The New Girl

As the new girl walked in and sat on her seat in the corner of the classroom, the teacher arrived too.

As he was walking inside of the classroom, his eyes were locked on to the new girl for some moments, and suddenly he started looking at me in an instant! What? Oh, wait I realized that it wasn't me he was looking at, he's looking at Suzie.

This teacher I swear creeps me out, if things go out of hands someday with him, I'm sure to punch him in the face.

"Good morning students." He greeted everyone.

I am like, yeah bro, my morning was good until you showed up. *sigh*

He again gazed at the new girl and said, "Lily, get over here, please."

The girl stood up and walked up to the front of the class, as she reached the front, the teacher, Mr. John, grabbed her arms and faced her towards the class, and introduced her to us, "Her name is Lily, she's new to the town, and she'll like to complete the final year of her school, from our beloved Institute."

As he said these lines I was noticing that something was off, something's wrong. I can feel it, and as I looked closely at the teacher, his hands, they're inappropriately touching Lily! How could he?

"I hope y'all welcome her heartedly." He added.

Look at her face, Lily is like, she'll start to cry at any moment now. I just hope she doesn't.

"Bastard!" I said softly while banging my hand on the desk lightly.

"She's a rape victim," Suzie said out of nowhere. "That behavior of John surprises me, how could he?" She added.

"How do you know about her?" I asked curiously.

"Heard some kids talking about her on my way here," Suzie replied while still solving the sums, I could hardly hear her.

Meanwhile, Lily went back to her seat in the corner of the class. My eyes started to search for her, she was precious and hurt at the same time, she's delicate, I'll need to find more about her. Just when I was thinking about all of these, Lily suddenly stood up in between the lecture and walked straight outside of the classroom.

Mr. John was writing something on the board, so he came to know about her exit just when there was some noise of her walking and leaving the classroom. But till he figured that out, Lily was already out of bounds.

Mr. John looked at the door getting shut for a moment and then started lecturing from where he stopped.

I feel butterflies in my stomach for no reason. I felt a sudden urge to go with her. I really wanna know about her.

So I stood up and asked sir politely to let me go to the washroom.

"NO! FREAKING focus on the lecture!" He replied rudely.

I got pissed off at it, why the heck are you shouting? And what's the rude behavior for all of a sudden? You know what Mr. John? Stop me if you can...

I stood up again, this time simply walking out of my seat, and slowly walking towards the door, just to make sure everyone sees what's happening. As I was through the middle of the path to the door, Mr. John turned to me and looked at me going outside despite him saying no to me.

The entire class had their eyes on me, still, I continued walking for the door with my hands in my pocket, I don't care now cause I looked through the professor's dirty behavior towards a rape victim.

"Don't you understand what I just told you, Zee?" John said when I almost reached for the door after this long walk.

I stopped right there, waited for a second, and then looked back straight dead into the eyes of the teacher like are you gonna stop me? Then go for it. I was not like this forever, I got such confidence recently when I started making YouTube videos. I don't exactly know-how, but since I communicate with millions of people, I got that confidence out of nowhere. I'm glad.

Just amidst this look into the eyes thing, I decided to simply go out of the class and not respect the teacher's decisions.

I turned back to finally get out of the class. It was then I realized Lily already came back to the class, she was right in front of me, her eyes and mine were locked. She had watery eyes, looks like she just cried her heart out. Her face was full of cuts, yet she was beautiful. She just gazed at me for a moment and went back to her seat.

Now I was like what the heck am I supposed to do?

Now, what should I even do? I don't wanna go outside just to stroll, I better get back to my seat. So I turned and started walking slowly with my hands in my pocket, back to my seat. It was at the last row situated on the window side.

The professor was just tired of watching all this, he was looking at his watch as if I'll take hours to reach my seat.

I know it seems hilarious but please don't laugh at me, I am just holding up to my act of being a cold-hearted kid, nothing else.

Just as I reached half of the path to my seat, the entire class burst out laughing, even the teacher. Duh!

This was what I was telling y'all about earlier.

I was just trying to act cool and not take the teacher's orders, for a girl, and follow her. But what did she do? Came back to the class before I even get out. While thinking this I sat on my seat and directly turned my head towards Lily's corner seat and tried to look at her just to see her smiling for a second looking at me.

Woah, she looked gorgeous and scary at the same time. Well, I guess I'll consider myself funny if I made her laugh, even if I didn't do it purposely. Damn! Why am I like this!?

"Seems like you're interested in the new girl huh? Ebu asked.

" Ye- urgh, what? No! I'm not, c'mon." I replied with a sigh.

"Then what was all this drama for?" Suzie asked sharply. Her tone was completely different.

"Woah woah, calm down guys, everything is cool, I'm still a cold-hearted person haha." I laughed.

Soon, it was lunchtime, and all I was waiting for was the moment to talk to Lily and get to know her more.

There we go, she heads out of the class, I better follow her.

It was just then I realized as I stood up, Ebu held my arm and asked me, "where are you going?"

"Uh, um, me? You're talking to me?" I replied.

He just kept looking at me without saying a word.

"Oh, ok... You're talking to me, haha, yeah I'll be back in a few minutes." I replied weirdly.

And as I said that I kept walking outside of the class, without looking back at him.

"What's wrong with him today?" I heard Suzie asking Ebu about me.

After that, I was out of their sight, and I couldn't hear anything from them anymore.

Where should I search for Lily now? Oh wait, there she is, but what? Why is she going on the terrace, there's no such thing as a fourth floor, she's surely going for the rooftops.

As I walked up the stairs to the rooftops what I saw was heartbreaking! She was attempting suicide right in front of my eyes! How could she? Oh God, she's broken.

"HEY! LISTEN, what was her name... AH, LILY! STOP!" I screamed, I'm sure my voice reached the classroom below us!

She looked back at me. I kept running towards her, she smiled at me. And just when I was about to hold her, She JUMPED!

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Wait a second. I grabbed her! Yay! She was already in the air, the only thing stopping her from falling and dying was my hand. I don't know how I got hold of her hand, but it's good, I'll get to know her now at least, haha. Oh, wait it's not the right time to think of funny jokes. Even in my mind.

It was at that time I realized, how week I was, I was losing the grip! Oh no, I need help right now, there's no way I can save her alone! DAMN!

"Let go, there's no point in saving a person who's already dead!" Lily murmured.

Her voice was trembling, but it was so soft and cute maybe. I still don't know what cuteness is actually.

"You know what Lily, after listening to that cute voice of yours, I'm not letting you go. You better sit with me after all this ends!" I replied trying to comfort her sarcastically.

She just looked at me with a shocked look! I mean why? Did I say something wrong, or the situation is not right? Damn, girls are so confusing. Meh!

Suddenly, my grip loosened, even more, she was almost dead. Oh God, do something it's getting difficult!

It was then when out of nowhere, Ebu and Suzie ran up to me and helped me pull Lily up.

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There was silence for a few minutes now and you know what, I decided to talk first, not the typical me, but I wanted Lily to thank me at least, it's not every day when I take such risks!

"Woah! Finally! Thank you guys, I would've killed someone if you were a little late." I broke the silence.

"What you tried killing her, but why!?" Ebu said shockingly.

"Of course no! What do you think I am? She was the one attempting suicide!" I replied.

Suzie was there just standing and looking at Lily, the look was blank she didn't know how to react. It was then she said, "We better get to the class or we'll be late." And started moving towards the door of the terrace. Ebu followed her.

I mean, guys? Is this how we usually react when someone risks his life to save someone? Or do you guys do it every day? Like c'mon, complement me!

Ah, leave it.

"So you're not gonna thank me?" I asked politely to Lily, who was still sitting on the ground looking at me expressionlessly.

"You know what? So what if you're raped, it doesn't define your values, it defines your strength, you withstood it. You are meant to be strong, you survived, you're here studying for your final year at school, you shouldn't be scared of people, you shouldn't even care about them, you should face them, punch them, kick them, and not let them judge you. At least that's what I thought about you, but you, you're a coward, you just tried killing yourself based on what others think. If you wanna thank me, just don't, I don't want your Compliment. You better come with us now to the class and not try it again." I lectured and started moving towards the terrace door as I don't care, where I could see Suzie and Ebu still waiting for us.

As I am walking towards Ebu and Suzie, I felt few steps walking towards me, she was, of course, Lily, but then I suddenly felt warm arms approaching me through my waist, I stopped and tried to not look back, it was Lily, she hugged me from behind, her hands went from my waist to my shoulders, and I could feel her face rest on my back.

"Thank you, Zee." She spoke, with the sweetest possible voice I've ever heard, after my mom's voice of course.

I turned towards her, she was smiling, "How do you know my name by the way? Are you sure you're not some undercover agent or something right? Haha!" I laughed. She laughed too. Then we both started heading towards the terrace door together.

It was then, I saw Ebu's face, he was smiling so wide I could see his premolars. He was happy watching me and Lily together. But then I looked at Suzie, she seemed shocked, unhappy, and sad at the same time. Wait a minute, what's up with her now? Did I do something wrong again?

And suddenly she left, angrily, without any of us. Alone! We all were shocked and had no reactions to the situation.

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So guys it's me Zee, not the book one, the real one haha, please leave an upvote for this chapter too and you can proceed further, it means the world to me, thank you 🤧