Chapter 7: Life made better

Six years went by in the blink of an eye. I am now in my final year of Primary school. I would have been in secondary school if I was allowed before to advance and skip grades. But I am now 11 years old, practically a young flower about to bloom. Boys and girls my age are also growing up. Boys begun to grow taller, some have deeper voices, girls took care of themselves and became more feminine. All became conscious of themselves and on how they look. Both genders also begun to take notice on opposite genders and grew affection and crushes.

I definitely did not like their growing attention on me. Growing up, I took care of myself carefully. I did not indulge much on sweets, keep my diet balanced, and due to doing some sports, I am also slim and fit. I also especially took care of my appearance more since my academics are of no problem to me.

And so being both intelligent, pretty, fit, and especially talented in music, I became like a sweet honey in front of these bees.

It was not helping that girls my age were so jealous of me since according to them, I get all the boys' attention. But what prevented the boys from approaching me much was the teachers. Not because of their being a teacher but because some of the teachers are my relatives and they prevent me in falling in love early because according to them, it will only be a distraction in my studies.

Ma'am Pearl or Aunt Perla for me said,"Child, I know you are smart, beautiful, and more mature than your age but you cannot fall in love early. You must study first, graduate before being in a relationship."

So I answered,"Aunt Perla, don't worry, love is not on my mind right now, I don't even see them as a love interest."

Aunt Perla was much relieved and said,"Then that's good."

I actually had a lot of admirers, I remembered that I also had a crush on someone in my past life but I soon forgot about it because he went to a different secondary school. He was the son of one of the teachers and even my aunt Perla used to tease me about him but he was so much out of my league then. But now, considering how he turned out in the future, I am out of his league. And considering also that I do not want to be in a relationship as early as now.

It was just one of the irrelevant happenings in my life. I was more focused in making myself rich and making our life better.

There was also a small town lottery that happens in our town. It was a betting game where in you choose two numbers from 1 to 38 and place a bet. You can only win if you got two numbers correct regardless of which one comes out first and there is no limit on the amount of your bet. Winning allows a person to get 2,000 in every 5 pesos bet.

If the numbers selected are the same numbers and for example 8, 8, wins, the winning amount will double.

There are three draws every day, morning, noon, and afternoon. If in case you win, you will get the prize on the next 12 hours to 24 hours.

The game was memorable because I remembered how my mother won once with the pair number 8 on the day of my birthday. It was such a happy event since it was also my birthday. As such I made my mom bet a much larger amount than before and also added some of my savings and from the winning prize of the bet, it made us save a lot of money to buy a spacious land since the prizes of lands at this time was really cheap. I also added my savings from my competitions, but I also secretly put some money from my lotto prize.

And our life became better, we finally have a land we can call our own, we can then build a house to our liking and my brother is finally able to study without problems because he can finally be supported with enough money for his studies.

On the other hand, my investments and stocks continued, I did not move any of it, instead, sometimes I buy stocks from the same I have purchased or other stocks I know will make me rich and just let it sit idly since I know how much I can finally get on the next 15 years.

And the time came for my graduation in primary school. It was no surprise that I was the valedictorian of our year. I made few friends but gained a lot of medals from all the competitions I have attended and also my achievements in my academics.

And it was the time to choose the high school I am going to attend. I actually had many offers, even prestigious high schools are in the selection but my mother was afraid that I go the city without someone to guide and accompany me. As such she said," I won't allow you to attend high school outside the province. I cannot accompany you and I won't allow you to be alone in an unfamiliar place."

The I answered,"But mom, I can manage myself quite well. And schools outside the province are much better, they can also teach me more things, aside from they are prestigious schools."

But my mom was adamant that I won't go. So I had no choice, it was between attending a private school or a public school. And of course, I have chosen the private school since it was closer to my home and the alma mater of all my family members.

The private school I was going to attend was the same school I attended in my past life. It was a nightmare for me, staying in that school will make me relieve some of my worst memories and the bullying I had been subjected too. It also did not help that my unrequited love is also going to study in that place.

High school was a place of more competitions, schemes, betrayals, fake relationships, and many more unpleasant things. And so I dreaded my future high school life with both trepidation and reluctance.