Chapter 2

CHAPTER 2: BULLY

VALERIE ALVAREZ'S POINT OF VIEW

As I walk in the pathway of the school. A lot of students are looking at me. I am too gorgeous so they look at me like that? I don't like the way their eyes look at me.

I just continue walking until I heard a voice. Who is crying and begging to call for help? So I followed it. And as I saw it. It shocked me. I was about to go and help that guy. But a hand-pulled me.

"Don't go," A girl said to me.

"Why?" I asked her.

"You are new right?" she asked me I nodded my head.

"Yes, who are those guys?"

"He is Ethan the most bully in this school. Just don't dare to get close with his businesses. He would not mind you," she said.

"I'm not scared of him," I said to her with a full of confidence in myself.

If she just looks closes to the boy that Ethan was bullying. He looks so pitiful and miserable. He has a bloodstain in his white shirt. Because of the blood coming out from his bleeding nose.

"Don't go," she said as she holds my wrist.

I pulled my wrist in her hands Then go toward the groups of bullies. I get the shirt of one of the bullies.

"Who are you?" They asked me.

"And who are you?" I asked him then raised my eyebrows.

"Ethan," he said. He is like a frog with that smile on his face.

He was about to touch my face. But I stop him and almost ruin his hands. He screams in pain. He wanted to cry but he can't cry.

"How dare you!" he said.

I can see the anger in his eyes. He wanted to punch me but he can't. I think broke his hands. He looks at his accomplices and it looks like they know what to do.

One of them runs towards me to punch me but I hold his hand. And crush it he also screams in pain. Then I punched him in the face. His nose is bleeding and I think it cracks. All of his accomplices are now laying on the ground. I think they are now in a coma.

"Are you okay?" I asked the boy in front of me.

As I lay my hand in front of him so he can reach it. He reaches if after a few seconds later. He looks pity and helpless. Why these students here are so cruel. They just let a helpless student like this. And no one dares to fight against those bullies. What is with Ethan after all?

"No," he answered me directly. He almost can't even walk on his own.

"Do you know where the clinic is I can help you go in there," I offered to him?

"Yes, we just need to go straight ahead," he said. His nose only keeps bleeding and his white shirt is covered with blood. It looks like they hurt him so badly.

"Okay," I said.

As I supported and help him to walk. Because he can't walk properly on his own. Then silence covered us. A lot of students are looking at us.

"What is your name?" He asked me. To start a conversation between us

"Valerie, Valeria Alvarez," I answered. "How about you?" I asked him back.

"Joshua," he said to me and smile. He can still smile even with that situation he had.

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"I will leave the two of you in here. I will only do something important. Your nose will be okay in a week. Don't worry," the nurse said to Joshua.

"Thank you, Miss Dela Cruz," he said.

I get my back and get my extra shirt in it. To gave it to Joshua. Because the shirt he is wearing is almost covered with blood.

"Here," I said and giving it to him.

"What I am going to do with this?" he asked me. It is like he doesn't even have a clue. On what, to do in the shirt he was holding right now.

"Wear it. Go and change. Look at your t-shirt. It was almost covered with blood," I said to him. He just raised his hand and scratched the top of his head.

"But it is yours. It is not mine," he shyly said to me.

"No, worries. You can have it. It is all your now," I said to him then smiles.

"Thank you. I will just change," he said. Then go to the restroom of this clinic.

I'm not still going to this school. And I see that scene. It is not even my first day studying here. It is not in my business if they bully other people. But I can't just stand there and watch them almost killed a student.

I can't stand seeing it. Now I am in big trouble. Maybe soon they will come back to me and take revenge on what I did to them. But I think they deserve it. And who is that Ethan? Why are they scared of him? It is not a God nor a killer to be scared of? Why the hell do I care? And why do I keep giving myself stress?

"Thank you for the t-shirt," Joshua said to me.

"Wha-t?"  I just said. Then he tapped my should and their. I came back to my senses. "Ha?" I just said.

"It is already 11:45 are you not going home?"  He asked me.

"I am going home. You can join me. I can give you a ride home," I said to him. But he suddenly became quiet and goes silent. And the smile on his face suddenly fades away.

"No, thank you." He said.

"Why?" I asked him curiously I just wanted to help. Did I do anything wrong?

"I am an orphan. I can go home," he said then looks away. And smiled forcibly. I tapped his shoulders and says.

"It doesn't matter. We are friends after all right?" I said then smiles at him. He looks at me.

"Friend?" He says in shock. "Would you love to befriend an orphan like me?" He ask me.

"It doesn't matter. Yes, we are friends. Would you want to eat in my house?" I asked him.

"Thank you," he said full of joy. It looks like it is the first time he was having a friend. Maybe that is why they are bullying him because he was an orphan. Because of the excitement, he was feeling he hugs me. and because of that, I am speechless, and  I almost can't move in where I was standing. My heart keeps beating so fast. What is happening to me?