CHAPTER 10

❤️ Jennifer' POV ❤️

❤️NEXT DAY❤️

I come early before Edward today because I need to retrieve my notebook from that monster. I walk in the direction of the classroom to finally face the room, slide open the door, and go inside. 

He was already there, his hands tucked in his pockets and leaning back on the sliding door he looks at me and locked the door behind us. 

"Give me my not----" I shut my mouth from shock as his hands grabbed my arm to pin me against the wall. His strong body pressed on mine with his hands firmly laid on the flat surface hurting my back. He looks deeply into my eyes, his sharp and warm breathing heating on my skin as the current closeness making me choke on air. 

"Why were you holding his hand?" he grabbed my jaw with his on-hand tightly, squeezing my cheeks. He rasps in a steady but in a strict voice, not blinking once nor moving from a hair. He's crushing my cheeks with his gripping. 

"What does it have to do with you?? What's your relationship with me? Are we that close that you're asking me this question?" I ask him back looking into his eyes holding my tears.

"Jennifer" he pronounces my name with anguish, his eyes turning into a red fireball, making his expression into something way more sorrowful. "You better not be playing with me...... I swear..... I'll make you regret it...... I never thought I'd be the 'If I can't have you, no one can' kinda guy but I guess I was wrong..." he said word by word. 

I don't just say one more word but stomp away in fear, my tears leaving my body heavily as my heart just got hurt when I thought that he would be like this, I didn't know he's such a psycho. "Open the door." I face it as my quivering voice left me with weakness and ache. "Jennifer..... please........" he dares to lay his hand on my arm, but I step away to avoid it, feeling like I'm about to burst into tears as I've never done before. "Don't touch me and let me go out right now." 

He exhales sharply, his feet tapping against the tiled floor to get him away from me and grab hold of the key. He steps back towards me and without giving any glance at my body, he opens the door, " I never meant to hurt------ ". I don't let him finish his sentence but head out of the room, to make it clear I don't give a damn about his goddamn words that won't change anything in the end. I walk away, my heart aching as the pain it's provoking is growing into tears falling down. I hate him and myself to sleep with him that night. 

I let my feet lead me far away from his classroom, wanting the distance between me and that heartbreak to enlarge as much as possible. 

With my inattentiveness, I bump into someone by accident. 

The male who's taller than my size holds me by the waist as I went backward with the abrupt movements and dropped my binder onto the ground. I bow to him immediately without making eye contact to apologize and bend over, in order to grab hold of my belongings. 

"Hey..... Jennifer" he squats down to help me, making me take a peek at the boy whose hands are veinier than a bodybuilder. "I'm sorry, Edward....." I wipe my tears away and sniffle while getting back up...

Where are you going? The math lesson is going to start in two minutes." he mentions the time, this one which flew by quickly. I'm not going to face that monster who's name remains bitter once it passes through my mind or my throat," I ......I need to take.....I forgot something in my locker....." I use it as an excuse to escape but his soft hands hold me by my arm," what's wrong.......? why are you crying........?" 

"I just fell down and hurt myself...." I avoid looking at his face, keeping my eyes down or anywhere but on his features. He places his finger under my chin and raises my head up, forcing me to connect our gaze. " Are you sure? I don't see any kind of marks on your body or on your clothes......" 

I take a deep breath in and exhale, "yes I'm sure...." I nod with my lie. He gives up and drop his hand down, but takes a look at his watch, " I'm coming with you to your locker, we have one minute left, so let's run..." he takes hold of my hand and rushes towards the locker with me, running through the hallway when it's something strictly forbidden if you don't want to end in director's office. I follow him feeling like a dumbass in front of him once I'll have to admit that I just lie and didn't need anything in there. We pass through the different closed classrooms and in short seconds we reach the place we wanted to. 

Our breathing now unsteady as we hurried, he stands in front of the gray lockers but let go of my hand to let me have access to my own one. "Come on the bell is going to ring in some seconds........" 

"I.....I might have lie a little bit....., to be honest....." I swallow my shame and take a peek at him discreetly as he seems to be dead after this work-out. "What!?" he frowns at me, bending over with his hands on his hips to seek air, I can't help but smile at how cute I find this. "Jennifer... you made me run as if it was worth my life and you're telling me now that I'm couching my lungs out!!..." 

"I just..... I needed to have some time alone..... sorry....." I bite my upper lip feeling bad for this poor boy. "Sorry doesn't work lady...." he straightens up, shaking his finger from left to right disagree with this while grimacing. "Give a mouth to mouth to reanimate me..... I gonna fai-" The bell rings right through his sentence full of pants. " Argh.... seriously....!!" he complaint at the sound that always ruins our day. I chuckle in a weak tone but look away at the sight of students entering the building.

"Let's get to our class now." he gestures to me to follow him, but at this sudden reminder, I remain on my spot, not willing to see that guy who showed his true face and scared me by his actions a short time ago. 

" Hey...." he turns around as he realized I wasn't following him. "What are you doing?"

"I don't want to... I'm just going to skip it...... " I walk in the opposite direction to leave but get pulled back by this man. 

"Very funny miss." he drags me back towards the classroom as the noise around us suddenly became unbearable with all the teenagers. "Edward seriously I don't wanna see that mon-", I take my hand free from his grip and step back. He turns and looks at me for few seconds before speaking," ohkay....fine then I'm too gonna skip this class....do you wanna go somewhere with me?" 

"Where?" I answer

"Don't ask more questions just go with me." he grin at hold my arm and drag towards the room of radio broadcast. 

"Why are we here?" I look into his eyes in doubt. 

"Didn't you said you wanted to join the radio broadcast of our school?" he replied with a smirk. "Let's go inside." he dragged me inside.

"Hey everyone," He greeted everyone and they all look at him and welcome him with a smile on their faces.

"Hey Eddie, what's up bro?" A guy with blonde hair comes up to him and hug him with a smile. That guy looks at me and gestured to ask Edward, who I am...

"She's Jennifer, my best friend, she wants to join the broadcasting club." he introduced me and I look at him dumbfounded when did I agree to him to join the broadcasting club, but anyway now I'm going to join it as it's a good place to ignore that monster, Timothy.

"Oh yeah, that girl whom you recommend to me last week, right?" 

"Yeah, she's the one." Edward holds my hand and smiles at me as I smile at him nervously.

"Please leave me with anything to do. I'll try my best..." I look at the blonde-haired guy and politely smile. That guy check the schedule "Ohkay.....then what about this since we have not decided who is going to interview Eric-"

"Are you going to give that to her!!!" the other guy rushed to him and exclaimed at him before letting him complete his sentence.

"Yeah then who is going to interview Eric Gray, you?" the blonde-haired guy point at another guy.

"No, I can't, he yelled at me in the morning for talking to him." that guy reply shaking his head in denial as he's scared. 

Edward speaks out "why can't you do it, Blake?" he asks the blonde-haired guy.... oh so his name is Blake.

"No, he said that if I ask him one more time he will kill me. So, since we can't do the interview with Eric, Jennifer will do it to make her accept as our member." Blake reply as he's not going to talk about this anymore. They all are talking like they all are so scared of that Kim whatever guy so I ask them to clear my confusion, "But, Who is Eric Gray?"