Chapter 01

Chapter 01: Wonderful Youth ~

The sunlight entering my room seems to greet me with its warm rays, when I opened the bedroom window the cool breeze and warm sunshine encourage me to start this beautiful day. Yeah, let's just cut this whole drama thing, today's just the same old days where I woke up, wake my siblings up, go to school, socialize, got home, do homework, have dinner then go to bed and it happened all over again.

It's been a while since we three live together here, and by mean three is me and my siblings, our parents go out of town monthly or even weekly, meanwhile their kids are stuck at home doing some teenagers' stuff. I've knocked on his door a few times, but still, there's no answer coming from the inside. He's still fast asleep, my twins whom I'm talking about. He's always been like this, well with a heavy heart, I was forced to use my ultimate weapon. I threaten him, "By the count of three if you're still asleep, you can wash the mattress and do the laundry by yourself."

The sound of something heavy hit the floor real hard is echoing through all over our house, he is now awake. He rushed to the bathroom after that, he never wants to do the laundry though, he said he just don't want to do so he prefers to do any other chores besides that. It's been half an hour, and that brat hasn't come down yet, I for sure want to leave him behind, but at the end of the day, he'll ditch school again. Coming down the stairs, is Ezra Abimanyu Gibraltar, fixing his tie and combing his straight brownish hair that he dyed a few weeks ago.

He ordered, "Let's Go. Why are you guys staring at me like that? I mean I know I'm charming, but sadly you can't fall for me."

I walked ahead of him as I nudged Wendy who's been busy with her phone ringing every minute to be quick, I leave them behind so I could sit in the front seat, sitting next to him will give me a headache. Once he talks he never stops, "Shut it, Ez."

She points out the car key close enough to his eyes, "If you made me late to my class, I WILL cut your pocket money for a month, trust me I WILL."

With a smug grin, he replied, "Now, chill down sisters. Don't be so furious, you'll get wrinkles on your ugly-ass faces, while I'm already in danger for being too, what's the word? Alluring."

Abi and I go to the same school, so when I go to school, my older sister, Wendy is the one who drives us around, she's the oldest one here so she's in charge of everything mom said so, they're late again. They said they're coming home this week, but they never did. It's the fourth time she said it, Wendy told me not to believe in them anymore, she's still mad when they didn't come home for her birthday a few weeks ago. I sat down on my chair, that's right I've arrived in my mighty school which was oddly in front of the class, the seats are shuffled again. Arga, that one kid likes to make people get on their nerves, making troubles are just his daily basis.

Today's seats were shuffled because last Friday apparently he gave Mr. Yi's coffee with a lizard in it, that makes him drink the lizard when he noticed how thick his coffee is he spitted it, and it spilled the paper tests on the table that were supposed to be given out today. Mr. Yi thought we were all on the same side to prank him, so whether we want it or not the rest of my class got a punishment as well. A familiar voice called from a distance, "Keiy, have you done Mr. Andre's assignment? For the History's class?"

I answered, dragging the new vocabulary that I've learned in French's Class privately in the library on my own, "Yeah, I've finished it last night ...By the way, would you escort me to my sibling's class to pass him his pocket money along with his lunch, Madame monsieur?"

She replied a cute little smile plastered on her quite chubby face, "You know how I love going there, Madame. I want to see my special someone."

Meri, a friend of mine since we were little. Has a crush on Arga, the troublesome boy that I mentioned before. He's in the same class as Abi, and because of that she never refuses every time I take her there while stealing some glances too she said.

I approached the boy with glasses, tapping him slightly, "Hey, Jay. Do you see my twin?"

He turned his head, pointing at the back of the class that was surrounded by a pack of boys, "Over there, he's a bit sensitive today."

"Thanks."

He raised his eyebrows, giving a "sure thing" sign. After that, he goes back to chit-chatting with some of his friends.

Well, Abi's class is known for the hot topic gossips, every breaking news that happened that day will be spread all over the place in just an hour. Turns out there were a lot more people than I thought, now where's that boy? If he doesn't do gossips he probably plays the games that he downloaded at the café near our house, he really likes to go there just to sit around using the internet. Yup, there he is in the corner of the class surrounded by not so few of his classmates, watching him as swiftly move his fingers to win the game. There's no way he would study. Not in a million years I tell you.

I shouted loud enough making him distracted which makes his character getting hit a few times by the opponent, "YO, HOW'S LIFE DOING?"

He replied sarcastically with his sharp gaze, "Why are you here? Better be worth it ."

"Here, some money for today. If you don't want it, it'll be a bonus for me then."

Exceeding Sonic's speed, he took the money from my hand, whilst giving his significant grin. He replied briefly, then back on focusing on his phone dad bought him last Christmas, "Thank you, love you."

I glanced at the clock, "The bell will ring at any time, hide your phone now. See ya later, my baby duckling~."

As I turned away, I accidentally pushed his hand, making his phone dropped to the ground, he then groaned in disappointment. Abi yelled couldn't accept his defeat, "I can't believe it, I've lost. Are you kidding me?! Do you know hard this level is?!?!"

I smiled innocently, while he glared at me in frustration, "Sorry, don't mean to."

"Shoo, go back to your nature, you wild boar."-He started to push us away out of his class. As I sat with Meri, Arga suddenly approached us both in our class, asking us random questions such as Why do birds fly not swim? Why are cows herbivores? Can cows hate us? What if they'll plan to revenge on us?

Resting my chin on my left hand, I stared at him, "Do you still have something to say?"

He continued, tapping his chin multiple times, "Yes, I do still have one more."

Meri, who heard him say that way was immediately embarrassed, probably thinking of all the romantic possibilities he could say any moment.

"I smell like something bad is coming."

She turned her head to me and start to sniff the air around us, "Wait... It does smell bad, did you fart?"

"What? Who? ME?"

Arga interrupted, "HEY...HEY...STOP IT. Don't fight for me, I'm AVAILABLE FOR Y'ALL. Lemme put both of you on my waiting list, okay?"

"Are you sure you're sane?"

She replied with a little nod, "A weirdo with a misplaced mind."

Arga clapped his hands together as if he wants every human in this world to listen to him, "So, hear me out. Okay, the thing is. I want to say that actually, I'm not supposed to tell this but I'll tell you, it's a very rare occasion for me to spill the tea just for you two."

While embracing my shoulder from the side, he holds my head fixing my gaze on Alin. The owner of the name who felt called looks to us, "I have seen Alin farted this morning, and hell the smell WOOH, you see his face clearly shows all the bad things."

Feeling disapproved of seeing her beloved man, Alin's fans attacked him fiercely, without mercy. Meanwhile, Arga could only resign himself to lying on the floor with a few bruises on his face, groaning faintly to the pain he got.

Mr. Chi came barging in, a sign that his class is about to start, "Get back to your seats now," He ordered, "Arga, come stand in the hallway."

He mastered the fields of science and mathematics, all the formulas were memorized by heart, he became my mentor and Alin when participating in the Mathematics and Physics Olympiad last year, although he was a little fierce, his teaching methods were very easy to understand. Yes, even with such an easy level of teaching, I still ranked 119th out of 300 participants at that time. I told you, science does not build for me, why do they assume that I have good arithmetic and analogy skills, gosh. At least just put me in a language class next time there is a competition, I will be very grateful if I don't get those lessons that are full of complicated formulas, they made me feel so stupid.

I saw Meri stood up then walked towards Daffin, one of my elementary school friends. Well, let's just follow her I'm bored anyway, she took one of the benches nearby and continue to sit next to him who happened to be not far from my seat, it seemed that he was talking to Fahri and Bagas when we approached him. The class was almost over because it was ended by Mr. Chi even though there is still 1 hour left, he will attend an important meeting so he is in a hurry to finish today's material.

Ah, even though the lesson discussed today is quite exciting, I don't fully understand it. But it's enough to sharpen my brain instead of having to study socially with Mrs. Shaz, it seems she has a burning grudge against me for some reason my test scores are always below average. This is why my rank in class is dropping rapidly.

The boy who had been punished outside the classroom now limped toward us, just as he sat down a smack landed on his back, Daffin who's the one that smacked him, he asked him whilst giving him a one-sided look, "How's the beating? Is it fun?"

"Shut up," Arga replied, "It's not a big deal."

While the other boy kept laughing since the poor boy sat down, "Do you know how blue your cheeks are?," Fahri lift his purplish-blue Tumblr while gesturing, "See, it looks almost the same, pfftt."

Fahri snorted in amusement, "After several weeks from not getting beaten up, finally today's the day."He continued to laugh, making the rest of us laughs along at the stupid beaten-up boy who's now scowling, his eyes glaring and I could hear him mumbling some curse under his breath.