Mahnoor Lorelei Bianchini's pov
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I used to think that if someone I trusted and fell for betrayed me, I would kill them, that I would get so blindly mad and heartbroken, that I would use up one of my seven free passes, and if it was cheating, I thought I would kill the person too, be it female or male. I've been so vocal about that, that even my brother thought that was going to happen as well, and so did my parents, and my grandparents. They knew me well enough to know that I would definitely do that if I was heartbroken to a agonizing point.
When I turned 8 years old, I went to Zeus Academy, the preparatory elite boarding academy for all the strongest awakened un-naturals around the world. There I was set into class A of year 1, together with other 21 kids, and they told us that we would only be allowed to stop attending Zeus if we died or if we graduated at 24, and that there would be no changing classes, we would all be tied together from year 1 to year 16, thus we should familiarize with one another. We would also only be allowed to leave on summer for three months and on winter break for 10 days, no more, no less, no exceptions.
In a place like Zeus Academy, legacies have more power than other students, those being the kids of powerful people who once attended the academy, like both my parents Maya Khan and Pietro Bianchini, papa also being a legacy himself, and so were his parents, and their parents... we have history. And I fell in the class of the heir of a family that's archenemy of mine for generations, just like papa fell on Nikko's padre's class as well, which is a nightmare, but not the moral of the story.
I had three extremely close female friends back then, growing up: Odessa Winona Nicoletti, Medora Katherine Koizume, and Avaluna Vivienne Palladino; and the one I was closest to was Odessa. When I was 14 she dared me to go out with the funny and flirtatious boy in our class, Orpheus Griffin Attenborough, a boy I didn't like at all, I found him annoying, even though he was one I was the least closer to in class, which meant a lot.
As a dumbass who couldn't be challenged because I would become a competitive beast, I accepted it, and I asked Orpheus out bluntly, and to my surprise, given how unpleasant to look at I was, he said yes. So, we went out on a date... which was basically hanging out alone at night on the rooftop of the planetarium tower, to where he took me in his arms as a hawk shifter, flying up there by his wings.
We talked and he felt totally different when we were alone, he made me laugh, which was a miracle on its own, he made me talk more than I used to, he shared stories with me and he was a gentleman then. After we ended our little rooftop picnic, still on the roof, he asked to kiss me and I kissed him, it was my first kiss, and it was not bad, just a bit shy.
Then he asked to spend more time alone with me, to go on another date still in Zeus's grounds as we were locked in here, and I said yes, because at that moment I didn't think any other boy would ever want to go out with me given... my bad looks then. So, I took that as an opportunity, and said yes. Which gained me another quick kiss.
The weekend that followed, we went out again, until the fifth weekend, our 5th date, in which he asked to date me, and I said yes, and that was how we became the first couple of our year. Which worsened my rivalry with Nikko, because what was just between our families before, became bigger as I took the pain of Orpheus as he had many fights with Nikko in which that condescending prick humiliated him, and I began to fight him because of my then boyfriend.
We kept kissing more and more, every time, but I draw the line, refusing to go past that. He had seemingly respected me, which I thought was good, because I knew no better than that. Our families met in more private and personal terms, his not being as influential as mine, since he was not a legacy, but as mine has never been that superficial, it was okay.
We dated for three years.
He remained enemies with Nikko, and best friends with Miles Edmund Konstantinov and Thaddeus Balor Huckleberry; and I remained best friends with Winny, Kat, and Ava. Until everything fell apart.
In our 3rd anniversary, not long after I turned 17 years old, I went to his dorm to make a surprise, a sexy surprise, and as he wouldn't answering, I used my key to get inside, only to find him fucking Winny in his bed, raw, as they moaned each other's names and confessed their love for each other, calling one another by pet names, which not even me and him used to do.
It gets worse... they were congratulating each other on their 2nd anniversary together, meaning they had been cheating on me together for two years, ⅔ of my entire relationship with him.
The last thing I remember from that night was screaming, breaking his entire dorm down, and beating them both up, as well as cutting ties with both, and storming out of there, hitting myself against Nikko fucking Hetherington who was passing by after hearing the chaos, and feeling even more humiliated when he saw me crying. I ran as fast as I could to my dorm, locked myself, and that's all I remember.
It was bad because Nikko had, yes, advised me that I was doing a mistake because Orpheus had no sense of loyalty and real morals, and I fought him for it, I defended Orpheus, and I told him to fuck off and go take care of his own miserable life, and stop trying to stir shit on mine, because he was not welcomed. He snapped that I was going to break myself with my decisions, and that in the end, I would only have myself to blame for not believing him when he warned me. To that, I gave him the middle finger.
So, yes, it was absolutely humiliating.
In fact, being found by none other than Nikko Cornelius Hetherington in that state was worse to me than anything else, it hit harder than anything else, because I did not love Orpheus, I loved him as a companion, but not the type of cupid love and shit, not carnal love, he never made me burn for him, it was a different kind of love, and it hurt, but not as much as it should.