Ang Mutya ng Section E (WHAT IF IT ALL WORKED OUT) ENGLISH FANFICTION

CHAPTER 14

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Jay-Jay' POV

It's been two months since that day, 62 days to be specific and I was still locked in my own world, wrapped in a self- imposed silence that separated me from the people that I used to consider my family. I showed up to Section E everyday sitting in the seat that I first occupied when I joined the class earlier that year. I never laughed at Ci-N's ridiculous jokes, never rolled my eyes and tried to stop the screams and wrestling matches between Drew and Josh, never sighed when Calix flirted shamelessly with Mica, never raised my hand, never made a sound.

I was just there

And I guess they noticed because they never stopped trying. Eman slipping my favourite snacks into my bag, Josh brushing my shoulder as she passed, Drew waiting at the classroom door just long enough for me to know that he was hoping I'd walk with her but I ignored it all. I wasn't ready to forgive, at least that what I told myself, I told myself I didn't need them. I didn't miss them.

My only breath of fresh air was my girls. Mica, Raki and Grace. They has been my rock, they knew about the whole situation because the boys told them in an attempt to get them to convince me to forgive them, but instead they just stopped talking to them as well, I was so touched, I cried that day because I realised that I wasn't alone. Yes I had lost my family in Section E but I always had my girls. I managed to convince them to start talking to the boys again arguing that it wasn't their fight to fight and that I really didn't want anyone to be unhappy and they begrudgingly agreed to let me deal with this myself.

And then there was Keifer. Keifer who didn't even try. Keifer who let me hate him in silence, who never once attempted to explain himself, and maybe that was the worst part, how easy it was for him to leave me alone when o was falling apart, sure I probably would've ignored him too but I expected more. I had given these boys at section E everything, every part of me, my tears, my effort, my money but I had given Keifer the most important parts of me, out of everyone in this stupid class he owed me the biggest apology. He had looked me straight in the eye and he has lied to me. Every time he kissed me, all the sweet words after we shared our most intimate moments. He knew. And he still did nothing.

"Jay-Jay!"

"Jay-Jay!"

Huh? Is someone calling me?

"Jay-Jay!"

"MISS JASPER JEAN FERNADEZ MARIANO!" this snapped me out of my thoughts and back to reality, it was a hot Thursday afternoon and Mr Alvin was teaching a lesson that I obviously wasn't paying any attention too.

"If you're going to be here the least you could do is pretend to at least take some notes"

With that the bell run signalling the end of the day, I sighed heavily, i could feel all their eyes on me and i hated it, i hated how i let them affect me so much, if my grades drop brother Angelo will ground me for life.

I wasn't paying any attention to my surrounding me when Ci-N said something that made me sharply turn my head to look in their direction. He was leaning back on his chair i just wanted to scream at him to sit properly before he falls and hurts himself.

"I'm telling you," he said with a mouthful of his morning chocolate, "nobody blinks that slowly unless they're buffering. Man hasn't blinked properly since September. And don't even get me started on how he always says 'algebra' like it's a death sentence."

He was trying to convince the class that our maths teacher was not an actual person but an AI generated hologram designed to punish us all by driving us all crazy. I turned back and continued packing my bags and debated with myself for a second before I turned to them again and said:

"Don't be ridiculous CI-N, and sit up on your chair"

The chair was really pissing me off

Ironically my speaking to them caused so much shock that he fell from his chair.

The room fell silent and I felt every single head turn towards me, very eye land on my face like a spotlight. My heart thudded in my chest. I immediately regretted it. I wanted to vanish. But instead of hiding, I met Ci-N's eyes. He blinked. Then smiled, soft and stunned, like he hadn't seen me smile in years instead of just weeks. Nobody said anything after that. But the silence wasn't heavy. It was... warm. Hopeful.

I swung my bag over my shoulder and left the classroom to head home but when i got to the courtyard I realised they were following me. The sun was hanging low, painting everything in soft gold, and the wind was light, tugging at my sleeves like it was urging me to just say it. Just say it.

So, I did. I turned around looking directly at them and started pouring my heart out;

"I was angry," I began, arms folded tightly across my chest. "Still am, maybe. I felt like everything I thought was true about us... just disappeared overnight."

Nobody spoke, but they were all looking at me with these open faces. Drew's brows were pinched. Calix had his fingers interlaced. Even Josh wasn't smirking ,his usual sarcasm completely absent.

"I felt stupid," I continued. "Stupid for trusting people who only wanted to hurt me, who never really wanted to know me. I felt stupid for trusting "

I paused, voice shaking. "I thought you were my family. And you weren't."

There was a beat of silence so loud I could hear my heartbeat in my ears.

Then Ci-N leaned forward, voice soft. "You're right."

I looked at him. His eyes were glassy. He wasn't even trying to blink back tears.

"You're completely right, Jay. We let you down. And it kills me that it took you cutting us off for us to realise how badly we messed up. I should never have let it go on for as long as it did, heck i should've stopped it before it even started. And I'm sorry. God, I'm so sorry."

Drew wiped at his cheeks. "I felt it, you know? That this wasn't right. But I didn't know how to tell you . I was scared I'd say the wrong thing and push you further away."

"I didn't know what to say," Calix admitted. "So I said nothing. And that was worse."

Eman was uncharacteristically quiet, and then he muttered, "You were always the strongest one. I thought you'd be fine. That was dumb."

One by one, they broke. They cracked open, raw and remorseful, every apology layered with guilt and vulnerability.

And I cried.

Not the quiet, pretty tears I had let slip in the dark of my bedroom. These were ugly, shoulder-shaking sobs that left my chest heaving. But they didn't flinch. They moved closer. Ci-N reached for my hand, and for the first time in months, I didn't pull away.

"I missed you," I whispered. "I missed all of you."

And that was it. A quiet kind of healing. A messy, imperfect reunion. I forgave them.

Not Keifer.
Not yet.

But them?
They were mine again.

A/N

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I just needed, them to get back together because I HATE conflict, but Keifer is a BITCH sometimes so he can suffer a little more. hehehhehe.

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