Chapter 11: Chapter 11

Isabella's pov;

"How was it yesterday?" Sophia inquired about me like she was interested to know what happened last night.

"I rejected him." Said while moving the benches to the one side of the class.

When I looked at her expression, she seemed like she wasn't curious anymore. I let out a sigh and continued moving the benches.

"Who rejected who?" Evelyn asked while she came back after moving the tables along with Liam.

I answered, "Sophia introduced a guy to me last night and I rejected as always."

Liam, "Sophia, why did you do that? You know that I like Bella, right? Why did you betray me? If you wanted Bella to have a boyfriend, you should have helped me and not some random guy you know. Aren't you my friend?"

I laughed and said to Liam, "Stop arguing with her and go clear the papers over there."

"Why are you shouting at me?"

"Darling, can you please clear those papers for me?"

"Darling, eh?" He gave a flying kiss and left.

After Liam left, Evelyn asked me, "Why are you giving hope to people around you? Liam, Sophia... About Sophia, If you take Sophia's side like this every time, people will think you like her."

"Yeah, I like her. What's wrong with that? Is it wrong to like my best friend?" I wrapped my hands over Sophia's shoulder.

Evelyn said to Sophia, "She's dumb." And left.

Sophia nodded her head and said, "Yeah, she is."

I asked Sophia, "What do you mean I'm dumb?"

She took my hand off her shoulder and pointed to the bench while saying, "Help me to move this."

"I'll take care of it. You can go do some like... Go and help Evelyn to clear things."

She lifted the bench without listening to me and said, "Don't treat me like I'm weak."

I rushed and lifted the other bench and dragged it over to the corner of the room.

After moving every bench to one side of the class, Evelyn, and other girls began to swipe the dust on the floor of the classroom.

I leaned on the wall and when I tried to wipe the sweat on my face, someone did it before me. Someone's kerchief patted on my face lightly.

I lowered that person's hand from my face and looked at them. Liam.

"What are you doing?"

"Wiping the sweat."

I took the kerchief from his hand and said, "I'll do it myself." And patted on my forehead and my neck.

"Why are you doing the boy's work? You could help other girls in the class, right?"

"There wasn't any work assigned to boys or girls. Unless it's making pregnant or getting pregnant." And laughed.

Noah smacked my head with a book saying, "If you don't know how to behave then At Least, try to talk like a girl."

"Ouch! It hurts. Why did you do that?"

"With this mouth, you won't get a boyfriend unless you talk properly."

"Dude, did you forget me?" Liam bolted out to him.

I said to Noah, "What's wrong with my talking? If someone wants to change the way of talking, then it should be Harry. Not me."

Harry, "Who's talking about me? Wanna fight with me?"

I let out a nervous laugh and said, "Noah said he wants you to talk properly since..."

"Since what?"

"I think you should ask him by yourself."

Harry to Noah, "What do you want me to change? Are you looking for trouble here?"

Evelyn tried to separate Noah and Harry but Harry tried to punch Noah. That was surprising.

I stopped Harry by holding his hand saying, "That's enough!"

"What's enough? I'm not even talking to you. Stay out of it."

I stood in front of Harry and said, "If you tried to start a fight with Noah, Then you should go over me first."

Harry got angry and said, "Are you inviting me to a fight? I don't take pity for girls. Wanna fight with me? Come on."

Evelyn, "What are you guys fighting for? We're in the classroom. Did you forget that?"

Harry pushed Evelyn away by saying, "Stay out of it."

I got mad and held his collar saying, "How dare you to push my friend like that?"

Evelyn shouted, "Do you want me to call the homeroom teacher?"

After hearing what Evelyn said, I let go of Harry's collar, took my bag and walked outside the classroom.

Liam, "You were awesome back there."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I didn't expect you would grab his collar like that."

I smiled at Liam's excitement.

Noah, "You like to tease him, right?"

"It's fun. He thinks he's some person in high rank or something."

"But it's not safe to tease him whenever you want."

"It's fine. He can't do anything other than raise his voice against me. By the way, you did well today."

"Yeah, I always knew I had it in me. I should join the arts in college. I can become an actor someday."

I tapped Noah saying, "Not that good." And laughed at him.

Liam joined me in laughing at Noah.

Evelyn, "Don't do something like that again. What if the teacher finds out about this?"

Sophia to Evelyn, "You're the classroom president. What are you worrying about?"

"I don't like being the classroom president. It's so difficult to do every work. More to that, It feels like I'm working as a babysitter whenever you and Harry start fighting each other."

"Hey, I'm not a kid. But Harry is."

Evelyn, "okay. Let's talk about the scores. How many subjects did you pass this time?"

"Why this topic suddenly? Change it. I don't like it."

Evelyn, "Say it!"

I looked at Sophia, Liam, and Noah and asked, "Do you guys want to know it too?"

They nodded in synchronisation.

"Okay. I'll say it. I passed two out of five subjects."

"Two out of five? Last time, it was three. Now it's two. What happened this time?"

"Even my mom doesn't care about my scores, why do you care?"

Noah, "Because we're your friends."

Evelyn asked, "Why didn't you pass the other three subjects?"

"Because I didn't study. I was working part-time in a cafe after school so I didn't get time for studying."

"You only worked for hourly paying jobs then why did you get this additional job?"

"I didn't get much in hourly payments. I needed more so I joined the cafe."

"Did your mom know about this?"

"What's the point of telling her? You know she won't accept me even if I say the reason."

Noah, "Okay. Enough with this job conversation. What about basketball practice? Are you coming today?"

"How will I ditch that? I'm coming."

"Okay. Then I'll head for my class."

Liam, "Me too. See ya later in the evening."

Liam and Noah left for their classes leaving me with Evelyn and Sophia.

Evelyn, "Let's meet in the cafeteria later. See ya guys." And left.

"Shall we head for the class?" I asked Evelyn.

She nodded and continued walking along with me.

I asked her, "Why were you silent while Evelyn was talking about my job? Don't you have anything to ask me? You're the one who always comments on my jobs yet you were silent surprisingly."

"What are you planning to do after finishing high school? Which college are you going to study in?"

"Actually, I haven't planned it yet. And, I don't know what I'm going to do after this. What about you? Where are you going to study?"

"I don't know but my brother said he's going to send me to Texas."

"You're going to Texas?"

She nodded her head and continued, "It's time for our class. Come on, hurry up."

Sophia is moving away? Why does it feel bad? It's not like she's the only friend I have but she's the closest I've ever had. Am I going to lose my friend?

In the third hour,

"You're the only person scoring this least number in the class. Didn't you study for the test?" Mr Brett said while giving my test paper.

I nodded my head and stood still.

"Well, don't repeat this. Study and do well in your next test."

"Yes, Sir."

I wonder how he let go of this easily. I think it's my lucky day.

After the class ended, before leaving the class, Mr Brett said, "Ms Garcia, come and meet me in my room before leaving for the next class." And left.

I turned to Sophia and said, "I'll join you later."

She gave a nod and left.

I came to Mr Brett's office, knocked and entered the room while greeting him.

"You have to score more in your next quiz. It's an important quiz. Well, why didn't you study for the test?"

"Sir, it's..."

"I know you play for the school team and I heard you're good at it but that doesn't mean you can score fewer marks in your academics. Your GPA is also important for you, like your basketball. So try to score more than average in your upcoming test. Did you get it?"

"Yes, Sir."

"You may leave now."

"Thank you, Sir."

I left Mr Brett's office and made my way to the next class.

After school ended,

I came to the basketball court. I looked around and found only a few players on the court. Where did everyone go?

Noah raised his hand to direct me towards him. I ran over to him and asked, "Where is everyone?"

He threw the ball over to me saying, "Didn't you hear it out?"

"What are you talking about?"

"The seniors are preparing the ceremony for the upcoming musical event."

"Oh, it came so soon this year."

"Yeah, so they're exchanging dates for the sports meet."

"What? Then, when are they planning to hold the sports meet? Did you know the date?"

"They haven't fixed a date yet but I'll let you know once I do."

"Okay." I threw the ball back to him.

"Are you going to stand there and chit chat forever?" Mitch shouted while rolling the basketball towards me.

I picked one of the balls and asked, "Hey, Mitch! How many will I score?"

"Four out of six."

He threw the ball towards me and shouted, "Start!"

I picked up the ball and ran towards the hoop and jumped from the place and shot the ball. It went through the hoop.

Mitch shouted, "One point."

I held the ball and walked to the three-pointer line and stood outside the line. After bouncing a ball for moments, I looked at the hoop's position and held up my ball and jumped from my place while being outside the hoop and shot the ball.

"It went through the hoop!" One of them in the audience screamed.

I looked at them. It was a community of girls who sat in the audience seat. I bet they came to see the guys in their jerseys.

Mitch shouted, "Four points!"

Ikea ran to me, hugged me and said, "That's a great throw. I wonder how you do that even if you missed some of the practices."

Serene tapped on Ikea's shoulder saying, "That's how the top player plays the game."

"Hey serene, stop praising me. You're making me feel uncomfortable."

"You're the one who asked me to say that after you scored a goal."

"What!? I didn't do that."

Ikea laughed at me and Serene joined her teasing me.

"You girls!"

Ikea and Serene started to run around the basketball court after laughing at me like that and I ran hunting after them.

"Girls! Let's begin the practice."

After playing for hours, we took a pause.

I looked at the time. It's 6.30 already??

"Hey, guys! I gotta go. Let's catch up tomorrow."

I flew away from the basketball court and came out of the school.

I took the bus and came to the cafe. After finishing my shift, Becky asked me to meet her in the office. I hope it's about my late entry.

I changed my clothes and wore my uniform, and started to serve the people.

Good god. I already studied the menu before coming here otherwise it would be hard for me to remember the names. This cafe has a variety of coffees and snacks under different names.

Since the cafe is around the corner, numerous people come here.

I thought about what Sophia asked me. What should I do after finishing high school? Should I open a cafe? Hahaha... I set aside my crazy thoughts and continued attending to the customers.

The clock struck 7 p.m.

While I was cleaning the tables, Gina said that Becky asked for me.

I finished cleaning soon and came to see Becky in her room.

"Well, one of the employees won't be coming for the evening shift, Are you free tomorrow evening?"

Evening? Tomorrow's Tuesday. That means I got to go to Mr Martinez's house. What should I do now?

"Yeah. I'm available tomorrow evening."

"Okay. You may leave now."

"Thank you."