"Aight bye," I waved back at the girls as they left for their classes.
I'm not in the mood to take the bus home so I thought why not take a walk?
But then I remember it takes half an hour to walk back home, so now I'm deciding whether or not to take a short cut, not I know of.
But this particular alley looks like the one near my flat, so it must be it, right?
"Oh come on how could it be," taking out a breath, I shut my eyes and slapped my cheeks.
Entering the alley it wasn't as bad, just well.. litter here and there, a few rats, cockroaches, and there was a shady looking guy sitting on the ground leaning to the wall.
Stopping my walking, my face turned pale looking at the lad smoking cigarettes, my palms turned sweaty.
Whispering all over in my head 'Please don't look at me, please don't look at me,'
Hesitating whether or not to just pass him or run back out.
I was trying my best not to fall as my knees begin to feel like jelly.
I'm doing it, I don't care.
Nevermind, I think I stood there too long the guy looked up making goose bumps all over by the state of his eyes.
I stepped back as the boy began to rise.
"N- no need to sir, I- i- I'll just h- head back," I tried stopping him.
But he kept on standing and began to walk my way.
'shit'
There's only one thing I can do. RUN!
'Aaaaaaaa!' I scream internally.
Going as fast as I can, the end of the alley was near.
Not realising there was someone at the end of the alley I crashed into them, making the person fall with me.
Shutting my eyes close, it was freaking embarrassing.
"Akira?"
'Huh? Sounds familiar,'
Peeking, there in front of me was a kneeling Jo, also Andra and Max snickering at us.
My red flush red at my position, I was laying flat on my back, and I pulled Jo with me.
"You ok?" He questioned looking concerned.
"Yeah....perfect," I tightly smiled. Taking his hand as he pulled me up on my feet.
My knee got scraped on the pavement when I crashed down, you could see the blood and bruise forming.
I winced at the sight. "Ouch," I spoke to myself.
"What happened to you? Got chased by a ghost?" Andra joked making Max snicker.
"Argh no, there's a creepy looking man, scared the hell out of me," I explained while brushing my clothes from the dirt.
"Why were you there anyways?" The tan boy asked.
Looking up at him, I spoked. "Well, I wanted to walk home, but it takes too long, so I thought-"
"Why not take a shortcut through this shady alley...GENIUS!" Interrupted Max.
Rolling my eyes at him, they both couldn't stop laughing.
"Do you want to go together?" Jo suddenly asked.
Well I am very well flustered at the question.
"Huh?" Thinking I must have heard him wrong.
"Oh would you look at the time Max, we both need to hurry up to campus, my you two," spoke a weird Andra looking at his turned off phone for the time?
The two boys manage to disappear.
"Wait how? Where did they go? Did you see them?" I asked mouth agape, the streets are long and they're not seen.
Jo chuckled. "Come on,"
Hand in his pocket, I glanced at him, and looked at him from top to bottom, he had formal clothes on.
The most I saw him in was sports attire, shorts and either shirts and jerseys.
This was new to me, he's wearing a fitting dress shirt and pants even the shoes. He had a tie on which he now just loosen.
"Do you always wear formal clothes to class?" I questioned.
"Hm? No this is just for today, we had to present a presentation and the Professor thought it would be a good idea to have everyone wear formal just to get the feel," he explained.
'Well I don't mind seeing you wear formal everyday- what the?!'
As if Jo could hear me he had a slight smirk on his face.
Argh, how many times am I going to embarrass myself.
-
I finally got to my flat in my piece.
"Thanks," I waved and hurried in.
'Thanks goodness, I don't know how long I'm going to embarrass myself,'
"Oh come one Sarah don't be she, spell the tea!" a very loud girly voice shouted.
Sounds like Stephanie, I wonder why she's her.
And to my surprise it was her, she and Andrew are surrounding an annoyed looking Sarah, she had her arms crossed.
"Sup," I spoke trying to get attention.
"Akira!" my chirpy friend came around me, she pulled me towards Sarah.
Andrew looked me up and down and burst out laughing. "W-what happened to you? Got ran over by a truck?"
Stephanie also took a double look at me. "No offence girl, but your dirty, like literally,"
Groaning, I swung my bag off my shoulder and laid it on the island. Propping myself beside it I asked Sarah where we kept the aid kit. Pulling my knees to my chest I examine the cuts on my knees.
They weren't that bad, but they are quite a demon stinging as hell.
Opening the kit, I was confused on what to do. I've never done it myself before, it's usually someone else.
Andrew who sensed my confusion her head over to me leaving Sephanie who was still interrogating Sarah.
"Give me that," he snatched the kit from me and told me to dangle my feet off the island.
Wincing at the stinging sensation as he 'tried' to dab it as gentle as he could, finishing it off with a bandaid.
"But seriously, what happened to you," asked Sarah from the corner seeing I was finished.
"Long story short, I tried taking a shortcut so I could get to the flat faster, but there was a creepy booking dude staring at me, so I ran back, crashed into Jo and fell," yeah they were all snickering at my stupidity now.
"You could have taken the bus, much easier and safer," commented Sarah.
Waving her off. "Boring ass ride, no thank you,"
Getting in my room I got changed and seconds later we were all hanging out in the living room.
"So what brings you two here?"
Andrew stopping his snacking and spoke "Oh yeah we-"
"-are going shopping!" Stephanie interrupted with joy.
Searching the room for Sarah I spotted her on the lovechair. "We are?" I asked.
Nodding her head in response she stopped her texting, looked down at her wrist and stood up.
"Lets go," she announced heading to get her car keys.
"Woohoo!" shouted Steph.
I groaned, whining. "But I haven't eaten yet,"
But I was already pulled up on my feets, forgetting my bruises and stinging cut the bones in my knees felt weak and I fell back in the coach.
"Ouch," I hissed.
"Ooops," Andrew snickered.
We all got out as Sarah was ready and hopped in her car she recently got. "Do you guys know any mall nearby to get some decorations?" Sarah asked while searching for her phone.
"I know! This mall sells cheap but very good quality stuff, it's not far, here I'll search on the GPS." Stephanie handed her phone to Sarah who took it and placed it on the phone holder.
Arriving at the place, it was huge, we had to go down underground to park since it was full outside, but we didn't mind since it wouldn't be blaring hot.
"So what do you want to buy first?" Asked Andrew as he was looking around at the signs. I had a thinking face on, I didn't plan on what to buy, but Sarah looks like she had a list made on her phone, as she went on swiping on the gadget.
"Bed case, pillowcase, duvets, curtains, towels, cloths to wipe, utensils, cleaning tools, hoover and maybe a few small decorations," Sarah told us. Andrew pointed to a sign, and we headed there.
There were many things there so we decided to split up to finish up quickly.
I was with Andrew and we were assigned to buy a bed case, pillowcase, duvets and curtains, while Sarah and Stephanie went to get decorations, cleaning equipment, utensils and other stuff that was needed in the kitchen.
We were just looking at the shelves until I got notified from my phone, handing the trolley to Andrew. I went to check it.
There was a message from Jo.
Jo: Hey
Jo: You ok?
Akira: Yeah thanks for taking me home
Jo: No worries
Jo: Clean the cuts?
Akira: Yup, as soon as I got in
Jo: Cool, see you at practice tomorrow
Akira: See ya
Andrew went to peek over my shoulders. "Who's that?"
"It's Jo, the guy I went to the dinner with," I explained and Andrew hummed.
Going to an aisle which had different colours and designs, there were so many different types I didn't know what to buy. We went to the next aisle that had sets of them. I saw one that caught my eye, a plain pastel purple set of cases and it comes with a duvet too, I was in glee as I rushed towards it.
"This is it!" jumping up and down in excitement.
"Purple huh?" I nod rapidly at him.
Placing it on the trolley I went to find one of Sarah's liking. I spotted a pastel blue version like mine so I took it.
Now strolling away getting some towels, and more duvets I have no idea what for. Now getting some curtains, thinking that the window was way too wide for only one curtain I went to get loads, but I was still deciding which one I should get, but thinking back at the purple set I went to get the same colour as well as Sarah's.
After strolling around a few more we got to the cashier and went to pay for the items.
We both decided it was a good idea to wait at the food court since we were both famished after picking out stuff. "I'll get the large double burger and a chocolate milkshake please," I ordered after Andrew, as I said that Andrew eyed me and I look back at him. "What?"
"Large double?" he asked in disbelief as he ordered a medium burger.
I shrugged. "It's my usual and I'm hungry and exhausted mentally and physically, a girl gotta eat what she needs to eat," I told him.
"I'm surprised that carbon hasn't done anything." He said referring to my timid body.
"Eh, genetics I guess, my mum's a small lady too, but she's strong, my dad's tall, and both my brothers are tall as well," I explained. And he nodded in understanding.
Not long Stephanie and Sarah came crashing on the seats, they had two trolleys full of bought items. And I was there dumbfounded at it all.
"That's a lot," Andrew commented.
"Duh, they need everything." Explained Stephanie.
Sarah let out a sigh, then sat up. "Remind me not to take Stephanie shopping for anything ever again." She grumbled in distress.
"Oh come on it's not that bad, you guys needed all that stuff even if it's not in the list."
They both ordered and we all sat eating our food while chatting.
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