Along Came You....

Chapter one

"Poppy!" Came Zoe's voice from a

distance. "Poppy" she called out

again and I slowly opened my eyes

to find her towering over me with a

frown on her face and a ready to get

to class look. She peeled the

blanket off my body and told me to

take a bath while she makes my

bed. Sweet. I mockingly shut my

eyes again and that girl tickled me

off the bed. I was hysterical. "Oh

please stop, I was joking", I begged

through laughter and screams. She

finally halted her attack on me and

gave me a hug. "Good morning

babe, please get ready we're late".

"Yes sir" I saluted and marched out

to take a bath while she makes my

bed. Ten minutes later I was done

and Zoe had made my bed and my

breakfast fixed. Lord, I love this girl.

She

makes it feel like home in here. I

don't know what I would do without

her.

I remember when I first got to res I

had nothing, well not nothing-

nothing but I was kinda low on cash

for enough groceries and she came

to my rescue and that's when we

became inseparable.

After breakfast we walked to

campus and classes had already

begun so going to class was kinda

awkward since we're always late.

'Yes, all my fault, I know', I

dramatically think with an eye roll.

Poor Zoe always has to wait for me

so we could be late together, haha

sweet. 'That's what sisters are for,

right?' We stand in front of the door

to our class and hesitate to open

the door. We stare at each other

and laugh at our stupidity before

mustering up the courage to enter.

"Morning sir" Zoe says "sorry we're

late" she continues as I walk to my

seat and the tutor nods and she

joins me to our seats.

"As I was saying..... " Mr Hova, our

TS tutor and my favourite lecturer

says before noticing our confusion

and we quickly caught on.

"Page 64" he continues with class

and later announces that,

"We'll be doing a revision on this

chapter for our Thursday test and I

expect everyone to do well, good

luck". And that was it. I never really

take

classes seriously because I know

I'm smart. Don't mean to brag but

yup. I love my studies but no

so much as for sitting in class, ugh.

The bell rings and we decide to

head out to the cafeteria to see

what's popping. I love me some

food, sleep and books, thank you

very much.

On our way we bump into one of

our friendship Kelly, the real life doll.

Girl is so white (or pale pink)

haha.......but what I do know is that

she turns red when it's like super

hot out. She also suffers from

eczema or acne because her skin's

too sensitive. Anyway, I also met

her through Zoe, they're home girls

and we're good. She's doing the

same course as us but she'd rather

skip school on every other day coz

she can. Kelly is an average student

with very old parents who are barely

keeping up with her tuition fees but

she doesn't really care.

As her home girl and friend, Zoe

tried talking to her but she got

slightly mad and told Zoe to stop

acting like her mother and that was

it. They didn't talk for over a week

and I had to intervene on

reconciling the two friends and it

worked.

Now that we're all okay none of us

ever bother about Kelly's

whereabouts, she's an adult. I just

pray she wakes up sooner and

realizes her mistakes, than never.

"Your boyfriend's coming!", Kelly

exclaims over excitedly and I gag.

"Dude's not my boyfriend, he.... " I

mutter before I feel his arm over my

shoulder and I duck, eeuw. Gosh.

He is so annoying! "Max hi, we were

just leaving, guys?.......... Bye Max" I

say but my traitors of friends stand

still and smile at him. Unbelievable.

"Ugh, I need new friends". I think

"We're headed to get something to

eat, wanna join us, Max?" that was

Kelly pushing Max towards the

direction of the cafeteria.

Well, I met Max when I came to

campus for registration and he sort

of assisted me with forms, how and

where they were to be filled and

submitted but I didn't exactly need

his 'assistance'. I mean... "How

hard can that kind of process be?"

I am an in college for crying out

loud. But I guess he was just being

'nice', right? Oh well. He's been

checking up on me since and it

gives me the creeps coz he sort of

likes and I could never, not even in

my wildest dreams, imagine liking

him back.

"Pops, are you coming?" Zoe said

with a smirk on her face looking

over her shoulder as she and Kelly

sandwich that boy in between

them. 'Ahh I hate them, and I'm

going to kill them coz they know

how I feel about him!!' Especially

Zoe. I internally scream and stomp

my foot but I anyways follow them

in and order our food before sitting

in a corner.

Our spot. I immediately act busy on

my mobile coz I don't wanna deal

with Max who happens to be sitting

right next to me.

"Uhm", he clears his throat and I

look up to see him gawking at me.

Oh God, what now? I am so not

interested! I stare back at him and

he hesitates for a moment before

continuing. "So, it's Valentine's next

week.... ", I don't like where this is

going but I listen quietly so he can

continue.

"Zoe, Kellz, anybody!!!" I say

internally and side-eye the counter

where they're supposed to be

waiting for our orders.

"What are you going to get for me,

as a gift?" , he trailed off with a

smug look. I felt like laughing but I

honestly don't want to be caught

dead entertaining this loser. Haha,

home boy must

be high on something. His

hallucinations are worsening by the

minute!

"And what makes you think you're

gonna get a from me?", I manage to

ask with fake amusement , clearly

annoyed but who cares?. Definitely

not Max.

"Because I'm your boyfriend", he

replies cooly

"Wait,hold up what?" Before I can

say

anything, Kellz comes back with our

food and notice my shock but I

gesture for them not to ask. We eat

in silence and I can't stop thinking

about what Max said

'Does he really regard himself as

my boyfriend?' 'Why and when?' I

try to

recall how I met him but it doesn't

really matter because there's no

way I'm ever gonna be his girlfriend.

No way..... He may be nice and

everything but I don't like him and

now he's giving me more reasons

not to like him with his weird

psychotic behaviour. I don't wanna

end up like in the movies where a

guy is obsessed with this girl but

she doesn't understand his 'love'

for her so he becomes aggressive,

kidnaps and murders the girl. "Oh

God. I don't wanna die" I silently

panic

The ringing of the bell stops my

trail of thoughts and we get up to

leave for class but before I leave I

feel a hand around my wrist and I

turn to find it's Max's. I sigh and

look up to him

"Please think about what I said"

and then he leaves before I can

respond that I don't want to be his

Valentine or anything for that

matter.

"Valentine's, huh?" that's Kelly

beaming with fake excitement

"You guys are so adorable" she

mocks

Zoe's doing a stupid happy dance

but I

stand there fuming with rage

"What the hell, you guys?" I retort

"You know how I feel about Max but

you just had to invite him to come

to lunch with us", I continue trying

to calm myself down before I

completely lose it. Yep! I do lose it

sometimes when I'm really pissed.

But guess what, I can never stay

mad at these two for long cause

they're practically my family.

So I regain my cool and tell them

what Max said and they scream in

unison.

"What?" their eyes widened with

shock

"So that's what he said before we

joined you guys?" "How lame".

that's Kelly

"Look, we're sorry we insisted on

having lunch with him but what if

he actually gifts you with

something, are you going to accept

it?" she asks curiosity written on

her pink face

"I don't know about that but what I

do

know I'm not getting him anything

and that's that". I say and turn on

heels to leave for my TOP class.