" The Curse "

"Andre! Get down right now, the bus is here!", Ryan's older sister, Rianna, shouted at the top of her lungs with her hands rooted on her waist, irritated.

"She's always so impatient.", Andre muttered, rolling his eyes. Without looking, he just bluntly stuffed the last books left on his bedroom desk in his bag.

"Andre, hurry up! Mr Jermery is waiting! It's not good to let people wait!", Rianna demanded, at her very last string.

" okay okay!! I'm coming down! ", Andre replied as he drashed down the stairs. He ran towards the dining table, taking the biggest bite he could before slipping into his plain basic worn out shoes he'd been wearing for the past few years. He dashed towards the front door, opening it wide before turning around and saying goodbye to his mother.

It was the first day of school for Andre Hudson, a junior student which makes him sixteen this year. He previously topped his cohort last year with straight As consistantly throughout the year. He also have wonderful childhood friends around him, Janice, Alexandera, Issac and lastly Ryan.

Andre quickly made his way into the bus without realising his terrible bedhair. The streets were busy as always with the roads packed since everyone rushed before getting into traffic. The smell of the fresh grass and the sun shone brightly as ever, made Andre feel like today was going to be his best yet.

"Good Morn' Mr Hudson always on time I see" The bus driver, Jermery, chuckled with a sarcastic smirk on his face.

"Good morning to you to Jermery! Also, I do remind you that I did come early right on the dot." Andre replied smirking back as he lifted his wrist to show the time on his watch.

"Of course, you did" Mr Jermery said, accepting it. He smiled, nodding thinking how Andre is such a playful boy.

As Andre entered the bus, one of his friends, Ryan, waved to him to sit there. Hus face lit up after not seeing his bestfriend for a month due to holidays. Andre happily greeted Ryan with a wave and a smile.

"Hey! Do you read on the internet about the curse last year from that new teacher Ms Anisa's Class?" Ryan seemed so eager to ask as his whole spirit lifted up.

"Not this again, these are all fake rumors." Andre replied, with this annoyed look on his face.

"Trust me on this one, everyone else thought it was crazy too but one of my senior's classmate actually got reported missing!" Ryan replied, making sure he persuaded Andre to think otherwise.

" Pft, yeah right." Andre laughed it off before slouching back in his sit and plugged his airpods into his ears planning on ignoring Ryan's ridiculous sayings.

" alright, it might not be as believable right now but trust me! Later we can even ask the rest."

After a good 15 minutes of trying to change Andre's mind about the curse being real, still wasn't able to, they have finally reached the school. Ryan and Andre continued the conversation from the bus till they bumped into the rest of the friend group.

There they was, Issac, Alexandra and lastly, Janice. They were waiting at their usual spot at school for Andre and Ryan to arrive.

"Well look at who decided to come using the later bus " Janice said.

There were two buses students could take to school, the one at 7.30 am or the 8 am one. Ryan and Andre took the later one.

"Let's be honest people would rather want to sleep than take the bus at 7.30 am. Who in their right mind would want to go to school so early? " Andre replied.

"At least Issac isn't like you guys, he actually wants to hang out with us. " Janice bragged before pulling Issac nearer to her and placing her arm on his shoulder. Issac gave a flustered look on his face as he glanced at Andre before tilting his head away from his direction. He felt slightly embarrassed from Janice's words.

" Hey Zac, you alright? Your ears are always so red like a tomato. " Ryan asked.

"uh I do? oh..it's nothing haha.." Issac responed, with his hand scratching at the back of his head from the embarrassment.

Normally, Issac is always quite quiet and a person whom will just stick with people he's extremely close to instead of casual friends.

"Issac is probably just annoyed about you both, so much that he got flustered!, Jaince teased.

"ah! n-no no!", Issac nervously replied, trying to refuse Janice's assumption.

He looks so cute trying to deny..

Andre let out a slight laugh and took one of his hands from his pockets and placed it on Issac's face before moving it to his head, patting it. "It's okay, Andre. We know you aren't like that.." Andre said, reassuring Issac. Before realising what he had done, the damage was done already, Issac's situation just got worser as his face turned the reddest of red and he had an expressionless look like he just froze.

Andre found it amusing about Issac's clear expressions and smiled before removing his hand from his head. Issac swiftly turned his head away and his eyes glued to the ground.

Why is it getting so hot..? (Issac's POV)

Issac started panicking and asking himself a million questions to why Andre did such a bizarre move. "You guys have heard about the curse last year right? The one about the missing students in the new teacher's, Ms Anisa, class?" Ryan asked, breaking the tension.

"Yeah who hasn't? I mean, it was such a huge rumor!" Alexandra replied.

"..but who believes it?" (Ryan)

"It's kinda obviously fake, the students probably just hanged out at parties or ran away from home"

"bro, there were 7 missing students"(Ryan)

"NO WAY!! Isn't it today, we're getting the classes we are going to take this year? What if we get into Ms Anisa's class?!" Janice added.

"Oh yeah !! I totally forgot !! Let's get class slip at the front desk. Let's just cross our fingers for goodluck." Alexander suggested

They all walked together in a group to the front desk for their slips. Some excited, some nervous however all hopeful. On the way there, Andre whispered " Hey Issac, are you okay? "

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for the concern." Issac grinned. Issac hurried along with the rest leaving Andre at the back. Andre found it awfully adorable how Issac waddled back. "I think I might need to go to the doctor, something's wrong with my heart. It's beating so fast.", Andre mumbled

They finally reached at the front desk and each have asked for their class selection slips.

"no way.." Issac said in disbelief.

"Oh my cheese cakes! Janice shrieked, her hands over her mouth as her jaw dropped.

"WE GOT INTO THE SAME CLASSES!" Ryan cheered with his fists clenched up in the air.

"No you fool, we're getting into Ms Anisa's class and the rest of our subject classes aren't all the same as well!!" Alexander sneered, slapping Ryan at the back of his neck.

"ah I got English at Ms Dee's class though.." Issac said. Issac's whole atmosphere turned blue with his face drooling down with sadness.

"Aw man, the rest of us got English at Mr Derek's class." Ryan added.

"oh wait a second, I got English at Ms Dee's class aswell !!

I'm forward for us to be sitting buddies in class." Andre said with his face lit up with excitement, looking directly into Issac's face.

The rest of the group continued exchanging classes with each other, praying their classes would clash with each others.

*BELL RINGS*

"Hey guys, Imma head to the toilet first. You guys can head to class first." Issac informed them before leaving.

Issac turned around and ran as fast as he could with all his might like The Flash from when he had to run to break the time continuum to time travel. This was probably the fastest he had ran since the last sports day competition.

"I guess he was really urgent.." Ryan said, confused.

No way no way no way, I'm going to be the only one with Andre in the same class!! Ahh this isn't the first time this has happened but I can't help but freak out after all he is my------ (secret)!!( Issac's POV)

Issac's ears turned so red and placed his hand above his heart and his heart was beating so fast, he thought it could jump out of his chest any moment. All he could hear was the heartbeats of his own heart. As he ran, he gripped on to his shirt above his heart hoping it'd stop beating so fast. He felt the wind blowing onto his face then suddenly someone grabbed his hand, stopping him...

...It was.......

...《 END OF EPISODE 》...

Okay! That's the end of episode 1!! If you have any questions or clarifications with the characters in the novel please go ahead and ask me. Since this is my first novel any feedback would be appreciated and I'll try to update this everyday if possible. Thank you for reading!! :)

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