Chapter 14: Ash
I pushed the Roxanna, whose lips were on mine, away. I glared at her, and thundered, "What the hell are you doing?"
Hurt flickered in her eyes and tears rolled down her cheeks. "What, it's not like you're in love with her." She sobbed.
"Yes, I am." The words left my mouth before I can stop it, "We're over, Roxanna Frankel!" I walked off without looking back, I would not want to see her expression and regret it later on.
"Ash!" She held my hand and pulled me back, "Don't! Please don't break up with me." She begged.
Being the cold me, I refused to give in, "I'm sorry, Roxanna. We're over, you know obviously well that I do not love you anymore."
Roxanna sobbed even louder, "It's not like you love me since the start. I know that I'm just an object for you to kill your boredom!"
People walking past started staring at us, soon, everyone started whispering.
"A break-up?" one of them whispered.
"Yes, if you know about that, stop bothering me." I brushed her off coldly, something which I never thought I would ever do.
Suddenly, someone grabbed me by my shoulder and turned me around. I felt something hard hit my cheekbones and it started hurting. The huge impact hit my head to the side, when I looked up, I got a shock of my life. The one who landed a punch on my face was Elvis.
"You cruel bastard!" He yelled in my face.
I stood rooted on the ground, speechless. 'Smack', Roxanna landed a slap on his cheek, "It's none of your business!"
The three of us stood stupidly in the middle of the crowd with everyone staring at us. Angrily, I strode off, leaving the two of them alone. I cursed under my breath as I drove back home.
"I'm home," I shouted when I reached home.
"Ash, you're…" Before mom finished her sentence, I slammed the door in her face. "Ash, are you okay?" She shouted behind the door.
"Yes," I yelled, I slammed myself onto my enormous King-sized double bed.
I heard mom's footsteps fading as minutes passed by. That's one reason why I love my parents, they respect my privacy. I looked up at the ceiling and thought about today. I knew for a long time that Elvis had been in love with Roxanna, but that the fact that he rather chose love over friendship made me furious. I slammed my hand on to the wall and a stinging pain pierce through my hand. I stared at it; it was bleeding. The next morning at school, I walked through the school hallway looking gloomy.
"Ash!" Edmund and Jo rushed over, "I've heard about it. I'm here by your side. I wonder what Elvis sees in that bitch."
"I just couldn't stand her ways, but 'cause she's your girlfriend, we didn't say anything…" Jo added on.
"Oh," I said as I continue walking. At the corner, we passed by Elvis. Instead of the greeting punch we gave each other every morning whenever we meet, we just acted like totally strangers.
"Hey, look!" Jo pointed at the notice board that was crowded with students who were chattering.
I walked closer to the crowd, "What's happening?" I asked a senior beside me. She looked up at me and squealed, "It's… it's a new transfer student." She stammered and ran off towards her friend, ".god! I've talk to him, the cutest guy on campus!" I rolled my eyes as they squealed excitedly by themselves. I then strolled back to my pals, "Just some transfer student."
"Oh, yes," Jo exclaimed loudly, "I've heard about that, it's a female student, I've heard. Ash, I've heard that she's in your class. And, she was practically in your every class." I shrugged it off, thinking that it was just some normal student, but I was wrong…
"Amber, why are you here?" I was surprised to see her.
"Oh, you're the new student, right?" Jo glanced up at me, "you guys know each other?"
Amber nodded cheerfully.
"Hello, let me introduced myself. I'm Edmund Patterson, and she's my girlfriend, Jo Cast." Edmund extended his hand for a handshake.
Amber took his hand and shook it, "Hello, I'm Amber Jones. Nice to meet you." She smiled which caused me to blush. School is going to be interesting from today onwards. But what I've missed was Roxanna's death glare from behind.