JACOB'S POINT OF VIEW
I'm finally home after a long, tiring day. I had just gotten to the house when I saw my father's face. As usual, it was his day with us, so I neglected his appearance and just went straight to my room.
I heard him screaming my name and cursing me. I don't want my day to turn into a nightmare if I fight back. I Just jumped off my bed. I just feel the softness of my bed and fall asleep.
The next day...
I just walked into the hallway, just like my usual day. Girls screaming my name together with the boys.
"Did you hear the news, dude, that we will have our first debut single soon? Finally, we can show them our talent, and there will be fewer covers for us, Raphael said while eating his cream puff.
"Yeah, but don't you think. You're the most important member who will have a lot of time to practise and exercise since I think you gain weight." I heard Kai, Lance, and Jay chuckle, and Raphael look on his tummy with his pouted lips.
"But I can't resist cream puffs."
Yeah, you're right; that's why you can eat cream puffs, but you will have a lot of overtime once we get back from training." He suddenly gave his cream puff to Kai, but before he finally let go of it, he took a huge bite that almost ate all the cream puffs.
I saw Ashlynn busy on her iPad. I sat beside her, but she didn't notice me.
"Hey nerd, what are you reading?" Instead of answering me, she turned around and got her earpads and put them on. Ah, so she wants to ignore me. I won't give up. I put my head on her shoulder and looked at her iPad.
I thought she was busy on her iPad because she was studying, but instead she was just busy reading some novels. She turned her head. We were just an inch away from each other's faces when she suddenly pushed my head away and back into her reading. I took one of her earpods, and I heard her listening to a song.
It was EXO's song 3.6.5 from their album titled XOXO. That's the same album for which I took the name of our group since I was an EXO fan. We've all been EXO fans since they debuted.
"This song is 365 of EXO, am I right?" Finally, I caught her attention.
"How did you know?"
"I'm a fan of them. Since they debuted, who is your bias?"
Chanyeol, he was biassed."
Why can't she be friendly just for this moment? It's just that I'm trying to be good to her and give her a nice day, yet she keeps her cool.
"I like Baekhyun." I heard her hum and ignore me again.
If she doesn't want me to notice, then later I will make her notice me. I saw Ms. Cruz coming in.
"Do you guys make the homework I was asking of you?" I look at her, and she puts down a thick pad of paper in front of her. Before she finally got a thin layer of paper.
"Hey, what assignment is that?" She looked at me confusedly.
"The assignment regarding the body system and its function. Don't tell me you didn't do that? As if you care to make any of those assignments, you're the grandson of the owner."
Shoot, I forgot since my mind was occupied yesterday. Why would I be shocked by her having an assignment? She doesn't have anything to occupy her since she's not as busy as mine.
"Did you all pass your homework? Tell me now who didn't pass their homework. Ms. Cruz said she looked at me with a blank emotion in her eyes.
"Tell her to raise your hand." I didn't know but I follow her and I raise my hand.
"They all look up to me."
"So Mr. Pierce tell me why you didn't bring your homework."
"What will I bring if I didn't have one? I didn't have homework since I wasn't here yesterday I didn't know we had."
"You didn't know yet your friends had. Come on Mr. Pierce just tell to me you just forgot to do."
"I'm telling the truth I didn't had one because I didn't know and I wasn't here yesterday. Why don't you check your attendance list and even your memo, before accusing me anything I didn't even do." She get her iPad and check the attendance and memo she receive yesterday.
I see her got disappointed. What's new, I know the teachers got contracted to dad to make me feel embarassed yet I still have my grandfather on my back who's supporting me as an Idol. He knew that my dad only do what he likes to do. Yet his attention was more on me. I didn't even know how he can handle the company if he just focus of how to bring me down.
Grandpa's heritance will just divided to me or my father since we both the first born. Yet my father see me as a rival in a competition to get my grandpa's attention. So I take a risk and competite with him no matter what happen. And what it will it takes.
"So did you see I wasn't here yesterday, and based on the memo, I had a photoshoot and interview. Can you be more responsible before accusing me? Reading memos from a high position should be done by you. It was part of your job. So tell me, should I contact my grandpa and tell him that you didn't read a memo from them? I show her my phone with my grandfather's number on the screen.
"You may sit now, Mr. Pierce. I'll let this pass since you have a valid reason, but next time try to ask your friends regarding any activities done by the day you weren't here." I look into Ashlynn, who's shaking her head.
"What?"
"You make her embarassed in front of the class; you answer in a respectful way. Even she was under you. You should know how to treat them right since they were working for you. Without a single employee working in this school, your school was nothing but an abandoned facility."
I admit she was right.
"Sorry, next time I'll keep that in mind."
"You better keep that in mind."
"Jacob, you don't have to say sorry to Ms. Cruz; she was the one who didn't do her job." Sabrina said it out of nowhere. I ignore her and look at my iPad. I heard her stomping her feet. Ms. Cruz started teaching me to keep myself focused, but I can't. My eyes want to focus on one thing, and that one thing is out of my league.
She wasn't as pretty as others. She even gives me the cold treatment, yet I want her attention. I was captured by the way she treated me, not just like the other girls who kept yelling and giving their time and attention to me. I was in a predicament with her.
"Stop staring at me and keep listening to the lesson, or should I just prick your eyes for you so you can see me?
Why will you prick my eyes? Can't you see my eyes on you, and I'll give you the attention the other girls wanted? You're lucky to have these eyes on you."
"Lucky for you, yet for me it will be a nightmare in my life. I don't want your attention; I want you to ignore me. I came here to study, not to catch anyone's attention. Ask Nyx if I wanted your attention, and she will say in front of you, I'll choose dying than to see you every day."
"Why would you kill yourself if I can kill you for the happiness I can give you?
"You know what your just handsome, yet you don't have any intelligence in what I'm trying to say to you. You should understand what I want to say. Try to focus now before they find out we are talking here. So better shout your mouth."
I put my hand on the desk and my head on my arm. While looking at her.
"Tsk! You can't conclude what I'm trying to say about how hardheaded you are." I heard her murmur, yet I couldn't help but smile seeing how I pissed her off with my appearance.
"Just give me time, and I'll show you who I am." Out of nowhere, I said that.
"I won't have a boyfriend. Can't you see that's why I don't want to give you any attention. It will be cheating if I give you that. I love him, so I can't see myself cheating on him. So better back off now, Jacob?
"No way, Ashlynn, I will not give up."
"Then don't who cares with it."