8

Yash's pov

I had to change school.

As a shy kid, I wondered how long it would take for me to get a hang of this new system. No one knew I was shy though, I mean as the headteacher's son, everyone probably assumed my character, people thought I was an intel or something and this was one of the reasons I kept my cool on getting there.

I didn't mind being alone though, to be honest, I wasn't given much choice. There was only one male in the class and it wasn't me to speak to people the moment I saw them. I liked to keep my space and be left to do my things.

I chose my sit first as I was in the class before anyone else. You might be wondering why I didn't go for assembly but then I didn't think it was important, what exactly was going to happen there anyway. Someone gives a welcome speech and introduction of new people and all, they were still going to do it in the class.

My classmates probably didn't like this, I knew from the way they looked at me, the gaze was familiar, it was the 'just because he was who he was' gaze.

First-person that spoke to me was a girl, from her posture and the way she spoke I knew she was those fashion nova girls tryna make an impression and she did, she was the kind of one that tries to get a guy to mark her spot. Super clingy, and this was how I thought of all of them. Since there were loads of girls.

The first fight I had was between a girl and I thought it was unnecessary, come to think of it, I was senseless then. Maybe because of the school I was coming from everyone was always angry and all. It all happened pretty quickly and before I knew it, it turned into a silent treatment between us both. Which didn't bother me, I always had the feeling she wanted me to know who was boss here, it was obvious with the way she talked with everyone, well except me and that made me respect her. But that didn't mean a thing to me. If she was wrong I wasn't just going to ignore, instead, I'll tell her because I don't follow the usual protocol. I'm Yash not just anyone.

Later on, the treatment wore out and we became friends, and once I even told her she was my good friend, she was about to leave school that day and on her way out I also added she is 1st girl this close to me, Hopefully, she didn't catch that, to be honest, I felt a tingle in my chest saying it. I had never smiled at a girl that much so it was kinda awkward and weird for me too.

But this changed easily, Daisy was troublesome. She knew how to look for trouble, her small stature is quite deceiving actually, once I got closer to her I figured this. I wasn't sure if calling her my friend was a mistake or maybe I was enthralled to say such.

Sometimes she just step on my toes, like once she hit me with a chair, ON THE EYE. I shouted at her because I was in so much pain, I had an issue with that eye, this made for why my eye looked like it had particles on the sclera. Some people thought it looked good, but I never wanted it. It only made me feel pain in the eye. Then she comes and hit me there, I don't know how she felt then but to be sincere I wasn't interested. Also, there was once she decided to also get me punished, which made me mad, I almost began to dislike but I thought better by avoiding her. I didn't know I hit her that day, I was so engrossed with what I was doing but she didn't see that and decided to make matters big. I feel like she just likes to toy with me, like a hobby or something.

After a while, I kinda became possessive of her, not emotionally or anything, she just got me mad when she did some things. Like when she won competitions, she'll just go jumping around people and talking to them. She never even sat for once and thought about acting timid, maybe because they lost or something, no, she prefers to be self-centred instead.

For the first 3 months it was like a rollercoaster ride(we talk today, tomorrow we don't.). It was kinda sickening. It (first term) ended quickly and rumour had it that the girl and I were in a relationship. I felt... like someone rumoured against, and to those who believed I was thinking"you didn't hear the whole story you just heard 'one' person's opinion with no evidence and you are all believing if it were an offence or a crime I would be in police custody.

This got so deep my friend kept asking me if it were true. I had to 'lie' to him so he could stop asking me. I was kinda scared cause from the history of the school, those in a relationship never got far and my case was an assumed one so…I didn't expect it to continue, besides, we both knew(the girl and I) it wasn't true, also I wasn't even sure the girl knew how far this information had spread, but then my friend, the one I lied to went to tell her what I said. I had to tell her later because I wasn't sure if I was ready to be responsible for a greater lie.

We started the second term a little 'cooled-down' I mean we settled it during the exams. I was there to focus on my studies not to get distracted so whatever rumour about me that was flying around, to hell with it.