“Okay baby, here we are, make them all fall in love with you!” Bette rolled her eyes, it’s been the same old tiring line that she always hear everyday, well, except for Saturday and Sunday that is.

She glanced at her gold wrist watch, as always she’s thirty minutes early before the class will start “K, grandma. I’m gonna go now.” She said and kissed her dear grandma on right cheek, waited for the old woman to finished giving her a sign of the cross before opening the old car.

“I’ll pick you up after school, enjoy honey.” She heard her grandma say when she was already outside, preparing to close the car door, she bend and told the old woman “OK grandma, drive carefully. Love you.” And the old lady started the car engine.

She stands there for few minutes and watch until the car vanished from the road. She sighed; it’s another day at school.

If there’s a mama’s girl and a papa’s girl, in Bette’s case, she’s her grandma’s girl. Ever since Bette’s mother, Catherine died from giving birth to her which her father, Melvin, quickly followed and died from heart attack. It have been Bette’s dear old grandmother who took good care of her, thought her everything she knows about life and mold her into a young lady that she is now.

Bette walked the familiar pathway, like she always did, not stepping into the lines of the tiles. Bette has this strange behavior since she was a child and she didn’t know the reason why she won’t step on it, she just don’t.

Arriving at room 501, her classroom, Bette noticed that no one has arrived yet, not even the teacher. Not wanting to be called early bird, she decided to spend sometime in the library instead.

“Excuse me, can I sit with you?”

Tina closed her eyes ‘oh what a sweet melody’ she thought, she turned her head from her notes, upward to see who the owner of that voice, only to be stunned afterwards

‘OH MY GOD!’ Tina looked around the library. It was still early in the morning and no one was really around, aside from the quietly sleeping brunette that was seated in one of the cubicles far from them ‘FUCK!’

She once again, look at this girl who’s patiently waiting for her answer “yeah?..”

Tina watched as the girl grabs the chair on her right, opens the very thick book and began reading it. Tina’s  gaze traveled from the girl’s dry curly not to mention messy hair bangs to her thick, black framed eyeglasses. She jumped as the girl turned to her, she seems to have noticed that Tina is staring at her and smiled from ear to ear, showing her multi colored braces to Tina.

She quickly look down to her books and pretended to be engross reading while in reality, she cannot concentrate as students are beginning to enter the library. She took a deep breath, arrange her things then give the girl beside her a small smile and left.

Tina doesn’t want other students specially her girlfriend to see her with what they called *ugly Bette* sitting beside her in the library.

TBC?