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"tchhh, what do you want?"
"N-nothing, ju-just you have nice hair"
"yes, I know I have nice hair, if that's all you've got to say then leave me alone"
"Oh...Okay" the boy scurried away embarrassed and rid of all his composure
The girl walked elegantly across the playground, her hips swaying from side to side enticingly with an expression of superiority and confidence on her face.
As she walked eyes of admiration, longing and jealousy followed her as well as whispers.
"she's even more beautiful than I thought she would be"
"You get me*!?"
"I heard she's bare prestige though"
"yeah I heard that too"
"Did you see the way she just dismissed Clifford? And he's one of the best looking boys in our year"
"Even so, she's out of even his league, what were you expecting?"
The girl could hear all this but it only served to widen her smug smile as she adjusted her tie and walked confidently towards a group of people in the far corner of the wide playground that seemed oblivious to her presence.
"move! What's happening here?" she said this upon arrival with a clearly agitated tone. 'how dare they not notice me' these self-centred thoughts went through her mind as slowly people began parting way to let her through.
Before she could get to the centre though, loud whispers began as two people approached the group from the opposite direction to her.
"it's them"
"yh, they're always together, its kinda wierd"
"go say that to their faces and see what happens"
"They're so leng*"
"you got that right, but don't lose yourself. Girl you got more chance becoming a professional boxer than getting their attention"
"Why's our year so full of hot shots, first her now them"
These whispers immediately peaked her interests as she eyed up the two people that had so swiftly stolen the spotlight from her.
She immediately recognised and acknowledged them as people worthy of being compared to herself. Two of the most handsome boys she had ever laid eyes on waltzed up to the centre of the group where she immediately stepped forward to meet and get to know them.
However that was when she first experienced something she never thought was possible for someone such as herself.
She was ignored. Completely and utterly ignored.
Instead the two boys ,after barely sparring her a glance, walked right past her and stopped in front of a little fat boy on the floor who had been the centre of the group earlier.
They began to mercilessly and shamelessly beat the kid.
For some odd reason that act sparked an intense flame of jealousy within the girl. This kid, that fat, miserable looking kid stole the attention of the two people she was trying to get to know from her.
When the beating had eventually come to an end with the ringing of the starting school bell, the kid remained on the floor in a battered and sorry state. Bruises covered his blockish face, the purple and black broken only by the bright red of the blood leaking profusely from his crushed nose.
She waited for everyone to leave before approaching menacingly and looking down at his pitiful self. They made eye contact and what she saw in his eyes made her sick to the bone. Indifference. It was the look of someone who did not care in the slightest who the person he was looking at was. She had long gotten used to attention and admiration that seeing someone so beneath her dare to not look at her in such a way disgusted her, it wasn't the same as with The two boys before who she considered worthy.
whack!
"Aaargh!"
She landed a solid kick to his face that catapulted him back by a few metres.
Ptoooo!
splat!
She launched a large ball of spit that landed and splat squarely on the bashed face of the boy who was slumped helplessly on his back with tears streaming down his face and an empty look in his eyes.
"Tchh, don't you dare steal anything from me again"
And with that she swiftly turned around and walked into the large school building.
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King recalled his first ever interaction with Bella as his situation began to truly sink in.
Kayla had a distressed and guilty expression on her face that quickly disappeared with a slight nudge from Ruben to be replaced with a cruel smile of victory that truly emanated from every fibre of her being as if it had always been there.
*sniff**sniff**sniff*
Violent sniffles erupted throughout the court room as King did everything he could to hold back the flood of tears that threatened to let loose. But it was pointless.
Tears flowed from his eyes like a tap turned up to max and mixed with the stream of snot from his nose.
His mouth was opened wide in desperation as he bawled and screamed as much as he could, his impossibly skinny body writhed in anger, pain and sadness as he leaned forward, desperately trying to escape his bondages.
"B-B-Bella?! N-NO! Please! I didn't do anything! Please! Don't listen to them! Please! I'm begging you! Let me go!!"
And that's when he realised that he truly had never stood a chance in this ordeal. Despite how hard he screamed, how much he bawled and cried his eyes out. Not a single sound could he make.
All the unknown eyes upon him where filled with pity, disgust and guilt as they watched him writhe fruitlessly and helplessly in desperation and sorrow.
In his fit of disparity King felt the bones in his arm break like sticks, adding an unwelcomed surge of pain to course violently throughout his body. Through all this he lifted his eyes to the front of the room where they came in contact with that of a certain man in a red suit.
Through his water-clogged vision he could see the shadow of a smile on the mans face as well as a glitter of satisfaction as he said in a tone of authority "Take him away"
Once again an invisible force slammed into King as his vision darkened and his body slumped. Unconscious.
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When King opened his eyes again he was in a pitch dark room.
Nothing could be seen in this room. But it was moving.
Remembering everything that happened King found himself weak, emotionally, mentally and physically drained.
He remained in his sitting position unmoving, it was almost as if there was no life left in his body. He reflected on everything that had happened to him over the span of his two lives and found that only one thought persisted.
'If I die... No more...No more pain....Right?'
With the revelation that Kayla was really Bela all along he felt there was no longer any need for him to endure this.
"Mum...Viera...wait for me..."
He opened his mouth wide and bit down as hard as he could on his tongue.
Extreme pain enveloped his jaw area as an unhealthy amount of blood surged forward from his mouth as he fell forward on his side with a faint smile on his face.
He stayed like that for a long while watching as an immense pool of blood formed around his head, his vision began to blur and his body slowly began to numb to the pain.
His smile widened as he felt his conscience begin to fade permanently
'Finally, peace..' he thought
"I'm sorry young one, but I cannot allow you to do that" said a low voice before King's vision was filled with a blinding white light.
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*Leng means really attractive
* 'You get me' means 'I agree' or 'you understand what I'm saying'