Chapter 11: A new friend
Third person's POV
"Come on Soren! You promised me to get me some ice cream!"
"Okay, okay!"
Soren replied as his arm was dragged forward by Malru, his new girlfriend. Malru giggled happily as she ran leading him toward the direction of the cafeteria. Yes, he broke up with his previous girlfriend, Ellegaard, who was standing from afar watching the new couple spending their happy time together.
Ellegaard gripped her skirt tightly while her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend running further out of her vision. Malru holding his arm and Soren smiling down at her… This reminded her so much about the old days when she and he were together… She turned around and walked away without realizing that Malru was looking at her with a satisfactory smile.
As Ellegaard was walking down the hallway, her tears started to flow at the corners of her eyes. A while ago, she tried so hard not to cry. But now, she couldn't hold her tears back anymore. She thought her first relationship would be a happy one, but was she wrong. Not only it ended, but it ended painfully, so painfully that she didn't want to be with another man in her life ever again so that she wouldn't get hurt once more.
Wandering with her thoughts, she didn't notice her surroundings anymore, so she accidentally bumped into someone.
"Oh! I'm… I'm sorry!" She tried to apologize between her quiet sob. She didn't even look up. "I was so careless."
"It's okay."
Hearing the familiar voice, she looked up to see the bald student with black eyes whom she bumped into a long while ago.
"I'm sorry again! I hope you don't mind." She said and continued on her track.
The boy looked at her as she walked past him. He just stood there, watching her walked away until she was out of his view. His eyes held a deep look.
He was about to continued walking when he noticed something rectangular on the ground. He knelt down to check what it was. After that, he decided to pick it up and put it in his shirt pocket.
It was another beautiful day at MCSM High School. Although the weather was very nice, Ellegaard still felt sad and depressed after thinking about her broken relationship with Soren. She wished she were like the girls who got over very quickly after breaking up with their boyfriends and be their old selves again.
"Ellegaard, you… seem a bit down lately."
Ellegaard, who was burying her face into her hands placed on her desk, looked up to see Jesse, her friend who had a rather worried look.
"Oh… Jesse…. Good morning." She answered with a tiring voice. She couldn't sleep at all last night.
Jesse still held a worried face. "Ellegaard, are you alright there? I mean, you aren't like usual self after… that."
Yes, because Soren is popular as hell, every time he gets into a relationship or breaks up with someone, almost everyone knows about it.
"Yeah, Jesse has the point." Ellegaard didn't notice Olivia who was beside Jesse until now. "You are always cheerful."
"Thanks for caring, guys. But…" She buried her face into her hands again. "I just want to have my personal space at this moment."
"Ya sure about that?" Asked Olivia.
"Yeah… thanks again for caring."
"If you need anything, then we'll always be there for you, Ellie." Jesse said before walking away with Olivia.
It was break time so there weren't many student in the classroom. Ellegaard just wanted to cry again, cry again and again until her eyes were burning red, until her cheeks were stained with tears. She just wanted to disappear from the world so no one would notice her crying by herself.
"Hey Ellie."
A male voice called her, but she, once again, didn't notice.
"Ellegaard!"
No response was heard from her.
"EARTH TO ELLEGAARD!"
The shout startled her so hard that Ellegaard almost jumped out of her seat. Holding a hand on her chest to calm her heart down, she looked at the person who called (or shouted at) her. It was Jess, Jesse's twin brother, who has short brown hair and a pair of green eyes.
"Jesue Chirst, Jess!" She said. "What was that for?!"
"I called you three times but you didn't even budge, so I had to do that." His unusually-calm attitude just made her want to punch him.
"Can you just, like, poke me?!"
"I thought you were sleeping, sooooooo… yeah."
All she did was stare at him.
"Aaaaaaaanyway, a guy out there asked you to meet him outside the classroom and…" He leaned into her ears and whispered. "… he's goddamn hot."
She looked at him in disgust. "Jess, you aren't gay, are you?"
"Well, just saying. Oh, what are you waiting for? Go out and meet him! He's waiting."
Sighing, she stood up tiredly and walked toward the classroom's door. As she opened it, she looked over her left and saw that same bald boy who was leaning his back onto the wall next the door. Upon hearing the sound of the door being opened, he looked over his right and saw her, who had a quite surprised look.
"It's… it's you."
"Hi there Ellegaard!" He said happily.
Upon hearing her name being said by a boy whom she hadn't told her name to, she was even more surprised. "How did you know my name?"
"Uh… umm… I…. uh… I…" He stuttered suddenly with a worried face as if he forgot something. "I… I knew it from your student ID! Yeah! I… knew it from your student ID!"
"My student ID?" Once again, she asked surprisedly.
"Yes! I came to return your student ID." He took it from his pocket and handed it over to her. "I found it where we bumped into each other yesterday. It must have fallen out from your pocket because of the rather hard bump."
"Oh… thank you so much."
"It's nothing. You would get yourself into a big problem if you lost your student ID when you needed it. Anyway, I'm Magnus."
"Nice to meet you, Magnus. As you have known, I'm Ellegaard."
"Pleased to meet you, Ellegaard. I'll see you around!"
After that, the bell rang so Magnus ran back to his classroom. Ellegaard put her student ID back into her shirt pocket and walked into her classroom. As soon as she entered the room, Jess ran up to her and asked.
"He's hot, isn't he?" Jess wiggled his eyebrows.
"Not this pervert side again, Jess…" Jesse face-plamed with her other hand on her hip.
Ellegaard just sighed.