Teenage Love Part 7

“If someone was to self claim to be the biggest fan of anything, I bet no one can compete Sheila’s fan club- the girl is crazy- she has a shrine of William for god sake- how sick is that” Revathy said as she walked beside Viki.
Viki just smiled at her friend as they entered the Bio lab.
“Oh my god- I bet she keeps a strand of his hair or something” Revathy looked bewildered for a moment; they looked at each other and burst out laughing.


The only girl in the school with the faultiest list would be Sheila’s, the girl is a walking creep-ster. And currently the only person William fears the most in school. So if you want to give William a good scare, just say her name and he would run home and hid under his bed.
Sheila was once a very timid and shy girl, probably the only girl in school who walks around with a strange black box tightly held to her chest. The only thing that gives Viki the creeps is her eyes; they are so wild and watchful above her inch thick glasses.
Those eyes seem to be watching your every move, as if challenging you to stare back. That was how Viki remembered her when she first moved to the town, she hardly sees the poor girl anywhere outside of school. Then again, Sheila would probably walk right in front of you and you won’t even blink an eye. That is how Viki vaguely remembers her until she met William. Well let’s just say that, sometimes helping someone might not always turn out to be a good thing.

William watched his friend copying his lab notes furiously while waiting for Viki to show up, her reaction this morning left him with high hopes, perhaps Viki did felt something for him….well at least he hope she does. When he heard Viki’s laughter he quickly looked up to see her entering the lab. He felt disappointed that she was so caught up in her conversation that she didn’t bother to look his way.
His eyes continued to watch Viki as she and her friend made their way across the room to their respective seats. They were giggling over something and it was starting to get in his nerves
“Is she laughing at me or what?- or did she tell about the kiss- if she did….why are they laughing….I’m sure it wasn’t that bad…was it ?” William thought as stared at Viki.
He drummed his fingers on the table as felt someone staring at him. The hairs at the back of his neck stood when his eyes landed on Sheila. He jumped slightly when he saw her stare back at him intensely with those eyes, her left hand gently stroking the black box in front of her. William quickly offered a nervous smile and a quick nod, when she slowly grinned eerily back at him; William quickly grabbed fro his notes despite his friends protest.
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Flash Back
William was chasing his friends up the stairs, that’s when he saw one of his friend, Roshan bumping hard into a small figure that was coming down the stairs, the girl shrieked as she went flying down the stairs with her books and things flying about. She landed hard, face down on the tiled floor, a few feet from where William was standing. When she lay completely still for a while, William thought she was dead or something and hurried to her side. He nearly yelped when she suddenly bolt up straight and blinked.
“Are you ok?” William asked as he slowly kneeled down beside the thin girl. He was stunned when he saw the girl; she looked like she was about to have a heart attack. Then she looked very confused and scared; her eyes were opened so wide he thought they were going to pop out of her sockets.
“Here let me help you?” he said and offered his hand. The girl looked up at him with a timid look, her eyes stayed on William’s face for a while as if registering his existence for the first time, her eyes slowly traveled down to his extended hand, then back at his face.
William cleared his troath and offered a soft smile. He patiently waited for the girl to take his hand. The girl blinked and looked around as if not believing he was actually talking to her. Then she took a long shaky breath and took his hand, and yelp when yanked her to her feet.
“Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to be too rough…..I’m just so used to helping guys off their butts you know” William chuckled and winked at the girl. The girl looked like she was about to explode when her entire head turn bright red chili. He swear he saw her glasses fog up from the heat.
“Err…sorry about bumping into you, the boys sometimes just don’t know what is in front of them, again I apologize on their behalf” William said as he kicked an invisible rock with the tip of his shoe.. His eyes caught the black box lying next to his feet. “I believe this belongs to you he said and bend down to pick up the box. The girl immediately broke out of her trance and roughly grabs the box from his hand and holds it tightly to her chest.
“Oh sorry-err what is your name?” William asked and leaned in when he only heard a small wimp out of her. “Pardon?” he said and lean in closer to her. The girl quickly held her breath and squeaked “Sheila”
“Oh that’s a pretty name….it suits you” William said as he winked at her, causing another shade of pink to brighten her pale skin. “Ok I’ve got to go- See you around Sheila” he extended his arm again to shake.
The moment he squeezed her hand gently, he swore he saw her nose sprayed blood before her eyes rolled up into her head and fell flat on her back, and all this happened before William could even blink an eye.
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Ever since then William sees her anywhere and everywhere, sometimes late at night he sees a lone figure standing outside his house looking up into his room. And he is very sure it was her. Although Sheila has never really tried talking or confessing her “love” for him, she makes sure other girls knows about it for sure.
There was once a famous rumor, a suppose freshman had a crush on William, the girl send a valentine chocolate dedication message to him, well long story short, that was the last they ever heard of that girl, rumor has it the very next month she moved to another school. They say Sheila has cast a spell on her to stay away from him, some even believes that she box she carried contains strands of that girl hair, which was used to cast her away from William.
Although William still consider the whole idea as a silly rumor even when he received mysterious cards and deep-breath phone calls at night, which William was sure it was Viki using Sheila’s name to play prank on him, until one day Viki had a black note and a dead butterfly on her desk the next morning asking her to keep distance from William. She did all this because Viki did a group discussion on their science project at his house.
It was then William took the rumor about her seriously. The more William avoided her the more he keeps seeing her around. Sometimes he even sees her waiting at the end of the hall, looking at him from behind the locker door. There was a time he caught her looking at his photo she cut out from the school magazine, smiling and chuckling on her own at the picture of him in her hands.
It could be said that she got into a lot of trouble for just trying to keep William for herself. She would plant cast away magic hocus pocus in girls bags and desk. The worse prank so far was to drive away a girl called Lillian by putting a dead toad (that she stabbed using Lillian’s favorite pen) in her school bag, just because she was joking about with him.
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Viki felt like someone was bearing a hole through her back, when she looked about her eyes immediately caught the angry glare of Sheila’s.
“Oh no….” Viki gulped as she watched Sheila tighten her grip on her black box, her eyes never leaving Viki’s.

To be continued……