Chapter 1

THE ACADEMY

6TH PERIOD

14TH of APRIL, 2018.

Elise POV

It had been raining for days without stopping, three days to be precise. The last class of the day was chemistry and it was taken by the ever-beloved teacher, Mrs Rachel. Height, below 5'4 but authority, at least 6 ft high.

As usual, I got to class early with my lifelong crush, Samuel, and my best friends, Max and Trent. Samuel was teasing me as usual with his humour, Max was reading ahead of the class as the bookworm she is and Trent was busy being his mysterious self and writing program codes on his laptop.

It didn't take long for the class to become its rowdy self as familiar faces flooded in. "Acid and base reaction" was already written clearly on the whiteboard in blue marker. 

"Elise, Max, please help set up everyone's apparatus and please be careful not to break them", the lady in a white lab coat instructed. 

After an hour of teaching, Mrs Rachel left us to clean up the laboratory apparatus we used, but not before shouting her motto after her, 

"You break..."

"YOU PAY!"

The whole class echoed as she left us to clean up.

While trying to dismount my burette from its stand, a gentle voice breaks my concentration for a split second,

"Hey babe, where are you going to after class?"

"Samuel…", turning to him with the straightest face I could pull as I set down the glassware, "No. 1, I am not 'babe'. No 2. Why do you even care? Go and meet the love of your life, Kun."

Yes, Samuel has a girlfriend but their relationship is so off and on. One day, they are together and he doesn't care about me, the next, they have broken up and he remembers I exist. The saddest thing is that I keep falling for that trap. Stupid me.

"Eli, I promise this time we are over. Done. Finished," he pleads, snaking his arms around my waist. I try to escape from his hold as the memory of stumbling on his little make-out session with Kun comes to mind.

"Bubba, do you love me?" From behind the door, I could make out a glimpse of her arms around his neck.

"Of course Kun. Have I ever made you doubt that?"

"I don't like how she looks at you. That Elise. She wants to come between us, Bubba. Don't think I don't see why you look at her", she snorts, clicking her tongue at him.

"There is nothing between me and her. She is just… I love you, Thankun. Okay? Only you."

Pulling him closer, she seals their lips together as her eyes grin in my direction, right back at me.

Shaking the thoughts from my head, the art students rush into our chemistry laboratory even though Mrs Rachel warns them all the time to avoid the lab. 

"Elise!"

"Fancy!!! How was class?"

Oh Yes, Fanciful-fancy, as some would call her, don't ask me why because I don't know. She is the Head girl of the school and since I am her assistant, we have to always work together on school matters.

"Eli–"

"Samuel, let's talk later. I need to attend to Fancy" And think clearly without you clouding my judgment for once.

While I am catching up on the day's work with Fancy, I overhear a distant conversation,

"What do you think will happen if these two are mixed? I mean blue plus red is purple, right?"

Immediately I heard that, in my attempt to figure out who said that and what they were referring to. I realized it was James and the two chemical solutions he was referring to were very toxic. Before I could stop him, he already emptied the first chemical into the second.

"NO!!!"

*BOOM!!!*

The last thing I heard before losing consciousness was,

"Call 911" 

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Hello guys,

Chapter 1 to 3 is undergoing major editing by 22-year-old me in 2023 because it was written by 17-year-old me in 2018. I'm sorry if some things change. I will work a bit more on the dialogue. 

I promise you, it gets better and longer and nicer.

And btw, at the end of every of my chapter, I leave a song from any series I am interested in with the title of the drama 

Annyeong! 

"I will go to you like the first snow –Goblin"