chapter 5

“Hey, I didn’t see you for our drink.” I heard someone say beside me, of course, he was in my class. I couldn’t believe he had the nerve to still talk to me after doing what he did. Drinking with another girl, laughing, ruffling her hair… Yeah, I caught it all. Disclaimer, I was about to be extremely petty.

“Oh, I am sorry. Are you done with her already?”

“Huh?” he blinked in shock. He clearly didn’t understand what I meant.

“I saw you with the girl, Alec. Are you boyfriend and girlfriend already? You don’t have to deny it, or do you wanna say you were drunk, and you didn’t know what you were doing and who you were with?” I raised my brows at him. Honestly, I didn’t care about him being with her. I don’t know it would take a long time before I actually have the chance to invest my feelings in anyone. I have never really had a crush on anyone, male or female.

“While you went to talk to those guys, I went to the bar, and she approached me.”

“Shh, no one’s listening to you.” I rolled my eyes.

“Are you jealous?” Alec asked me teasingly, definitely not a time to flash your perfect white teeth and show off your nice dimples, playboy.

“As if. We are not even dating yet, and you are already so disloyal. For shame,” I humphed, then faced the teacher to listen to what she was saying. The good news was that she was happy that I did the homework she gave us, but the bad news was that I was supposed to turn it in later this week. What a waste of time and effort, and I thought I was going to get detention. I really need to keep track of my classes.

“So you are jealous. If it makes you feel any better Doctor two left feet, Reana is my cousin” I blushed at my utter stupidity. No way she was his cousin. Where are my twin detectives? I need someone to dig up his life story and bloodline.

“My bad.” I could have actually buried myself on the spot. All I needed was sand and a shovel.

“No, it’s fine.” he smiled at me. “But since I put you through all the mental trouble, what do I do to make it up to you?”

“Hmm, let me thi-” I was cut off.

“ALEC AND WINTER, how long before I call you out for talking about God knows what and put you in detention?” Mrs Anderson said. Apparently, right now. Another embarrassing moment in my life. Everyone was staring. It would be better if I actually interacted for real with these people. I could laugh it off, but I didn’t and I couldn’t.

“Sorry, Mrs Anderson,” the both of us chorused and went back to writing in our notebooks.

“Miss Cameron, why don’t you come up and explain to everyone how I did this,” she said. Is it wrong to hate the elderly? I hate her.

“I wouldn’t know. I haven’t mastered that point of whatever that is yet, Mrs A.” Whatever that is? Really?

“I just explained it,” she deadpanned, glaring at me.

“I can’t understand by just talking. I need proper explaining and reading, ma’am.” I pursed my lips, hoping she would just leave it and me alone.

“Then you need a tutor, so you can get the proper explaining you so desperately need.” I don’t know if she was being sarcastic.

“What?! I do not need a tutor, Mrs Anderson. I’ll get better. Nothing a few YouTube videos can’t fix,” I laughed awkwardly.

“Is that yelling I detect” oh no strike three she was going to send me to the principal’s office, and she was going to request to see my father, who right now, I didn’t know where he was “Go to the principal’s office.” I glared at the predictable witch and was about to stand up and walk out of the class when Alec caught my hand.

“I will be her tutor, ma’am. Mrs Anderson.” Mrs Anderson looked at me with an angry look on her face and her hand tucked into each other, trying to either cover or lift her sagging breasts.

“Sit down, young lady” she ordered me and I did as I was told “then it is settled” Chloe and Zoe looked over at me with a WHAT THE FUCK look on their face, I know what that face meant, it meant, ‘you know your father will kill you if the is called to the school again on behalf of my bad manners’ Bad manner my ass. I have never been rude to this woman in my life. She just hates me for whatever reason.

“Thank you,” I whispered to my saviour and glared at the back of Mrs A’s head for the rest of the class. I wanted to just walk over there and smack the glasses she was wearing. Or maybe if I look at her hard enough, what Xavier did that morning in the car to me would happen to her. Hopefully.

I walked alone to my next class since I didn’t have it with any of the twins, and I couldn’t find Wyatt anywhere. Alec bumped me as I got to my locker to search for my Spanish textbook and notebook.

“Hey, thanks for what you did back there. I would have been peeing my pants if my father was called to this school again because of my insolence.” I rolled my eyes. “My insolence that does not even exist.”

“No sweat, so when do we meet up?”

“You know that was a joke right, I don’t really need a tutor. I am fine at math.”

“But I do. I need someone with some of my maths work. I am really lagging in class unless, of course, that would be a burden on you”

“I can totally help you, but not today though, I have a thing,” I said, trying to avoid blurting out that I was going out to give Xavier several reasons marriage to me would never work.

“Okay, what about tomorrow? Then we can make it a date?”

“I don’t plan on doing math equations on our first date, Alec.”

“Weird?”

“Way too weird.”

“Okay, fine then, we can have our little study session and a little later I can take you out on a proper date.” I smiled at how sweet he was. Such a nice guy.

“Bye” he pecked my cheek, and blood rushed to them, leaving them feeling hot. I entered my Spanish class and someone was in my seat. It was my ex-boyfriend who only lasted for three days.

1 Because he only wanted into my pants.

2 He was a player and was as well making hits on Chloe.

3 My father found out about him and nearly killed him.

I didn’t even like him to begin with. Chloe and Zoe said a needed a date for the dance. I was only his girlfriend for the two days that followed that.

When I found out he was hitting on one of my best friends from her, I was thrilled at the fact that my father almost killed the guy but then my father went to jail for beating up a high-schooler, but they found out he was legally an adult by the time he hit eleventh grade for the third time and they released my father.

“You are in my seat. Please get up.” I said boredly.

“Sorry,” he said. I thought he was going to get up, but of course, he had horrible manners.

“Dude, I said you are in my seat. Get out.” I said.

“I am not standing up for you. It doesn’t have your name on it.”

“What’s your name again... uh gosh, remind me.”

“It’s Niall, we went out.” he rolled his eyes.

“We did? Sorry, it’s hard to remember you when you are so little and you don’t stay in.”

“What are you talking about? We never...”

“My name is literally on the desk. You know what keep it. Lick it too.” I walked away to the back of the class

*****

During lunch, I sat at my normal table with all my friends. They were all laughing while having lunch. The twins were on either side of my seat, urging me to tell them about my weekend with Xavier. There wasn’t even anything to talk about. I was dead throughout the weekend, but they weren’t taking me seriously, saying nothing happened. They kept urging me. When I told them I would tell them during lunch, I thought they would have forgotten all about it by this time.

“I swear nothing happened,” I saw Alec sitting with some other people, I wish there was at least a tiny space he could squeeze into and seat with us but our table was just so crowded, this was where the jocks, cheerleaders, and every other person in the highest part of the fucked up social ladder, I wasn’t a cheerleader but I got unto the table because I was voted most likely to become a model in 11th grade. And I am extremely nice, at least that is what they think. And Chloe and Zoe forced Wyatt to force everyone else to agree to me sitting here.

“Come on, why are you holding back on us” they both chorused abruptly into my ear, which made me jump and choke on my drink a little.

“You guys, nothing happened. I am serious” I put my cup near my mouth again.

“We are your best friends, as much as you are trying to hide your excessive blinking we know when you are lying” okay I was blinking excessively but not because I was lying about not sleeping with Xavier. Something happened. he killed me, and told me he was a demon. I wanted to tell them but I didn’t know how to word it.

“I do not blink excessively when I lie,” I started defending myself “and stop doing that you guys, stop talking together, and maybe I might tell you what happened between me and Xavier.”

“So his name is Xavier so sexy. I bet he is big, Xavier’s are always big,” they said together again and I clamped their hands over their mouths.

“Shut up.”

“So Xavier is big?” they both gushed like little children. Where in the world did I find these girls? I loved them to bits and pieces but sometimes they were much.l

“Stop it, your boyfriend is staring,” I looked over at Wyatt, who was looking at us with his eyes slightly raised and a wary look on his face.

“I think he has heard about sex before. Start talking,” Zoe commanded.

“Honestly, I can’t say it here let’s go to the field and I will talk,” I replied

“Swear,” they said.

“I swear” I pushed away from my sit then Zoe and Chloe mimicked my actions. As we walked out of the cafeteria, people’s eyes were on us. I am pretty sure you have seen me before guys.

Zoe, Chloe and I got to the field where we sat on the first line of the bleachers.

“Okay, you cannot tell anyone what I am about to tell you guys. This is top-secret, agent-type shit. Okay?”

“Okay? About Xavier? Is he threatening you?”

“No. Not exactly.”

“You said it’s top secret. Did he kidnap you and he is threatening you? cos I am about to roll up my sleeves to punch a bitch” they both said.

“No! Well not exactly... Yes, it is exactly like that Xavier is a...” I felt that sharp pain in the middle of my skull between my ears. It was ear-splitting and horrible. My hand gripped my head, and I blocked my ears.

“Are you okay” No I was not okay, the loud screeching sound in my head continued and it wasn’t looking to cease soon. Chloe and Zoe grabbed me and walked me to the nurse’s office while I just walked with them with the pain. Was he trying to kill me?

What I remember is calming down and falling asleep in the nurse’s office after the nurse ordered Chloe and Zoe to get to class. Normally when I sleep I see darkness, but this time, there was light restricting me from seeing anything. Was I in heaven? Then I saw myself in a room that was beautifully decorated to be an office.

“Hello.” I saw Xavier looking at me, I opened my mouth to speak but nothing came to me rather nothing came out of my mouth, it was like I was completely dumb “You can’t talk, sweetheart. I don’t want you to. All I want is for you to listen carefully.” he walked over to me slowly and caressed my cheeks slowly looking at me my lips as I tried to talk again.

“I don’t like letting you feel pain,” He hugged me and kissed my hair. I could feel my heart beating rapidly in my chest.

Xavier released me from his embrace but kept his hands firmly holding my arms “Winter, listen... don’t tell anyone about me. This is our secret, no one has to know. I am sorry for what I did to you. Forgive me.” He smiled softly. “You are going to wake up now and you are going to explain what you were saying about me kidnapping you, tell them I am kinky and we did a little roleplay, okay? If they think I kidnapped you, they are going to try things that will lead to me hurting them badly.” He stopped smiling and he looked almost psychotic. Then he smiled again. My hands flew to my mouth.

“And… also… warn that Alec boy to keep his hands off my property. Hmm.” He pecked my forehead again and everything went white again soon I opened my eyes in the school nurse’s office.

“You are awake...” she handed me a bottle of water and I grabbed it drinking it quickly.

“Thank you.” I was so happy that I could talk. The water went down my throat like a flowing stream and it felt good, so good.

“Let us review what just happened to you shall we, your friends said you were acting weird, and you mentioned someone kidnapping you and he might have done something to you” A part of me wanted to expose him, tell this nurse everything and prove to him I was no one’s property, but I didn’t want to go through what just happened to me again so I just started explaining what I said in the way he explained it. I was sure she would understand.

“Matilda, I didn’t mean he was a real kidnapper. I just meant he really enjoys role-play… during sex? Do you understand what I mean?” Matilda, the nurse, was taken aback a little.

“Of course. I see. So the pain, Is there anything he did?”

“No, no, of course not. It happens a lot I am, asthmatic so maybe it is a side effect that comes with it.”

“Can you explain the pain?”

“Not quite miss. It’s not describable” It really was an indescribable pain.

“Are you sure? Let me help you. Is it a burning pain?”

“No.”

“A throbbing pain?”

“I think so,” I shrugged

“Help me here. Is it as though someone was hitting your head with a hammer?”

“I would say it was like a loud siren in my head. And it’s very painful”

“Okay,” she wrote that down, “Maybe I should call your father to pick you up-” she started.

“No, that is not really necessary,” I stuttered a little while saying it and Matilda gave me a confused look.

“My father would be busy, and I am completely fine,” I stood up from the bed and twirled for a little more emphasis.

“That was very severe, what happened to you.”

“I don’t want to bother my dad. He is a single father, this is the time he uses to relax. I am a handful.”

“I see. If you are sure. You can hang around here for the moment.”