In This World of Mine
NekoVampMisheru
Chapter 2: The Everyday Life

The rain continued to fall as Alice walked to school. She spun the dark blue umbrella as she lazily stared into the distance. Her uniform consisted of a black skirt, a white oxford covered with a black vest and a red tie. She fixated on her black headband afraid that it would fall off, but it was securely fastened on. Her mind wandered once again and her fingers ached. She had bandaged and wrapped her hand after the incident this morning. The pain was nothing compared to what she was feeling every single day. She had wanted to quit school but she knew that her aunt and uncle would chastise her if she had done so. She would have no future they said, but Alice already knew that there was already no future for her even if she continued going to school. In the mood for a pill, she opened her bag and opened a bottle of her medication, popped one in her mouth, and continued on to school. Really, this was her everyday life.

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When she had arrived in her homeroom, it was all the same. Students were discussing with one another of their latest highlights, boys teasing girls, and the students that were stressing out over tests they had. Walking to her desk, she heard footsteps follow behind her. “Hey Alice.” She took a deep breath and turned around to see the face of her familiar friend, Marcos. Marcos was tall, lean, no muscles were obvious but there were some indication of it, part of his brown hair covered his green eyes that stood out like a sore thumb, all the girls would die for him since he was so handsome. She wondered why on earth a guy like him would even speak a word to her.
“Marcos.”, was all Alice said as she placed her bag down on the floor and sat in her seat.
“So how are you feeling?” He asked that same question every day. It wouldn’t make a difference she thought. She answered him as usual. “I’m fine. There’s nothing new that happened.”
“Your hands are wrapped in bandages…What the hell did you do, Alice?” She really didn’t understand why he was worried about her. He had no business whatsoever. He was a handsome pain in the ass since day one she met him. Alice met Marcos at the day of her parent’s funeral. Her aunt and uncle were present with her and had introduced her to him. The encounter was awkward, Alice would not talk and she could feel the pity that was emanating from him. Marcos lived not far from Alice, his place was a couple blocks down from hers. So it was easy checking up on Alice when he wanted to. Alice sometimes spoke to him about her problems, minor problems that is. He knew about the prescription the doctor had given her and was wary of it since a year ago.
“There was a rat in my apartment…so I tried to catch it…and it ended up scratching the hell out of me.” Alice sighed with her fake excuse. “I’m fine though I went to the doctor’s to get a rabies shot.”
“Whatever happened to the rat?” He asked with a smile.
Damn. She had not thought this through…Marcos and his questions. “Uh…”
“There was no rat, was there?” Alice slowly shook her head. Marcos did not question her any further. She really didn’t like talking. There was no point he believed, but he had to keep trying. The pity he felt for her was sickening. He never saw one smile from her lips. “Alice, I---.” The bell had rung and everybody went to their seats.