Chapter XXX: The Start

Carl’s Point of View It was one day on my high school life. My fourth year life perhaps when someone spilled juice on me. Everybody knows how I hate being poured with juice or anything on me. Everybody froze. Especially the girl who clumsily spilled her cheap juice. I looked at the girl crying and begging for her life.. I got hold of the plate where her spaghetti is and I poured it on her head. After that, is where she appeared. The girl I’ve been waiting for all my life. I thought she’ll ask and talk to me for the first time but then she sent me to guidance. I have to clean a children’s restroom where poops are sometimes left! But I accepted it. Because I thought that she’ll talk to me after that. But you know what? She didn’t. It was as if I was invisible and nonexistent. She totally forgot about me, huh? That’s when a bright idea came up to me. I wasn’t bullying her to make her life miserable like the other students. I was doing it to her for her to notice me. Well, partly she noticed me. But she never treated me like........before. I really regretted leaving Philippines. I never wanted to leave but we had to. My Mom was ill and Dad wanted to send me to some school who disciplines students that well. We went to America to treat Mom and I studied there for years. We left America and came back. I went to the house next door but a vacant house welcomed me. Piper wasn’t there anymore. She left and didn’t wait for me. Luckily, I got her attention. When I started bullying her, I felt guilty. I shouldn’t have done those things to the girl I love right? To lessen the guilt I was feeling, I sent her clothes whenever I ruin her uniform and gave her food whenever I got on the way of her having lunch. It was crazy. I was bullying her but helping her at the same time. I was like a hypocrite. A smitten hypocrite to be exact. I wasn’t really planning on stopping my bullying acts not until my friends woke me up. "What did you just said?" I asked Franco who was sitting on the couch here in our hangout place "I said, Piper is a nice girl. If you get to know her that well, she’s pretty nice. She also has a beauty to show off that adds up to her good characteristics. I mean why should you hate her that much?" "You don’t understand, Franco. Shut up." "Exactly, Carl. We don’t understand. Piper never really did anything to upset any of us so why should we bully her? She’s kind and has a good heart." Hans then butted in the conversation and it triggered me "You don’t know her that well." "Come on, bro. Almost all of us here believes that Piper is nice. Let’s stop this nonsense and start over again, okay?" Chris then started persuading me but I knew better "Piper’s nice. Were friends you know, not until she knew that I was acquainted with you Carl. She really unfriended me on social media." Drift said and ate his food "That sucks. But yeah, she’s nice and bullying her doesn’t really make sense." Shun added and I stood up to leave the hangout place They were convincing me to stop but how can I? I don’t like Piper. She’s overrated and she only thinks about herself. That was what I said to myself but here I am now. I woke uo from the nonsensical thing I was making and get my head straight. It was a miracle indeed that I got to change my mind. I stopped bullying her and started sending her gifts. I was never really the romantic type but Piper just naturally lets my romantic side get out. Because of Piper, I started to soften again. I learned to love things dearly again. I even reconciled with Dad and my brother Clarence whom I hated so much before. It was a whole lot of growing up, but at least I got through. Here I am now, a man who knows what’s right from what is wrong. A man with dignity and purpose. I got to thank Piper for all this make over in me. I got to thank my girl for changing me into the person I was really like and taking off the mask I created to hide my true self. "You’re spacing out again, love. Is something wrong?" Love. It’s music to my ears whenever she calls me that. "Nothing love. What was it again?" "Eh? You’re not listening to me. You were really spacing out, aren’t you?" "Sorry, love. Tell me what’s wrong." I smiled to myself when I saw in the mirror the outcome of my drastic change. It was really the right decision to change because when I became my true self, I also got the girl I love. The girl of my dreams. The girl that I’ll marry and love for the rest of my life.