II
Aiden Morgan...
A look of strong dislike was the only thing visible in his eyes as his eyes met with her pair of brown eyes. Sasha looked away as if she was just glancing around and he happened to be a part of the sight. A tug in her heart made Sasha turn around and face the counter instead as she fiddled with her fingers while looking down. It hurt her. It hurt her every single time he looked at her this way whereas she felt the total opposite. To this date she has no idea what makes him hate her so much. She doesn't remember doing any such activity which shall make him feel this way. She even got bullied by him at times. There was a time, he made sure she had no friends but her emotional self couldn't let go of the deep feeling she had for him. Her question of his unidentified hatred was never answered. At times she couldn't help but think of him as a hypocrite. She threw a secretive glance at him. He walked towards the table, where Ruby's group were seated. He leaned against the table and placed a kiss on the girl with straight black hair, who just lightly smiled as she felt the touch of his lips. It was his girlfriend, Nicole Allison.
Sasha looked at Eliza who was getting her food. Eliza turned to her and looked at her expression. She saw the discomfort flash over Sasha's features. She then looked behind her to understand the whole situation.
"Let's go?" Eliza spoke to Sasha bringing her back to reality from her lost world.
Sasha flinched at the sudden voice and frantically nodded when she heard the girl before her speaking to her. Both of them started to head to the table where Amelia was sitting busy browsing through her phone. Amelia looked up to see the both of them coming and spoke.
"Where you guys flirting with the canteen guy? What took you so long?" Amelia said as the both of them sat down.
"He was not giving me the chicken piece I wanted! He kept giving the wing but I wanted the leg piece" Eliza complained making Sasha shake her head
"I swear you are so fussy" Amelia said making Eliza pout
"No I am not! Your fussier than me!" Eliza defended herself as the both began to bicker with one another.
Sasha's eyes drifted off to the table which was few more tables away from theirs. Aiden sat with his arm wrapped around Nicole affectionately. He seemed happy and that made one part of her really happy too. Never did she think that the boy who liked nothing but to play around with others feelings would actually fall for someone. Nicole did not pay a tad bit attention to the boy holding her and instead was busy talking to the other boy sitting beside her. She was busy talking to Nathan. Aiden's best friend.
Nathan was once very close to Sasha. In fact he was like the link that got Aiden and Sasha together. However, after the break up when he was given a choice to choose between her and Aiden, he went for Aiden. Probably because Aiden was more popular and she had nothing but friendship to give him. This made him nothing but a snake in her eyes.
Aiden tried to get Nicole's attention by pulling her chin to direct her face towards him. Nicole looked at him. As she did, Sasha thought they were going to share a kiss as she prepared her heart to break into yet another piece. Surprisingly, Nicole removed his hand and went back to talking to talking to Nathan, laughing at every single word he said. Sasha looked back to Aiden, who seemed to have a frown painted over his face. She could see jealousy flash over his face.
"Did you just see what I saw?" Eliza spoke taking Sasha's attention to her
"Huh?" Sasha asked confused
"Nicole just rejected Aiden's kiss and turned to Nathan!" She whisper- yelled
"I mean I am not shocked. She clings onto Nathan like a fucking leech. As much as I hate that peasant, I feel bad for him at times that he has such a girlfriend" Amelia said as she gave a judgmental look.
"I mean Nicole is two faced. One moment she is a bitch to you and then within a snap of your fingers she starts acting like your the most important person in this world to her" Eliza said rolling her eyes as she animatedly described her words
Sasha looked at her with an amused expression on her face. Eliza noticed the expression and said
"What?! I hate her!" Eliza said as she put her hands into gestures.
"I know.." Sasha replied chuckling.
Sasha sighed and looked back the table only at that very moment to meet eyes with a pissed of Aiden. She did not want to see his look towards her again, so she just looked away. Sasha felt a scrutinizing gaze on her, as she shifted uncomfortably. Sasha's hands reached for her cell phone as she looked at the time. It was time for classes in 10 minutes.
"Guys when do your classes start?_ She asked the duo who was busy talking but halted as they heard the question.
"In like 10 minutes?" Eliza said looking at the time
"You want to head for the class now?" Sasha suggested
"Yeah we should! My digital marketing teacher is extremely stuck up and I don't want her to give her a chance to scream at me. That bitch hates me anyways" Eliza said as the three got up and started to head for the entrance.
Sasha controlled herself and tried not look at the very table as they passed by. She was successful but as usual she heard whispers about herself from the people sitting in the table. They never missed a chance to pick at her even if she is doing something as simple as walking past them. Like always she ignored them.
They all reached the classes and parted ways. The day went by...
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Sasha was walking back to her car after a long day at the university. On her way outside the gates, she saw Aiden and Nathan standing on the boot of Aiden's car with the door open. They were chatting with each other. Sasha looked away and looked for the car. She soon found it and head towards it and knocked on the window. She heard the locks of the car open and she got in to be greeted by her mother and brother who was in the back seat.
"Helloooo" Her mom greeted in a playful voice.
"Hi.." Sasha replied with a small smile
She looked back at the backseat to see her younger looking at her with a huge smile plastered on his face.
"Hey!" Sasha greeted him and he replied as enthusiastically with the nickname he gave her which she disliked very much.
"Booger!!" He said in a cringe voice making Sasha roll her eyes.
"Will you quit calling me that?" She said in an annoyed voice.
"Nope!" He said emphasizing on the 'p'
"So how was your day?" Her mother questioned her.
"The usual. Classes. Friends. Ruby and her friends picking on me with whispers" Sasha said as she gave a sarcastic smile.
"Why does that flat land have to go after you every time?" Her mother scoffed.
"Flat land?" Sasha asked confused
"Yeah. I mean everything about her is flat, her grades, achievements even her IQ level is flat line!" Her mom said
"Mom!" Sasha said shocked
"Ohhhhh" Sebastian cheered on
Her mother just shrugged and continued driving. Sasha shook her head as she mumbled to herself.
"Crackheads"
The rest of the drive home was silent.
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Sasha laid down on her bed as she browsed through her phone. An sudden urge in her came to check the fake Instagram account she made to see what is going on with everyone in the school. She did not want to open an official account as she knew all she would receive was criticism.
She logged into the account to check what's new. Her eyes sparkled when she saw a new story from him. Thankfully she was able to get him accept the request of the fake account. Without any second thought she clicked on it and the story opened, to a birthday wish for someone she had no idea about. She let go of the phone disappointed and logged out.
She put her phone to charge and closed her eyes to sleep. His face flashed before her eyes as jerked them open. She again closed her eyes only to open them again. After trying for a while, sleep finally consumed her as she fell asleep.
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The next day Sasha entered the university with a yellow hoodie and black jeans. The weather seemed bearable today and did not feel as humid as yesterday. Going in through the gates, Sasha felt the heavy tension in the air. As she went further, she heard whispers only. Everyone was whispering on their own. She looked to the tree, to find Aaron, Noelle and Peyton standing there while talking to each other. Noelle had a fake smile while Peyton was talking. Sasha could tell she was contemplating over strangling her or not. She began to walk towards them as she noticed people only whispering with each other. The chaos or the loud laughs were not present. They were only whispers as a glint excitement was visible on everyone's face.
"Hey.." Sasha said as she reached them.
She saw Peyton's expression slightly change when she looked at her. She flashed her a fake smile which Sasha returned a facsimile of that expression. Noelle hugged Sasha and Aaron greeted her in the way he always does.
"Hi!" Noelle chirped
"So..whats up with the tension? Why is everyone quietly whispering only?" Sasha asked quietly not wanting to ruin the silence by her loud voice, as she looked around
"You wouldn't believe what happened!" Noelle said with an expression of disbelief making Sasha look at Aaron
"You will like it" He said
"What happened?" Sasha asked getting curious.
The next words Peyton spoke caused Sasha to slightly shiver, as she felt a chill run down her spine for some odd reason.
"Aiden and Nicole broke up"