“19th April” she thought. “It’s my birthday today...Whatever, who cares?” Then it hit her, she hadn’t spoken with her family for about one month. She last called to get permission for the modelling thing. “It hurts” she thought but gave all of her concentration to her History book, but it was just impossible with a hilarous class.
“Wassup princess?” said Tod as he passed by and sat to his desk right behind her.
“I have a name” she replied curtly.
“Aww...we’re cranky today huh? Okay Prec, i can deal with you as long as i look at your damn sexy photos.” he said, pointing the new issue of a teen mag.
“Gimme!” she yelled trying to snatch.
“no way! It’s all mine! And as i said, you look damn sexy in these photos, yummy!!”
“No I’m not!!!”
Yes you are” said Jason, coming into the class, the “most popular senior”.Precious stopped yelling and looked at him. She hadn’t spoken to him much, once or twice, they had met on Precious’ first day at school. Precious had thanked him for being nice to her that morning when she stood in front of the building, hesitated.
“It’s none of your business” Just at that time, Eve and a bunch of her friends came in laughing but when they saw Jason and Precious, they went all silent. Eve prayed under breath for Precious not to say anything wrong to enrage him.
“Come with me” said Jason and grabbed her hand
“Who do you think you are Mr.I’m-the-best?” she shouted and rescued her hand from his.
“Ohh...we’re playing hard...”
“Jason, got lost...” Tod said.
“Shut up”
“I told you to get lost...”
“SHUT UP!!!”
“TAKE YOUR BIG ASS OUT OF MY CLASS BEFORE I KICK IT!!!”
Jason gave him a stern look mumbling “Be careful” to Precious and stormed out off the class.
Precious broke down into tears as Tod crouched down beside her and embraced her into a tight hug.
“Are you alright?” Eve whispered when she approached them.
She just nodded, crying.
“Okay it’s alright honey. I’m sorry...i caused all that shit to your head” Tod whispered to her ear.
“No you didn’t...” Precious said between sobs.
“Yeah i did...if i hadn’t pick on you about the pics, my fave shirt wouldn’t be soaking wet from your tears.”
Precious let out a silent laugh as she removed herself from his arms.
“What will your gf think?”
“Don’t you know she loves you, she won’t mind, even she will yell at me for picking on you.”
“Thanx Tod, really...”
“We’re friends, right?”
“Right”
Their emotional conversation ended by their history teacher.
“Now tell me what was this morning all about?” asked Eve concerning for her friend when they put down their treys on the table and sat down in the cafeteria.
“Tod was picking on me like everytime, telling me how sexy i was in some pictures and you know i hate being labelled as sexy, then Jason came in and he verified Todd and i wasn’t in a good mood i started yelling and all you saw...”
“ Yup...but the thing you hadn’t notice is, your ‘bad’ mood started to become a permenant personality change...haven’t you notice how badly you’ve treated us over these weeks yet? Not only to us, your friends, but also to the photographers, and even to Scott? I finally got to see the ex-Precious when you were in Tod’s arms.”
“I know and I’m terribly sorry for all of’em...Things got out of my control...”
“Nothing’s gotten out of control...yet...Gal, it’s all in your heart and soul...You don’t even need to change, just be the old Precious...we all want this” Eve was trying to reassure her.
“Okay i’ll try it...”
“It’s nothing big girl...i missed the old you.”
“Me too...Don’t worry, I’ll get over it soon” Precious smiled at her.