I was laying there on my bed when the alarm rang. I groaned. Can't a person get some sleep? I legit slept at three in the morning. Then again I was solving the maths problem our teacher gave us. And considering it was Maths, I couldn't leave it.

Frustratedly, I kicked my legs making the covers fall off of me and turning to the side I got up walking straight to the bathroom with my eyes half closed and half open.

After exactly 30 minutes later, I was standing in front of the mirror.

I settled for a black tank top and a pair of jeans with white canvas. I ran my hands through my black hair. I wasn't sure whether to leave them open or tie them up. Glancing at the time I cursed, "Shit." And left them open.

Who cares? It's not like I'm going for some fashion parade.

I hurried down the stairs, there in the kitchen I could see my mother's back turned to me as she hummed a song to herself while preparing breakfast. I smiled to myself.

I love them. I love my parents so much. They are not like some normal couples. They were still in love as much as they first met. And I've considered myself lucky to have them. While many of the people I've encountered have had a broken family. I didn't.

I was running late!

I ran to my mom kissing her on the cheek while I grabbed the toast she just took out.

"It's hot Amelia." She warned me.

But it was too late already. I was already making the toast dance between my two hands.

"I'll get late mom. I am late already. I'll get going." I again kissed her on the cheek as she smiled at me. Her brown eyes sparkling.

"I'll see you after school." I yelled as I ran to the the main door.

Before stepping out I heard my mom replying, "Bye Mia. And take care."

I smiled to myself before taking off running towards the school which wasn't that far. But far enough to make me late.

**

I entered the school almost panting hard. I bent down with my hands on my knees and took deep breaths.

Lifting my hand up I glanced at the time and sighed in relief. I was as usual in school exactly on time. Never in my 16years of life had I been late for anything. I like to be punctual and that's the reason why I have only two best friends, Anna and stacey.

"Hey there Mia"

And here they are, Anna and stacey, the love of my life.

"Hi Anna, hi Stace! How are you doing?"

"We're doing fine. But no time for that. We have something very important to tell you" they squealed in my ears. Putting a hand on my ear I smiled at them.

Sometimes both of them behave just like kids that I think I'm the only mature and sane person in the group.

"And what is that important thing?"

"There is this new boy in schoo..."

Before Anna could finish her sentence I put my hand on her mouth shutting her up.

"Mmh...mmh!" Anna mumbled.

"You are going to shut up if that 'something important to tell' is about a new boy in school."

And that's the only reason why I hate them.

"Mmh...mmh!" Anna mumbled again.

I took my hand back allowing her to speak.

"What's your problem? No wait, let me rephrase it...what's your problem with boys." Stace asked me.

I started walking with them walking on either side of me.

"I don't have any problem with boys, I have problem with 'I want some special treatment' kind of boys, and I don't have a problem, I hate them." I spat.

While talking, I bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry," I appologised but when I saw a boy there in front of me and a whole bunch of students behind him, I mumbled "or not." He raised his left eyebrow while smirking.

Okay now, This is the reality of life. You get what you hate the most. Just like this moment. Not just a minute ago I cursed boys of his kind and here I am standing in front of one.

"What? Is there something written on my face?" I asked frustrated.

"No." He said still looking amused

"Then why are you still looking at me. Take a move on. Come on, go"

"Hi my name is Damien" his blue eyes twinkled.

I stared at him dumbfounded, "So? What am I supposed to do? For all I care your name could be pig and I still won't give a shit."

"Feisty...huh? I like it. But it's basic etiquette to tell your name when someone tell theirs."

"Is it? Then I'm sorry but does telling your name without even asking fall under basic ettiquette?"

"Okay.." he laughed "It's just that I wanted to know your name. That's it."

"That's it? Seriously?" I was litterally fuming right now.

"Okay chill Amelia... I think we should keep moving, I'm sure the class is about to begin." Stace said taking me by my arm and almost dragging me away.

"Yeah sure." I said moving towards my locker. I was more than happy coming out from there.

Stace and Anna moved to their locker to get their books while I took out mine.

Shutting the locker I sighed before turning towards my left. I came face to face with electric blue eyes. My breathing hitched.

Damien.

"What are you doing here?" I rolled my eyes.

"Chill Amelia" he said

"Why should I chi-... wait wha-...how do you know my name? I don't remember telling you." I squinted my eyes at him.

"Well I heard it while those two girls," he said pointing out Anna and stace "asked you to leave. Must admit, nice name."

"Those two girls there are Anna and Stacey." I sighed, "Why don't you leave me alone? Why are you following me?"

"Woah! Take a break girl. I'm not following you. I am here to take my books for my first class." he winked at me.

I turn my gaze towards the locker beside me and sure enough Damien had it open with his hands searching for his books.

This can't happen. I wanna cry. Among the whole school. The locker had to be given to Damien?

Ugh!

I hate my life!

"You are such a nerd" Anna and stace complaints to me. It was lunch time and we were sitting on our usual seats.

"No I'm not!" I protested.

-"Oh is it so? Then who is that stupid to read a book during lunch break."

-" hey! I'm not stupid and what is it with you and the others calling me nerd. Let me make it clear, I AM NOT A NERD, God! Can this day get any worse."

"Relax Mia, ohk we're sorry, you are not a nerd, this just for the saying though," I glared at her at this, "but yeah you're not a nerd, but who is this 'other people' calling you nerd?'

And yeah this brings me back to the moment during maths class.

"Amelia! Give us an answer, who?" They asked

-"Damien"

If their eyes could pop out they would have, but thank god they were still intact.

"Damien!? As in the hottest boy in school? Oh wait, it's ofcourse him, there's no one named Damien apart from him." They squealed, Girls ugh!

"So begin your story, your time starts now" Anna said

"Ohk, so I was taking my books for the maths class when I came face to face with Damien. Again. So yeah it went something like this:

Flashback

"Hey is it your maths class?" Damien asked me

"Yeah, fortunately." I said, "why?"

-"fortunately? You like maths?"

"Yes I do" I told him, " anyways goodbye Damien or otherwise I'm going to be late for my class."

"Hey wait Amelia," Damien said catching up with me.

-" what do you want now?"

-" Even I have my maths class, I think we are going to the same class."

I sighed, he isn't going to leave me anytime soon.

"Amelia?"

-" yeah?"

-" I was thinking of skipping the class. Would you like to come with me?"

-" what! No, ofcourse not, I'm not skiping the maths class or for that matter anyclass."

-"oh come on it will be fun."

-"no!"

-"you're such a nerd."

-" No don't you dare call me a nerd."

-"ohk Li, I'm not going to call you a nerd."

"Good...wait, what did you call me? Li?" I asked

-" well yes, you know Amelia, lia , Li. I kind of liked it."

-"Li, seriously." I laugh

-"well there isn't anything to laugh about... but it feels nice to see you smile...you should often keep smiling." He smiled himself.

-" well bye Damien, gotta go or I would get late for the class."

-" Bye li! Well I'm still on my plan for the bunking the class, will meet you tommorow in the class."

Present

"Wow" Anna and stace, both said silently.

"What is so 'wow' about the situation?" I asked

-" well everything, where do we start from? With the fact that Damien asked you to skip your class with him, or he gave you a nickname which is sort of cute."

" I don't know" I sighed, "I don't want to take a risk again."

"We know after that inci" They broke mid sentence

Sighing for god knows fiftieth time today I said " I know."

-"but Mia you have to move on, not all of them are same."

-"I don't think so. Every boy is the same" looking at my hand I said, " And please can we stop this conversation here?"

"Yeah sure!" Anna said, "but we are always there for you Mia even if that 'always' means us digging a pit to dispose a body off."

I laughed at that, " You know, I love you both."

-"Yeah we know we are irresistable" I rolled my eyes at that, " but you are lucky that we both love you too." And that was enough to make me smile.

********************************

I was just there, just a few more streets to go and I'll be home. God, it had been a long day. I just want to go home, take a hot shower and change into something comfortable.

I was walking down the streets when I heard footsteps behind me. I whirled around just to see no one there. I turned back and continued walking when I could hear the footsteps again. This time a little closer. And suddenly, I was grabbed by the waist and twirled around.

I crashed against a hard chesr and as always I was mesmerised by his green eyes.

I took a step back immediately, not wanting to stare at those green eyes again.

"Hi Amelia" he said

"Oh hi Evan," I said still not meeting his eyes, " what are you doing here? You shouldn't be here."

He sighed, "look Amelia, I know me appearing out of nowhere after god knows how many years is shocking."

-" yeah definitely shocking."

-" but I came here to talk to you, talk to you about US."

This time I looked up only to meet his intense stare. He looked the same as always, just more muscular, and hotter. Same sharp jawline, same green mesmerising eyes which once drawned me in them. But the person in frong of me was not the same Evan I knew.

" I don't think there's anything to talk about." I said

"Ofcourse, there is the need to talk."

-" Evan, we are done."

-"No, we're not!"

-" Yes we are. Now please leave me."

-" no! I'm not leaving until we talk."

-" not now, I don't know, maybe never." And with that I turned and stomped my feet. Evan was not following me anymore. Thank god!

Just 5 minutes more and I'll be home. Again, I heard the footsteps behind me.

I knew Evan was not going to give up easily.

As the footsteps grew closer.

I stopped in my tracks. Anger was consuming me. Evan you are so dead.

The footsteps stopped too. I turned around anger all over my face, only to loose into blue eyes.

Not what I was expecting.

It should be green, not blue!

But them I took the appearance of the person. Hmm, much hotter.

I face-palmed myself.

What the hell is the problem with me?

I just called Damien hot!!

I suddenly looked down realising that he had noticed that I was checking him out.

" Are you done, checking me out?" He asked amused.

A small blush crept up on my cheeks.

Stop blushing Amelia!

Are you stupid?

Oh yeah, ofcourse you are.

"What are you doing here? Ar..Are you following me? Again?" I asked trying to change the subject

"First of all, I wasn't following you then, nor am I following you now, Li." Then he sighed, " what do you think? I don't have anything else to do than just to follow you?" He asked.

"Oh! I'm sorry."

"It's okay Li."

" but what are you doing here?"

"What would a person do after school? Go home. Right?" He said

"Wait! Are you trying to say you live here?"

He thought for a while and then answered, "maybe," and with that he laughed, "Li! I'm here after school, telling you indirectly that I live here. And still you ask me, if I live here."

I felt embarassed.

"I'm sorry." He stopped laughing and looked at me intently and said, "Don't be sorry, it happens."

I nodded and started walking again.

Why does Damien need to live near me?

I hate my life.

I seriously do hate you! Life!

Damien started walking beside me. We were walking together. It felt somewhat good and warm!

Strange!

After a minute passed, Damien asked, "Li?"

"Yeah"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah sure."

"Is everything alright?" He asked concerned.

I stayed quite for some time and then answered in a mere whisper, "Yeah...why?"

"Oh nothing." Though he was watching me intently.

"Hmm"

We were walking when he again broke the silence, "don't"

Confused I turned to him, "huh?"

"What I mean is don't be like this."

"Well thank you Damien...but I don't need anyone's concern."

"See, this is what I was talking about, be the feisty one." He smiled.

I shook my head smiling.

"Well Damien I think it is time to say goodbye." I said pointing at my house.

"Really! I live there!" He said pointing at the house just in front of ours. "Maybe it's a coincidence too that I got my house just in front of yours." He winked at me.

What?! This can't happen. Is Life planning to play a game with me?

"Bye Amelia...see ya tommorow." He said turning towards his house.

"Bye Damien." I replied back, "and I hope we never cross each others way ever again but I doubt it's ever going to happen." I whispered too low for him to listen.

He turned his head and asked, "did you just say something?"

"No...nothing, nothing at all."

He nodded and disappeared into his house.

And as for me...well, with heavy legs, I too collapsed into my bed.

I was laying down on my bed, checking my phone, when mom called

"Honey!"

"Yeah mom?" I shouted back

"There's a new neighbour in our street. Come down, I want you to meet them, they're really nice and this boy here is your age."

"Coming mom!"

Damien, ugh!!

I got up from my bed, descending the stairs when I found my mom was talking to someone.

"Mom?" I called out to her.

She turned and beamed, "Oh honey, you came," she moved aside and my mouth was already on the floor. Mom came to me and said, "I know you're happy, meeting Evan after so many years."

I looked at her in disbelief but she got no idea and continued, "And you know what's the best part?"

I shook my head still unable to recover myself to speak. I was looking at Evan, who was enjoying this way too much.

"He's going to go with you."

This snapped my attention to her.

"What? Where?" I asked

"Ofcourse, to your school. He applied with you."

I looked back at Evan and glared at him. He was suppressing a smile.

"And you're car pooling with him."

"No mom!" I snapped

"What?" Mom asked, "what's the problem?"

"I'm fine mom, I can walk to school. Alone."

"Yes honey, you can but you're not and that's final." Mom glared at me and that was enough to shut me up.

"Okay."

"Oh and there's one more thing."

"What?"

And with that the front door opened, all our eyes snapped to the door.

It was Dad, he came in,

"What's happening?" Dad asked

"Oh nothing important honey, You go and change into some casuals" mom said

"Hmm" Dad nodded, "and Hi Evan, long time no see"

Evan replied, "Hello Mr.Woods"

Dad came towards me and kissed me on my forehead, "How was your day princess?"

I snorted, "Extremely great" sarcasm dripping from my mouth

"We'll talk about it princess."

"Yeah dad, even I want to."

He nodded and went to his room.

"So yeah, what was I saying?" Mom continued but the door opened again. All our eyes snapped to the door.

This time it was Damien.

Oh wait, IT WAS DAMIEN!!

"Yeah, come child, I was just saying" Damien came inside and shook hands with mom, "Hello Mrs Woods."

"Hello Damien" my mom replied then she turned to me and said, "Amelia, meet Damien, our another neighbour and yeah the same story, same school and therefore same car." Mom said a little bored.

"What? Why?" This time Evan and I said at the same time.

"Because sweetheart it doesn't make sense, two people carrying different cars to go to the same destination."

"Yeah and afterall I'm a fun guy to hang around with." Damien intervened.

"Now, we all go to our home, and don't waste our time anymore." Mom said finally.

Evan and Damien soon left.

After that nothing important happened. I slept late last night disturbed thinking how disturbed my day is going to be tomorrow.

****

I woke up to the sound of my alarm, groaning I got out of my bed. I slept really late last night, just thinking about today. I went to the bathroom yawning.

After 20min, I was ready to leave. I walked downstairs and into the kitchen to mom.

Mom looked at me and smiled, "The boys will be here in 5minutes."

I sighed. Too much for a little soul like me to suffer like this.

I was sitting in the chair, when the boys entered the kitchen.

"Goodmorning Mrs Woods." Both wished simultaneously.

"Goodmorning boys, and please call me Lydia." Then looking at me she said, "Mia I think you start moving or you'll get late."

Groaning I stood up and started walking towards the exit. Both the boys followed me. Soon after we were out, I turned around. Both of them stopped too and raised their eyebrows.

Ignoring them I asked," So who's car are we taking?"

"Ofcourse mine, Your mom made me incharge." Evan stated as if it was obvious.

Damien turned to him, "Whoa there, we are taking my car."

"No we are taking mine!" Evan glared

"No, mine." Damien glared back.

Both were glaring at each other when I jumped in,

"We'll get late if you don't stop this conversation." Both turned to me and glared at me, "Ok chill, let's do one thing, we'll take Evan's car for one week and Damien's for other."

They both kept quite,

"So?" I asked

"Hmm, good we are taking my car first for this week." Evan said

"No we are taking my car fir this week." Damien argued back.

"Wait" I called for them, they turned to me, "Let's decide it with a toss." I took out a coin.

"Heads" Evan said,

-"Tails"

I tossed the coin and once it landed, all looked at it curiously.

Suddenly I heard, "Yes!!!! I won!"