Enicabie sighed as she walked to school. The sun shined and for her, at the moment, irritated her. “I knew I shouldn’t have watched another episode. Now my Spanish homework isn’t done.” She groaned as she passed the apartments Isaiah lives in. “I am so horrible at time management and self-control…” She grumbled.

Almost twenty minutes later, Enicabie got to school. She gave a lazy smile to her friends as they waved to her. “Hey kitten. How are you?” Her friend Alex asked her as she stopped next to all her friends. “Good, how ‘bout chu Micky?” Enicabie asked him in turn. Their nicknames they had personally for each other, from one another. He nodded with a short “Good.” before turning back to Nathan, another friend. “Hey Gaz.” Her friend, Kolai said with a smirk as he listened to music in one ear. “Hey.” Enicabie smiles before turning to her one close female friend she actually hung out with on a daily. “Sup loser.” Enicabie said happily sitting next to Milani. “Wassup weirdo.” Milani said back to Enicabie. There was a moment of silence as Milani stared at mid-air, and Enicabie checked her phone. Nathan stepped over to Enic with his hands in his pockets. “Hey where’s your boyfriend?” he asked, causing Enicabie to become slightly irritated since she knew who he was talking about.

The thing is, Nathan and Enicabie were friends, however, after him and Isaiah asked Enicabie out in the eighth grade, and Enicabie said yes to Isaiah, Isaiah and Enic hung out more on their own and drifted away from their friends. When that happened, Nathan started to dislike Enicabie because he felt-- even now-- that Isaiah spent more time with her than him-- his best friend. Of course, after realizing this, Enicabie always thought twice before hanging out with Isaiah, or even talking to him when Nathan was around. Not that Nathan, nor Isaiah made that easy. With Enicabie being a good listener for her friends, Isaiah told her a lot of personal things-- not everything though. And then there was Nathan that always called Isaiah Enicabie’s boyfriend and things close to that.

“I don’t know who you’re talking about. Last I checked, I don’t have a boyfriend.” Enicabie replied to his question with a little irritation slipping. “You know..” Nathan said giving a shrug. “Nope. Actually I don’t know. I am single. Have been for…” Enic counted on her fingers, “Almost six months.” Enicabie finished off. Not that Isaiah and Enicabie had broken up six months ago. They had broken up almost a year before. She had also dated an old friend of hers, Connor. But they had rushed the relationship and a few problems occurred. One being he thought she didn’t have faith in him and didn’t like how she made him a better person, and another being dating him caused Isaiah to absolutely hate Enicabie for dating Connor. Which made it really awkward when Enicabie would try to hang with her friends since her and Isaiah hung out in the same group.

In the end, Enic didn’t want to deal with the whole relationship and gave up on putting effort into love all together. And after that heartbreak, she felt all the better about quitting it. Even though her closer friends didn’t totally approve.

Nathan sighed and reworded his question. “Where’s Isaiah?” “I don’t know. I’m not his keeper.” Enicabie answered with a shrug as she looked around him. “Oh look. There’s your male lover.” she said nodding her chin towards Isaiah who was walking towards the school. Nathan looked back and rolled his eyes when he saw who Enicabie was talking about. He then stepped back and a few minutes later, the bell rang for class. Enicabie Picked her bag up for class and started heading to her first period which was just around the corner. When she got only halfway there, a cold chill went up her spine. “Holy shizzle!” She exclaimed and Milani stopped next to her and looked at her in shock. “What?” She asked. Enicabie looked to her friend with wide eyes. “I don’t know. I just got this really cold chill.” Enicabie said in horror. Milani rolled her eyes. “It’s warm outside and you still get cold? Wow, I know you get cold easy but damn.” she said and the two laughed. “Ugh, but that felt so weird and ugh!” Enicabie said in disgust. She hated the cold and always got cold easy. “I remember in, like, the seventh grade, you never got cold! Even when you wore a thin sweater...in winter!” Milani said with a laugh. Enicabie looked up at the sky as if daydreaming, “Ah yes. Those were the days. The days when the cold never bothered me...Yep!” she said marching onward to class. Milani shook her head and walked alongside her.

“Who was Jocasta?” Their english teacher asked. A hand shot up instantly. Isaiah, Alex, Milani, and Enicabie all had English together for their second period class-- first class on even days. “Yes Tony?” the teacher called on. “Laios’ wife, and mother of Oedipus.” the boy said. “Correct,” the teacher nodded with a proud smile. “And who did Jocasta marry second?” The teacher asked the class, waiting for a hand to go up. When an awkward moment of silence with a few chuckles here and there, Enicabie looked to Milani and gave a look. Her friend instantly knew what she was thinking and nodded before pointing to Enicabie in signal that she should answer. Enicabie rose her hand up shyly, but willing to answer the question maturely. “Yes, Miss. Cardel?” the teacher said. “She married her son, Oedipus. They then had four children, two boys and two girls.” she answered. She looked to Milani and Milani smirked while giving a thumbs-up. Enicabie rolled her eyes and then looked to the teacher as she continued the lesson.

After class once the bell rang, Alex left before, and the two girls followed shortly after, leaving Isaiah for last as usual, listening to his music. “Hey hey, Enic!” Milani called Enicabie to a stop. “What?” she asked stopping to turn. Milani did an exaggerated shiver saying, “Oh my god, I felt a cold shiver!” she said dramatically before laughing mockingly towards Enicabie. Enicabie rolled her eyes as she started to walk backwards, Milani following walking normally. “I really did feel an abnormal chi-” Enicabie was interrupted when she walked into someone. “Oh, sorry!” she said turning to see who’d she’d hit. “It’s cool.” a lulling voice said. “Oh, C-Connor.” Enic stuttered out. Connor backtracked slightly as tough offended. “That bad to run into me?” he said with a mischievous smirk. Enicabie shook her head fast, “No, no, no! I mean, uh- It’s just- you just caught me off guard is all..” she said nervously. I can just feel Milani mocking me right now about this… She’ll enjoy this till she actually helps me. Milani, help me! Enicabie thought.

“Enic! Stop flirting with random losers and lets gooo!” Milani said as though she heard Enicabie’s cry for help. Okay, not the kind of help I wanted but I’ll take what I can get! Enicabie thought as her cheeks turned slightly pink, from irritation and embarrassment. “I wasn’t flirting!” Enicabie shouted as she ran off without another word to Connor. “But thank you for saving me!” Enicabie whispered when she and her friend started walking off. Milani nodded then said, “And yeah, sure. Tell that to your random st-stutter.” Milani said rolling her eyes. Enicabie groaned as she and Milani walked off to their friends.

“I have no idea what you saw in him. And now that he has that ridiculous red streak in his hair? Yikes!” Milani said at lunch while they sat in the sun on a cemented stage at a park in front of the high school. “Hey, it’s not like I still think he’s attractive! I just like- or liked, his black hair, and his almond shaped brown eyes eyes and the scar that’s on his-” “Anyway!” Isaiah shouted in irritation as he sat in the shaded area of the stage with the other guys. Enicabie took the hint, looking down. He hated when Enicabie talked about two people. One of her other best friends, Claude, and Connor. Claude because he was jealous of his working vehicle. Connor because they don’t like each other. Enicabie didn’t have any idea why Connor didn’t like Isaiah, but Isaiah didn’t like Connor because of how much of a jerk he was towards Enicabie. That and a because he just thinks he’s a complete a-hole.

“Enic.” Isaiah called over. Enicabie looked up and saw him wave her to go over. She looked to Milani, “Sorry, my master is called me.” she said with a small distasteful smirk. Milani laughed and Enicabie headed over to Isaiah with a frown. “What?” she asked with a blunt tone. “Sorry I snapped at you.” he said looking at her. She sighed and nodded with a small, “It’s fine.” He took her chin roughly and had her look up before pinching her face with one hand. “I’m sorry.” he said again in a funny voice to make her laugh. She smiles a little, knowing he wouldn’t let go till she did. “It’s fine!” she said slapping his hand away playfully. He nodded in turn to say they were done, and she walked back to Milani.

“You seem to have every guy wrapped around your little finger, you know that?” She said with a smirk. Enic frowned and hit her friend playfully scolding her. “I do not!” she shouted. “I’m kidding, I’m kidding.” Milani said laughing and rolling her eyes. Enicabie scowled. “Besides, Isaiah isn’t capable of having an interest in me anymore.” Enicabie said. “And Cole, Claude, and Kolai?” Milani tested, using Connor’s nickname. Everyone tends to call him that for some unknown reason. It’s not like Cole is actually rooted from Connor aside from the C and O. I’ve always known him as Connor, so when the nickname came around, I continued to call him Connor.

“Kolai is over me now that he already asked me out and I said no.” Enicabie explained. “Oh, and has dated someone afterwards.” she added on. “Claude is like my older brother, in all honesty. I really could never imagine us getting together. That, and he has a girlfriend.” She said with a smirk. “As for Connor? Ugh. He has no heart to love in general.” Enicabie rolled her eyes and Milani nodded with wide eyes. “True. Very true.” Milani said, and Enicabie turned away so only Milani could hear and see her face. “Now we should probably stop speaking of Connor and Claude before you know who gets mad at me again.” Enicabie said laughing. Milani made a confused and sassy face, “And? I don’t care!” Enicabie rolled her eyes and similed before they moved onto another subject and soon joined the guys in their idiotic conversations.