Chapter 2: The First Contact
It is time for lunch. The Trio walked towards the school cafe, together as usual. Of course, they have their own table. Who would dare to challenge that.
Everyone in the school is aware of Evelyn's bad temper. She once flipped a table when someone in the cafe talked bad about her. She once punched a boy's face for sitting in her chair. She would give a killer glare to those who took the last piece of the chocolate eclair served every Thursday.
Everyone knows about Evelyn's anger issues, even Principal Johnson. He had suggested Mark Cheng to take his daughter to see a counselor. Mark insist he will deal this matter with Evelyn himself. Some improvements seen over the years and Evelyn learn how to calm down when she is angry.
As they reach their table, Evelyn saw the back of a girl sitting at their lunch spot. 'Who is this idiot' she thought. Anger is building inside Evelyn. She felt like stabbing the person's back with a fork.
'PANGG!!'
Evelyn bang the table with her fist glaring at the girl who is now lowering her head to avoid Evelyn's evil stare. "Get lost!!" Evelyn shouted to her.
The girl looked up at Evelyn and said "Why should I? I came here first. The table was empty". She said innocently.
Before Evelyn open her mouth to shout at the girl again, John Mu stopped Evelyn and said to the girl "You are the new girl, Annie, right?". Annie look up to see John's handsome face and her cheek blush tomato red. Why does she keep on blushing when she see him. This has to stop. She was just so excited to know that John Mu, of all people, remembers her name.
"Y-Yesss.. Can I sit here?" Annie asked shyly to John.
"No!!" said Evelyn immediately.
"Yes" John Mu said at the same time.
Jake interrupted this cafe drama and asked Annie "Head or tail?". Annie answered "Head?"
Jake toss a coin and catch the coin back in his palm. He opened and see the results and looked at Evelyn. "She will sit with us today".
"You are dead to me Jake" Evelyn glared at Jake.
"Ha ha.. come one Eve. Chill. I will get you something to eat. Sit here and chat with Annie" John said to Evelyn while patting her shoulders asking her to sit. John winked at Annie and walked away. Annie was frozen at that wink. Was she dreaming? She had to pinched her arm under the table to confirm.
Evelyn Chase sat facing Annie Black. 'I will need to teach her a lesson' she thought. She kept her evil stare to Annie to keep the pressure on.
"Is there something on my face? If not, please stop staring at me" said Annie politely.
"Shut up, if you want to live!" Evelyn snapped at Annie. There were total silence between the two girls facing each other. Evelyn never stop staring at Annie. More so, just to intimidate her.
"If you dare to sit here again, I will break your legs and make it look like you caused it yourself" Evelyn finally spoke word by word stressing the word dare and break. Annie keep quiet while finishing her lunch slowly, face down. This Evelyn is crazy, she thought.
John and Jake came back with a tray each filled with food. "Pasta for you, my dear Eve, and your favourite iced chocolate. Come on Eve, chill" John passed the food to Evelyn and took a seat next to Annie. Annie's heart skipped a beat. Sitting so close to John making her choking on her food. Cough, cough.
"You ok, Annie?" John said politely. Annie nodded shyly, still looking down. She is afraid that if she look directly, eye to eye, at John, she will faint.
"Gasp... My queen Tessa is coming. Breath Jake. How do I look?" Jake suddenly said while fixing his hair trying to look good for Tessa. He took Evelyn's phone on the table that has its silver phone cover that can function like a mirror. Checking out his face at different angle and his teeth, just in case there is a food piece stuck in between it. Tessa appeared at the entrance of the cafe and is walking towards The Trio's table.
"You look like an idiot, Jake. Stop embarassing us" Evelyn whispered to Jake while rolling her eyes and took a sip of her delicious iced chocolate. John chuckled at his twin brother.
"Hey Annie, what are you doing here? Come sit with us" Tessa said to Annie flipping her hair and ignoring Jake who is still staring at her, waiting for her to notice him.
"Yes Annie. Buzz off" Evelyn said while looking at Tessa with her eyes signaling her to move Annie from The Trio's table.
"It's OK. I'm done with my lunch. I will see you in class Tessa. Thanks for letting me sit here John, Jake and Evelyn" Annie said politely and slowly lifting her eyes to look at John. Damn, he is so handsome. Annie stood up and left the table. John nodded while drinking his iced tea. Jake was still looking at Tessa.
"Hi Tessa, what would you like to eat? I will get it for you -" before finishing his sentence, Tessa turned around ignoring Jake and walked to another table with her cheerleaders team. Still ignoring Jake. Jake sigh heavily. Evelyn chuckled while sipping her iced chocolate.
"Give up Jake. There are other girls to choose from. You deserve better" Evelyn said while patting his shoulders with a warm smile. They are bestfriends since like forever. Evelyn loves the twins like her own brothers. They are very close. No one can make them hate each other. They quarrel often but never last longer than a day. One of them would always end up apologising.
Jake sighed. He can never fall for another girl. He only wants Tessa. "You gotta help me Eve. You know her well. Help me. Just one date with her. I need to explain. She won't even talk or even look at me. It's killing me." Jake pleaded to Evelyn.
John was not listening. In his mind, he was thinking of Annie Black. She looks plain with minimal makeup, simple clothing style with blouse and jeans, and she blush all the time when she sees him. She has mesmerizing blue eyes. Overall, she is cute but not beautiful like Evelyn. Different from other girls he dated. Why is he even thinking of such a girl. Her body figure is not even attractive at all. John was silently thinking and ignoring the conversation between Jake and Evelyn.
"I will think about it. But you know that Tessa was really hurt from what you did to her. You kissed Betty, Jake" Evelyn said softly while holding Jake's hand. He looked at Evelyn with puppy eyes pleading her to help. "I will try OK. Give me some time to talk to Tessa" Jake nodded at Evelyn and ate his lunch silently.
"Babe, Jake and I will be joining the boys to Break Club later after class. Wanna join?" John invited Evelyn to hang out with some of the football team members tonight. They have some mutual friends there. Evelyn would usually join them to play pool after school on wednesday and friday. Sometimes make some money on betting. She is pretty good with it. Thanks to Mark who has taught her some techniques. But tonight, she promised Mark to have dinner with the family and watch a movie together. Family time, he said.
"Going to pass. Having dinner with my family tonight. Movie night" Evelyn replied. John pout his lips like a kid. He only does this to Evelyn. Evelyn gave him a sad look, pretending to cry. Sorry John, she whispered.
"I will cheer for both of you tomorrow OK, promise" Evelyn promised to watch them at the inter school football match tomorrow. It has been awhile since she showed some support to the twins. She was busy studying to improve her grades. Mark is serious with her this time. He threathened to take away her car if her grades worsen, among other threats.
The twins nodded and John rubbed her hair messing it. Evelyn hate it when he does this and wanted to punch his face across the table. The twins giggled at her reaction. They were slapping and pinching each other's arms playfully. They talked for few minutes before walking back to their classes.
Hours passed and it is time to go home.
A Bentley car parked at the entrance of the school. As it is a private school, it is common to see luxury cars parked infront of the school. But the black Bentley with dark tinted windows is somehow outstanding, especially when a handsome man in Armani suit rolled down the car window to breath the fresh air, sitting at the back seat, relaxing.
He could here the sound of girls whispering and giggling when they passed by his car. One by one greeted him with "Hello.." and "Hi.." , some even approach his car to introduce their names. Adam rolled up the window as it has become a distraction to his mood. Still closing his eyes, resting. It has been a busy day for him. He just want to be left alone.
"Miss Black is approaching us" Thomas said to Adam, looking at him from the rear mirror.
Adam open his eyes lazily and looked at his window searching for his baby sister.
Then a sight caught his eye. Who is that beauty?