Chapter 5

She pauses when the red head comes in between them, clapping. "Trouble in best friend paradise?" She mocks, clearly holding back a laugh. Raquel ignores her and Mirabelle shakes her head at her. Stepping away from them she laughs, "What did I do?" Neither of them answer her, Mirabelle fixes her gaze on Raquel, "Why did you say that to Mrs Vanderbilt?" Raquel shrugs, leaning against her desk. "What we say every time. No wait, why are you guilty were you cheating?" Mockery that's what this is, Raquel clearly saw us cheating so why is she playing the fool now? The class murmurs, some still ignoring this squabble like it's a normal day with these two. Mirabelle shakes her head at Raquel, "I don't want you talking to me or visiting me, not that you ever came to hangout with me." Mirabelle snorts. Raquel straightens, "What is that supposed to mean?" "It means, don't think I haven't noticed you only like coming over to my house so you can eye fuck my brothers." Mirabelle divulges, walking back to her seat. Okay plot twist, This is the queen B of the class and Raquel is the friend that wants to be like her. The rest of the day went by really fast. I ate lunch with Mikel and his friends. They were nice. I would not mind being in their class. After lunch we had two classes and a free period. Everyone was making noise so I decided to find the library. I borrowed a novel from there and went to the bathroom before heading back to class. I was washing my hands when the door opened, I quickly put on my glasses, Arielle calls them my disguise and she couldn't be more right. After registering who it is, I grab my book to leave but Raquel blocks my way. "Not so fast four eyes, where do you think you're going?" I point to the door, "Umm I -I..I was…" "You, you what stammerer?" "To go." I manage to say it without stuttering. I'm out numbered. Looking over her shoulder to her friends, she smirks. "Vee, Nina. Help me teach the stammerer a lesson I do not like people stepping on my shoes gargoyle…" Her head turns back to me, "Oh wait you thought I forgot? " She laughs, backing me into a corner while her little blue blood shifter friends laugh at me. "My Mikel shouted at me because of you and you embarrassed me in front of everyone." She says taking my glasses off my face and stepping on them. Her friend shrugs, "She made you look like a fool." She giggles, blowing her freshly painted pink nails." Pink is an overrated color if you ask me. Raquel snatches my book from me, maintaining eye contact. "And on top of it my best friend is angry. That's not your fault but you're going to pay for it." And there goes my novel, she tosses it in the toilet. Brat. Tee would have fun with this one and so would the old Camilla. "It is almost time for history, let's just finish her here's the razor, should we shave her head?" Her other friend beams. "No!" I cry out, making them laugh even harder. Is this amusing for them? Making me cry at their mercy just because they can. Raquel's hand collides with my face hard, harder than Mirabelle slapped her earlier and I cry out louder. "Shut up!" She warns, bringing her finger to her lips and I nod, muffling my cries. She too nods smiling. She tugs at my hair pulling it out of the bun it's in. I feel my head consumed by heat followed by pain and I realize she hit my head on the wall. Her friends are laughing, my ears are ringing, my vision is clouded by tears. I can hear her friend screaming at her as the other pours a bucket of water on my head. The next thing I hear is the sound of fabric ripping, my fabric, my skirt and they're gone. When the cleaning lady opens the bathroom door a few minutes later, I'm shivering and crying, cold to the bone in the corner of a highschool bathroom. This is not how I wanted my first day to go, what did I do to Raquel? Why does this always happen to me? Why don't people like me? They take one look st me and decide let's not fuck with her she's ugly annoying and must be bullied? Am I really that cursed that nobody wants me around them, my presence itself triggers anger in them. The cleaning lady takes a look at me and then the entire bathroom. "My goodness you kids are always Messing up the bathroom like this." She snaps, "Wait are you crying? Oh this is why I don't have kid… err go to the teacher's or the principal's office she's the babysitter not me." She says ushering me out. I run out still drenched and in tears the tears are clouding my vision so much that I bump into a locker and I pause, I need my phone, I need Ryan but I can't go back inside the class looking like this. My ears are still ringing from Raquel banging my head against the wall. "Did she fall in the pool or ocean?" I hear a male voice say. It's coming from straight ahead of me. I can't see them through my blurred vision but I try to clear it to get a better look as they walk towards me and stop right in front of me and I lose all feeling in my legs as I fall to the ground. I'm shivering not just because I'm drenched, the sound of my heart beating could be heard from a mile away. My teeth clutter involuntary, I want to scream but I seem to have lost my voice. Standing in front of me are none other than Alpha Adrian and Beta Santiago. Alpha Adrian's gaze is fixed on me as he takes calculated breaths. "Adrian why did you stop? Come on let's go we're already here." Beta Santiago says looking between Alpha Adrian and I. Alpha Adrian offers me his hand and when I take it, I feel a rush of electricity and adrenaline pump into me yet I feel weak, he must feel it too because he pulls away. "Fuck!" He curses. It's him. It's really him! Alpha Adrian is the man from last week. I just came face to face with the devil and he is my mate. No, he can't be my mate. Now I am sure I'm cursed, what did I do to you Moon goddess why pair me with the Alpha? Of all men why him? I glance at him and his Beta as more tears stream down my face. I shiver from the cold and also fear raging through me. They walk away from me and before they look back I make a run for it, I run to the principal's office, not bothering to knock when I enter. "Miss Burton you can't just barge in this is not a…" She halts when she takes a better look at the crying mess I am, "What happened to you?" Unable to speak I cry even more, she offers me a pitiful look, I hate that look but people have been giving it to me all my life, it's pathetic, I loathe it. She has her head and gestures to the seat, "Come on, take a seat over there I will call Alpha Ryan to pick you up. School isn't done for another 1hour but this is an emergency." She says picking up her phone. "What happened, did someone do this to you?" She asks. I don't speak, I nod wiping my tears. She lets out a sigh, "Bullying is unacceptable! I will take care of the perpetrators but please don't tell your brother about this little incident." She pleads. I nod once again, wiping the tears. I'm not a snitch, especially not to Ryan, he would have her head and Raquel's for what she did to me. "What are their names?" She sighs. I did nothing to Raquel and she did this to me. Imagine what she would do if I actually do something to her, she will kill me and I will let her because I made a vow. Wiping some tears I shrug, "I don't know." I lied. She would believe it of course, I just showed up here and I'm not acquainted with anyone just yet. "Alright can you please stop crying." She says, offering me a tissue. Someone Knocks on the door, The principal flickers her gaze from me, to the door. "Must be your brother, he said he was close. Come in." She yells. When the door opens, she smiles. I tilt my head to wipe my tears because Ryan will tear this place down If he sees me crying here. I take my time composing myself as she jerks off her seat, "Alpha, Beta! Wow, what an honour to have you here, at Winter Bloom Academy." She says, her tone giddy, like a child. "Please take a seat." I hear footsteps and they stop when I guess the person sit's, it's not Ryan. The only other Alpha I've seen is… I raise my head to confirm my suspicion and I was right, it's Alpha Adrian sitting next to me. My eyes widen and I feel like my contact lenses are about to fall off. I tense in my seat and he quickly jerks off. "Adrian?" Beta calls out sounding worried but Alpha Adrian doesn't respond, he gazes at me with a blank expression but it's far from blank, I can't read it just yet. Beta calls out to him once again and this time he answers, his gaze piercing into my soul as I pull away from it, scared it might see right through me, through this entire guise. "What's wrong?" Beta asks, only then do I feel his gaze lift from me, leaving with a new fear. "Nothing, principal Jones, I just want to talk to you about a transfer for my sisters." He says looking between me and the principal. I am no longer looking at him but I can feel his eyes on me. "Oh," She exclaims, "The girls can't transfer, other schools have already registered their students for exams so it won't be possible for twelfth graders." He doesn't respond, the room is silent and I peer up at him, my eyes finding his instantly, he growls, his gaze spine chilling as he stares in pure disdain. "Have a good day Mrs Jones." He mutters walking out, with his Beta behind him. "I see you're rattled by our Alpha." She smiles while handing me a bottle of water. I drink it with my eyes closed but the image of Alpha Adrian and his deadly stare makes me choke. I give myself a mental shake and take the bottle away and cough a little, Mrs Jones goes to the door and I take another sip of my bottle water only to choke out even more. Suddenly, I feel someone brushing my back, it's my brother. "Princess, breathe it out. Don't stress about it." Micheal says brushing my back. "Good that's it." He smiles when I finally stop coughing. His hand caresses my wet hair, "What happened to you?" Oh, you don't know I got terrorized and nearly exterminated by the stare that my mate gave me but I don't say that, rather I shake my head, sniffing over my hand. "I had an accident." He looks back to Mrs Jones "Can I take her home?..." When we get home, I go straight up to my room and fall onto my bed to continue crying. I don't want to go to school anymore. Everyone is mean, they bully and laugh at me. I simply can't go back and what's worse I met the devil, now every time I close my eyes I see his face right in front of me staring into my soul with disgust (hatred). The image flashes before my eyes so many times that I feel like peeing on myself. He instigated fear in me, real fear and not the guise of fear I'm accustomed to. His scent still lingers in every room I walk into, and that girl Belle, she smelled like him. Of course she does, she must be his little sister, how I missed that before puzzles me, only she can be that beautiful. "Milla, baby." Arielle sighs sitting on the side of my bed. I get up to hug her, laying my head in her lap, I cry out even louder. "Mi amour, what's wrong?" "I don't want to go to school anymore." "I don't like it there Ryan you were right it's not good, I don't want to go ever again." "Princessa." I hear Ryan sigh from the door. "Please don't make me go back there, they don't like me, they bully and laugh at me she… she will kill me Ryan please I don't want to go to school again!" "Okay you won't go anymore I won't force you." "Ryan!" Arielle snaps. He shoots her a look, "What?" "She has to go to school." "She can learn from here. I won't force Milla if she doesn't want to go, it's best she stays here. I mean look at her, she's shaking." He says pointing out my current responses. "So what? She shivers when she's scared. Camilla is not a little kid anymore and you can't bring yourself to deny her anything but I can. For her benefit, I will and so I say she has to go." She demands. "Ari please." I sob, my voice comes out squeaky and broken. "Just look at her My love, she's crying even more! You know what, don't worry princess you don't have to go." He assures me. Arielle sighs, her gaze fixed on me, "Honey please wait outside." "Why?'' "Because I will pay you in kind." She sounds like she is asking him a question yet she is telling him and he knows it so he turns away and closes the door. Arielle waits for his footsteps to die out before she begins to persuade me, but I don't want to be persuaded. I hate it there. "I don't want to Arielle, please don't make me." I tell her wiping my tears away. "Look baby, it's high school you can't quit because your hair looks bad or you're not going to have a prom date not even if they bully you. Camilla people are like that they will hurt you because you're better than them they feel threatened and besides…if you quit every time one thing goes wrong people will call you a coward and father won't be proud is that what you want?" Smart, bringing out the father card. "No. I don't want him to." I sob. "Well then will you go to school or quit? " "I will go back to school, Ari." "Good and you will show whoever bullied you you're not scared, you will push back when you're pushed and if they don't leave you alone. I will handle them myself. Now come on, take a shower and I will take you for ice cream." She says tickling me.