"Remember to re-read this when you go home today." The lady in her 30s said as she stood up from her wooden chair followed by the students who bowed towards her with a 'Thank you, teacher'.
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"Ugh, finally the class is over~ Hey Maya? Can I copy your notes?" Lizzy the class monitor who was busy on video calls with her boyfriend throughout the class asked to the girl sitting behind her.
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"Yeah sure..." Maya whose presence was like the ocean always calm and silent minding her own business said as she handed Lizzy her notes.
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"Thanks!" Lizzy said as she turned around to write down the points she missed.
"Hey look at this girl~ You stay busy with your boyfriend and then ask for notes from this innocent maiden here. Tch Tch have you got no shame?" The bench mate aka Zara said in a teasing tone.
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"Says the one who just posted her pics with her new boyfriend yeaterday~~," Lizzy said as she stuck out her tongue.
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And after that the war or Self Promotion of who is the coolest started.
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"See how attention-hungry they are?" Ema the bench mate of Maya said as she looked at the girl with disgusted eyes.
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Maya on the other hand didn't say anything and instead, she just smiled at her words and went back to her sleep.
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"Seriously, Maya don't you feel anything while looking at them being all boastful about their boyfriends?" Ema asked as she poked her cheeks.
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"No," Maya replied as she faced Ema who sighed thinking of how innocent and clueless her bench mate is.
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Time skip
End of School.
"Maya see you tomorrow!"Ema said as she waved towards Maya who was getting her bicycle out of the stand.
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Maya smiled at her and then waved back.
"Hey, is that the boy you confessed to?" A girl walking alongside Maya said to her friend.
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"Hmm Yes that's him but what is he doing here?" The other girl said as she fixed her hair.
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"Huh, he is smiling and even waving towards you maybe he is gonna accept you." The girl said as she smiled.
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"I think so too!! Oh My! what do I do? I am so nervous!!" The girl said as her ears turned red.
"Don't be nervous just look how happy he is to see you. Be confident!" Her friend said as she patted her back.
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Maya who was listening to their talk looked upward at the boy who was almost 5.7 ft in height with a thin body and warm ivory skin tone and a piercing on his right ear and his hair with bangs hiding his forehead.
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"Hey!" The girl said as they reached to him but instead of replying he ignored her and walked past them.
"Why don't you reply to my texts?" He asked Maya as he stopped her on the midway.
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Maya didn't reply to him but her calm gaze throughout the day suddenly turned cold towards him.
"I am busy." She said in her low voice as she walked past him and then looked at the girls who were standing there stunned and embarrassed and their looks they were probably blaming her.
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"I don't have any relation with him. Good Luck." She said to the girl who was about to confess as she bowed towards her and left as fast as she could.
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Leaving three of them in an awkward situation.
"Hey! How can you say that we don't have any relation between us?" He shouted but Maya didn't look back although she did hear him.
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"Umm, excuse me...Is she your girlfriend?" The girl asked with all her courage.
"..No..." He said as he sighed.
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Hearing the 'No' as a reply the girl got all excited and with a smile, she asked again, "Then is she your sister or something?"
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"Of course Not!! Do we even look related!" The boy said as he snapped at her making both of the girls flinch.
"..Then...What is your relation?" The other girl who was holding her trembling friend's hand asked.
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"She...is my childhood love...she is someone I am chasing since I was 8 and she is someone I want to love from my whole heart...." He said as his eyes lighted up and the image of Maya's smiling face came on his subconscious mind.
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Both the girls were stunned to hear this and they had no idea of how to react to it yet to not make things awkward they just decided to talk with him.
"Then why is she avoiding you?" The about to confess girl said as she clenched her fists.
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"That's probably because I am her ex." He said without any hesitation and both the girls who wasted their breath just to listen to worries were now dumbfounded.
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"She...is your ex?" Both of them asked together.
"No! I am her ex. She isn't." He said as he looked at his watch.
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"Huh? What do you mean? You are her ex but she isn't yours?" The friend of the girl asked as everything was going from above her head.
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"What I mean is...She broke up with me but I never did!" He said as he massaged his temples.
Listening to this both the girls looked at each other and then at the boy in front of them.
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"I see we wish you good luck." Saying that both of them ran away from him.
On their way back,
"What a freak he is. No wonder that senior ran away as soon as she saw him approaching." The about to confess girl said as she sighed.
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"Says the one who was just about to confess to such a freak." The friend of hers said as she laughed at her stupidity.
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"Stop laughing. Mistakes are done by all~But I wonder would that senior fall for him again?"
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"Who knows? But shouldn't the question be like would that freak be able to make her fall for him again?"
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"Yeah! But what does it have to do with us anyway? let's go back I will treat you to ice cream today."
"Why suddenly?"
"Think it as a treat to help my broken heart."
"Haha, Really then I will eat more~."
"Do you wanna die?"
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