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( Heart Magnet… )
CHAPTER 36✰37
By Rhema J.
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It’s been over thirty minutes since the talent show started, right now they were two girls and a guy doing some breakdance in the stage that had students clapping.
In the backstage, some other participan-ts like Lucky, Edward, Gwen and Naomi, yes Naomi.
“I’m surprised that you’re here, you didn’t tell us that you were going to perform” Lucky moved towards Naomi who was standing and streching her arms.
“I didn’t know I would do something too” Naomi replied and looked at Gwen who was sitting and streching her neck to the left and to the right.
“I’m so glad you finally came out to do something public, I hope you have fun” Lucky said with a smile.
“Hmm” Naomi nodded and Lucky went back to Edward.
????️Up next let’s welcome performer 15!!
The sound from the speaker echoed throu-ghthe back stage.
“We are next, let’s go” Lucky tapped Edward and he stood up.
Some crews helped in carrying their chair, table and food which they’ll need for the show.
“Breath in, we’ll be facing the crowd in 3 seconds” Lucky whispered to Edward and nodding then took in a de-ep breath.
In 3 seconds later, the red curtain opened making Edward and Lucky to come to view.
“Hello everyone, my name is Lucky and his name is Edward, we are partners today I will be showing you how Edward here will eat all these homemade food by me in just ten minutes” she pointed the food that was in front of Edward.
????️Okay so she said Edward will eat all these under 10 minutes and timing starts now!
The moment the host spoke up, the timing started and Edward began eating as fast as he could.
Seeing that he was almost done going to ten minutes people began cheering for him except from Jace who has been rolling his eyes right from when the show started.
Then in ten minutes, Edward was done eating as promised.
????️ Unbelievable wow! How can his stomach eat all that in just ten minutes!!
Students were clapping, Lucky smiled and waved happily then the red curtain dropped and covered.
“Good job Edward” Lucky raised her hands for a high-five but Edward stood up and ran past her.
“Where are you going?” She shouted.
“To use the toilet, too much food.. can’t take it” his voice has already faded off as soon as he left.
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“Hey” someone called Gwen and she turned back to see Naomi standing behind her.
She first looked back then left and right before slowly standing up.
“Naomi” she said in a low voice.
“I’m the next to participate, mind if you accompany me to the stage? I have stage fright” Naomi said.
Gwen smiled thinking Naomi was already coming around not knowing there was an interior motive.
“Sure, I’ll accompany you, I’m glad you’re finally warming up again” she said and Naomi just smiled.
????️ Please let’s welcome performer 18 to the stage.
Gwen looked at Naomi and Naomi nodded before the both of them went to the stage.
The red curtain came up and their faces came to view.
“That’s Gwen and Naomi, I’m not seeing double right?” Erica asked no one in particular.
“No you’re not” someone replied and she turned to see Xavier sitting beside her.
He even winked at her but she rolled her eyes in return.
Dominic was watching from behind before Lucky quietly came in. She sat beside Erica from the other side to watch.
Naomi collected the mic from the mc and faced the crowd with a little nervous look on her face.
“Hello everyone my name is Naomi Moore, I’m not here to sing or do anything, I’m here to give a speech and it’s about my best friend” she said and looked at Gwen before facing the crowds again.
“I was five years old when I got into trouble with some older kids, I was getting beaten up by starting a fight with them but she came and helped me and unfortunately we both got beaten up, it was really bad we were seriously bleeding but she cared about me more than herself and kept asking me if I was okay” Naomi smiled and she remembered.
Gwen chuckled and wiped her tears, the hall was silent and people were listening seriously especially Dominic.
“Since then we became inseparable and unstoppable together, we did everything today and even grew up together, I trusted her so much and always share everything I feel with her likewise her” Naomi said and wiped the tears that fell from her eyes.
“Is Naomi okay? I thought she was angry with Gwen?” Lucky whispered and Erica hit her to shut up.
Someone tapped Lucky’s back and she turned back to see Jace, he pa-ssed a letter to her and smiled.
She opened it.
It says: I’ll be in front of the girls hostel this evening, I have something to tell you.
She turned back to look at him and he just smiled, she smiled too and faced her front.
Naomi breathed and continued.
“We’ve always wanted to go to a big school, I was a dullard but she helped me a lot when we were reading for the scholarship program and we actually pa-ssed and got admitted to this school. So here’s the intresting part” she smiled and cleaned the tears that came out of her eyes.
“I had some sort of a love at first sight on this guy and I told her about it” when Naomi said this Gwen face changed.
She became a bit alert even Dominic sat straight to listen more attentively.
“I was always open about my feelings to her I should have known when she got his number from no where and gave it to me, we were close friends and I was planning to finally tell him how I felt, even my best friend was aware but guess what she did?” Naomi turned to look at Gwen.
It’s now Gwen could see the look of hate, sadness and rage covered with tears that filled Naomi’s eyes.
She shook her head hurtfully.
“Don’t do this publicly Naomi, we can have a private talk somewhere, you can shout on me and hit me and curse me, just vent out on me but not here” Gwen said softly trying to convince Naomi.
More tears fell from Naomi’s eyes and she faced the crowd again.
“My best friend here Gwen has been chasing after him behind my back! She was watching me make a fool out of myself and even conspired with him to use me, she loved to see that he was actually using me to get close to her!” Naomi said out loud.
“Naomi!” Gwen yelled with a hurtful look.
????️I think this talent show is getting a bit personal!” The host said.
“What? You kis-sed him on the day you know I wanted to confess to him, I saw it all Gwen! I was there!! Why did you do it? Why must it be you? You don’t actually know that what you did hurt more than knowing I was used by him because I relied on you more than my own parents!!” Naomi yelled out in tears.
Dominic let out a small breath before standing up and excusing himself from the hall.
“I know I shouldn’t have done what I did and I know I was wrong for choosing anyone but him, if you’ll give me a chance and let me explain then you’ll finally understand me but are you giving any chance at all!?” Gwen yelled hurtfully at her.
Naomi dropped the mic on the floor and burst out into tears while Gwen ran off from the stage trying not to break down in public.
The red curtain slowly dropped down covering Naomi then people began clapping.
????️What a nice performance, for a while I thought it was real, let’s appreciate their acting skills!
The host said and students began clapping. Erica stood up and left the hall, going to the backstage along with Lucky.
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The door slamming drew people’s attention towards Erica but she didn’t mind, she moved towards to Naomi who was standing alone, thinking about what happened earlier.
“How do you feel now?” She asked and Naomi only shut her eyes.
“I hope you feel great, you really went too far to drag your own best friend in public just because she kis-sed a guy you were not even in a relationship with! Didn’t you feel ashamed when you reminisce about the history of your friendship with her then to-re it away all for a guy that will never care about you? Huh!?” Erica said hardly.
Tears came out of Naomi’s eyes and she wiped it off immediately.
“Gwen has been making a lot of effort to make up for what she has done, she’s apologized to you more than thrice but you never cared” Lucky added.
“And yes Chase or Dominic was into Gwen but before he made that move to use you don’t forget that you were the one throwing yourself at him so what did you expect? I noticed Gwen was into him starting from Xavier’s pool party. I know how she avoided him for your sake and did you remember the art project? I also know she exchanged your partners so you could be with Chase and she had to fail her own project for your sake Naomi!” Erica said again.
“And how did you repay her? All for a simple mistake, you pulled her down in public even thou the school thinks it’s an act, we know Naomi, we know what you did and we’re really disappointed” Lucky shook her head.
Erica gave Naomi a look before walking away then Lucky followed behind.
Naomi stood alone for a while thinking about everything they said and it’s now she’s realizing how stùpid and childish she has been acting.
She went outside and squ-atted on the floor before starting to cry her eyes out.
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Gwen was sitting alone on a stone outside with tears on her face as she looked up at the sky.
“Are you okay?” Some footsteps was heard approaching her and she looked front to see Dominic.
She didn’t say anything as she watched him took the next space beside her.
“You know I don’t know whatelse to do to save our friendship, I’ve sacrificed so much and yet it feels like I’m not doing anything” she muttered with a blank face.
“Do you blame me?” He asked in a low tone and she looked at him.
He chuckled to himself before facing front.
“I blame myself too, I didn’t know how much damage I’ve caused to your friendship with Naomi until today” he muttered then turned to face her.
“I grew up alone without friends, I wasn’t allowed to go to school and mingle with my mates so I don’t really know how to do anything, I don’t even know how it feels when I hurt people because no one actually cared about me as a kid. My dad only cares about being president, him and my mom has this relationship issue and each time we go out, it’s always for a meeting and he locks me up in his car”
“I envied everyone I see on the road, smiling looking so happy, playing with their parents and friends but I have nothing, each time I cry to my dad about things like that he scolds me that I got used to it. Me acting as Chase Lockwood wasn’t to fool everyone it was just to set myself a bit free from being solitary which affects my mental health”
“And no it wasn’t fun lying to everyone because de-ep down I know he was not going to last and I’ll loose everyone between the blink of an eye, my friends and also roommate, you..” he pressed his li-ps together and sighed.
“Even up till now it still feels like I haven’t given everyone a proper apology, I really didn’t mean to use your friend and the truth is that I really see her as a friend and I only kis-sed her at the party once because I feel like you don’t care about me the way I did and it was so frustrating, I didn’t know I was putting you in such a ha-rd spot and I didn’t know Naomi was into me either still I saw you as proud and bore a tiny grudge against you” he li-cked his li-ps and shook his head.
“I’m really sorry Gwen, I’m sorry for everything, I really mean it” he said seriously.
Gwen looked into his eyes, she could see the amount of sincerety there.
“I’m sorry too, you don’t deserve the type of treatment you’ve been getting from me too” she said with a sigh and he smiled.
“It’s fine, here” he brou-ght out the painting of her and placed it on her hands.
“No more pressure, whenever you’re ready you can hit me up, I promise to talk to Naomi and clear things up” he said with a small smile.
Gwen collected the painting and nodded, she watched as he stood up and began leaving before she opened the painting and looked at it then smiled.
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The sound of a girl crying kept echoing around the compound. Dante sighed as he came out from a corner with his hands dipped inside his pocket.
“Why did you hurt your friend when you know that you’ll get hurt” he asked, looking at Naomi who was sitting on a bench.
“You’ll never understand” she muttered without looking and he pa-ssed a tissue to her.
She looked at him before slowly collecting it from him.
“Can’t believe I spend most of my time in being so stùpid” she said.
Dante only stared before moving towards her and raising her up.
“What the hell is your problem, let me go!” She yanked her hands away from him and almost immediately her phone began ringing.
She took it from her pocket, it was an unknown number.
“Unknown numbers never calls me”she muttered and picked then slowly placed it on her ears.
“Are you Naomi Moore?” The unfamiliar voice asked.
She stared at Dante before nodding and the next thing she heard made her phone dropped from her hands.
“What’s wrong?” Dante asked, seeing the look of shock in her face.
She staggered backwards before turning around and running off.
“Hey! Naomi wait!!” Dante shouted and chased after her.
TBC