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The bell rang as everybody that was in the hallway went into their specific classes. Yup, it was the first day of school, the day most people in this school dread of going back to except for-

Abby.

Formally known as Abigail Morrelli, this girl was a teacher favorite in the school for her flawless work and impressive scores but there was one tiny problem, she has an addiction with sleeping.

Yes, straight up dosing off in class.

But today's announcement will make her stay more awake than she has ever been.

"Good morning class, I will this announcement quick so you guys can start this class, I'm sorry but I will be stepping off as a teacher for about a year because of my pregnancy and-"

Whining was was heard all around the classroom, their only fun teacher was leaving the one that made everything about school enjoyable for the 2 hours they say in her class but now she was leaving?

" Settle down, I know you guys didn't expect this but next year, I'll come back with a little niece and nephew for you, now without further do, let me introduce you to your substitute teacher for the next year."

A handsome young man entered the classroom, and just as expected, the girls started cheering and fangirling.

" Alright, I know he's handsome but let him have a moment to introduce himself." The teacher said smiling

"Hello, my name is Lee Felix and I'll be your substitute dor the next year until Ms. Ji-yoon comes back indefinitely." Then, the cheers erupted, for another reason, his voice was deeper than the ocean but in between all that chaos, there's a beautiful girl sitting, no no no no no, sleeping at the back, the noise hadn't woken her up and her seatmate, the only person that could wake her up wasn't coming in today.

"Well, class, it was a pleasure being with you for 2 years but it's time to take a break, I'm handing the responsibility over to you Mr. Lee, please take care of them." She gave him a smile, ready to leave but she came back and whispered to him, "Especially the girl at the very back, Abby." She left after sending kisses to all the students.

" Good morning class, I hope you had a great night's sleep because you'll need all the sleep you can get for this year but somebody is already taking a left turn, Ms. Black and white hair?" Then a student said

" Sir, with all do respect, she's a unearthly creature, she's always listening no matter what, it's like she's sleeping but she's still awake."

" Well too bad, I don't care." He went over to her table and knocked on it, just then a student came in,

" Hello, good morning, are you the new substitute teacher? Lee Felix, right? Please don't disturb her sleep today, they had a medical emergency yesterday night and only came home this morning, you can wake her up 30 minutes after but please let her rest."

"Well isn't she suppose to be doing that at the nurses office?" He asked, a hint of sarcasm in his voice

"Well, that would be normal if she didn't fear that part of the school so please wake her up in 30 minutes, class, focus and don't make it hard for him." She said before leaving

"Well, class let's get started"~ he said opening his book

°An hour later°

The teacher has woken up Abby, twice now and he was already getting fed up with her going back to sleep so he went to wake her up one last time.

"Miss. Black and white hair?" He said knocking on her desk, this time she woke up quickly and stood up,

"Yes, sir?" She answered

"What was I just talking about?" He asked

"You were talking about why the invention of the lightbulb helped the world in so many aspects."

"Okay, you can sit back down."

Humbled.

It's clear to say that he did not bother her one bit after this and just left her to sleep, soon the class had ended and since it was the first day of school, they only had 3 classes total-

"Okay, class, there is no homework for today but still revise your notes, class dismissed."

•Felix's POV•

Everybody started taking their things and I felt accomplished that this day if school wasn't hectic unlike the other first day of schools that I've experienced. There was one slight issue though, the Abby girl was still asleep in her chair when everybody had already left so I went to wake her up.

"Miss, it's lunch time, please get up." This time without force, she woke up, rubbing her hands over her eyes and picking up her stuff, she left silently as I collected my things to go and eat my food in my office.

•At the end of school•

"Okay, that wraps up everything for today, class dismissed." Their calculus teacher said, everybody left, including Abby.

| •Abby's POV• |

After all that sleep in the first class, I took out my phone and started to replay the recording of each class that I took as I know I won't be able to fully stay awake. Before I could press play, my phone rang, my sister was calling me, I quickly answered her-

On the phone

"Hey, Minnie, you okay,?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, I just feel a little dizzy but I'm fine."

"Okay, I'm coming back home right now."

"Alright, by the way, Jake called me and said there was this new substitute teacher that's replacing Mrs. Ji-yoon for the next year?"

"Yeah, his name is Lee something, I didn't catch the rest."

"That's fine, I'm sure you have the recording, right?"

" Yeah, I was about to press play, anyways, I'll see you at home, tell Mom that she doesn't need to prepare food for me."

" Oh, yeah, I completely forgot to tell you but we have a dinner tonight but my dad didn't fully say what it was, I'll tell you more when you're back, be safe, love you."

"Love you too." I hung up the phone and put it in my pocket, I walked outside the school campus and into the streets where the smell of fresh street food we're being cooked, I went over and bought some friend chicken and white rice with some churros. Then, I went to wait for the next bus, while I ate my food in silence.

It didn't take long for the bus to arrive and I hopped on, sitting, I took 2 mores busses to get home and walked the rest of the way, the neighborhood we lived in was quite fancy and overprotective with huge wall barriers fencing all the estates inside.

" How was your first day of school, Abby?" The gateman asked

"Not bad, here are some churros for your hard work, see you tomorrow morning." I handed him the bag of churros that were starting to cool down

" Thank you, do you need somebody to walk you to your house?" He asked

"Nah, I'll be fine, you stay safe." I said walking away, the gateman was a little bit older than my father, he was like my best friend, I always brought him churros after school because I had introduced him to it and since then, he became obsessed. My house wasn't very far down the compound and I quickly took out my key to open the door.

"I'm home!!" I slightly yelled, enough for anybody in the house to hear me.

"Yay, yay yay, Mabby is here Minnie, Minnie, Minnie, Minnie!!" That's the youngest girl of our family, Makayla, she calls me Mabby for no reason as she still can't talk properly.

"Abby, sweetie , how was school? You must have been so tired from yesterday night?" She hugged me putting down her spatula

| •Minnie's POV• |

Makayla came into my room, screaming that Abby had come home from school, I exited my room to go see her, but the scene I saw made my blood boil, Abby was greeting Mom first, why not me? I'm her bestfriend, that should be me hugging her first, no fair.

"ABBY!!!" I screamed

"MINNIE!! How is your head?" She asked worried

" I'm fine, it's still hurts a little and the stitches are swollen but after that I'm cruising."

"Okay, Mom, I'm going to change, it's really cold."

"Go ahead."

•Abby's POV•

I was being pulled up the stairs by Minnie so let me give you a proper introduction then. My name is Abigail Morrelli, most people call me Abby for short, Minnie and Makayla are my stepsisters, Minnie aka Nicha being the oldest out of all of us, she has a boyfriend called Jake who you'll meet soon, he's a very nice guy, Makayla is 3 years old and the youngest one out of all of us, she goes to school later than us this year as it's her first. The people I call mom and dad now, were once just family friends until a fire that I accidentally caused, took the life of my biological parents. Mr and Mrs Kim wasted no time to file an adoption case to take care of me, although they didn't put Kim in my last name. I'm single and friendless as you can tell, my only friend is Minnie, her real name being Minna, spelled with two Ns.

I heard a knock on my door after I finished changing,

"Abby, sweetie come down so we can eat some ice cream together." Mom said

" Okay, I'll be down in a minute." I took my phone and wore my comfy flip flop to fight the cold air inside the house, I headed downstairs to where Mom was and she was preparing a bunch of food

"Oh, you're down, take the scooper and the ice cream, I'll get some toppings." She said taking out cereal, chocolate syrup and more.

"So, I know when we're eating ice cream, it's usually for you to talk to me about something so spill it out, Mom." I said taking a bite our if my ice cream

"Well, you know me too well, umm, Abigail, your father signed a contract 14 years ago before his death, I'm sure we've talked about this contract and what it holds, well the contract agreements are to be met by the end of the year so I wanted to talk to you."

"I already told you, Ma, I'm fine with marrying their son, but if he's a bad guy then I'm gonna come here and we're fleeing to Italy." I said laughing

"Thank you sweetheart, we have dinner with them tonight so wear a nice dress with whatever footwear you want, just don't wear flip flops."

"Heh?? Ma?? What's so wrong with flip flops?"

"I know their cute but not for special occasion, munchkin." She said finishing her bowl

"Can I help you cook?" I asked

"You can cut things for me but don't come close to the fire." She said

"Aye, aye captain." I said

"Let's continue or else we'll be late."

We prepared most of the food setting each dish in the table and setting plates and other things.

"Okay, thanks sweetie, you can go get ready and wake up Minnie." She said removing her apron

I went up the stairs to Minnie's room and knocked,

"Come in." She said

"Hey, Minnie, it's time to get ready for the dinner." I said

"Do you know what it's about?" She asked

"Yeah, the contract." I said

"Oh, I'm sorry Abby." She expressed, her facial expressions turnin sad

"Minnie~ I told you I'm fine with the marriage as-"

"Long as he's not a bad person, if he is you'll come here and flee to Italy with us, I know that line too well, you can go shower then come to my room so I can do your makeup and hair, this dyed hair won't style itself." She said pointing to my hair

I had dyed my hair black and white as I thought the color combination was pretty and it has stayed like that since the summer. I went to my room and took a shower, took my dress and headed to Minnie's room.

"Hey, wow, you have a lot of stuff you're going to wear today, well, lemme do your hair and makeup so you can wear your clothes and the thousands of accessories you have." Yes, I may be a quiet girl but extravagant styling is my hobby so it's go big or go home but I don't try hard. Minnie started on my makeup first then my hair

"How do I look?" I asked Minnie 

"Fabulous!! Who wouldn't look fabulous after copping a makeup look like that? Now chop chop, put your dress, shoes and accessories on." She said clapping her hands

When I finished fixing my outfit, I took my earrings that I typically wear and a ring that Minnie had gifted me for my 18th birthday last year.

" Minnie, are you done?"

"Yeah!!" She yelled from her closet, she came out and she looked so pretty

"Jake is so lucky." I said throwing her a genuine smile.

"Aish, I'm gonna be shy if you say that." she said, her face becoming a slight shade of red

"What? You're pretty, the white fits your skin tone so perfectly!" I said

"Aish, your compliments make me shy, Abby!!" She said putting her head on my shoulder

"By the way is your head okay?"

"Yeah, I put some ice on it and the swollen part is starting to disappear and I feel quite good." She said doing a funny pose

"I just wanted to make sure, let's go." I took her hand as we went downstairs, our mother was already waiting ready and all.

"What did I do to deserve two gorgeous daughters like this?"

"What about me mommy?" Makayla asked, pouting

"Of course, you're pretty now, when you grow big and tall, you'll be pretty in your own unique way." I said kissing her nose

"So everybody is going to ignore my presence?" We turned around to see dad on the couch

"Of course not honey." My mom said walking over and kissing his forehead

"Eww." Makayla said, going back to her cocomelon

"Okay, Mr. Lee said he's just entered the compound." Dad said looking at his phone

"Minnie, do I look decent?" I asked

"You look more than decent, you look enchantingly, fabulously beautiful." She said hugging me

"When I get married, don't leave me, ok?"

"I will never do that, especially when I need your lucious hair to try hairstyles on." She said touching my hair, then there was a knock at the door

"Okay, girls, they're here." My dad said and went to open the door "Good afternoon Mr and Mrs Lee!" My dad said

"Oh stop being so formal with me you coward, come here." The man who dad called mister Lee gave him a brotherly hug, his wife was even prettier, she had a small child about the age of Makayla holding her hand, with his tablet, also watching cocomelon. Is cocomelon all kids watch these days? I snapped out of my thoughts because two of them resambled Mr Lee, except for the little one, our professor at school.

"Minnie, they look like our new professor a lot, especially the dad."

"Wow, that's luck, imagine it was him, I'm going to grab water for your future inlaws." She said jokingly

"Dad, you forgot your phone in the car!" Another more mature and deep voice said,

"Mr Lee?" I said shocked after looking up

"Ms Abby?" He said looking back at me

I guess there was a resamblence, he is my professor.