CHAPTER THREE

Imagine how my parents would react to my SCP. You guessed it. Ballistic. They never thought that their sweet little daughter would actually dare dream about participating an all-state competition, which would be aired on television! Another reason was that my examinations are nearing and they reckon that I have absolutely no time for anything else.

"Hey! Look. I want to do this. My results are perfectly fine! This is my dream! Whatever you say, I'm going to do it. I've already made up my mind," I protested and stormed out of the kitchen hurriedly, but not soon enough as I heard their raised voices.

"...look at her!... Outrageous! Why didn't you keep an eye on your daughter?"

I felt angry hot tears well up in my eyes and ran to my room and slammed the door shut, hoping that no one would see me in tears. How can they say that kind of thing? It sounds as if they are pushing the responsibility of taking care of me to each other! I buried my face into my pillow and cried myself to sleep.

Some moments later, I was woken up by the ringing of the house phone.

"Hello?" an extremely sweet voice, which I almost couldn't recognise,floated through the phone.

"Rain, is that you?"

"Huh! What? Oh, yes, it's me, you fool. I thought it was your - Oh, never mind. Er, anyway, how's your - SCP coming along?" Rain stammered.

"It's alright. And, I've got a feeling you weren't expecting me. You were expecting someone else. Like, Jason?" I teased Rain, picturing her clutching on to the phone, blushing terribly, while waiting anxiously for my brother to answer. Jason, who was my younger twin brother, has captured Rain's heart ever since he went through the 'ugly' stage of puberty, taken off his braces and has shot up from 151cm to 174cm. It is weird calling my own brother cute, but I have to say that he is not bad looking.

I spilt the contents of the argument with my parents to Rain, willing myself not to cry.

"Don't worry, it'll all work out," Rain assured me.