Chapter 9 Episode 9

Chapter 9

After the morning assembly, Mr Fred the applied arts teacher walked into the classroom. After the usual greetings, he started passing out the students test scores to them.

"Two students did exceptionally well. With Adriana getting the perfect score." Mr Fred smiled.

Adrian and Adrienne were confused because they didn't know who Mr Fred was referring to as they were the only ones that didn't have their tests score yet.

"Adriana?" Mr Fred called out when nobody came forward. Adrienne stood up and Adrian stood up too.

The both of them glared at each other and went to the front of the class.

The whole class stared at them in surprise.

"Why are there the two of you?" Mr Fred asked surprisingly.

"Well, we both bear alike names and the name you called out, none of us answers it." Adrian explained.

"Oh! I noticed the two names are alike. Let me call the surname..." Mr Fred stated and looked at the paper in his hand.

"Oh my bad! It's Adrian Crown and the second person is Adrienne Charles missing just a mark to get a perfect day," Mr Fred said.

Adrian smiled as he took his test paper from Mr Fred. "I'm Adrian," He told the teacher.

Adrienne's face was red in anger as she took hers. She couldn't believe that Adrian had a perfect score while she didn't.

"And to avoid confusion like this next time, I think Adrienne you should answer your other name. Maltida right?" Mr Fred suggested.

"Sure. I hate even bearing alike names with this jerk!" Adrienne scoffed and walked away.

Adrian couldn't help smiling as he walked back to his seat.

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"Hi Jasmine." Adrian smiled sweetly at Jasmine as they stood facing each other in the music room.

Adrian had sent for her earlier. He wanted to repay Adrienne for what happened in the morning. He had to wear his sports clothes because of his wet and dirty uniform.

"Hi Adrian." Jasmine blushed. She didn't think Adrian would ever want to talk to her or even know her name.

She has a crush on Adrian and she had been sneaking in love letters and gifts in his locker but Adrian always threw them away without opening them.

"Can you tell me what Adrienne hates the most or what she's afraid of the most?" Adrian asked with a sly smile.

Jasmine didn't like Adrienne and she wouldn't mind telling her enemy her weakness.

"What do I get if I tell you?" Jas asked with a flirty smile.

"I'd go on a date with you this weekend." Adrian smiled. Jasmine could feel her heart pounding in excitement. She wanted to scream out in excitement.

"Deal?"

"Deal."

Before the next teacher would come in, Adrienne decided to go to her locker and get her English textbook. She opened her locker and saw different love letters and gifts in her locker.

She picked them all the tossed them in the waste bin close to her. Getting letters and gifts were not new to her but everytime she received them, she got angry because everybody knows she has a boyfriend.

Just then, something crawled on her hand as she tried to bring out her textbook. When she brought out her hand, she found a cockroach crawling on her hand.

Adrienne screamed in fright as she hated and feared cockroaches.

She screamed again and tried to get the cockroach off her hand but she couldn't touch it instead, she was throwing her hands in the air.

The cockroach crawled into her sleeves. With another loud scream, she didn't know when she tore her uniform sleeves and then, she passed out.

Daniel heard the commotion in the hallway were the lockers were and went there.

He removed the cockroach from her body and used his jacket to cover her body.

"What are you all staring at! You couldn't help her and all you did was stare!" Daniel yelled angrily at the students who were staring at Adrienne.

Daniel was a quiet guy and he never raises his voice at anybody but he did for once because he was really angry.

Adrian felt really bad when he heard that Adrienne was rushed to the sick bay.

He didn't know that her phobia for cockroaches was that serious. He wanted to scare her a little bit.

Jasmine had told him she didn't like cockroaches but he didn't bother to ask if there was any repercussions.

Adrienne did not attend any class again as she was taken home.

Her mother was called and she came to the school and took Adrienne home.

Throughout the remaining hours in school, Adrian was quiet and restless. He knew he had gone too far.

And the glue he put in her chair, he found out that morning that it had ripped her skirt.

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Adrienne opened her eyes slowly and weakly. She placed her hand on her forehead and removed the wet towel on her forehead and kept it beside the bedstand table.

She sat upright from the bed and yawned lightly.

She got down from her bed and made her way downstairs.

She was surprised to see her mother in the dinning room with her whole attention on her laptop.

"Mom?" She called out weakly.

"Hey darling, you're awake. How do you feel?" Her mother asked sweetly.

"I'm fine mom. You didn't go to work today?" She asked and drew out a chair and sat beside her mother.

"I did but I got a call from your school that you weren't feeling too well. I had to bring you home. You were running a high temperature and I decided to stay with you, I cancelled all my schedules at the office." Her mom explained.

Adrienne remembered what happened at school and sighed.

"But who would do such a thing to you? Put a live cockroach that you hate so much in your locker," Her mom said.

"I do not know mom. Maybe an enemy?" Adrienne shrugged.

"Don't tell me you have an enemy at this young age?" Her mother was baffled.

Adrienne didn't say anything but just shrugged her shoulders.

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Things were quiet between Adrian and Adrienne at school. They didn't picked on each other and avoided each other in the remaining days of the school week.

Adrienne didn't know who put cockroach in her locker and she decided to forget about the incident.

There was suddenly peace between the students who were always at loggerheads with each other.

As Adrian didn't get on her nerves, Adrienne found him more attractive and good looking.

She sometimes stole glances at him when he wasn't looking.

It was as if they had called a truce between each other. But their truce state didn't quite last...