"Hello everyone! This is your morning news with Aisha-"

"-And Felix!"

"Today in the cafeteria we are serving pizza and hamburgers. The side options today are salad, apple sauce, or a muffin. Now for today's-"

"IT'S AN EGG!" Felix shouted. I turned my head at lightning speed. My face went from a fake smile to annoyed in a matter of seconds.

"Felix.." I tried to get his attention for him to stay on topic, but he refused to listen.

"I don't remember where I got the egg. They're great for baking though!" I rolled my eyes at him.

I tried to overpower his voice with mine so then we could get back on topic. "TODAY is a B schedule, meaning everyone who plays a band instrument has rehearsal during the 4th period today." I finished saying my part. Once I did, it was Felix's turn with the weather. I turned my head back at him and death stared at him as if silently cursing at him. He looked at me, then at the camera, understanding that this was his cue.

"Today's forecast is partly cloudy, staying in the mid..." he looked back at his notes, then at the camera again. "...20's. With a low of 23 and a high of 25 Celsius." Felix seemed on edge now. I felt a little bad about the whole thing, but at the same time we needed to take this seriously. The whole school is watching us, and I'm not ready to make a complete fool out of myself just because he wants to go off topic to be "cool" and impress his girlfriend or something.

Because I was zoning out, I almost forgot that it was my turn to end the news. I shook my head, staring blank at the camera. Oh shoot. That's when I heard Felix pipe up from next to me.

"That's it for the Morning News. Stay toned and see you tomorrow! Bye!" He said, waving at the camera with the egg in his hand. I looked at him. I feel bad now.

"And cut!" Seungmin, the camera guy, said.

As if cued by Seungmin, Felix looked at me. I turned my head away from him, quickly leaving the room to head to my first period class. Behind me I could hear Seungmin say "Wow," to Felix, followed by the rest of an inaudible conversion.

That was so embarrassing.

I felt like throwing up, even though I couldn't since I didn't eat breakfast. Pulling my hoodie over my face, I proceeded down the hallway. All the girls and even some of the guys stared at me as I walked down, murmuring stuff about me that I wish I didn't know. It was always the same thing.

"She doesn't deserve to be near Felix"

"Felix is so much better than her"

"I wish I was with Felix instead of her"

"Even Felix is prettier than her"

"She's so rude to my precious Felix"

Shut up.

I wanted them to just shut up. Yes, I was being a little too harsh with Felix, I admit it. But he's the one that can't focus just because he wants to impress people and seem 'funny'. Lucky for him though, it worked. Now everyone hates me for being serious. Because according to everyone, being serious is bad, which makes me the bad guy.

At this rate, I'm okay with being the bad guy. I'm here for one reason; to get a good education. So if all these fatherflippers are going to ruin that, then they'll get their karma. I'm not worried. At least not about them or what they say.

I made my way to my desk in my math classroom. I couldn't help but flinch at the sight of the words carved into my desk.

'Go to hell Aisha'

I blinked a few times, stunned at what I was reading. Everyone in the classroom laughed at my shocked expression. I began to laugh too. It's so funny- they think this hurts me. I don't care. These are four meaningless words. Now the whole classroom went quiet at the sound of my laughter.

"Good one guys!" I said cheerfully, putting up a fake smile. They were stunned, sharing the facial expression I had before. I laughed harder now.

"Oh my goodness! The look on your faces! It's priceless!" Then I went quiet, just to scare them. "Well... Everything has a price." I said creepily. It made everyone look around the classroom at each other before turning back in their seats.

The teacher was late. Again. It took a good 10 minutes before he finally came to the classroom. It took another 50 minutes for the class to end. It seemed like forever until it was finally time for lunch. I didn't bring lunch, nor get lunch from the cafeteria. Instead, I sat on the top floor of the library, doing my homework and reading about vampires and werewolves. Much more interesting than a bunch of teenage drama. Much quieter as well.

To my surprise, someone actually came up to the library today. I was so curious, I peeked down to see who it was. Muscular guy. Looked slightly older than a high school student. He must've been 18 or something. Wasn't very tall either. My eyes widened. He was coming upstairs. I ducked behind the self help book shelf. He was headed right my way.

I tried my best for him not to see me, but that's when I heard my name.

"Aisha?" his voice sounded... different.

I turned to face him. Oh frick.

"What are you doing in this section? You never struck me as a self-help type of person."

Frick frick frick frick-

"Are you alright?" He asked, his accent sounding just like Felix's. "Aisha?"

I stared at him dead in the eyes. He moved closer to me. Moving back, I tried to turn around and walk away. As I proceeded to move, the feeling of his giant hand grabbed me, completely wrapping around my arm like a snake. 

"Aisha! What's going on? You just changed one day and stopped talking to all of your friends. It's been months! Did you forget me or something?" He demanded an answer. An answer I wasn't giving anyone.

"Chris..." I muttered quietly. My eyes were wide in fear. "I didn't forget you... I just..." I wasn't planning on finishing my sentence. I kicked him in the stomach, dashing down the stairs and out of the library.

I don't want to go back to my past. I hated it. I'm sorry I started acting differently, Chris. But I couldn't handle the pressure of who I was back then. It was time to focus on my future. My time was up a long time ago, I had no choice.

I had no choice.