Chapter Three - Classic Kim.

"No you got it wrong...again"

Chase sighed as he completed his statement and Kim rolled her eyes at him before looking the other way. He used a red marker to circle her mistake, and then slid the book towards her. They were two seats away from eachother since Kim insisted on sitting far away, she was already his classmate and locker mate, she didn't think that she could also handle being his seat mate as well !.

She sluggishly glanced over to the book, he had circled where she had gone wrong while solving a question on the general gas equation.

"So ?..."

She asked annoyingly before looking up at him. He stared back at her and then rubbed his temples, he was going to explode in anger because of her.

"What do you mean by so ?, you clearly made the same mistake twice !, how is that even possible"

He asked now frustrated.

"You ask me, you're supposed to be the teacher here, so why did I make the same mistake !?"

She immediately shot back. A short silence squeezed in and then he sighed, he had to put up with this brat, even though it was only for today. He told himself that after today, he was going to request for someone else to tutor Miss rude over there. His only wish was that the new person would survive her sassy attitude.

"Fine, I'll explain how to solve it, then you'll try again"

He pulled the huge chemistry text book next to him close and then flipped a few pages on his notepad before scribbling something down. She noticed that he was copying an equation question for him to explain and she just rolled her eyes before picking up her phone, as soon as she did, her phone buzzed, she looked up at the notification that just popped up.

"Eight new people followed you"

She scoffed before she tapped on it. The notification immediately sent her to her follow list on instagram, she scrolled through the eight new followers and then her eyes landed on Flo°Nation, her mind quickly raced as a thought of someone flashed through her mind.

A girl, tall, light skinned, pretty, had long brown hair. The person she thought about was from her previous school back at another city, why did this person follow her all of a sudden ?. She became uncomfortable as her breathing got heavier, oh no, she had thought that she had ran away from her problems once she moved here, but now this person must recognize her from her posts.

She couldn't think more before another notification popped up, it was a direct text message from Flo°Nation.

"Hello"

Was all it said, she stared at it horridly like as if the text message would jump out and strangle her. Her breathing got more and more heavier. Chase noticed something was wrong and looked up from what he was doing. He turned his head to the left then right briefly as he saw her staring at her phone indicating that he was beyond annoyed at her.

"Unbelievable"

He muttered.

"Are you trying to provoke me ?"

He asked angrily. He had failed to notice that the girl was having a minor panic attack. She didn't respond to him which only fueled his anger. He got up loudly, then roughly walked over to her and yanked her phone away, holding it up.

"Are you deaf, or are you just this annoying ?"

He waited for a split second, expecting her to react but she didn't which only made him look down at her. That was when he noticed that she was breathing loudly, and her fists were all curled up. He would be lying if he said that he wasn't the slightest of suprised.

Water was now finding it way down Kim's face, she wasn't crying, just in shock. If that person ever found out who she was and where she now lived, her life was going to be over, literally.

Chase didn't want to, but he bent down to look at her face. She had streaks of tears coming down her eyes as well as sweat rolling down her face. He quickly turned her body to face him as he was still in his bent posture.

"Hey, what's wrong ?"

He asked, showing a little bit of concern. She kept breathing loudly with her mouth opened in shock, tears kept coming down her face and she curled her fists up tighter.

"I-i..."

Was all she could say. He looked at her deeply, now realising that her condition was serious, she looked up at him, both of them now facing eachother eye to eye.

"I-I've go-got to go"

As soon she said that, she roughly wiped her tears away and picked up her phone while grabbing some books before finally dashing away, he just stared at her with a confused expression. He watched her figure disappear behind the huge shelves that stood in his way. One of his first instinct was to go after her but he quickly shrugged the thought off.

He turned around to look at the table, before noticing that she forgot her chemistry text hand book. His mind told him not to touch it and just pretend like he never saw it if not he would feel the urge to return it, she couldn't use her text book with out it. Gosh !, why did he have to pick up the book ?. He stared at the book. Why did she act so weird earlier. And she just ran out like that, in the middle of the study session. Brat.

'What was up with this girl ?'. He wondered.

Kim ran out of the libary and looked frantically at where to go, she hurriedly ran to the left and hid behind a pillar, her breathing got worse as she tried to calm it down. Angrily wiping her tears away she shut her eyes tight and rest her back head on the pillar.

She couldn't belive that this was actually happening, what she ran away from all those years was coming back to hunt her.

There was just no way that this was happening.

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"Kim !, get your lazy self out of bed to school !"

Mrs Erica yelled at the top of her lungs from outside Kim's bed room door. She had locked herself in and refused to eat dinner that night. Inside, Kim rolled over and then covered herself with her bed covers. She couldn't sleep a wink that previous night as the thought of having her secret revealed hunted her.

Mrs Erica banged on the door for the third time that morning but still with no response from Kim.

"Kim !, at least post something on your page, you haven't posted anything for close to 10 hours now, were losing money !"

Mrs Erica glanced at a tablet that she held while she spoke.

She was the personal manager of Kim's social life, taking care of her social networks because she believed that her daughter had a beautiful face and would bring millions. She already had countless sponsors and people who were lining up for her to be the face of their products. Kim wasn't intrested in any of it but she was forced to do so when she requested to move away from their previous town which also resulted in the loss of Mrs Erica's not-so-high-paying job. But Mrs Erica agreed because she hated working under someone and having being told what to do, so she took up Kim's offer and now they were rich.

Kim groaned more and covered her ears with her hands.

"Just leave me alone !, I'm not in the mood to post anything !"

"I don't care if you're in the mood or not, you're fans need to know that you're ok, so post something now !, or I'll burst this door down !"

"But I'm not ok"

She whispered to herself as she sluggishly stood up and walked over to her door, unlocking it. Mrs Erica, Kim's mother rushed in and inspected Kim's face.

"Good you're still beautiful, now wipe that frown off your face and get ready for school, I'll drop you guys off ok ?"

"Don't bother, I'll take the bus"

Kim responded then walked over to her huge bed. Her mum gave her an empty look, knowing how her daughter behaved.

"Fine, suite yourself"

She said before walking out of the room, closing the door on her way out. Kim sighed and then fell on her bed. She so didn't want to go anywhere, if it were up to her she wouldn't even go to school at all.

Her phone chimed, she tried locating it with her head still on the bed and then she picked it up before rasing up her head. A text message from 'My bestie - Taylor ❤' appeared, it read.

"Where r u ?, classes will start soon, I bought snacks 2day"

She rolled her eyes, wondering when Taylor had the chance to put her phone number and naming herself 'My bestie - Taylor ❤ '. Getting up, she dropped her phone on her side table and walked into her bathroom to get ready.

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Chase walked to Class B1, he was looking for someone and had over heared that her class was Class B1, he had just walked up to the door when he heared someone talking loudly.

"Come on, text back !"

A girl, known to be the loud one was staring at her phone anxiously as she just received glares from almost everyone in the class at how loud she was. He looked around briefly, looking for the brat, he just wanted to give her the book she had left yesterday, and then after that he was never going to cross paths with her, ever, he was already going to request for a locker switch because a certain someone found out where his new one was.

He was about giving up when the loud girl spoke again.

"Yes !, she texted back !"

The girl excitedly stood up and earned more glares from everyone.

"Sorry, I'll just go outside"

She said sheepishly and quickly walked towards the door where Chase stood. Chase moved to the side giving the girl space to pass. He stood in the corner only a few steps away from her.

"This person has blocked...you from their contacts, sorry !?"

Her smile slowly turned to a frown.

"What ?!"

She yelled immediately.

"She blocked me ?!"

She looked confused for a split second before a small smile creeped up her face. Chase turned around to leave, finally giving up. At that point he just didn't care if she got her book back, he could probably just dump it at the lost and found right ?.

"Classic Kim"

Chase turned around immediately.

"Excuse me did you say Kim ?"

He asked. Taylor looked up at him.

"Ye-yeah ?, why ?"

She had a suspicious look on her face at the sudden question.

"Here"

He simply stated as he brought out a book from his bag, it was the hand book that Kim had left at the libary. He stretched it foward towards Taylor, but she just stared at him, looking lost in his eyes.

"Hello ?"

"Oh !, right !"

She took the book from his hand and blushed. He looked at her weirdly before opening his mouth to speak.

"It's for Kim, a girl in your class, give it to her"

He said in a rather commanding tone. Taylor just kept staring at him barely making out what he had just said. He nodded at her briefly then turned around to leave. Taylor just kept staring, at what ?, he had turned the corner.

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Kim just arrived at the gate as the gatekeeper was about to lock it. He quickly noticed her and allowed her in, once she was in the school premises she was quickly met with a member of the student council assigning punishments to two girls who were just as late as Kim was.

"Now go !"

The member commanded as the two girls ran off, gushing at how handsome the member of the student council was. 'Ameatur's' Kim thought.

The 'Handsome' guy looked up from his clipboard sighing tiredly.

"And why are you l-"

He stopped mid-sentence when he saw who he was talking to.

"Kim ?"

Kai, asked in disbelief, her lips got thinner as she internally groaned. 'Not him'.

"Wow, you are the last person I would have ever thought of seeing here"

He said slyly with a smirk.

"Just punish me already, I don't have time for your chit chats"

She told him.

"Whats the rush ?, let's go in together"

He bent down in a bow as he cleared the way for her to pass. She rolled her eyes and walked past him while he jogged to catch up to her.

"Hey slow down, we still have to talk about your punishm-"

"I know, I'll stay back after school for detention"

She said expressionless, not even turning to look at him.

"Well, actually you don't have to, tell you what, I'll let you off just this once under the condition that you give me your number"

She stopped in her tracks and turned to look at him with suprise plastered on her face.

"What ?"

He smiled at her expression before leaning closer to her, stopping only inches away from her face.

"You heared me right, I want your number"

He repeated. She blinked twice then looked around wondering if she heared him right or if he was joking. What did he need her number for ?. He smiled again flashing his perfect white teeth before standing up straight.

She scoffed.

"No way, I'ld rather get detention"

She stated and walked away. He watch her go then chuckled.

'Classic Kim'. He thought before walking after her.

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Walking into the Cafeteria with a frown as Taylor dragged her along was Kim, the girl who had insisted on having detention even when Kai told her not to worry about it.

Taylor pulled her towards the line for the trays and quickly grabbed two, stretching one towards her frowning friend who had her arms crossed. She looked at it disgustingly, and then looked away.

"No"

She simply said and was about walking away when Taylor stopped her.

"Come on, what's wrong with eating in the cafeteria ?"

Kim sighed and dropped her hands.

"Fine, but youre getting the food I don't want to stand in line"

She stretched out some money for Taylor to buy the food then she turned on her heels and walked away. Taylor smiled at the money that was now in her hand.

"I have the best friend ever ! "

She said way too loudly which made some people around give her weird looks.

Kim walked over to a table not too far from the food stand, she brought out her phone, her mum had forced her to take countless pictures that morning and she just sent her the edits done by their personal editor 'Jace Black'. Kim scrolled through the pics and then saw the message that her mum had just sent.

'Choose three out of the five to post today'

She scoffed at the message. Oh how she hated this. She scrolled back up and tapped on the first pic, sighing lazily, she scrolled to the next just as Taylor approached the table with two trays of food, she sat down and pushed a tray to Kim. There was no one else sitting at the table which Taylor found rather weird. She leaned forward.

"Hey, why is no one else sitting at this table ?"

She whispered. Kim shrugged then looked up from her phone.

"Here"

She gave her phone to Taylor.

"Pick three pics out of the five"

Taylor took the phone, as she looked at the pictures her eyes widened in excitement.

"Wow !, you look really pretty in these, I like-no, this one is better-"

"Just choose three and shut up"

Kim looked at her annoyed.

"Sorry"

Taylor mouthed and went back to staring at the phone. Kim sighed and looked down at the food infront of her. Mac n' cheese, salad, a fruit juice and an apple. What a weird combination. She looked at it in a rather disgusting way and pushed it towards the girl sitting opposite her a little, then she looked up and around before spotting Corry and her 'wannabe's' surrounding a timid looking girl.

Kim observed what was happening.

Corry had just walked up to the girl who was chatting away with her friends when she slammed her hand on the table.

"All of you scram, I want to talk to Angela in private"

She said while making full eye contact with Angela, the timid girl. Everyone at the table quickly stood up with their lunch and practically ran away.

"Corry, wh-what are you d-doing here ?"

"Gosh, is that even a question ?, you know what you did, and you thought you were going to get away with it, well too bad, I found out"

"I-i don't know what Y-you're talking ab-about"

"Oh, of course you do, you know very well what I'm talking about you liar !"

She raised her hand up to hit Angela as she shut her eyes immediately in defense. Some people around turned to see what was happening but couldn't really see anything because Corry's wannabe's blocked their veiw, though Kim could still make out what was happening. A small smile appeared on Corry's face as she stopped mid air.

"Oh you're scared aren't you ?"

She laughed like a wacko.

"Then why did you do that huh ?, don't forget about our little deal, get me closer to him and I won't spill it, ok ?"

She gave Angela a fake smile and the girl nodded back timidly, not daring to look up at Corry.

"Good"

She fake-smiled again and patted Angela's head slowly.

"Bye now !"

Corry flashed her white teeth before turning around to leave, with her wannabe's on her heel. The girl breathed out a large sigh of relief like she was holding her breath, was she that scared of Corry ?. She looked around teary eyed hoping that no one saw that encounter. If her secret was even the slightest of exposed she didn't think that she'd be able to handle it. She sighed again, then tried to relax.

Kim saw the whole thing even though she couldn't hear what they were saying, she knew it wasn't something good, but what did she care ?.

"Kim !"

Taylor said in her usually loud tone. Kim looked at her.

"I've been calling you, what is so important ?"

Taylor turned around to see what Kim could have possibly been staring at before turning her head back.

"It was nothing"

"When is it not ?"

Taylor answered with an evidently fake-frown and Kim returned it with her usual expressionless face. Taylor smiled excitedly at her expression.

"Well, anyway, I've picked three out, here you can take a look at it"

She showed Kim the three she picked and Kim quickly sent a response to her mother.

"The third, second and last"

"Anything else ?"

She switched off her phone and then placed it on the table, Taylor had already started eating joyfully.

Only a few minutes past before Kim's phone chimed. She picked it up while chewing on her apple, she wasn't going to eat anything else.

"Noted. Have an awesome day honey 😇😇"

And as expected Kim rolled her eyes at the message. She was about putting her phone down when another message popped up. It was from her class group, of course she didn't want to join the group but her mum made her do it saying that it would be an avenue to advertise herself. Like she was a product that needed an advert.

"Chemistry has been cancelled for tomorrow because of an issue, but don't worry it has been replaced with an extra period of gym. Thank you"

The message was followed with many other texts like:

"Really ?"

"Seriously ?, noooo😩😩"

"😨😨😵"

"Hope nothing too serious happened"

"Why ?, I hate gym"

And so on. Kim got mad at all the texts that kept coming in so she silented the chat and then turned off her phone, Taylor was now looking at her phone with her eyes widened and mouth slightly opened.

"Oh my gosh, did you see it ?"

She looked up at Kim who was now biting into her apple.

"Why ?, I hate gym"

"Don't complain it's annoying"

Kim simply stated.

"You're annoying"

Taylor said under her breath.

"But that's why I like you"

She said out loud. Kim rolled her eyes at the weird girl.

"Oh and I just remembered, there was this super cute guy earlier who gave me your book, he said to give it to you"

"A guy ?"

Kim asked.

"Yeah, a very cute one, I could barely even pay attention to what he was saying, tell me, how do you know him ?"

Kim wrinkled her eyebrows in thought, she couldnt put her finger on who it could have been, she didn't know anyone well enough for them to do something like that. Except it was a fan, but a fan wouldn't even do that either.

"I don't"

Kim quietly responded.

"Gosh, I wish I could see his face again, he was just so perfect"

Taylor said dreamingly.

"I think I'm having a crush on him"

Kim eyed her up and down, checking if the girl was alright as she kept on smiling into space nonstop.

"You're hopeless"

She stated as Taylor giggled then Kim sighed before getting up to leave.

"Hey, sit down lunch isn't over yet"

Taylor said while quickly glancing at Kim's food tray which was still full on the table.

"I'm done with it"

"Come on, really ?, you barely touched anything"

She dragged the tray of food closer to herself as she spoke. Kim turned around, paying no attention what so ever to her concerned acquaintance. Taylor just stared at her back until she was out of sight, she then slowly shook her head, before picking up the spoon on Kims tray to start eating. 'Classic Kim'.

Kim soon exited the cafeteria and walked down the halls to her locker. The speaker screeched before a female voice was being heared, it was time for the lunch break announcements.

"Gooday Dighton high, I hope you're having a nice day, our main topic for the day is on after school activities, every student is expected to join an after school or during school club, there is a wide variety to choose from so don't hesitate !, On related news, the knitting club has now been discontinued, so if you are or was thinking of becoming a member please don't be mad, because that club has been replaced with the brand new Gardening club after several requests have been made-"

Kim stopped listening, she was now at her locker and a deep frown was evident on her face, she had joined the knitting club last semester, not because she enjoyed it but because the club only consisted of two members, her and another girl, they didn't meet up that often and most times rarely even saw each other after school, which was perfect for Kim because she hated anything that required her putting in effort, I guess you could say that she liked doing things the easy way, but now she was going to look for another quiet and subtle club to join, which would probably take forever !.

She angrily slammed her locker door in annoyance and then huffed as she put her ear phone in her ears. She then angrily swiped through her phone, looking for a very loud music to play. When she looked back up, her eyes were met with 'her tutor', or 'the boy from the bus', Chase. He stared at her like she was a maniac, and she just blinked in suprise and shock. She had totally forgotten that he has a locker almost next to hers. Stupid girl. She mentally face palmed herself and then shut her eyes in pure embarrassment. She quickly looked away and turned to her locker. Calming down, she pretended not to even care and just kept scrolling through her phone.

Chase just looked back at his locker as well, with his face inside when suddenly his phone chimed, indicating that he had a text.

From Angii, the best sister in the whole wide....

"Can we meet up at the Chess club hangout ?"

He was about replying with a no when another message appeared.

"Don't say no, it's urgent !"

Chase sighed and then switched off his phone, he had maths after lunch and could easily get there anyways since the Chess club hangout wasn't as far. He quickly gathered up his things and then closed his locker, but before turning to leave, he checked if Kim was still there.

She had left.

He sighed again before straightening up and then finally leaving.

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Soon Chase got to the chess club hangout, with Angela, his younger sister waiting for him. He had met her idly sitting down mindlessly playing with a chess piece, the rook to be precise. Once she noticed him, she immediately stood up all flustered and Chase gave her a confused look.

"What was so important ?, I'm gonna be late for my class"

He had one of his hand in his pocket and the other one up to his face as he looked at the time on his watch while speaking.

"Geez, why are you always so serious ?, I wanted to meet you because I am your sister and I haven't seen you all day, isn't that a good of enough reason ?"

Chase sighed in frustration, and he thought that tutoring Kim was hard, he had to deal with his bratty sister too ?, why did life hate him so much ?.

"Fine, you've seen me, happy ?, can I go now ?"

"Why the rush ?, it's not like classes start in the next 5 minutes, can't you just be happy to see me ?"

"I am"

He said seriously with no expression what so ever.

"You don't sound like you are, this is the problem with you, you're always so serious that sometimes it's difficult for me to even talk to you !"

She responded loudly with teary eyes.

"Is this why you wanted to meet up ?"

He asked quietly.

"No, I wanted to ask for a favour but I don't think I want to anymore"

Angela said before storming past her brother. Chase just stood there frozen, he hated when Angela cried, or when she spoke like that. Did she really think that he didn't care ?. Only if she knew just how much he cared about her. He breathed in deeply and exhaled slowly. How was he going to fix this ?.

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After school that day Kim made her way to the detention hall as expected by all students who had detention. Walking in, she looked around curiously as it was her first time getting detention. She easily found a seat at the back and sat down.

What was she gonna do now ?.

No one else has gotten there yet so she turned on her phone, and almost immediately a message popped up on the screen, it was from Flo ° Nation, Kim froze in horror, then slowly tapped on it.

"Heyy, good afternoon 😀, what are you up to ?"

Before Kim could react, another message popped up.

"I know you must have figured out who I am by now, and yes, you're correct I'm her"

"But there's no need to be scared, I still have to figure out a few more things about you before I can strike, don't worry, I'll let you down slowly"

"Good bye"

Kim read the messages over and over again, with shaky legs she stood up slowly and walked towards the door, barely being able to control her breathing, people started coming into the hall as she walked slowly out, receiving weird looks from people.

Why did this affect her so much ?.

She desperately tried to forget what had happened on that faithful day two years ago.

What happened ?.

End of Chapter Three - 'Classic Kim'.