Chapter 5
Merry Mack Jim’s ‘ride with the wind’ plays in her car to make the silence less awkward as she drives us to school. When we got to school, Janel just spat a get out, locked her car and went inside the school building.
Geez… she’s really a stand-off fish. Isn’t she?
Anyway I was grateful to her because I’d have still been on the road if it wasn’t for her.
“Miss Frisks.” I heard an authoritative voice and turned. Mrs.Masko, the mathematics teacher stood there with a scowlon her face. She really didn’t like me because I wasn’t a grade A mathematics student.
“Are you planning on skipping school Ms frisks ?” her lips thinned and her brows arch up as she questioned me.
“No ma’am. I just arrived. I wasn’t planning to ditch school.” I defended myself.
“Oh so you decided to come late just because you felt like? You have detention after school.” She scolds me before going back inside.
Of course I came with Janel but the she didn’t get scolded or get detention. It was only the scholarship student who got treated like this.
“Oh come on. This is the first day.” I say to myself.
I heard female voices laughing and whispering to themselves and turned to see some members of the cheer squadhiding behind a car. They had evil smiles on their faces and were giving me smug looks.
They must have told Mrs Masko I was late.
Those bitches.
I gave them the middle finger and went inside.
Eat my unbothered self, haters.
This is senior year. I don’t have to take any of their bullshit. I’m not going to be trampled upon like how they did to me my first year.
I’m a human being with equal rights. I don’t care about their societal status or money.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been silently enduring all their little pranks and ignoring them so they think they’re the boss of me. Oh well, somethings won’t be the same forever. If they bite me, I’ll bite back and make it worse. Not with their little petty games though.
I’m not going to stoop to their level. The teacher is already teaching before I enter the room.
“You’re late. Detention after school.” He says when I see him.
Oh well, I guess he didn’t know that I had detention after school already.
I decide not to let him know I already had detention for my lateness caused by Hunter and the cheer leaders.
I can serve do the two punishment at once.
“Okay” I agreed to him and went to find an empty place to sit. The only seat available was beside Xander.
At least this time, it’s not with any of those vindictive cheerleaders
I moved to sit beside him when my eyes met Hunter’s dark chilling ones, daring me to do exactly that.
Where else is he expecting me to sit?
He was sitting directly in front of Xander with Janel beside him.
I looked away, unable to meet his eyes any longer.
Xander was really nice to me. Although we weren’t close friends, he was cool and fun to be with.
We would have been great friends if we got to spend more time together or even maybe more than friends.
I genuinely liked him.
But anyway we weren’t ‘great’ friends like i wished since he was always with Hunter and their other friend, Asher .
If I got to sit with him today, it would make the class more pleasant for me. All the teachers seem to hate me and pick on me in class but if I sat with Xander, most teachers assume I’m his friend and let me be.
He was also powerful in school.
Kevin was probably angry because he knew the teachers wouldn’t puck on me if I sat with Xander.
Xander and Hunter were close friends so it was quite surprising I had such a good relationship with him and the exact opposite with Hunter.
I felt happy and comfortable with the arch enemy’s friend. I even had a little crush on Xander.
Hey, he’s a nice guy. I couldn’t help it.
I continued moving to the seat beside Xander when out of nowhere someone placed her feet in my way so I end uptripping over it.
It was another cheerleader. Lana’s best friend, Nella.
I didn’t even see her there. I was too busy being caught up im Hunter’s suffocating eyes.
Squealing, I went tumbling down and reached out to grab onto the nearest thing and not fall.
Even if it was Hunter’s desk I had to hold.
I ended up missing it and falling face first into his broad chest. His cinnamon and spice scented cologne engulfs my whole being, making me drunk and dizzy with it.
His muscles moved beneath my upper body, rubbing his chest against my breasts.
I’ve never been this close to him!!
Can the ground swallow me? I’m about to die Friday embarrassment or maybe fear.
My cheeks were becoming heated. When did it get so hot in here? My face and neck feels like it’s on fire. I hurriedly scramble to get up but my ankle is twisted. I fall back and hit my face against his crotch.
My fore head hit his belt buckle, causing pain to rock my head.
I groaned. Something hard twitched against my lips.
Oh my God was that his thing?
I jerk back so fast and fell down on the floor, where I was supposed to fall at first.
My lips still feel his hardness.
The class began to snicker and laugh at my expense.
There are the ‘slut, pathetic, and stop throwing yourself at him’ comments too.
I covered my now red cheeks with my palm and hurried to my seat beside Xander. I don’t dare look at Hunter’s face to even see his reaction.
I bet he wants to choke me to death right now, he just wanted to murder me right here or maybe even take his time to Skin me alive slowly.
I could feel his chilly stare on me as I break out in a cold sweat.
“Nice one there Winnie.” Xander
smirks when I sat beside him .Winnie?
Is he seriously trying to say he doesn’t know my name?
Wait a minute…...
I was wearing my panties which had
Winnie the Pooh on it!!!!!!Did I flash him when I fell ? What the hell ??
My embarrassment couldn’t get worse.
Oh Nella, you just made yourself the first target on my revenge list. Pay back is coming. You'd better be prepared.
It took the teacher several minutes to quiet down the students who were busy making jokes and taking jabs at me
"Now if the class clown is done giving the class a show, I'll like to get back to what we were doing before .The teacher said as he frowned at me.
I really wasn’t the teachers favorite. Everyone saw what happened. Yet, I’m the one being blamed
His distaste for me coming out with every word like venom.
There goes any hope of giving off a good first impression.
"As I was saying beforeMs frisks unmannerly behavior," he fixed his glare on me."We would be doing the project in groups of two.Let's continue with the pairing.Shall we?" He asked,picking up the register and mentioning names.“Clara Trumple
Chapter Seven.CAUGHT EAVES-DROPPING IHow long has it been since I saw Hunter and Xander on class. They were have both been absent in class, and
CHAPTER EIGHTCAUGHT EAVES-DROPPING II
CHAPTER NINEHUNTER’S POV
CHAPTER TEN HUNTER II“Stop it now, the two of you. That’s enough.” My grandfather and the principal stood at the door with stern looks. My grandfather was clearly disappointed in us whilst the principal looked anywhere but at us.
Chapter ElevenTAKEN ADVANTAGE OF?I woke up with a headache in a dark room with. I couldn’t see clearly because the curtains were closed and the lights had been turned off. I felt nauseas.
CHAPTER TWELVEFLASH BACKWhen we were young, Levi had brought in a well-known coach to teach Hunter martial arts.
Chapter THIRTEENHE’S A PERVERT!!I grunted and managed to stand up, leaning against the bed frame. This was not the time to cry. I went into the bathroom he just came out from and rinsed my face with co
EPILOGUE !The Christmas ball was soon beginning and I’d be expected to be beside my father as we were the hosts. The ball room was the former basement which had been renovated into a ball room. It was first my mother’s hideout but now it was a ball room. I didn’t want the memory of Hannah to dampen my mood today.I stand at my balcony with the glass of champagne I’d grabbed downstairs before coming up, watching other people from above. Maybe I wasn’t really watching them, I was more of looking for someone, Kayla.It’s been hours already and she wasn’t coming. I’d gone in to the theatre room several times to check on her.Okay fine, I meant to spy on her, but her blinds were down and I couldn’t see inside her room. This year, I had a reason to buy her a gown. The previous years I just had to watch Jonathan buy her gowns as gifts but this year I told him to not buy her gowns and that I’d give her a gown for the ball. A knock comes at my door and I go to open it. It’s Martha. “Youn
Chapter Hundred and oneHunter’S POV.I throw my phone against the wall in my fit of anger. I felt powerless. I was Hunter King. I wasn’t supposed to feel powerless but I did.I called Kayla and asked her if we could talk about everything that happened but she just said she needed some space to process everything by herself.By herself.Which meant I had to stay away. She doesn’t know this but, I needed her to breathe to survive. I almost went berserk when I was told she wasn’t pregnant. I refused to believe it and when the doctor tried to convince me, I had lost control and punched him in the face. Security had to come and throw me out.I told her to use the child as an excuse to be with me but now she could leave me at any moment. We weren’t tied together anymore.It hurt.I couldn’t lose her and our child. Losing one already drove me berserk. If she left me this time, I don’t even know if I can survive.My house bell dings and I run downstairs like a giddy teenage guy. Fuck, but i
Chapter HundredHow long has it been since I got out of my room and lived? How long has it been since I came back from my coma and shunned everyone out and locked myself up, depressed and crying for the child I never had?I don’t know. Janel, Xander and Asher came to see me at the hospital but apparently they have a grudge with Hunter so they haven’t been to the house since then. Aunt grounded me when she heard about the false pregnancy and gave me the whole responsible sex talk. After that, I was taken to the hospital and placed on birth control.Hunter must be having it worse than me. He found out about his mom and the child. For Hunter to resort to violence when adults were around and ruin his golden boy image, he must be taking the news harder than I was. I should go and see him and stop telling him I needed space to process everything. What’s there to process again? We were both not okay and needed each other. Everything is finally over. No more secrets. Nothing. The least I can
Chapter Nintey NineI hope you can forgive my rush decisions. I’m sorry I made you worry. I know you cared for me. Please forgive me.It’s black and nothing and I’ drowning. Several gunshots are fired. But I don’t feel a thing. Am I dead already? Is that why I don’t feel a thing?Crap, I wish I had another chance. I don’t want to die without making him pay first. I don’t want my child to die with me. I can’t regret coming here. I had no choice while my father was watching. I had no choice but to follow his orders. I didn’t know his emotions will take over that he would choose to kill me so quickly. I was waiting for the perfect opportunity to launch a surprise attack but I didn’t get it. You’re right, Hunter. I am weak.Nothing I feel nothing.I hear nothing.What is nothing again?........Nothing is a black unawareness of everything. “Kayla, Kayla wake up.” I hear someone’s voice. It’s familiar. It’s distant. It’s inviting me back to something. Back to someone. Back to what
Chapter Ninety EightA screen lights up and a video begins to play. It’s a recording of my father and a lady talking. He seems to be hiding the camera from the lady, so I don’t get to see her face.“Do you regret what we did?” the lady asks my father. Her voice is disturbingly familiar.“I don’t know. Do you?” My father replies.“Of course not, that bitch had it coming after she betrayed me. She pretended to be my friend and used me. I took her out of the trash and gave her a life. How does she repay me? By trying to take Jonathan away from me. She knew he was mine from the beginning but she steal dug her filthy claws into him. She deserved a more miserable death.”“I agree, although Rosa interfered and took the girl so she’s still alive.”“Fucking Rosa. I took them both out of their wretched lives and this is how they repay me. I was wondering when you were going to tell me you were incompetent and that you let Kayla live.”“I didn’t know you had it in you to murder a child, Hannah.”
Chapter Nintey SevenMEETING MY FATHERI grab my hair on my head and refused to cry, instead I gnash my teeth with anger. I was not a victim. I was no longer the girl he kept locked down in the basement as he hit her mother upstairs. I could now defend my loved ones. I won’t let them be like mom. I won’t let him hurt anyone any longer.I couldn’t protect mom from him then, but now I can protect Hunter and Aunt from him.This time round, I won’t let harm come to anyone I can protect. And if all I have to do to prevent that is to face that devil, then so be it.Car lights catch the corner of my eyes, the gate opens to let him in. At first, I think its Hunter, but then I notice it’s not his car. It’s not my father too because he wouldn’t dare come in. He’d be dead by now not driving towards the worker’s quarters. It’s my opening to get out without being caught. I recognize the driver. He was part of the workers in the garden this morning. He drives into the mansion and towards the wor
Chapter Ninety six .Rosa OR Hunter?I gather a few clothes into my bag. Since I’m only going to the mansion for just two weeks, I don’t need a lot of stuff. I can just come back here when I need anything. My phone dings on the bed and I go over and pick it up. Hunter returned it to me yesterday when we got home. It had been with him all this while. I slide the screen to unlock the phone. There are missed calls from Janel and Xander from when I run away. I really have to see them and explain.I open the latest message from a contact saved as ‘my boyfriend’, yep that’s Hunter indeed. Of course he would temper with my phone. God, he has kept it with him for so long that it doesn’t even feel like mine any longer.“When is your pretty ass coming over?”“Shut up, lewd pervert” “Or do I have to come and get you myself? If I do, we’d be doing a lot more than that, my slut.”“I told you not to call me that.” He is back to his old arrogant self after being extra sweet yesterday. I guess Hunte
Chapter Ninety fiveA STARRY NIGHTAunt, please don’t let me have my way. Please insist or say something to convince me. Please..... There’s a moment of silence before she sighs. It looks like she is going to agree with me. NoMaybe I should just pretend to throw a tantrum like I’m begrudgingly accepting it and then go upstairs to do my happy dance.“Kayla, I know you’re refusing to go because of Hunter but I’ll talk to him. This is very important and leaving you here on your own is out of the question.”As it should be. I do a happy dance in my head but fake a groan and sigh dejectedly.“I’ll go. I’ll go. I’m not afraid of him”Of course you aren’t“He won’t bother you. The mansion is big enough so you don’t have to even see him once during your stay. I know you guys were together and it’s difficult to accept this but please endure for the mean time.”“It’s fine” I say. I’m beginning to feel a little guilty for lying.“Okay then.” she says.I’m watching a movie on my laptop, curled u
Chapter Ninety fourBRINGING BACK MEMORIES?I wake up in the morning half expecting him to be gone somehow, realizing I’m not worth it but the thought vanishes immediately I feel strong arms curl around my midsection, pulling me further into him.It seems too good to be true. Maybe this is all a dream. It wouldn’t be surprising since it’s not the first time I had this type of dreams before.His arms tighten around my midsection further and drags me into him. My mind is in a spiral. I’m refusing to fully analyze the situation. I’m afraid that it’s a dream and I’m trying to stay in dreamland a few more minutes at least before reality kicks in. At the same time, I’m hoping it’s real and there’s no need to be in dreamland to feel this sensation. That’s when I feel something hard against my ass. It twitches against my naked back.It’s definitely not a dream then. It feels too real to be. Too good to be a cruel joke my mind would play on me. I open my eyes and sure enough, it’s Hunter’s str