She woke up to two faces staring down at her like one would stare at a specimen in the laboratory. One she recognized as her roommate, the other she was sure she had never seen before. With a sigh, she sat up slowly wondering what she did to deserve her roommate.

Folding her hands she fixed them with her sharpest glare. "Enjoying the show?" They at least had the initiative to stand upright from their bent position and look sheepish. The other girl shrugged, pulling Rose's attention to her.

Her eyes were about the only unique qualities she possessed with its grey pigment. Her black hair which was reaching to her shoulder was packed in ponytail, her eye liner drawn Cardi B style. But her stance screamed 'I'm a badass bitch'

"Not quite, oh and there's some nasty drool around your mouth." She wore a self satisfied smile on, looking quite proud of her reply. She probably thought rose wouldn't have a reply to that, if only she knew; rose always had a reply to everything.

"Nasty?" Rose chuckled. "Naw, that's the kind of adjective I'll use to describe your face,"

"Enough!" Her roommate bellowed, causing Rose to roll her eyes. Standing from the bed, she stretched intentionally hitting the brunette at the side of her head. Her scowl deepened.

"What now? You guys wanna watch me have my bath?" She smirked at them when they made a disgusted face and sashayed towards the bathroom, her towel slung over a shoulder.

"Let's go Anna, I can't stand to be here anymore," with a huff the brunette left the room followed by a sulking Anna who didn't know what to do with her roommate. Rose chuckled as she peeked at their retreating figure; she finally knew her roommate's name.

Axel sat on the hood of his car, his friends and he were in comfortable silence as they stood around him, thinking. Both stroking their invisible beards. He let out a sigh from frustration, running a hand through his tight curls, ruffling it in the process.

Dean kicked an empty soda can away from him, starling his friends in the process.

"This is so fucked up, man. Can't you just walk up to her charm her pants off and maybe you could even get few fucks in, why do we have to waste our time looking for another way you could get her to have her dad help us out?" He lamented, looking up to his friends with pleading look.

"Why are you so stressed about this? It isn't you whose mother advised to do this."

"You won't understand, you're always lucky to do well in your exams you can't understand Axel and I's pain and besides if Axel succeeds in getting her father to help him pass his finals then maybe he'd help me too, gosh i wish he had two daughters."

"More like I read to pass," Theodore argued with an eye roll. "And I think he does have have two daughters only that the other is in middle school but you don't mind do you?" He winked at dean who gave him the middle finger.

"I'll do it." Axel said, pulling his friends attention to him.
"What?!" Theodore asked dumbfolded, he couldn't believe his other friend was going going astray too. What has dean given him to eat?

"That's more like it, bro." Dean smiled, bumping shoulders with Axel who had hopped off the hood.

"Axel what is wrong with you? You can't really plan to use a girl just to make her father help you pass the finals you can just read for,"

"What else can I do?! I'm desperate! You won't understand why would you? When everything comes easily for you." He spat out bitterly. Theodore just shook his head at his stupid friend and shrugged.

"Welp, it's just life so live it the way you want, just know I'm not supporting you in this, I'll be off to Granny's." He eased into his own car and drove off, leaving two guilt ridden friends behind.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go." They both hopped into Axel's car and headed to the campus where they plan to find the girl who had the power to make them pass their finals.

Rose finished from the bathroom and casually walked back into the room, for some reason she had expected her roommate to be back and was slightly disappointed when she was no where to be found. She was starting to get use to her roommate's scrowls anytime she's around.

Shrugging, she walked to her own small closet and chose a baggy black T-shirt with 'hi haters' written at the front in red ink; that was one of her best t-shirts. Pairing it with a blue shorts, she jumped on her bed reaching out to snag a book from the nightstand where she had left it the day before when her stomach grumbled.

"Oh, shut it!" Gently hitting on her stomach to stop it from grumbling but it only worsened. Remembering her ulcer and her mother's warning concerning them, she unwillingly left the room and asked a nice looking boy with ginger hair and very pale skin. He awkwardly pointed the way to the closest restaurant in the campus to her and she thanked him with a smile. He was really weird; she thought but was grateful he was weird and not mean.

She had intentionally left her full hair Afro style, loving the attention she drew to herself even going as far as winking to a African American guy who had his mouth opened as he stared at her. She knew it wasn't only her hair that drew people's attention but also her luxurious curves which protruded from a thin waist and. It would have made for a very nice hour glass shape if not for her lean build and small but firm breast. Her curves were always visible no matter what she was putting on. Many people had advised her to go for modelling but it just wasn't her thing and she lacked the height required being 5'4.

The restaurant was full and a little noisy from all the talking, almost everyone was seated in pairs the only exception being an Asian girl with black shoulder length hair with full bangs, I found myself wondering how she was able to see and even avoid getting hair inside the food, she was cute though but I could almost immediately tell she was an outcast.

I took the only empty seat near the glass wall and ignored the stares, the noises reduced as people took notice of me but rose again. I patiently waited for the waiter to come and she did.

She was quite nice and professional, I had expected my hair to catch her attention as she stood beside me, taking my order but even if it did, she did not stare. She soon left after taking the orders and came back with my Fajitas. The scent alone almost had my mouth watering. I dug into it.

Unfortunately I was still chewing the first spoonful when the waiter came back, a regretful expression on her face, I immediately guessed something was wrong. I patiently chew on the food in my mouth and swallowed then raised an eyebrow at her.

Clearing her throat she said. "I'm sorry but you'll have to leave, we'll pay you back your money and you can even take the food with you." I blinked several times, my brain refusing to understand the nonsense she was spitting.

"On what grounds?" I asked, I swear I could almost cry. Why couldn't they just let me finish my fajitas in peace? What a wicked world!

"Some people complained that you upset their digestion." That was a low blow to my guts, I was lost for a minute staring into space. Was my skin that bad looking? Shaking my head to dispense that thought, I looked straight into the waiter's eyes and gave her the sweetest smile I could muster. I might as well reserve the little dignity left.

"Oh, it's alright then I'll just leave, y'all should shove the money up where the sun doesn't shine." Her lips pressed into thin line and she nodded, I felt a tinny little bad for being rude but it all dispersed when I saw who was seated opposite me with her bitchy friend and two other guys.

I had anger issues in my early teens and didn't think to try to control it till I shoved a boy in my class to an incoming vehicle, thankfully the driver stopped just in time and the boy decided not to tell his parents or I would have spent some time in teenage detention. I could feel that anger return tenfolds.

Anna was staring directly at me with a blank look on her, now I knew who desperately wanted me out of the restaurant and the former thoughts of dignity flew out of my mind. I slipped out of my seat and marched right up to her.

"Hello princess," I greeted her with a deadly smile, making sure to make eye contact with everyone seated around her, a particular guy with brown curls and sapphire eyes stared at me, curiosity written all over his features, he was the type I'd plaster the pictures around my room just to drool at every morning but my anger didn't let me think much of him at the moment.

"What exactly did I do to upset your digestion? Oh, let me guess, it's my colour huh?" I didn't even mind that everyone's attention was now on me. "If black upsets your digestion then why are you sitting near someone wearing black?" I jabbed my thumb towards the curly head guy, he blinked.

"But no its the skin right?" I nodded as if understanding her point then slammed my hands into the table making them jump. "You act as if you're better than I am, as if you're a special creation because you're pale. You walked into the room yesterday and looked at me with disgust as if I aren't human but you know what? I choose my skin anytime any day over your skin which is the same shade with a plucked chicken." I spat in her face and marched outside the restaurant slamming the door as hard as I could.

Standing for a few moment to catch my breath, I saw the Asian girl slowly emerge from the restaurant looking sad. Without thinking, I moved towards her and placed my hand on her shoulders.

"Hey, what's wrong?" With teary eyes, she looked up at me and stammered out; "t-they said i- upset their digestion too."

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Hi everyone, we deeply apologize if you get offended by anything you see in this chapter, do know that we have nothing personal against anyone of any colour. Every colour is beautiful, it's such a pity not everyone knows that.

Do not hate Rose for anything she said as she was only trying to protect herself, anyone would do that in that kind of situation.

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