I was sitting on the corner most desk of the class at my usual spot.The break had just started but i was still gazing at the grounds from the window it was my usual routine whenever i felt bored i start looking at the empty grounds thinking to myself how peaceful and quiet it is out there,but my life was far from anything peaceful or quiet,and why i am saying this u will get to know in some moments.
"What'ya looking at binoculared pig."came the voice from behind with a smack to the back of my head.Standing beside me now was the leader of the bullies in class 1-b.With a tall body posture and broad shoulder wearing the school shirt in a not so good looking manner the shirt was tugged out from the pants,and his tie hung loose around his neck with few buttons loosened.Diaz had an eerie aura around him like a wild boar ready to charge head on on whatever that came in his way.
"Get up and bring me some juice and snacks."
I stood up to go as i was told,but he blocked my way with his leg,with a grin on his face saying go on.i looked at him but figuring out he is not gonna let me pass without having it his way.As i stepped forward trying to avoid his leg as discretely as possible he thrashed me with his shoulder in an attempt to make me fall on my face,the force was enough to make me trip on my feet.But i was somehow able to manage to stay on my feet but seeing this caused his grin to vanish into thin air and with a displeased look he pushed me on my back and this time my luck ran out and i fall face first on the floor i was able to cushion my fall with my arms but my glasses went flying to the entrance of class.
As i tried getting up i saw someone entering the class,she had long hair neatly tied in a ponytail and her eyes had the colour as of the sea , she was wearing the school uniform just like other girls ,a shirt shirt tucked under her dark crimson red skirt and tie,but it all looked too fashionable and classy on her.Her name was Emy,Emy swan.
She was just about to crush my glasses under her shoe when she realised something lying in front of her with me as the backdrop.She bent to down to pick up the glasses and we both stood back up at the same time.She extended her hand in an attempt to give me back my glasses,to which i responded by quickly reaching out with my own hand and snached my glasses back."Thanks."I said in a voice low enough so that only she could hear it,and quickly speed up my pace to get out of here.
The class which was laughing at me just moments ago,was now silent as a graveyard.It was not because of emy that dared helping me,but cause of the tense aura coming from behind me.
Yes,it was diaz whose grin from moments ago was nowhere to be scene and was replaced by hatred towards me.He crushed the pen which he was holding in his hands.
The situation looked grim.
I didn't wanted to cause any further issue,so i took my leave from the class with my head grazing towards the ground,i tried avoiding the gaze from emy and keep walking towards cafeteria.
I could hear the commotion behind my back as i was leaving, but i gave it no mind.
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"Two orange juice and a pack of rice crackers and doritos."I was now in the cafeteria which was brimming with students from all grade.Most of them come to cafeteria just to sit around having fun while checking out the girls from other standards and girls came in groups gathering in the cafeteria to gossip about stuff that is way beyond my understanding and exchanging information on what's going on in the other other grades and section.While some came to the cafeteria just like me to do errands for the bullies in their respective classes.
This was how the system worked in the xavier senior high.It had just been 3 months since i entered this high school and its already been 2 weeks since i have become the victim of Diaz.On the first day itself,this guy beat three guys to a pulp and when the boys class representative came to take the stand for the students who got beaten, he smacked him right to the square of his face with a fist without a second thought.The impact was so hard that the class representative had to wear bandages on his nose for a week.And to top it off he got out of the mess unscathed by simply terrorizing the four of them,the thing could have taken the turn for worse if the girls female representative hadn't came in for the rescue,she calmed the matter like child's play and not even Diaz has the guts to go against her.He tried to mess with her in a verbal warfare, but in vain.
After that incident Diaz became the sole emperor of class 1-b,and some of the students started following him and became his lackeys, and no sooner all that happened had calmed down he started bullying the weaker ones in the class,and by the weaker ones i mean,the whole class,cause no one was stronger than him in class 1-b or even the 1st year,there are even rumors about him, that even the sophomores are afraid of messing with him.
And if u are curious about how i got involved in this,its just like that on one unfortunate day two weeks ago i had the misfortune of bumping into him and thats how i became the number one victim in his hitlist. And the case with emy today had further solidified my spot as the number one.
After purchasing the stuff from cafeteria i was on my way back to my class,on my way back i decided to take the long way and popped the extra juice can and gulped down half of it in one swoop.And i took a hault looking at the ground in front of the school from window,and thought to myself.
'This is not what i imagined highschool to be like.'
And just like that lost in my own dreams I continued my journey to the empire once again.
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I entered the classroom and went to his desk and put the stuff on his desk.
"What took you so long,huh,foureyes?"he asked.
"The cafeteria was too crowded,thats why..."I replied,but he cut me off mid sentence.
"Have you grown the balls to talk back to me,ya nerd?I will smack your face so bad that your glasses will be sunk in your sockets."He said to me in a threatening voice.
And just as I anticipated just to explain what he said he threw a punch at me without any notice and I brought my arm inbetween the incoming fist and my face so as to reduce the impact but the force in his punch was enough to throw me backwards and i landed on the desk behind me rolling over the desk on my back i took a fall on the floor if i hadn't blocked it with my arm my nose and glasses would really have been shattered in pieces.I tried getting up on from my knees with the support of desk but something forced my hand and I lost my grip on the desk.It was his leg that had removed my hand from the deskand simultaneously he pushed me back with a kick on my chest.He walked towards me with his hands in his pockets meaning to finish me with his kick,but...
"Enough,stop it diaz.Haven't you done enough already."came the voice from somewhere behind me.
'Not her again.'I thought to myself.
Then came the voice of footsteps approaching with a steady pace the girls class representative came and stopped between me and diaz.I could see the ponytail in front of me and the back of the class representative as perfect as it could be.
"Back off,or i will have to report this to the homeroom teacher."she declared in a bold voice.
"Tsk,u are a lucky bastard nerdy eyes, won't let you off easily next time."He said like giving a death penalty.And then he left the classroom.
As soon as he went out of the classroom,the girl in front of me turned around and faced me leaning towards myself,and asked in a concerned voice,
"Are u okay,Arlen"
This was the first time that our eyes have ever met.
She had the same neat pony tail and sea blue eyes now standing in front of me and helping me for the second time today.She was none other than Emy.
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