Chapter 3

‘I wonder how it feels to be Billy Anderson’s girlfriend hey Petunia, or Sharon’. Anna confessed later that afternoon when we were at our apartment doing our assignments. We were in our world now. We could talk about Billy Anderson all day until bedtime and there was nothing weird about it. We even had pictures of him on our wall. For real. You know how teenagers go gaga on super stars like Justin Bieber? Billy Anderson was our own Justin Bieber. We talked about him non-stop. He was the kind of guy who I personally fantasized about until the early hours of the morning. I always saw myself in his arms, car, in his bed. I never went a day without match-making the both of us in my head. He was my perfect boyfriend and I was his pretty one.

‘Hey Petunia, I’m talking to you. Where is your head?’

‘Huh?’

‘Did you even hear a word I said?’

‘No I’m sorry, I just want to complete this assignment, and deadline is tomorrow. What’s up?’

‘I said, I wonder how it feels to be Anderson’s girlfriend or that brainless beauty, Sharon.’

‘Okay okay okay, I can understand the Billy Anderson girlfriend part, but I don’t understand the Sharon part. Why would you want to be her?’

‘Girl come on, do you want to tell me that you have never once in your life wished to be like her, or just to spend a day in her shoes?’

‘That will mean that I become a self-centered bitch, a bully, a beauty without brains and an attention seeker all in one day? It all sound like a whole lot of work. I’ll pass.’

‘Come on, you know what I mean. Sharon is not just beautiful Petunia; she is a definite Greek goddess walking among people. She knows exactly what to say to a guy and he falls to his knees. I wouldn’t mind being Sharon Monyai just for a day. I’d have almost everything a girl could wish for.’

‘Yeah, everything but brains. Sharon was very rude to me today; I don’t think I still think she is beautiful. Beauty has to come from the inside so that it can spread to the outside.’

‘Hahahahaha ok chomee, let me leave you to your work. I’m off to the library.’

‘Ok bye.’

Boy was I glad that Anna left. I secretly wished to be Sharon. Sharon didn’t look like your ordinary girl. She looked like she walked out of a magazine, photoshopped, and everything. Her skin was very glossy. I don’t know what she used for her skin but it must have been expensive. Maybe she didn’t even bath with water from our planet earth. Maybe hers came with special tanks from another planet. Sharon was very beautiful.

But I couldn’t stop wondering why she and Billy never dated. Well, she’d tell people to stay away from him, and apparently, he told his friends that Sharon was just another girl who is interested in him. Either Sharon was delusional, or Billy was a big-headed proud spoilt brat. ‘If Billy could say no to a girl like Sharon, then who am I?’ All this thought were swimming in my head. It actually hit me that I wanted to be as close as possible to Billy Anderson. But how was it possible that I fell in love with someone who didn’t even know of my existence. Billy Anderson knew I existed but that didn’t matter to him. He had very important people to worry about than a brace-faced first year student. Maybe I should just give up on this crazy quest to win Billy over. I thought to myself. There are other guys out there who will like me and appreciate me. Not those who will look up and say, 'Can I help you?’

First, I will have to find out why Billy and Sharon aren’t together and the animosities between them, before I try to win Billy.

‘Done with your assignment chomee?’