In or Out

Chapter 1: Where it started

High school was more than just acing your class. It's a part of your life where you're able to know yourself better. Where you know who you are, or who you wanted to be. 

My friends are either falling in love or breaking their hearts. And there was I, who speaks the language but does not understand it contextually. I am a romantic myself. Maybe its because of the books I've read or the movies I watched. But I have never experience it, but I felt it. 

It's weird I know but that's just me. Everyone has their story. It just happens that mine, hasn't been published yet. Because the protagonist herself, has no idea where she's headed. 

Being the last born of the family, the baby or whatever they want to call last born kids is, I was quite the dominant type. Not the spoiled kind. I just get what I want. Sometimes I know I deserve it, but oftentimes than not I just have it as a make up gift.
   My dad has been working overseas since I can remember and on most times he hasn't been there for me on special occasions. Don't get me wrong, I love my Dad. It's just that with the nature of his job and most times situation prohibits him to be with us. Birthdays, graduation or whatever he's just not there. So it has always been WJW.. What Jackie wants. It has been a saying and an inside joke of the family. Well, I was asked, should I have obliged?
 My mom, an entrepreneur is a total opposite and sometimes it's annoying. Imagine having a happy crush and writing it on your diary. SHE READS IT. A LOT.  She brings it up during dinner, out of nowhere! But good thing is that I don't like writing those stuff. Which pretty much annoys her too. Because she feels like she doesn't know her daughter all too well. I hope she knows I feel the same way too.
My sisters, Ate Lia & Ate Hannah are just, hmmm "meh"? I mean we don't fight a lot because we don't talk that much but I still care if they breathe. I don't want them to die but I don't want them bothering me. But of course I can bother them. WJW right? 

                Ate Lia is a Film student in Benilde. She's your typical chick (I can say this cause she's my sister). She likes art that much the she put so much art on her face. She's the type of girl that likes getting herself pampered. Manipedi, salon treatments, make up YOU NAME IT! She's so obsess with her looks that I think guys like her because of that. But she has a really good heart and she's a really deep person but it feels like it's covered up with all those make up.
             Ate Hannah on the other hand is a Music Major in UP. Out of the 3 of us, I guess she's the kind that is most attached with her emotions. She says what she wants to say, she says what she feels. Often unfiltered but let me tell you, she speak the truth. Guys on the other hand find her intimidating because well, generally people hate the truth and Ate Hannah ain't no liar. 
            As for me, Jackie... for the purpose of this story I will introduce myself in a way I can. Because like this story, I am a work in progress. I cannot speak highly nor to low of me because it's just bias. You can know me as I write this story and tell me what you think.
         I'm Jackie, 16 years old.. a senior in High school. On the top of my class and a volleyball varsity. I just do what I want to the extent that I have no time for anything else. I like myself when I'm preoccupied. I enjoy writing stuff, anything under the sun.

This is Jackie and this is my story. 

At School

School is almost over so we're all cramming up to finish all the necessary documents to submit it because as seniors, you can't graduate until its done.

"Hey!" I heard my best friend Chia approaching me as I check the list given to us. "Are you done? I got our Science teacher signed mine already." She told me enthusiastically. "How come?" I looked at her almost clueless. She wasn't able to submit our last project since she was out of the country with her parents for a week, during a hectic time at school. "My parents took care of it. I mean, what do you expect? They're one of the shareholders of this school. It'll be a shame if I don't graduate." She tells me in a tone that I'm not sure if she's proud of what she did or she just don't give a fck.