Amelia In Trouble

(Note: This chapter contains mild abuse and bullying scenarios, proceed on your own risk. Thank you.)

Amelia was having her lunch with her friends in the cafeteria and chatting with them. When someone tapped her shoulder. She turned around and saw Derek standing behind her with a smirk. Amelia sighed and frowned looking at him.

"The troublemaker is back guys." Amelia said to her friends and turned back to eat her lunch and ignore him.

"My love did you miss me? I don't know about you, but I missed you a lot Amii!" Derek said with a smirk, making Amelia cough and choke on her food. Derek patted her back, but Amelia pushed his hand away.

"Shut up and get lost." Amelia said while wiping her mouth and standing up.

"How rude. Amelia I am not lying I missed you." Derek gave her a genuine smile and caught hold of her wrist.

"What nonsense... Can you just leave me alone? Please? I don't care if you missed me or not. What business do you have with me?" Amelia said and scrunched her face getting annoyed. Her friends were sitting with imaginary popcorn in their hands. Whereas the girls who have crush on Derek were staring at Amelia with jealousy. One of them was Julia whom Amelia had given her seat, so she could sit near Derek.

(A/N: Refer to Chapter 16 to know which Julia I have mentioned here.)

"Here take this." Derek offered her an invitation card with simple and elegant embroidery printing. Amelia looked at the card and realized it was Brinley and Adam's engagement party invitation.

" I came here to give you this. This was given to me by Mom, and don't worry Gianna will also receive this card from Fratello as this card holds an individual identity proof which you have to carry for entry. Privacy reasons you know?" Derek said and graced hair showing his 'coolness'.

Amelia frowned again and said, "You could've given me this directly without such nuisance..." Derek chuckled and ruffled her hair before going away towards his friends. Amelia huffed and fixed her disheveled hair and kept the card in her bag.

After having her lunch, she went to the washroom alone. On her way to the washroom, she passed by a storage room where she got dragged inside by her hand. She screamed and looked at the person clutching her hand so tightly. It was none other than Julia and her 'dogs'.

As soon as Amelia opened her mouth to confront her, she got a tight slap on her face.

"How dare you get close to Derek Moretti!!?" Julia shouted in her face and the other five girls laughed at her misery.

"What do you mean!? And how dare YOU slap me!?" Amelia shouted back.

"Don't be over smart alright!? I know what kind of lowly middle class b.tch you are." A girl said who was standing behind Julia. Amelia was losing her control over her anger. She was really trying to control herself because if she hit them, she could get suspended from the university or might even get kicked out of there.

She didn't want Gianna to be sad and worry about her. Amelia bit her lip tightly controlling herself from cursing and hitting these girls.

"Cat got your tongue!? Tell me what Derek gave you! Show it to me!" Julia said in a stern voice. Amelia glared at her, but she thought party was not that necessary than getting out of this situation. So she kept her bag down and started searching the card. Fortunately she had kept her mobile in the bag, so sneakily she reduced the brightness of her phone and started the voice recorder.

She took out the card from her bag which was instantly snatched away by Julia and her minions also got curious what was in the card.

"It's a grand engagement party invite girls. Look she is way smarter than us, she knows how to climb beds and get these things in return. Are you trying to climb the social ladder by going to these parties with your poor self?" Julia mocked her, but Amelia kept mum.

"Please mind your own business, give me my invite card back." Amelia said in a calm yet stern voice. Julia smirked and caught hold of her hair from the back of her head. Amelia winced in pain but she was helpless.

"You want this back? B.tch first kneel in front of me and say I'll never ever talk to Derek again and stay away from him and any of his friends. C'mon say it!!" Julia said making her minions laugh. Amelia clenched her fist in anger but again thinking about her sister she felt extremely helpless.

Julia let her hair go and Amelia slowly knelt on her knees. Amelia clenched her fist when she felt a little pain from her back bullet wound.

"I will... not talk to Derek anymore and will stay away from him and his friends. Happy?" Amelia said while gritting her teeth and looked at Julia sharply.

"Such an attitude doesn't suit you Amelia. Here, you wanted this back right? And stay away from Derek, he's mine!" Julia offered the card back to Amelia, as soon as she moved her hand to take it back, Julia teared it into four pieces and dumped the pieces on her head.

"You should be thankful. We let you off easily." Julia huffed and went away with her minions not before locking the storage room with lock and key.

Amelia banged on the door many times and pleaded with her to let her off but no one heard her, and she slumped against the door. Tears started rolling out of her eyes and she clutched her hair in frustration.

She took out her phone and stopped the recording and tried to call her friends and familiar teachers who could help her, but the network in the storage room was very poor. Milly and Colten picked her call, but they were not able to hear her voice and were not able to talk at all. Amelia facepalmed and tried calling Derek.

He picked up the call in one ring,

"Hello? Love did the sun rise from the wrong side today? What may I help you with your highness?" Derek said playfully.

"Derek!!! I----- please-----storage ro----please!! Amelia's cracking, desperate and incomplete voice came through his speaker and he instantly understood she was in trouble. The call got cancelled by itself. Amelia and Derek tried to call back to each other, but the call was going unreachable. The phone's battery died and Amelia cursed at the bad timing.

Storage room, was it? But there are total twenty-seven storage rooms in whole University, as the University was big, for god's sake!! Derek looked at his friends who were staring at him in confusion. Then he got a brilliant idea.

He asked their help to which they agreed as this could be considered as treasure hunt or hide and seek challenge, a way to pass a boring day in university, he distributed the members of his friend circle to different departments to search storage rooms and himself went ahead to start searching.

Finally, after an hour of search, one of his friends called Derek to let him know that the building near the cafeteria has its storage room locked. Derek soon rushed to that building with his friends behind him following.

Amelia was panting hard as she felt suffocated in the storage room as there was no ventilation system neither any windows. Just many paper, cardboard, activity and sports stuff. She couldn't even find a rod or some hard object through which she could break the door.

Derek reached the storage room and banged on the door.

"Amelia!! Are you in there!!! Please answer me, even a little sound could do!" Derek screamed and banged the door again.

Amelia groaned and lightly slapped the door with her hand. Derek and his friends heard the voice and soon started finding a big rock to break the lock.

They hit the lock with a rock many times and finally after trying for so long the lock broke down and Derek opened the door. He saw Amelia slumped on the floor, in the verge of losing her consciousness. He placed her head on his lap and lightly tapped her cheek to wake her up.

"Amelia wake up! Listen, you have to wake up." He said but Amelia had no energy to open her eyes and her back was also paining.

Derek picked Amelia up and his friends took her bag. They went to the infirmary.

"She's just exhausted and there is a slight swelling in her back due to a recent injury. Bring these medicines and let her take this IV and rest." The doctor said. Derek went to bring the medicines from the medical store and rushed back to be by her side. His friends went away after biding goodbye to him.

Derek looked at the pieces of invitation card which his friends gave him and thoughts came rushing in his mind. Did Amelia tear this or was it someone else? Why do I feel sad and upset to see her like this? Does Amelia hate to come at the party of Mafias? Brother told me she knows our background now... is it that reason? Or was it someone else being jealous of Amelia being close with me and everyone in Moretti family...? I have to find the roots of this incident. But first let her wake up... that's all that matters for now.