"Michelle!! Long time no see",Eric called her back to reality,seeming to know nothing about what happened earlier.
"Hi Eric",Michelle answered and gave him a hug,he was the only one in the band that she was free with.
"How is things going with Lucas",he asked making Michelle scarlet.
"He told me he doesn't feel anything towards me and is only telling everyone that he is my boyfriend so that girls will stop chasing after him,which I think is stupid", Michelle answered feeling like she is report her husband to her mother.
"Don't believe what he says, he enjoys lying to himself",he told her in a rather comforting manner making Michelle blush harder.
"That aside,Lucas moved into my house with that other band member of yours but I don't see you, what happened", she asked rather concerned.
"Lucas and I don't really get along,we have a kind of history. It will be best if Lucas told you himself,but it's nothing serious though", he answered nonchalantly but the hurt could be seen in his eyes.
Seeing that he didn't want to talk Michelle didn't ponder on it and left the matter.
They talking for some more minutes and Eric left. Michelle's classmates were burning with jealousy but Michelle didn't give a fuck.
To Michelle's greatest surprise as soon as she took her seat after Eric left Grace walked up to her.
"Michelle,I have been a bad friend...I was blinded by jealousy and forgot our relationship...am sorry,you were my only true friend.. you've been with me through thick and thin and I shouldn't have been such a fool to ditch you....please forgive me and let me make it up to you by treating you to lunch after school", she apologised so solemnly that Michelle was taking aback and lost of words.
She took a minute to digest all Grace has said before accepting to go for lunch with her.
The series of events that unfolded just that morning gave Michelle an headache just thinking about it.
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A dark figure entered the principal's office in the afternoon and the air around the office went stiff.
"Mr. Song,what brings you here", the principal,Mr. Northrop asked breaking down in a cold sweat.
"Am here to inquire about a student named Michelle Smith",Mr. Song answered with an emotionless voice.
"Oh,she is a student who got enrolled her four years ago,she has been in some sandals of recent with a Lucas Thompson,she isn't a student of a really noble background and has an history of suicidal attempt...",he got cut off by Mr. Song as he walked out. Only then did he breath a sigh of relief.
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After school Michelle and Grace did go out for lunch in an not so expensive restaurant with Grace insisted on going.
They were half way done eating when Grace asked to go to the bathroom.
Five minutes later she was not yet back and two huge guys approached Michelle.
"Pretty damsel, it's a shame for you to be sitting here all along,how about I accompany you",one of them said while the other was trying to get close to her.
Michelle was truly frightened but tried her best to conceal it and put up a fight.
"Don't you dare lay a finger on me", Michelle shouted on the top of her voice while standing up,fear it her when she remembered she didn't tell Lucas before coming and no one else knew where she was so someone coming to save her was close to impossible.
"Save your breath now,you can shout all you want in bed", that was the last thing she heard before someone hit her head with a stick and she blacked out.
When she lost consciousness Beatrice came out of hiding,the restaurant she was in was owned by her father,it was the only company left after her father sold it all,everything to pay all the partners that wanted to terminate their partnership, at the thought of that her eyes darkened.
She walked up to Michelle after they had tied her down and gave her a slap leaving five red marks on her face.
"I don't thing I need to tell you what to do at this junction,she is all yours but don't let her die",she said grinning.
When they were about to start tearing her cloths Michelle woke up.
The first thing she saw made broke her heart,the sight of Beatrice and Grace smiling cunningly at her hurt her deeply that she forgot to react.
She came back to her senses and started struggling to get out of their grip, she didn't want to lose her first time by rape.
Well no one did...
All her attempts were futile and she ended up losing all her strength,as she gave up on all hopes of her getting out unscathed a leg kicked open the door.
It was like a silver lining in the sky for Michelle and she got some hope.
Before Beatrice,Grace or the two guys could react Lucas walked in followed by Robert and Mark.
Their face where gloomy and their eyes bloodshot the aura excluding from the three of them make it difficult to breath.
Beatrice and Grace face were as pale as sheet and Michelle couldn't be more happy.
The guys where foolish enough to question who they were,dissatisfied at been disturbed when having fun.
One of them attacks and the next thing that was heard was the breaking of bones.
Lucas grabbed the guy by the neck and the pressure he applied with just one hand broke the neck and the man lost his life.
Upon seeing that the other guy broke into sweat,he immediately placed a knife to Michelle's neck and the three men stiffened.
Lucas was the first to move,he moved closer and closer towards Michelle and the guy ignoring all the guys threat.
When he got their,his aura became more cold when he saw clearly the marks on Michelle's face, the guy raised the knife to slit Michelle's throat.
Michelle was waiting to feel the pain but after ten seconds she didn't feel anything but a drop if thick liquid.
She opened her eyes and let out a scream,Lucas has blocked the knife with his palm.