And My Luna Trips Again!

I am a Disaster!

I watched Caleb as he parked his car next to Anna’s. There is a different aura around him. His right-hand man, Arnold, steps out of the car and screens the crowd. Yes, he screens the crowd! You must do this when you leave a trail of lovesick exes behind you, who put on a very dramatic show every year to wish you a happy birthday! Once Arnold is done checking, he asks Caleb to step out. And the school’s prince finally puts his feet on the school ground for the first time on his birthday.

“Here comes the birthday boy!”, I announced, and turned around to leave for class.

“Why do you hate him so much?”, Anna asked, following me.

“I don’t have one, but three reasons to hate him.”, I rolled my eyes, annoyed.

“We would love to know!”, Arya says and wraps her hand around mine.

“First, he is arrogant and doesn’t care about anyone but himself. Second, he has nothing but good looks, which makes him equivalent to a zero. And third, he snatched the position of the president of the student body right off my hands using his dad’s name.”, I explained.

“Okay! So basically, you are just jealous and want to crib and cry for a powerful position like a baby.”, Arya says, making Anna laugh. I stop and glare at both my friends, making them freeze.

“Okay! We get it that you hate him. And you can win the elections this year. We will help you and support you! Now, let’s go!”, Anna says, pulling me along.

I walked toward my locker, which is right next to Caleb’s. The student body elects a new president every year from the senior batches. Last year I was the winning candidate until Caleb Adolf woke up one morning and decided to run as a candidate in the elections. His dad visited the school one day, and the next day Caleb was elected as the student body president. What fair play! As challenging candidates, our lockers were also placed next to each other. Even though the teachers called it a strategy to keep harmony, it felt more like mocking the loser trick to me.

I opened my locker after what seemed like a lifetime. Keeping my bag inside, I took out the books for my first class- Calculus. What a great start to our last year at school! I closed my locker shut and turned around to leave. Well, turning around never felt like such a wrong decision.

"Mine", he growled.

Caleb pushed me to the locker and made me trip and fall and land straight on my bum.

“Ouch!”, I yelled out of pain.

My angry eyes looked straight into his dark brown orbs. I could hear people snicker and laugh. All this embarrassment for what? For him to growl like a dog!

“What is wrong with you?”, I whisper yelled as he inched closer to me.

I can still see people laughing, especially my best friends who could pass out any moment now because of laughing too hard. I was about to snap at this i***t again, but then his actions took everyone by surprise, including my reflex system. I swear it was a reflex!

His face seemed a little too close suddenly. People were watching us with great anticipation now. He closed his eyes and started to bring his face closer to mine. But before our lips could meet, my legs moved on their own accord and met his abs with quite a boom! In a second, the anticipation in the crowd’s eyes was changed to shock as they saw their student body president lying on the ground, groaning in pain. Well! I swear it was a reflex and at least I didn’t hit where it hurts more!

“I am so sorry!”, I finally spoke up and crawled a little closer to him.

“I-it is okay!”, he murmured in pain, still moving from one side to the other clutching his abdomen tightly.

“Do-do you need some water? Wait! I’ll get you some.”, I stood up and ran to my locker, and took out my bottle from my bag.

I ran towards him, but it slipped my mind how my books were scattered on the floor. I stepped on my book and very smoothly went downpouring all the water on my poor victim. Now Caleb was not only groaning in pain but was also drenched in ice-cold water from head to toe.

People around us were now not able to control their laughter. I could see a dozen phones recording another embarrassing moment of mine. Well, welcome back to becoming the queen of memes Hayley! My eyes landed back on Caleb, who was now giving me a look of disbelief combined with anger.

“I-I am sorry?”, it came out as a question rather than an apology.

“Are you okay?”, Anna came to my rescue and helped Caleb get up.

“Well, thanks to your best friend, I took another bath on my birthday!”, he mocked but ended up smiling at me.

“Oh yes! Happy birthday!”, I spoke up, earning a very amused expression and tons of glares from the audience. Caleb laughed, shaking his head.

“You should consider getting yourself treated. Psychotherapy might help”, he said. I glared at him, clutching my bottle tightly.

“Okay! Okay! The show is over!”, Arya sensed the tension and decided to make the crowd go away before any more drama unfolded.

“Well, maybe you should consider winning without your dad’s abuse of power sometimes. Standing up on your feet might help.”, I spoke with a smug smile.

“Sassy huh! I like that.”, Caleb smirked, making my blood boil a lot more.

“Caleb, we need to leave.”, a very tense Arnold came and intervened before the school corridor changed into a wrestling wing. Caleb pulled out an envelope from his pocket and walked toward me, making me take a step back.

“Here, it is a special invite to my birthday party! You and your two friends have to come.”, he said, keeping that envelope in my jacket’s pocket.

“Is this how you invite people?”, I asked.

“It is not an invite, Hayley, it is an order!”, he whispered in my ear, and left without another word. I could feel a shiver run down my spine as I heard my name roll out of his mouth this smoothly. I was still in shock contemplating what exactly happened when I heard a very excited squeal.

“WE ARE INVITED TO HIS PARTY!”, Arya started to jump in excitement.

“You can go! I am not going.”, I gave her the envelope and started to pick my books from the floor.

“Wait!”, Anna called out before I could leave.

“What?”, I turned around on the verge of snapping.

“This invitation has someone else’s name on it!”, she said, showing me the envelope.

“Someone’s name?”, I asked, walking back to my two friends.

“Yes, it says- ‘Official Invite for our Luna’.”, Arya read it out loud.

I took the envelope from her and read it myself.

“It looks important”, Anna said.

“Maybe he gave you the wrong invite.”, Arya continued.

“If this is important, he might need it back. I will go and return it after school.”, I said, and kept the envelope in my locker. Well, it looks like Adolf family is having a visitor today!