NEXT MORNING..
He gets up from his bed. He feels heavy in the head. The scars on his arms and shoulders are seen clear. They are old but deep. He is shirtless. He comes to the mirror and looks at himself. His messy hairs hides his dark eyes. He goes into washroom and after sometimes he comes back in his room with his perfect nerd boy look. It's unbelievable how he disguises himself. Who'd believe that this boy can be a kidnapper too who have a girl in the locked room. He hangs his bag on his shoulders and leave for college.
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Whitney submits her assignment to teacher. She rolls her eyes at Whitney for handing over the assignment late.
"Class I'll soon announce your team member names as the next project is team project" she announces.
"What??" Whitney cringe. She have not been a fan of group assignment because it's never in her favour.
"You late again huh?" Lucas says as soon as the teacher leaves the class.
"Yeah actually, I was completing my assignment whole night that's why. Btw have you guys submitted the assignment ?"
"Yeah, decade ago" Sadie says.
"Sure, old lady. She says in a weird voice with added coughing gesture." Lucas chuckles while Sadie rolls her eyes.
After half of the day, there chemistry teacher enters the class announcing name of the project after mentioning team no. And it's members. Team no 4 is Lucus, sadie, Jeffery, Tony and Cara. Unfortunately, Whitney is sorted in some other group as usual. She not even have her bestie Perry with her. She cringes at the thought that she have to work in a project with a class nerd and class topper and some other least famous people.
"Ohhh, someone's gonna score 100 out of 100 without actually moving a pencil, no, Whitney?" Sadie says with a smirk, she's just teasing her because she gets to be with Lucas and Whitney doesn't. Whitney fists her fingers and rush out from class.
This is too embarrassing for her that she will be pair with book worms. She wants to be with Lucas but her bad luck with group projects works again. She talks to the teacher about it that she could replace her with someone from Lucas' team but teacher refuses and she had to accept it.
She enters the canteen and orders a coffee. She sits in the corner with a dull face, these little things matters in her life so much, she doesn't know that there is so many important topic in life which need more attention but she just focuses on fame and status. She's sitting while keeping her one leg out and V hits her leg accidentally. She turns to him angrily but stops as he's already a target of Lucas and she knows his future is doomed already.
"I'm sorry" he apologizes.
"uhh... No.. It's ok it was my fault" she keeps her leg under the table. He takes a step, she stops him.
"Listen, are you in my team?"
He turns to her and nod.
"Ohh, Hmmm... Btw I want to tell you that I'm not interested to be part of this project so If you guys want to share your work and time among you four, you can. Don't count me in and if you want money for this project then I'll pay my share and that's it, I can't help you guys more than this." She tries to escape using her old technique which always used to work.
"Firstly that sounds like a personal problem, and second thing, if you don't want to be part of it then talk to your teacher and nobody wants your money. If you want to pass this year then you have to pay your full attention and efforts too rather we four will be enough. Thank you."
He nods a bit and move, she looks at him shockingly and a bit offended. No one before him had dared to reply her like this. And the fact that whatever he said was true made her more speechless than it should have. But she feels obliged to stand up for herself and show him that she's from a popular group. She goes over to his table and puts her coffee mug and sits across him folding her hands. She sits there as if exerting her dominance over him. She doesn't knows, its not working on him for even 1%.
"What you think yourself huh?" she asks him loudly, everyone around them starts watching them but he continues focusing on his sandwich. The innocence on his face is tact. He's looking everywhere but her which is pissing her off even more.
"Hey hey you I'm talking to you" she clicks her finger in front of him but his sights on his sandwich only. Everyone enjoying this drama.
"This little piece of shit" she murmurs inside her mouth. "Hey you don't know me, ask anyone here, who I am?"
V rolls his eyes at such a childish way to fight. "Why don't you know who are you?" he finally replies. Everyone giggles on his answer she feels insulted. She bangs her hand on table and stands.
"I warn you last time glasses, say sorry to me or else i.. I'll... My boyfriend will cut you into pieces." She tries to scare him away by using his boyfriend as a threat which he doesn't even know.
"Really ? Is he is butcher or something?" He says loud enough for everyone to hear Everyone starts laughing. This boils her blood and she stands on the table thinking that will make her look better or more powerful. Little did she know that she's just looking desperate for drama and making a clown out of herself in front if everyone. She kick his water bottle which is in his hand so that she can start the fight over again but he escapes her kick and she loses her balance. She falls down and instant regret rushes over her and she knows that her reputation was good gone after this but she finds herself looking in his grey eyes behind the glasses instead. He make her stand properly.
"At least you should know how to bully someone" he advices her partly pissing her off again. She's still in shock for falling as well as seeing him as his saviour.
Backside of crowd, where Lucas and his friends watched the whole thing or atleast the part when she fell and he grabbed her, he boils in anger seeing someone touch his gf and on top of that it's his bully target.