** Archelle POV **
My summer holiday is over. I sighed in exasperation. Yeah, my damn holiday is over and I haven't finish writing a poem yet. The due date is on next Friday. Oh, how am I suppose to finish it up in 5 days? I pulled my hair, feeling anxious about all of this. Huh, remind me back why I took this course in the first place.
I just sat at the bed and stared at my bags to be packed with clothes. Oh, I hate to leave here again. I'm going to miss home so much, and my next holiday will be on winter holiday, which is 4 months later. REMIND me AGAIN why in the hell would I choose a college which situated 4 hours drive from home in the first place?
Ugh... what's done is done, can't complained about it. And so, with heavy heart I packed my bag while keep cursing myself for procrastinating my assignment and putting myself in an anxious state. A knocked sounded on my door. "Come in!" I said aloud, while I make an effort to put these damn clothes on my overcrowded bag.
O'Brien step into my room with a small smile. He looks adorable at that moment, which remind me of him back when he was just a little boy. Hmm... I miss that.
"Hey sis.... ehmm... you packing up?" He said, sat on my bed and cross his arm.
"Yeah, what did you think I was doing? Go to laundry?" I said half-joked. Now I even hate to leave him here when he is still heartbroken. I cursed the ended holiday again in my mind.
He just chuckled lightly. "Uh... you might need a bigger bag than that, if you are planning to bring along those clothes with you," he indicated the clothes which I unsuccessfully put into the bag. I blushed, slightly embarass that he pointed out the simple thing that I should do long time ago. Shit, what's happening to my mind? I scratched my head, trying to cover up my embarassment.
"Yeah, I forgot about it... hmm, where did I put my other bag?" I tried to search for it here but can't find anything.
"I thought you don't have extra bag? You keep saying you want to buy bigger bag, but I still remember that instead of new bag, you ended up buying new clothes?" He teased me. I just glared at him but he seems to ignore it.
"Alright, alright... Fine... don't remind me about how obsessed I am with clothes," I sighed in defeat. He laughed at me and went to my side. He took a peek into my bag and sighed.
"Oh gosh, I thought you better than me."
"What? Is something wrong with it?" I said, slightly irritated with his complaint.
He indicated the inside of my bag. "It's no wonder you can't fit all clothes on it -"
"Oh, come on -"
" - you should folded your clothes nicely before you put these on it. I thought all lady should know about this. Shameful." He shook his head, acted as if he was my mother who feels disappointed on her daughter. I groaned loudly.
"Gosh! You keep embarassing me or I'll soon kick your ass out of here," I threatened him. He shrug his shoulder, raised his eyebrow, feigned innocence.
"I'm trying to help you, Chelle. No offence but what I said is the truth." I waved him off but eventually I did what he advice me to do. We talked a lot of normal things while I folded my clothes nicely and finally I can fit all my clothes on my bag. I winked at him and he just laughed. Oww, I'm gonna miss my little brother so much. 4 month is a long time, and I do hope that Brien will feel much better and move on with his life as a single boy again.
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It was always a hard time to say good bye to my family, especially my baby brother. I hugged all of them, saying I will call them later and then I drove off to my other life, my college. This means that I have to face Kendra again, and after learning about her slut sister hurting my baby brother, I expect that it's going to be awkward situation between us. Kendra never contacted me during this holiday, but I don't really mind about that. It's not like we are best friend or something. But, it's not like I have any other option. Even though I was now in my 3rd and final year before I graduate next year, I still can't find new roomate or new room.
Well, Kendra is a nice roomate but yeah, that's it. I think of her not more than simply my roomate. When I was there, we simply talk briefly, ask whenever it is needed, and do our own thing most of the time. I prefer it that way, because being a future writer, most of the time I need some space and peace atmosphere to get inspiration to write. And Kendra, being a medical student, will be glad to have her own time to study hard.
Kendra is a total opposite of Jane. I mean, imagine like day and night. Kendra is an anti-social kind of girl, very caring and well-dress. Typical medical student I can say. While Jane, she socialise all the time. According to my cousin back at town, she always saw Jane in tight shirt, short skirt just wandering around at the street, with nothing better to do other than smoking and talk dirty and nonsense to her gang. Several time she is seen snogging with few guys at the same time. At first I told my cousin that she could have mistaken because what Kendra told me about Jane is the opposite of what my cousin has seen.
However, my cousin prove to be right when I was just back to my town for a holiday. I was just finish buying grocery at Wal-Mart when I saw Jane with her gang (I think they all have emo-style looking, you know, dark clothes and make-up with dark personality). And just like what my cousin told me, Jane was making out with a guy, in public for God's sake! I thought that the police must be blind because isn't acting that way at the public place is considered as inappropriate act and should be brought to a police case? The next month after my holiday, I confront Kendra about this.
Well, Kendra never went home every holiday. She told me that it's her advantage to stay at college to do revision. Well, deep in my heart I'm so glad of not taking medical course as my major or I would ended up being nerdy like her. Oh by the way, Kendra and I live in same town but different street, and we never meet before we become roomate. It's quite weird, being in the same small town but never see each other at all.
Maybe she was staying at home too much too.
Anyway, I confront Kendra about this one day, and she did not look happy with it. First I thought she was angry at Jane for acting like that behind her back. But instead, she was angry at me.
"Just who the hell are you to talk about my sister like that?" She put her hands on her waist, her face became red. I just stared at her, open-mouthed, cannot believe in my ear that she thought I was lying to her about Jane. And shocked too, because the normal-composed medical student said swear word to me. This never happen before in all our life as a roomate.
"I... I just... well.... I saw Jane, with that.... you know...." I stammered a bit, suddenly feel afraid of her sudden change of attitude to me.
"I think you had mistaken Jane for other people." She said it with finality, and ignored me for the rest of the weeks. I never talked about Jane to her ever since that.
When Brien called me to tell me that he has a girlfriend, I was so happy for him, even jumping up and down on my bed to share his happiness, until the moment he said his girlfriend's name out loud. I became speechless for at least few seconds, even a cricket sound can be heard at that time.
"Wait.... are you saying that your girlfriend is..... Jane Louis?" I whispered, afraid that Kendra might heard me saying her sister's name.
"Yeah, that's her. Do you know her?" He asked, suspicion on his voice. I just shook my head, but remind myself that he can't see me, so I denied about it, but after his persistent plead, eventually I told him that Jane is Kendra's sister. I never told him more than that, and thinking back I know I should do that before things get worse. I blamed myself for what happen to Brien, and of course I blamed Jane too because she fool my brother. I swear I'll never let her go off the hook this time.
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