⚜️A E S T H E T I C⚜️

Chapter 2

(Her Royal Highness)

“Get up you moron!” I heard a distant voice and then my bed started shaking violently.

“Cadence get off her bed! You have been trying that for literally seven years! Did it work? No!”

“Shut up Sarnai or I'll stitch your mouth!”

“Guys!” My scream sounded muffled against my pillow. I turned around to face them.

“Why are you both here so early?” I checked the time. “It's freaking seven in the morning! Let me sleep! Summer holidays has just begun. Get lost!”

Cadence threw a pillow at me. “Today is the last day thick head.”

Oh no..

I started coughing.

“Guys… I don't feel well.. You both go.. I think I'll get some rest today.” I coughed again hoping they would fall for my trap and leave me to complete my beauty sleep.

“Та нар найдваргүй байна!” Sarnai exclaimed.

“Sarnai I am going to kick your Mongolian ass. Am I supposed to know what you just said?”

She knew it would annoy me early in the morning.

“Sarnai that's it! I know what would wake her up!” I heard  Cadence murmur in utter glee.

“Hell yeah! It would totally work!” Sarnai never sounded so happy in the morning. Especially during school days.

Aware of them plotting against me, I got up reluctantly.

“Aw look Clarence! Our princess finally woke up!”

“Oo what does her highness want?” Clarence mocked me in her overly annoying voice.

“Peace! Prosperity! And sleep! So get out! I'm not going to school today. Scedaddle!”

I pressed my face against the pillow and drifted off not bothering to continue the conversation.

A few minutes had passed and being the smart girl I am, thought they had left me alone in my bliss.

Too soon.

“You royal highness!” I heard them both scream simultaneously. My lungs almost gave it's way as two perfectly healthy idiots landed on top of me.

“Cadence…. Sarnai..” I somehow managed to croak. “Did our highness ask for us?” Sarnai mimicked Cadence from before.

“Get off me. I'm getting up.” I had finally given in.

“Tut tut! I didn't hear you your highness. Can you please repeat it?” Cadence asked.

“I said, get off me you both! I'll get up.”

“We will be obliged to do so your highness.” Sarnai laughed and I finally exhaled noisily as I felt their fat covered bodies lifting off me.

I got up much to their satisfaction and trotted towards my bathroom.

After washing up and getting dressed I went downstairs and found Cadence and Sarnai chatting amicably with dad. I smiled. My two best friends never had the problem to get along with my parents. Mom and dad had loved them from the very start. Especially mom. She always found Cadence as the ideal girl. I would be wrong if I said I didn't agree with her. Cadence was perfect. I mean, not that kind of perfect, nobody is perfect, but perfect nevertheless in ever sense. I envied her long brown hair and her perfectly toned chocolate brown skin. She was in the swimming team and it was no surprise that she had the perfect body that so many of us teenagers yearned to have. She had already found the perfect guy for her. He was pretty decent. His name was Tony and he had graduated last year.

On the other hand, Sarnai got along with dad really well. They shared political jokes which were too posh for my brain to comprehend, played chess together, and shared the same taste in music. The funny thing was, I never felt jealous. They were a part of my family since the beginning of middle school.

“Ahem.” I cleared my throat.

They looked up and grinned at me, a winning smile plastered on all of their stupid faces.

“Looks like her highness is finally ready to head for our educational institution.” Sarnai mimicked our principal Mr. Simmons.

I rolled my eyes and headed out.

“Bye mom!”

“Stop wasting your breath and get out of the house. Spare me.”

We walked towards Cadence’s car. I called shotgun. It took fifteen minutes to reach Grove High School.

“Perry moved back.” I said as we headed to the gymnasium for the Principal’s speech.

“Perry who never spoke to you Perry?” Cadence clarified.

“That's the one.”

“Why?”

“His dad got a retirement. Mrs Miller missed being in her ‘real home’ so I guess that was one of the primary reasons.” I replied fidgeting with my nails as we sat down on one of the benches.

“So, did you talk to him?” Sarnai asked.

I shook my head. “Not yet, but I'm planning to. I just never got the chance to meet him face to face you know.”

They nodded in understanding. Mr. Simmons entered the gym at the very moment and started to blabber on about school sportsmanship and academic importance.

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The rest of the classes went by smoothly. We wished each other happy holidays like always and I left the building as soon the the bell rang.

Cadence dropped me home. “We are on this evening right?” Sarnai asked.

We nodded. It was a tradition that every Friday, we three girls wore our most comfortable clothes and had a rerun of Mr. Bean at my house. We ordered pizzas whilst sipping on to cranberry juice pretending it to be red wine.

Childish, but we had decided to start this tradition when we turned thirteen. This was actually a way to remind us never to forget our childishness,no matter how much we grew up.

As I walked along the stony pavement leading to our front door, I caught a glimpse of him looking out of his window directly at me. I felt my ears heating up at the same time he looked away and shut his window.

As I was about to knock, I had the sudden urge to go to my garden.

I sauntered over to the blueberry bushes and sat down in front of them. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see he had reappeared at his window and was solemnly staring in my direction. I pursed my lips controlling the overwhelming urge to grin.

I must admit, the urge to look at him was getting irresistible with every tick of the clock but I was obstinate. I toyed with the blueberries for quite some time and had already started to hum out a little tune.

Eventually, it was he who gave up and I found myself smiling in satisfaction as he closed the windows and hid behind it once again.

“I'm home!” my voice reverberated downstairs and I saw my mom and Mrs. Miller chatting in the living room.

“How was your last day at school honey?”

“Mom it's not literally my last day at school. It's just the last day before summer holidays.”

“Yeah yeah.” She waved it off dismissively.

“So tell me, what are your plans for the summer?” Mrs. Miller asked me.

I shrugged. “I didn't actually plan it yet. But I do feel I need to visit the ranch for some fresh air. Also, spend the better half of my day thinking about what to study after graduation.”

I added the last bit for the benefit of my mother.

She smiled understandably. Taking it as my cue to leave I smiled and headed upstairs to my room to prepare for our Friday night.

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