Brian Random
I WAS FROZEN TODAY!!
Shadow_Shipper and everyone else, thank you for your patience. ^^
*Cue opening song ‘Let’s get Started’ by The Black Eyed Peas*
Year 1, February
It was bright yet cold day at Goldenrod High. Students were walking calmly towards their destination, except one. He was running towards the school with pure excitement and enthusiasm. He was running so fast that he was a leaving trail of dust behind. All that for one reason: It was Valentine’s Day. He screeched to a halt when he reached the school entrance. “Yo, ladies!” the student yelled. “If anyone wants a date today, there’s plenty of Barry to go around!”
Both male and female students either just ignored him as they walked past or glared at him awkwardly, much to Barry’s annoyance. “What’s wrong with you people!” he yelled loudly.
Letting out a small “Humph!” he turned around and entered the building. A distance away, he saw Wes at his locker opening its door. When he did, he saw a large number of letters inside; all of them were presumed to be love letters and Valentines Day cards. Wes let out a small sigh of displeasure before placing them into his schoolbag and walked away.
“That Wes…!” Barry snarled angrily. “So many love letters and cards! On Valentine’s Day too!”
He rushed to his locker, quickly opening it and there was…
“Eeee! A love letter! Someone here actually likes me!” he cried with glee in his tone. “Sure it’s one love letter, but what the hey!”
He quickly grabbed his letter and rushed into the men’s bathroom and hid himself in one of toilet rooms. He heavily breathed in and out to calm himself down. He slowly opened the envelope and took a sheet of paper that had a number of words written on it, which he read…
‘It should be more like April Fools Day instead of Valentines Day to you. Did you actually think that anyone would send you a love letter or a card today? What a loser you are!’
The letter was signed, ‘Kim’. Angrily gnarling his teeth and shaking furiously, he held on to his letter tightly, so tight that he creased it up before he tore it apart. Outside the bathroom, Barry’s roar of anger was heard, almost making the whole school shake.
Back outside the school, Rui and Marley were walking towards the entrance, talking casually about various things. Usually, Wes would walk with them to school but today he had some morning errands to run before going there. Rui suddenly stopped, standing on a spot, much to Marley’s puzzlement. “What is it, Rui?” she asked coolly. Rui slowly turned around, seeing a cloud of smoke coming towards her but she wasn’t concerned about that.
It was actually Ken speeding towards her and Rui had to quickly make an escape after telling Marley where she would go. After seeing Marley, Ken screeched to halt, skidding past her before running back. “Hi, Marley!” Ken said quickly. “Do you know where Rui went?”
“Girl’s bathroom, she didn’t say which floor though,” Marley replied, still calm as ever.
“I’m there!” Ken yelled before running in the school entrance.
Marley walked over to the nearest tree and found Rui hiding behind it. “He’s gone now,” she said.
Inside the teachers’ office, Miss Whitney couldn’t help but overhear a small chortle, courtesy of her fellow colleague. “Yeah, I got it, my sweet little cupcake,” he said. Curious and excited, she got up from her desk and walked over to the person’s desk. It turned out to be Mr. Surge’s. He was talking to someone on the phone while smiling like a kid in a candy store. “So I’ll be picking at eight tonight, okay? See you later, sweetheart.”
And with that, he placed the phone down, ending the call. “Who was that?” Miss Whitney asked with curiosity shown on her face.
“That was a friend of mine,” Mr. Surge said.
“Cupcake? Sweetheart?” Miss Whitney responded suspiciously. “And why the small blush?”
“Okay… I got a Valentine’s Day date…”
Miss Whitney let out an angry roar. “Valentine’s Day is stupid!” she yelled. “It’s just about people looking for a poor excuse to get laid! Stupid, I tell you!!”
“Hey! What’s got into you!? Calm down! At ease!” Mr. Surge shouted, calming the Language teacher down.
Inside the classroom of Class Two, Wes was looking outside the window in a grumpy way. His friend Brendan walked up to him after noticing his moody expression. “Alright, Wes? What’s up? No Valentine’s Day gift?” he asked. “I’m used to not getting any, not that I’m interested in them anyway.”
Wes turned his attention to his Hoenn native friend. “Opposite to that,” he said. “I got plenty.”
“Well, you are coolest guy around, dude. So it’s no surprise that you would get so many. But you don’t look proud or anything.”
Wes let out a long sigh. “I checked out some of them and they all want to be my girlfriend but I don’t have the time, money or whatever for them. I mean, what can I offer them?” he said.
“You work at some store, don’t you?”
“Yeah, but I only get paid enough to rent and eat.”
Just outside the classroom, Rui was in a nervous state as she carried a love letter of her own in hand. She saw a letter sticking out of Wes’s schoolbag when she first entered the room, and quickly thought that it would be from one of the people that had a crush on him. “Guess I’m not the only one who likes him,” she mumbled to herself.
“Morning, Rui,” a girl’s voice said, inadvertently taking her by surprise. Rui yelped jumped in fright before seeing her other friend, Dawn.
She breathed heavily in and out, trying to calm herself down. “Good morning, Dawn. Phew. You scared me,” she said.
“I see that you have a love letter with you,” Dawn said noticeably. Rui had forgotten that she was holding it until she looked down on the held object. She freaked out as she quickly hid the letter behind her back.
“Oh! It’s nothing really!” Rui said, letting out a silly laugh. But that didn’t stop Dawn from asking more questions.
“Let me guess, it’s for Wes, isn’t it?” she asked excitedly.
Rui began to nervously stutter. “Well, er…”
“Happy Valentine’s Day, Dawn,” said a girl’s voice. “From me.”
The girls turned towards the voice’s attention. It turned out to be Marley with a large stack of Valentine’s Day cards in her hand as she held one of them out to Dawn. “Marley, are you…?” Dawn said with a blush.
“Oh, a small misunderstanding,” Marley said. “These cards are for people who aren’t likely to get a Valentine’s Day gift this year.”
Her two friends were dumbfounded by this answer and their faces showed. “You mean… I won’t be getting a card from anyone this year?” Dawn asked.
“Unfortunately, no.”
No more than a second later, Dawn stood in a corner, looking down on the floor and sulking. “There’s always next year,” Marley said.
“So, Marley, am I getting a Valentine’s Day card from anybody?” Rui asked.
“Yes… from Ken obviously. He’s probably still hanging around outside the girl’s bathroom.”
Sure enough, Ken was still there after Marley told him the lie of where Rui went, much to Mr. Surge’s annoyance as he walked towards him with a kendo stick. “I don’t like slackers!” the PE teacher snarled.
Soon, Miss Whitney entered the classroom with an unbothered look on her face. “Good morning, everyone,” she said tonelessly as she slowly walked to her desk while the students quickly sat at theirs.
“Miss Whitney?” Marley said as she walked up to her teacher.
“Hmm?” her teacher responded uncaringly.
“Happy Valentine’s day,” Marley said as she handed her the card. “Before you say anything, it’s not from me, it’s from a secret admirer.”
“A… secret admirer?” Miss Whitney said as she took the card. It was a couple of seconds later when she changed her expression. “O-o-o-o-h! Show me heaven! Cover me! Leave me breathless!” she sang loudly and very out of tune, much to the awkward shock of her students. “I’m going out for a bit!” she said before running out of the classroom.
“What is she going to do?” Rui asked.
“I think she’s going to show it off to the other teachers,” Marley said.
“So… who is the secret admirer?” Wally asked.
“No one, I made it up,” Marley replied. “According to the school rules, it’s illegal for a teacher to be dating a student.”
“But it’s also crime to make some sort of mail fraud,” Brendan said. “Still, as long as we can keep quiet about this then we are safe… especially from Miss Whitney.”
“Wally! You’re not allowed to say anything!” Barry warned.
“I don’t intend to,” Wally said quivering with fear.
At break time, Dawn was looking out of the window with expressionless eyes, trying to get over her feeling of being unwanted, that plus thinking of a particular someone. “Chocolate, Dawn?” a girl’s voice asked. She turned her attention to the girl who was wearing a schoolboy uniform, holding out an opened packet of sweets.
“Zoey…” she said, becoming shocked of those heart shaped candies. “Are these…?”
“Yep, chocolate hearts,” Zoey said. “Just came out today. I thought I’d give it a try. Wanna try some?”
Dawn blushed a small blush as she picked out a small piece. “A… arigato,” she said, which meant ‘Thank you’ in Japanese, before popping it into mouth and tasting the smooth chocolaty with some delicious caramel filling.
Meanwhile, Wes had been talking to a number of girls regarding the letters and cards that were sent to him. One by one, he turned each person down. Some were very understanding while some were in tears. Having witnessing that, Rui decided that it wasn’t a good time for her to confess her crush. She looked down on her desk, sighing in displeasure. “Rui?” said a familiar voice.
Recognising it, she quickly raised her head up and looked at the person in surprise. “Wes?” she said.
“Are you okay?” Wes asked coolly.
“Yes! Yes, I am!” she answered quickly.
Despite that little lie, Wes knew better. “I see that you’re nervous about this Valentine’ Day thing, huh?”
“No! No! No! No! Nothing like that! I’m not afraid of Valentine’s Day cards, letters, getting rejected or anything! Hehe!” she replied frantically, ending it with a small nervous laugh.
Wes smiled a small smile. “I’m glad to hear it. Just remember… any time you need someone, I’ll be there for you,” he said.
His friend happily smiled, recognising that same line she said a month ago when she and her friends were looking for him. “Thanks, Wes,” she said.
Smiling back, Wes turned around to make his way back to his desk. “Hey, Wes,” she called, catching his attention.
The silver haired cool guy turned around. “Yes?” he asked.
“If you like someone, and if you want to let them know so badly but you can’t find the words you want to say, what would you do?” she asked, still being frantic.
Wes looked down on the floor as he deeply thought of an answer. “I suppose you could take your time to calm down before thinking what you want to say. Just take your time. But if you don’t them your feelings, you might regret it.”
“Today’s Valentine’s Day, right? Is today the right day to confess?”
“Yeah.”
“Thanks, Wes.”
And with that answered, Wes got back to his seat before he looked out of the window while Rui was preparing her confession.
Elsewhere, Misty looked inside her locker and saw a folded note. Curious, she took it out, unfolded it and read the following words…
‘Misty, I’m sick and tired of you getting in my way of confessing my love to Ash. Even today, when I was about to give one simple Valentine’s Day card to him you just go and throw it away! I challenge you to a fight. Meet me at the backyard right now! Sincerely, Macey.’
“He tried to say no to you a thousand times,” Misty snarled. Angrily, she ripped the note apart.
No more than a minute later, she stormed towards her destination. When she was almost there, she spotted a girl the same age as her wearing the same school uniform yet she had purple hair and wondered what she was doing there, looking around the corner. “Excuse me,” she said, catching her attention.
The purple haired girl turned around in shock. “Er… I was supposed to meet someone here in private but…” she said before turning back into the direction she looking into and Misty did the same. It turned out that Ash was being harassed by Macey as usual, with Pikachu staring at this whole situation awkwardly, much to Misty’s anger and disgust.
“Hiya, Ashy!” Macey said happily as she gently clasped Ash’s hands with her own. “What are you doing here?”
“Well, er… someone sent me a note to meet here,” Ash said with an awkward feeling.
“Really!?” Macey said excitedly. “Can I see it!?”
This shocked Misty after she realised that the purple girl could’ve sent the note to Ash by locker. The purple haired girl blushed deeply when she heard his answer to Macey’s question.
“Actually, no,” Ash said as he took the note out of his pocket. Macey quickly snatched it from him, much to the shock of the purple haired girl as Macey started the note out loud.
“Hey, wait!” Ash said in alert.
“If you can read my mind, Ash,” Macey said, reading the note while keeping Ash away from as he tried to get it back. “What a confession that would be. Better yet, if you can read my heart, I wish for you to love me. Meet me at the backyard, for my heart will be beating for you. When I see your face, I hope that you will love me too. While thinking of you, I will put my hand on my chest. Should you choose not to be with me, I wish you the very best.”
Macey roared with laughter out of spite after reading the whole poem. “Hahaha! What kind of junk is this!? This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read!” she said handing the poem back to Ash and making the purple haired girl blush out of embarrassment.
“Actually…” Ash said as he took his note back before looking at it. “I don’t know about this love thing but it does have feeling… I kinda like it,” he finished with a smile.
“He… he liked it?” the purple haired girl whispered in surprise and delight. Misty also smiled that this, hoping that something good would come out of this.
“Actually, I wrote that,” Macey said with passion in her voice as she clasped Ash’s hands again. “I love you.”
This brought total dismay the girls that were spying on them, now finding out Macey was a liar while Ash smiled sombrely. “Macey… I appreciate that you’ve done for me and you’re a great person to be with,” he said with sincerity. “But I’ve been trying to tell since the very start… I’m not interested. Sorry.”
And with that, he and Pikachu began walking away, leaving Macey completely shocked. They both stopped and turned around. “Hey, Macey, we’re still friends, right?” Ash asked.
She didn’t answer. She stood on the same spot for long seconds. Pikachu quickly walked back and poked her on the leg to get her attention but to no avail. He turned towards his friend and shrugged.
“Well… I’ll see you in class,” Ash said. “C’mon, Pik.”
Pikachu squeaked in acknowledgement as he followed his friend. No longer than a moment later, Macey fell on her knees and streams of tears came pouring down from her eyes. “Ash!” she cried.
“Come on, let’s go,” Misty said uncaringly as she started walking away.
“Wait, what about Macey?” the purple haired girl asked before following her.
“She stole your note, didn’t she?”
“Yeah, but… we can’t just leave her here.”
“She’ll be fine. She’ll get the idea of why I was telling her to leave Ash alone all along.”
“You know those two?”
“Yep. Those two guys are in my class, only I have known Ash since pre-school. Ever since those two met, she is like some sort of stalker who keeps on following her favourite star. Ash was never interested in her but she wouldn’t listen.”
“That’s the reason why you are, like, protecting him?”
“You could say that. I tried to get the message across but she wouldn’t listen to me either.”
“I get it, she made a challenge to you, to meet her in the backyard, right?”
“That sums everything up, doesn’t it?” Misty said with a smile, knowing that the purple-haired girl would get it sooner or later. “By the way, what’s your name?”
Her new friend moved her hand out. “Anabel,” she said politely, offering to shake Misty’s hand in friendship.
“Misty,” she replied, accepting it as she shook her hand.
They continued walking back into the building and were silent for a few short seconds. “Misty… do you like Ash too?” Anabel asked.
“What do you mean?” Misty asked before realising what Anabel meant. Shocked, she immediately stopped like a car screeching to a halt. She had a big blush on her face as she quickly turned towards her. “Ew! Gross!” she shouted. “Sure he’s a great guy and all but I would never date him! He acts like a kid! His singing’s terrible! He eats like a pig! Me dating him!? That would be totally gross!”
“Hey! Now you’re getting personal, Misty!” shouted a voice, catching their attention. They turned towards the person who spoke, it was Ash who was returning from his other activity and now standing in front of them. “It’s not my fault that you eat too slow and you’re not exactly Kelly Clarkson yourself!”
“What did you say!?”
While they argued, Anabel couldn’t help but notice this whole situation with an astonished look on her face. “(With the way they fight, they must really care for each other),” she thought noticeably.
A couple of hours later, another lesson had finished after the school bell rang. Rui slowly made her way to one of the lockers. “This is my chance,” she said, with a piece of paper in hand. “If he doesn’t like me that way in return, at least I won’t regret not letting him know.”
And with that said, she slid the letter inside his locker. Along with that, she asked one of her friends to tell Wes to meet her up on the roof. She stood up on the said location, she clasped her hands, praying that Wes would the one for her. With words from him from earlier, she decided to take the advice to calm down and think of what words she would have to say to Wes.
She waited patiently for him to arrive during the lunch break as she gazed through the fences that kept people safe from falling. Soon, she heard a door opening behind her and turned around to see who it was, with hope that it would be Wes.
And indeed it was, he stood by the opened door with an expressionless face, with his yellow eyes looking calm. Rui’s heart was beating fast when she looked at his handsome face, with high hopes and excitement of what Wes’s response would be to the letter she had delivered to him as they stood a distance away from each other.
Rui opened her mouth. “Wes…” she said.
“Oh… before you say anything,” Wes said as he placed hand in his pocket. “The thing is…”
Rui nervously let a huge gulp down her throat.
“I found your shopping list in my locker.”
Rui fell down to the floor in shock. That was not how she planned this. “I placed the in the wrong paper… my love… it’s all over…” she sobbed.
“Rui, are you okay?” Wes asked with puzzlement.
Rui raised her head up and saw Wes extending his hand, offering to help her up. “Thanks, Wes,” she said as she accepted the help when she gently grasped his hand, while Wes pulled her up.
“Time’s nearly up,” Wes said. “We better get back to class.”
“Sure,” Rui said, placing a hand on the back of her hand while blushing as they started walking back to class. She was feeling very embarrassed and disappointed. “Hey, Wes. Remember when you said that if I don’t tell my feelings to someone I like, I might regret it?”
“Yeah.”
“Well… I kinda think… I think now’s not the time,” she said, struggling with her words.
“It’s okay,” Wes said. “We all go through that at some point.”
After all that, Rui decided to keep her love letter for another time.
A few hours later, school had ended for the day. Barry, still with no card or letter, and sick and tired about it, slowly opened his locker. Upon opening it, he found a small note, which caught his attention. He picked and took a closer and read the following words…
‘Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m not very good at poetry, but I have a crush on you.’
Everything was typed so Barry couldn’t tell whose handwriting it was. The letter had ‘secret admirer’ typed below the poem, meaning that someone that liked him didn’t want to leave their name yet. Barry had his eyes widened in shock with excitement. “Someone actually likes me! I got a secret admirer!” he cried as he repeatedly jumped for joy before running around in the corridors.
His friends noticed and were actually surprised by this. “Huh. I never thought Barry would get an admirer around here,” Zoey said.
“Either that or it could be from someone who felt sorry for him,” Marley said, turning towards Brendan, who was looking into his locker.
*Cue ending song ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper*
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Next episode:
Miss Whitney: Alright, people! Listen up! It’s Sport’s Day next month! I got one tip for my class group! Win! Win against all other classes! And with Wes in my group, I got a guaranteed win already!
Mr. Surge: Well, don’t be too sure, Pinky! I got some strong guys in my class group as well!
Miss Jasmine: Me too!
Miss Sabrina: Same here.
Miss Whitney: What!? That’s not fair!!
Surge and Jasmine: Why the heck not!?
Sabrina: Humph. See you next episode.
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More coming! ^^ What’cha think?
*Cue opening song ‘Let’s get Started’ by The Black Eyed Peas*
Year 1, February
It was bright yet cold day at Goldenrod High. Students were walking calmly towards their destination, except one. He was running towards the school with pure excitement and enthusiasm. He was running so fast that he was a leaving trail of dust behind. All that for one reason: It was Valentine’s Day. He screeched to a halt when he reached the school entrance. “Yo, ladies!” the student yelled. “If anyone wants a date today, there’s plenty of Barry to go around!”
Both male and female students either just ignored him as they walked past or glared at him awkwardly, much to Barry’s annoyance. “What’s wrong with you people!” he yelled loudly.
Letting out a small “Humph!” he turned around and entered the building. A distance away, he saw Wes at his locker opening its door. When he did, he saw a large number of letters inside; all of them were presumed to be love letters and Valentines Day cards. Wes let out a small sigh of displeasure before placing them into his schoolbag and walked away.
“That Wes…!” Barry snarled angrily. “So many love letters and cards! On Valentine’s Day too!”
He rushed to his locker, quickly opening it and there was…
“Eeee! A love letter! Someone here actually likes me!” he cried with glee in his tone. “Sure it’s one love letter, but what the hey!”
He quickly grabbed his letter and rushed into the men’s bathroom and hid himself in one of toilet rooms. He heavily breathed in and out to calm himself down. He slowly opened the envelope and took a sheet of paper that had a number of words written on it, which he read…
‘It should be more like April Fools Day instead of Valentines Day to you. Did you actually think that anyone would send you a love letter or a card today? What a loser you are!’
The letter was signed, ‘Kim’. Angrily gnarling his teeth and shaking furiously, he held on to his letter tightly, so tight that he creased it up before he tore it apart. Outside the bathroom, Barry’s roar of anger was heard, almost making the whole school shake.
Back outside the school, Rui and Marley were walking towards the entrance, talking casually about various things. Usually, Wes would walk with them to school but today he had some morning errands to run before going there. Rui suddenly stopped, standing on a spot, much to Marley’s puzzlement. “What is it, Rui?” she asked coolly. Rui slowly turned around, seeing a cloud of smoke coming towards her but she wasn’t concerned about that.
It was actually Ken speeding towards her and Rui had to quickly make an escape after telling Marley where she would go. After seeing Marley, Ken screeched to halt, skidding past her before running back. “Hi, Marley!” Ken said quickly. “Do you know where Rui went?”
“Girl’s bathroom, she didn’t say which floor though,” Marley replied, still calm as ever.
“I’m there!” Ken yelled before running in the school entrance.
Marley walked over to the nearest tree and found Rui hiding behind it. “He’s gone now,” she said.
Inside the teachers’ office, Miss Whitney couldn’t help but overhear a small chortle, courtesy of her fellow colleague. “Yeah, I got it, my sweet little cupcake,” he said. Curious and excited, she got up from her desk and walked over to the person’s desk. It turned out to be Mr. Surge’s. He was talking to someone on the phone while smiling like a kid in a candy store. “So I’ll be picking at eight tonight, okay? See you later, sweetheart.”
And with that, he placed the phone down, ending the call. “Who was that?” Miss Whitney asked with curiosity shown on her face.
“That was a friend of mine,” Mr. Surge said.
“Cupcake? Sweetheart?” Miss Whitney responded suspiciously. “And why the small blush?”
“Okay… I got a Valentine’s Day date…”
Miss Whitney let out an angry roar. “Valentine’s Day is stupid!” she yelled. “It’s just about people looking for a poor excuse to get laid! Stupid, I tell you!!”
“Hey! What’s got into you!? Calm down! At ease!” Mr. Surge shouted, calming the Language teacher down.
Inside the classroom of Class Two, Wes was looking outside the window in a grumpy way. His friend Brendan walked up to him after noticing his moody expression. “Alright, Wes? What’s up? No Valentine’s Day gift?” he asked. “I’m used to not getting any, not that I’m interested in them anyway.”
Wes turned his attention to his Hoenn native friend. “Opposite to that,” he said. “I got plenty.”
“Well, you are coolest guy around, dude. So it’s no surprise that you would get so many. But you don’t look proud or anything.”
Wes let out a long sigh. “I checked out some of them and they all want to be my girlfriend but I don’t have the time, money or whatever for them. I mean, what can I offer them?” he said.
“You work at some store, don’t you?”
“Yeah, but I only get paid enough to rent and eat.”
Just outside the classroom, Rui was in a nervous state as she carried a love letter of her own in hand. She saw a letter sticking out of Wes’s schoolbag when she first entered the room, and quickly thought that it would be from one of the people that had a crush on him. “Guess I’m not the only one who likes him,” she mumbled to herself.
“Morning, Rui,” a girl’s voice said, inadvertently taking her by surprise. Rui yelped jumped in fright before seeing her other friend, Dawn.
She breathed heavily in and out, trying to calm herself down. “Good morning, Dawn. Phew. You scared me,” she said.
“I see that you have a love letter with you,” Dawn said noticeably. Rui had forgotten that she was holding it until she looked down on the held object. She freaked out as she quickly hid the letter behind her back.
“Oh! It’s nothing really!” Rui said, letting out a silly laugh. But that didn’t stop Dawn from asking more questions.
“Let me guess, it’s for Wes, isn’t it?” she asked excitedly.
Rui began to nervously stutter. “Well, er…”
“Happy Valentine’s Day, Dawn,” said a girl’s voice. “From me.”
The girls turned towards the voice’s attention. It turned out to be Marley with a large stack of Valentine’s Day cards in her hand as she held one of them out to Dawn. “Marley, are you…?” Dawn said with a blush.
“Oh, a small misunderstanding,” Marley said. “These cards are for people who aren’t likely to get a Valentine’s Day gift this year.”
Her two friends were dumbfounded by this answer and their faces showed. “You mean… I won’t be getting a card from anyone this year?” Dawn asked.
“Unfortunately, no.”
No more than a second later, Dawn stood in a corner, looking down on the floor and sulking. “There’s always next year,” Marley said.
“So, Marley, am I getting a Valentine’s Day card from anybody?” Rui asked.
“Yes… from Ken obviously. He’s probably still hanging around outside the girl’s bathroom.”
Sure enough, Ken was still there after Marley told him the lie of where Rui went, much to Mr. Surge’s annoyance as he walked towards him with a kendo stick. “I don’t like slackers!” the PE teacher snarled.
Soon, Miss Whitney entered the classroom with an unbothered look on her face. “Good morning, everyone,” she said tonelessly as she slowly walked to her desk while the students quickly sat at theirs.
“Miss Whitney?” Marley said as she walked up to her teacher.
“Hmm?” her teacher responded uncaringly.
“Happy Valentine’s day,” Marley said as she handed her the card. “Before you say anything, it’s not from me, it’s from a secret admirer.”
“A… secret admirer?” Miss Whitney said as she took the card. It was a couple of seconds later when she changed her expression. “O-o-o-o-h! Show me heaven! Cover me! Leave me breathless!” she sang loudly and very out of tune, much to the awkward shock of her students. “I’m going out for a bit!” she said before running out of the classroom.
“What is she going to do?” Rui asked.
“I think she’s going to show it off to the other teachers,” Marley said.
“So… who is the secret admirer?” Wally asked.
“No one, I made it up,” Marley replied. “According to the school rules, it’s illegal for a teacher to be dating a student.”
“But it’s also crime to make some sort of mail fraud,” Brendan said. “Still, as long as we can keep quiet about this then we are safe… especially from Miss Whitney.”
“Wally! You’re not allowed to say anything!” Barry warned.
“I don’t intend to,” Wally said quivering with fear.
At break time, Dawn was looking out of the window with expressionless eyes, trying to get over her feeling of being unwanted, that plus thinking of a particular someone. “Chocolate, Dawn?” a girl’s voice asked. She turned her attention to the girl who was wearing a schoolboy uniform, holding out an opened packet of sweets.
“Zoey…” she said, becoming shocked of those heart shaped candies. “Are these…?”
“Yep, chocolate hearts,” Zoey said. “Just came out today. I thought I’d give it a try. Wanna try some?”
Dawn blushed a small blush as she picked out a small piece. “A… arigato,” she said, which meant ‘Thank you’ in Japanese, before popping it into mouth and tasting the smooth chocolaty with some delicious caramel filling.
Meanwhile, Wes had been talking to a number of girls regarding the letters and cards that were sent to him. One by one, he turned each person down. Some were very understanding while some were in tears. Having witnessing that, Rui decided that it wasn’t a good time for her to confess her crush. She looked down on her desk, sighing in displeasure. “Rui?” said a familiar voice.
Recognising it, she quickly raised her head up and looked at the person in surprise. “Wes?” she said.
“Are you okay?” Wes asked coolly.
“Yes! Yes, I am!” she answered quickly.
Despite that little lie, Wes knew better. “I see that you’re nervous about this Valentine’ Day thing, huh?”
“No! No! No! No! Nothing like that! I’m not afraid of Valentine’s Day cards, letters, getting rejected or anything! Hehe!” she replied frantically, ending it with a small nervous laugh.
Wes smiled a small smile. “I’m glad to hear it. Just remember… any time you need someone, I’ll be there for you,” he said.
His friend happily smiled, recognising that same line she said a month ago when she and her friends were looking for him. “Thanks, Wes,” she said.
Smiling back, Wes turned around to make his way back to his desk. “Hey, Wes,” she called, catching his attention.
The silver haired cool guy turned around. “Yes?” he asked.
“If you like someone, and if you want to let them know so badly but you can’t find the words you want to say, what would you do?” she asked, still being frantic.
Wes looked down on the floor as he deeply thought of an answer. “I suppose you could take your time to calm down before thinking what you want to say. Just take your time. But if you don’t them your feelings, you might regret it.”
“Today’s Valentine’s Day, right? Is today the right day to confess?”
“Yeah.”
“Thanks, Wes.”
And with that answered, Wes got back to his seat before he looked out of the window while Rui was preparing her confession.
Elsewhere, Misty looked inside her locker and saw a folded note. Curious, she took it out, unfolded it and read the following words…
‘Misty, I’m sick and tired of you getting in my way of confessing my love to Ash. Even today, when I was about to give one simple Valentine’s Day card to him you just go and throw it away! I challenge you to a fight. Meet me at the backyard right now! Sincerely, Macey.’
“He tried to say no to you a thousand times,” Misty snarled. Angrily, she ripped the note apart.
No more than a minute later, she stormed towards her destination. When she was almost there, she spotted a girl the same age as her wearing the same school uniform yet she had purple hair and wondered what she was doing there, looking around the corner. “Excuse me,” she said, catching her attention.
The purple haired girl turned around in shock. “Er… I was supposed to meet someone here in private but…” she said before turning back into the direction she looking into and Misty did the same. It turned out that Ash was being harassed by Macey as usual, with Pikachu staring at this whole situation awkwardly, much to Misty’s anger and disgust.
“Hiya, Ashy!” Macey said happily as she gently clasped Ash’s hands with her own. “What are you doing here?”
“Well, er… someone sent me a note to meet here,” Ash said with an awkward feeling.
“Really!?” Macey said excitedly. “Can I see it!?”
This shocked Misty after she realised that the purple girl could’ve sent the note to Ash by locker. The purple haired girl blushed deeply when she heard his answer to Macey’s question.
“Actually, no,” Ash said as he took the note out of his pocket. Macey quickly snatched it from him, much to the shock of the purple haired girl as Macey started the note out loud.
“Hey, wait!” Ash said in alert.
“If you can read my mind, Ash,” Macey said, reading the note while keeping Ash away from as he tried to get it back. “What a confession that would be. Better yet, if you can read my heart, I wish for you to love me. Meet me at the backyard, for my heart will be beating for you. When I see your face, I hope that you will love me too. While thinking of you, I will put my hand on my chest. Should you choose not to be with me, I wish you the very best.”
Macey roared with laughter out of spite after reading the whole poem. “Hahaha! What kind of junk is this!? This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read!” she said handing the poem back to Ash and making the purple haired girl blush out of embarrassment.
“Actually…” Ash said as he took his note back before looking at it. “I don’t know about this love thing but it does have feeling… I kinda like it,” he finished with a smile.
“He… he liked it?” the purple haired girl whispered in surprise and delight. Misty also smiled that this, hoping that something good would come out of this.
“Actually, I wrote that,” Macey said with passion in her voice as she clasped Ash’s hands again. “I love you.”
This brought total dismay the girls that were spying on them, now finding out Macey was a liar while Ash smiled sombrely. “Macey… I appreciate that you’ve done for me and you’re a great person to be with,” he said with sincerity. “But I’ve been trying to tell since the very start… I’m not interested. Sorry.”
And with that, he and Pikachu began walking away, leaving Macey completely shocked. They both stopped and turned around. “Hey, Macey, we’re still friends, right?” Ash asked.
She didn’t answer. She stood on the same spot for long seconds. Pikachu quickly walked back and poked her on the leg to get her attention but to no avail. He turned towards his friend and shrugged.
“Well… I’ll see you in class,” Ash said. “C’mon, Pik.”
Pikachu squeaked in acknowledgement as he followed his friend. No longer than a moment later, Macey fell on her knees and streams of tears came pouring down from her eyes. “Ash!” she cried.
“Come on, let’s go,” Misty said uncaringly as she started walking away.
“Wait, what about Macey?” the purple haired girl asked before following her.
“She stole your note, didn’t she?”
“Yeah, but… we can’t just leave her here.”
“She’ll be fine. She’ll get the idea of why I was telling her to leave Ash alone all along.”
“You know those two?”
“Yep. Those two guys are in my class, only I have known Ash since pre-school. Ever since those two met, she is like some sort of stalker who keeps on following her favourite star. Ash was never interested in her but she wouldn’t listen.”
“That’s the reason why you are, like, protecting him?”
“You could say that. I tried to get the message across but she wouldn’t listen to me either.”
“I get it, she made a challenge to you, to meet her in the backyard, right?”
“That sums everything up, doesn’t it?” Misty said with a smile, knowing that the purple-haired girl would get it sooner or later. “By the way, what’s your name?”
Her new friend moved her hand out. “Anabel,” she said politely, offering to shake Misty’s hand in friendship.
“Misty,” she replied, accepting it as she shook her hand.
They continued walking back into the building and were silent for a few short seconds. “Misty… do you like Ash too?” Anabel asked.
“What do you mean?” Misty asked before realising what Anabel meant. Shocked, she immediately stopped like a car screeching to a halt. She had a big blush on her face as she quickly turned towards her. “Ew! Gross!” she shouted. “Sure he’s a great guy and all but I would never date him! He acts like a kid! His singing’s terrible! He eats like a pig! Me dating him!? That would be totally gross!”
“Hey! Now you’re getting personal, Misty!” shouted a voice, catching their attention. They turned towards the person who spoke, it was Ash who was returning from his other activity and now standing in front of them. “It’s not my fault that you eat too slow and you’re not exactly Kelly Clarkson yourself!”
“What did you say!?”
While they argued, Anabel couldn’t help but notice this whole situation with an astonished look on her face. “(With the way they fight, they must really care for each other),” she thought noticeably.
A couple of hours later, another lesson had finished after the school bell rang. Rui slowly made her way to one of the lockers. “This is my chance,” she said, with a piece of paper in hand. “If he doesn’t like me that way in return, at least I won’t regret not letting him know.”
And with that said, she slid the letter inside his locker. Along with that, she asked one of her friends to tell Wes to meet her up on the roof. She stood up on the said location, she clasped her hands, praying that Wes would the one for her. With words from him from earlier, she decided to take the advice to calm down and think of what words she would have to say to Wes.
She waited patiently for him to arrive during the lunch break as she gazed through the fences that kept people safe from falling. Soon, she heard a door opening behind her and turned around to see who it was, with hope that it would be Wes.
And indeed it was, he stood by the opened door with an expressionless face, with his yellow eyes looking calm. Rui’s heart was beating fast when she looked at his handsome face, with high hopes and excitement of what Wes’s response would be to the letter she had delivered to him as they stood a distance away from each other.
Rui opened her mouth. “Wes…” she said.
“Oh… before you say anything,” Wes said as he placed hand in his pocket. “The thing is…”
Rui nervously let a huge gulp down her throat.
“I found your shopping list in my locker.”
Rui fell down to the floor in shock. That was not how she planned this. “I placed the in the wrong paper… my love… it’s all over…” she sobbed.
“Rui, are you okay?” Wes asked with puzzlement.
Rui raised her head up and saw Wes extending his hand, offering to help her up. “Thanks, Wes,” she said as she accepted the help when she gently grasped his hand, while Wes pulled her up.
“Time’s nearly up,” Wes said. “We better get back to class.”
“Sure,” Rui said, placing a hand on the back of her hand while blushing as they started walking back to class. She was feeling very embarrassed and disappointed. “Hey, Wes. Remember when you said that if I don’t tell my feelings to someone I like, I might regret it?”
“Yeah.”
“Well… I kinda think… I think now’s not the time,” she said, struggling with her words.
“It’s okay,” Wes said. “We all go through that at some point.”
After all that, Rui decided to keep her love letter for another time.
A few hours later, school had ended for the day. Barry, still with no card or letter, and sick and tired about it, slowly opened his locker. Upon opening it, he found a small note, which caught his attention. He picked and took a closer and read the following words…
‘Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m not very good at poetry, but I have a crush on you.’
Everything was typed so Barry couldn’t tell whose handwriting it was. The letter had ‘secret admirer’ typed below the poem, meaning that someone that liked him didn’t want to leave their name yet. Barry had his eyes widened in shock with excitement. “Someone actually likes me! I got a secret admirer!” he cried as he repeatedly jumped for joy before running around in the corridors.
His friends noticed and were actually surprised by this. “Huh. I never thought Barry would get an admirer around here,” Zoey said.
“Either that or it could be from someone who felt sorry for him,” Marley said, turning towards Brendan, who was looking into his locker.
*Cue ending song ‘Girls Just Wanna Have Fun’ by Cyndi Lauper*
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Next episode:
Miss Whitney: Alright, people! Listen up! It’s Sport’s Day next month! I got one tip for my class group! Win! Win against all other classes! And with Wes in my group, I got a guaranteed win already!
Mr. Surge: Well, don’t be too sure, Pinky! I got some strong guys in my class group as well!
Miss Jasmine: Me too!
Miss Sabrina: Same here.
Miss Whitney: What!? That’s not fair!!
Surge and Jasmine: Why the heck not!?
Sabrina: Humph. See you next episode.
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More coming! ^^ What’cha think?
