Dee POV
The wind starts picking up in the forenoon. The cold breeze blew on her skin the moment she moved on the road. The road was kind of noiseless and smooth much to her liking. Merely a tad car, lorry and motorcycle were moving on the road at the moment. She was riding her motorcycle to school with a charismatic pose as a man would do but a happy expression. She knows today will be the last day as in the last subject and she will get her freedom in the afternoon. Yet not even a smile could be seen on her front.
There is no such freedom if she is still alive. She wants to get out of her comfort zone as she will be an adult in a couple of weeks. No easy way to get what she wants. If she wants to get straight A's, she must get out of her comfort zone. Learn, study and practice. Leisure time is also freedom but that was another matter for her.
She was grateful for that but the freedom she really wants was dead. Some matters made her easily surrender with hope. Yet she chose to give up. And this time she will show them, who look down on her as being a tomboy, she could get what she wants with hope and of course, it would shut their judge a book by its cover and laser mouth. But still, she wants to be dead at times caused their words shot deep in her ticker. Is it wrong to be a tomboy?
She arrived not long after and parked her motor in the middle. She then walked inside and headed to the Dataran. She went to her favourite spot as well as the other two and sat on the tar while separating her bag from her back. She put the bag on the tar and open it to find her Mathematic exercise books. She flipped the pages one by one and began memorizing the formula and looked at how the answers were made. Good for her she got a nice grade for this subject which was an A before and had to teach her 2 best friends 2 weeks prior to the beginning of the examination.
Concentration got the better of her the moment she opened her exercise book. Her best friends later arrived and sat beside her. Nurul was on her left and Aifaa's on the right. They greeted her after that and she answered back without looking. The two then began doing what she had done earlier when she sat down on the tar.
30 minutes had passed, she cannot wait to answer both paper 1 and paper 2 as well as she wanted to finish early and go back home after. She had been doing Mathematics exercises since last year. Every single day. Practice makes perfect indeed. It was fifteen past 7 and the teacher on duty reminded all the students to bring the i/c, examination slip and pencil box as well and no bags were allowed inside.
Before walking into the examination hall, she prayed so she will do well and wanted her memory to be strong until the end as well as for her best friends to boot. She then started to walk inside while hands holding those 3 important things and sat on her chair. Aifaa and Nurul were looking at each other while making a fist as a sign of fighting and punched the air. Then, they moved their eyes to her way. She merely eyed Aifaa and Nurul and subsequently smiled and giggled at their antics. Silly wags.
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Dee was leisurely walking to the motorcycle parking lot after the last paper ended with ice cream in her hand. And finally, SPM was done! No more exams! She finished the remaining ice cream and rub her hands to clean the ice cream cone dust. She reached for her motorcycle and put her bag in the basket. But then, she saw 10 sen on the side of her basket and wondered whose coin was it. Even just 10 sen it was still valuable.
'Whose 10 sen is this? I don't remember putting my money in the basket' She asked herself in her thought. Strange.
"But it's in my basket. Means that it's mine, yes? Ya... definitely mine" She whispered while caressing the coin. Is it really her's?
'How come I forgot I put it here? Or it slipped from my wallet, perhaps?' She eluded while accidentally mumbled in an audible sound and slowly picked the coin.
There was one male student nearby under a big tree who looked at her with both brows raised and one familiar senior behind merely looking at her. She mouthed sorry to the boy with an apologetic countenance as she did it by accident. She then sat on the seat and inserted her left hand in her pocket searching for her motorcycle key. While reaching for the key, the senior approached her with a 'wanna ask for something' face. She did not perceive he was at the back of her but saw him on the right side mirror after. With shock, she stared at him. He then started speaking.
"Assalamualaikum hi, Dee" He said with the 'wanna say something' face.
"Oh, waalaikummussalam hi Nazri" She replied while furrowing her eyebrows but got unnoticed by him.
"Um... can I talk to you for a minute?" He seemed hesitant yet continue with his speech.
"What you wanna talk about?" She curiously questioned him with a tad of serious tone but at the same time gentle as well.
"Uh... can we talk under the tree right there?" He paused a second and spoke hesitantly while his index finger showed a huge and long tree that was 20 metres away from her spot.
"It's quite far but yes, we can" She discerned it was a bit far but shrugged it off and went along with him.
"So... what is it you wanna talk about?" She queried while swaying her hands back and front before putting one of her hands in her pocket.
"I-um... actually..." His peepers shakingly looking at everywhere but her.
"Uh... yes?" She impatiently asked one more time as he did not answer her questions.
"I'm sorry. I'm a bit nervous... so..." He apologised and paused again with reluctance.
"Oh, it's okay. But why are you nervous? It's not like we never met before" She said nonchalantly.
"Um... actually... I like you since the first time I saw you in the Silat Club" He confessed.
"Oh... Wa-wait, what?" She blurred then perceived his shocking confession.
"I've had been crushing on you since then and do you accept me?" He boldly confessed further. That was unexpected.
"I know we've been friends since then but... I'm sorry" She told with an apologetic front.
"I thought you're single?" He agog.
"I'm not interested to be in a relationship right now" She gently stated albeit he nearly made her blood boil.
"Ah..." A crestfallen tone could be heard.
"I'm sorry, Nazri" She made an apology once again.
"I-uh... But why?" He looked desperate as his question began to make her reach her limit.
"I told you already" She declared and her tone rose a little.
"But I like you, Dee. Very much. I wanna marry you" He began saying piffle.
"Ya Allah, I told you, Nazri. I don't like you. You should just find someone else" She uttered every word clearly without hesitation so he would let her go.
"No, I want you only. Please be my girlfriend" He was as stubborn as a mule and she was tired of his antics.
'Ya Allah, why is he so stubborn?!! Better I get going' She exasperated thought as she wanted to run away from this sh*t.
"Sorry, I have to go now"
"Wait!"
She immediately paced to her motorcycle before he could catch her up and straight away rode to her house. She let out a heavy sigh once she reached while taking off the helmet on her head. She locked the motorcycle and quickly walked to the door. She stuck a house key into the keyhole and pushed the doorknob down thus she stepped inside and locked the door later.
She went upstairs and cleaned herself before making lunch. She wore a black printed t-shirt matched with her dark blue track pants then went to the kitchen and made her so-called lunch, a packet of curry instant noodles. Meh. But at least it could fill her empty stomach. She then began boiling water in a small pot and put the instant noodle until its size multiplied a little. She tossed the water full of candles and boiled another water as well as put the seasoning after it was boiled and put the noodle at once. She off the gas and suddenly her stomach grumbled twice.
She brought the pot to the living room and switched on the television. Her eyeballs lazily watched a drama while eating the curry noodle. She huffed then cast her mind back to her first meeting with Nazri. He always asked her many questions, greeted her with a grin on his face whenever they met and a lot more that she forgot. She didn't know he had a crush on her that much.