His Unwanted Bride

Chapter 11

James

“Are you stupid?!” She said to me with a loud voice as she turned to face me.

(Flashback)

I saw a person who seemed lost somewhere and seemed like looking for something. Today is our first day of school and I understand her, the place is so messed up. I have to say that the student council did not organize this well.

Everyone will be confused about where to go in this place with stalls everywhere. So I walked towards the girl that I saw and talked with her.

She is not the typical girl who would look at me with sparkling eyes as if they liked me at first glance. Normally, people know me and when they don't, they have these smiles that don't face off easily while I am talking with them.

I have been known by a lot of people and I understand why. It is because I excel in so many things. It is funny that even though I don’t mean to brag about things, and I end up saying things that will make me like a proud guy of all my achievements, others still don’t think that I am not proud. Which is great because I feel so loved.

When I was already in front of her, I noticed that she looked so familiar, but I didn’t know where I had seen her before.

The moment I talked with her, she did not seem to like talking with me. That was the first time someone looked at me with a straight face. From the start, she was giving off the aura of not liking to talk with others and, most especially me, who was standing in front of her suddenly talking with her.

Then, after a couple of words, I introduced myself to her, hoping that it would make her comfortable because maybe she was just uncomfortable talking with me because she did not know me. But I was wrong. I thought she would know me because I know a lot, but she was like 'and so?' to me, but I still continued to talk with her.

She said that she was the great Krystal Evans. How could I miss out on her when, in fact, I often hear and see her at business conferences with her dad.

Maybe because she is not wearing luxury brands right now. Whenever I see her, she looks so expensive, but right now she looks like an average person who does not care the way she dresses up.

This was the first time seeing her in this kind of outfit, so I was surprised that she was the great ‘Krystal Evans’, the inheritor of the Evans Group.

Before I said something more to her, she left me hanging standing there. I wanted to ask her why but I couldn't because of my surprise that I couldn't walk any longer and chase her. I had never done it to someone before and the way she left me was so cold of her to do.

I was not even able to process my thoughts after I got bumped into her and now she has left me and I feel like a dumb person.

No one has ever turned their back on me, not until I met her. She was also not in a good mood when she said her name to me. I guess she was mad at me and got the wrong idea when I was not able to speak after she replied to me.

That was so epic and the dumbest thing ever. How can I not think of something to say fast? I am not that kind of person, usually.

The next day, the whole class were only waiting for the one who had not arrived yet. Little did we know that it was actually her.

When I saw her for the 2nd time, I was surprised to find out that we were going to be in the same class. My class is full of top students from different schools and I also know that she is a really smart person and she has excelled in her class before, as if we are each other’s rivals.

Although I heard rumors that she is paying for her grades, it would be really impossible for that to happen because her dad is not the kind of person who would do that. Besides, her dad excelled during his time. I even read a lot of old articles about him being a smart kid. There is no doubt that she took it from her father. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about her mother.

I should have expected that she would take the same department since she will take over their company in the future. She is an only child so she has no choice but to do it.

The time that she came into the class and talked with our teacher, I was only staring at her. I thought she would sit in front of the class. Most of the seats in front were taken at the time that students came in one by one.

Well, most intelligent people sit in the front, not at the back, because you cannot pay attention well if you are at the back, but she was totally different. She sat in the back seat and, because we have the right seat to sit in the class, the teacher did not say anything or made her sit in the front or the closest seat that is available.

Now we are ready to introduce ourselves and when I introduced myself I was being honest, but by the time that I finished and glanced at her, she was not in a good mood.

I can see in her expression that she hates it. No wonder she was late. Maybe she was thinking about missing the introduction. That is why. That was not a good move and she was unfortunate because, after trying hard, we still waited for her to enter the classroom.

When it was her time to speak and introduce herself, she simply said her name and that’s it. She immediately sat in her seat.

My effort and other efforts to look at her and listen were wasted because she simply said her name. She was no fun at all.

She was that simple and did not care, gladly the teacher was okay with it.

I then noticed my classmates started to murmur after Krystal's turn to introduce herself. When I tried to eavesdrop without getting caught, I heard things about her paying for her grades. So they are still into it.

When I looked at her, I could see that she didn’t look like she cared, but I know that she knows that my classmates are talking about her.

She still wears her straight face even after everything that she is hearing.

How can those people listen to such rumors? That is so absurd.

During our lunch time, I saw her again when I went to the gymnasium to check if there were students who were smoking there.

I tried to talk with her but she did not want to talk to me. I even walked to be closer to her, but as always. She really tries her best to distance herself from me.

I have the kind of thinking that she hates people because she does not even want to eat in the cafeteria and stay there.

We are talking about the great Krystal, who has been extremely rich since she was in the womb. Eating in this place is just not it. This is out of context. Can’t people see her being like this because of everything that they are saying to her? I feel bad about her.

After I walked to an area inside the gymnasium, I just realized that she was already walking outside the gymnasium. She truly doesn’t want to make friends at all.

Our meetings with each other did not stop with that because we see each other often, most especially when we are alone together.

On Saturday, we met again and I heard that she had actually helped her club with an idea and clean their place. I thought she did not care about people, but I heard from their club and it was confirmed by our student council president that they give the donations they get from the students who borrow albums and whatsoever they have in their club to kids.

She even had a creative idea to make use of the broadcasting room that had not been used for some time with another idea that could get more funds. That is why I supported them and endorsed them on the page.

I think she is kind inside, she just doesn’t know how to show it or does not want anyone to know. Trying this hard, and even saying thanks to me a while ago, was so out of her personality.

The moment she realized that I had helped them, she did not hesitate to say thanks to me. She was even a bit shy but she still tried and I find it cute. But then she left me again. As what she always does to me.

She has been doing this to me, but I am still not used to someone turning their back on me.

I was only trying to talk with her more but she was getting mad and seriously this time. She is looking at me with those eyes that I can’t say if she is mad or whatever. Although her words are like worrying about me and her or it is just me thinking that she worries about my image too.

But when she called me stupid, I did not know what else to say to her.

I was so surprised to say anything that I did not notice she had already left me again.

I can only see myself standing still at where she left me and looking at her walking away.

(End of Flashback)

“She is so cool.” I can’t say words any more than that.

No one has told me that I was stupid since I was a kid. And hearing it after all these years just gives me different emotions. I feel so bad but somehow glad to hear it from her.

"Am I turning into a stupid person for real?" I asked myself, realizing the thrill inside me that I was feeling at Krystal's words.

If she thinks that I will leave her alone after that, she is wrong. It only gives me more reason to give her more. I can't wait to tell my friend about her.