"Hi mum" Chris greeted as he entered the house, giving his mom a slight peck on the cheeks.
"Welcome son, how was school today?" She asked cheerfully.
"It was fine mom" he simply answered.
"Hey bro!" He said and punched Mike playfully on his arm.
"Hey kid bro, how you doing?" Mike asked.
"I'm good" he smiled.
"Welcome Chris" Leo greeted from a corner where he was playing video games.
"Hi" Chris waved carelessly.
"I'll be in my room now" he announced and quickly took the stairs, without waiting for any reply.
Everyone wondered why he was in such a cheerful mood today, his mom was very happy about it. She likes it whenever her boy was all happy and smiley.
Chris got into his room and dumped his bag pack at a corner, as usual. He laid on his bed and exhaled softly, as his mind flashed back to what happened at school today.
The girl on the floor, begging for help, and he was the cause. He hit her and even matched her, oh no! This was not right at all.
He felt bad doing all that, but he had to do it in order to prove to the gang that he's not a weakling. That stupid feeling called love cannot weigh him down, never!
When he was doing all that today, it was really affecting him. But he believes if he continues to do it for a while, he is gonna get used to it. Coz it will never be heard that he Chris fell in love, not just with anyone, but with a mere scholarship benefactor. Never!
He loved his title as the ruthless one of the C4's, so it is totally impossible for him to fall in love. He's not gonna let Ivy control him, never!
This feeling has to go away.
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Castillo laid on his bed that evening with his oversized shirt and sweatpants operating his phone, with his headphone placed on his ears. He made it clear that he doesn't want to be disturbed.
He was scanning through the internet and came across a post where the three lucky winners of the scholarship exams were published. He saw the first, second, and lastly the third. And Ivy was in the picture smiling brightly, with her name "IVY CROWNWAY" at the bottom.
Castillo smirked as he continued looking at the photo. So sad she was gonna leave the school soon, she got on the C4's wrong part, and she cannot go unpunished.
He wanted to pass the picture, but couldn't. He kept looking at the photo and it looked disturbingly familiar, but he just couldn't seem to place his hands on where he has seen that face before.
"Hold on! Could she be the girl from the restroom??" He asked himself.
"No, no, it wasn't her. That girl from the other day was more beautiful" he said to himself.
He picked up his phone and studied the picture, and the face of that girl from the restroom kept replying in his head.
Or could she be the one? Coz the familiarity of her face was haunting him.
But if it is the Ivy he knew, she would never keep quiet and let him insult her like that. She would react even if it's to say something, the other one from the party kept acting dumb.
This was the only this that was giving him doubts. If not, he has concluded that it was Ivy already.
Anyway he's gonna find out. Who knows it could be Ivy, coz she knows nothing than to get in people's way and also insult them.
"Clumsy being" he huffed as he dropped his phone on the bed, coz he was tired of operating it already.
He took a bag of chips from the cupboard beside his bed and tore it open, he took an amount and threw some of them into his mouth. So many of it poured on the bed, coz he was lying down, and it was impossible for all to go in successfully.
It was clearly obvious that he was not hungry at all. Like always, he just had the urge to waste food.
He buried his head in his pillow as he listened to cool songs from his headphone, he was also thinking of Ivy's punishment for tomorrow, coz today's own was really interesting.
Next time she should know better than to mess with the C4's.
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Ivy was getting ready for school, looking as gorgeous as always, when Alvin walked in fully prepared for school.
"Hey bro, good morning!" She greeted immediately he walked in, and then took her head back to what she was doing.
"Are you set for school?" He asked.
"Yeah, let me just be done with this zipper, it is giving me a hard time" she replied, still fighting with her skirt.
"Do you feel pressured going to Crestfield?" Alvin suddenly asked out if nowhere, and Ivy quickly snapped at him.
"What do you mean?" She asked feeling really scared already.
"Like your behavior these days has totally changed, you are no longer the cheerful Ivy I used to know. You're acting I don't know if it's okay to say "Isolated" these days" Alvin explained, and she forced a smile.
"It's nothing Alvin, just that I miss my old school and friends. But don't worry about me, I'll be fine" she said smiling in an assuring way.
"Are you sure? You know you can always talk to me" Alvin said with concern in his voice.
"I know. But don't worry about me, I'm okay, trust me" she lied.
"Okay, If you say so! Let's get going then" he said when he saw she was done with her zipper already.
"Aren't we gonna have breakfast?" Ivy rushed at him.
"You're just a foodie! I promise to get you something later, but now we need to get to school. My project is yet to be over, and I promised my partner that I'll be in school early today, so we can finish up the project. We're submitting it today" Ivy explained.
"Okay fine" she sighed, and he smiled before placing a peck on her cheeks.
"Now let's go" he said and walked out of her room.
Ivy looked at him go, and let out a sad smile before picking up her her bag pack to follow him.
If only he knew what she was passing through, so sad that this had to happen to her.
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Throughout class that day, Ivy was just calm and could not even answer any question, which was so unlike her. Mr Fred had asked her what was wrong, but she lied to him that she was just feeling a bit tired, and dizzy.
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Canice also saw this and he was feeling very happy. Just a day of torture and she's already loosing focus in class, what happens when the torture comes on a regular? He is so loving this.
Chris watched her quietly from where he sat, and had this feeling of guilt and pity towards her. But he quickly shrugged it aside, that isn't gonna work on him.
This is just the beginning Ivy!
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Ivy sat with Courtney on a bench close to the field during lunch break, and Ivy was just staring into space, looking lost.
Courtney was feeling nothing but pity for her friend. It was just a day and she was already looking miserable, the worst Is yet to come.
The C4's are really dangerous! She knew of some students they tortured in the past, and they all ran away in less than a week.
But it has been quite long they did that, they were in the business of expulsion now. She doesn't know why they started with Ivy this time.
Left to her, she would advice Ivy to leave now, coz Ivy would not be able to bear any of they at all.
But truthfully, she isn't gonna be herself if Ivy leaves. She was equally confused there, not knowing what to do.
Just as they were seated there quietly, a male student ran up to where they sat and stood in front of them.
"May we help you?" Courtney quickly asked, looking at him from head to toe.
He looked at Courtney also and sighed before speaking.
"Who's Ivy?" He asked, and Ivy quickly raised her head which was bowed all this while, to look at him.
"I'm Ivy, is there any problem?" She answered calmly.
"The C4's asked me to get you" he replied, and they both snapped at him.
"Sweet Joseph" Courtney mumbled.
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