Mi Bella

“Who the fuck allowed you to mess with her, Kairos?” His roaring voice caused a shudder to run down her spine while it turned each and every student present inside that classroom to go completely silent.

His vicious hold tightened around Kairos's neck more as he recalled how awfully he was bullying her. 

“The entire college knows better than to fuck with her because they know who she is to me then how dared you to become an exception?” He seethed out at Kairos who was attempting to free his neck from his brutal hold but was not succeeding in it in any way and no one else dared to help him either because they all knew what would be the cost of going against that 25 years old, Asael Elayzer, especially when it came to his Ezrene Soler.

“She said….s….she is your no one, Asael and I was just…..” Kairos couldn't complete his words as he felt him gripping his neck more cruelly. It widened Ezrene's eyes in horror because she knew how much it triggered him when she dared to say it to anyone that she was his no one.

“Well, you don't need her explanation to know who she is to me because my warning should be enough for you to stay the fuck away from her and…..” he pushed his face closer to Kairos.

“Take it as my only warning. Do not dare to mess around with her ever again because…..” he released his neck from his hold and then passed him a slight smirk.

“You do know how terribly I can mess with those who dares to go against me,” he lowered his voice while patting Kairos's shoulder who understood that treacherous warning hidden behind his calm words.

After that, he pulled back his head and then slowly turned around to face that particular person who turned into an ice in terror as soon as his feral icy blue eyes collided with her light green ones.

Ezrene felt like her throat drying up the second she found him taking his steps in her direction. Her body went numb as he stood in front of her. His glowering gaze was still on her which made her gulp until she saw him thrusting his face closer to hers.

“So mi bella….” His voice turned huskier as he addressed her by that nickname which he had given her and it always made her inner self shiver in fear whenever she heard it from his mouth. (My beautiful)

“I think..your beautiful mouth has started to open a little wider than necessary,” his eyes trailed down towards her slightly parted lips which made her immediately shut her mouth tightly. It made him grin. She knew him and his sinful intentions for her really very well.

“So you were fighting for this thing?” He uttered, showing her her watch which he was holding in his hands. He noticed her eyes immediately snapping towards her watch and the desperation to have her watch back was evident in her eyes which widened his grin more. After all, he knew how much she loved collecting different kinds of watches.

“Take it,” he said to her while extending her watch towards her. Ezrene looked at him, startled. He was giving her watch back to her, so easily? Impossible? He could never be so merciful towards her because he didn't know what mercy actually meant. This definitely had a catch but what? 

“Take it, Bella,” he extended the watch more towards her. Gulping, she lifted her hand slowly and then pushed it forward towards her watch but before she could clutch it, Ezrene saw him dropping her watch on the ground.

Her heartbeat dropped the second she saw her watch falling on the ground. She hurriedly crouched down to take it from the ground but before she could touch her watch, she witnessed him stepping his shoes on her watch and crushing its glass completely underneath it. Her eyes widened in shock.

Tears stung her eyes when he removed his shoes and she found her new watch completely broken and ruined. Slowly extending her hand towards it, she grabbed her shattered watch in her hand which filled more tears in her eyes. She had waited for an entire year to have this. She had saved her 7 months full pocket money by avoiding every kind of spending just to have this watch but she couldn't even get to wear this for a single day.

Ezrene was peering at her broken watch when she felt him kneeling beside her.

“It was a mistake. I am so sorry, wifey,” he husked in her ear, which made Ezrene clutch that broken watch aggressively in her hold, especially when she heard him calling her ‘wifey’. A name which she herself had made him call her in their childhood in her complete innocence but now it had become a venom for her.

“Don't cry. I don't want my future kids to hate me for making their mother cry, Bella,” he smirked more deviously while his words made her chew on her inner cheek.

Slowly turning her head around, she looked at him through her glossy eyes where his smirk faded, seeing those tears shimmering in her emerald eyes. His jaw clenched.

“This is what you get when you try to make yourself or others believe that you are my no one,” his words caused a tear to trickle down from her eyes which were shimmering with that enormous amount of hatred which she felt for him and his entire existence.

Aggressively wiping her eyes, she stood up on her feet and then dashed out of her classroom which made him stand up on his feet.

“Rene….” Cressa called her and then ran behind her whereas his cerulean eyes continued to stare at Ezrene's disappearing figure.

Ezrene entered the bathroom and then shut the door. Locking the door, she ran towards the wash basin and then clutched its edges. Taking her head upward, she looked into her watery eyes and it immediately made her recall his words.

‘This is what you get when you try to make yourself or others believe that you are my no one,’ more tears brimmed into her eyes. She took her gaze down and then peered at her broken watch and how brutally he had broken it underneath his feet, just like he was breaking her from the past two years just because of that day when they both had their very first encounter almost 15 years ago.

……………

5 years old Ezrene stepped out of her classroom after her classes ended and she saw her father waiting for her in the hall as her father came to her school everyday to pick her up from school and even to drop her here.

Giggling, she clutched her school bag and ran towards her father.

“Papa…..” she hugged her father which made her father chuckle. He immediately picked her up in his arms and pecked her forehead.

“So how was my Rene’s day?” her father asked her which made the little girl smile.

“I did the takeaways correctly today and miss gave me full marks, papa,” the little girl informed her father which brought a proud smile on her father's face. Her father patted her head.

“If it's so then I think my Rene deserves a gift for this,” the little girl saw her father taking out something from his pocket and then he gave it to her. 

Her doe eyes twinkled with happiness, seeing those two tiny little dolls in her father's hand. One was a bride and the other was a groom. She immediately took them from father.

“Thank you so much, papa,” Ezrene pecked her papa’s cheeks as this morning when her papa was taking her to her school, she had seen this pair of dolls at a shop. She wanted to get it but couldn't as she was getting late for her school, so her papa promised her that he would bring the dolls to her when he would come to pick her up from her school and her papa fulfilled his promise.

“They are so beautiful. This is me….” she uttered while showing the doll of the bride to her papa which made him smile. 

Her father's phone started ringing which made him place her on the ground to take his phone out from his pocket. Her father picked up his call and started conversing as it was from his workplace.

Meanwhile, gazing at that groom's doll in her hand, Ezrene puckered up her lips as she didn't know who he was. Her doe eyes started searching her surroundings to find a suitable candidate. Suddenly her eyes fell on a boy of her school who was standing at a little distance and was talking to his friends. He was looking like that groom's doll in her hand.

Smiling, she stormed towards him and then poked her index finger against his waist which made that boy turn his head towards her direction.

Little Ezrene saw that boy's baby blue eyes staring down at her in confusion.

“Will you be my hubby?” the little girl innocently asked that boy while showing him her dolls so that she could make him play with her with her bride and groom dolls.

At her question, little Ezrene saw that boy's friends laughing while that boy looked at her like she was some kind of ugly insect. Taking his head down, he reached her face level.

“Run back to that direction where you have come from, you little weirdo,” that boy said to her which widened her eyes. The little girl found that boy very rude, so she dropped her idea of making him her doll's groom.

“You are bad,” she frowned at him, making that boy narrow his eyes at her but before he could say anything to her, he saw a man coming towards them.

“Ezrene, what are you doing here?” Her father held her hand but little Ezrene continued to glare at that boy until her papa didn't pick her up in his arms which resulted in making her drop one of her dolls on the ground which no one paid attention to except for that boy.

“Let's go home,” her father turned around and started taking her away from there but little Ezrene turned her head around and showed her tongue to that boy which made him scowl at her and then she disappeared from his blue eyes.

…………..

Ezrene recalled that day while gazing at her broken watch because the person who broke her watch was none other than that boy whom her little self had asked to become her hubby and that was the reason he troubled her so much now by calling her wifey but was this reason enough for him to hurt her so much or was there something else to it? Because he had never troubled her during their school days. He had never even talked to her for once until he passed out of high school. 

He was 5 years older than her and used to study at a higher standard than her, so she was at 7th standard when he passed out his higher secondary which made her believe that she was never going to see him again and neither she wished to see him again but when she joined her first year here in this college, she found him in her class as her classmate because he had dropped his studies after passing his high school due to some unknown reasons and later joined the college which resulted in his re-entering in her life and thus making her life a living hell since that day.

Opening the door of the bathroom, she stepped out of it and found Cressa standing there.

“Rene, are you alright?” She asked her to which she nodded and then looked at her watch which she gripped in her hand for a second before throwing it on the dustbin outside the bathroom's door which stunned Cressa.

“Rene, why….”

“It was never supposed to be in my fate to receive happiness from it,” Ezrene halted Cressa with a dull look on her face and then sighed heavily.

“Let's go. Our class is going to start soon,” saying that she walked away from there and Cressa followed her.

Ezrene entered her classroom where her eyes straight landed on him who was sitting on the top of the desk in between his friends but his gaze was fixed at the door.

Looking away from him, she went towards her desk where she had left her bag and then sat on the bench in complete silence. Cressa also sat beside her. 

After that, she unzipped her bag and started taking her books out of it when her eyes fell on something unfamiliar inside her bag. A black color box. Her brows wiggled in confusion because she knew she had not placed it inside her bag and neither it was hers.

Ezrene took out that box from her bag and then opened it which rounded her eyes in shock, seeing what was inside that box. A watch and not any ordinary watch but the latest edition of her favorite brand's watch which she wanted to have but its price was far away from her pocket’s reach.

Appalled, she gazed at that watch but immediately her shock turned into rage as she understood who had put it inside her bag for her.

Taking out that watch from that box, she snapped her head in his direction where she found him chuckling with his friends. Gritting her teeth, she stood up on her feet and jogged towards him.

Everyone stopped laughing as she reached towards him and stood in front of Asael who also trailed his eyes at her. 

Glowering into his bright blue eyes, Ezrene showed him that watch which she knew he had put inside her bag for her. His gaze already warned her but she chose to ignore it and then she dropped that watch on the ground in front of everyone and stepped on it as hard as she could, crushing it just like he had crushed her watch.

“I am not your father's charity case, Asael Elayzer,” she spat at his face,in front of everyone which darkened the hues in his eyes while his palms vigorously clenched.