Chapter 3: Look it's her! Isn't she the new school beauty?
It was early in the morning. Probably around 7 am. Alena was early today. The inside of the Serizawa Sakura Elite High School could mesmerise anyone. Beautiful gardens filled with trimmed bright green grass, the sides of the pavement lined by bright, beautiful, and colourful flowers; and bushes trimmed neatly. The school grounds looked no less than a luxurious hotel exterior full of the trees, the garden, and the fountains.
She liked taking a stroll around so early in the morning. Although it was early, there still were people around.
"Hey look at her!", One skinny guy said to his friend, pointing her out.
"Isn't that her??", His friend who wore spectacles asked, adjusting his spectacles to get a better look at her.
"Who??", Their friend, the third of them asked, completely lost and clueless.
"Silly! That is the new school beauty", the second friend with spectacles told the others with an excited smile.
The boys gushed about together.
Even early in the morning, people would be commenting and pointing her out. She thought she could avoid it at this hour at least but seems like it could not be avoided. School beauty? She shook her head at the words. That was a stupid tag. She wasn't aiming to be the school beauty, she was aiming to be the top student.
After she reached her classroom, she kept her bag on her seat and grabbed her books. It was fairly early, so the classroom was mostly empty, except for a few geeky students, no one else was around, other classmates hadn't shown up yet.
After picking her books, she went straight to the library. When she stepped into the library she was awestruck, it was as if she had opened the door to a world of wonders.
The library didn't look like a library at all, in fact, it looked like a beautiful and magnificent garden of books, the architecture and interior design of the library was luxurious and lavish, a modern styled library with books kept in unique shaped shelves. Alena fell in love with the place itself.
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Alena spent an hour in the library before she came back to her classroom. She was sorting her books. She was still in the middle of organising, when two pair of hands, out-of-nowhere, covered her eyes from behind.
"Guess who??", A sweet feminine voice asked in a high pitched tone. Alena was startled.
Snapping out of it, she touched the hands, trying to figure out who it was. "Natasha", She answered without a doubt, her tone was firm and confident.
"Correct!" The voice declared as the person removed their hands. "Aww shucks you're good. How did you figure out it was me?", A beautiful tall girl with beautiful medium length light brown hair, half tied in a half bun, stood next to her desk, revealing the person behind the hands.
Natasha Thomas is one of the new friends Alena made in high school. Within a few days, they had grown close to each other.
"I recognize your voice, Natasha", Alena smiled at her friend.
Natasha Thomas was the fashionista of the class. She was the daughter of rich fashion designers and fashion industrialists, who owned the M&N Fashion Industries. Her way of wearing the school uniform was a little different than the other students. She always paired them with different coloured scarves and colourful socks to go with her school shoes.
"Wow, you're quick. I came here to give you a surprise but I am the one who's surprised!", She giggled, sticking her tongue out as she grabbed a chair from the desk beside to sit next to Alena.
"So what's up, beauty? You're quite early today"
"I just came back from the library. It's a surprise you're so early Natasha", she pointed out as she noticed Natasha yawning. Natasha wasn't used to waking up early in the morning perhaps.
"How boring, but it's expected of the top student after all", she winked and giggled.
Her laugh was pleasant and sweet to the ears. Alena was simply watching and observing her friend, she was in a pleasant mood.
"I had to come, Lizzy woke me up and forced me to go early today, saying 'to be a good student one has to go early' something stupid like that", she yawned again. Her eyes were slightly red. Probably from gaming late at night
"Anyway! I almost forgot to ask you!", Her eyes immediately lit up.
"Huh? What did you want to ask me?", Alena replied with a befuddled look and smile on her face.
"What's going on between you and Kai??", Natasha nudged Alena lightly as she looked at the redhead smugly with a smirk on her face. Natasha's mood had leapt pretty soon because she was impatient with curiosity. There was mischief in her eyes. Her red tired eyes lit up as soon she came to the actual topic of discussion. It was the current hot topic after all, and everyone was curious, how could the queen of juicy gossip not be curious then??
"W-what? Who's that?", Alena stuttered, feeling even more perplexed, as her eyes squinted in confusion.
"Whaaaaaat??", Natasha squealed. "You don't know who Kai is?", Her voice was so loud that Alena had to muffle Natasha's mouth with her hand. Natasha had successfully gained looks from even the geeks in the class, who were staring at the two of them. A few of them looked slightly annoyed by the disturbance.
Removing Alena's hands, she took deep breaths to calm down, "Oops! Sorry! You don't know Kai? The Kai Rumaro?? You don't know who he is? Girl are you living under the rock??"
"You should be careful Natasha. Yes, I don't know who that is. Is something the matter? I don't know him much less would I know what's going on between us", Alena giggled.
Natasha was dumbfounded, she froze for a moment with the shock. She held her head with her palm when she came back, she was facepalming at Alena's statement. "Gosh! How could you not know? The guy who helped you on the first day to get rid of Markus. Yeah, THAT guy", Natasha said emphasizing 'that' in her sentence; with the excitement getting her hyped, she was spilling all the beans at last.
"N-no! Are you silly? How could that be? He completely ignored me when I tried to thank him. He seems unfriendly, looked like he doesn't like it when I tried to thank him. How could I have anything to do with him?", Alena stuttered at first, her face was slightly tinted with red but she soon composed herself.
"Really? I can't believe it", Natasha said in disbelief.
"Why not? What is there to no believe?? It's just silly rumours. There's really nothing going on", Alena sounded a little frustrated.
"Although he's really unfriendly, I don't think you understand how popular he truly is and to add to that he doesn't come to school often! He's the school idol plus the topper. Number one in our school in academics and social standing. Girls swoon over him, he's so hot and the other day you were so lucky to be saved by HIM!", Natasha emphasized 'him', as if he were a God himself.
She went into her fangirl mode as she spoke about Kai. She sure had a lot of gossip information with her. "Now all the girls are jealous of you, but they are equally surprised at how THE Kai Rumaro", she emphasized 'the' again, "saved a girl. You sure have attracted heck loads of attention just on day one! And what's more shocking is that Kai, THE school god, who is rarely seen in school and who barely speaks stood up for you. You better be careful Alena, it's gonna be risky, your every move is being watched"
A chill ran down the back of Alena but she laughed it off, dismissively. "That's absurd, the unwanted attention has got nothing to do with it. Besides it's not my fault the school idol decided to help me. Also, why is HE such a big deal anyway?", the moment Alena's lips left the words, the look on Natasha's face changed. Natasha's eyes looked like they were going to pop out, and her jaw almost dropped to the floor as the shock hit her.
"Girl are you not getting it? Don't you understand? He's the son of the famous legendary business tycoon --- Marcus Gray Rumaro. The man behind the "Rumaro Group of Industries". The Rumaro business group literally owns almost the whole city and the major ships and cruises on the ports. He's one of the richest men in the whole wide world!!", Natasha explained, trying to make poor little clueless Alena understand the situation and grip the seriousness of it.
Gossiping was one of the things Natasha liked the most and even excelled at, other than fashion. Although she was the fashion Diva, she was friendly unlike the typical bitchy fashion divas in the school. She was nice, outspoken, and humble. She definitely was not into studying though, in fact, she hated it, but she was a dreamer and she loved talking, if there's gossip, there's Natasha Thomas. As witnessed by those around her. Apart from that our light brown haired beauty enjoyed playing video games and reading comics.