Lucy seems aloof to everyone at their school. She seldom stayed around the crowd. She loves reading books at the library with her best friend Eloisa.
Eloisa keeps her phone loud inside but the staff inside didn’t warn her. Lucy who was always here knows how Ms. Patricia yelled at everyone when they were loud and using phones without a headset.
” Hey, will you turn off your music? I can’t concentrate on the books I’m reading!”, I scold her softly but she just pouted her lips.
Yeah, she does it again. If she’s irritated and impatient, she will pout her lips like a brat.
“Lucy, Patricia won’t bother wasting her time to punish me since my dad has a huge share in this campus.” She said while leaving Lucy alone at the table.
She just took a deep breath after her friend left her. Rich people are allergic to someone like her but Eloisa was different from them. Yeah, she’s childish and brat but she’s good to her. Her dad didn’t come home last night so she’s wondering where did he hide again to run away from lending thugs. Dad taught her what to do if she saw his signal. If she saw her dad’s room messy and his one backpack lost, believe me, he’s on the run so Lucy won’t come home at night. She will spend her whole night inside the church until her wristwatch alarm at five in the morning.
Lucy didn’t realize that she falls asleep at her table when someone pinches her on her nose.
“Hey, wake up! If you want to sleep, go home!”, his voice wasn’t familiar to her.
After hearing him and realized that he was the one who pinches her, she quickly pinches his face too.
” I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it. I just want to make you feel what I feel!”, she mumbled but this guy laughed at her.
She doesn’t know why he’s laughing at her.
“Are you crazy? Am I look like a clown to you?”, she raises her voice a little at him.
The male student sat beside her and asked her forgiveness.
” Okay, I’m sorry. By the way, I’m Kent Oliver Stone but just call me Kent and you are—“, he stops asking her name while he was busy chewing bubble gum on his mouth.
“Lucy. My name is Lucy Mason ” she replied and stood up to leave him.
Kent stops her by holding her arms. She struggled from his grip but he didn’t let go.
“Let me go. What are you doing?”, she furiously said.
A fancy smirk came across his hot face. It’s his first time to feel this kind of connection to a simple girl like Lucy. For him, her looks were enchanting and undeniable like any other girl on the campus.
” Why you’re so tense. I just want to be your friend. Can I?”, he keeps insisting so she decided to accept his handshake.
“Is this how you treat your new friend?”, she said making him smile.
Kent stood up too and offered her a friendly date.
” How about one shawarma at the cafeteria?”, he said while making her a way out like a princess.
Lucy can’t resist this heartthrob of their school so she agreed to date him on their first meeting but it’s just a friendly date.
Two months passed and they became a couple. Many girls were jealous of her because she made Kent Oliver Stone notices her despite that she’s a loner and a bully. Eloisa was one of them. She was Lucy’s close friend. She knows Kent very well since their childhood playmate.
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She went home stamping her feet on their tiled floor with an annoyance. Paul noticed it while he was reading a newspaper on the dining table.
“Baby, your graduation is coming, why you look so stress? You will go to your dream place New York on your college!”, his dad said while busy with the article he’s reading.
She narrowed her face at her dad.
” I just hate someone at school. I don’t want to make Kent her boyfriend!”, she cries like a baby even she was in her teenage phase.
Paul knows who was Kent and he was Alexander’s son, his business partner, and had a huge debt from him.
Besides, they agreed already, maybe it’s time for him to tell Eloisa what’s going on.
“Come over here, baby. I have good news for you!”, he put the article down and waited for his daughter who was coming towards him.
She sat on her dad’s lap.
” What was it, dad? Tell me! I hope it’s not about someone’s proposal to me.” She told him first and Mr. Sherlock immediately shook his head.
“Nope. It’s about you and Kent. Your uncle Alexander and I decided to let you both married on the day of your graduation. We will just handle the faculty about it.” His dad said but Eloisa didn’t expect it.