Wait! Why am I referring to myself as 'someone like me' again?! I shook my head to remove that thought out of my head. Ezra's trying his best to accept all of me, but I still couldn't learn how to love myself. Isn't that too rude towards him? That's why I should try my best to learn how to love myself first. No, I'm going to love myself from now on.
"Alexis?"
I was pulled back to reality after Ezra called my name. "You were in a daze while staring at my face. You're making me blush." He joked with that sheepish expression on his face, causing me to feel embarrassed, and made me slap his arm gently. "Should we go and have an after-school date? What do you say?" Ezra smiled brightly while asking that; there's no way I could reject such a cute suggestion of his.
"Let's go."
We grabbed our bags and went towards the nearest mall from the academy. "What do you want t
Ezra was caught off-guard, and it made me grasp how negative my question was.We just started dating, and I'm already questioning him like this? What's wrong with me?I immediately shook both of my hands in front as I averted my gaze. "F-Forget about that question. It just slipped in my mind; it's not my intention to question your feelings like that."I was so embarrassed that I felt like I won't be able to look at Ezra for a while. However, Ezra gently grabbed my chin and made me look at him. "I won't promise anything, but I know that my feelings for you won't change." He smiled so sweetly while caressing my cheek. "It's my first time falling in love with a person; all I had before was volleyball. How could I stop liking an adorable person like you?"Every bit of it, his words were sincere that I was left stunned by it. How could this guy confess over and over about his feelings as if it doesn't embarrass him?
I was frozen still as I immediately let go of Ezra's hand. My happiness quickly slipped away from my grasp as soon as we bumped into my mother. "E-Ezra, I-I think I need to go now. Tell your mom thanks for dinner." Ezra seemed to understand the situation, and he bid us his goodbye. As soon as he left, I rushed towards the gate and was about to get in the house."Answer me. Why were you holding a man's hand?""I-It was nothing."I didn't want to explain anything to my mom, so I decided to rush towards the house and left her there all alone. Why does she bother asking? It's not like she actually cared about me. "Oh? Welcome back. Did you have—"I wouldn't bother talking to Lean because I was afraid that mother would ask more questions if she saw me
Jade's POVI heard a knock on my door while drawing on my tablet. "Go away." It's probably Gelo again. I don't have the time to deal with him right now, but instead of following what I said, Angelo opened the door to my room which made me look in his direction. "What the hell? I said go away. I'm busy."My younger brother, Angelo, didn't listen again, and instead, he sat on my bed. Purposively pissing me off.This goddamn brat."I thought you weren't going to join any clubs? Why are you joining the boys' volleyball club as a manager? Ion was there too; did you know that?" This brat really kept on getting on my nerves the past few days.
Alexis’s POV“That’s all for today. We won’t be having rigorous training for now since we’ll be having the training camp soon.” Those were coach Alfred’s last words before dismissing us.“Lexi! Let’s go home together.” Mitch called up to me. That reminds me, I still haven’t told him about my relationship with Ezra. “You wouldn’t be coming home with Ezra again today, wouldn’t you? Honestly, what’s going on with you two?”“Actually—““Ah! Lili! What happened to you?”
The training camp ended without any problem, although my body was in pain after the training with the Golden Bell warriors. Right, they've been training with us side by side. Though I wonder why when we're the teams that always compete right before the championship, where the only one between us could get into that said championship.It didn't matter since we should already know what we needed to work on after playing against our greatest rivals. Even though we were going to play against each other soon, the players on the other team didn't look so bad, in fact, they even helped us learn lots of things. They're too kind, or maybe they're content because they think we wouldn't be able to win against them?However, during that training camp, I noticed that Liliana received even more bullying than before. I don't kn
"What are you talking about, Tiffany?"Tiffany giggled after being asked like that by Ezra. "Are you playing dumb, captain? Wasn't it you who said about Alexis being your boyfriend— And what was it? Mitch's not interested in girls?" Her eyes twinkled, and I didn't know what to say. "Then why is he hanging around with that third-year girl?" She placed her hand on her chin and looked at us."What do you want?"Tiffany looked at Ezra with uninterested eyes. "Nothing much. Just stay out of my way, and I'll do the same." She said as she looked at me with a smile. "You wouldn't want your mom to learn about this, wouldn't you?" I was frozen in shock after she mentioned that. Why is she talking about my mom?
I looked up, and my eyes widened after seeing Royce. "What are you doing?" Why is he still here? I thought he had gone home already before me? I was too flustered that I immediately stood up. "Are you waiting for the captain?" Royce asked, which made me shake my head many times."Please don't tell anyone that you saw me here."Royce tilted his head as he looked down, and I quickly tried to hide my shoes that I couldn't wear properly. "I won't ask anything else, but if you're planning to stay out here, why don't you just go to your best friend's house?"I instantly thanked Royce for that and bid him goodbye. I was too distracted by my problem that I forgot I had Mitch.I just hope he will accept me.&nb
I stayed the whole night in Mitch's place, and Andre was the one that delivered me some clothes and other necessities I needed. It seems like our mother's still going on with her rampage, and I wouldn't be able to come home yet.I actually like this better. I'm always uncomfortable being at home anyway. Today, Mitch apologized to everyone and coach Alfred for ditching practice yesterday without any excuse. Though we thought he'd be receiving severe punishment, coach Alfred let it go since he knew how sincere Mitch was with his apology. "So that's what happened." Mitch and I looked at each other while waiting for Jade's reaction after explaining what happened yesterday. "Wow, a lot happened