4

Time passed while I somehow survived in school. It's been a month since the day I became a loner at school. I always sit in a corner looking toward the window hoping I could meet the guy I meet in the infirmary but he never appears, but the way he said somehow made me strong enough to stay in a corner.

While I was thinking I saw a teacher come.

"Whoa, yeah, I remember she said she will check our copies today." I thought.

"Why am I worrying? I already finished my homework." I smiled, looking toward the teacher.

In a few minutes, the head of the class came to ask for notes. It was the bright guy Aaron I saw on my first day of school, but seeing him somehow made me nervous.

"Hey, your note", he said. Oh, gosh, I can't say how deep his voice is.

"I asked for your note", he said, hitting my bench.

"Why am I spacing out so much? This is not the first meeting of ours so why is seeing him made my heart beat faster than usual? I know he is the school hunk but the face is not always everything. I should ignore him for my good", I thought and started searching for my note, but it was nowhere to be found.

"I can't find my note", I said while I kept panicking.

"You sure didn't bring your note", he said.

"No, no, I'm sure I keep it in my bag but don't know where it got lost", I said out loud while my steps are not placed on the earth properly.

"Why are you lying? Are you sure you remember you did your homework? I'm sure you didn't do your homework and now you are making excuses", Freya taunts me with her creepy smile.

"No, ma'am I'm sure I did and kept it in my bag. Trust me once", I again returned to my pleading state.

"Ayla, I know you came to our school in a hurried state. And I know that too. It's hard to get along in a new place and understand things, but you shouldn't stop studying because of that." She said,

"But ma'am I'm sure I did", I said with confidence.

"I'm letting you go once but there won't be next time", she said while Aaron went to receive others' notes.

I looked at him while he was looking at me as if he was sympathizing with me, but for what? Didn't I say I did? How could they not believe me after saying so much? How could they?

I didn't have any choice but to stay silent.

After a while, when the teacher started checking our notes in class, she called out Freya's name.

"Yes ma'am", she replied.

"You did a good job making all the notes thoroughly." The teacher praised me.

"I haven't seen your study progress for long, but this sure made me think you are doing far better than I ever imagined you would. Keep it up, Freya." She said while she showed the note of Freya to everyone which made my eyes widen.

"Ma'am that note is mine! " I shouted, attracting everyone's attention.

I saw everyone keep looking at me with suspicious eyes. I'm not feeling guilty suddenly.

"Ayla, there is a limit to lying", the teacher shouted.

"Ma'am I'm not lying. Please trust me once she added another sticker above my name which hides my name." She tried to look, but again she could not know and again looked at me with those scary eyes.

"Ayla, get out of my class", she said.

"Ma'am please hear me out once", I begged.

"Ayla, didn't you hear what I said? Get out of my class." She shouted.

Everyone looked at me as if they were mocking me. I can hear Frey laughing at me with her friends. I hear everything, but the way they treated me and made me a joke in front of the entire class was humiliating. While I was coming outside of class, I stole a glance from Aaron, who doesn't look mocking, but the way he looked at me was more painful than I could imagine.

"He must think I'm a liar. I didn't finish homework, and I lied saying I had brought my notes. I lied again, saying Freya's note was mine. I argued and I have no self-esteem and many more things, but who will even believe me? No one. Keep sympathizing with me as you must think I'm poor", I thought and went outside to stand.

While standing I saw many students crossing by me but no one helped me. A few laughed while a few pitied me. Few felt bad for me as I'm a new transfer student, but few thought of me as a bad influence. Just where did I make the wrong choice?

I kept standing outside till my class ended, but the moment the teacher left, I saw Freya and her friend coming outside.

"Aww poor baby, did you have fun standing in the place? Was it fun? Did you enjoy it?" she asked.

"Of course she is. Look how excited she is that her tears kept coming out of her eyes again and again. Isn't it a super enjoyable thing for her? I pity you, dear White." Her friend said.

"Hey, how could you say that to her? You know she is going to be my dear little sister-in-law." Freya said it made me feel shocked.

"Sister in law?" her friend asked.

"Of course, I'm going to confess my feelings to her brother, Jace White." I clenched my fist.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Oh, did you forget? I told you right, I fell for your brother the moment I lay my eyes on him." She said, making me feel angrier.

I got up from the floor and held her by her collar.

"Stay away from my brother, "I said, looking straight into her eyes.

"Why is it related to you? It's his life. If he doesn't want me, he will reject me. Why are you getting so damn aggressive? Or what I thought was true?" she said, making me clench my fist tighter.

"Is it true? You and he are not biologically related?`` As soon as she said, my hands loosened from my grab.

"Don't worry, even if you guys are not biologically related, I won't tell anyone. I will keep it a secret as from now on we are going to be a family." She whispered in my ears and left.

I ran from the place. I ran as much as I could and landed in front of the infirmary, finding James. My insides kept telling me he would be there, which led my feet there. As I reached in front of the Infirmary, I found a shadow in the same bed saying, "Yeah, it's him. Go hold him."

I didn't care about anything but ran and held the person without looking and I cried.

"I can't handle any more than this."

"This is all terrifying."

"How can all of them be so mean to me? Why? What have I done wrong? I didn't say anything to anyone from the moment I reached here. I always kept myself alone as if I didn't exist. They hurt me even though I did everything silently. They accused me. But what should I do?"

"Today they even stole my note claiming to be theirs. They take my limelight, making me look so down in front of everyone. Why? Just why the hell are they doing this to me? I did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong with them nor tell anyone about them."

"Today they even told me I'm not my brother's biological sister. Do I look like an illegitimate child to them? I don't know, but still, everything is so hurtful. Whatever they are doing keeps tearing from inside. I could no longer hold my feelings from exploding. Tell me what to do? What the fuck should I do? I'm dying." I screamed while crying.

But the more tears came out of my eyes. I felt his hand patting my back. He rubbed my back saying everything will be ok. Everything will go smoothly in future but I still do not know when everything will be ok?

My eyes again got closed but this time before I lost consciousness I kissed his plump lips. I don't know what he thinks of me, but seeing him in front of me made me want to hold him even tighter. I want to tell him he is my first love. He is someone who can make my heart rate faster even if I don't want to. I want to say the day when he scolds me I felt good instead. Could I be psychotic? Ha-ha, I don't know.

I slowly closed my eyes and ended up falling into harm. He held me tightly, which made me feel better than before. I loved it.