The One That Got Away

Chapter Three

Sasy's POV

I just came in to the school and I went straight up inside. As always, they greeted me once they see me. Knowing that these students are sons and daughters from rich families but they treat me as I was above them. Bow down to your queen fellas! I smiled at them flashing my perfect white teeth. I was walking with confidence and do the cat walk. I was planning to join Ms. Universe soon. 

"Hey Sasy! Why do you ignore me every time I call you?" Harry said while getting the book from my hand. The book was Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Azkaban of J.K. Rowling. "I know you like me that's why you always read the Harry Potter book series. You can tell me babe. You don't have to waste such effort to read these books. You know I'm yours." And he made a cute face with matching winking his left eye. 

I can't believe what he just said. I turn to him and made a "are you serious look" and I make a disgusting look to him. I haven't noticed Harry who was waiting for me at the entrance. As if I care! He's always there around me. It feels like he is a stalker. He is like a mushroom that you can always see everywhere. . I don't like Harry and what he said just right now makes my feelings worsened. I took back my book from him. I don't want him to go near me anymore. 

"Can you please stop, Harry? You are getting into my nerves. Go away and DON'T COME NEAR ME." I give emphasis the last part. 

Since we were little, he always show his possession to me. He even gets jealous whenever I talk to other people. I'm not comfortable whenever he is with me. He makes my good mood turns miserable. I can say that he is no good to me. 

"Why Sasy? I will make you my princess." Princess my ass! 

"No thanks! Everyone treats me like a princess and I'm a princess on my own." I saw the loser from my peripheral vision. "You're not gonna be my boyfriend because I have one." 

He made a confuse look. I look at the loser and call him.

"Babe! I'm here!" Harry look who was I calling. 

The loser seems shock. I make a signal saying he needs to come near me. He immediately compose himself and slowly walk over where we are. I told him to smile without letting my voice out. Harry is still looking at the loser like an eagle saw a prey that ready attack that's why he didn't notice me a was making a signal to the loser. As soon as the loser is near me, I instantly wrapped myself into his arm.

"Babe, I want you to meet Harry, he is a friend. Harry, this is my loving boyfriend...." Aish! I forgot the loser's name. What was that again? Marlou? Marvel? Mar? 

"I'm Marcus. Marcus Adams!" The loser said.

Marcus! That's it! I'm not good at memorizing names, especially if I wasn't interesting. Luckily Marcus saved me. He extend his hand to Harry to shake hands but Harry just look at Marcus's hand and he face me. 

"Are you sure Sasy? Where did you met? When? How? Why I didn't know about this? Where family did he came from? How come this pathetic be your boyfriend. Last time I checked, you keep telling me you don't want to have boyfriend? What happened?" He asked questions without taking a breath. 

I can see that he wants to explode and kill Marcus here. 

"Yes, I'm very much sure. Why do you ask many questions. I don't want you to know about this and why the hell you care?" I grab Marcus's hand and walk away with him. 

We left Harry who's looking angrily at us. I know he will get furious but that what I want for now. 

I bring Marcus to my private room. Yes, you read it right. I have a private room inside the school. I told my dad that I want to have one. And he granted my wish. I use my private room to take a nap or if I just want to be alone.

The room was purple in color, it is my favorite color. There is a mini chandelier in the center. A queen size bed that it has a crown shape design. A desk where I can use for my study. A television set for entertainment. There is also a mini closet that full of my favorite clothes which I personally design and a bathroom. The ambiance of my room is very feminine and it screams of royalty. 

I look at Marcus who is still mesmerized by my room. Maybe it's his first time to see this kind of room. He roam around my room forgetting that I was here with him. I watch him closely, I don't want him to touch any of my things. Good to see that he didn't dare to touch my things. 

"Are you done inspecting my room?" I ask him lazily. He come near me and made a puzzled look. 

"What is this room? I didn't know there is this kind of room here. This is my first time to see personally this luxurious room. I just seen this in magazines and pictures." He looks like a kid that was given a lot of candy. 

"As expected! Thanks to me you got a privilege to see such a beautiful room." I walk to my white royal chair. "Get me a glass of water." He is still standing in his place like an i***t. "NOW!" He comes back to his mind and quickly went to my mini fridge and fill the glass with water. He immediately give it to me. I drink half of the glass. 

He sits in one of my chair ang my eyebrows meet right away. 

"Who told you to sit?" I glared at him.

He stand up instantaneously and I made a smirk. 

I take a look at him. I examine him from head to feet. I can't deny the fact that he is handsome. He has black dark hair, thick eyebrows, long eyelashes, deep blue ocean eyes and a rosy heart shape lips. I can see that he has a muscles at a young age. He maybe doing workouts. He is standing approximately 5'3 in a height. He look like a model. Not too bad to act as my boyfriend. 

"Wh-why are we here?" He asked with confusion.

I raised my left eyebrow at him. 

"Are you stupid?" I made a unbelievable look. 

Is he really a scholar of our school? Didn't he remembered what happened earlier? Or is he trying my patience?

I gritted my teeth indicating that I'm annoyed. I stand up and come near him. Before he can speak I splashed the water from the glass to his face. I hate slow person. 

He was shocked by my action. He bow his head and the water drips on the floor. For the first time, I felt guilt with my action. This is so unlike me. I immediately compost myself and make a poker face. I can't show mercy or else they won't respect me. 

"Clean up the mess!" I commanded him.

I go back to my seat and he starts to clean the mess that I made. 

"You will not attend to your whole class period." I said while looking at my finger nails. 

I saw his face wide shock. 

"Are you serious? But I sti-..."  He started to protest so I cut his nonsense excuses.

"No buts loser! After all, you still owe me right? I don't want to hear your explanations. Besides, I have to discuss with you about the incident happened earlier." This is not what I'm planning with this loser but I can't take back what I just have said to Harry. 

I called Veronica to tell the teachers that Marcus and I will not attend the class this day. I know I will not get a failing grades just because of this absence, but I still have respect with my teachers.

I'm still thinking on what I'm gonna do with this. Marcus is also silent and only the sound of air conditioner can be heard. I let him sit and I walk to my mini fridge to get my dark chocolate. This helps me to clear my mind. I also give Marcus a pack of chocolate.

"I want you to act as my boyfriend." I said as I break the silence.

"You know Harry, right?" He nod and I laughed. Who doesn't know about Harry? He is also famous. Especially to the girls. He is really a heartthrob. 

"Harry is my childhood friend." I continued. "He is always around me. I don't know but, I feel irritated whenever he's near me. Not to mention there is always trouble. If someone will gonna try to talk to me, he will interact or he will pull me, especially boys. He doesn't want me to talk to them. Well, except for my manager and the one who will get me for endorsement. If he see me talking to the person he doesn't like, he will definitely hurt that person. He acts like a possessive boyfriend. It is so annoying. It feels like I don't have a freedom when he is with me. He is only just a friend. Nothing more, nothing less. He do- ..." I stopped when I saw the amusement in his face then I realized that I talked about Harry too much. 

"Okay, the point is I don't want Harry around me and you'll gonna help me. My problem will be your problem. Got it?" I said while I crossed my arms in my chest. 

"Yes, I got it. But what am I supposed to do?" He put his hand into his nape. 

"Well! You'll just gonna treat me like a princess. You will show me how a boyfriend treats a girlfriend. You will look at me like I'm the only girl in the world. You will show me love. Be romantic! But first, let's have this get to know you game. It's like 20 questions."  

I was planning to make this loser's high school life miserable but my plan was changed now. I will treat him like my boyfriend. I don't have a choice, or else Harry will try to make my everyday life stressful. Maybe Marcus will take advantage on this play because you know, he is poor. But before he can get something from me, I will make sure that he can't do anything against my will. 

"Now, let's talk first about how we first meet." He still didn't talk. He is waiting for my cue which is good. I don't want him to interrupt while I'm talking.

"This will be the beginning of our story. Lily and I are walking down the aisle first day of class and you bumped into me. Atleast there is true in the story. But in our story, we got love at first sight. That time, we can't get out in each other's mind. Oh! I forget Lily! Wait, I'll just call her." I get my phone and dialed Lily's number. She got up my call.

"Hello? Lily? Can you come here in my private room right now? And please! If you meet Harry don't talk to him. Please!" Maybe Harry will ask Lily about Marcus and he don't know about this. 

"Okay, Sasy! I'm coming!" And she hang up.

I look at Marcus who looks still shock of what happened. 

"You can ask me anything." I said to him.

"Ahm! Why did you choose me to be act as your boyfriend?"

I'm surprised by his question. Yeah?! Why is it? Why did I chose him? I just can pick random rich boy out there, but no! I chose a poor scholar boy instead of the rich one. I don't know what I'm going to answer. Think Sasy, think! Why did you chose him? 

"Because you are my servant." I told him without realizing what I was talking. 

His expression change, from confused to a sad one. Wait? Did he think I really want him to be my boyfriend that's why he show me he is sad? Huh! He wish!

"Look loser, you are our scholar, we paid for your tuition and I heard that Mr. Johnson will give you allowance. So don't you ever think that I'm gonna take this "so called" relationship of ours seriously because you'll going to hurt yourself." I know my words are heart piercing, but he has to wake up from reality that we are not meant to be. 

"I understand. I'm sorry for asking." And he bow his head. 

We hear a knock from my door. I'm sure it will be Lily. I ordered Marcus to open the door. I can see how shock Lily was when she saw Marcus. She entered and walk straight to me. 

"Why is he here?" She asked while looking at Marcus. 

"He is my boyfriend." I answered her. 

"YOUR WHAT?!" I can see that Lily in confusion and shock is really visible in her face. 

I stand up and I about to touch her shoulders.

"Calm down, Lily. He is ju-..." 

"Calm down?! How can I calm down? Yesterday, you were furious when he bumped you and now you're telling me he is your boyfriend? Are you out of your mind Synderilla Shey!" I know Lily didn't like my action, or else she will not call me by my complete name. 

I look at Marcus. He looks worried on what is happening. I get a glass of water and give to her. She chugged the glass of water empty. I let her sit and caress her arm to calm her down. As I feel that she is calming down, I sat in the chair opposite go her. 

"Listen first, Lily." She glared at me. "Marcus not really my boyfriend. He will act as my boyfriend."  She made a weird look.

"What do you mean, Sasy?" I think she is calming down now.

"He will be acting as my boyfriend. You know how I hate Harry whenever he's around me so I decided to use this loser to act as my boyfriend. And only the three of us know about this." I explained. 

I told Lily what happened earlier. As I was telling her what happened, I see that her eyes are twinkling. I know she has a big crush on Harry. That is also one of my reason why I don't like Harry to come near me. Every time Harry show much care about me, I can see jealousy in Lily's eyes. I don't want Lily to hate me because of Harry. She means a lot to me. She is my savior, my ally and my bestest friend. I love Lily so much. I don't want to hurt her. 

"This is exciting! So tell me Sasy, what will be our script? You know I'm a good actress." She laughed. 

Lily is really a great actress. She can fool everyone by her dramas but not me. I know Lily when she is telling the truth or is it a drama. Whether she's hurt or just a play. She can never hide anything from me.

"As I was saying, we were walking down the aisle and Marcus bumped into me, which was true but it happened on the first day of school. I fell down and he grab me. We look into each other's eyes and boom! We fell love at first sight. He courted me the next day and I said yes to him without hesitations." I proudly tell them.

"Just like that? It's so boring and it's like in the fairy tales! I'm sure Harry will not believe this."

Lily has a point. It was a childish story. If we will do this act, we have to be sure that it will makes sense. Not just an ordinary love story.

"Can you suggest a good love story?" I asked her.

"Of course! But first, we have to know more about him." She points Marcus. "Let's have use the school as the setting for your first meet. If you will tell that you two first meet in the school, you are saying that you are an easy girl. Let's make things slow." I love Lily's wide idea. I don't know what to do without Lily.  

"So what now?" I asked her 

She look at Marcus. No! More on like inspecting him. 

"What was your name again? And tell me something about yourself and your family, something like that." She asked Marcus.

"I'm Marcus Adams. I'm 13. I live in small village called Marinda. My father died when I was on fifth grade. He left us with huge debt that's why at the young age I tried to work. Luckily our relatives helped us and we payed the debt. My mom is sick but still she work for our future. I have a little brother, Justin, he is six years old now. I have work in a cafeteria in the city after the class. I get that job because the owner is my dad's colleague and he want to help us. Sometimes I do some sidelines to help my mom for living." Marcus narrate.

As he was telling his life, I feel pity for him. But I can see a strong boy inside him. No doubt he loves his family so much. The fact that he is a working student makes him cool. Well! I also working but the fact that he works for a living is another story. I work because of the fame I got. Even I don't work I still get money. 

"That's it!" Lily got a wide smile. "When did you start your work at the cafeteria?" She asked.

"About six months ago." He replied.

"Good! So now, here's the story. Once upon a the, Sasy and I went to mall for a shopping. After shopping, we went to the cafeteria where you're working at. As we are waiting for our order, there is this guy who is harassing Sasy. Sasy is screaming for help, I'm about to call a police but suddenly you appeared and punch that guy. Then the guy got up and punch you back. Until the other staffs came in to help. The guy became scared and left the cafeteria. Then you Sasy recognized Marcus as your hero. And that is the start of your love story." She said while embracing herself with matching humming. "Love is in the air!" She continued.

"Really, Lily? Is this your idea?" I can't believe this. How can she imagine such things. "It's also looks like in the movies."

"Atleast it's not boring. And don't worry about that. I'm gonna do your story real." 

"What do you mean real?" I got confused with her. 

"I'm will tell his co-workers that it happened. What if Harry will go there and ask if it was true. Atleast he will get the information that we want him to know." And she makes her eyebrows moves up and down.

"You are genius, Lily. You got a brilliant idea!" And I hug her.