behind me, with his alluring onyx eyes, pointed nose, sharp jawline, temptatious pinkish lips and his delicate left mole near his left eye, and a rich bad boy aura, I was stunned. How can the heavens give much beauty to other people but not to me? Did I do an abhorring crime in my past life to give me such punishment now?
Guess who the guy is? It's one of the Huang's, but I got confused and forgot who this is. They just literally look 90% the same, except for the mole. Maybe he's the Renjun guy, I suddenly remembered that Xiaojun has a mole near his right eye when I saw his face earlier.
I stopped my daydreaming when he suddenly walked towards my direction.
Step. Step. Step
Every step he takes makes me nervous and anxious of what he's going to do next. I sighed out of relief when he passed behind me and was just paying for his food.
"I'll pay for her with mine," He then gave his credit card and placed his items on the counter. After paying, he turned around facing me with a cold gaze.
"You're welcome," He sarcastically added.
He walked towards me and intentionally bumped me in the shoulders and walked towards a table to eat his hot ramen noodles.
After I took my items on the cashier counter and put hot water on my ramen noodles, I was hesitant if I should sit right next to him to say thank you, but the next thing happened, I am standing in front of him. He got interrupted with his indulging slurp from his ramen noodle soup when he saw me standing.
"Don't think that I am interested in you because I helped you. It was just an act of charity, don't think too much," With a low cold voice he said and continued to slurp his noodles.
"I just want to say thank you. I will pay y-"
"No need,"
"But I owe you one. I don't want to owe someone,"
"Don't bother,"
Okay. I have nothing else to say, so I went to the farthest table of the convenient store and enjoyed my food. An idea hit me. So I temporarily drew a comic scene in my free notebook. Well, almost all my notebooks don't have much notes so it's all considered as free notebooks. I drew a scene in which a girl is asking to a guy to please don't leave her and hold on to their relationship, but the guy opposed and want to break their relationship now. The girl was asking for an explanation but the guy was just shutting his mouth up. The other guy which is the main character was listening to them outside the classroom and eavesdropped to their conversation. He was clumsy enough to make a noise from the outside and the two people inside noticed and from that point, the girl run away making the two left all alone in the hall. The main character went inside and was apologizing for eavesdropping their serious conversation but the other guy cut him off by kissing him in the lips. The main character couldn't escaped from the strong grasp of him so he gave in to the kiss and they shared their first romantic kiss.
I ended my sketch as I was out of idea of what is going to happen next. So, I decided to walk all the way to home.
The problem of my drawings is that they don't have faces. Ever since I started to draw, I really couldn't draw faces but I can draw human body, face outlines and the proportions, whenever I try to draw, a weird looking creature is always being created. I don't know why I can't I draw faces, maybe I just don't have the reference of whose face I'm going to draw with or I'm not having enough inspiration to draw faces? I don't really know.
After my 30-minute strolling, I safely arrived home and it was a perfect timing as mom was currently preparing delicious dishes for dinner. After some time, I went to my room and laid to my bed immediately. Tough day starts tomorrow, must go to sleep.
Morning has finally arrived and I was up in the morning doing and preparing everything I must bring for today.
Notebooks. Drawing pencils. Pen. Phone. Money. School bag, of course.
I had my breakfast with steamed pork buns and milk and went to Xinhua.
…
*Bell Rings*
The bell rang as a sign to start the first period of class. Minutes later our homeroom teacher, Dong Sicheng arrived.
"Class 2-C, I would like to announce and remind you for the upcoming Spring School Festival Week. Every student knows what they do when there are school festivals right? So class president, facilitate and start planning what the class will be doing for the school festival alright? And tell me what it is right away to have your approval,"
"Yes sir," the classroom president replied.
"Alright, that's all for today. I will go you 2 weeks to prepare. So, start planning now," After dismissing us, Teacher Dong went out of the class.
After a long hour discussion, our class decided to have a traditional-dressed maid café serving our very own traditional Chinese delicacies. The waitresses will wear cheongsams (traditional Chinese dress) and serve the customers. Of course, I am not one of the waitresses. It makes the costumer's stomach upset seeing my face. I am in charge of the decorations of the classroom and distributing flyers for the café.
Every year, every class competes for this festival. The class who gains lots of people will receive all-free meal in the cafeteria for 1 month. That's a huge privilege for me, cafeteria foods are a bit expensive than convenience store's food I don't know why. Expensive but worth the price.
…
Minutes turned to hours. Hours turned to days. Days turned to weeks. Two weeks has passed and tomorrow will be the school spring festival. We, the class designing team had finished decorating our room to a traditional Chinese style café with a spring concept. Spring flowers and cherry blossoms. The classroom was exuding with a soft pastel color which is smooth, soft and awe for the eyes. The class rented cheongsams from a clothing store and the most important part. The menu. It's all cleared. We've finished our task early so we had free slacking off afternoon.
"Hey Chen-chen! Do you have anything to do after?" Shao Xue said with eyes full of anticipation and excitement.
"None. Why?"
"Can you come with me?"
"Where?"
"Class 2-A,"
Of all places, why Class 2-A!?!!! I don't want to see or get involved with those brothers as much as possible. Why? Because I feel like every time when I'm around them, it's like I become a misfortune magnet. Just like what happened the past few days. It was embarrassing.
"Why?"
"I am going to pay for the reservation ticket for the concert of the huang brothers! WAAHHH!!!" there she goes again with her annoying squealing from her extreme excitement.
So Class 2-A is going to have a concert. Well, as expected because the huang brothers are in their class. Talented students belongs to first sections, as expected.
"So you are their fan now huh. You can go on your own, I thought it was something serious that you want me to come with you, when it's just for paying the tickets,"
"I am so unlucky to have such nasty friend here. Poor me," She was starting with her blackmail drama to make my conscience haunted. Ugh, I was just keeping out of the misfortune magnets.
"Alright. Alright. Just… stop that awful acting okay? Please,"
"I know you couldn't resist me,"
"Let's just go, so that I can go home,"
"Let's go~"
Going to Class 2-A, Shao Xue was full of excitement, too much happiness and hope. I can see the flowers, glistening lights and rainbows with clouds surrounded her. On the other hand, sullen, sulky, gloomy, joyless. Black and grey. I can see my atmosphere full of dark clouds and anxiety.
But anxiety and the dark atmosphere of mine went off. I got a big sigh of relief that made Shao Xue to wonder what's with me. I was relieved when the 'ticketing booth' was meter away outside their classroom. And Shao Xue was lucky enough that there weren't many people in line for the tickets, people are busy preparing for the event I guess.
"Miss, you are the lucky 100th ticket buyer. You are the last one to have an exclusive meet and greet after the mini concert. Congratulations,"
"OHHMYGGOSHH~~~ WAHHH. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH ^o^~ did you hear that Chen-chen!?! I am the last person to have the heavenly privilege~~~ you are indeed my lucky charm," Shao Xue was too ecstatic all the way to our locker to get our things and go home.
"Okay can you stop now? I am beginning to be annoyed,"
"Tss. You really are a total bummer. Can you just be happy for me? This was a one last heavenly opportunity. Well, you can't understand because you not a fan,"
I just rolled my eyes as a reply. And I know she hates it when I roll my eyes to her because she can't roll her eyes and it annoys her. Hahaha.
"STOP IT! You are annoying me Zhong Chen,"
I just showed my tongue and rolled my eyes again to tease her more.
"Alright. No free hotpot for you. Bleeh! I'll eat whole hotpot all by MYSELF," Shao Xue said and ran away towards our favorite hotpot restaurant.
After she said HOTPOT my eyes widened. HOTPOT is my favorite food, how dare her. I chased her all throughout the restaurant and unleashed my cuteness to forgive me for teasing her. She can't take my cuteness anymore and surrendered. She ordered two hotpots with lots of side dishes and after 123456789 hours of eating, I can feel my tummy is tearing apart, ready to explode and the zipper of my skirt is about to surrender and was ready to be torn apart. I was too full but I didn't regret anything it was worth it.
After the so delicious treat of Shao Xue we decided to go home. We are actually neighbors and our house is 10 blocks away from them, so I consider it still as a neighbor. On the way to home, a sudden rain was pouring down to the ground and the two of us didn't bring an umbrella so we ran for our lives and arrived at our respective home burning the calories we ate from dinner and soaked in rainwater.
And an expected machine gun mouth from my mother welcomed me because I was soaking wet and the floor was getting dirty again as she just currently finished mopping the floor. After having a bath and done drying my hair I got to bed and fell asleep eventually.
…
The day has come. School Spring Festival Week has finally come. An expected horde of people from different schools and places come to Xinhua every year for this event. I am currently giving flyers for our café here outside the opening gate of the university. I can see lots of people including: pretty high school girls, handsome high school boys, girls who are makeup monster, thugs, nerds, and some mother and child even diehard fangirls mygosh, bringing their own banners and lightsticks. They're crazy. I forgot Class 2-A are having concerts so there are fangirls coming.
Wait…
Haven't seen Shao Xue. Hmmm… Where is that fangirl?
I was busy with my thoughts of where Shao Xue and didn't realize that Zhu, Shao's little brother was talking to me.
"Hey! Are you okay big sister Chen-chen?"
He's so adorable and I can't believe he became taller than me!?! And he's only a middle schooler. The world is really unfair to me? What did I do wrong to deserve this~~~
UwU
"Zhu! Yes, I'm okay. Why are you here? Where's your big sis?"
"I came here to give you this," Zhou then handed me a paper from his bag.
Zhu gave me a paper, more like a ticket. A ticket concert of the huang brothers!?!
"W-w-why are you giving me this?" I was too perplexed of why is he giving me her fangirl sister's ticket to me!?!
"Big sis is having a cold and fever last night and still didn't recover. She said I should give that to you, oh! And also this letter,"
He handed me another paper, and this time it was handwritten letter from Shao.
"I should go now big sis Chen. I am going to be late for my first class. Bye," He then ran as soon as he finished talking and left me still, puzzled,
"Wait…"
He didn't hear me anymore because he is too far now to hear me.
I am left, staring at this ticket and the letter Shao gave me.
"What am I going to do with this!?!"