Chapter 5: I

"Okay class dismissed." We just finished our class in the morning so we will eat.

"You know I can't really get over the handsome people we interviewed." Afsah said with a smile.

"Yeah!" They said with a shudder.

And because we were born with foolishness, we ran to the cafeteria, we were in front of the line even though we our the only one on the line.

"Hahaha..." we laughed as we lined up.

Ruby was angry again. "You cheaters!"

"You have to hurry up and there are only six of us in line. You're just have to wait, hungry much?!" I teased even more so his face got worse.

We just laughed and laughed until we could buy and sit down. "Are you done editing Anya?" Grace suddenly asked.

"Not yet but I'm already in the middle." I say while eating a bread pan.

"So slow!" Ruby's teasing, looks like she's still mad at me.

"We just interviewed yesterday!" I said in shout.

She looked at me, I just laughed at her reaction. It's good that she's not swearing now.

"When it's over, are we going to pass it tomorrow?" Grace asked.

"You, it's up to you." Afsah.

Because when we make a decision, everyone should make a decision, we won't grab it right away if there are more people who don't want to, but we all don't want to.

"Maybe for a plus." Rania says because she is the oldest she is often the one who decides.

We nodded. "Yes, it looks like it won't be shown to everyone yet." Shaira agrees.

"All right, I'll finish it so we can pass it early." I said.

"Don't hurry it, it's okay, as long as its beautiful, maybe its just a trash." Said Grace.

"You look like a trash." I tease too. We were still teasing each other before walking to our room, it isn't our class yet but we were hanging out in the room.

When we arrived, the room was noisy, as it was always really noisy, because our classmate is our classmate when we were in grade ten.

When we got to the room we sat down and do our own thing, I took out my phone and just edited to finish.

Time passed and the bell rang then I hid my phone and our teacher arrived just in time.

"Class, what is the progress of your project?" Ma'am asked. "Only one group that pass their script, how about the others?"

My classmates stood up and handed out their scripts. Looks like we have nothing to do now ah.

I just took out my cellphone again and resumed my editing because we still had an assignment in calculus.

After the bell of the last subject, we left and went straight home. When I arrived at the opposite store, I bought corned beef because I suddenly craved for it.

When I got home I got dressed and went to the kitchen and heated the corned beef. I'm setting the table when there is a knock.

Who is it? "Just wait!" I walked over to open the door.

When I opened i saw Endrix. "Oh! Endrix why are you here?" I asked with a smile.

"Eh...I brought something." He gave me something from a paperbag, I peeked at it and my eyes widened at what I saw.

"Haha thanks! Cupcakes really eh." I said happily to him.

"I know you like it to much."

"Come in!" I widened the door opening and let him in. "I'm sorry our house is really small."

He looked around the house. "It's okay, I'm used to it."

"Sit down...." I made him sit on a chair at the table. "Have you eaten yet? Let's eat." I invite. Grandma said that when someone is kind to you, be kind too.

He sat down, I put the paperbag on the table first and took her plate, because grandma wasn't there so I was alone.

"Actually I would have liked to ask." He said after I put down the glass, plate and cutlery.

"What's that?" I sat down when I asked him then.

"I would also like to go to school here....... senior high too. Mama is asking if I can still.....enroll." Careful he said.

I thought. "Ahhmmm......what I know is that transferees are still possible to go but just go to the school for assurance. Is it in private?"

"It's not in a school like yours..." He explained to me. "I couldn't afford the private school budget." He told me jokingly.

"Hahaha yes, were the same..." I can't say anything anymore because i couldn't think of a topic.

We just ate quietly because we had nothing to talk about. "Of course we don't know each other very well yet, tell me a story." I told him.

"Ahmm...what exactly? My full name is Endrix Sun, eighteen years old, my birthday is June 28, 2002. Ahhmmm.....my favorite color is blue, just ask." I laughed at the last thing he said.

"All right, where's your father?"

"Ahh...my father is gone..." He said sadly.

I felt guilty "I'm sorry it looks like its a sensitive part of your life, I don't know." I sincerely apologize to him.

He laughed. "It's okay, it's been a long time, ask again." He gave me the assurance that it was okay.

"Why did you move?" Following my question.

"It's dangerous we're we used to live, I've been wanting to leave for a long time but we can't find a house, just right now." He gave a long explanation.

"It's good." I said.

He nodded. "Now you tell your story."

"My full name is Anya Lee..."

"Your last name is rich." He inserts with amazement.

I laughed. "You too... can I go on?" He laughed before nodding. "My birthday is January 23, 2004. Sixteen grade 11 student, STEM is the track. Ahhmm....grandma and I were the only two because when I was a child grandma found me so she just adopted me and my name was on it That's why my grandmother named me after my clothes." I said for a long time, he was staring at me.

"Seriously...your life is worser than me." I laughed at his reaction.

"It's okay that I'm here with my grandma because if she didn't find me maybe much worse might happened to me, I'm also thankful to grandma." With a smile I said. "What grade and track will you take?" I change the topic, that topic is a bit sensitive to me, but I want those around me to accept me even if my grandmother just adopted me.

"Same as you." His answer was short.

"Oh! We're going to be classmates."

"It looks like that..." He scratch his nape while he's saying it to me.

"Wait! You left your mom?" I suddenly remembered that they were just two.

He looked at me and smiled. "Every Monday to Saturday, mama is away because she has a job."

"What's your mom's job?" I asked curiously.

To which he replied. "She works for the company so she often doesn't come home and just sleeps with our relatives who are nearby, it's so far away that where we now from her work." I nodded. "You? What's your grandmother's job and why she's not here?" He asked again.

"She's the nanny of a rich family so she often comes home on Sunday nights and then comes back early, when it's weekdays and she's here, that means she only visited me for a while." I explain to him for a long time.

"Ahh...we're the same."

"So..there's no one in your house?" I asked in astonishment.

He shrugged. "No one." I just nodded.

"Aren't you going to do anything?" I asked him, because he had been here for long, maybe he would do something.

He thought. "Nothing" I nodded and stood up to take a the dishes. "I'll help you." He presented.

"Don't worry, just sit down. Your my visitor." I take the dishes from him.

He followed and I left, then I also washed the dishes so that I would have nothing to do later. I went back to the table and cleaned it up because there was clutter. I also arranged what I use to cooked before returning to sit at the table.

"Ahhmm....I have an assignment to do, it's okay for you to stay but I might not be able to entertain you." I told him carefully and he might be offended by what I said.

"All right, it's okay you do it, what subject is that?" He asked curiously.

"Math." I simply answered and took my bag to get started.

I laid down what I was going to use. While I was focused I couldn't understand the equation, I didn't know that he was good at math so he helped me with the ones I didn't understand. It's five o'clock when we finish because there are so many.

"Thanks for the help." I told him when we were at the door.

"It's okay, when you don't understand something just ask." Smiling he said to me. "Eat the cupcakes, they'll going to dissolve." He's a Joker too huh.

I laughed at his joke. "You still know how to joke when I think you're always serious."

He scratched his nape. "Just a little bit."

I smiled and held out my hand to him. He was surprised he looked at it. "Hahaha, friends?" I held out my hand to him again.

He looked at it as if wondering so I was nervous about his reaction.

Just I thought he wouldn't accept, he looked straight at me before smiling. "Friends then." We shook hands, we just laughed at what we were doing.

After that he said goodbye to leave, I closed the door and smiled before putting away my belongings.

Friends.........