What was the best way to start a beautiful Saturday morning? The answer was simple. Receiving death threats from your ex-boyfriend's mother and the thousands of students at Sylvester College. The text message from Andrew's mother read:
[Belliatrix101]: You bitch! I told you to stay away from my son!
[Belliatrix101]: Wherever you go, trouble follows! Look at what you've done, you've destroyed my son's career, you unfortunate girl! You are unlucky and a jinx!
The nickname she gave the woman suited her very well. She wanted to reply that she wasn't the one who asked her son to get into a fight because he couldn't put his balls aside for once. However, Andy's mother didn't care for logic. To her, Kayla was always the bad guy.
She wondered how people who jumped to conclusions without checking the facts, thought. As someone who didn't like writing, she was sure she could write a hundred-page essay on the stupidity of their brains.
The angry and repulsive comments from the people online were the ones she cared about. Who were they to make comments about her life? She wasn't a celebrity nor a public figure so they should mind their business.
The wise thing to do was to ignore the messages and take the high road but Kayla didn't give two shits about wisdom as she opened like thirty burner accounts with fake email addresses and created a code that allowed all accounts to respond to the haters online. She could see Oliver shaking his head at her. Abuse of power he would call it but hadn't he abused power by buying the school and suspending the students.
Didn't he abuse power when he kissed her? He was hypocritical, that much she did know.
Some comments were just too much that Kayla fought with every fiber of her being to reply to them.
[Sky1233go]: She's the epitome of evil. She should fucking die!
[eagleeater]: I've never met someone more shameless than her! Did you see the video and how she ran away after ruining everything? I hope her life is also ruined!
[Goodgirlisa]: someone should find out where she lives and beat her to a fucking pulp!!! She deserves a fate worse than death!
[lovettegaya]: Her parents must be disgusted that they gave birth to such an imbecile as a daughter!
Kayla had to give Lovette some credit. Her parents were disgusted by her but how could someone named Lovette utter such vile words?
She programmed Louisa, Rory, Blaire, Asher, and Siao's phones not to see the harsh comments. As for the boys, they didn't have social media so they weren't going to be any problems.
But that was not the case in Oliver's office. Even though his company had suffered another breach that was not successful because of his early attack, he ordered his staff to block and ban any accounts that said anything negative about Kayla.
Even going as far as suing some of those accounts on the premise of defamation of character and slander. This surprised them but no one dared to complain or ask any questions. All they could was think whatever they wanted to think in their minds and not let it leave their lips.
Oliver personally monitored the situation and using a burner account, he replied to some of the messages which Kayla saw. She saw that the comments were disappearing.
"Huh? What's going on?" Starting intently at her computer screen on her desk, she refreshed the page.
"Who is this assholep?" Her fingers flew across the keyboard with swift and effortless movements, trying to track the account but all that showed was 'Error 404'.
[assholep]: you have no right to question someone else's character when yours reeks.
[ifeveryonehadagun_565]: wtf are you talking about. better dont interfere if u don't understand whats going on!
[smilesdose]: that's right! She is a slut who just wants attention from the men around her. Anything that has a pulse would suffice for that pig of a woman.
[assholep]: not everyone's like you, @smilesdose. We all know how much you love sleeping with your dog.
assholep even attached the video and the comment section went silent.
[medicallyjohn]: shit this guy isn't here to play! Sorry big dawg!
Oliver's lips curved up. Yes. No one had the right to insult his raccoon. Absolutely no one.
Kayla was curious about this person so she slid into their DMs.
[kaylaluv]: thank u fr helping me but y re u helping me?
No reply.
She thought for a while, hands hovering on the keyboard, before typing.
[kaylaluv]: let me treat u to coffee, as a thank-you gift
[assholep]: I don't like coffee and your typing skills are worse than a sixth grader.
This guy was reminding her of Oliver's punctuation comment. What an asshole.
She glared at the screen
[kaylaluv]: dats rude. Wats ur fav drink den?
[assholep]: Take a guess.
Rolling her eyes, she typed:
[Kaylaluv]: let me guess, brandy
[assholep]: Be good. I have something to do.
He could imagine her nose scrunched and her eye twitching after ghosting her. He laughed.
Kayla scoffed. She must be unlucky to always be meeting assholes and what did he mean by 'be good'? Was she a child incapable of taking care of herself? She didn't need to be fucking anything. This asshole!
She didn't have time to think much about it since she had rehearsals today.
On her way back from rehearsals, she saw a familiar place that looked more black than the downside of a pot. This was going to be interesting. She smiled, brightly.
"You must be fucking happy aren't you, you bitch!? You got me suspended, how did you do it? Who did you seduce to make this happen?"
Students had stopped harassing her but the disgusted looks didn't stop but she didn't care too much.
"First of all, your words mean absolute shit to me. And what is shit? Shit is disgusting, waste, and smelly."
"Secondly, your imagination is so wild that if you enter the writing industry all the authors would be out of their jobs. What do you mean I seduced someone? Who did I seduce, your father? Which eye of yours did you see me seducing anyone?"
The back-to-back questions stumped Reigna. "You…"
"I what? You caused your own suspension bug you want to pin that on me too? Let's say, I was responsible, shouldn't you have the common sense to steer clear from me but no, you charge head-on to crash into the walls," she paused, shaking her head, "but as they say, common sense isn't actually common, is it?"
Reigna wanted to puke out blood and die but she walked passed, Kayla bumping into her very harshly but Kayla chuckled. She wasn't someone who would take bullying lying down especially when she wasn't at fault.
Well, it was in a way her fault. Oliver did buy the school but how was she to know if it was because of her so that was not her cup of tea in the slightest?
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Everything in her body screamed for her not to go to this meeting, but when had she ever listened to her mind?
She wore a white top, black jeans, and a baseball hat. This was a bad idea but what choice did she have? If things went wrong she would just add it to her long list of things she had done.
She didn't want to see him at all but he begged her and she had a soft spot for him. She would always have a soft spot for him.
Kayla made her way to the large park in the night. The stars followed her with the moon illuminating her features, gently. If it wasn't for Louisa's tendency to have a heart attack anytime Kayla suggested she wanted to go for walks in the night, she would do it every other night because of how calming it was.
The night breeze was cool, especially now that it was winter. The holidays were near. Very soon, everywhere would be brightened by the Christmas lights, trees, and the sound of children laughing, hoping to see Santa and not get on his naughty list.
A smile tugged at her lips. She loved the holidays because she spent it with both Louisa and Evie. They would make, chocolate pudding. By they she meant only her because the other two would steal anything she made.
Gingerbread houses, binge-watching the Harry Potter series, and every Christmas movie, especially, romance Christmas movies. It was cheesy but she loved it since it meant spending time with girls.
Her smile faltered when her eyes landed on him. Andrew Boweski.
"Hi," she breathed.
"Hey. I'm sorry for calling you by this time but fuck I needed to see you. It hurt that you didn't pick up my calls or answer any of my messages." Andrew took a step forward, trying to get close to her but Kayla smoothly evaded.
"What do you want Andy? This is wrong and some might say toxic. You're my ex." She reminded him and the words stung the both of them.
She deeply cared for Andrew but this wasn't right for either of them. She needed to cut ties with him before he became a vine that stuck to her forever.
"Don't say that, Mitchie. Fuck! I can't stop thinking about you! About us! About every memory we shared! You are my everything Kayla and I love you."
Kayla winced. She did love him but not the same way. "This is hurting both of us. You need to move on. We need to move on."
"I can't move on! I just can't, Mitchie, and don't ask me to!" He clenched his jaw, eyes narrowing at her.
"You got suspended from the remaining matches and your parents must be super pissed, won't they? Focus on your game, Andy, and let me go!" She licked her lip. Breaking two people's hearts in less than three days wasn't an easy task. Her eyes burned.
"I got recruited to play in the top leagues, do you know? When I got the news do you know who I wanted to tell first?" He walked towards her, only stopping when she moved back.
"Andy, stop."
"You. I wanted to share this news with you because you supported me more than anyone! And I was a fool back then! A big fool! A fool to let you go because my parents forced us to. I should have said no and held on to you because now, you are all that matters." He cupped her face but she looked away from him.
"You have no idea what you're saying, Andy. We can't get back together. Ever. If you truly love me, then let me go." She whispered, tears in both their eyes, "Please."
"Why?" he dropped his hands to his side. "Why!? Are you in love with someone else!? Is it that fucking bastard, Hudson!?"
Guilt crept into her chest. She didn't love someone else but a pair of whiskey eyes flashed in her mind. They had kissed and that was wrong but she didn't like him one bit. He scared her most time.
"No, I'm not, but we can't see each other anymore. Take care of yourself, Andy. I'll always support you and congratulations on your recruitment." She said sincerely, kissing both his cheeks while he stood rooted to the ground watching her walk away from him again.
And it hurt like a bitch the second time.
Kayla put her airpords in, as tears streamed down her face, listening to Happiest Year.
"Thank you, Andy, for the best two years of my life. I love you." She muttered, lips quivering. This was so unfair to her. She just kept on losing people all the time. Why? Why was this happening to her!? She screamed into the night sky. A sound that tore people's hearts if they heard it.