The Lust Of Pride

Chapter 15

“What do you want now, Kevin”.

Kevin slowly walks around the room, looking at all the paintings and sculptures, touching them to see their worth as art to him,

“You always were good at arts and crafts Zane, take it as an insult”,

“What…do…you…want?”,

“…. Fine, I am here to ask you about that Samantha girl. Why is Daisy interested in her? Why Is she protecting her? And does… she have a boyfriend?”.

Confused and frustrated was Zane, being interrupted only to be asked these questions, but ultimately replied to Kevin, “Hate to break it to you, but I don’t know why Daisy is interested in her, and why she is protecting her, and also I don’t think that she would ever want you to be her boyfriend, no offense”.

After Zane spoke, he grabbed a pretzel from the table, placing it in his mouth, but in Kevin’s rage he swapped the pretzel from his hand before it could touch his lips, angered by his answer,

“Don’t play with me, Mayton!! I know something is going on between her and Daisy, and let me tell you this, I don’t like it one bit. So, whatever you have in that tiny brain of yours Zane, best tell me now or else you will be going home with bandages on your head”.

Zane turns and looks at Kevin straight in the eye, not wavering his eyesight from him, and as he thinks for a reply for him, Zane said in a slow deep tone,

“I…don’t…know”.

Kevin stared back at Zane, looking straight at his eyes, wanting to know if he is telling the truth, and as moments pass, he stopped and stood up, grabbing one pocky from the box and went towards the room door, saying as he was about to leave,

“Fine, but if you ever think about asking her out, then you could say goodbye to your pretty face”.

Kevin walked out of the room, leaving Zane to his solitude as he sat there and continued to munch on his lunch. After a few minutes, he finished eating his lunch and started to clean the table, and as he cleans, he breathed out a big yawn from his mouth, slowly telling his eyes to sleep.

Blink by blink he became sleepier and while he was still cleaning, he sat on a chair, rested his head on the table, and sleep.

“Zzzzzzzzzzz…..”.

Meanwhile

“Come on, I said I was sorry”, said Katy.

Sam stayed silent as Katy kept apologizing as they walked in the hall, drinking the coke that Katy brought, and after a few moments, they arrived back at the Designer club room. Sam went inside, ignoring Katy as she kept apologizing, went to the club leader and applied for a membership with the club,

“Welcome to the crew”, the club leader said, giving Sam a membership card, and a club sticker.

“What is this?”, Sam asked.

“That is your membership card, you can use it to freely enter the club room without anyone stopping you, and you can also use it at the Item shop in school, you can get anything you want at the shop if you show the card to the keeper, but it must only involve something that our club uses, like fabrics, stitches, mannequin parts, and other stuff that involve designing”.

Sam looked at her membership, seeing her full name embedded on it, and as he placed it inside her pocket, she then looked at her hand, seeing the sticker the club leader gave her. Not knowing what it is, she asked the Club leader again, “And… what is this?”.

“Oh, that? That is the club sticker, you can place it on your locker door, signifying that you are part of this club, and it is embedded with a tech that connects to your membership card, every time you show the keeper your card, they scan it on their computer and it shows them where the sticker is placed at, and so they can use it to deliver any items that you have ordered to your locker”.

Sam looked at the sticker, examining its design, “Hmmm, although it is quite ugly, it is useful, and at least my locker has one decoration for now”.

She then went outside the room where Katy was waiting, “Do you forgive me now?”, Katy asks.

“If you haven’t been taking your precious time with your friend, I wouldn’t have met a boy version of Daisy, except less bitchy, and more narcissistic”.

“I said I was sorry”, Katy said while making a sorry face to Sam.

Sam looked at her face, admiring the cuteness that she overloaded, and so she forgave her. The two girls strolled along the halls, talking and laughing until Katy wanted to use the bathroom, and so Sam accompanied her to the school restroom near the club wing.

Katy went inside the restroom to use the toilet, while Sam waited outside, taking out her phone, and scrolled through her media. She continued to scroll on her phone until she heard a noise coming from the room near her, and as curiosity befell on her, she slowly walked inside the room, looking around for the noise, and as she looked down and saw it, smiling as she gazed,

“Well Well Well”

Meanwhile

Zane slept like a log in the club room, snoring as he relaxed in the comfort of the table, and as he fades away into his deep sleep, he dreamt. Falling down the space of nothing, crashing as he fell on a chair, opening his eyes.

He looked around and saw a blackboard and some people sitting on chairs, and as he looked around more, he began to realize that he was in a classroom, a scene from a memory of his junior high, sitting with his classmates as the teacher cleans the board,

“When was this?”, he asks himself.

He tried to remember, but was distracted as the teacher announce himself to the class,

“Good morning everyone, because of the renewal of the school curriculum recently, some of our lesson plans have been delayed, and because of that we will have to continue to pursue the last lesson that we have discussed”.

A familiar feeling stuck Zane’s mind, making him questioned the contents of the dream,

“Wait…”.

“But before we get on that, we have a new student joining us today, make sure everyone gives her a warm welcome”.

Zane’s heart started to skip a beat, as he slowly turns his head towards the classroom door,

“No…not here…not now”.

As the door slowly opens, revealing a silhouette of light, depicting an image in which in the eyes of others, just a normal girl, but to him, it was an angel. Zane kept gazing at the sight of the girl, as she walks towards the middle of the room, and introduced herself, while Zane thought to himself,

“No…Why here!?!”.

“Hello everyone, my name is……….

WAKE UP……. WAKE UP!!!”. 

As the dream instantly faded away, Zane woke up from his sleep, slowly opening his eyes, seeing a blurry image of the one who woke him up, and as it cleared, he was shocked, thinking to himself

 “Not this again…”.

“Wakey Wakey, Zane, hehe”.