Chelsea Chiu an introduction

"Now you still owe me coffee." Like Chelsea he ignored that stupid woman acting pathetic in front of them.

"If not what will you do to me?" She asked provocatively. She is not even aware that she is flirting.

"Kiss you." He brazenly answered, held her chin, and closed the gap between them.

"Why would you do that?" She furrowed her brows wishing he really would.

"Because I can." He walked closer, grabbed her neck, and caught her lips with his, he can taste the beef steak's sauce that tasted so much better on her tongue.

"Hmmm.." Chelsea's world has stopped for a while. Wait what did just happen? All her pulses throb together with her heart, banging together like it's having a field demonstration. She can't decide whether to worry about the impending danger from her mother or to entertain this feeling that explodes uncontrollably. Since Chelsea doesn't have any attachment to her mother, Gregory's dominating kiss won.

So while the two are enjoying the ignited moment, her life story was far from the romantic thing that is happening right now. She doesn't want to hold any grudge against her mother because she can do well on her own and her brother. Chelsea thought that she is the friendliest and kindest person on earth, her teachers dotted on her, and yes even Mr. Barnby. She probably has this thought that she has this female lead hollow that some fantasy novels described. What the heck? But come to think of it she probably is, even the author's life can be a script from a novel too, no one knows. Anyway, before it gets too creepy let's continue with Chelsea, she talks sweetly and is nice to everyone even the school's maintenance staff including the school guards, they knew her as that charming, demure, sweet, and approachable refined lady. She greets everyone she meets along the way and chats sincerely. She would stay away from the people that have a strong personality because it drains her energy and if she can't she would try to at least blend in to avoid giving them a chance to bully her so she would pretend to be like them. She will spend some time bonding with her friends which are divided into several groups. She has friends that belong to ordinary families which she thought where she truly belongs, she can be herself and they can eat all street food from high end to the least sanitary and go to the school clinic altogether if something happened. She also has friends with the school nerds, her grades were not that considered nerdy but they like her nevertheless so she joins their fun too which she likes very much because they can patiently explain that complicated game they created themselves and would never get angry if she screwed it up. She also has friends that were considered a pushover and losers which were always the underdog, she will never consider herself one of them but got closer to them because of sympathy, she has developed this advocacy to teach them how to fight back. She is also a class president and even one of the governors of the school's student council. Her school life is well rounded and pretty much balanced. In one short description, she is popular. Her school life extracurricular life is too busy while her academic life is empty she is a mediocre student. She's this kind of person that hates to study, she is in the worst state that flipping the first page of a history textbook made her sleepy, even in her adult life she uses textbooks as an alternative to sleeping pills, and never disappoints her. But that was Chelsea in the spotlight.

Chelsea on the dark side is different, Chelsea's has a traumatic childhood, she grew up in a dysfunctional family where her mother is her number one bully, she is her mother's emotional punch bag. Her mother would scrutinize and hit her if her parents fought. Sometimes his father too would blame her. The family preferred boys to girls so her brother was often spared from hitting and she will take it all. But her brother's condition is not far from her either they abused through and through. When they were younger they often got hungry because their father didn't go to work and can often be found in the gambling house. Their mother, who has graduated from college, should have a nice career and a good salary, but she didn't. She wanted to focus on changing her father into a sensible man getting a good job so that she'll be a real housewife that's possibly her lifelong ambition. But she didn't think it will happen shortly. That's why at the age of twelve Chelsea started to do chores from that old lady on the outskirts of town to earn a little money to buy food for her then eight years old brother. On weekends she would assist that fat big brother to sell fish so he would give her her week's allowance and cook the fish broth with vegetables to nourish hers and her brother's tattered bodies. Her mother was malnourished too but she can't find any sympathy for that evil lady. She didn't even care where they ate or if they had any meal for the day.

All of these bad things were just at the back of her head, eyes closed, lips locked to Gregory, something in her was awakened and the feeling is even more delicious than the food in front of her.

"You kissed me." She said foolishly, looking at him in a daze, and out of breath.

"Correction," Gregory said while holding her head with his palms. "We kissed." And caught her mouth one more time.

"You slut! how dare you do indecent things in front of me, how disrespectful!" Chelsea's mother is fuming with anger.