1 The view outside the window

After the hype competing against another on a subway passenger, just to get into the class on time.

It is one of the lazy and boring early morning classes where students are normally sleepy and paying attention is the least of their priority.

Chelsea Chiu is among those senior high schoolers who are caught in a trap of school routine. Her gaze is on that football field underneath her classroom window. Her mind has long gone wandering and thought if she could just lie down and feel the soft grass and soft breeze, she secretly sighs and tries to survive the torturous hour of her computer programming class. Her sleepy head is supported by her hand trying to recall that funny movie she watched last weekend but failed to entertain her current state of mind.

Then out of the blue something extraordinary appeared in her view, a guy wearing tattered jeans, a black t-shirt and a stud earring on his right earlobe, someone that is too sexy for his own good, and he is coming into the patio just below her window, he is so good-looking that you'll get pregnant just by fantasizing him. As he gets nearer, Chelsea's heart beats like the cliché drum from all the romance novels she ever read. He caught her staring and gave her a mocking grin, okay that was a little bit presumptuous but she thinks he kind of has a license since he's that handsome, she admitted she was caught off guard but of course, she can manage. She smiled back at him, sent him a kiss through the air, and finally winked even though her heart was rioting she thought it was exciting. That was the most brazen thing she has done so far in her whole high school life more presumptuous than what he did. She automatically took her gaze back and pretended to hear her lesson afraid of his reaction. She internally giggled that was the most hilarious thing she ever did in her eighteen years of existence.

She was so preoccupied with her internal affairs that she didn't hear her teacher's announcement and unknowingly laughed out loud from her silliness.

"So Miss Chiu! how is my announcement so funny?" Mr. Barnby rarely gets angry and calls anyone's attention so it means she's in big trouble. She is once again caught off guard and can't think of anything to answer back.

"Stay after class Chelsea for detention." Oh no! she's screwed. She looked down at her face blushing from the humiliation, right? She did a bold thing just now but felt shy in front of her class which is having a laughing feast.

"Mr. Bar..." but before she could finish saying his name.

"Chelsea I was patient with you the entire time, even if your performance in this class is too dismal I have placed into consideration that this subject is indeed too difficult for someone like you, but today you even succeeded my expectation of your normal behavior which is not always paying attention! detention after class!" He then dismisses the class without leaving a slight chance for her to object. Praying miserably not to make her detention too difficult. But this is not a bad morning at all even though she had detention.

Chelsea thought that guy with sword-shaped eyebrows, red thick sensual lips, and a fresh out of bed don't care hairstyle was illegally tattooed on her teenage mind. So even though she is detained and has to memorize the whole Javascript book the rest of her morning it's not too bad. She felt inspired to memorize, and suddenly she became interested in programming even though some aspects can't get through her thick skull.

Important note from the author: I would like to make emphasize the language barrier and cultural difference. Please understand that we Asians have our native tongue and English is not our first language. There are words and cultural expressions that only Asians can understand that doesn't make sense to native English speakers. I'll try my best to avoid writing such, and will try to make my grammar as understandable as possible for non-Asian viewers. Not that it matters but we just want non-Asian viewers to know that writing this in our native tongue is already difficult, so translating this in English is a struggle. Even if English is not our primary language I hope that I can deliver the story in a way that you can understand and can enjoy regardless of the grammar. If there is a need for me to write it in an expression that only my country can understand. I'll put an explanation underneath the chapter. But if I wasn't able to explain it and it's still grammatically wrong, you are welcome to suggest, but as long as it's understandable I will not change it, because again I do not intend to write the novel in a serious grammatical structure unless it will improve the expression of the scenes and characters.