RUTH WALKER:
I walked back to my classroom and took my seat besides a really pretty girl.
"Hey! I'm Ruth Walker!" I smiled introducing myself, taking my seat besides her and she smiled back at me just with the same enthusiasm.
"Leslie Aldrin." She said introducing herself to me as well.
"Are you from New York?" I asked, trying to start off a conversation with her.
"Yeah. I live on the upper east side! What about you?" She asked.
"Well, I just moved yesterday. My origin is from Los Angeles." I replied.
"Wow! Hollywood? I've been there in summer vacations with Daddy a couple of times. My dad is a big fan of L.A. in summers!" She said.
"Well, I know, L.A. is the city I've been living in ever since I was a little girl. That city is my safe heaven! New City kind of freaks me out!" I chuckled embarrassed.
"You know, if it helps, I can take you places? Give you a little tour of my city?" She offered kindly and I took it gladly.
Why would I wanna turn down a beautiful friendship just yet?!
Leslie was fun and we jelled along pretty well together. She had no friends at school. I don't understand why but nobody really talked to her much. I was her only friend and after meeting her, I didn't make any other girlfriend too.
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It was a week now ever since I joined Illyod High. Leslie and I have grown up to become really comfortable with each other.
We were like the new bff couple in Illyod High. She would pick me up and drop me off from and to my house every now and then in her black ferrari.
Everything around her seemed rich. She was a princess from a very rich and royal family.
It was Monday again and Leslie texted me that she won't be coming to pick me up today and that she would meet me directly at school. And so, reading her text I sighed and decided to skip my breakfast as obviously, I had to use my feet to school now. Dad had already left for school fifteen minutes ago.
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Enjoying the bright beautiful morning, humming a song mentally I was walking with one of my two earplugs plugged into my ear.
As I was passing through the woods, suddenly I heard a girl's squeaking noise echoing throughout the woods.
I pulled off my earplug and looked into the woods. It was all silent again. I peaked into closer looking around me. The path I was following was the backside of Illyod High and was all aloof and covered with dense woods all around
"HELLO?!"
I screamed, so my voice would echo throughout the woods and got nothing back but silence.
"I THINK I HEARD YOUR VOICE! DO YOU NEED HELP?"
I again screamed, my voice booming inside the woods.
I was again shot back with silence. I stood there for a minute more and then decided to walk again plugging back my earplugs when I heard a loud clear painful voice of a woman, echoing loudly inside the woods.
"HELP MEE!!!"
The voice was suppressed down immediately after but I knew that there was something wrong going on inside the woods that needs to be rescued and taken care of.
I quickly threw my backpack and iPod over at the side of the road and ran inside the woods trying to locate the voice.
"PLEASE- MMmmhh"
I heard the voice again and soon was standing behind the scene where I could clearly see three men. One of them was wearing a black leather jacket with a ripped jeans, facing his back at me, laughing at the monstrosity going on in front of him, meanwhile two of the men were strangling the girl in air, one was ripping her clothes and the other had her mouth suppressed with his palm over it.
I quickly hide myself behind a tree as soon as I realised I may have made a sound for them to hear me.
"Please... No! Le-lemme go! I don't want this.. Please!"
I heard the girl crying and I peaked in slowly to see her on her four crying, begging the man in the leather jacket as soon as the two men were done with thrashing her dress off of her.
"Why have you left these on her? Take them off too! Do you fuck with clothes on?"
I heard the hoarse voice of the guy in lether jacket.
"Pl-please.. N-no! I-"
She started begging him with her heads bowed before him but before she could finish the two guys scooped her back up from her arm and started to attack for her bra.
It was just then that I decided to interfere. I don't know what I'll do but I'm not letting that girl to loose her innocence right in front of me.
I picked up a stone heavy enough and aimed it to the guy wearing the leather jacket's head.
Surprisingly he already knew that a stone was coming his way so he blocked away my aim catching the stone and commanded his men.
"STOP!"
And they both stopped and looked up at me, who was now out of hiding behind the tree trunk standing there panting all sweaty.
The guy in the leather jacket turned around too and scanned me from my feet to eyes.
A smirk curled up his lips and my anger converted into rage as soon as I realised he was the same guy who was the senior bully on my freshman day, daring a random guy to kiss me. And looking at his smirk I knew that he recognised me too!
"Took you too long to act, didn't it, doll ?" He said.
Did he already know that I was watching him hiding behind the tree trunk?!
"Let her go!" I grit my teeth sharply at him.
"I'll let her go, but let me see. Are you going to submit yourself to me instead of her?" He laughed a womaniser laughter.
"What?!"
He didn't say anything after that just laughed heartily.
"Damn, you're beautiful!"
He walked a few steps closer to me, standing closer to me, enough so his hand was now caressing the side of my face.
"Perhaps the most beautiful one I've seen until now!"
I looked over at that girl. She was staring at me, with the two guys staring our way too distracted.
I knew this was the chance for the girl to escape.
I took off my shirt knotted over my crop top and threw it over to that girl and shouted at her.
"RUN!!"
The guys then realised that they have been distracted but thankfully the girl was fast enough to grab my shirt and attempt the running.
The guys were about to follow after the girl too but the jacket guy standing before me swayed his hand up in air and asked them to stop.
"Let her go!"
He commanded and the boys stopped, one of them glared at me as if I had snatched his love away from him.
"It wasn't a favour!"
I said in a stern voice keeping my eyes pierced at the leather jacket guy who was looking at me as if he did me a favour to let that girl go.
He smirked at me and extended his hand out to caress my lower lip with his thumb.
"She didn't seem appealing enough, after my eyes saw you!" He said,
"I had to let her go!"
"Whatever!"
I mumbled, and quickly turned around to leave. He was a dangerous guy. His eyes held something really dark.
His gaze, the way he was studying every part of my body with his eyes, it showed exactly how much they were filled with gore lustful desires for me.
But before I could walk away from him he grabbed me from my arm and pushed me against one of the trees there, with his hand resting above my head, his face just inches apart from mine.
"What's your name, doll ?"
He asked, his warm breath fanning my cheeks, creating folds inside my stomach.
"I don't owe you an answer!"
I replied gritting my jaw, avoiding the eye contact with the handsome devil.
"Do you know how dangerous I can prove to you right now?"
He said, his index trailing across my chest slowly, making my breathing hike too.
What's with me?!
Why am I not pushing him?!
"I prefer to look in the eye of my fear and tell it to BACK OFF!!"
I said, and shoved him away from myself with the last two words loud and clear.
He stumbled towards a nearby tree there and I started to walk out of the woods without a bother about him being behind me.
"Are you seriously not going to do anything about that girl?"
One of the two guys asked him. Maybe they were about to come after me but the leather jacket guy stopped them from coming at me?
"Oh she is at Illyod High for two more years now, where would she even go?!"
He replied, I'm not sure if the girl he mentioned in his last words, was me or the one who just got away.
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Because I had to deal with that Jerk before school, I was late for my first lecture.
"May I come in ma'am?"
I asked peaking through the door after I came to my classroom, running all through the hallways and galleries, panting hard.
The teacher, Mrs. Gibson, looked at me as if I asked for her kidneys there.
"You're late Miss Walker! Just because your father is the principal of Illyod High, don't think you own this school!"
Mrs. Gibson said adjusting her glasses over her nose and got back to her book addressing the classroom.
"Alright class, flip to page number 13 of your French book-"
She shot me a sharp glare again as I kept standing at the door just like an obedient student.
"Do you want me to personally send you invites so you would walk in, Miss Walker?!"
"Uhm, N-no, Mrs. Gibson, I-I'm really sorry!" I quickly muttered and walked inside the classroom taking my place with Leslie.
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"Hey, What took you so long?"
She whispered while I tried to open my textbook and other things.
"Don't ask. I accidentally stumbled into a jerk face on my way here!"
I said waiving off the topic.
"Welcome to Illyod High babe!"
Leslie winked getting back at her books and I smiled too focussing on the lecture further.
~~~
Soon it was recess and we were all inside the cafeteria with a capacity of five thousand, Illyod High.
The break was common to the entire High School and so, all the kids mostly nerds like me and Leslie, who had nothing better to do, I mean sports and stuff, were all inside the canteen.
After getting ourselves stocked with our lunch me and Leslie took a table at the corner and started eating.
Just then, we heard some commotion there, it was as if the entire atmosphere inside the canteen was suddenly changed and switched into a fan club.
We turned our both heads at the spot where the commotion was coming from and spotted that leather jacket jerk I met inside the woods, entering the canteen with his friends laughing and hi-fiving his pals.
A bunch of girls giggled and turned their
heads to check him out.
No wonder, he sure has got some looks to kill there. But I bet these girls are drooling over his money more than his looks. Ofcourse he seemed like a filthy rich dude by his clothing and attitude.
"Ugh! Look at that fake hunk walking inside like a Greek god!"
Leslie rolled her eyes in disgust and played her fries over the ketchup before stuffing it inside her mouth.
"Greek god?!"
I really wonder if he was that hot!
"Please! He is nowhere near to the hot level here! Infact no one is! He just lives off someone else's reputation!" Leslie said in disinterest.
She was perhaps the only girl except me in the canteen who didn't look bothered by his charms.
I wouldn't say except me, because no matter how much of a jerk he was but... He was quite hot.
But then, I hate him to my guts and I'm glad my bestie is on the same page as me right now.
"You know him personally?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, I know him very well!" Leslie said sipping on her cold coffee, "And please don't tell me that you are infactuated with him too, or I'll puke everything inside my stomach right now!"
"What? Uh??"
I was caught off-guard staring at the guy in leather jacket by Leslie.
She started making faces again,
"Don't worry love, I know that creep has got some looks and traits to die for, given the fact that he is amazing in bed!"
She took a helpless sigh after that.
"Umm... What?"
Don't know why I was the one blushing hearing her talk like that.
"Oh well, the guy there is called Nicholas Doherty and he is my fiance!" Leslie cleared the air around us a bit and I was completely shocked.
I mean, these two are in a relationship but Leslie acts like a carefree single soul hitting on every other hot guy inside the campus and well about that jerk.. I saw him almost raping a girl inside the woods with his friends.
"Trust me, I HATE him!" Leslie said again.
"If it wasn't for daddy and uncle Davidson forcing me to marry him, I wouldn't even look at him. He is so snobbish and selfish I tell you!"
She continued speaking ill about him and I turn my head around to look at Nick, and surprisingly enough, he too looked up right in that very moment. Maybe he got some signals of being stared at.
His eyes soon locked with mine.
"But if you wanna try dating him, I can tell you a secret!" Leslie leaned in closer to whisper into my ears,
"He last longer than half of the men in this city!" She said, while I was staring at Nick and suddenly, Nick smirked in a very notorious way looking at me right after she finished talking.
I just turned red. My brain got off track, picturing Leslie's words inside my head.
Damn!
I immediately took my eyes off him, focussing hard on my sandwich now.
Ruth, you have a boyfriend for god's sake!
I cursed myself hard and Leslie started to laugh.
"You know, just because he is my fiancee, I won't stand in your way if you want to go out with him. Infact, maybe if he falls for you too, I'll be free from a forced marriage then?"
Leslie winked.
I looked at Nick again. He was eating chips talking with his pals and laughing with all the girls throwing themselves at him and he definitely enjoying the attention.
"I'm not interested in him!"
I finally said taking my eyes off him and rolling them back to my food.
"Like you, I hate him too!" I said.