"WAAHH!!!" she suddenly startled.
"..."
"No, I'm fine by myself!" she refused his help.
"No… No matter what how you look at it, you are not fine by yourself with all this stuff," he wants to lift the sack, but she smacked his hand.
"You're going to help me, but then I will owe you a favor and you're going to make me do cleaning or some other kind of chore later. Is it a new form of bullying?" she said it quickly, like she's versing a rap. Ellie suddenly stares at her because he seemed that she's weird. "Sorry, that I called that bullying… B-Bullying is not good… No… this is such a roundabout way of doing it so I'll just do the cleaning voluntarily!"
"Don't worry. Actually, at my current state, I'm a human who has undergone alternative forms of bullying,"
"That's a bigger reason to bully me! Someone like me who is at the bottom… will get bullied even harder by someone like you!" she exaggerated. "And top of that, you are speaking to me while beating around the bush!"
"No… I'm at the bottom…" he surely is. "I'm under the guidance of the Goddess Aoife,"
She gasped as she heard the name of Aoife. She thinks he's like her.
"Aoife… Do you like Isabelle from the novel Wishing Upon a Star?"
Ellie can't believe it that Teddy and him are not the only one who is under the guidance of Aoife. There's someone who likes to read his favorite novel, too. While the students are taking their lunch break, Ellie and Divina are sharing about their favorite hobbies.
"I like Isabelle, but I like the stepmother more! She's really had a motive when she wants to intervene with the main characters!" she happily said to him.
"Yeah! My favorite highlight of the story was she became evil when she stole Isabelle's wand. I gave it an applause because she's so bad-ass!" he said as he clapped his hands in full of excitement.
They keep sharing their stories on the school garden while Alexandria was looking for Ellie around the school. She saw Riley who was staring in the window and he sat like a frog. He used his hand gesture to come her over and as they saw that Ellie is having fun talking to another girl. "What the!" she gasped as she saw them. They clapping together like they are synchronize to each other.
"Oh, Ellie…"
"They look like getting along. Well… only a dork can understand another dork. They share a deep bond or something like that," Riley said to her, and he clapped his hands too, like them. She seems that he's mocking them. She became annoyed at him as she saw him doing like that.
"Hey!" she retorted. Riley fell silent as she saw her angry eyes that she wants to destroy him.
"Sorry…"
After minutes of talking, the bell rang as they need to get back to their classrooms.
"I'm sorry. I just met you for the first time and I'm already talking to you like this. I'm sorry," Divina said as she looked away from him. She felt embarrassed after what happened.
"No, I also spoke my fair share too. It made me happy," he said, but Divina suddenly cries in front of him. "I-I'm sorry! My bad! When you realized that you were getting along with a loser like me you must have felt bad!"
"That's not it! I'm supper happy too! Since I started highschool, I haven't been able to speak to anyone about the things that I like…" she wiped away her tears and she puts back her eyeglasses. Ellie feel the same thing about her.
"Here are some flowers!" she pick three dandelions and lent it to him. "I'm a third-year named Divina Salazar!" Ellie took her flowers as the symbol of their new beginning. "It's nice to meet you,"
"I'm a fourth-year named Eleanor Bryson! It's so nice to meet you too!" he said happily and he smiles at her. Ellie went away as he goes to his classroom while it had left Divina frozen.
*pound*
Divina suddenly feels strange. It's like that heat is rushing to her cheeks and her heart is beating in hysteria. "W-What is this?"
*ding dong*
After the school hours, Alexandria is walking home while reading a book. But suddenly she saw Ellie at the stairs in front of him. Alex wondered why he's holding dandelions as she can't forget what she saw earlier.
"What is that?" she asked.
"Dandelions,"
Alex feels her blood boils when she remembered that Ellie ditched her to go to school. She frowned because she was so angry with. Ellie doesn't know why she's like that.
"Whatever!" she retorted.
"Is that so? See you then!" he said, and he walks away from her. Alex feels like she's going to make a fool of herself.
"What do you mean by that?!" she yelled. "I don't want you to say that to me!"
"Then what do you want me to say?" she seems that he forgot about it.
"Forget about it! Aren't you acting weird?"
"I think you're contradicting yourself… What?"
Alex gave up on talking to him as she wishes to go home already. She can't stand the fact that he forgot what he did to her.
"Ellie, are you having fun with me?" she sadly asked to him.
"I want to ask that too,"
Alex suddenly astounded as she didn't know what he's talking about.
"Is teasing and playing with me fun?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm sorry. I have to go home," he said, and he walks away from her.
Alex didn't understand what happened to him as if he's acting weird. She didn't notice that Ellie saw her at the park the other day. Alex suddenly cries while she's walking to her house. After that day, Ellie started to avoid her and he never talk to her again.