Chapter 3

The sun rises up. It's about 7:30am in the morning. Mrs Martha picks up the dirty laundry, walking pass Kim's room. She paused, walking back to her door room as she leans her ear to the door, knocking.. "Kim, wake up! It's 7:30 in the Morning, you're gonna be late for school." she yelled, walking down the stairs as Kim hastily rose out of the bed, to the bathroom. 20minutes later, she walks out with a towel wrapped around her Breast and the other towel wrapped around her head, almost falling off. 15minutes later, she jog down the stairs in Pantaloon pant, tucked into her black buckled boots and a sloppy side-torn garb. "I'm off, mum" Kim yells, walking out of the house as Mrs Martha yells back from the laundry room... "okay, honey.."

Claire notices Ray sitting alone, leaning on the counter with his head rested on his palms... Claire walks to him, hitting Ray's shoulder with her elbow. "Hey, what's up" she said, grinning as Ray glances down then glances at her then she adds "I notice you've been sitting alone since till now. is there anything going on? Claire asked , concerned. Ray stretches, as he lift up his head, sitting up-straight. " Charlotte broke up with me last night.." Ray said softly as Claire holds her mouth "Oh my God. Why would she?" Claire said, surprisingly.. "She said I devoted much of my time being with you guys..." Ray said, vulnerably. Claire stares down elsewhere with her hand around Ray's neck. short of words, as Charlotte stares at them from distance. Her heart pounding as she hid from them, watching them. " I know how you

must be feeling now.." Claire mutters as her face lit up "Well, worry no more. I can talk to her on your behalf. She'd listen.." Claire says, elbowing Ray with smile as he smiles back smirkingly. Claire tucked her hand in Ray's grinning.. as Ray gets up, walking off with Claire as Charlotte walks out of the hidden place catching her breath, watching them till they were out of sight, almost about to burst into tears, Sniffing. Staring around the physics lab.

Sean sits on the four seat couch in the cafeteria, waiting for Kim to show as he knocks the table with fingers, staring at strawberry ice cream sitting in front of him, melting. Kim sighted Sean from afar, about to turn back to walk off before he sees her but got stopped by Max... Kim's crusher from the fifth grade. One of Those Kim's been avoiding to see, or bumped into but unfortunately... "Today can't be any less awkward" Kim thought staring at Max smirkingly as he grins at her, surprised to her. His face turning red.. Kim clears her throat awkwardly, making him out of his thought, at the same time staring at Sean worriedly as he shakes his head fervently "Hi" Kim says, smilingly.. "Oh, hi." Max replies sharply, his face turning red in his glasses. "Sorry I kept you waiting..." He said, stepping aside, obviously Short of words or shocked. He doesn't Want to make the moment more awkward as Kim's eyes meet with Sean's waving at her as she waves consistently at Sean while Max stares back at Sean. Walking pass Kim as she walks to Sean, whimpering "Here goes nothing" Walking toward Sean as she sits in front of him, grinning "Hi" she said, dropping her backpack beside her contained seat.. "Hi" Sean says, staring back at the food vendors As Kim traced his eyes to the Food vendor, while he glances back at her, changing his sit- position. "I would've gotten you an ice cream but still doubting if you still like the Chocolate flavor." Sean says uncertainly as Kim chuckles "Of course I still do..."She grins then add " I wouldn't miss it for anything. It's my favourite." Kim says grinningly. Sean grins, reaching under the seat as he Brought out a glass of chocolate milk, sliding it to her as she gasped "I'm glad I didn't return it back. phew" Sean says, pretending to wipe away the sweat across his forehead as Kim smiles even though she feels awkward with this special treatment of his "Wow... Thanks" She said, stirring it with the straw then started sucking it through the straw as Sean gaze at her admirably as Kim looks up to him with her heart pounding as she Chuckles "What?.." "I love you" Sean said, with a smile as Kim spitted the ice cream out of her mouth to the ground, as everyone stares at her disgustingly... She smirked at them while Sean removes an Handkerchief from his back pocket, leaning forward to Kim as he cleans her stained mouth, sitting back down... as Kim stares at him, short of words. "So this is exactly how Claire's gonna react... Probably choke on whatever she's eating or drinking at the moment when I tell her..." he hesitates " I like her.." Kim's a bit confused and shocked, chuckling "What are you even saying?" Kim asked as Sean leans forward.. "I'm sorry. I know how bizarre That sounds and I truthfully didn't mean to inconvenient or choke you..." "No, no, no. Of course not." Kim says softly, cutting him short " But uhm... I'm a bit confused. what are you talking about?" Kim asked unsettling. Sean breathes in and out "During the Vacation period. Claire and i been chatting. Which is unusual. I don't know, I think I kind of feel something for her. I just can't explain it. I think I like her." Sean says. Kim widen her big eyeballs in astonishment and a bit of shock and hurt. "That's... that's... that's.." Kim stutters " ".. Crazy. yeah, I know. Unheard of." Sean says, trying to complete Kim's sentence "Of course, not." She said. Chuckling, Staring down her fingers "I'm just.... surprised." She said. While Sean looks through the window "I don't know if I should tell her" he said" sighing, glancing back at Kim who looks hurt but her grin expression is more written on her face. "I mean.. We are friends. Just friends." he said, staring down his feet as Kim holds his hand even not wanting to " You don't have to be afraid telling her how you feel. Telling her doesn't mean she'll end your friendship if she had no interest." Kim said, calmly "You think?" Sean said, raising his eye brow "Of course." Kim said with a smile as Sean smiles wholeheartedly "Thanks, Kim." he said.

. After their discussion, Sean walks into the class inspiringly while Kim on the other hand was heartbroken. Couldn't help but kept reminiscing Their discussion in her head, heartbreakingly. Kim couldn't had expect Sean liking Claire as that. Non of them could've expect it. One of the reason Kim was shocked was when she remembered playing truth or dare between themselves and Sean had to choose between truth or dare "Truth or dare?" Ray asks excitedly "Dare" Sean answered sharply as Ray stares at Kim and Claire "I dare you to date Claire for a week" Kim gasped along with Claire, and Sean who was speechless and incredibly shocked puts a smirk on his face. They weren't compatible and non of them was one's type to date... at least that was what they thought.

Kim stares at the clock tiredly till the bell was rang. She got to leave the school successively without being seen by any of them.

Claire walks to her locker with her backpack, Dropping a notebook in the locker as Her face randomly sighted Charlotte in front of her locker, dropping her earrings into a shinny little red box, Putting it back in the locker as Claire hastily locked her locker, walking to her with a smile as Charlotte rolls her eyes, seeing her coming.. "Here comes the bitch" Charlotte mutters to herself. "Hi" Claire says, While Charlotte turns to her grinning "Hi.." Being on her nicest voice. Claire deeps her fingers in her back pocket "I'd just heard some disturbing news from Ray. Is it true..." "Aren't you happy about it?" Charlotte hastily said, teasingly, cutting her short as Claire echoes "What?!" annoyed "I mean I've been seeing two of you mostly together lately, more than I've seen four of you together." Charlotte says "Don't drag me into this, Charlotte." Claire said abhorrently. then adds "Ray and I are just friends and I wouldn't come to you to fix things between You and Ray if truly we were.... " Claire paused, groaning " Oh my God!" "Save me the drama, ponytail. I'm done with that piece of shit so called Ray. You can have him." she says, flipping her hair as she turns away to lock her locker, then paused,turning back to her as Claire stares at her furiously, then she adds, "and oh, dear. " Leaning forward to her ear, whispering "You can make it official" Leaning back up-straight, slamming her locker so loudly, waving at Claire "Adiós" She said, walking briskly away as Claire stood on her feet, dumbfounded.

They all went home separately, emotionally. Kim got Home staring round the house, observing how quiet the house is, jogging up the stairs to her room. She dropped her bag on the bed, walking over the drawer, rummages through it, picking her diary. She grabs the wooden chair, sitting on it as she opens the diary at random, picking out the pen, flipping it to a blank space.. As Madison barges in, scaring Kim out of the chair while Claire stares at the diary walking to it unnoticeably "What the heck? You scared the hell out of me" Kim yells, displeasingly as Madison hastily grabs her diary off the ground running back as Kim widen her eyes stretching her hand to snatch it from her "Give it back!" Kim said, putting her head In her hands groaning as Madison gasped, bringing down the book from her face as Kim walks to her, snatching it away.. "You are in love with Sean?" Madison says beaming widely as Kim stares at her, rolling her big brown eye balls "Unbelievable!" Madison exclaimed as Kim sits on the bed sighing "You didn't have to read it." Kim said, calmly, Looking down her diary "I was just about to trash it before you barged in" Kim said, sharply, raising her voice . Madison walks to her, sitting beside her in the bed "Why? What's the matter?" Madison asked, worriedly. "Sean likes Claire" Kim sniffs "Like?" Madison asked, squinting her eyes in confusion "You mean he likes her more than you think he liked you?" Kim looks away, staring at the wall, unseeing "No." She says "Not that kind of like." looking back at Madison, cheerlessly, who seem not to get her point "He likes her... like he wants to date her" Kim says, while Madison exclaimed "Oh..." Kim gets on her feet, walking towards her mirror, gazing at herself through the mirror, at the same time staring at Madison, who's reflecting in the mirror, seeing her smiles "You know?" Flicking her fingers "Your story is a bit alike like mine." She says, beaming. "There was this guy Jake, whom I kind of had a crush on. We were friends... We hang out a lot, we talk, we play video games, he comes over for dinner..We also prank. It was his crazy idea, not mine." she grins, then continues, as Kim turns to face her with her hands crossed over her chest " I thought maybe he liked me. Or Maybe he knew I liked him, so he tried to like me back but I was wrong. Days later, he introduced his duff looking bitch to me as his girlfriend. I was shock and a bit of jealous, but hey! We were friends, weren't we?" Madison asked rhetorically, looking Kim in the eyes as if to respond to her rhetorical question but Kim shrugs "So We went on a double date. Jake came with the duff and I came with this Asian guy who's been giving me signs but doesn't know how to approach me. I literally went out with him just to get my mind off Jake a bit and it worked out... at least that was what I thought until Jake started misbehaving at the party. He was all kind of fussy and vulgme get get. I was even upset with him after the party until he confesses to me he loved me." Madison chuckles While Kim smiles "I was shocked, I felt like I was dreaming. He said he's dating The duff just to see how I'd react maybe I feel the same way he felt. His date with the duff was made up but mine was real. I was dating the Asian guy for real but we broke up. He broke up with me. He wanted me to stop hanging out with Jake thinking he's bad-tempered but I disagreed. Because Jake wasn't what he seemed at the party. He made it easy, Jake and I finally dated until his dad moved to California and he had to go." Madison said, unhappily but smiles "So... Maybe The history's about to repeat itself... To you. Maybe Sean really does like you but doesn't know how to say it" Madison shrugs as Kim turns back, gazing at herself through the mirror "No he doesn't. He isn't like... Jake. He wouldn't hurt Claire's feelings just to see me get jealous or have any cocky idea you think he might have or plan." Kim turns back to Madison "Sean isn't anything like Jake" Kim says softly as Madison stood up close to her "Jake didn't break Maddy's heart..." "Who's Maddy?" Kim confusedly asked interruptedly "The Duff" Madison answers sharply. "They planned it, Kim" Madison said as Kim walks passed her, shrugging "Sean says what he feels. He likes Claire and I can't do anything about it than to... accept the fact that we are just friends. Nothing more." Kim says staring away.