The owner of red heels stared…no more like glared at the student that was lying down unconscious in the nurse's office. Uselessly. Pathetically. She made no efforts in bringing back the consciousness of the student at all. He couldn't even do one simple job yet he is the renowned bully of this school. Then again, she too didn't know that her puppy now knows how to bite.
Might be the credit of that blonde bitch.
Emilia glared at Rio unblinkingly making him shift at his uncomfortably. If looks could drill a hole at someone, Rio is sure her glare would do so to him. She hadn't even touched the burger that they had ordered. Any third person would assume that an undercover police officer is interrogating a minor who might be involved in illegal activities.
"Y-you shouldn't e-enter into the b-boy's shower r-room a-arbitrarily like that Emilia." Rio stirred his coke.
"Mia."
"What?"
"Call me Mia. Only you call me that no one else does. Call me that or nothing."
"Uh—alright , Mia." She partly smiled at this but soon her demeanor returned to the angry one. "Now tell me what's with those bruises?"
Rio opened his mouth and iterated everything to his girlfriend that has been happening to him for the past two months.
Ever since their quarrel in the library and then their make out session after that, few weeks went blissfully for Rio. He thought that maybe things are turning out for good. Even though it was unexpected, he got a girlfriend, someone who was way out of his league but it quenched his deep rooted wish. However he might have spoken too soon when he was slammed on the lockers by a brute force.
This brute force is familiar and so is the proprietor of it.
Rio choked at the strong hold of the arm that clogged his air circulation in his neck. "You seem to be enjoying a lot with my Emilia, eh? How does it feel to be using a used good, Sanders?"
"Agh…! She is nothing like that, stop saying that."
"Oh~seems like the dawg can bark after all. Did you think that Emilia is a virgin bitch? Noooo she is not! Wahahahhahahhaha! Moreover have you fucked her yet—"
"Stop it Daniel!" Rio somehow wrenched himself away from Daniel's hold and ran away to his class.
This has been the similar occurrence for the past two months, sometimes Daniel would manhandle him and provoke him or sometimes he'd just threaten him. The common location for all this shitty action is the locker. Unfortunately Rio has to go to the lockers for his books and other essentials. The common topic of all these provocation and threats was Emilia and his incompetence of being her boyfriend. Since he wasn't harmed physically by Danny so he didn't bother to say anything to Emilia.
That day, on P.E period he had gone for a washroom break when Daniel again cornered him and this time punches landed instead of words. At first he was caught off-guard, but soon he too managed to land a kick and a punch or two on the brute bully. He continued his struggle and finally managed to knock down the star basketball player of Roschend High unconscious. Rio too slipped and fell on the floor of the washroom. His chest heaving because of the brawl, his mind in a mess due to the lying body of the bully. The class has already been resumed probably.
Should he go back?
Rio felt being engulfed by warmth all of a sudden. Emilia's seat opposite to him was empty, instead it is her hands that are hugging him.
So, this is what hugging feels like…
It's been such a long time he got hugged by someone. Ever since his grandmother passed away, he wasn't hugged by anyone like this. Heck, he'd feel nauseous if anyone tried to touch him even.
"So you thought I was incompetent of girlfriend who didn't deserved to know that her boyfriend is getting bullied?" her soft voice seemed to be reverb on his back and pierce his heart.
"E-eh? N-no no i-it's not l-like th-that—"
"Then why?"
Rio pursed his lips as he mumbled loud enough for the girl hugging him to hear it.
"I didn't want a repetition of what happened in the hallway, what you did, I am thankful for that day but you could have seriously hurt Daniel and could've gotten suspended too?"
Emilia broke off the hug and looked at him incredulously; "Are you seriously worried about your bully at this point?"
"It's not worried…I-I just d-don't want so-something happen to y-you because of him." He paused then unsure of if he should say it at this point or not; "I-I d-don't know if I should say this to y-you b-but that day when I was in the washroom, I o-overheard some students, maybe D-Daniel's friends laughing and d-discussing excitedly how h-he's planning to drug y-you for b-better r-r-results in b-bed….and I-I..."
"That's why you warned me." She smiled softly much to Rio's relief who thought that she might be upset for bringing that up. "Well I found out immediately about it and escaped from there." She looked at him. "I jumped off from the window of a second floor bathroom."
"S-seond floor!"
"Hahahahhaha well I couldn't escape from front door so bathroom window it was. I didn't break any limb so it's fine." She laughed at his dumbfounded expression. "But then again Rio, knocking Danny unconscious might not be a permanent solution. I thought beating him up would stop him from targeting you and you being my boyfriend would keep you safe from him but it seems like we'll have to think of something else now."
After they had finished their meal they walked together towards their home. They made a small talk and as she was about to hold his hand, she noticed it.
"What the hell happened to your arms Rio?"