** PATRICE's P.O.V. **
When I entered the classroom I went straight to my chair and, as I sat down, I was looking at Andrew when I saw him yawning, and I noticed his big eye bags.I was surprised when Andrew sat down and looked at me, so I said good morning to him.
“Good morning,” he said, then sat down in his chair.
When Andrew sat down, he immediately took out his other book and notebook and opened it.
Andrew has always been like this, he was looking at books and notebooks in the morning.
“Tsk. Tsk.”
I looked at Brena as she approached our seat and while looking at Andrew.
Brena came to Andrew and gave him the milk that was in the small box.
“Drink that first before you study on your own,” Brena said to Andrew then left it and came back to me.
“Good morning, Patrice.” Brena greeted me warmly.
“Good morning,” I greeted her
Patrice P.O.V. I tried not to be late for school. I just applied concealer to my eye bags so that it wouldn't be noticeable. Furthermore, I was late to sleep last night because I reviewed some of our pointers for our exam next week.When I got to HIS, I was just breathing peacefully. I thought I would be late because of the time I put a concealer in my eye bags.I followed Andrew's gaze when I saw him walking in the direction of the library. I had nothing to do, and it was still a bit early for the first subject, so I followed him until I could also enter the library.Andrew picked up three different kinds of books before sitting down in one of the very corners of the library.I smiled as I looked at Andrew, but it also disappeared immediately when two women approached him and landed that, I think was a love letter. It wasn't over, yet there were two, three, four until ten women approached him
Patrice P.O.V.“My SB! Strawberry babe!”I was cursing my mind when I heard Shin's voice again. I accelerated my walk so that I could not even walk with him in the hallway.“My SB!”Again I was cursed again and again in my mind. I already told him last week that he should stop me from his nonsense and not involve me in his nonsense doing.When I met him in the hallway earlier downstairs, the two of us looked at each other because he shouted a horrible endearment—the SB or Strawberry babe, if that can be called an endearment.Now when we come here on the third and second floor until we get here on the third floor he still doesn't stop shouting SB or strawberry babe, in the hallway. So even the students here as well as those inside the classroom are looking at us, Shin.I accelerated so much that I almost ran into the classroom. Entering the classroom, I i
Patrice P.O.V.Before entering the campus, I wish I could not meet Shin. Hopefully, at least fifteen minutes here at H.I.S. I can't hear his voice, or I can't see him.From that day on, after he announced to everyone the nonsense he was doing and the antics he was doing, he still wouldn't stop bothering.It's been three days straight since Shin has been bothering me about his antics. He always accompanies me to eat, when we are not together in the chemistry laboratory, he sends a note where quotes are written, and most of all, I am annoyed that he calls me strawberry babe or SB. Terrible.“Good morning, Strawberry Babe!”I left my jaw in the air when I met Shin and Andrew's friends Rehan, Mark, Ten, Johnny, and Hendery, who shouted with vigor the word I dreaded at all, the endearment that would not have been invented by that Shin.I ig
Patrice P.O.V.When Andrew came out, all my classmates approached me. Some told me I should say sorry to Shin, others were preaching to me that I shouldn't have told Shin that.Is it my fault Shin heard me say that? I was unaware that he was waiting at the door to give me a bouquet of strawberry chocolate and another, what's wrong with what I said? It's true that once a playboy, always a playboy. I know that and I have proven it.“Don't you see that Alex is changing, for you?” A follow-up question from one of our classmates.Don't they also see that Shin is just not serious? That, isn't it true that he shows me a sweetness? I don't know what that man wants to happen but, I know he's not serious about what he's doing to sweetness to me.“Hey! Hey! Stop it!” Brena disobeyed our classmates with her Belle.My classmates immediately followed Bren
Patrice P.O.V.I was now staring at the bulletin board where the ranking of the entire grade 12 was posted and, now I was staring at the top 10 where I could see the name of that Shin.How did it happen that Shin became the top 10? I can't believe it. Every time we have a class he doesn't listen, sometimes he even sleeps, now he's in the top 10 out of 200 students? As I am submerged in reviews that barely sleep, but I'm in the top 176? It's unfair.“Wow! First time to be in Alex's top 10,” I heard Belle whisper.“What do you mean?”I asked Belle.“Usually Alex is always in the top 19,” Belle replied. “Do you see the ones that are in those top 19?”I looked at that in the top 19 and read the names in my mind,1. Rehan Cabello.2. Waeil Woo.3. John Andrew Cabrera.4. Jaylen Navarro.5. Storm Lucena.6. Theo Black.8. Ten Villanueva.
Patrice P.O.V. I took a deep breath first before I entered the campus.This is its pancit. The first day of Shin and I pretending to be a happy couple, hopefully, it will be fine until it’s over, until December.I stopped walking as I took my cell phone out of my skirt pocket and after I looked at the caller I saw Shin's name on the screen again. I annoyingly answered his call.“What now?” I was annoyed.Earlier, Shin sent me many text messages and then called me.”Why is my SB angry?”I rolled my eyeballs when I heard that endearment again. I was horrified when I heard that endearment. For Pete's sake! The ugly and the corny of that endearment. If I just didn't like strawberries, I might not have agreed to let Shin call me that.“My SB!”I looked at Shin running towards me and in the blink of an eye, I stiffened in my
Patrice P. O.V. I frowned when I saw Shin at the gate as he leaned over and closed his eyes. There are women approaching him, but he ignores them or even gives them a look. Is the miracle true? Kidding. I’m sure a playboy like Shin can’t stand not flirting with even one woman for a day or maybe just an hour. I was about to pass Shin when I heard Andrew’s voice call the name I was using. To my surprise, because Andrew called the name I was using, I stopped, stunned for two seconds, not immediately sinking into my brain when Andrew called me. This is the first time Andrew has called the name I use, that he was the first to call me. I couldn’t help but look back at Shin with a wide smile on his lips, as he seemed pissed off when he saw me. “Have you been here?” Shin asked. “Yes? Pretty much? Why?” I ask. His voice seemed irritated. “What, why? Why didn’t you call me? If I hadn’t heard Andrew’s voice, I wouldn’t have known you were here…” “Why?” I innocently ask. Why does he seem an
Patrice’s P.O.V.I entered early to H.I.S. so I can meet Andrew again. Because the time he enters is different, sometimes very immediately, often just right at the class time so that he doesn’t get late.Now, I am here at the gate to wait for Andrew’s arrival so that I can walk with him onto the campus.“Look that ugly, she’s waiting for her boyfriend in front of the gate.”“How pathetic.”“She’s the one who is waiting, how desperate.”I rolled my eyeballs.And just ignored the students like three women who looked at me from head to toe and if they murmured, there was just a lack of speakers to let the whole campus hear what they were talking about.As if I’m waiting for a boyfriend. How I wish that I’m waiting for a boyfriend, but it’s not. Andrew is not my boyfriend.“Hey, Patrice!” Three of my male