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"YOU'RE HERE!" came a sudden deafening but familiar high pitched voice which I knew all too well and almost jumped out of my skin at the shock that took over my body. And at the moment, someone had to cover my eyes, completely turning my surroundings black. 

"Sh!t! You gotta be joking," I groaned as I tried pulling away the hands that were wrapped around my head. This was unexpected. My breathing eventually got slower and my nerves started to ease. 

"Christine, I know its you and your beautiful slender fingers. Can you please pull away now?" I asked politely, my eyes trying hard not to tear up as she was sort of squeezing my closed eye lids causing me to flinch. Her response back was silence and the class turned abruptly quiet. The person was still there and still unresponsive. 

"Hello, I said you can take your hands off now," I almost yelled and started tugging those hands away from my eyes but was having a hard time because their grip were strong. "Oi! Do you want my eye balls to get swallowed by my head?"

"Maybe," came a gruff voice that I found was probably muffled by something solid but light to make her voice sound deep. 

"How dumb can she be," I thought to myself and rolled my eyes internally. Yes, I can do that. "Angel I know it's you so can you please force Christine to take away her hands. The joke's over."

"Nope," came Christine's clear creamy voice and actually retracted her hands back.

"God thank you..." I trailed as I thought it was over but only to be replaced by another set of hands. "YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME!"

"Did someone want to be fucked?" asked an evil sounding Joshua from the background. The dickhead thinks everything is a rotten joke and being his perverted self wasn't ashamed of asking it out loud. 

"Zip your mouth jackass." I warned with my eyes still in total darkness. The girls said the same causing an outburst of commotion to erupt starting with Christine and chased him away from the class.

"Naomi why can't you tell him to get lost and mind his own business when you're with us," suggested Angel who was very annoyed at the dirty joke earlier. 

"Why me?" she complained with a threatening face.

"Because you're in his class?" answered Imogen as helpfully as she can get. Naomi sent her dagger glares which made her look like a cross bunny with her petite form and rabbit teeth before answering Angel. 

"No I am not going to have to do anything that's connected to him."

"Why?" she pressed on with a wide grin. She knew how much she hated him. 

"Yo guys come on, I'm hungry!" Well that caught everyone's attention and remembered why I was yelling. 

"Are you?" asked the sweet Christine dramatically. 

"YES!" I scoffed at her irately. 

"Well I bet you wouldn't be hungry after...This!" and a second later, a pair of hands began attacking my stomach violently and tickled it with each long finger she had. I doubled back over my chair and furiously laughed and giggled as I begged her to stop. It was one of my few weak spots and I hate it when they do that. 

Christine is an amazing pianist and very skilled for her age that we always praised her for her melodious voice and pretty fingers which were born to play pianos. And right at that moment, I felt like the poor piano except the tunes were the wrong ones. 

Suddenly the fright that was there a few seconds ago were replaced by anger. My head started throbbing and my patience dwindled. 

"CHRISTINE ANDREWS HUNTER! I want you to stop. Now," I snapped, gritting my teeth as I struggled to get away from her grasp and crawled to the other side of the ground. Hesitantly, the grinning girl let me go had a wild expression on her face that might either give me nightmares or I am in one. 

"Sorry Scar! I couldn't help it!" she cackled out loud which made her voice fill the almost empty room and sent it echoing into our ears. Next to her was a flustered Angel and bored looking Imogen who was busy studying her Economic text book. "I'm sorry. It was just so tempting and at that moment I knew I wouldn't be able to control myself!"

I stared up at her in astonishment. Christine was normally calm and serious most of the time but doesn't go as far as almost killing me. I am suppose to be the opposite of forgiving but felt sorry as she rarely does it with her serious personality that was always blanketing her. 

"I'll let you go for now Chris but send me a signal next time that you're going to have that side of you again will ya," I shook my head and gave her a long frown. She giggled and hugged me warmly. 

"But where's the fun in that?" she gurgled but went back to her old self again. I heaved a sigh before realizing it was nearly time for class to begin. 

"I have to go guys. Sorry Chris, but don't you have some other class to get to?"

"Yeah. But I'm starting around 2 pm with Angel so at the mean time I'll just be here studying."

"Alright. You can join us while waiting you know."

"Thanks but I'd like to be alone for a while. Sherry will be there, tell her I said bye." I looked at her with a grim stare which made her avowed. "I haven't eaten anything all day!"

"Fine! But if you need us you know where we are. Come on Imogen. I bet Naomi was already there. Cya Chris," I waved before heading out with Imogen at my heels. 

xxxx

"As I mentioned yesterday, revenue is a way of measuring the success of a business. If revenues increase each year, most business owners would feel that they were making a success of their venture," explained Ms. Sherwood over and over again. "What would be another method of measuring the rate of success?"

"Customer satisfaction," answered Sherry confidently as she sat up straight.

"Very good Sherry. If customer service is good, a successful business will find that it has loyal customers and a growing customer base. Now, what I have planned for this after school class is for you all to complete the case study on H & M. You have 2 hours and I want the book within those hours, alright?"

"Yes," chorused the class before we started working. Turns out many people stayed that day were just to get away from the boredom at home and made the class seem more alive. I finished my work early as I've done half of it at home which left me to waste another 45 minutes. After getting my book corrected, I excused myself from class and when I came back after checking up on Christine who had long gone, I decided to help Naomi with her case study. 

"What's the third benefit?" she asked as she re-read the case again. 

"Market share," I mumbled as I read her half written answer. "What you can add for profit to help improve your point is that it can be used to measure success if the objective of the business is to maximize profit. By doing this the business can take account of their rates."

"Yeah I knew that," she grinned sheepishly. Rolling my eyes, I leaned my back against the wall and stretched. My neck was sore from sitting for so long and craning my neck every now and then helped so I started to roll my shoulders as well. I closed my eyes  and tried to relax for sometime before immediately opening it wide when the door crashed open. In came a bunch of sweat boys who were late for class.  

"Where were you'll?" our teacher asked the approaching boys. 

"Ummm...Sc-car..." stuttered Naomi who was looking at me in the eyes now.  

"What?" I mouthed before having my answers readily set behind us. "Oh...that." 

There in a row sat Adrian,Percy and Morgan who were busy chatting in their own world. I on the other hand who was jobless at the moment began reading to get out of any weird and awkward situation. Unfortunately that didn't happen. A few moments later the voice arrived.

"What's the thing we're suppose to do now?" asked a dazed Morgan to Percy and Adrian who was in the middle of yawning. 

"The case study of H&M," replied Percy as he flipped the pages of his text book. Adrian thanked him before beginning and just as I was about to be caught off guard I caught a sly grin appearing in Percy's face. 

Oh no. 

"Hey Scarlet, don't you think Adrian here is hot?" he jested out loud making Naomi spin around in surprised. Once again, I rolled my eyes to the heavens for the millionth time that day and smacked my forehead. How annoying can he get?

I let out an awkward smile and turned around to avoid any eye contacts but it wasn't going to stop there. He continued by asking if he was or not causing Adrian to get even more embarrassed by his friend's shitty questions. 

"Please,please,please. Shut up." I whined at him and wondered whether I should suggest something about this to his parents and take their son to the hospital for a brain scan and have a check up - just to make sure that they didn't adopt an alien.  

He did. After a while later he actually minded his own business and did his work half way. Time went by fast and there was still 15 minutes to 3 pm. Imogen who was sitting in front of me with teacher next to her was complaining about some problem Sherry had with herself.  

Sherry did have a problem.  It was so serious that I'm not sure and skilled or experienced doctors will find a cure for this...this...sickness. She was too, overly...positive.

Saying that out loud in my brain just sends shivers down my spine. Goosebumps would start erupting any time sooner if she goes on with her ranting about the effects of being positive. 

"Positive my ass," I sneered. We always had a constant battle about this topic and no one seemed to win although everyone is against her. Not even Christine was siding with her as she too is one of her biggest opponents when it comes to this topic s she retaliates so much to the point that we had to just leave Sherry in her own happy world which I don't see around me.Since she is an only child she doesn't know what "negativity" is.

The world is evil and I am highly convinced about that, especially since I am a victim. 

 Guess she had been poisoned by someone or overdosed by God to think life is amazing and full of good luck.

B-u-l-l-s-h-i-t. 

I always get pissed off when she starts her talk about life. At the end we go no where. 

"Scarlet. SCARLET," came a deep voice calling me from my hazy thoughts. Instantly I felt the dread rush through my veins as I turned familiar towards the voice. Slowly I turned to my right where I saw him standing next to the teacher who was correcting his book and when he saw that he caught my attention, he leaned against the wall and continued. "Scarlet. Can you hear me ? Hey Scarlet."

I chose to wisely ignore this fool and stood up to walk out of class. Soon I found myself wondering around the corridors and took my phone out. I began scrolling through social media while texting Diana who seemed to be in much better shape than before. 

Right...that ass. 

By the time I returned back, I only had to grab my bag and the girls before heading out as the bell had rang indicating freedom. 

"Are you leaving by the back or front gate? asked Naomi as I waited patiently beside her to pack her bag. 

"Back," I answered shortly. Apparently she was going there too and so was Imogen. 

"Let's go then. Quick I wanna get out of this class," I complained and nudged her to quicken her pace.

"Wait! I'm not a robot you know," she argued back. Imogen wasn't going to take this as an answer as she was going home by bus and was going to be late if she doesn't leave now. 

"Ok, I'm leaving before I miss my bus. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye." she announced without seconds thoughts when I grabbed her back as she was stepping out of class. 

Typical Imogen. 

"Hold up!" I said and gave her a good bye hug before letting her zoom out, she as usual just shrugged a buy and waved me off with a smile before rushing out. "Hehe cute."

"Bye Imogen!" yelled Naomi from the class. 

"Are you done yet?" I asked impatiently. 

"Yup. Let's get the hell outta here," said Naomi as she threw her last strap to her left shoulder. 

Just what I needed. A break!

I took out my phone to check any incoming messages but found none yet and started playing games instead leaving Naomi to stay silent. Just as we stepped out of class and walked out of the corridor, I sensed something wrong and when I looked up from my screen, it was almost too late.

 Luckily I have great balancing which prevented me from falling face first. I stood still for a while eyes wide and heart pumping adrenaline rapidly around my body which didn't work as I was standing there frozen, an extremely surprised look plastered on my face. 

 Naomi stood there laughing at me while the ass just chuckled and was about to retreat before I remembered how to move my muscled. I instantly ran to him while he tried escaping and smacked his arm hard. 

What happened a little while ago as Naomi described it was that while I was busy concentrating on my phone, she noticed Percy creeping quietly around the corner and was about to warn me when he quickly lifted his finger to his mouth. 

Naomi stifled to giggle and when I looked up he dove to my legs which shocked me to the core as it happened so fast that I thought I was going to trip  over him because I had nothing to grope onto. Just as I mentioned earlier, I have good balancing.   

I was furious at both of them but mostly on Naomi who had betrayed and sided with him at that split second. 

"How could you?!" I huffed turning bright red. 

"I'm sorry. He told me not too and you were to busy that..and...well it happened so quickly OK!"she defended with a smirk which made me hate he even more now. 

"I'm going cya in hell," I said and trudged off as I exited the main doors and ran towards the gate. 

"Hey wait up," panted Naomi as I sat at the steps of a class next to the gate. Percy was no where in sight after I smacked him as I ran off after getting pissed. 

I took out my phone again and waited for my Dad to call. While waiting I happened to stumble upon an interesting EXO post which might cheer up Diana. She was going to pick me up soon anyways. 

A while later I found out that my dad was indeed going to come late and I informed him that I was going to stay at Diana's place till then. I excitedly got ready to get out of school and waited till Naomi left. 

Just as I was about to share the post with Diana, I felt a strong pull grabbing my phone and running away with it. 

Just...terrific. 

I immediately got up without waiting for any fazes to attack me as I've already been through it several times that day. Taking a deep breath, I made up my mind and chased the jack ass culprit.

"Oi! What the hell do you think you're doing?" I shouted standing on my tiptoes and tried to take my phone back from him. 

"Chatting with boys are you?" he chuckled and held my phone high so I can't reach it. 

"Ughh, no just give it back! Why do you care?" I hissed and snatched my phone away just as he was lowering his arms down.  He let out an devilish smirk before leaving for the bus. 

I tried to muster up the strength to be mad but I couldn't. 

"Cya ass," Percy called and held a thumbs up in the sky. 

"Get lost ass," I responded back in silence all the while  This is what happens when Diana doesn't come. She misses a wonderful batch of crap. Almost forgetting that I wasn't alone. Naomi just watched in wonderment. I stared at her in disbelief and shook my head. I stared down at my phone and thank god that I was just sending Diana pics of Baekhyung (EXO) and not in my chats. I hate him. Although Percy was still lingered  in my mind and I couldn't shake it out.

"What the what just happened?" 

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Soooo, we see that Scarlet is in a turmoil of her own again. What do you guys think of this story so far ? 

Is Percy getting a little too comfortable teasing Scar or is he just a plain ass ? 

Read the next chapters to learn more about Scarlet's next journey. 

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