Her Beauty, and her Story

"Welcome back." Nicole greeted me as soon as I entered the room. I saw her sitting on the study table.

My room is 4x3 squared meters, which contains two tables – one for studying, and the other is for my computer. The bed is large enough for two people because sometimes my cousin drops by to sleep over. There's also a two-door wooden cabinet with a mirror in the middle and the air conditioner.

I put the snacks and drinks at the studying table. The table doesn't have much on it because I left my notes on my classmate's bag. Since the start of class this school year, I do not bring bag much often since I'm leaving each one of my note to my friends at class.

"Here have some. These sandwiches are made by my mom. There are tuna, ham and cheese, and egg inside of them. She told me that we should finish them all. " I told her as I pointed out which is which. "Also some iced tea."

"Thank you." She said as she took a ham and cheese sandwich. After her first bite she smiled, looked at me and said "Delicious, your mom's sandwich is delicious."

"It's good if you like it." I smiled as I pour her glass some iced tea. "Here have a drink."

As she took the glass from me, it made me think 'I wonder what's so delicious about the sandwich. What made it delicious? Aren't they all the same?' but kept that thought to myself.

As I observed Nicole as she continues to nibble on the sandwich, the more I found her beautiful. Her long jet-black hair that reach her waist that is smooth as silk which I happen to know when we were talking, sitting next to each other at the center before. Her eye, nose, ears and lips which are well proportioned, it's like her face is sculpted to perfection. Her sitting in my room, eating sandwiches can only be described as magical. I thought that instead of air conditioner, a fan blowing her hair would make it even more out of this world.

"Keith!" I woke up from my trance when she called me.

"Keith, so what's the plan"?

Right, I told her to come over my house to plan our destination. Since Nicole was a transfer student, I did not know where she would want to go.

"Well, have you any idea where you want to go to?"

"I don't have the slightest idea where to go. Because of my condition, I was not much in contact with other people."

Hearing her reason, I started to realize why she was confused about the protection joke my mom told earlier. Well what would you expected. Living your life knowing it will end early makes you uncomfortable if you were with people you're not close with.

"Then have you been around the town yet?" I asked since I've yet to see her around the town.

"Once, but it was inside the car. And I did not get to see much since I was sleepy from the travel."

"Is it fine to ask where you lived before?"

"It's okay. We're near the city before. My mom's family lives here so we've chosen to transfer here."

As I listen to her talking, it made me realize how gloomy her life when they knew about her having the disease. They got to know of the disease after she graduated from elementary. Since then, she has not much relationship with the society and ended up repeating the same, dull, and boring routine of house-school-house. She said that she has friends before, close one at that. But when she got to know of her disease, she decided to stay away from them to keep her secret.

During her third year when the some teachers were talking about her condition, some student overheard their conversation and rumors started to spread around her old school. After a year, since she could not take the look others giving her, Nicole then started to not attend school. Since her parents were worried, they decided to take her away and moved to her mother's town. Since no one knows about her condition in this town, they decided to enroll Nicole to our school.

"You really have it rough, don't you?"

"Not at all." Nicole answered, shaking her head. "After all, my parents cared for me a lot. As much as possible, they gave me everything I want."

"I see. Good then." I said smiling at her. "How about this, since you have not been around the town yet then I'll show you around. We'll go this afternoon since it's a bad idea to walk outside with this heat from the sun."

"Sounds good to me. I really wanted to roam around here from the start, but my parents were kinda busy and uncle Ramir's is not familiar with the place either."

"Okay then, for now let's finish the snack. Oh, if you want more just tell me. I can get some more."

"Thanks, Keith. By the way, what's on your computer?" Nicole asked as she looked at the monitor.

'Oh, is she interested in this' I thought to myself.