LOVING MY HATER

Chapter 2 : Seatmates

“Goodmorning class. As you all know, it's one of my class rules to create a seat plan which is alphabetical order.”

“Arghh”

Here we go again. We usually do this every time Mr. Gil would be our professor for a course. And everyone doesn't seem to be happy, since we all have our own buddies or close friends.

He calls us one by one, not until my world stopped…

“Lim..your seatmate would be..Loren”

“Yieee”, our classmate teases us.

“Oh, c’mon. What a day. Another bad luck”, I sighed angrily.

“Uhuh. I would not call it bad luck, Ms. Elaine. It’s me Randall, the one and only. You get a chance to be my seatmate and that’s the other way around -- good luck.” he winked as he seated on his chair.

I flipped him off by showing my middle finger and rolled my eyes.

Okay fine. You want to push me on my edge and get on my nerves, then game on.

“Oohh. Fiesty”, he whistles.

“f**k this”, I whispered.

(bell)

“That’s it for today. Hope you had a wonderful new semester. Please do good”, Mr. Gil dismissed us.

“Elie! Let’s go to the canteen”, Denise said.

“Yeah, wait a minute. Let me just fix my things.”

As I was fixing my things inside my bag, I felt someone staring at me.

I raised my head to see who it was. And much to my dismay, I wish I had never seen who it was. The so-called King of the Campus, “Randall”, sat there in his seat and looking at me like he planned my murder in his head. What does Randall want now? He keeps on bugging me.

“Can you please give me a break, Randall? Stop with your games now. I’m not interested”

“Hmm.. What games are you talking about?”, Randall smirks.

I really wanted to erase that smirk on his face. It’s very annoying. The audacity of this person to ruin my day and I feel like it will be ruined every school day.

“Shut up and get lost i***t”, I got my bag and rolled my eyes at him.

I heard the echo of his laughter as I exited the classroom. The nerveeee. Should this be a sign to transfer to a school? Maybe it’s not too late? Right??

“What took you so long, Elie? I am hungry”, we laughed as we heard her stomach growl.

“The usual bickering with his majesty”, I placed my hand like a king mimicking the crown.

“Hmmm.. I wonder what will happen in that long-hated relationship you have with him?”, she said.

“Can you please just stop implying that there will be a special thing between us because that will never gonna happen. Like c’mon. He even gets every chance to bully and tease me with his personality. It’s annoying. I hate him to guts”, I explained, then crossed my arms.

She nodded slowly then smiled. “Oookaay.. If you say so, but don’t you even think that ---”

I raised my hand to stop her from speaking. “Denise, I said that would not happen. Over my dead body. Watch me”

She raised both her hands in a surrender position. “Okay, Ms Elie. If you say so”, then she laughs.

“Let’s just eat at the canteen. I think you’re just hungry.”

She linked her arms to mine and we headed to the canteen to fill in our stomachs.

--

As we entered the canteen, it was almost full. The tables are taken by the students.

“Denise, I think the canteen is full”, I said.

“No, wait, there should be an empty spot”, she said while looking around.

I looked around and saw some familiar faces waving their hands to me. I waved back and smiled to them. But my smile fades apparently. I made eye contact with Randall. Way to go life.

“Oh there!”, Denise said excitedly, then grabbed me by my hand.

As we sat, I noticed that our table was near to the groups of the so-called “Famous.”

The group of Adrianna, whose makeup is like 10 layers. She is entitled to rule the school, and I call her group the "Snow White and the 4 dwarves". Yes, I don’t even know why these girls keep on following her tracks.

And, of course, Randall’s group. The three “Campus Heartthrobs”. Thinking about that word makes me want to vomit. I call them the Bermuda Triangle. I do believe now that the birds with the same feather flock together.

“Wait here. I’ll order for us”, Denise said.

“Okay, here’s my payment. I’ll order the usual”

“Okay, copy”, she waves her hand

Denise is the only friend that I can trust in my college life. Way back then, she was bullied for being a transferee. I saw her being thrown with some water in her face by Adrianna, then I stood up for her during that time. The reason why we became best friends and why Adrianna also hates me.

I fetched my cellphone and scrolled down to my f*******: account.

A notification came through and I saw a friend request made by Randall Timothy Lim.

My brows furrowed. I then looked at Randall’s side.

He waved his phone and pointed at it.

I rolled my eyes again at him and deleted the requests.

“In your face”, I mouthed and smiled sarcastically at him.

I put my cellphone inside my pocket as Denise arrived with our food.