The next morning, Haylee prepared herself to go to school as usual. Martha cooked her breakfast and Ben sent her to school like before. Ben drop her off two blocks away from school and she walked by herself again to the school area.
When she arrived in front of the school, she saw Niel's red Porsche already parked in front of the school. Like always, till now there were still female students fangirling his car and surrounding it like it was a thing. They even started a trend and posted pictures on their Inst*gram social media accounts about Niel's car. The girls were crazy enough to shoot selfies of themselves with the red Porsche and started a trending hashtag #NielTheRedHottie on their Inst*gram accounts. Haylee knew about it because she too followed her classmates' Inst*gram accounts.
It was not really a new thing to Haylee, because Niel had been popular since the day he entered the school. It was just that this time it seemed different because now she had a thing
Haylee felt like she got a heart attack when Niel pointed his finger at her. The rest of the female students inside the class had their jaws dropped when Niel boldly chose Haylee to become his partner and they started to stare at Haylee with dissatisfaction, feeling jealous that the school hottie chose her for the presentation. Haylee looked around her, trying to check if Niel was pointing his finger at someone else. But there was no one who locked their eyes to Niel, proving that he was indeed pointing at her. She unconsciously pointed her finger at herself, feeling baffled by the situation. "Me?" Haylee was in disbelief. "Yes! You! Haylee Johnson. I want to do it with you," he announced loudly. 'Is he crazy? Why is he so brazen?' Haylee turned red in an instant, feeling extremely shy and she lost for words. Mike stood up and pushed Niel's chest a little. "Hey, how about me? Partner up with me. Why do you want to do it with her?" Mike
Came to think of it, Haylee just realised that she had been away from home for five days already. 'How mom's doing?' She wondered internally. It was strange that her mother didn't try to find her at all. If her mother really wanted her home, she would have come to school to find her, or at least made a police report stating that she was missing. Usually, the police will try to find a person after twenty-four hours of being missing. It had been five days, but nothing happened. No one tried to find her. 'Did mom really throw me away like garbage? Did she really didn't want me back?' Her heart turned sorrow by the thoughts. She wanted to go home again, but she was afraid of having to face her stepdad. That abusive alcoholic bastard always tried to find chances to take advantage of her. She was traumatised by what happened to her in the past. Even so, she actually missed home because that house was the only place that held all the beautiful memories that she had with her late fa
The school bell rang again indicating that the recess time was over. Haylee and her friends quickly cleaned up their lunch boxes and sat at their respective tables again. The teacher came into the class and the study session resumed as usual. Haylee still couldn't get her mind out of what happened before. She stared at Niel from afar, watching at everything that he did. He acted like his usual self as if he wasn't at fault at all. But then again, when Haylee thought deeper about it, she couldn't even find a solid reason to be angry with Niel regarding his action of flirting so openly with Brianna right in front of her. 'It's not like I'm his girlfriend. He made it clear before that there won't be any relationship between us. So what am I then? His sex doll at home?' Haylee felt a sudden dread with the thought. "Haylee, turn to the next page. Haylee?" Helen called out for her. They were sharing their textbook but Haylee's mind seemed wandering around somewhere else.
Niel realised the nurse was not around and he approached his favourite girl in an instant and kissed her lips without warning. "Hmmmm... Baby Girl, I miss you," he said shamelessly while kissing her and releasing her lips slowly. Haylee was dumbfounded by his action and her eyes got widen in disbelief. "What the hell are you doing?" Haylee whispered-yelling at him. "Are you sick?" He ignored her question and looked deeply into her eyes. Haylee got withdrawn by his enchanting gaze again. She couldn't resist the temptation that she felt from those deep blue eyes of him. A smile was formed on his face and Haylee instantly entered a dreamland with Niel as the sole conqueror of her mind, her heart and her body. She shook her head lightly, informing him silently that she was not sick. She could hear him chuckling and the sound of it felt like the most melodious sound on Earth for her. 'Yes, that's the sound of a love spell. And I got enchanted again,' Hayle
Haylee looked around to check if there was anyone that might see her before she entered the room slowly. When she opened the door, Niel was standing right in front of the door waiting for her to enter. He grabbed her hand and pulled her inside fast. He then closed and locked the door behind her. The utility room was empty with only a long table on one side of the four walls room. There was no fan, just a small window placed a bit higher on the wall that Niel and Haylee couldn't even reach. The window was probably just for airflow.Niel loosen his tie and unbuttoned his white school shirt. The room felt a bit hot, he got the tendency to just be naked instead. But if something came up, he was worried that he won't have enough time to put on his clothes again, so he just let his front shirt opened exposing his sexy chest instead to reduce the effect of the warm atmosphere inside the room.Haylee was a bit disoriented right after she entered the utility room. She wrapped h
Right after he was out of the utility room, Niel quickly searched for a public bin along the corridor. He found one and immediately threw away his dirty handkerchief in it. There was an unpleasant v*ginal odour that stained the handkerchief after he wiped his junior with it before, thus he didn't want to keep it. He then walked himself to the restroom to wash his hands and his face.Niel stared at his reflection in front of the long rectangular mirror inside the restroom. His mind still thinking about what he had done with Haylee inside the utility room just now. Came to think of it, he just realized that he had been having some crazy and nasty experiences for the past few days with her. 'I'm losing my mental stability and my conscience because of her,' he grumbled internally, feeling as if Haylee was the one to blame for his indecent action just now.He took a few moments to reduce his panting breathes due to the lovemaking inside the utility room before. After a few
The next day, Haylee went to school as usual. Since Niel put her in such an awkward situation yesterday by choosing her as his partner for the literature presentation, Haylee expected that he might find ways to try getting close to her today. Strangely, he didn't do that at all. He was still like how he used to be before. Being the hot guy who only talked with the popular rich girls. Meanwhile, Haylee was still that regular girl who was out of his league. They only glanced at each other once in a while but never engaged in a direct conversation. Haylee got the impulse to approach him and talked with him casually. Yet, she couldn't find the guts to do so, not after Brianna attacked her verbally yesterday and accused her of seducing Niel. Her mind had suddenly been attacked by that perception as if everyone will think like that about her if she ever talk to Niel casually without any solid reason. Niel on the other hand was enjoying his day as usual. He wasn't felt both
Niel's POV:It was a tiring day. Here I am inside my penthouse sitting in front of all these white-collar people that kept holding a business meeting for me. Since Grandpa Fred died, my whole daily routine changed. I used to have a lot of free time before. Usually, after school, I would play video games for hours without anyone telling me to stop. Why would they need to stop me anyway? I'm a smart student, my grades were great. So, no one actually told me what I should do or what's not to do with my free time. I could do whatever I want as long as I passed my school tests and examinations with flying colours.Unfortunately, the death of Grandpa Fred had turned my life the other way around and I was forced to enter the real adult world without having a choice. No more video games after school. Instead, I was forced to attend meetings almost every day. Actually, it was only from Monday to Thursday.Monday was the meeting for managers of all departments in the comp
After Haylee was done cleaning herself up, Niel finally brought her up to the top floor again. It felt truly uncanny when he saw her smiling, laughing and even making some jokes to him while they were inside the elevator. He felt horrible inside because he remembered what happened to her last night. The fact that she forgot all about it was clear proof that her mental health was deteriorating.They entered the penthouse again and Niel's eyes swiftly went to look at the living room. The television was gone and the mess there had been cleaned up. The food was also had been served on the dining table."Where's the TV?" Haylee asked. She was weird that the television was gone. She tried to recall what happened last night but her head felt hurt instantly. She cried out in pain while holding her head with both arms."What's wrong?" Niel grabbed her body from falling. The woman looked like she was about to faint."Aspirin..." she said and Niel helped her to sit at the dining table first befo
Upon seeing her leaving the open kitchen and entering the bedroom, Niel rushed to the elevator and went up to his penthouse again. He took his spare key card of the condo unit and went down again. He just left his laptop on the floor in front of the condo. It only took him less than five minutes to return and he quickly went into the house.The first thing he did was go to the open kitchen and grabbed all the knives and cutleries. He put them inside a black plastic bag and hid them inside a bin. Then he carried the bin and put it into a cupboard inside another bedroom. He threw a bunch of towels and a blanket inside the cupboard to hide the bin even more.Then he came out to the living room and slowly went to the bedroom that Haylee entered before. He carefully twisted the knob to check if the door was locked. It was and he just stood there thinking about what he should do next. There was not a single sound from inside and that made his heart race. He didn't know if she was okay or hu
Seeing her become speechless, Niel smirked and just walked towards his bedroom again. She was so frustrated that she grabbed an empty wine bottle and threw it toward the television in the living room. The cracking sound of the screen made Niel panic and he ran back to the living room to check on her. He saw her grab another few wine bottles and try to throw them on the television again, just like before. She was acting like a lunatic and so he quickly hugged her body from behind, locking both her arms from moving to stop her violence. "You don't know shit! You don't know what it's like to be me! You don't know shit about me! I'm fucking tired of you! I fucking hated you! I fucking hated living with you!" She shouted frantically while struggling to free herself from him. Niel grabbed her body firm and even tighter, slowly had his eyes reddened and his cheeks felt hot. He didn't know why he was so angry at her yet felt hurt at the same time while looking at her losing her sanity. Hayle
Ashley gasped in disbelief at her words. She stared at Niel and saw the change in his expression. He looked absolutely grim. But Haylee simply looked relaxed as if she was not even in trouble.'So, what would happen if Haylee fails the subject?' Niel thought. Surely, one thing led to another. She would probably deliberately fail the other subjects too so she would need to repeat the first semester. If that happens, she would be moved to a new batch of students next semester and she won't be in the same class with him anymore for the next five semesters. And if somehow Haylee refuses to repeat the first semester and quit Kingston, she could appeal to get into Hudson University for July intake. She was being clever to him. She knew how to threaten him now too. In short, Niel could not afford to kick her out of the group and make her fail the subject, or else he would be the one at loss here. Slowly he released her arm and let her go reluctantly."Exactly," Haylee said arrogantly and wal
Haylee could feel her cheeks turn hot due to the embarrassment. The hall turned silent for split seconds with a lot of eyes staring at her. Niel boldly beckoned her to come to him. Haylee slowly walked down the stair pathway to go to the front. But then she noticed the mad looks Ashley and Linda gave her. She stopped unconsciously, reevaluating her choice whether she should go to Niel or not. It was obvious he wanted her in. In fact, it was not just Ashley and Linda who were looking at her hatefully right now. Haylee noticed that some other students were looking at her disdainfully too, probably those who had asked Niel to take them into his group before but got rejected."Why are you just standing there? Come here," Niel rebuked her gently, beckoning her to come to him again."Niel, how about if we just take Linda? Haylee didn't seem like she wanted to be in our group," Ashley suggested bravely."Why are you deciding for her?" Niel rebuked her coldly, totally a different treatment co
"Do you really think that I won't have a spare key card?" He ridiculed her and took out another key card from his pocket.She scoffed at him instantly. 'I knew it. He would never let me have my own privacy,' she muttered inwardly and just put the key card inside her backpack."That's not fair. I thought it was supposed to be my own place," she said deliberately to show her dissatisfaction."How is that not fair? You had access to my penthouse as well," Niel replied with a chuckle."Is this mean that I'll be living alone for real now? Can Martha live with me?" Haylee asked. Deep down inside, she was anticipating for that to happen for real. "No. I never said that. You're going to still be living with me, in my penthouse, our house. That condo unit was just for emergency. We're going to be studying here for three years. I'm sure at some point your friends or my friends would want to visit our place. So we need a split residence for that. Aren't you the one who didn't want people to kno
"Anyway, your food looked tasty. How long had you known Haylee?" Lily asked more. Her questions were all over the place, non-relating to each other."Hmm..." Niel was about to speak but the woman asked him some more."Haylee said her brother was rich. You're close with her, so you must know her brother too, right?""Brother?" He knitted his brows in confusion and instantly looked at Haylee. She met his eyes and made a poker face at him, silently sending a signal to that guy to go along with her lies."Yeah. Haylee brought a lot of expensive makeup to class, so we asked her how she was rich. She said she had a rich brother," Lily explained cluelessly."Right..." Niel nodded while giving Haylee a playful glare. 'So now I become her rich brother,' he muttered internally."Of course, I know her brother. We're partners," Niel added the lies."Partners?" Now Lily and Haylee said in unison."Yeah. Haylee's brother worked with me. I sent him abroad to handle some projects. He won't come back
"He was the one I'm talking about before. He's my former classmate during high school," Haylee said."Damn, girl! You got into the wrong gang. We're obviously out of your league," Bruno quipped at her and the rest just chuckled in agreement."Are you together with him? He seemed close with you," Lily asked. She suddenly turned into this kind of over-friendly girl to Haylee."We're just normal friends," Haylee avoided telling them the truth."Bring us together for lunch. Introduce him to me please..." Lily begged. She never would have imagined it getting an opportunity to know Niel in person."You don't even want to know his name first?" Haylee teased her and the girl laughed shyly."His name was Nathaniel Anderson. We called him Niel during high school," Haylee said deliberately to let them all know.A while later, the lecturer came into the lecture hall. He was Professor Damien, an old man in his late forties. As soon as he entered the hall, he went directly to Niel and had a handsha
Weeks passed and they finally started college at the end of February. After the orientation week ended, all the undergraduates at Kingston University started their first class the following week. Haylee and Niel pretty much acted like strangers at college. Niel drove by himself to class even though they were going to the same destination because he sometimes would need to go to the company during his free time if his presence was necessary there. So, Haylee too was the same. She drove by herself to classes using the red Ferrari car that Niel gave her during Christmas last year.After coping with her depression about not going to Hudson for a few weeks, Haylee slowly learned to accept her fate of going to Kingston. She tried to look at the bright side. Home was not far, so she didn't need to think about paying to live in a hostel. And surely, if she was somehow in trouble, Niel was around to help her fix it. Her life was easier that way.She attended her first lecture wearing designer