Date - 12/7/21

" Mark ....Mark ...." was calling Ms . Lopez aloud for attendance when our boy mark was busily playing Ghostly princes last level and was about to win.

" Mark, What are you doing there ?" asked Ms. Lopez when she saw mark immersed in his mobile phone .  " Yeah!" screamed Mark when he finally won the last level of 'ZOMBIE' season after trying 126 th times .

" Mark , What are you doing with phone ? Class is started , so please keep your phone aside and concentrate ."

School was a prison for free- spirited Mark . He would  be found most of the times outside the class after been caught playing videogames during class . Mark had simple rules to live a life-

1 . Never give up.

2\. Live for today \.

With those he has made his life less complicated , And is probably living a happy life till now. But he doesn't know what his  future awaits. In the class, he is known as ' Amine Gamer Guy'   because of similar  to appearance like an amine character. He even had same hairstyle ( one eye covered with bangs )

Mark has few friends who are also similar to him ( partially game addicted ). As usual , he was thrown out of the class and he was standing and playing the game when , Yoora approached him.

" Mark, this are the notes of history lectures . You can come inside now , History period is over ." she said politely .

" OK! " he said and walked back to his bench like zombie . Next was maths and when Mr. Charles saw him playing on mobile he did not  thrown him  out of the class but  his mobile was taken away .

" But sir, Its my phone . You can't take it from me . You can punish me and throw out of the class." said Mark .

" So, that you'll stand outside the class and play . If you want this mobile back you have to bring your parents to school unless that you are not getting it back." said Mr. Charles who had observed how Mark kept repeating same things everyday . Now, Mark had no choice other then sit quietly in class . " What did he just say , to bring parents? But how is that even possible ? And if they come to know that I was caught playing on phone during class they would crush me ." This were the thoughts running through his mind now . Mark was living away from his parents in another city for studying in J.Y.J high school since last 2 years . His mom was a kids illustrator and his dad was an architect. They had sent their only precious son to another city to study in one of the famous school in their country. But they didn't had any idea about how their son was wasting their efforts standing outside the class playing games.

Mark was mentally disturbed now , he was immersed in thinking what should be done next to get his phone back? No way he was going to call his parents to school . If they come to school ,  his game addiction and his low grades will also be revealed . He has been lying about his grades since, last year. He thought something for a while and went to Mr. Charles during the break and told him , " Sir, If  I bring my parents tomorrow will you give back my phone to them ?"

" Yes ,of course . So You are bring them tomorrow to school?" asked Mr. Charles .

" Yes , during break time ."

" I will wait for them tomorrow ."

PLACE- Playground

Mark was having a series discussion with his friend Wills and Chen  .

" No!" They both exclaimed to-gather with strong disagreement towards something . But Mark was smart enough to bribe them;

" I' ll get you that shoes you wanted to buy since , last month." he said pointing towards Wills.

" And for you I'll give that letter to Yoora ." he said pointing to Chen . The deal sounded profitable to both of them and they agreed . When , they were returning back to class , a ball with the speed of light and strenght of stone came flying towards Mark and he was on ground in pain.

A girl with short hairs  but tall height came running towards them . " OH! Is he hurt ?" said that girl pointing to Mark who still facing to the ground in pain. Mark recognized the voice and got up somehow hiding his face with his hand and ran away from there .

" Does he got hurt on his face ?" asked the other girl who came behind sunny. " I don't know . When I came here , that boy  was lying on the ground and then suddenly woke up and ran away . I didn't even got time to say sorry " answered sunny.

After, some time ; Chen and Wills returned to class. Mark was siting on the last bench holding a tissue on nose . His nose was bleeding due to early hit by the ball on the playground .

" Bro, your nose is bleeding ?" asked Chen seeing him holding tissue on nose .

" Yeah! can't you see ." he answered back.

" But why did you came running from there, hiding your face ?" asked Wills who was surprised by Marks earlier actions .

" And where were you both till now ?" return questioned Mark .

" We..." said Wills when they were interrupted by a sharp voice .

" Mark, Sorry ! It was because of my mistake . " politely apologized Sunny. Mark was feeling very embarrassed and shy . His ears were red as rose .

" What do you mean by sorry ? My friends nose is bleeding now ." argued Chen who was worried about his friend . Mark wanted to punch chen at this moment but he was chained with Sunny's eyes.

" I am really sorry . Shall I take you to school nurse so that she can badge you ?" asked Sunny looking at Mark with a innocent sorry face but Mark could barely gather himself to say something .

 Mark was going to answer her when Wills interrupted ," What you mean school nurse ? Our friend is delicate he needs to be taken to hospital and you are going to pay bills  for him ."

Mark wanted to run away from there . His friends had played as troublemaker for him today. He tried so much to create a strong image in front of Sunny but his friends were destroying it by calling him' delicate '

" No, You don't need to do anything . I am fine ." assured Mark to Sunny who was still waiting for Mark to say something .

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PLACE- CORRIDOR

After , Sunny walked away from them ; Chen came towards him consoling -

" You don't worry , Mark. I gonna make her pay your bills. You didn't need to get scared of her ."

This is when , Mark lost it. " Who told her that , the ball had hit me . I went away from there hiding my face then How did she came to know about; it was me ?"

" Of course ! we told her. I mean you shouldn't had ran away from there , Mark . I confronted her very badly . You should have waited there to see ... her face . HAHAHA it was the funniest ." explained Wills what had happened after he left from there.

" YOU CONFRONTED HER !" repeated Mark with anger which his friends thought was surprised.

" You are surprised right! But Yeah, we did." agreed Chen.

I think Chen and Wills have very less sense for reading others facials expression ; Therefore they didn't understood that Mark was angry and not surprised .

Mark couldn't hold it anymore and walked off the class in anger meanwhile his friends were confused . He bumped into Yoora who was bring some forms from the staff room. " OH! sorry ." said Mark when he realized because him Yoora's papers were scattered on the ground . He began to help her gathering stuff when Yoora noticed his bleeding nose .

" OH! Your nose ....it's bleeding ." said worried Yoora . Mark didn't answer anything and just walked away handing the papers back to Yoora . Actually, Mark was in anger so he didn't want to talk anything to anyone for a while .

" Why does he never answers me ?" mumbled Yoora sadly .

PLACE- PLATINUM STORE

Mark was waiting for his friends outside the shop, as promised earlier Mark would  be buying Wills the shoe which he wanted . Mark was using his savings for it . Actually , Mark himself wanted to buy the new gaming PC so he was saving money for it since, last 1 year and now he has to use it. He was indeed feeling sad but ...he has no other choice .

After buying , the shoe they also bought a beard and a wig . Now, Mark was left with very less savings as the wig costed too much.

" You completed what Wills said and what about mine now ?" asked Chen who was feeling a little insecure about the deal now.

" Yours ? But I can't give it now ." said Mark .

" Yeah! But you are giving it to her in the morning and then only your work will be done in afternoon." cleared Chen about the deal.

" Yeah! I will give her . Don't worry about it the concentrated on your work which I told you otherwise .." threatened Mark.

" We know you'll return my shoe and Chen's letter will be teared ."  said Wills

PLACE- J.Y.J High school.

Date- 13/7/21

Mark arrived early in class to meet Yoora . As Yoora was used to come early to the school as she was the class president . When Mark, saw Yoora she was a little surprised . Because Mark was the late comer . Mark walked towards her when Yoora said, " Mark, you are early today?" asked Yoora .

" Yeah! I had some work so .." he replied .

" By the way, How is your nose now ?"

" It's good . I am sorry about yesterday. Actually , I was in hurry so I didn't replied ." explained Mark his earlier actions .

" It's ok! "

" This.....is a letter for you.." said Mark hesitantly handing over the letter to Yoora . It was a pink envelope closed with heart sticker .  As soon as Yoora took that letter Mark ran away from there .

" That wasn't easy as I thought . " exclaimed Mark who just now came out of the after handing over the letter . Actually, Chen had liked Yoora since, the first day of school but didn't had guts to go and tell her since she was pretty known for her cold image . When he saw , Yoora talking friendly with Mark , he saw an opportunity . He wrote the letter for Yoora and had handed it to Mark to give her few months ago. But Mark didn't wanted to get involved in this matter so he didn't give her the letter but when Chen refused to do his work he used that letter as a bribe .

It was finally recess and it was time for Mark and his friends to execute the plan. As per the plan , Chen and Wills went to the washroom and got dressed as Marks mom and dad respectively. After , getting dressed up ; they had reached the staff room to meet Mr. Charles .

" Sir, this are my parents." introduced Mark to him.

" Oh! Please come and have seat . " Actually Mr. Charles was already in conversation with someone when Mark arrived . The lady siting in front of Mr. Charles could recognize the voice and turned back.

" MARK......" she said looking back at him. Mark was now ; frozen in terror .

" OH! You know are son? I am his mother " asked Chen in most womanly voice ever. The lady's gaze got stronger .

" So, she is your mother ?" asked the lady to Mark. Mark knew that he was screwed now .

" Yeah! Of course , she is his mother and I am his father ." said Wills getting into his role .

" So, Mark whom should I hand over your phone to?" said Mr. Charles sarcastically who knew the whole situation.

" Sir, Our son is an excellent gamer . Even though he never sits in class and gets zeros in test , you shouldn't underestimate him." said his supporting mom chen. Mark did some hand expressions to keep them quit but they didn't stopped .

" Sir, Do you know how determined is my son in gaming . If day has 24 hours he does 26 hours gaming ." bragged Wills about his faked son Mark.

Mark wanted to tape their mouths . They were doing nothing but just exposing him. The lady besides them was still glaring at Mark and with each sentence Mark's fake parents bragged she was getting more and more angry.

" Oh really ? Mrs . Grace. I didn't knew that Mark had two pairs of parents." asked Mr. Charles.

" TWO PAIRS." repeated Wills and Chen who didn't had any clue.

PLACE-J.Y.J High school garden

Mark was siting lonely on the bench . His brain was rewinding the moments that happened in the last 1 hour . He was sad as a farmer of famine country. Actually, earlier his mom had caught him red - handed with a pair of fake parents in the staff room. When yesterday, Mr. Charles took Mark's phone Mark's mother had called Mark and that time Mr. Charles picked it up and had told everything about Mark to his mom. And therefore , she came to meet his teacher the next day but Mark was totally unfamiliar with this and made a plan of making Wills and Chen his parents . Even though, they played the role well ; their whole plan had failed completely . On top to that ,Chen had mentioned about zeros in test which annoyed his mother more. And even Wills had mentioned about 24/7 gaming .

Yoora was searching Mark since the morning but couldn't find him but at last she found him siting alone on the ground . She approached him quietly and handed him the letter. Mark silently took it and kept aside . Mark mom had taken away his phone now and she had kept conditions to get it back. Until, then Mark would be using a simple 2000s model with only calling service .

Following were his condition

1. He has too score above 75 % in next semester .

2. He should attend every class .

" If I wouldn't had made such plan, mom would have never gone so far with me " he said to himself .  Wills and Chen came towards him and consoled him.

" Don't worry!  everything will be fine . "said Wills putting hands on his shoulders .

" We are with you. " they comforted him.

" By the way, What is that ?" asked Wills pointing towards the pink envelope kept aside .

" Oh! That Yoora gave to me. I think it must be the answer." said Mark handing it back to Chen.

" She replied !!" said shocked Wills because he thought this confession would go totally flop.

" Yeah! That why she wrote another letter." said Mark.

" Does that means she accepted Chen's confession ?" asked Wills . Chen couldn't stop blushing now . He opened the envelope but Wills snatched it from him and started reading it aloud .

" This is what I wanted to say to you always . I too like you from the first day of school but never thought of expressing it to you. I am so grateful you feel same for me . So ,,it's a big ' YES' from me . Let's meet after school in the garden"

" Oooooh! Finally , Chen's confession got accepted ." added Wills with excitement for his friend.

" Congratulations , Chen ." said Mark who was happy for his friend's successful love .

" Thanks, Mark. But it wouldn't have happened if you wouldn't had helped me ." credited his success to Mark.

" I still can't believe . Yoora - our class president , prettiest , smartest and most elegant girl of our class will now be dating - ' Chen' who does have smell of intelligence and is a jerk."

said Wills who can't still believe that Yoora will be dating Chen.

" Shut UP! Wills.  she had told me to meet after school in garden . I am getting nervous , Guys , you have to come with me  ." said Chen.

" But , she had called only you?" argued Mark who didn't wanted to interrupt them.

" But... You'll have to come with . Only this much more help , I won't ask anything more after that." pleased nervous Chen .

Place- J.Y.J GARDEN

Chen was waiting for Yoora along with Mark and Wills in the garden.

" I think Chen is more shy then Yoora , therefore she is coming alone and you came with us." said Wills pointed to garden gate from where Yoora was coming alone .

" Hi! " waved Yoora smiling towards Mark who was standing behind Chen. Chen waved her back .

For next 10 minutes there was complete silence . No one opened their mouth just stood still. Mark didn't wanted to come but then he came there because Chen . But now it was being too much time , so he whispered ' I'll be going ' in Chen's hears and started to walk away .

" Why are you leaving so early ?" said Yoora first in since last ten minutes . Mark stood still for some seconds then turned back and said ," I have some work at home . You talk to chen what you wanted to say . I 'll be leaving ."

Yoora couldn't understand anything because she had called 'Mark ' to talked with him and then he was leaving and told her to talk to ' Chen'.

Actually , Chen had not written his name on the letter when he gave it to  Mark who gave it to Yoora . So, Yoora thought it was letter from mark and not from chen . And the one she had called in the garden and also expressed her feelings for was ' Mark ' and not chen.

" What should I say to chen?" asked confused Yoora . Wills and Chen were standing frozen there and their tongues shut .

" You called him in the garden right to meet." replied Mark.

" What! I called you . Isn't it I gave you that letter to you ?"

" Guys, excuse me but I think there is a big misunderstanding here." exclaimed Wills who can now understand a bit off it.

" Yoora, whose name was written in the letter Mark gave you ?" asked Wills to Yoora .

" What you mean by name? Of course Mark gave it to me so .." was saying Yoora when Chen interrupted her.

" Soo, You thought it was written by Mark!" said Chen who had realized till now that the earlier 'YES' Yoora said in the letter  was for Mark .

" I don't know what are you guys saying . I just know that Mark gave it to me expressing his feelings and I wrote mine back to him." said Yoora who was having enough of the interrogation. Till, Now everything was clear to Chen as lakes water ' Yoora likes Mark and not him'. He couldn't hold himself there anymore and ran away from there .Wills went behind him.

" How could you do this ? can't you read who wrote the letter to you?" screamed Mark at Yoora after seeing his broken friend.

" Read the name ! You gave me the letter so it's obvious you wrote it." she replied calmly .

" It was from Chen and not me . "

" What! then why did you gave it to me and not him?" asked Yoora who could now understand everything .

" Because you are friend with me , he told me to give it to you."

" Does that means you don't like me ?" asked Yoora with teared eyes .

" NO! " replied Mark bluntly . Yoora' s heart had stopped and could not hear anything