Chapter 1

"Seriously?! WHY are people so obsessed with being in a relationship? They are so overrated. Ugh. Typical teenagers" said Caroline, as she grabbed her plate in the cafeteria and searched for a place to peacefully have lunch in without being smothered by the teenagers and their hormones around her.

"You do realise that you too are a teen right?" said Elena with a suppressed smile.

Sighing, Caroline said "Well," she paused for dramatic effect, "I happen to be a different type of a teenager." When Bonnie, her other best friend raised her eyebrows, Caroline felt the need to make light of the situation. Saying "Maybe my ancestors liked Tea better than Coffee or something...I don't know !" was her attempt to do so.

Laughing lightly, they all found a seat and were diggin in when they heard a nervous "Hey guys!". it was Veronica, a new girl in her high school who seemed fairly nice. Elena smiled at her and asked her to join them.

"So? Did I intrude in on an important discussion or something?" she asked. Bonnie gave a sarcastic laugh and said "Caroline was only rambling about how much she hates relationships and teenagers in general"

Acting playfully offended, Caroline replied scoffing, "I was not! it just so happens that I hate relationships." Veronica looked a little shocked and asked "But why?".

Bonnie and Elena understood why Veronica would be surprised. After all, Caroline was a popular girl at school, she was not bad to look at, and she handled and supervised almost all the events that took place in school and was in the good graces of almost all teachers.

Caroline's thoughts trailed to her sole reason of hating relationships. She may have evolved into a mature girl now, but she had evolved from being a completely different person. To cut it short, she was a narcissistic bitchy person, who was very popular and was as typical a teen as any of the other hormone ridden excuses for people in her school. Of course. There was this one guy who was the cause of it all.

Elena snapped her fingers and sang "Back to Earth Care" while they gave her a knowing look, aware of what – rather , who- exactly she was thinking about, while Veronica was looking at her expectantly.

"Oh! Right. Sorry. No exact reason actually. it's just that they are like an ice cream you know? initially you really like it, but towards the end you are kinda sick of it and wanna finish it off or throw it away."

"Care, only you would feel like that. Nobody else hates ice cream here" Bonnie said with the 'I-don't-have-time-for-your-bullshit look.

Veronica took in her words, and knowingly asked "So, who's the guy? is he in our school? What's your story?" Caroline looked at her like she was an alien from Mars who had just snatched some chocolates from a toddler with a unibrow.

"Well there must be an ex boyfriend who you possibly hate right now, with whom you hit a tragic dead end and it made you hate all relationships and guys in general" Veronica said.

Caroline took a deep breath and Bonnie and Elena sighed, having had front row seats to that show for too long. "Well, it is a bloody long story to be honest, but the gist of it is that No. I don't hate him. And he isn't a villain in this story. And one may hate the human species despite them being humans themselves right?" She asked.

"What?"

Elena answered to her matter-of-factly "She hates relationships, but she has never been in one. Or that's what she says."

Veronica didn't see that coming. All she could do was watch agape.

Caroline put her defenses up and said "I say it because it's the truth."

"Debatable."

Veronica asked "How could one being in a relationship or NOT, possibly be DEBATABLE?"

Caroline smirked in an evil, yet adorable way. " Well, it's one hell of a story, kid."

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