I was wrong. My day is worse than I'd expected it to be. My history professor pairs me up with Mega-Bitch for the project that we are supposed to submit next week as our punishment for arriving late to the class.

During lunch, Alex tries his best to cheer me up. He is seriously the best person in this whole entire world. After my mom. And dad. And Noah.

Then to worsen my day I slip from the stairs.

An obnoxious person left a banana peel near the stairs but I don't see it and I slip, landing a few steps down at an awkward angle. The Mega-Bitch and her minions see me and laugh their heads off. One of the person in the crowd even records a video of me falling down the steps and sends it to all the students in our grade. And now everyone knows  that I am the clumsiest person in this whole school. Wait, let me count how many fucks I give.

One... One and a half...

Oh, shit they flew away.

There are people who are always going to love me. They don't care how clumsy I am. They love me the way I am. And so why should I care what others think about me? I am getting loved back by the people I love.

OK, well now I am being dramatic. But my day doesn't end there. During detention, the Mega-Bitch acts all like a bitch, which indeed, she is. Her boyfriend, John Walker, also has detention with us. But they are more indulged in kissing each other the whole time than criticizing the boring detention. The teacher who is sitting in the same room is acting as if he wasn't there also. Finally, when he feels awkward seeing a couple physically express their intense love to each other, he leaves the room instead of stopping them.

I seriously hate couples. The way they forget about the world around them whenever they see their spouse, the way they talk to each other and the way they come in physical contact with each other,  its really annoying.But Sometimes I wish, like any other teenage girl that even I had a boyfriend, but mostly I feel happy to be a free independent woman.

I know, you are right now thinking that I am such a complicated mess. And I have to agree with you.

***

Detention is almost over, I just have to wait for five minutes more. Why can't time pass faster whenever I want it to and when I just want time to stop forever, it passes ten times faster than usual.

I try to calm myself by telling myself that it are just five minutes.

But they aren't just five minutes.

Megan comes to me and starts to abuse me in her grotesque tone. As always. She say that I was very useless and that I am not worth anything. The same bullshit she tells me all the time.

'Well, you never told me whether you would come to my party or not?'

I try to ignore her by looking away.

'Would you bring your friend, Alex to my party as your friend or as your date?'I have had it now.

'What is your problem? Can you not mind your own fucking business? Oops... I forgot, you don't have your own business. Your business is to stick your head into all other peoples' lives. And for your kind information I am worth of having a boyfriend.'

I instantly regret the last line that I say.

'OK, if you're really worth it, I dare you to get yourself a boyfriend by next week. And if you fail you will have to write "Megan is the best" on a placard and roam around the whole school holding it,' She says.

'Fine,' I say at once without thinking and storm out of the room.

I go to the parking lot and soon I realize that I have no ride back home. Alex probably would have gone back to his home now and Noah wouldn't come to pick me up.

I am standing in the middle of the parking lot, which is almost vacant, feeling helpless. And just to make conditions more complicated it starts to rain heavily.  I don't know what to do next? And also how will I manage to get myself a boyfriend in a week? I am being suffocated by my own gloomy thoughts.

Suddenly, I feel a hand resting upon my shoulders. I turn around in shock. It is Jacob Smith.I know him. We are in the same history class.

' What are you doing standing in the rain?' He speaks.

'Pretending to be Ariel,' I say stupidly.

Jacob sighs and says, 'seriously?' And then there is the same dramatic-awkward silence that you see in teen movies, where no one says anything but just feel uncomfortable.

'I don't have a ride back home' I say.

'I will drop you to your place. Get inside my car now or you might fall sick.'

'OK.'

***

We don't talk for the rest of the journey. I kind of feel awkward around him.

Finally after, what feel like an eternity, we reach at my place.

'Thank you for the ride,' I say clambering out of the car.

'No problem. Well, bye then,' Jacob says.

'Bye.'

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-SB