Michelle ma Belle (English)

Chapter 5: Let Me Take You Home!

"May I take you home?" he asked to offer some help. He smiled with a guilty feeling at me.

"No, thanks. I don't know you, by the way," said myself in anger.

I tried to stand up and walked. Unfortunately, my right leg was very hurt already. It was so painful!

"See yourself. It's hurt, you know. Please allow me to take you home in my car. I take responsibility to take you home since I'm the one who hurt your leg anyway. Don't be too stubborn. Just take my help as an apology from me. I'm trying to fix my mistake. I don't want to take any advantage of you. Can you believe me just for once a second, please?" said him, upset.

I glared at him. Damn it! He dared to raise his voice. Was he threatening me?

"I already said that I do not know you. You are a stranger to me," said myself furiously.

"Oh, gosh! You also do not know anything about a taxi driver personally. So what is the difference between a taxi driver with me now? Okay, my name is Andrew. Nice to meet you. After this school holiday period ended, I will be in the second grade of Senior High School. My major is science," he started explaining himself.

"You saw my friends Raymond, Jay, Robert, Vina, Laura, and Sarah. I will be 17 years old this year. Please take my ID card. You could check my identity. Please see my driving licensed. If you are afraid that I would like to kidnap you, just keep my ID card and my driving license as a guarantee until you arrive home safely. Deal? Now, you know me already. So, what is your name?" he finished his explanation and staring at me.

"Is it a real driving licensed or a fake one?" asked me suspiciously.

"Well, that is my driving license. Do you need to see my house to ensure that my home address is correct as it is written on my ID card?" he asked impatiently.

"No need. Why should I go to your house anyway?" said me in a harsh voice.

"Okay, fine. Trust me. What is your name? I already ask you many times by now," he said in a little bit upset.

"Michelle… It's Michelle," I said.

"Okay, Michelle. Let's go home now," said Andrew while pulling my hand and put it on his shoulder. He tried to hold me, helping me to walk.

I was surprised and too embarrassed when he tried to help me walk. Our body was so close.

"Hey! What are you doing, man? Back off!" scolded me in surprise.

"Do you want me to carry you or hold you? Which one do you prefer?" asked Andrew.

I couldn't say anything. Finally, I let Andrew helped me to reach the car park. He took a red-orange old Katana car and opened the door for me.

"It's looked like Bajaj, the red-orange three-wheel vehicle," mocked me to him.

"Well, I don't care. This car can take you home safely anyway. Where is your address?" asked Andrew indifferently.

I had to give him my home address even though I felt a little bit reluctant. We were not talking to each other on our way to my house. When we arrived at my home, I tried to get off the car as soon as possible. My right leg was still excruciating.

Andrew helped me walked to the gate. I released his hand and tried to walk by myself into my house. Andrew was staring at me from outside the gate. He didn't dare to walk further into my home. He smiled with a guilty feeling to me.

"Hey, Michelle. Look! I'm sorry, okay? I didn't mean to hurt you. You better find traditional physiotherapy to cure you. Or maybe you can compress your leg with warm water," said Andrew tenderly. He seemed to care about my condition.

"Okay, Dude. I will," I said.

Andrew was still waiting for me outside the gate. I pressed the bell button several times, hoping the housemaid will open the door for me.

"Hey, Andrew. Thanks, Dude," I said.

"You are welcome. Eh, can I have your phone number, please? Your home phone number or your cell phone number, please?" asked Andrew with a wide grin.

This Dude was handsome and cool. Andrew had white skin and very tall. He looked like a photo model for me. This Dude had a sexy smile and sparkling eyes like a child got some ice cream. He was awesome. Sometimes, Andrew looked cute and adorable. Well, that could make any girl gone crazy, though. He was like idols in comics. However, because he was so annoying that day, so whatever he did seemed ugly to me.

"No, you can't. Bye!" said me, upset.

BLAM!

I slammed the door in front of him.

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I played a video game during my holiday. I loved to play Role Playing Game in Play Station 2 console game. It took around 100 hours of playtime to finish one RPG game. At that time, I almost ended one RPG game in my hand.

Oh, My gosh!

This is it! Finally! Yes!

My heart was pounding. I sat down and got closer to the screen. I grab dual shock control Play Station 2 with my sweaty hands. This was the moment that I've been waiting for after playing for around 100 hours!

Well, I played as a female lead that took a journey to find her lover. After tried so hard to upgrade the character's level, I completed so many side stories, collected rare items, defeated enemy bosses, cooled the Play Station machine like a satay seller. Hence, the game console still worked for me, and I sat down in front of the television for a whole week. Finally, I almost got the game-ending!

RPG used to have several game endings, from the bad one until the best one. I could get the best end this time. I believe that for sure!

The screen slowly showed a 3D animation cut scene for the ending version game. Please, please, please! Best ending game, please!

Oh, no… way….

A million of mutton satay! Damn it!

Asshole! I thought I got the best ending version of the RPG, but it was not. Well, I was fully aware of many ending versions such as the good ending, bad ending, sad ending, or normal ending. However, it was terrible if you played for hundreds of hours and got a bad ending version.

I was fooled!! Damn!

I have already played this game for around 80 hours without any sufficient night sleep for several days! At the end of the game, I got a bad ending that showed the main character's boyfriend was dead.

Huh! This was not fair! This was terrible!

Felt dizzy, I turned off the Play Station 2 console game. My eyes were blurry, and I threw myself to my bed. I rolled in my bed with a tired face. At that moment, I already had a dark circle in my eyes, and it wasn't easy to open my eyes. I exhausted! My whole body felt aches.

I felt dissatisfied with my achievement in finishing the game. I already sacrificed my sleep time, but I failed to get the best ending version that I wanted. Why couldn't I get the female lead lover alive? Why, oh, why? Should I repeat playing the game from the beginning to get the best ending version that I wanted? Oh, my! This was so frustrating!

I put my face down on the pillow. I cried in silence, feeling upset.

Why suddenly I became so sentimental like this? In the real world or the game world, no handsome boys came for me. When did I get the chance to have a handsome lover? Oh, dear! It seemed unrealistic to wish for me to get a cool handsome boyfriend.

Oh, well! I was an ordinary girl named Michelle. None part of my body that attractive enough to make a handsome boy looking for me. Well…

I didn't have any beautiful face. Well, I was not ugly, but not attractive enough. I didn't wear any make-up. More precisely, I hated it. At a glance, people would know that I was not stylish and not feminine at all.

Sexy skirt? Beuh! No way! The jeans pant were the best.

Sexy dress? I hated it!

I didn't have big boobs! My cups were A.

My butt was not sexy at all. I was small and tiny.

I used to forget to comb my hair, so I cut my hair short like a boy. That's how I managed not to have messy hair.

So, Did you agree that I was not feminine and attractive? I was a tomboy.

My hobby was playing video games, like Play Station. It was popular with boys talk, not girl's conversation topics. Was I a girl anyway? I wondered myself.

Yaaaaawn… I was so sleepy!

I was so sleepy after finishing the game. Since my leg was painful, I was going nowhere for the whole week. That jerk made me stay at home because I couldn't walk. The pain was almost gone. Luckily, it was still a school holiday period, so I didn't have any homework or exam to do. I could play at home as I wished. Mom and Dad permitted me to play without enough sleep. They were already satisfied with my result in the second semester in first grade in Senior High School. I achieved the third rank in my class. Before that, in my first semester, I got the sixth rank in my class. So, not bad, huh? I also wondered myself. I guessed I was lucky instead of having a smart brain.

Hahaha…

By the way, what day was that day? I almost forgot. I looked at my calendar on my desk. It was Wednesday. It was the day when new comics would sell in the bookstore. I should go and buy new comics for me. However, I didn't have any energy left to go out of the house by myself. I should ask my mom to buy it for me. I would text her in a minute.

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Hi, Glow Peridote here. Thanks for reading Michelle Ma Belle. It's a funny romantic slice of life teenager with 5 endings. You will love it. Please read my other works, such as action romance My Sexy IT Guy, epic adventure fantasy Light and Night: Across Two Worlds. You were gonna love it. Thanks.