《The Academy》Chapter 3
Advertisement
I turned my head when I heard the sound of feet pattering. The girl was running away and, by the way she was covering her face, she was crying. I groaned when I saw her bump into Yasmine. I assume Yasmine told her she was fine before fixing her intense stare on me. I pretended that I didn't see the interaction and started to practice my serves.
"What did you do to her?" I turned to see Yasmine comfortably seated on the bench. She crossed her legs and rested her chin on her hand.
"Nothing."
"Then why was she crying?"
"I don't know. You'd have to ask her." I replied with a shrug
"For some reason, I'm not convinced by your answer. Did Ivan push you too hard?" I rolled my eyes as she brought up my trainer.
"Ivan always pushes me too hard."
"What a burden it must be to be so talented." She smirked. "Anyways, you need to apologize to the poor girl." She was fixated on her nails.
"Why would I do that? I have nothing to be sorry about."
"I beg to differ." I was about to retort when I saw something shiny out of the corner of my eye. I picked up a rose gold bracelet. It must've fallen off of that girl. Unfortunately, the bracelet appeared to be broken. One of the charms fell off.
"Lucky you. Looks like you have a prop to apologize to her with."
"I'm gonna take a shower. Come to the jeweler with me after?" I asked while staring at the bracelet.
"Are you done with training?"
"Yeah. She interrupted it, so I'll end it early."
"Okay. I'll be here." Yasmine started to scroll through her Instagram feed. I took that opportunity to head to the showers. As I was washing my hair, I remembered my first encounter with that girl. I was already irritated in the morning since Tamsin was bugging the hell out of me. I was already annoyed and it didn't help when that girl spilled chocolate milk all over me. It pissed me off since I had to walk on campus with a stain the size of Texas on my shirt. Gemma distracted me this morning, so I forgot to grab my blazer. I began searching for Astrid since she's always cold and would more than likely have her blazer. Luckily, I found her and she gladly gave me her blazer. I then had to rush to get to class on time. Imagine my surprise when I saw that she was in my class. My friends beckoned me over to the seat they saved. One of them asked me why I was glaring at the new girl. After explaining, they all turned and glared at her. I guess our glares were too intense for her since she quickly turned around. I then saw her again at lunch. Our eyes met and I returned her gaze with my signature harsh glare. She turned and started talking to her new friends. I was able to tell that Rosé was probably telling the new girl about my family because her pointing wasn't that subtle. I dismissed that thought and went back to chatting with my friends. When I saw her again today, I was shocked. I heard a yelp and turned to see her falling backwards. She looked stunned so I quickly ran to her since I was worried. After a while, she came to her senses and looked up. I glared down at her since she interrupted my practice. I was really hoping that Ivan wouldn't walk by now since he'd write her up for interrupting my practice. I dismissed Ivan by stating that she was simply my ball girl and assisting me in my practice. He seemed convinced enough and left. The girl then stood up and gave me a new shirt. She meant it as an apology for ruining my other one. I don't know why she bothered to buy me a new shirt since it was obvious that she was on financial aid. I really hope she didn't spend all of her allowance money on me. I quickly recomposed myself and did a bitch move. I took the shirt and used it to wipe my sweat before tossing it back at her. I made a lame statement about how she is now a true ball girl. I turned to walk away, but didn't get that far since I heard her sniffle and runaway. I turned the faucet off and stood in place for a while, allowing the water to drip off of me. Yeah, Yasmine is right. I do need to apologize. I quickly got dressed and left to find Yasmine in the same spot.
Advertisement
Yasmine hopped into the passenger seat of my Bentley. There was a lot of traffic, so the usual 10 minute drive turned into a 30 minute journey. My jeweler was a guy in his mid 30s. He's extremely talented and I buy all of my ice from him. I showed him the damage and he said it'd only take him an hour to fix. I was satisfied with that. Yasmine decided that we should waste the hour by walking around the shopping center. Her "walking around the shopping center" meant eating Ma'aroud. She likes to have a taste of home as she puts it. We found the Israeli bakery and ate some pastries. As we were eating, Yasmine started to question me.
"Did Ivan see her?"
"Yeah." I simply answered.
"What did he say?"
"Wanted to know why she was there. I told him that she's my ball girl." I simply stated again.
"Why did you protect her?"
"I didn't want her to get written up. She's new and obviously on aid, so she'd definitely get kicked out on her second day."
"Why do you care?" She leaned forward. "Ahh!" She snapped her fingers. "You're her sponsor aren't you?" She pointed at me while laughing. I rolled my eyes because it's true. After the first day, I went to the registrar to see who I was sponsoring and I unfortunately saw that she was one of my scholars. Normally it's confidential, but when you own nearly half of the school, you can practically do anything. "You're basically responsible for her and if your dad found out that one of your scholars got kicked out, then..."
"Yeah. So now you know why, Yaz." I rolled my eyes. Yasmine glanced at her watch and noted that an hour had passed. We walked back to my jeweler and picked up the bracelet. He was able to make it more durable than before. So now that I have her bracelet, I can apologize to her tomorrow. I convinced Yaz to sleepover at my place since I wasn't in the mood to battle the traffic back to the school. She agreed and we made our way back to my home.
Advertisement
- In Serial90 Chapters
The White Horde
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Game of Thrones meets Attila the Hun. Set in an alternate Earth where magic is slowly fading and decadent empires must stand or fall against the barbarian hordes pushing west, this epic tale is told from the view points of three different people: Amazonia, a female gladiator who gains her freedom at the cost of a cursed Rune sword, and a mission to save the Empire of the East from destruction at the hands of the Sasnayam empire. Blood-Wysper, a Celtic priestess stolen by the Shadow-walker Ghostdog for the High Priest of the Sasnayam god Yun-Kax. A young woman with a mana node inside her like a second heart that regrows each time she is 'sacrificed', driving her to the edge of madness. Greywolf, son of Ghostdog and Asena, known as the Wolf-mother and once considered a goddess of war. a young man Asena considers scarcely more than a boy, Greywolf's actions will cause Blood-Wysper to lose her life unless he can save her, risking his freedom or his death at the hands of the high priest, Muzen. Empires will shatter and new ones arise, and all because of the power of the White Horde.
8 209 - In Serial11 Chapters
Falling from Earth
He won. He defeated Fate. He took his life into his own hands, the only way he knew how. He killed himself. ......................... He cheated. Fate cheated too. He didnt die. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm a amateur writer. English is my first language. I appreciate it when people point out grammar issues. I also appreciate constructive critiques. I'm writing this mostly because I've read so many novels on here that i feel that I should give back to the community. Will be at least a chapter a week. Every Friday. I keep a buffer of 3 chapters, so if i get on a roll and write more chapters, there will be more updates. My chapters will be at least 3000 words, prologue excluded. I'm shooting for more like 6000 words a chapter, mostly because i never like how small the chapters are in most novels on here. Not enough MEAT. Oh and comments that touch my heart get me excited to write. Just figured that out.
8 132 - In Serial9 Chapters
Papercuts to Fell Immortals
Qing Shen is a girl from the counrtyside, forced into a role she never wanted by a Young Master who's infamy is spread throughout the land. As a Cultivator in the path to immortality, Qing Shen has to deal with her own problems as well as the mysteries surrounding her Young Master. Things, however, are not as they seem, and the young girl finds that sometimes the truth is more unbelievable than the lies we often follow. . . . If you want a less hidden-meaning summary: This story is about the struggles of one girl as she tries to become an Immortal. There won't be any meaningful romance, but there will be a plot that spans most of the story, and violence. Oh the violence! I'm not going to say that my ideas are 100% original (because hoo boy are there a lot of Wuxia), but hopefully I can write something entertaining. Guaranteed things: 1. Cliche events with a twist (I mean, it's literally in the description) 2. Important Characters will have backstories and motivations that will hopefully make them not one-dimensional (honestly, that's just normal stuff...) 3. Untrustworthy characters (everyone in the story lies, even me, so don't trust everything you read... but at the same time, trust everything you read) 4. Goodish grammar (not gonna say mine's the best, but it's readable in most cases) 5. Plot! (Everywhere!) 6. worldbuilding? (Should be there somewhere, but I probably won't do blatant info dumps... probably) 7. Character development? (Its there... at some point...) 8. The story gets dark at some points (if you don't like characters dying, then this might not be your cup of tea) 9. A strong main character? (She'll be strong, yes. However, her enemies are also strong. If everyone is strong, then is she no longer strong? My brain hurts) 10. Wow, this list is going on for awhile... uh, Believable and reasonable Action? (I mean, I'm writing for mainly my fun, so if I want a fight scene, then I might craft a scenario to explain it... or I might suddenly throw in a Dragon and call it a day) This story also goes by the same name over on Webnovel.com, but I'm going to be updating it here because, well I want to. They are both by me, and created by me. If there's anything that seems like a copy of another work, then that's just the genre being saturated by everything under the sun.
8 153 - In Serial9 Chapters
Welcome to the new World
Ataru Johnson, an ordinary boy living with his father and grandmother with no given knowledge of his mother's side of the family. Enjoying school life with his friends Lousie and Julie and on the cusp of passing his exams Ataru is prepared to enjoy the coming summer, until his father reveals a surprise to him.
8 90 - In Serial9 Chapters
The dark hiding in the light {KiriBakuKami}
this is a kiribakukami story ... pictures used aren't mine credit goes to the artistI currently also added kaminari into the ship sorry if you ship him with sero,Mina,or shinso 😅 I'm kind of a multi shipper so I don't know what ships are in for most people and what ships are out lol i can't explain things very well all i know to tell is there is a lot,A LOT,of wall climbing 🧗♀️ and there's a little Bakudeku I have decided to cut out all smut due to UA students being minors and minors should not be having sex with each other so please don't make smut requests 😅 srry if your one of my friends and your reading this being like what is going on in your dirty ass mind author-chan
8 158 - In Serial42 Chapters
Her Five Protectors
Athena is trying to adjust in her newfound freedom but she is forcefully ripped away from it. But sometimes everything happens for better!Cover made by @anne0tm0
8 191

