When John and his friends left the classroom, they bumped into Mabel.
When Mabel saw John, she looked at him in disgust and said "i made the right decision to leave you because you would never amount to anything. Look at you a poor penniless piece of trash who has reduced himself to become a thief now. Hump, Bah" She snorted and spat on the floor.
When John heard her saying that he felt a prick in his heart. Even though Mabel had betrayed him, John still had a little bit of feelings for her because he had really been in love with her. But hearing her say this to him now which he knows that she knew that it wasn't true and also the fact that she was still hell-bend on ruining his reputation like that, the last thread of feelings he had for her just died down like that.
He was doubting himself how he hasn't taken notice of her vicious character when they were in a relationship. Well they say that when you are in love you become numb to your partner's flaw and love also can make the most intelligent person become dumb. I guess that was John's at that time.
"Shut up you backstabbing bitch. You know that's not true" Kevin shouted at her aggressively.
Mabel was scared by Kevin's aggressiveness, but when she turned around and she realized that she was in school and students have gathered around, she became more confident that Kevin wouldn't hit her.
"What did I say wrong? Didn't I dumped him because he was a thief. I can't go around associating myself with a thief. I didn't even know what I saw in you in the first place" Mabel said that with a disdain on her face.
Kevin became even more angry and approached her and said "You ungrateful nasty cheat of a bitch. We all know that that's not the real reason why you left him. You left him because....."
"Kevin" John cut him of short. Then he turned towards Mabel and said "you said that you left me because I'm a thief and you don't want to associate yourself with me. Don't make me laugh. We all know the real reason. So let me ask you, since you left me to be with a real rich and capable man as you put it, how long do you think you're going to last with him? Because we all know how he really is right?"
When Mabel heard what John said, she put on a worried expression because that was really her fear because Jacob was known as a womanizer who changed girls constantly and wasn't really serious to be into any serious relationship. And she was scared he would be tired and get rid of her soon.
When she turned around she saw the students looking at her strangely, she panic a little bit but later composed herself and looked at John and said "Stop lying here. I dumped you because you are a thief you ungrateful bastard"
John narrowed his eyes and looked at her intensely, Mabel became scared when she saw John's intense gaze directed at her. John took a step towards her while she took a step back. He had a cold and murderous smile on his face and he said to her "keep lying to yourself. But I want to tell you that the reason why you are still standing here all fine and talking to me with that smug on your face is only due to our past relationship, but let me warn you that they won't be a next time"
When Mabel saw that smile she became scared out of her wits because she didn't recognize this present John because he has always been a pushover who always took things lying down and has always treated her with care. So when she saw this different side of him, she became scared.
She stepped back and asked nervously "so what do you want to do? hit me?"
John just arched his eye-brow and his lips curved upward when he saw that she was scared and said "like I said there won't be a next time, don't say I didn't warn you"
The students just stood there and looked at them as if they were watching a good show.
John and his friends walked past her but John stopped and said to her "since you said that you were looking for a responsible and capable man who was worthy of you and you have now found him already so I wish you well. We can now go our separate ways. Don't mess with me again because the next time you do it wouldn't be just simple talking" After saying that John left with his friends.
When John was leaving, he caught the sight of Helen Johnson standing too among the students. Their eyes met but she still had that cold expression on her face as usual. After some time her lips curved upward into a small smile and she turned around and left.
John was left shocked and imagining what he actually saw was a smile or something else. After some time, he stopped thinking about it and just shrugs his shoulder and left from there with his friends.
Meanwhile, Mabel just stood there looking as John was leaving with hatred in her eyes. She had a nasty and angry expression on her face. She stomped her feet on the ground in rage and after some time she smiled sinisterly. "You actually dare to threaten me you piece of trash. Just you wait I will make you kneel down to me and kowtow calling me mommy" she said that to herself, after that she stomped off.
As John and his friends were walking, Kevin suddenly patted him on his back and said "that was awesome brother"
"What happened back there? I've never seen you acting this daring like this before" Joseph remarked. The three of them nodded their heads in agreement.
John sighed and explain "when something like this happened people would expect you to take a step back and the truth is that once you take a step back you will always keep taking a step back and that will give room for people to bully you. Look at me for example, because I've always been backing down and never fight back, it has given room to where I am now. So you can now see where it has left me".
Listening to John explanation, they realized that what he said made sense, so they just nodded their heads.
John and his friends then went to the canteen to eat. After eating, they went back to class for the next lecture.
After an amount of time, class was done for the day, so John was in a hurry to go see his new Villa and he has already called James. So he hurriedly said good bye to his friends and left.
When John got out of the school Campus and was looking for James, a BMW seven series suddenly stopped in front of him. When John saw the person stepping out of the car. He smiled coldly and said to himself "I haven't gone looking for you yet but you have decided to deliver yourself to me. Good, it now safes me a lot of time"