Saturday, 10 May 2008

• Speculations

  My Entry For the Soompi Short Story battle for the Month of April

   

  SPECULATIONS

  Taken from the Blog of Anonymous.

   

  “Every hour wounds. The last one kills”, is how we would best describe this lachrymose tale of unreciprocated love. Today is Valentines Day but the biggest news that got the entire school in a buzz was the news that this morning a junior went hysterical in the principal’s office. Before going further on this hottest piece of news, let’s take a few moments to synthesize information we have derived.

   

  Heavy and pimply Cornelius wasn’t part of the “in” crowd nor was he the smartest in school but most of us knew him. In fact, he barely speaks to anyone. He only speaks if spoken to. From his messy black hair, thick glasses, to his shiny shoes everybody adored him. We did mention that we adore Cornelius, not because he reminded us of that old ragged big teddy bear that we loved to wrestle when we were toddlers but because he had the cutest case of puppy love, he only had eyes for one girl ever since the world begun, Jenny. We knew it even if he doesn’t say or admit it.

   

  Yes, Jenny. Tall, smart and beautiful, she was every guy’s dream. She’s also the most popular girl in class who struts like a model and who has been notoriously known for having only rich ex-boyfriends in the past. Probably a contributing factor why we adore Cornelius because deep in our hearts, there lives a Cornelius who wanted something beautifully perfect that we just could not attain because it’s just not in our level and it pains us why these beautiful creatures like Jenny seemed like they never had the same problem in any of their endeavours.

   

  From our reliable sources, Jenny does prefer rich boys. Cornelius was rumoured to be the son of an oil billionaire or a wealthy Turkish sheik, nobody knows for sure. We never doubted though that he was filthy rich as was evident through his chauffeured limousine, penchant of only owning labelled things and how he tirelessly tries to impress or please her every Valentine’s Day for the past two years but what we really don’t understand is why Jenny doesn’t give her the time of day when she’s known to go after rich guys even if they looked like-well, like Cornelius

   

  Every Valentine’s Day he would romantically declare his love, it is what everyone of us look forward to. Two years ago, everyone was shocked when we entered the cafeteria on Valentines Day, there was a make shift stage where a popular local band started to play a romantic song while furiously blushing Cornelius stood in the corner listening intently to the song, silently evaluating what he had done, we assumed.  In the middle was a giant projector where a slideshow of her pictures was flashed. We were amazed how he had acquired such a huge collection of her pictures from her childhood to the current time, probably he sequestered most of it from her blog (which we doubted, because she doesn’t even know what a blog is when we our IT teacher asked her in class) or acquired through stalking her, a bit freaky if we were her but understandable when you have no means to get to know your crush better. A close friend of Jenny even informed us that, the song played by the band was her all time favourite song.

   

  What was Jenny’s reaction? She just sat on her usual table and examined her pink nails like nothing happened. Our heart went out to Cornelius, such a pitiful soul.

   

  Last year’s Valentines Day was even worst for our love-struck Cornelius. Right after the last bell rang, students scampered out into the open field, where a march band played while a jet plane wrote Jenny’s name in the sky and scattered confetti of pink  rose petals onto the field. Cornelius was already there for he had PE for his last period that day and looked up into the sky with a bemused smile, probably admiring his ingenuity.

   

  Jenny didn’t even stay long to wait for the Jet to finish spelling out her name; she rode the first bus to go home. We felt our heart bleed for Cornelius, we share his agony.

   

  Although we condemn Jenny for ignoring Cornelius just because he didn’t have the acne-free genes or time to have a major liposuction operation we also feel a bit bad for her because as many of us observed, her dating life for the past two years had been stagnant. Most of us hypothesized that the main reason why Jenny hadn’t been seeing anyone for the past two years was probably due to the fact that boys got intimated with Cornelius’ acts of love, no guy, rich or not could simply top that.

   

  As for Cornelius, a student whose locker was next to him swears that Cornelius tried. He would often see him with a pink stationery envelope which he keeps in his locker. Therefore, it didn’t come as a surprise when we heard the news last night that Cornelius had suddenly left the town at dawn today to go out of the country and transfer to a new school. Logically speaking, no one would find fault if he decided not to stay in this school where he had been shamefully rejected by his one and only crush, more harshly day by day until he probably couldn’t take the pain.

   

  As for why Jenny threw a fit this morning when someone told her about it, only a few of us could speculate why.

   

   

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