Title: M O T H E R (PART 2)
Jen kicked an empty can down the road as it rolled down the street noisily. Jen could have thought about a million things how her life was terribly flawed but she didn't. Instead, she wondered how her mother had gone through the pain of losing her husband whom she loved to another woman. In a second, Jen's body suddenly tensed up. Her pupils dilated and she chided herself for remembering the most painful of all memories she had buried in the deepest part of her mind and sworn to never think about it again. And right now, the painfully forgotten truth had been uncovered and there was no reverse. She felt the intense humiliation she had to face in the past; the feeling of getting cheated on.
Jen was the most popular girl in school during her freshman year. Though she was new, word of her got around school like wildfire, from the teacher's staff room to the soccer boys' locker rooms. What could excite the teachers more than a clever girl who had etiquette and engaged well in class? And who could excite big, strong boys other than the new hot stuff in school? Jen was very good-looking and her smile was full of charisma. She was good in studies and she always had a joke to make her circle of friends giggle. Jen was the type who would sit with a lonely, conservative boy in the cafeteria and the next day, with someone buff, fierce and glaring. The similarity of the quiet boy and the guy with the glare after that was that they would both give Jen the biggest, sheepish grins at her the next day. Jen didn't just smile, she gave them away. Jen had many guys head over heels with her but she didn't have time to entertain them. Because she had already surrendered her heart to someone else; someone who wouldn't even turn to give her a second glance. Let's just call him A. A was notorious for dating size 0 bimbos who were rich and went out to expensive clubs all dressed and caked with make-up on a Saturday night. But Jen was worlds away from that. 1) Jen was toned but did not look like the seniors who starved themselves for a month. 2) Jen was very witty and outstanding in her academic performances. 3) Jen came from an average household. Her Dad worked in a sales company and her mother was a hotel cook. 4) Saturday nights were reserved for 'movie with popcorn' moments with her parents. And did anyone need to mention Jen was naturally pretty without putting on tons of make-up? Yet, Jen thought,
maybe I might be the girl that A might change for.
She thought of A when she was in Algebra class, when she was mixing chemicals together during Chemistry, when she was analyzing bones in Biology class, and during lunchbreaks when she was eating. She thought of bumping into him during walks to her locker. She fantasised about having study dates with him and dinner at a sundae cafe in the neighbourhood. But she chided herself.
'What's Mr Popular going to do, having dinner with a mediocre girl like me?' Jen went back to complete her Math homework, not forgetting to think about A of course.
My life... 7:04 PM
