Everything Changed

Chapter 4

It was Monday. Everyone knows what Monday means, the WORST day of the week. Nicole slumped there on her seat in class, chewing the tip of her pencil and staring outside the window of gloomy sunshine, when her teacher called her for a board demonstration. Nicole was a very productive girl and intelligent student so she knew what the class was doing even if she was daydreaming or beaten about the bush. She got up and started scribbling a geographical diagram with her whiteboard marker when she heard a snicker and giggle from the far right. She turned around.

"What?" She demanded and gave her usual frown. The giggles increased.

"It's alright Nicole." Mr. Evangalo grinned. "Ignore them like nothing's gonna happen."

"I don't know how many times you've told me that but you're not helping." Nicole scowled.

"Um..." The teacher said uncomfortably, "I meant-just carry on!"

"Hi sir," came a random voice from the door, "I have a...message for you."

Nicole turned around, still in a frowning face and position, and discovered Cal with glasses and a red sweater leaning by the door frame and holding a slip. Nicole's heart skipped a beat and she dropped the pen she held while staring at him, not realizing she was doing a board demonstration and that the teacher was calling her whilst the whole class collapsed with laughter.

"NICOLE BOSTOCKS!"

"What?" Nicole straightened and faced the class, who was half dead on the floor.

"I've been calling you because Cal has brought you a note from the office!"

"Cal?"

"Never mind him! The point is that the note says..."

Nicole had no idea what the teacher said next but all she did was glare at Cal's brilliant face covered in freckles, his sharp nose which looked contoured, his forehead which was tanned, his cute huge glasses (which clearly had no prescription), his slicked-up mousse hair and his wonderful lips which naturally pouted and blossomed. Distracting her romance mood, a rude wolf whistle was heard.

"Ha ha!" Yelled someone whose last 'ha' was longer and ruder. "Someone's in LOVE!"

"With who?" A girl's voice said. "Cal?"

"Ooooo!"

"Yuk! Yuk no, no, no! Better to have Justin Beiber kissing his mum!"

"That is so gross..."

And when Nic turned to the teacher, he passed on the note to Cal and apologized and Nic's eyes fell on Cal's lips again. As the teacher got out for a bathroom break, Cal was making gross and vomiting faces as a reaction to people's comments about Nic's feelings for him. Mr. Evangalo came back and ordered for Cal to leave, when Cal finally looked at Nic and smiled awkwardly then walked away.

...

Madame Rachel Bostocks was in her own office in NBU: so believed by everyone to be Northern Bernadette University, but that wasn't the real name. Rachel sat lazily on her cushioned throne, desperate for her revenge on Nicole Bostocks. She knew everything. Everything that has been going on the past 25 years or so. She knew how to control people, put them in place, make them do things and at that moment, she realized the relationship that built up around Nicole. Rachel had longed for revenge for so long that it involved poor Nicole who did not even have anything to do with her. She thought everyday about the old revenge and the late revenge. Rachel wasn't the type of person who conquered for money, she was the type who would die if she didn't get back her revenge. She thought and thought and thought of the small story that started all this in her childhood, which then increased to a nearly-finished novel. The unfinished bit was Nicole, then the novel was complete.