The weekend passed by quickly, it was the same has others. I worked and did my school work.

"Still can't believe Gio reacted that way." Ali voiced out, she's driving us to school. Aiden had a meeting to attend to this morning.

"I feel the same girl." I mean was there any reason to be all protective? We don't really mean anything to one another.

Meet us at your locker- Linda

"Have any idea what's going on?" I asked since it was sent to the group chat. We went to get Ali's stuff from her locker when we arrived before going to mine.

"Meaning?" Linda rose her eyebrow when we got to my locker.

'BACK OFF!!' was written in red spray paint on my locker door. Only one person will do this.

I opened my locker and it stinks, terrible. What the... spoilt milk? Great now all my things are soiled and smelly.

"Early Merry Christmas." Blanca smirked. "Hope you like it."

I walked to her facing her. "You can do better than this." "She's lucky my history assignment is also in a soft copy and Gio as a copy too.

"Oh! And I tend to." She took a step further. "You still have time to back off and that..." She glanced at my locker. "Is a warning blacky."

"Quit it Blanca." Belinda intervened standing between us. "Don't you have better things to do? If not try growing up!"

Blanca grabbed her hair pushing her brutally on the floor. We were blocked by them when we wanted to help her off the floor.

"Weaklings." Blanca said bumping her shoulder with mine walking off with her good for nothing minions.

"Are you okay?" Lia examined her and she got a scratch on her right thigh, her socks didn't cover that part since it's knee length. "Let's get that treated."

We were in the middle of first period when all that happened and now second period just started. Linda's leg got treated and I planned how to pay her back with her coin, I'm not going to use any childish tactics like she did, let's see how mommy and daddy will handle this. She won't know what hit her yet... Early Christmas gift? Hmph, I can also add Val's to show her how much I love her.

"Miss Lozano, please can you tell the class what you learnt from any of the English texts." Mr. Eadbert our English teacher asked.

"Okay, what I learnt from one of the English texts 'Thirteen Reasons Why' is..." I learnt a lot from that book, it helps people like me. "It's mainly about Hannah Baker, she was insecure, had mental breakdown, was emotionally destabilize and in the angle I viewed it from was, she was trying to test people to know who actually cared for her because knowing at least one person truly cared would have changed her mind on committing suicide." Jay Ash is the author, it's a great book with lots of lessons to be learnt.

"And?" Mr. Eadbert probed nodding his head.

"I can say she's a strong girl despite all the challenges or troubles she encountered. Yes, I agree life isn't fair most times, why? Because it's a phase in life that everyone passes through and not everyone as the heart to hold on too for that long." I paused taking a deep breath cause I can somehow relate to this. "And what I finally learnt are you should truly care for those you call you friends even though you are just acquaintances cause you don't know the turmoil the person's facing and lastly I learnt we should cherish ourselves, love our selves even if no one does. If she did love herself she wouldn't have taken her life. Self-love is the word." Hannah in a way saw most of them as acquaintances and friends but they judged her based on hearsay and sexually harassed her.

"Self-love?" Mr. Eadbert questioned, his face full of confusion.

"Yes, self-love. If she did love herself only that would be a reason to continue breathing and prove to them that's she's beyond what the eyes can see." If only she did or realized it.

"As expected from you Lucky." He nodded his head in satisfaction. "Anyone else?"

I wish I could be more that perfect for them, I don't even know what it feels like to have parental love and warmth. Only if I am good enough.

"Yes, Miss Du Pont." Mr. Eadbert called on her when she raised her hand.

"Thank you sir, I learnt a lot and got a deeper understanding of the book All That Glitters Is Not Gold." She paused waiting for the teacher's signal to continue.

"Go on." He gave her the go ahead.

"I tapped something from Te' Kara, she's a woman who struggles daily with her gender being a female child. She was born stubborn but she was resilient, sometimes it's part of the keys to achieve our goals, stubbornness. She wanted to be successful in her society even knowing the percentage of it happening is almost zero and I gained knowledge that you must be determined in other to reach the finish line even if the outcome is impossible." She made eye contact with me holding it for a while. "She almost lost someone along the way because of her strong will to be who she desires to be, from my own perspective i learnt I shouldn't let something so precious slip from my grasp like sand even if the chances are low because at that moment it's just a stumbling block that I'll pass through, like Lucky said, it's not everyone that as the heart to overcome such difficulty but I choose to and I will." I could see the determination in her eyes and I very well know what her hidden message is 'stay away unless you want to get burnt', speaking of that let's watch how she overcomes this new phase of hers.

"Thank you Miss Du Pont. Would anyone like to share what they learnt from any of the texts?" He moved to the front of the classroom.

If she want to go all crazy for someone I have no feelings for, then it's a waste of my time and extremely childlike. She kinda twisted Marcel Marshall's words in the book cause at some point it didn't really collate but now I know why. She's obsessed.

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WARNING: DON'T BE A VICTIM OF PIRACY!