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I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I wasbeginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you mightmeet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, orbecause you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way thatallowed two separate beings to hinge together.-anonymous

ntering the gate of !outhern "igh made me want to go back home and beg my

parents to transfer me again to my old school. I felt like singing to #aylor !wift$s

%&ifteen$.

Poor Blondie little Taylor. I grinned despite the apprehension of my impending

doom.

'ho wouldn$t( Being a newbie is )uite scary. *nd right now I$d do anything to putme out of this mess.

Sheeze!I$m turning melodramatic.

Right!+aybe you$re wondering why if I don$t like it here, then why not leave and

stop bitching(

k let$s go back to the conversation that put me to this hell err !chool

Mom please let me go back to Townsend! cant stand my classmates. They are all

slackers" i dont want their laziness to r#b o$$ on me. Besides already know the

topic they are disc#ssing" we%e tackled it sophomore year

Stop being a brat &le'andra Margaret! ts yo# who p#t yo#rsel$ into this since yo#

decided (to spend the year schooling with yo#r $riends. )o# sho#ld take $#ll

responsibility o$ yo#r actions. &nd asked yo#r old principal. She said that school

year started a month ago" and its against their r#le to accept late enrollees.

B#t yo#re a teacher! i whined. Maybe yo# co#ld p#ll some string or something*

miss my classmates and $riends" please mom ll be better. promise ll make it to

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top +" ,#st allow me to go back to my old school! looking at her with my p#ppy dog

eyes" know it will work.

Sorry honey" b#t cant do anything abo#t it. She sighed" the least can do is to

trans$er yo# to So#thern -thats where my mom teaches istory/

Maybe thats waaay better option. Thanks mom" 0o%e yo#

"ah/ 'hat can I say( +y mom loves me and I can get away with anything.

#hat$s why I$m here standing in this god forsaken school$s gate, waiting for my

mom, paying the cab driver.

0+om, what took you so long( I asked her anxiously.

0I$m sorry honey, I know you$re nervous right now, I 1ust talk to my co teacher. 'e

continued walking to the pathway. !he$s smiled to every student who glanced our

way.

02ood morning ma$am/ a student greeted her. 'hen i look thru my side fringe, I

was taken aback to see *pril ve.

0h my gawd/, *pril is that you( I almost forgot that you$re studying here.

'e both took the entrance exam at #ownsend, though she passed, she chose to

study at !outhern since it$s near their home. !he$s also my mom$s co teacher$s

daughter. 'e$re friends, but we don$t see each other often since I$m living on the

other side of town.

0*lex, she smiled cheekily, I know this is your first day. +y mom told me that you$ll

be attending this school for the whole year. *nd since I$m the only person you know,

the principal assigned me to tour you around. 3ome/ !he dragged me and started

walking.

0'ait I turned to mom to say goodbye. 0Bye +om/ and kissed her cheeks. 0'ish

me luck.

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02ood luck dear/ n1oy your first day. 4on$t let your new classmates see your bitch

face frown, 1ust smile ok( #hey might think that you$re snob, that I didn$t raise you

well. verything you do will reflect on me. 5emember that she said while walking

to the faculty room.

It$s freaking 6 in the morning and she$s already preaching me( 'hat happened to

my sensible-who-love-me-dearly-mother( +aybe she doesn$t want me to daunt her

model teacher reputation, but still

I decided to shrug her off, yeah right/ If they don$t like me, I don$t care/ *s if I want

to be here. I thought grudgingly.

*pril showed me the library, gym, canteen while telling me bits of school$s boring

history and finally my next class. #urned out we$re classmates and on block a

section. Thanks god!

"ate to be stared at, I asked *pril to sit with me at the back. !he started talking to

our classmates, asking how their weekends had been.

#otally engrossed scribbling at my notebook using my awesome new 7ilot &rixon

pen, I tuned them out. Told ya" m snob!

02ood morning class, our adviser +rs. +orten arrived at our room, holding a very

thick book of chemistry. !he already knew me, fre)uented at our house, being one

of my mom$s close co-teacher. 0#oday, most of you I believed, already met our new

student. +argaret please introduce to the class.

"ow I loathed introductions/ !tanding from my seat, I walked to the front of the

classroom and bid my adieu.kidding! 1k here how sold mysel$ to my new

classmates

0"i, everyone, I$m +argaret8 2areth to my family and *lex to my friends. I used to

attend #ownsend but then decided to transfer in that oh so lovely Nutter "igh

9swear/ I$m not kidding. #hat$s the name of my old school:, the reason I$m here with

you all everyone snickered including our teacher. #hey know the reputation of my

old school.

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0"ello *lex, everyone tried to introduce themselves. 2ood l#ck memorizing their

names, I mentally pat myself. "ave I told you how horrible I$m at memori;ing

names(

!till, I smiled timidly, waved my hand like a royalty and went back to my seat.

#he class is a boring one, even if I$m familiar with the number of proton, electron

and neutron in an orbit I still listened and simultaneously observing my classmates.

*lthough I saw possible competition unlike in my old school 9Nutter:, I$m still at

ease

m knowledgeable than them! m $rom Townsend" only the brightest st#dents

were accepted! I thought cockily.

4uring break time, I sat with *pril$s friends which are a bunch of gossipmongers.

#hey kept me updated about the popular ones. #here$s a point I$d like to tell them

to get a life, and considering I$m new, I kept my mouth shut.

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0@ou$re 1ust 1ealous that she$s prettier that you *pril grinned wickedly. !he knew

my opinion about 7inky and she wasn$t a fan of hers$ too.

0!hut up you freak I playfully slapped her shoulder.

#he blathering was stopped when +r. #yson, our #rigonometry teacher arrived and

started the lecture.

I survived my first day. +y final sub1ect for the day was dismissed early. I was given

tons of pro1ects to catch up for the whole month I$ve missed.

2azillions o$ workload!I was already mentally calculating sleepless nights. 01h god"

4ill me now!I said grudgingly.

I left *pril and went my way to the faculty and wait for mom. 'aiting wasn$t my

very good point, so I looked at my watched to see I still have A> minutes to spare. I

left the faculty room and trekked my way to the students$ kiosk.

I sat in one of the bench in a Nipa hut near the gym and to kill time, i decided to get

my I7od and listened to #he !cript. I$m envious of 4anny$s girlfriend. "is voice is

soothing, the kind of voice you$ll want to hear over and over .the voice that made

me want to forget this whole ordeal, like&ppratingme to ogwarts. 9"arry 7ottermuch((:

5e't time they per$orm a concert here" ll make s#re to watch. I promised myself.

'hat am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you

'hat am I supposed to say when Im all choked up and youre okI sang, confident

that no one within hearing distance might witness a moment of my insanity. I even

danced. #hat$s how the script affected me. @eah/ 6elcome to my li$e.

*s I continued my tone deaf singing, I had this sudden gut feeling that I$m being

watched. I looked to my right to see a group of five boys, leaning at an ak tree,

laughing at me/

No, scratch that... they are cackling like an idiotic Neanderthal.

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'hat(/( Theyre la#ghing at me,not la#ghing with me//// 'ait, how long were they

standing there( h 2od/ I wish there$s a hole to sink in. I bet nothing feels as

humiliating as being in the center of attention.

5aising my eye brow trying to hide my mortification, I listened to my I7od again.

+inus the singing and dancing of course, and observed them inconspicuously.

0'ho is she, gasped one of them.&rggh! e is still la#ghing!I kept myself from

punching his nose. 7ant he see a girl is already h#miliated*#he guy was slightly

tall and looked like in steroid overdosed. But has those friendly facial structures.

0I heard her name$s *lex, she$s +rs. 5odrigue; daughter a guy with spiked hair and

cute dimples answered. 0#hey said it$s her third school, maybe she$s expanding her

social circle preparing for world domination( +r. !mart *ss chuckled withincredulity.

liked him!I smiled to myself. "ere I thought I$m the only witty person in

this whole school.

#rying to ignore them and forget my humiliation, I grabbed my 2oblet o$

8ire book and started swooning over 7edric 9iggory. "mm/ +aybe being

"ufflepuff wasn$t bad after all.

02uys, will you stop( !he$s within hearing distance you know( !he probably heard

you the whole time you$re talking about her. Cee;/ "aven$t you noticed that you$re

like those stupid girls who loves to gossip(/ @ou$re turning to be a pansy, I$m outta

here.

0ah! Brownie points $or him. I thought, closing my book and tried to look again at

those %5eanderthal.

#hat$s when my ga;e landed on the most piercing yet playful brown orbs I$veever seen and it is staring back at me/

'hat the I can$t explain/ +aybe he$s into 0igilimense trained by Snape*

k, maybe I$m being vague here, but got my drift eh( "e has this 1et black

hair, longish at the back with slight +ohawk, 1ust like &ernando #orres$. "e$s

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