THE PRICE OF LIFE--1

"What happened, Sir ?", I innocently asked as I crouched near him and tried hard to stifle my giggles. "Are you hurt ?", I feigned kindness.

"You little brat", he fumed. "YOU stuffed burning coal in my shoes and placed that gallon of shit", he accused me furiously.

"Those are very weird places to keep your crappy things, Kai and dear me, did you accuse me without evidence ?", I stated with a shocked face while dramatically putting my hand over my ‘O’ shaped, open mouth.

"Who else ?", he sarcastically said while blowing his toes. "You terrorizing piece of shit better be careful from now on coz I am gonna fucking ruin your life here", he threatened.

Haha.

I would love to see him try.

Ofcourse he can’t.

"Tch. Tch. Tch. Don’t make pathetic promises, professor", I tsked. "Now be a good boy and quickly clean up this mess you made before you get late for class", I smirked and left him alone glaring at me.

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Bella’s POV

"You do know how to make everyone’s heads turn around, girl", a well meaning girl chuckled sweetly as she approached me outside the Admin’s office. "Hi ! I am Tyra. You must be new here", she remarked while putting out her hand for a friendly handshake.

"Hey ! I am Bella. You are right. I am new here and I wanted to get the schedule for the Business Course", I replied while shaking her hand.

"Let me help you with that", she self volunteered cheerfully and let me in inside the Admin Office.

The lady behind the desk quickly went through the formalities and various procedures and finally handed out my schedule to me.

Tyra peaked into my schedule and exclaimed, "Oh ! We have the same schedule !! I guess you are stuck with me now, Bella", Tyra chuckled and I could tell that I already liked her.

I was already feeling like I found a long lost friend in her !

"I really don’t mind. Actually, I guess we are going to have a lot of fun together", I chuckled back and she smirked at that playfully.

"C’mon then, Bella bear. You will enjoy with the rest of the gang too", Tyra winked and led me to our classroom.

"Yo mama bear ! Whatcha happening to you, gal ?", an equally beautiful dainty girl squealed when she noticed Tyra enter the classroom and flung herself on her like an eager dog leaping on his master for a ‘welcome home’ hug.

I rolled my eyes to the side and I noticed three other gorgeous, foxy handsome boys smirking in the background and by their looks I could tell that were definitely chick magnets.

"Easy Freya", one of the boys laughed as we watched the new girl, Freya take Tyra in a bone crushing hug. "You will surely kill her with your death hugs", he playfully teased.

"Shut up, Max. I met my best friend after so long", she huffed.

"Don’t make it your last", the second boy commented making the others laugh and Freya raise her middle finger at him.

"You are just jealous that you are not my best friend", she humphed.

"And I am so thankful for that", he chuckled and got a well deserved smack on his head by both Freya and Tyra.

"Who is this lovely lady with you, mama bear", the reserved guy and the last boy of the gang spoke while gesturing his eyes towards me.

"This is Bella guys. She is in our Business course class and Bella, this guy who asked about you is Dominic, the jealous guy here is Conor and lastly, this is my boyfriend, Max !", she introduced.

"Hey !", both Conor and Freya wailed simultaneously and then looked at each other in surprise before bursting out laughing.

"You go first, babe", Conor sweetly said and pecked Freya’s lips making her blush.

Guess they are a couple. Cute.

"You didn’t introduce me !", Freya whined.

"And you called me jealous, monkey face", Conor scoffed.

"Jesus. Such kids", Tyra rolled her eyes but then decided to make amends. "This is my best friend since diaper days, Freya and that’s not a jealous guy but an annoying brat who is her boyfriend too", Tyra introduced and got a deadly glare from Conor in return.

"So what brings you here, Bella ?", Freya good naturedly asked.

"I uh wanted to pursue Business Studies after finishing college so I joined the one year program", I truthfully answered.

"And I saw her profile report in the Admin Office and guess what ?", Tyra squealed in excitement. "She is only 17 years old !" she exclaimed.

"Whoa ! We got a young prodigy in our group !!!", Dominic responded appreciatively. "Colour me impressed, Bella bear", he winked.

"Actually I will be 18 years old next month", I sheepishly said and the rest only grinned at me in return, maybe amused by my embarrassingly red face.

"You are so cute, baby girl", Freya pinched my cheeks and led me towards the seat right in front of the middle row.

Not that I minded the front row but I was more of a badass back bencher type of girl.