Chapter Fifteen: Plans For Break-up and the Shocking Pair-up

"What's happening in school these days, you two?" Dad asked at dinner that night.

"Nothing much, Lately Mark has been receiving a lot of attention--I mean detentions from professors." I shrugged, helping myself to mashed potatoes.

"And Andy is adored so much by the professors that she got thrown out of class recently." Mark said, eating the gravy.

"That means you two are bad kids at school." Mum remarked, placing her fork on the table, "Think I should start giving both of you detentions at home."

Mark & I froze in horror & just couldn't push the morsel of food down our throats after hearing that.

"N-No! I-I was joking...Mark passed his History test with good marks. Laura told me that the professor remarked Mark should get a gold medal for this." I said

"Yes Yes! Its true. And Andy's recent English assignment was the best in class." said Mark, "We rock, sister!"

"There is no doubt on that brother!" I replied back. We did a Hi-5 after that.

"Nice way of repairing the damages done." my dad chuckled seeing Mark & me act stupid, "But you know what, your mum & I trust both of you."

"That's true. We trust you two to judge what is right & not be involved in anything seriously wrong." Mum agreed.

"Heard that Mark? Atleast now you can try & bring down the number of detentions you get in a week." I told him.

"And you can very well drag your lazy bones to class on time." he poked me back.

Mum & Dad sighed at that. Mark & I gave a soft chuckle at that.

"Mom, Dad" spoke Mark in a serious tone, "You're the coolest parents ever! We won't let you down for sure."

"Absolutely! You won't be disappointed with us." I added.

"Seems like my seventeen year old kids are mature after all." mum smiled.

"I can't be sure about Andy but I'm mature after all." Mark thumped his chest with pride.

"Look who's talking." I raised my brows at him.

And that's how dinner for that night ended like always. Ha Ha!

I had just entered my room upstairs when I heard my phone buzzing on my study table. I answered Soph's call.

Twenty minutes later, Dad was dropping me at Sophia's house. Laura too arrived there at the same time in a cab.

"The plan for sleepover sounds a good one. Seems like Soph can't wait to tell us about her date in person." Laura said as she rang the doorbell of the house.

"Yeah, looks like she has had the Best Kiss Ever." I agreed.

But when Soph ushered us into her house, then into her room, Laura & I could tell Soph didn't really have the Best Date Ever.  Soph sighed & slumped onto the sofa, giving us the world's time to guess what went wrong on her date.

Laura & I looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Then I took the brave step,

"So,um, did Mike turn out to be a vampire?" I asked. Laura raised her brows at me.

"Worse than that." Soph replied.

"Ermm...was he some horcrux of Voldemort, you know, You-Know-Who."

Laura again gave me Will-you-stop-being-Stupid looks. Hey! I'm like that okay! I don't know how to deal with such situations.

"Worser than that." Soph sighed.

"Really? Okay, I can't think of anything else right now." I raised my hands in surrender.

"Mike is a Technology Freak." Soph began & with the looks of it, she wouldn't be stopping anytime soon, "He began to narrate how technology has become so advanced & went on to explain each & every part that is required to manufacture smartphones, laptops, tablets, how television works with all that satellite & stuff, how washing machine washes clothes & even gave me detailed overview of the working of the Microwave Oven!! Can you believe it? A Microwave!! I mean I'm not in the least interested to know how it works & why should I even be bothered about how on earth the microwave heats food!! I 'm only concerned with hogging the yummy pizzas that can be prepared with a microwave oven!!"

"Yes Yes, You should hog pizzas." I nodded. Frankly speaking, I just understood the last line of what Soph spoke as she was blabbering in rocket speed.

"That's exactly what I did! I ate the double cheese pizza that we ordered in that restaurant!!" Soph said in a hyper tone.

"You did the right thing buddy." I encouraged her.

"Thank you!" Soph said, calming herself down. I sighed as she finally cooled down.

Laura rolled her eyes at our antics, "So what next?"

"I need to break up with him. He's a good guy & all that but I don't wished be bored with more tech talks."

"Are you serious? He spoke nothing except technology?" Laura asked amused.

"You're right. Nothing beyond technology." Soph nodded, "I want to break up with him but don't know how do I do that cause don't wanna hurt him."

"So what's the issue? Just Unpropose him. Simple." I shrugged in no-big-deal manner.

"Andy! You're speaking as if its as easy as to Unfollow someone on Twitter." Soph rebuked me.

"Exactly! Soph can't be rude to him." Laura too rebuked me.

"Okay Okay Peace!" I raised my hands in surrender.

"I've got to think of how to work things out with him." Soph said, dropping her face in her hands.

"We will help out." Laura assured.

So we three sat in silence, apparently deep in thought of the most polite way in which Soph could break up with Mike. One minute passed....Two minutes passed.....Eight and half minutes passed, we didn't speak one word.

On the ninth minute, my phone beeped.  I checked to see what was it & a wide sheepish grin spread on my face seeing what the notification was & but I quickly put up a grave face again to suit the situation in which we were in.

"What? What is it?" Soph questioned, apparently she had seen the stupid smile on my face.

"Uh...well, nothing. Its not the appropriate time to discuss about it." I said.

"No. What is it? We really wanna know." Laura said curiously.

"Fine." I said, "I don't know how to break this to both of you, given the serious situation which we are in, but Harry Styles just posted a pic on Twitter."

The very next split second, Laura & Soph launched at me & grabbed my phone from my hand to check his snap.

"Omigod! He looks so breath taking!!" Soph gushed, "Wait, let me tweet to him."

Soph took out her phone, logged in to Twitter & began pressing alphabet buttons  as though Harry Styles would read & reply to her tweet. Meanwhile, Laura & I were still fangirling over the pic.

"Hey! I got a link of One Direction's latest interview!!!" Laura squealed in delight.

"Lets watch it. No time to waste there." I said. Soph immediately reached out for her laptop & we watched their interview giggling & laughing at their answers.

"I can't believe Louis said that!" Soph chortled.

"And did you see Liam's reaction to that!" I giggled.

The rest of the time we were gossiping about One Direction which included Zayn's latest hairstyle, Niall's selfies & so on and on and on and on until we decided it was high time we try & get some sleep! Oh boy!

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“Can't believe we're actually not late for school even after sleeping for hardly three hours last night." I mused, sipping coffee at the school canteen that morning.

"Yeah and we didn't think of a polite way for Soph to break up with her ex-crush." Laura said.

"I don't even want to talk about that." said Soph, sinking in her seat.

"Its absolutely simple Soph. Just tell him the truth frankly instead of beating around the bush. He will appreciate that." I said.

We got off our seats & made our way out of the canteen. We saw the crowded "popular table" & no points for guessing, it was occupied by Drake, Susan who was hardly dressed like always & sat on his lap seductively running her hands over him, other make up clad snooty girls who wanted to be in her place, other people who were equally haughty and my brother Mark. There were snobbish laughs and chats going on amongst them.

"Can't believe your brother hangs around with this arrogant group." Soph told me as we walked out of there.

Before I could say anything, Laura spoke in a sort of defensive tone,

"Mark doesn't hangs around with them everytime, he does so once in a while if you haven't noticed that."

"Why are you being so defensive about him?" Soph countered. She didn't like the tone in which Laura spoke.

"I-I am just correcting you. That's all." she said in an unnerved voice.

Soph looked away scornfully. Laura stared at the floor. I too kept grave silence. The fact that Mark hangs around with Drake & his friends has somewhat bothered me right from the start. I don't want Mark to change, to become arrogant like those people.....

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"Students, its time to hand out the next English assignment" Miss Martin spoke to the class, "This time I've thought of giving you a fun activity. You will work in pairs for this one. The two people in a group would watch two different films of the same genre & discuss the films amongst each other. The discussion has to be put down in Word Document & submitted by next week."

Whoa! Never saw that one coming but nonetheless, it was pretty interesting. The entire class was speculating.  The murmurs died down when the English teacher spoke again,

"To decide the groups of two, we have chits." she held a bowl containing chits, "Starting from the first row, you will come here & pick up a chit to know who would be your assignment partner. "

My throat went dry hearing that. Somehow I sensed that something won't be right. I just hope to get sensible partner.

I was seated in the second row which meant I would have to go & pick up a chit. One by one everyone picked up chits & groups of two were made. Laura got paired up with a curly haired girl. Just when I thought Mark & I could do this assignment together, he got paired with a blonde haired girl.

Then my turn came. I walked up to the teachers desk. There were five chits in the bowl. I got that unsettling feeling again. Andy, don't pick up the wrong chit, I told myself. I gulped my saliva in fear as if it was a do-or-die situation for me which earned me an impatient look from Miss Martin.

I picked up a chit & began opening it as if I was going to unveil the biggest mystery of planet Jupiter...and then...and then...I was blue with shock...

"Drake Spencer." the teacher announced, "Ms Wilson, you are with him for this assignment."

Thud!!!

Andy, you picked up the wrong chit, I told myself. I am NOT going to do any assignment with Drake. Never!!

"Will you please allow me to pick up another chit? Everyone deserves second chances in life!" I implored the teacher.

Miss Martin dismissed me. I returned back to my seat after a losing the already lost battle. Drake smirked at me from the fourth row. It seems he has already thought of something to irritate the hell out of me.

If he does any mischief, I swear no one can protect him from my dark side!!!

After all the groups were made, Miss Martin spoke,

"You need to decide with your partners the genre & the films you want to take & let me know at the earliest."

The class ended soon after.

There is no doubt this week's gonna be the longest & the most unpredictable week ever. Sheesh!

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