Ella's POV
I look through my drawers. It was time for me to move out of my small cramped apartment. I was finally able to save some money to buy a more bigger apartment in the city. As I was looking through my drawers. I stumble upon a Polaroid. It was a picture of me and my now ex best friend Paul. What happened to our friendship, you might ask. Well it's complicated.
June 3, 2000
First day of my Junior High and my first day in this new school. I'm super nervous. I wonder what this day might contain. I just moved in this new neighborhood. I don't really know this neighborhood nor this school. I walk in my new classroom and people immediately look at me. I sit down at the very back. I look around the unfamiliar faces around me wishing this day would already end. Only five minutes in and I feel awkward as hell. I bring out my phone to hide myself. I hear someone sit next to me. I slightly put my phone down to see who he or she is. I admit, the person sitting next to me was quite handsome. I wonder what his name is. I see his name tag 'Paul'. I remove myself from my thought and continue to scroll on Instagram.
After about 30 minutes the teacher finally came in.
"Okay class, hello I'm gonna be your new teacher. My name is Mrs. Cristina and I'm your new Math teacher"
The class stand up and greets the teacher.
"Okay so today I wanna test out your basic knowledge in our subject, so everyone please bring out a sheet of paper"
I bring out my paper and my pencil case.
"Psst" I hear my seat mate Paul whisper to me. I turn to look to him. Damn, he was more handsome than I thought. I think as I see his full features.
"Hey, can I borrow a pen?" He asks.
"U-uh o-oh yeah s-sure" I stutter as I hand over my extra pen to him.
"You're new here aren't you?" He chuckles. I nod shyly.
"Don't worry I can show you around" he says. I blush.
"I'm Paul, by the way" he reaches his hand over for a handshake. I shake his hand.
"I'm Ella"
At lunch. Paul offered to show me around the huge school. Now that I realize it. This school is HUGE. Paul says that apparently about 8,000+ students go here. There are also about 200+ teachers.
The school had 3 canteens which are filled with different varieties of food. There was also a retail which you can buy school supplies and other things. The was a clinic called the 'Hilom'. There were a lot of different buildings like an ICT building, Science building and more. As the tour was going on me and Paul were also chatting. I was able to learn more stuff about him. Like that he was a proud and open bisexual. We were also interested in the same stuff like we were both into Korean Pop Music. Overall he was a super cool and down to earth person.
One week later, me and Paul already had a fight despite only knowing each other for about a week. Our fight was also stupid, it was like we were kindergarten not Junior High students. What did we fight about exactly? Well we were both teasing each other on our break and I TEASINGLY grab his food and it spilt. We basically fought from there. Maybe we were a lot different than I thought.
Two days later, me and Paul still haven't made up and I'm feeling kind of lonely. I don't really have any more friends besides from him so I basically eat alone at lunch.
Another day passes by, and I can't take it anymore. So as my sorry gift I bring him food and drinks. I see that he sat alone at lunch so I took my chance. I sit beside him and slide the food over to him.
"I'm sorry" I pout.
"It's okay" he replies taking the food. We were finally back to normal again.
Me and Paul get even closer. We also got some new friends. We now have Benedict, Cassandra and Lita. We call ourselves Red Velvet because we all like Korean Pop and we were five. Even though we were five now, me and Paul's friendship was way more different. We actually felt like we could understand each other. Which sounds a bit far fetched because we've only known each other for about a month or so.
Two weeks in, this is my first day without Paul. He joined a competition in our school so he won't be present for the day. Even though I have other friends now, I kinda miss him. It wasn't like he was dead or something, but you know? Thats when i realize that i started falling for my best friend.
A/N: this is about two of my classmates that i ship so its so cringyyy. It hard to put myself in the perspective of the gurl. Ugh helpp.
