we aren't friends

Clarissa and Gabriel drove closer to town before getting to school he stopped by the pharmacy to get her hands treated.

“I’m fine” she voiced not wanting to come down from the car.

“Come on, if you do this I won’t disturb you again I promise” he said trying to appeal to her conscience.

She turned to him then stared down at her hands for a while before deciding to get down.

They both came down, making their way towards the pharmacy.

To some extent Clarissa started to feel maybe she was wrong about Gabriel, although he was annoying and had a loud mouth, he also had a heart of Gold, after bandaging her hands Gabriel had gone to get her a can of juice.

“I’m sorry for everything that has happened today, I didn’t mean for you to take the wrong bus and I also didn’t mean for thugs to chase you” he apologizes as he felt it was needed.

“It’s fine, I’m not mad anymore. I was having a good day and you ruined it, you apologizing doesn’t help, I just hate it when my day goes out of my plan but then thank you” she said

“What? I didn’t hear you”

“ How about I cut your ears off and feed them to you?”

“No I heard you clearly”

“Good” she said before taking a sip from the juice in her hands.

“Well, today was quite an adventure and I won’t say I hate it but I wouldn’t say I loved it either. It was nice meeting you” he said as he smiled at her.

“Same but that doesn’t mean we’re friends, I still don’t want to be your friends”

“Alright but I guess after everything I’ve done today I could atleast get your name”

“Clarissa, Clarissa Gold”

“That’s a nice and you already know my name?”

“Yes I do, I don’t need to be reminded of your annoying name” she said as she chuckled

After talking, they walked back to the car and he drove her to campus before letting her down.

“I’ll see you a little bit more often now?”

“No I don’t want to see your face. I told you, we are not friends so when you see me please walk pass me do you understand?” she said

“I’ll take that as a yes” he replied to her with a smile

“How did I even meet him?” she whispered to herself as she rushed to Issei’s class to submit the assignment,

The day rolled by as usual. After a long day at school, she went home to take a rest, on getting into the house she saw her best friend in the same position which she had left her all morning.

“Are you dead?” she said as she threw her bag at Issei who was still on the bed.

“Ouch! My body still hurts” she cried out as she turned to look at Clarissa.

“ Don’t tell me you’ve been lying in bed all day?”

“ Okay I’ve not been lying in bed all day.” she repeated.

“Then what are you still doing that same position that I left you?” She asked in anger.

“You said I shouldn’t tell you I’ve been lying in bed all day”

“Ahh, why are you giving me so much stress right now, do you know what I had to go through…..”

“Oh my god, Clarissa! What happened to your hand” Issei said as she sprang up her bed rushing towards her best friend and grabbing hold of her hand.

“It’s nothing, I just got a scratch” she said removing her hands from Issei’s.

“It doesn’t look like one, it doesn’t look like a scratch. Look your hands being bandaged. It’s not a scratch” she said as she accessed her hands again.

“This is all because of your dumb assignment and your dumb party I went to yesterday” she explained.

“What happened? How did my party become a part of this”

“Well the guy from last night came this morning and made me take the wrong bus down to a different location and the rest is history, I don’t want to talk about it.”

“Really? So you met the hottie from yesterday?” she said in excitement.

“His name is Gabriel”

“You even know his name, oh my god this is an improvement from you. I’m so happy…. So what else tell me what happened.

“Nothing happened, I am really pissed right now to remember what happened this morning, it’s giving me lots of headache.” she said walking towards her bed.

“But then you got to spend time with a handsome man, I’m sorry” she apologized as soon as she saw the expression on Clarissa’s face.

“Well you better be because I’m tired, extremely tired of you and everything…….. I just want to rest, I don’t even want to remember a day like today ever happened.”

“But you have to because you met a handsome man…. Ouch, fine, fine I’ll stop bringing Gabriel up but what if he is your mate?” Clarissa quickly took a book from her bedside throwing it at her best friend’s direction.

“ You almost hurt me”

“Then you shut up” she said before climbing onto her bed and closing her eyes.

A few days passed and Clarissa did not have a pleasure of meeting Gabriel again, she was actually at peace because she didn’t want his running mouth, she already had Issei with her and he would have made it worse.

She sat in the library with her ear pods in her ear as she listening to music and flipped through the pages of her book when someone dropped a can of fruit juice in front of her.

She immediately lifted up her eyes, and her eyes came in contact with a familiar pair of blue eyes, it was exactly the same person she didn’t want to see, Gabriel.

“What on earth….”

“Shhhhh! Remember you’re in the library, you’re not supposed to make noise here” he whispered pointing to the people who rose their head because of how loud her voice was.

She instantly apologized before looking back at her book.

“How did you even know I was here”.

“I have my ways and besides I told you we’ll see each other more often” he said touching her chin.

“Don’t touch me” she said as she smacked his hands away from her chin.

“ well can I have a sit?”

“No, this table is reserved for only me”

“I don’t see any reservations on it besides I’m also studying the same subject as you. I promise I won’t even make a sound, you won’t even know I’m here.”

“If you make as much as a sound I will make sure your head rolls down on this library floor” she said as she buried her eyes back in her book.

“ okay my mouth is zipped” Gabriel said with his hands zipping across his mouth.

“But do you have a pen” he spoke, it wasn’t even up to a second

“what did I just say?”

“ no I just wanted to know if you had a pen, I can’t read without a pen”

“ then why didn’t you come with a pen?”

“ I was rushing to come.”

“Here’s a pen, do not talk to me again” she said as she dropped the pen on table.

“Not one word.”

“ Okay but one last thing….. what faculty do….” He suddenly went quite.