(This is a very simple short story that I wrote for a high school friend for her English assignment.)
Amy hurriedly brushes her teeth after eating breakfast. She has a Physics lecture class at seven o’clock. It is already quarter to seven. She cannot afford to be late on their first meeting. Fortunately, she walks fast and now is on her way to the Science building from their apartment. She goes straight to the Physics lecture hall and finds a chair at the back before the teacher arrives. She is a transferee so she barely knows her classmates.
Their teacher introduces himself to the class before he talks about the requirements of the subject. He then lectures a little about some basic concepts and gives an assignment before dismissing the class.
Amy gathers her things and quickly leaves the room to her next class when she hears voices down the hallway calling her name. She looks back and finds familiar faces smiling at her. Her face lightens up when she figures out that they are Peter and Jenny, her childhood friends.
“What are you doing here?” Peter asks as they walk toward her.
“It is a long story. I will tell you next time when I do not have class,” she replies quickly. Honestly, Amy does not want to tell anyone why she, her mother and her younger sister move from the city to the province. She thinks it is not time yet because the events are still fresh.
“Okay, but we are really glad that you are here. See you around,” Jenny pats her on the shoulder before leaving. Amy smiles at them and then walks toward the room of her next class.
Classes end early today because the faculty has a meeting at three o’ clock. Before going home, Amy picks up her younger sister who is still in fourth grade. Her mother asks her to buy two kilos of rice at the store when they arrive. As she walks toward the store, she passes a group of girls who keeps on giggling and whispering to each other.
“So, it is true that someone is staging a comeback!” says one girl in a voice loud enough to be heard by Amy who is now at the front of the store.
“Yeah, but I don’t think she still has a place here,” another girl replies.
“She does not belong her. She should come back from where she came from,” adds another.
“Don’t be so harsh girls. Remember she is a cry baby,” the girl at the center utters sarcastically.
Amy controls herself from talking back. She knows that those cruel words are for her. She knows them especially the girl at the center. She is Lalaine Perez. Who can forget her? She was Amy’s rival in grade school before they moved to the city years back. Lalaine was bitchy and mean particularly to Amy who the former considered as a threat in both academics and extra-curricular. She thought that Lalaine has changed after four years but the incident now proves that she was wrong.
Amy gathers all her wits as she goes out from the store. The mean girls are still outside and she does not want to make a scene with them. She hates fights. She has enough of them. Fortunately, the girls are busy texting when she passes them again.
Amy helps her mother prepare for dinner and the three of them share a sumptuous dinner after. After assisting her younger sister on her assignments, Amy goes straight to her room. She has a Physics assignment to finish. However, the things that she heard that afternoon still linger on her mind. Tears flow from her eyes. She cannot help but blame her father for the hurtful and tumultuous events that their family experienced for the past two months that ended up for them to be broken. The court granted her mother the custody of the children. That is the reason they are here – to leave the past behind and move on.
She looks down and finds her notes wet. She wipes the tears on her cheeks. It is true that she can cry a river of tears but she is also a strong person who can see the bright side of life amidst the chaos. She knows giving up is not an option because an amazing future awaits her. She needs to give her best now to attain her dreams and she has to start on her Physics assignment.
