In the halls of Rosevelt junior and senior high school, everywhere was streaming with noise,because school had finally resumed. Anna was part of the most excited people to resume school,not because of academic school work but because she could finally see her friends, not that she had any friends per-say asides from her best friend Sarah. Anna was practically bullied every step of the way, even tho, by luck, she had the most famous and most handsome boyfriend in the whole of Rosevelt. He was captain of the basketball team, every girl had a crush on him knowing fully well that he was taken,which even had Anna wondering from time to time, why of all the rich beautiful girls he decided to be with Anna. It felt like a fantasy to her but she decided to shrug the feeling off, afterall she loved him. Because of this,girls grew more jealous of her which made her the subject of their bully.
Anna sprinted through the hallway looking for her best friend as if they hadn't seen each other since eternity, finally spotting her, she gave her a big hug, tight enough to pop out her lungs from her chest.
"Hey Ann-a let g-go now I am ch-choking" Sarah managed to say. "Woops....sorry..I've just missed you a lot"Anna said immediately after releasing her best friend from her tight grip.
"I know, I have missed you so much, how have you been. How is Drey" Sarah said with a smirk on her face making Anna blush.
"Well..he is doing good. But I wasn't able to talk with him much ..but no worries,he was probably too busy" Anna said smiling. But Sarah wasn't stupid enough not to know that underneath that smile,there was sadness.
"Anyways guess what" Sarah said in order to lighten the mood a little.
"Sarah there are 1 millionand one things that i can possibly guess from how can I guess it right...just tell me"Anna said seemingly frustrated
"Fineee...so my moms friend decided to transfer her daughter over to this school due to reasons I do not know but the reason I am so happy is because the daughter in question is my childhood friend. We were so close to each other and seeing her now is going to be so cool" Anna was a little confused.
"So..." Anna said still trying to soak everything up.
"This means if we add her to our friendship circle, we would become a trio" the idea for some reason didn't sit well with Anna because seeing how close they were according to Sarah made her think that she might not really mean anything to Sarah anymore...shrugging off that awful feeling, she looked at he best friends and smiled.
"That idea doesn't seem that ba-" Anna couldn't complete her sentence because she noticed that Sarah was now looking passed her while smiling, then following her line of sight, she saw someone who she definitely believed was the childhood friend that Sarah spoke about,and to clarify that, she saw her best friend already going to hug her.
"Anna, this is Nikki,Nikki, Anna" Sarah said smiling ear to ear.
"Hi nice to meet you" the girl answered smiling
"Nice to meet you too" I said trying very hard to keep a less awkward face. Before Sarah could say anything else, the bell rang for classes.
Anna was already thanking her stars that she was saved by the bell. She bid Sarah good bye and went to class.She and Sarah were in different departments and they had different subjects so the only time they would meet again is if they had a grenal subject.
School was a drag because Anna was anticipating to see her boyfriend as he hadn't even really texted her during the summer break. He was mostly giving curt replies which had her a little worried....finally the final bell rang for break and she stormed out of class strait to the cafeteria to inform Sarah that she might be late for lunch. On getting there, she already found that Sarah was already eating with Nikki without her. It bugged her because it was part of the rules in their relationship that no one was allowed to eat lunch unless both parties were present. It was a little weird but they wanted their relationship like that. So seeing now that she broke the rules because of some third party she wasn't really happy.
"Sarah.....would you mind an explanation"
Nikki just sat there lost by their conversation
"Ummm....you know Nikki is new here and she said she was hungry so I had to accompany her because she hasn't really made much friends" "And you didn't bother to text me" Anna said trying so hard to hide the anger that was already building up. For some reason ,Anna wasn't angry at her best friend, she was just frustrated that she hadn't heard from her boyfriend and she was a little worried that is why she had to vent all her frustration on Sarah.
"Anna I'm sorry,this will be the last time, let's just eat and also get to know more about Nikki"Sarah said trying to ease the mood but Anna wasn't having it. "You know what... forget it I am not hungry anyway"
Anna said before walking out leaving Sarah and Nikki stunned.
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Drey was busy preparing for the basketball game that was to take place immediately after school,when he sighted Anna coming in with a big smile on her face. This made him really sad because he knew what was going to happen next. He knew that he had to break up with her, afterall that was the dare being given to him by one of his friends,Lucas. He was really pissed because during the time he spent with her,he had found out that she was an amazing person and he was already starting to like her until they told him to cut ties with her, that the game was over!. Now seeing her beautiful smile just made him hate himself for agreeing to the bet.
"Finally babe I have been looking all over for you. I have missed you so much" Anna said as she hugged him. He hugged her back savouring the feel of her body in his arms until he had to call it off.
"I have missed you too, but please stop calling me babe. Especially not in front of everyone....their eyes are freaking staring into out guts" he said with a disgusted look on his face making Anna a little confused. "It doesn't matter, who cares if they stare at us all day. It only means they don't have anything to do, all I care about is the fact that we love each other so-" she couldn't complete her sentence because she was rudely interrupted by Drey . "Stop Anna! It is high time you know you boundaries. Let me put this straight. I don't think this relationship will work out. I am sorry but it was only a bet,what we had between us isn't real. Now please leave i have a game to prepare for"
Anna stood there dumb founded and shook....she could not understand what was going on as she tried to let all the information sink in. She was all a bet. All the actions he had displayed was all a show and a facade?. Still unbelieving, she had to say "babe...tell me this is a joke, you are sca-" And yet again she was cut off by Drey.
"Enough leave!" He say curtly
With that Anna walked out trying as much as possible to hold in her tears because people gathered around and were live streaming her on Instagram,laughing and giving her awful remarks. She couldn't blame them because she was always known to be the girl that lost her dad at a very young age and was raised by only her mother. What type of people were they?. They were people who lacked empathy.