Joshua's pov:After the long day finally I reached home. I sighed and entered inside the house. I directly went to the kitchen and saw my mum reading something while sitting on the dinning table. "Hey mom." I greeted her. "Hey my baby boy." she beamed at me. "Mommmmm I'm not a baby." I whined. "You'll always be my baby boy". She teased me like always. "Okay fine, I'm hungry please give me something to eat." I said peeking at what she's reading. She was as always reading her home decor magazine marking what she want to buy for the home decoration. She likes to moderate the house and made aesthetic changes in them. She got up from the chair and started serving the food. I went to the sink and washed my hands. Basic manners. She put the plate on the table and sat where she was sat before. I started digging in my food hungrily. "Slowly Joshua Williams." my mum instructed."Hmmm." I hummed and started eating slowly. After finishing the food I put my dish in the sink and went to my
Joshua's pov:I shifted my gaze in front on the black board but I can feel both of their gaze drilling holes in the side of my head. Am I scared of them? Do I regret it what I did just now? Obviously, no! Mrs. Smith started checking the papers submitted by me. After reading the whole summary she gave a single nod to me and then Grace. Then she started teaching from where we left in the previous class. I saw with my side eye Grace again get back to sleep while Candice is busy with her phone, texting someone. RrrrrriiinngggggAfter few periods more of different subjects the bell rang and interval started. Students started rushing out of the classroom as always. I also skipped to the canteen putting my hands in my pockets. There was again a huge crowd for getting food but I don't wanna suffocate and die inside of it. So I stood in the side waited for the crowd to decrease. Stacey and others also came. Yes from the day one I'm sitting with them for the lunch."Hey Joshua why are yo
Joshua's pov:I entered the classroom and saw Stacey giving me a small smile I smiled back. Then I saw Grace already staring at me. She glanced at my changed shirt, then me and smirked. I avoided eye contact with her and went to my bench and sat on it. It's our chemistry period and Mr. White came and started teaching us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time skip:Finally, after all the periods ended the bell rang and it's time to go home yay! The students rushed out of the door hastily. I also packed my stuff and slung my bag on my shoulder. I was walking out of the class Mr. Snow our physics teacher who took our last period asked me to help him. "Mr. Williams can you help me in putting these charts in my office?" he asked. "Yes, of course sir." I said and took half number of the charts from his hands. He nodded and started walking ahead of me and I started following him. After turning few hallways we reached his office he unlocked the door and entered inside inv
Grace pov:I was alone for ever in my life. Yes, I have parents very rich and well reputated parents. In public and media they show how much of ideal parents they are only I know, I know the truth behind their big ass smile on their faces. How they show that they do care for me, love me and adore me. But in home they are monsters. That is not even a home it's a house where so many humans live under a single roof. In that house there is Mr. Danielle Anderson and his wife Mrs. Julia Anderson and me a mistake, their so called daughter who is a burden on them and good for nothing. I'm nothing to them and they are nothing to me. But infront of media they show how much they love me. And in reality, they didn't even know in which school I study what I like and dislike. They only knew how to make good reputation in front of the world. Expensive parties, expensive jewelry, expensive furniture, owning many of lands and properties, tours and vacations in different countries, meetings, business
Grace's pov:As the other subjects period came and went by I kept sleeping. And when the time came interval bell rang I'm in no mood to go out without Candice. And no one dares to talk to me with my rude and agressive behaviour. Good for them! Suddenly I felt someone shaking me. "Hey wake up." He said. Oh so Joshua Williams decided to disturb me again. I ignored him. He again shook my shoulders. "Hey listen you girl wake up." I got a name idiot. Oh God stop disturbing me you punk! I got up. "What do you want?" I asked coldly while rubbing my eyes. "It's interval don't you want to eat anything?" he asked.So he is concerned for me. How cute! Like I will believe him. "It's none of your business" I again spat rudely. "Are you sure? You must be tired of sleeping" he sarcastically asked. Don't sarcasm me you bastard."Did I stutter? and don't be sarcastic with me." I said and stood up from the bench and walked away.Better to walk around, if want to avoid his nonsense. As I wa
Grace's pov:I was sleeping when the bell rang and finally the time of detention came. But it's not the first time so I don't care and kept sleeping. That annoying teacher Mrs. S-- ugh whatever came and said "Take out your English text book and write the summary of chapter 4 in your own words."Joshua nudged me in shoulder. I raise my head and glare at him."What?" I snapped. "Can't you see Mrs. Smith is here." he retorted back. "So what?" I said with a nonchalant expression. Do I care? "Ms. Grace Anderson I'm done with your tardiness and inappropriate behaviour I want to talk to your parents." the annoying teacher yelled from where she is sitting. What will she talk to my parents? They don't even care. How dare she mention that bastards. "They can't come." I replied shortly keeping my calm.But not for a long time. "Why not? Are they ashamed of their daughter's deeds and behaviour?" She asked tauntingly. They are ashamed of me you old hag.I stared at her not in the mood of
Grace's pov:Candice started telling me about her vacation trip on Hawaii with her aunty. How much she loved that place. She got a little tanning also. As we were talking someone cleared their throat beside Candice. We both raised our heads towards the voice and saw Joshua Candice don't know him, we stared at him for few seconds so he could say why he is here but he did said anything so we went back to our conversation. He again tried to get our attention by tapping on the table. "What?" Candice spat annoyed by his interruption. "That's my place." he replied. "And who said that?" she again questioned. "I am sitting here from few days." he retorted back. "Because I was on vacations for few days, and no one can come and claim my seat like that boy." she snapped at him. "But here nowhere your name is written." he frowned. "Neither yours." she said and smirked. He glanced at me with hopeful eyes so I would say something in his favour but I was staring at him.Why would I take his
Grace's pov:I clenched my jaw seeing him smile like a fool and said "See Josh you are a good guy and I don't want to hurt you so stay away.""So you even gave me a nickname." he said still smiling.This idiot! Didn't he listen what I said in the whole line instead of it. He is getting on my nerves now. "YOU WANNA DIE DON'T TAKE MY SILENCE AS MY WEAKNESS AND FUCK OFF." I shouted. "But just now you said you don't wanna hurt me." he said. He said the truth.But why it is the truth?"You son----" I again started but his phone rang. He took out his phone and received it gesturing me to stop for 2 minutes. He started talking--"Hello" he said and the other line replied. With whom is he talking? "I'm at the school with my friend." he said glancing at me. I'm not your friend idiot! "Okay I get it. Bye I love you." he again said.Is he talking to a girl? Is she his girlfriend?Why do I care? "Who was it?" I asked glaring at him. Why did I even asked?"Why are you jealous?" he said
Joshua's pov:Currently we both are laying on my bed after we came back home. "I'm so happy for you." I said to her. She nodded at me. I glanced at her lips and desire to taste her abrupted in me. So, I smashed my lips on her and kissed her softly. I held her both hands above her head intertwining our fingers. I pulled away and gazed in her eyes breathlessly. "I want you Grace." I told her honestly what I'm feeling now. "Then take me." she said breathing heavily and her eyes closed."We aren't married yet is it okay to you?" I again asked for her consent. "Yes, I trust you." she said intensely. I leaned down and kissed her forehead, her eyes, her nose, her cheeks and then again captured her lips. I moved my lips a little roughly this time and she also kissed me back with the same intensity. I held her head a little up with my hand to deepen the kiss. I pulled out, as she parted her lips to breath I again my smashed my lips on her. She clutched my shoulders tightly because of the
Joshua's pov:(2 years later) :I hope Grace pass out with good grades so that she could get a decent job opportunity. I don't want everyone to graduate leaving her behind. She did hark work for the examination but didn't tell me how did she did in exams. I kept thinking about her, sooner or later, the most awaiting moment came. I found Grace sitting straight and focusing while biting her nails. I swatted her hand away from his mouth. She glanced at me nervous. I put my hand on her and assured her that everything will be fine but inside I'm more nervous than her. "So students... We all expect good things for you, results won't decide your future but still, this would give you a brief overview of how you worked throughout the years." The principal paused and took out three sheets, that were personally decorated. He smiled and continued. "These are the top three names that stood ranking and I'm very glad to call them on the stage." he announced. I glanced at Grace her eyes were close
Grace pov:I smirked at her principal and started telling the truth to the officers. "A group of seniors bullied by boyfriend and hurted him badly that he was hospitalized. Today when I complained about it to our principal he asked me for proof and witness." I said without moving my gaze away from the principal. "Can we talk to the victim?" the officer asked."Yes sure." I said and went outside if the office and took Joshua with me. I make him sit on the chair there. "Hello I'm officer Robinson came here to investigate your case." officer said and shook hand with Joshua. "Hello officer I'm Joshua Williams." he replied. "Joshua we got a complaint about you getting bullied. Is it true?" he asked him. Joshua turned his head to me I nodded at him to tell the truth.I turned his head back and said "Yes officer they bullied me many times but a week ago they crossed their limits." I put my hand on his shoulder to comfort him. The officer nodded and asked "Can we saw the footage of that
Grace's pov:I called Candice and she received the phone. I told her to come to the principal office with Brandon and convince some students to be the witness of Joshua's bullying incident. I hung up the call and dashed to security room. The security incharge was already present there. "Show me the footage of a week ago." I demanded. He nodded and played the footage of a week ago when I played it at the time when Joshua get bullied there was not clip and it was totally blank. How is it possible? There is the footage of whole day but not only of the incident. Now I get that why that principal was asking for proof. He make them remove that clip from the footage so it can't be proved that the a student get bullied in his school. I gritted my teeth. I will not let that happen.I turned to the security incharge. "Where is the clip of the incident?" I asked sternly. "Which incident clip?" he asked acting confused. "Why will I do that? When seniors didn't even bullied ayone?" he said. "
Joshua's pov:She laid down beside me putting her head on my shoulder. "You didn't do anything they did this because you hurted their male ego." I told her softly. "So they should have taken their revenge from me." she spat gritting her teeth. "No, it would have hurted me hundred time more than it is hurting now. I can't see you in pain bellisima." I told her honestly. "Same I can't see you in pain." she said caressing my arm softly. I nodded at her. "But I will make them pay for sure." she said clenching her fists tightly. I took her fist in my hand and caressed it softly with my thumb. "You don't have to." I told her. "Do you want to eat something or do you want anything?" She asked me changing the topic. "No, I just want to lay here with you." I said and shifted her more closer to me and closed my eyes. I enjoyed this peaceful moment with her and don't know when drifted to sleep.-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*Grace's pov:He thinks that I will let them go
Grace's pov: He had bruises and cuts all over his face and body. His lips was busted.Touching his bruises softly I sighed. "You have bruises all over your face." I said sadly. He gave me a lip tight smile. "Oww. It hurts." suddenly he hissed. I took my hand back immediately. "I'm sorry." I apologized. "Just kidding." he grinned at me like a fool. This idiot scared me. This time I pressed my finger a little tightly at the same place to make him taste his own medicine. "Owww." he hissed. "It hurts?" I asked smirking at him.He nodded at me. It really hurted him my smirk vanished and eyes softened. I bent my upper body towards him and pecked his busted lip caressing his cheek like it will sooth him. He closed his eyes softly. 'He is in so much pain just because of you.' my inner voice mocked me. I moved my body back, tears were pooled in my eyes. "Hey why are you crying?" he asked surprised on his face."You are hurt because of me." I said and the tear trickle down my cheek. "No
Grace pov:After he fell unconscious in my lap. Kevin brought his car from the parking. Brandon and Jordan placed Joshua on the back seat of it. I also sat back putting his head on my lap. Brandon sat on the passenger seat and Kevin drove the car. My mind has stopped working. I don't know what to say and do. So I called Joshua's mom first. She received the call.~His mom: Hello Grace. ~Me: Aunty. (I whispered.) ~His mom: Yes what happened? ~Me: J-Joshua is injured. (I stuttered out.)~His mom: H-how what happened to him? (She panicked) ~Me: Some seniors bullied him.~His mom: W-where is he? I'm coming. ~Me: We are taking him to the xx hospital. Please you also come fast. ~His mom: Y-yes I'm coming right now. (She hung up the call.)In this duration we reached to the hospital. Brandon ran and called the helpers to take Joshua inside. The helpers came and took out Joshua from the car and out him on the strecher, taking him inside. I followed them. They took him in a room and c
Joshua's pov:My eyes were becoming heavy and they closed. Someone yanked me from the collar and pushed me on the ground. When all the hands get off from me I thought they stopped. Suddenly a very chilling cold liquid was poured on me. When I slowly raised my head to see what it was but was not able to see what it was because of my blurry vision. "Stop." someone unfamiliar voice yelled but I was too numb to recognize the voice. I rubbed my eyes and then tried to see, they were emptying their coke can on me. I tried to shook my head but I didn't have that much strength. The coke was drenching my clothes and they were now stuck to my body completely. When they stopped pouring the coke someone punched me and my lip busted. The metallic taste of blood filled my mouth. I tried to stop them but nothing worked. "Stop." I whispered but I know they didn't even heard it. I gasped when all of them started kicking me. I asked them to stop many time why they were monsters who let their dark side
Joshua's pov:"Grace and Joshua." he said and everyone clapped. I got surprised and hugged Grace in excitement but came to my senses that we are in classroom and deatched from her clearing my throat. She chuckled at my foolishness. "Rowan and Saisha." he announced the last pair's name and everyone again clapped. "Congratulations to the winners. Projects of these three pairs will be sticked to the school's activity board and rest is the students can collect their projects from my desk." he said.The students started walking to the teacher's desk and collected their projects and sat back on their places. Mr. Brown started teaching us the new chapter from our text book. The time passed by and all the teachers came, teach us their subject and went away. Finally the school get over. The four of us decided to celebrate our winning in a cafe. "I will eat so many pastries today." she said getting excited. "Like you don't eat them usually." Brandon replied back. "So what I like them."