In the busy road of the southern state of America . with the atmosphere being comfy and clear. The warm temperature from the bright rays of the sun and the cool breeze whizzing to and fro . cars moving on the road made it busy and among those cars on the road was a black hatch back car, on a smooth pace .
Michael drove the car, a man in his early thirty's ,with a gentle man's face, with beards surrounding his chin . His fair skin and his crew cut and also, his well structured body. He looked behind, turning his head to see is daughter a young fair maiden still in her teens , she had her legs crossed ,the left thigh laying on the right. She was a beautiful girl , light fair skin , average height and was slim. Her dark brown hair was packed over to the back to make a pony tail. She wore on her ears, dangling silver earrings with spotted diamonds , she looked out of the window, she had her arms crossed against her tommy. she swigged her foot in vexation. She wore a grey hiking boots with black socks.
Above her hip, she was on a denim bum short ,to her top, was a black singlet and a denim saggy jacket that reached the same level with her bum short.
Round her neck was a golden necklace. She looked really furious use
"come on sweetie , cheer up"
Michel said looking at his daughter , parsley .
But parsley didn't respond back but instead looked outside the window.
"sweetie?"
Michael called again .
"quit calling me!"
She yelled . turning finally to him .
"I am sorry"
"sorry?, do I look like a peddler or did I say I want to be one?"
"but sweetie , is for our good, they are trying to get me"
"who the hell is chasing you?"
Just then, Michel quickly parked at the side of the road. He dug his hand into his pocket and brought out a small case . he handed it over to parsley .
"what's this?" , she asked rudely, as she quickly took it away from him.
"this is a locket, it is really dangerous and surprisely our
lives are limited by this".
He said, as parsley brought the golden locket out of the case and when she opened it, she saw a scarlet little flash drive.
"what's this?", she said .
"willow code"
"what's willow code" , parsley asked, really confused.
"you won't understand now, maybe later I would explain"
Michael started up the car engine and whizzed.
Few weeks later, parsley was dropped at her new school.
She was at the front of the door of the school building, her heart flipped. The fear of going to a new school over whelmed her and her fingers ran cold. Her entire hand shivered, to even touch the door handle.
"breath in, … out"
She said to herself as she aimed to open the door feeling really nervous .just then, an hand grabbed the door handle.
Parsley was so horrified. She widened her eyes feeling so scared and afraid to look up.
"this is how to open the door"
A voice said, as the hand which held the door handle pulled it down and swung the door open.
Parsley wondered who could be the gentle man beside her, she slowly rose up her face to see a tall cute guy beside her. He was kind of tall ,with his hair jelled towards the left side, his little lips was pitch with a grey iris. He wore an ash top that slightly revealed his muscular structure and a black denim pants, with his black school bag hanging at the left side of his shoulder. He smiled at her and asked
"do I know you?"
"no" she responded.
"new student, right?"
"yeah"
"nice"
"well ladies first" stretching forth his hands in a gentle bow.
Parsley breathed in deeply. On her red denim pants ,the yellow top she wore with her white sneakers and the black school bag, she hanged at the left side of her shoulder .
She stepped into the hallway gently and took a step forward. The hallway was too noisy, people roaming around and yelling about. Some banged their locker to make a loud annoying sound. Some chewed bubble gum and made loud noises after they had blew a bubble and it burst it. Some snapped selfies with their phones. While, some group of people were singing at a corner.
Just then, the dude which parsley had saw at the door way.Lawrence, came forward to stand beside her.immediately, all the student in the hallway froze, all turning towards them [all eyes].
Parsley's face looked innocent and scared. The entire hallway ran quiet. Everyone starred at them.
"ugh….she is a new student"
Lawrence said, raising up his hand.
Just then, everyone got back to what they were doing. The noise makers, the hallway roamers, the lockers bangers, the bubble gum chewers, the yellers, the song singers. The hallway became noisy again.
"so….let's go to class" Lawrence offered.
They were in the classroom. At the side of the window, they sat on a double bench, as parsley brought out her books.
"my bad, what's your name?"
Lawrence asked,
"parsley"
"nice"
"Yours?"
"Lawrence"
Parsley smiled, as she glared quickly at her book and looked up to him again.
"what lesson is first?"
"What do you wanna have first?"
"Umm….. biology" she blushed.
"why that?"
"I love the subject"
"and what topic exactly do you like?"
"every…"
"are you sure"
"what's wrong with you?" parsley chuckled, Lawrence laughed.
"you know, people like biology for a particular famous topic, I hope you are getting the painting now?"
'silly "
They both laughed. Just then, the door of the class room swung open and some group of student gushed in, making a hell of anoise. The school bell quickly rung and everybody settled down immediately.
"your girlfriend?"
A girl from the back asked, bringing her face close to Lawrence as she chewed a bubble gum.
"hamm, mandy, you are kidda too close to me"
She then sat back to her seat.
"she's not …,she's a new kid" Lawrence said.
The teacher then stepped up to the board,
"alright kids, chemistry" He said as he wrote it with the chalk on the board.
"we have a new kid!" a guy shouted from behind.
"yah!" the whole class shouted.
"oh, it skipped my mind" the teacher said.
"you don't have a mind"
Another guy at the front seat said and everybody laughed. The teacher quickly shot him a dangerous eye glance and he kept quiet.
"miss, can you step forward, please" he offered
Parsley sighed, and gently stood up from her seat and to the class she stood.
"my name is parsley, … parsley willow" she said .
"willow ? … as in , willow code?" mandy asked.
"yeah, that's right" she responded generously with a warm smile.
"alright…" the teacher intend to say.
'how old are you ?" the crazy guy from the back asked again.
"fifteen, slightly, I am still gonna be sixteen" she said.
"pray you get a boyfriend then" the girl at the front said, lezzie . the whole class chuckled.
* * * * * * * *
The class was over for the day. Parsley and Lawrence walked down the hallway out of the school.
"I hope you won't find it difficult to open the door tomorrow morning". Lawrence said trying to raise a sense of humor . parsley chuckled .
"you really are a nice guy"
" yeah, nice"
I haven't known you for a long time but I know you do love saying nice a lot" Lawrence smiled, exhibiting his disterma.
"so…, how are you reaching home?"
He asked. "trekking, taxi…"
Before he could finish talking , a black luxurious car zoomed into the school drive way. Parsley looked towards the car's direction.
" oh, you have a car"
"Yeah, well see you tomorrow then"
As parsley walked towards the car the driver quickly came out and opened the car door,so, she could get in . the car whizzed off leaving lawrence standing alone.
* * * * * *
Parsley was home already, she opened the entrance door and saw her father operating his laptop at the dining table.
"paps, I am back from school" she said as she bounced on the middle sofa.
Michel noticing his daughter ,closed his laptop .
"yeah, how was your first day in school" he asked. As he itched the back of his head. looking some worth suspicious.
"fine, what are you doing?" parsley asked looking at him with narrowed eyes.
"some work in my laptop, well I will quickly finish them up in my room upstairs, lunch is in the fridge, okay." He said as he gave a quick peck on her fore head, and went upstairs.
"weird", parsley said to herself.
The next day, it was time for break and parsley went to the hall way to her locker, she arranged her books neatly into the locker cautiously.
"boom!"
Someone shouted from behind her the scare her.
Immediately parsley became frightened and turned quickly turned to see the jerk. But instead of seeing Lawrence her new friend, she saw a girl.
She was fair with red hair and pink lips, and was wearing a generous smile.
Parsley smiled back responding to the weird girl smile.
"parsley right" she asked
"Yeah, hi, nice to meet you"
"you might wanna shut your locker gal"
"oh!" she said, as she turned to close her locker.
"my name is lezzie"
"lezzie, I like the name"
"Yeah, yeah"
"So…." Parsley said, running out on what to talk about.
"let's go to the cafeteria for lunch, what do you think?"
"okay"
She said as they walked down to the cafeteria speechless.
"what do you wanna eat?"
"maybe, burger with extra mustard"
"oh, you speak my language"
Lezzie said as she walked toward the counter.
"Burger for two, and my normal extra mustard, in both" she ordered.
"smoothie, chocolate or straw berry"
"forgotten my regulars, mama?"
"straw berry, ugh?"
She said, as she brought out a cup of straw berry smoothie and kept it in a tray.
"double that, I have a friend"
Mama looked up and saw parsley
"wow, pretty"
She commented and parsley blushed.
After some while, their order were ready and they carried their trays to a table beside the wall.
"so….,why do you like burger"
Lezzie asked trying to raise of a conversation.
"my dad makes them, and I love them"
She responded quickly.
"your dad , like, willow code?"
"ugh…., yeah, how do you know?"
"I just …. Hamm…., know things"
"nice" parsley responded, not sure of what to say.
"so, maybe, we can be… like friends, I can take you round the school, introduce you to the clubs and our social areas, like, swimming pool, the badminton court and the principal's office, incase you wanna change one of his ridiculous documentaries, like, our meal schedule …, he is really bad at it, I would show you the cool guys also, then you can get a boy friend there"
"nah…"
Parsley said,as she seemed engrossed in sipping her smoothie with her straw.
"did you just say, nah?"
"yeah"
Parsley responded swallowing the smoothie in her mouth
"why that?"
"I just recently broke up with my former boyfriend"
"why?"
"I relocated, I am still trying to regain from his absence"
"that's bad, I clearly understand, but you gonna move on with your life girl" lezzie said trying to cheer her up from her disappointed mood
"I know…" parsley faking a smile.
"so, where do your father stay?"
Lezzie asked. Parsley wanted to take a sip from her smoothie but on hearing the question she dropped it back.
"what?"
"your dad , does he stay with you?"
"of course, I do not have a mom"
"oh, that's bad; what happened to her?"
"I can't actually remember vividly but it was really horrible, I pray not to even remember a bit of it"
"what if it's just pops out"
Parsley snuggled.
"well, my dad normally use to say that once you stay out of things that reminds you of something , you won't easily remember those things"
"hmm what a belief"
Parsley smiled , just then the bell rung.
'that's for class" lezzie said, as she stood up so did parsley, and they left the cafeteria leaving there half eaten food on the table.