Stef

I am freaking riding in an Audi R8, the very first model made in the world. I always wanted to ride in one. But guess my dreams came true because of the reunion. I wanted to drive the car, but Hazel warns me that nobody touches her black beauty.

The woman in that hot black dress driving a super car is not the Hazel I know. This woman is someone who has got her childhood dreams come true. I won't agree with Anna blaming her for banging a rich man, to get these luxuries because I remember the burning desire and passion for achieving success in a young girl's eye. Now those eyes look as if it has successfully reached its goals. It looks fulfilled with every needs, but passion looks empty now replaced by pride.

One of my first songs which bought great success in my music career is a song about a dreamer ̶ a hazel brown innocent eyes that dreamed beyond the sky, the girl who inspired me to write my own originals.

13 years ago...

I hate it when people make fun of my music. I am scared if they will accept my songs as I look so small and meek. The only person who supports me is my big brother Sam and his best friends Abid and Liam.

I love Abid. He is such a nice guy. He always keeps me away from those who hurt me. I also like Liam. He is also my brother's best friend even though he is silent among them. Those three people have been best friends since forever. I have friends too Shiro, Rayn and Rizz.

I walk into the music room during the lunch hoping that finally I will be all alone. The music room is a mess since as the school care less about it. Grace is always focused on Academics and sports. Others are just entertainments and nothing more. I walk to the great piano in the end of the room, but then I notice that I am not the only one here. On the end of the room, a girl sits on the window panel alone. She didn't notice me as she focus on the book in her hands.

Who is this girl? I have never seen her around. Maybe a new student.

"Who are you?" I ask. She panicks as she saw that she isn't alone in the room anymore.

"I am Hazel." She says shyly.

Yes, now I remember Rayn telling about this weird new girl.

"I am sorry to sit here. Do you want me to go?" Her eyes. It looked so clear. So innocent.

"No. You don't have to. I thought nobody will be here. This is like my secret hiding place. I am Stef btw"

"What are you hiding from?"

"From this real life. From the fake people in that hallway."

"You can't hide from life."

"Who said I Can't?"

"I said." She looks so serious which makes me laugh.

"Why are you hiding here then?" I asks her.

"I am not hiding. I was living."

I look at her confused by her words. So she continues.

"I was living my dreams through books. I wanted to get into that world without any interruption."

I look so hurt by her thoughts. "Am I interrupting you then?"

"No, I was just planning on going anyway. Do you play music?"

I nod. She then has the biggest smile on her face.

"Wow. I love listening to music. Can you play for me? Do you write them? Do you make your own music?"

"I do, but who will listen to me? I am just a meek little boy."

"I will. You don't look meek to me. You look cute. You have a musician aura in you, if that's you want to hear from me. "

I laughs at her answer.

"Don't you want to write your own songs and be a good musician?"

I nods.

"Then start making songs. My mum always says that no matter what people say about you or pull you down, we should rise above all with all our might. Our dreams are the key to our future."
Her eyes sparkles as she shares her thoughts.

"What is your dream then?" I ask her.

"Happiness." she replies.

Suddenly Abid and Liam enters the room. Abid looks at Hazel in a new light, in a way he never look at others. I am sure they heard our conversation.

"Sam wants to talk to you Stef." Liam says to me.

"I will play for you someday. I need to go now." I say to Hazel, for which she smiles delightedly.

Abid clears his throat and says "Are you not going to introduce your new beautiful friend to us?"

"Oh! Abid, Liam this is our new student, Hazel. Hazel, meet my brother's best friends Abid and Liam. They are our seniors by two years, that is they are sophomores."

She nods and blushes at the handsome guys in front of her. No girls could really resist my brother's and his friends. They are the most famous guys in the school.

"It's nice to meet you all." She says peeking a look at them shyly and then she runs out of room blushing. She is so cute and innocent at the same time. Truly different than all the mean girls in this campus.

"I like her. Is she your girlfriend Stef?" Liam ask.

"No. We just met. But she is a very special girl indeed."

"She is more than special. She is a rare gem." I swear I heard Abid murmuring still looking at the door that she just left.

"Did you say something Abid?" Liam asks his best friend. Abid smiles at him shaking his head, then he looks at me.

If he did say what I heard, then I can agree with him. She is rare indeed and I will surely cherish her if I can have her as a friend.

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"How is life going on for you hazel?" I asks her.

She is focused on her driving so she took a moment to say,

"Never been better. How about you?"

"I had better days."

"Can relate."

"Where were you all these years?"

She looks at me for a second and looks back on the road.

"United States."

"Seriously?! Where?"

"New York."

"I was in LA for the last two years."

"I know."

I am shocked by her confession. "You knew and you never contacted."

She keeps silent and focuses on overtaking two cars ahead of us.

"Why?! " I snaps at her. How can she just disappear one day and she never contact anyone of us for the last 8 years.

"Because I didn't want to contact any of you."

"Why did you leave without a word on Graduation day? Why weren't you there for the funeral?" I ask her anyway. What is the use of keeping it all in me.

"I felt like that." She says nothing after that. I expected more answers from her but I got nothing so I change the topic after few minutes of silence.

"You knew about everyone."

"I keep all of your informations with me. I was curious to know where you all reached so that I can become more powerful than all of you compared." She has a smirk on her face.

This is not the Hazel that left 8 years ago. This girl has turned evil and I still wonder why.

"And did you become more powerful than all of us compared."
She didn't reply, but that weird smirk never left her face.

"You can get out. We reached our destination." She goes off the car leaving me behind. I goes out after her.

She comes from the driver's side and stands near me. Before she walks away to the club, she says:

"You will know that soon."

She walks away,leaving me confused.

"She has changed for good. Didn't she? Look at the monster I made out of that innocent girl." Asher come beside me watching her go.

"You are mistaken. She is not a monster, but goddess herself. You now need to be careful pretty boy because she can make you devil beg for her mercy."

I didn't want to talk to him anymore. Even though I like that guy, he is too stupid. He have lost all his senses. I take out my cigarette and lights it. Now I can breathe. Music healed me. It was a gift given to me by God but the hazel brown eyed goddess is the one who taught me to use that gift. I still didn't know what happened to her 8 years ago but I do know that there was many things that happened in that day— many things I failed to know.

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