She's my Prince

We meet again, classmate.

CJ's POV

I'm running like Flash towards the Gym after I received a text from Zairell that we have a meeting this morning. How did I forget about it? When I arrived there, I noticed that everyone is there and Yhen and I were the only ones missing, though our coach still nowhere to be find, but that's much better than seeing then inside already.

But it felt so weird....

Yhen never get late in every meeting or practice, but today is a bit odd because she's still not in here. I walked to the corner and sat next to Zai, I put my bag down and poke her shoulder.

"Dude.. where's Yhen?" I asked.

"The coach told her to look for you." She answered not even bothering to look at me as she's busy typing at her phone.

To look for me? but I ain't missing tho? Why would she look for me?

Every players inside the gym got startled as we turned around when the gym door suddenly banged loudly and there, we saw Yhen, catching her own the breath, looking at me venomously, the f**k did I do?

"CHRYSLER JOHAN!! stay where you are! Don't you even try to make move!!" Yhen shouted as she approached us.

"Uh dude I think you better start running for your life." Zai said while smiling teasingly.

"Huh? What do you mean?" I asked confusedly, but she just shrugged her shoulder.

"Hey what did I do to you?!" I shouted back to Yhen completely puzzled.

"You moron! Ive been calling your name hundred times but you just ignored me! And the worst thing you did was.." She gasped to fill her lungs with much needed air before she proceed. "—you run away! So I had no choice but to run after you! I almost faint, you schmuck!" She said still catching her breath and slowly walking towards me.

"Hey! First of all I didn't hear you! And second it's not my fault why'd you're catching your breath! Who told you run after me anyway?!" I said as I started to walk away from her.

"I fon't need your explanation dumbass! You'll gonna pay for this!" She growled then she picked up a ball and threw one at me.

"Ouch! Damn it stop! it hurts" I complain as she throws ball at me nonstop while I'm using my arm to cover myself.

I took the other ball and throw it back to her. "You're crazy!" I hissed and now we're throwing ball at each other.

"Urg! How dare you to fight back!" She yelled and throw another ball, but this time, she got the right timing and hit me on my face. I stumbled back and everyone laugh, I heave up quickly and was about to take my revenge when suddenly, our coach came out from the locker room.

"Enough of that girls.. let's start the meeting." Coach Aly said.

"Shut up!" Yhen and I shouted at coach simultaneously.

"I said enough." Coach Aly's voice were calm but we both knew that it's enough for us to stop what we're doing.

"Aye Coach!" We shouted and saluted at her, we ran to the front and stood beside the Zairell, who's biting her lip to stop herself from smiling.

"So... we're having a meeting today because I want you guys to meet our new staff for today. She will be your assistant Coach and she used to be my teammate and she's very close to me .. do you have any idea who is it?" Coach Aly said as she looked at us, then Lara raised her hand.

"Yes Lara?" Coach Aly asked.

"Ah coach is that Ms. Jia Morado?" Lara asked back.

"No. But I already ask her earlier if she's willing to be part of our team but she's out of the country, busy preparing for her wedding with her fiancé, so she declined the offer politely." Coach Aly said. We turned to Yhen as she raised her hand.

"Yes Yhen? Do you know who is it?" Coach Aly asked.

"Huh?" Yhen said with confusion in her face.

"What do you mean 'huh?'. Didn't you raised your hand?"

"I would just like to ask what we are talking about coach." We all turned to Yhen and burst out laughing.

"Yhen you will clean the Gym tomorrow after practice understand?!" Coach Aly shouted as she widened her eyes.

"What??! Coach... Don't be so cruel to me." Yhen said while scratching her head.

"She's really dumb, I don't know why are we even friends with her." I whispered to Zairell who was holding back a laugh.

"I heard you!" Yhen spat on me and punched me in the arm.

"I was just kidding." I said as I caressed my arm where I got hit.

"So... As I was saying about your assistant coach. Urg! I'll just cal her! Babe come here and meet the team." Even the coach lost what she was saying because of Yhen's silliness.

A pretty small girl came out from the locker room and we were all shocked.

"Isn't that Den-den?! Why is she here? And why did Coach Aly call her babe?! Are they girlfriend or girl friends?" Zai and I both looked at the person next to me and literally dumbfounded at what Yhen was asking us.

"Seriously Yhen?!" I shouted after I recovered stupor at Yhen.

"What? I'm just asking you guys! What's wrong with my question?!" She said.

Zai and I looked at each other before answering at the same time.

"STUPID!"

"What's stupid about that? are you both crazy?"

"Dude, stop be before I hit this piece of s**t" Zai said, clinging to my arm as if she's still trying to prevent herself to attack Yhen.

"I'm not gonna stop you, just hit her already!" I answered while pushing Zai towards Yhen.

"That's enough kids.." coach Aly rebuked and grabbed me by my hand to . "Babe this is CJ our team captain, open hitter. The other one is Zairell the libero like you used before. And that! The dumb right there is Yhen the setter." Coach Aly introduced.

"Hey! That's foul, I'm not dumb because I'm the best setter in the world!" Yhen smugly said as she stood up straight and brush her hair sassily.

"Hi.. nice to meet you guys" Coach Den said with a wide smile. Zai and I shook hands with her but Yhen chose to tease our coach, she approached coach Den, then she suddenly pulled her into a hug and kissed her on her cheek. We all got surprised for what Yhen did, even coach Den, but she still manage to smile, while coach Aly glares at Yhen deadly.

"Yhen Gonzales!!! You'll clean the whole gym for one week!" Coach Aly shouted that we even flinched for how loud her voice was.

"But coach-

"Not buts! And it's final!" coach Aly said enraged, the whole team kept our silence and prevent laughing, it was hard for us to get the same punishment so we better not to meddle.

"Coach, what's the use of the janitor of this school?" Yhen asked, she still not aware that coach Aly was about to kill her, isn't she?

"Oh ok, don't clean for one week, instead.. you'll be the janitor for a whole month!" Coach Aly said with a smirk and turned around.

"What???!!" Yhen's eyes widened as he reacted to what coach said.

"What do you mean what?! Do you want me to add more?!"

"No coach, I'm sorry." Yhen said in defeating tone.

"Good, now go to your class, the practice will start tomorrow so you better get ready because I want the championship again this year, understand?" Coach Aly said dismissively.

"Aye coach!" We said in unison. All of us took our belongings and starting to leave the gym quickly to catch up from our classes.

Yhen walk ahead of us first because she seems to be hungry while coach and I were walking behind her then Coach Aly suddenly spoke.

"I can't keep up with the stupidity of you friend. "Coach Aly said shaking her head.

"Same coach." Zai and I both replied before laughing.

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When we arrived in the room, our professor still not inside, and we used the back door because we came from that side. When I sat down, I immediately plugged in my earphones and knocked my head down on my desk. My friends used to play but when they seemed to calm down, I looked up confusedly, I noticed that Yhen was not beside me so I wander my eyes and I saw her talking to a woman, who's behind facing us. I was about to bowl over again but Zai prevent me from doing so.

"If I were you I'll get her back."

"Who?" I asked. But she wasn't looking at me but at Yhen and the woman she was talking to.

"Just do it." She said.

I was surprised by what Zai was saying but still stood up and walked closer to Yhen. She turned to me and smiled madly and maybe the person she was talking to noticed that someone was behind them so she turned around.

When she looked over her shoulder, my narrowed eyes widened and I stopped. I was stuck and frozen where I was standing, my heart was beating too fast and it seemed like it was about to burst out of my chest. And she stood up from her seat as if in slow motion. And it was as if everyone around us had disappeared and she was the only one I could see. I also see some fireworks exploding everywhere and that moment, I felt again the thousands of butterflies roaming in my stomach. As she stood up, she gave me a very sweet smile. That's the sweetest thing I've ever seen in my 19 years of existence.

"CJ?" She asked, as if she couldn't believe that it was me, standing in front of her.

"S-sam.." I'm stuttering again, damn it.

"Hey.. how are you? I didn't know that you studying here?"

"Uh I d-didn't know that you w-were too." I stammered. My tongue doesn't want to cooperate with me.

"Dude, w-what's wrong w-with your t-tongue?" Yhen mocks and I shoot her a dagger look.

"Smith and Gonzales. Go back to your sit and also you Ms.Thompson." Our professor, who I didn't notice that he arrived, said.

Sam adjusted her seat while Yhen also adjusted the seat next to Sam but before she could put her butt on it, I quickly pulled the chair.

BLAG!

Our classmates laughed but our professor just shook his head.

"Ouch! You son of a b***h!" Yhen groaned while caressing her butt and glaring at me.

"Why are you sitting there? Go back to your spot." I said and I pushed her back into her seat.

"Fine Don't push me! What a jerk!" She complained and rushed back to her seat. I adjusted the chair I was holding and sat down next to Sam.

I can't stop from fidgeting because I really want to talk to the person next to me.

"I d-didn't know that w-we are in the same class, w-why I haven't seen y-you around?" I asked, I guess I will never rid off my stuttering if it's Sam.

She glanced at me for a moment and looked back to the front. "Why are you always stuttering if you're talking to me?" She asked back.

"I d-don't know, maybe I'm t-too shy." I said as I bow my head and stare on my lap.

"Cute" She mumbled but I heard her loud and clear, which caused my face to heat up.

"H-huh?" I look up at her and my eyes pretending that I didn't heard her.

She looked at me with a smile. That! That smile can make my heart beat faster! Then she shook her head. "Don't be ashamed of me, you looked like a toddler there who stutters."

I took a deep breath before speaking again. "You didn't answer my question." I didn't stutter and I AM SO f*****g PROUD OF MY TONGUE!

"See, you're not stuttering at all, you just need to calm down." She smiled again. "and to answer your question, you just attend the class now so you just saw me."

"I just did something." I said awkwardly. "Do you know how long I've been looking for you? I'm still going back and forth to that mall, hoping to see you."

"I know. Zai told me." She said.

I immediately looked at Zai who was also looking at me. I gave her a you-need-explain-later look. And it looks like she get what I was trying to say and she grinned. She didn’t even tell me that she met Sam!

"Zai didn't even tell me that she saw you! That moron." I said with a pout.

"Hey stop that." Sam said while looking at me.

"What? Zai is an asshole! She knows that I've been looking for you for a long time." I whine again.

"I told you to stop that.." She said and pinched my nose.

"Ehem!"

Sam and I looked in front when the professor cleared his throat loudly.

"I'm sorry to bother you with conversation there while I'm discussing." Sir said sarcastically to us.

"Actually Sir, yes. you did disturb us."

"Tsk! You really friends with Ms.Cariño!" I looked at Keisha and gave a tell-me-later look and she nodded. "Looks like I'll have to deal with the headaches you'll give me for a year!" Sir added.

"Don't worry Sir. the feeling is mutual." I guess, you already know who it was.

"You are really unmannered Ms.Gonzales!" Sir shouted and dropped hardly the book he was holding on the table.

"It's true, if you're in my position who gets scolded everyday, won't your head hurts?" Yhen defended herself.

"I really have nothing more to say to your group. Just keep quiet there even if you don't listen anymore as long as you just keep quiet!" Sir says, seems that he have given up on our stubbornness.

"Why do you have the courage to talk back to our professor? "Sam asked.

"She's Keisha's cousin, that's why."

"I see, but isn't it he's still our professor?" I just smiled at her in response so she just shook her head while making a hissing sound using her tongue.

"By the way, we haven't formally introduce myself yet. I'm Chrysler Johan Lee Smith." anf I held out my hand to her. "And you are?" I added.

"Samantha Gail Linder Thompson." She said as she reached for my hand.

"Nice to finally meet you again classmate." I said and I gave her the most sweetest smile that I ever made.

"Nice to meet you too.. classmate.." She returned the smile but it's more sweeter than mine.