JADE COLLINS

Bing!!!!!!!! Bing!!!!!!!!! Bing!!!!!!!! Bi...., I sigh and put off the alarm, get up and go to the bathroom to do my business, I have to get ready for school on time else Jeanine is going to have my head. "Jade! Jade! Ja_,oh you're awake" speak of the devil.

Ohh, I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Jade, I have brown skin color and curly black hair, Jeanine says that I'm beautiful but I think not, you should see me when I just wake up.

I'm 5'8 kind of just in between, I love chocolate like I absolutely adore chocolate but Jeanine hates it, imagine the monster!

Well not to digress, Jeanine is my cousin who I came to live with after the death of my parents.

Jeanine is just a pain in my ass "Jeanine! Why do you have to yell, your voice is more than loud enough for me to hear you when you call me" I yell at her. Cliché right?

"Hmmn" she scoffed, "says the person yelling right now. It's kind of like calling the frying pan black".

"Whatever, and it's kind of like a pot calling the kettle black, not whatever words you just strung up now", with what I said ,she jumped on me and we started a pillow fight, God this girl should join a wrestling team, she's so strong.

"Jeanine!!!!! Jade!!!!!! Do not tell me you guys are fighting or whatever play you guys call it nowadays, you're late for school!!!!". We immediately stopped wrestling when we heard Jeanine's dad. Trying to stop our giggling, we made our way downstairs. It's just an observation but it's kind of harder to control your laughter when you want to.

"Jeanine!!!!! Jade!!!!!! Do not make me come up there!!!! " . Jeanine and I immediately ran downstairs, it was like running from monsters except we're running to an almost monster. Don't mistake me but since Jeanine's mother died, her father became extra strict not that he wasn't strict before, but this was just over the top. I think of running away but then how would Jeanine cope? We only have each other. We finally get downstairs, get breakfast ready and start eating.

"I want you girls to be on your best behavior in school today, I don't want to get anymore calls about either of you getting in trouble, you hear me?" Uncle John said, glaring at me especially.

I blushed, putting my head down, trying to use my hair to cover my face which doesn't make sense because my hair is kinda short. I don't know why I'm always the one to blame though, I obviously couldn't take Hades bullying me. Honestly, his behavior is as bad as his name is. We hate each other so much that when it comes to group work in class, our teachers know to separate us.

Hades and I have this fight where we "mistakenly" set traps for each other all the time. How was I to know he is allergic to shellfish? (I put diced shrimps in his lunch today at break when he wasn't looking). Loooooool, I knew that, you have to know your enemies weaknesses to defeat them. The first few minutes when his lips got swollen was so funny until he couldn't breathe. I hate him but I don't hate him that much to kill him.

"Yes sir" Jeanine and I said at the same time.

We finish breakfast and leave for Crystalmoon high school, weird name right? Yeah, I also thought so when I moved here after my parents death. When we get to school, we greet our friends: Mike, Ronan and Rebecca.

"Hey guys, how was the weekend?" I asked.

"It was okay but not fabulous without you two" Rebecca said.

"Blame Jade for that, she got us grounded for two months. Great timing Jade, just when Dad started letting us go out to other places apart from school" Jeanine chided me.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to prank Hades, it was him or me and I chose him" I said covering my face.

"Woooooow, you guys really need to set your priorities right, I can't believe I'm saying this but for the past 18 years, and I say 18 years because Hades had been disturbing you since you were a baby as you're younger by 2 years, you guys have been on this fight" Ronan said, "Isn't time to stop and admit you guys like each other"

What?

What??

What??????

In all my years, that never crossed my mind, it had always been about what next prank I could do to Hades. Come to think of it, he's actually handsome, his white blonde hair, irritating muscular body gets all the girls drooling, my cousin included. I face palm "Why would you say that Ronan, I cannot like him, he's my arch enemy" I glare at Ronan.

Mike pulls me from my glaring at Ronan.

"Okay, okay, you guys are arch enemies, but there's a very thin line between love and h_"

"You better don't complete the words you're about to say" I interrupt, turning my glare to Mike.

"I'm sorry, let's get to class," he says, smiling.

We get to class and I sit at my usual seat, close to the window.

Our Mathematics teacher enters and gives us problems to solve.

Five minutes later, the devil himself, Hades Pierson walks in. Smiling at me he walks straight to his seat right beside me (trust me I tried to change this seating arrangement but the Principal said we must learn how to co-exist.....blah blah blah, I stopped listening to his reasons for putting us beside each other after co-exist).

"How's my arch enemy doing today?" He says, grinning.

How is he grinning? I thought he was sick to the point of death, not that I'm not happy he didn't die, I just wish he would've stayed longer at the hospital.

"Oh, I heal fast, you know that right, with the number of times your pranks broke my arm" he says.

Oh, how could I forget, he heals fast. I glare at him looking for the nearest object to throw at his annoying handsome smiling face. I don't know how that is possible, looking for something and glaring at someone at the same time but with Hades, anything is possible.

"Jade!" Mr Omar's sharp eyesight caught me. He calls me up to his desk. Immediately I stood up, I heard giggles, not the usual Jade is in trouble and going to detention giggles as everyone knew about me and Hades, this time, it was like they were trying to hold their laughter.

Jeanine gasped when I got to Mr Omar's table. Ignoring the idiots behind me who were still giggling by the way, he gave me my detention slip. As I turned around to get back to my seat, he said under his breath "Oh for God's sake"

"Hades!" He called Hades. Well that was a first, kinda, he never really gives Hades detention as I'm the one that loses my temper easily.

"Jade please come back here" Mr Omar calls me before I can take another step from his table. He gives me a hall pass, telling me to go to the school nurse.

"Errrm, I feel fine" I say.

"Just go, she needs to check errm your vitals and errm stuff and .....just go" Mr Omar stammered not looking at me, writing a detention slip for Hades also.

I took the slip from him and went to the nurse. I greeted her and gave her the slip. She looked at me.

"I feel fine, I told Mr Omar" I said.

She raised an eyebrow, "Mr Omar?" She asked. I nodded.

"Okay, turn around," she said.

She gasped, " Oh, it looks like you're on your period and your jeans got stained"

I faced her, "No, I'm not on my period".

"Then how do you explain the blood stain behind you?" she said.

I felt my butt, blushing and went to the standing mirror in the office. I brought my fingers to my face and looked at the red color on my fingers. This isn't how blood looks like, I frowned. The more I came to conclusions, the angrier I got. Hades smeared red paint on my butt so it looked like I was on my period.

Oh my God, everyone in class saw, EVEN MR OMAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh God, that's why he was stammering and refused to look at me.

My face was red at this point.

"It's paint," I shouted facing her.

"Calm down Jade, calm down" Mrs Green said quietly coming to my side, looking at me with pity. I hate that look, it reminds me of when my parents died and everyone was looking at me telling me sorry.

I glare at her "I'm going to kill Hades"

"Calm down Jade," she said, rolling her eyes. She's also tired of the long fight between Hades and I.

"Wait here" she says and goes into the lost and found room to get something for me to wear. She comes back handing me a jean skirt. The skirt was a bit shorter than what I normally wear but beggars can't be choosers. As I was changing, she was talking to me which was kinda weird.

"Why don't you try a different strategy, like ignoring Hades" She really wants us to stop coming to her office, we're no visitors here.

"I can't, he would continue" I said.

She smiled, "you guys fight like an old married couple".

I face palm, not this again.

The bell rings signaling the end of the period and it was time for break. I left the office. Walking to the cafeteria with a spring in my step, having thought of my revenge to Hades which I was going to execute tomorrow.

I entered the cafeteria and it got quiet than usual, every eye was on me, I guess because of my skirt. Hades was glaring at me like I killed his dog. Why is he glaring, I should be the one glaring. Now that I think of it, I should go give him a piece of my mind. As I tried to move to the direction where he was seated, Mike blocked my way "Hey little spitfire" he said putting his hand on my shoulder. "Let's go get food" Stirring me in the direction of the food court.

"Hmph" I said.

"Ignore him," Mike said.

"You should dress more like this, Hades can't take his eyes off you" Jeanine said.

I sputter, I know my legs are sexy, Jeanine never lets me forget that. By now I'm blushing and I refuse to look at the devil himself.

Ronan came to stand by me eyeing my skirt, frowning "It's too short, it looks good though" he winked.

All of a sudden, I heard a loud bang and saw Hades stalking out of the cafeteria.

Hmmmmm, weird.

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