Serene's Land

3 Roses

"Sereeeenee!!! We missed you...." 

I hear the chorus and before I can even react I am engulfed into hug from both of my sides by my best friends.

"I can't breathe..." I try to shout at them but my voice comes out muffled.

"Awe...my baby can't breathe..."Aria teases but releases me from the hug

Lisa chuckles and moves aside as well. After collecting the books from our locker we start walking towards our class.

Aria, Lisa and I have been best friends since kindergarden. From then we are studying in the same school and are always together in everything we do. We are famously known as 3 roses in school.

This name was given by my brother. 

Once, we three were helping mom in gardening and Luis noticed 3 roses bloomed on my mom's favorite rose plant. Luis was like "Serene  ...you three are like 3 roses" and we were surprised from where he came up with that. 

He showed us the three roses and said "Look, Those roses bloomed together and the same way you three always stick together". 

Aria was really impressed with the name. 

From then Luis calls us that and he made it popular in school as well. Since, we are famously known as three roses...hahaha..

First hour was English and my favorite class because I love listening to stories. 

"Hey! That's my seat..."Lisa shouts and that's when I realize there is a guy sitting next to me. I was so busy with my thoughts that I completely forgot about my surrounding. 

So now who is this new guy?  He has got brown color eyes with black color hair and has a muscular body. He is a good looking person but something is off with him. I didn't realize I was staring at him until the guy spoke up. 

“Is your name written on this seat?" He asks in a harsh voice looking irritated at Lisa. 

I notice there is something different about this guy. He has a different kind of aura, though I am not able to exactly understand what I am feeling, still I feel something is not right.

Lisa was shocked to hear someone speaking to her like that. She is really a pretty girl with fair skin, grey eyes and dark black curly hairs with a slender body. Normally boys try to impress her and no one speaks to her harshly but here the scenario was different. 

She looked at me and Aria and I was really agitated to see someone being rude to my friend. 

"Whether name is written or not, she normally sits here and I believe you can find another seat next to any boy over there." I say to him pointing to the other side where there are empty seats.

“What if I don't want to sit with any boys and I want to sit here next to you" He smirks at me.

I was shocked to hear that and was done with his bullshit. I got up from the seat followed by Aria. 

"Fine! Enjoy the class." I say gritting my teeth. And that stupid again smirks at me. I feel like slapping that smirk out of his face. But I just ignore him and us three move to a seat behind and settle there.

Lisa was still gloomy and Aria was trying to console her when Mr. Fernando enters the class wishing us good morning. He is our English teacher and I love the way he narrates stories.

He starts with the class and I get involved in it when Aria nudges me from the side. I look at her irritated.

"Look at that guy, he is staring at you from long time" she whispers in my ears.

I look towards the guy with whom we had a word fight few minutes ago. He was staring at me as if he is solving some puzzles on my face.

I raise one eye brow and stare at him back mouthing "what"

He smirks again and turn front facing our teacher who was already glaring at him. 

Mr. Fernando yells at him "Michael, if you are not interested in the class kindly move out rather than disturbing others.

Ooohh!!! So the stupid good looking guy’s name is Michael. It suits him right?" Aria asks to Lisa and me. We both glare at her and ignore the question. Good looking or not doesn't matter. Aria always goes with the looks and Lisa and I already knew that she was already drooling over that stupid good looking bad guy.

Normally I am not a person who feels happy from others fall but today there is a change in that. I was really happy to see him get scolded. 

He got up from his seat and moved towards the door with whole class staring at him. We thought he might apologize for his behavior and continue the class but no, all he did was walk out of the class. From the doorway he turned towards me and winked. To be honest I was more than pissed and that's when I realized he was not just stupid but an arrogant ass with good looks.

Aria and Lisa was giggling sitting beside me. I glared at them and they stopped giggling and we focused back in our class. Normally, I never know one hour passing when I am in English class but today I was not able to concentrate. It was like whenever I try listening, his face and his words pops up in my mind. No, it is not like I have got some feelings towards him but I feel something else. There is something hidden behind his eyes. There is something that's not right. 

The bell rings and my train of thoughts are broken. We immediately pick out things and move to the next class which is math’s. 

"This is going to be a long hour...I hate math’s' my best friends immediately agree to it. Three of us hate this class. As we don't have any option we sit and wait for our teacher to arrive and finish this one hour soon. Michael was not there in this class and I was more than relieved. I was not interested in creating a scene again. Finally our teacher comes and we begin with our long one hour of math’s class.