Chapter 1: Prologue
As I laid in bed that night, it all soaked up to me. I did this. I did this. Not him. Me. Bella Swan.
"You know this means taking a break right?" I winced, weighing, expecting his reaction. They all flashed at once. Bewilderment. Confusion. Sadness? Pain? I wouldn't know, being the unemotional creature that I was, I trod carelessly.
"You know, for the upcoming exams." I added. I swiveled around the room in my chair, not even considering how upfront this ultimatum is, how it would affect him. I had zero thoughts on how it would hurt him, I guess I never did.
"Taking a break would mean breaking up for real." He whispered, seemingly unknown that he had spoken out loud like he did. For someone so cool, he wasn't at his top game when it comes to me, to us, he knows this and I know this. I'm aware of this enough to start abusing it, using it to my advantages.
I stayed quiet because it was my intention to break up. I was done with this.
We began class. The teacher constantly hitting up his girlfriend. We usually would have giggled like the happy lovey dovey couple we were. We weren't today. He knew what was coming. I already braced myself for this for quite awhile now. Ever since the first time I too uttered those words. People talk, they whisper about us. The supposed goody-two shoes and the hotshot basketball dunking guy, they say opposites really do attract. What they are only half-aware of is we are, I guess we were the on and off couple. Yeah, I admit, for the alleged nerd and obedient girl from a strict family, I have a tendency to break guy's hearts. Not quite literally for I've only dated thrice, including Him, and it all ended in tatters. This made me question many things.
I often wondered to myself the question he voiced only days after our relationship crashed and burnt, "why did I let it continue?" "why did I even agree in the first place?". It started not a year ago but nine.
Author's note:
Hi all, welcome. Please bear with me guys, this is very short and I guess more prologue-ish. I am about to update the next chapter. And this is a spin-off of the classic bellaward story, but they're both Asian and written from my personal experiences. I thought it would be cool to give it a neat twist since I haven't actually seen one particularly like you the real heads up on what it's like dating and having relationships and just growing up as an individual teenage in Asia, Vietnam more specifically. Any comments or reviews are most wanted and most needed:)) Here we go!
-Maria Nguyen x
