Four painful yet changing years passed by. The tiny girl turned 13.

The first day school started, students chose their desk, her stomach summersaulted as she felt eyes laid on her entering the classroom.

She was a bit late and after a quick looking around, she noticed there was only one seat available.

"Hi." She threaded her slender fingers behind her back so the girl in front of her wouldn't have to shake her hand. She smiled. "I am Angelica Heather. Call me Lica."

At the moment, Angelica had thought of dropping her eyes, and exit to the toilet. Invisible.

But the girl smiled back. "Hi Angelica, I'm Ariana Bellatrix. You can call me, Bella."

Bella gestured to her to sit beside her with a welcoming look plastered on her face. Angelica beamed. She sat and for the first time, she felt like she'll be able to make at least a friend. A real one this time. She beamed more at the thought.

Bella was friendly, she was able to cope with Angelica's lacking of conversation topic.

Eventually, their classroom teacher came in. The students stood from their seats and greeted the teacher.

The teacher greeted them back and called out the attendance.

"Noah Cain Luther." The male teacher called on a boy name. He stood and nodded to everyone before sitting back.

"Woa, I think I found my crush." Bella whispered beneath her covered mouth. "He's cute."

Angelica turned to her. "What's a crush?"

She gained a rise of an eyebrow from Bellatrix. "Seriously, you don't know?"

Angelica tilted her head questioningly.

"Crush is when you like someone and that someone doesn't know or sort of like that." Bella explained. Her whispering eventually rising a bit. She was excited.

Angelica nodded her head. "Well, Noah was my classmate since elementary school."

Bellatrix's eyes widened." Really?" She grinned cheekily."How about introducing me to him?"

Angelica smiled to Bella. "He's someone friendly. Im pretty sure soon enough you guys will get to know each other."

Her mind instantly remembered on a scene where she was as plainly like usual, reading a thick novel at her seat and suddenly he came to her and talk to her. Since that day, he have been casually talking to her, which Angelica assumed as his natural doing; friendly.

"Okay then." Bella grinned again, revealing small neat teeth. She lowered her tone. "Do you have a crush?"

Angelica answered honestly, confused. "When I figured out, I'll tell you." Even though her mind displayed an image of a boy she started to long to meet with his smiles .

"Woah, well..okay." Bella shrugged. "Tell me more about Noah then."

Angelica pulsed in her lips. All the memories and knowledge of Noah slowly converting into words.

"He's the son of a teacher. He's famous in our school, known for his friendly nature, smart brain, neat student, all the teachers adores him."

"He's the popular kid?" Bella's tiny eyes widened round.

Angelica nodded. "I supposed so."

"Angelica Heather Winter.?" The teacher's call stopped their chats.

Angelica stood, feeling her knees wobbling at the sudden attention.

She breathes in and looked around. She dared herself to smile brightly.
As she sat down way too fast that her bottom made a faint thumping sound, she caught the eyes of Noah, looking at her.

She flashed him a tiny smile before turning her face to Bellatrix. The brown haired girl was giving Noah a quick wave. "He's looking at me."

Angelica smiled at her. "Good start for you guys."

She spared another wild low glances around the classroom. Some of her classmates from elementary school were still her classmates.

She secretly was grateful as she didn't see the faces of the chubby girl and her gang anywhere. She pray that there wouldn't be any 'yet' to her previous sentence.