1 Chapter 1: Those expectations

We all crave to be perfect whether it is in school, office, or in our life. My life has always been so perfect, my grades are perfect, my beauty is perfect and my body is also perfect. But from a few days, I feel like my life is going to change. Like everything will go upside down!

Hello, I'm Akari, a 17-year-old perfect and badass girl. It's been a year since my parents are deceased and I've been struggling to get over it. Well, I don't like to talk about my parents much, so that's a story for another time. I currently stay in a hostel. My only dream is to live a happy life and find true love. It sounds rubbish, right? I'm good-looking and smart so I should find my Mr. perfect soon. Nah! Being perfect makes it harder to find my Mr. Perfect. The other reason why my goal is finding love is that I don't know what love is, no one has loved me before truly.

"Hey, common, you can't backstab me like that!!" a sweet voice replies.

"Ohh yes, I forgot to introduce the love of my life..." I said sweetly but in a sarcastic tone.

This is Yuki, my best friend since the day I've entered this hostel. Have you ever heard that opposites attract? That's the case here. The more I'm badass, the more clumsy and sweet she is. The more I care about what I wear, the less she cares about her appearance.

"Akari! Are you done? Come on today's first day of our new academic session, are you sure you want to be late" shouted Yuki.

"Ahh yes..." I remembered today is our first day. I quickly got ready.

As soon as we headed to our class guess what... We met our all-time hated person, Bema, she a bully, who is rude as hell and has friends, no sorry... people she bullies in every class who does her work. Yes, that sounds good. As usual, she was wearing one of those mini skirts and shirt with three buttons opened so that she can look like the hottest girl in our hostel. No doubt she looked beautiful and there were many boys who liked her, but the one she liked doesn't seem to be interested in her. This is the main reason why she is a bully to other people. I and Yuki try our best to ignore her but somehow she meets us 'coincidentally' that's what she says.

We were just about to enter our class, Bema stuck her leg out, and DHAM! Yuki falls on the ground and hurts herself very badly. Yuki being Yuki signaled me to avoid the drama. Yuki gave me the expression to keep my cool, but when Bema said laughingly looking at Yuki, "Oh what a coincidence! People who deserve to be on the ground are on the ground." Suddenly her tone is serious as she shifted her attention towards me. "What do you think, being clumsy and perfect will get you boys attention? Nah you can't get it because you're not worth it" I couldn't control my anger and slapped Bema on her face!

And guess what, the moment I slapped her, our homeroom teacher entered our class and saw the drama. She looked so furious at first but seeing Yuki on the floor crying she moved her attention towards Yuki and took her to the doctor's room. As she came back she gave a furious look to Bema and asked her to meet the principal after the class. Her eyes met mine, she gave a sad, furious and unexpected look to me like she had not expected this drama from me, I felt guilty and didn't utter a word in the whole lecture.

As soon as the bell rang, I rushed towards the doctor's room to check on Yuki. When I entered the room I heard Yuki talking to a guy, I backed myself up to hear them and when I saw Yuki was talking to 'Kai', so-called the hottest guy in our school! Remember I mentioned that Bema liked a guy? That's him. I was so happy and all ready to tease Yuki. This feeling of excitement couldn't stay within me even for a little while when I dropped the vase beside me. Yuki and Kai got alerted and distanced themselves like they weren't even talking. I thought this is the time to enter.

As I entered Yuki took a sigh of relief and shouted at me, "Are you out of your mind? Don't you know you should not eavesdrop on others!" While she was shouting I could clearly see her cheeks as red as a rose. Shyly Kai slipped out of the room. I made sure Kai is nowhere around and said, "Common girl don't be shy fill me up with the details." Yuki with blushed cheeks said, "It's nothing, he had just come before you and asked about my injury, he said that he saw how Bema made me fall down and he was about to stand up but he got a call from the teacher."

"Nothing else happened huh?!" I teased her.

"Nah..No...Nothing...Well...You know the doctor said it's all okay now, we can move to our class" she replied. I can clearly make out that she was trying to change the topic. So I let her have her space because I knew when the time will be she'll let me know.

The rest of the day was well, but I couldn't forget the look of our homeroom teacher when she indirectly said she didn't expect me to be involved in drama on the very first day of school, but I feel I was right because my friend was hurt. And I can't take the person I hate talking rubbish about me or my friends. Today I understood we can't be up to everyone's expectations even if we try our best. The first day was so wild that I couldn't expect what will happen tomorrow.