Fate will decide

Nina

I enter the class, its hot and quiet. That's how a classroom feels like-weird. Everyone's eyes are on me and murmuring. Stanley puts his hands on my right shoulder. My body tense up and shivers goes up to my neck, his touch makes me feel so.....dirty.

"Name?" Stanley asks a girl with a pixie gray haircut.

She looks at me then her eyes moves to Stanley-her eyes widening. She says something under her breathe, I can't tell what she said.

"Cassie"

"Casey" Casey corrects him and adjusts her posture.

"Well, Casey, I heard you're the smartest student in this school, So you're taking care of Nina and her grades" Stanley fake smiles at Casey "make her feel welcomed"

It seems she's going to be my tutor, I mean I'm not complaining. She looks like a loner and i like it, I don't want some nosey people ask me what I have done to my life and wouldnt take 'I don't wanna talk about it' for an answer.

He rubs my back gently;and comes close to me, his stinky breathe against my right ear. "Be a good girl and do NOT cause any trouble" and he gives me a little push.

I sit on the 2 row first row. I glance at Casey, She has an eyebrow piercing-that's pretty gay. She sees me staring at her and i turn around quickly.

Casey has a heart shaped lips and almond hazel eyes,her jaw is sharp and her nose is upturned-Shes pretty.

Its lunch time and it has been almost 3 hours since Casey has been staring at me. It's turning really creepy, the teacher called her out for not "concentrating". Like obviously she isn't focused, Casey didn't get her eyes off me.

Maybe she's not a loner but a bully,Or even worse. The person who want to appear innocent and friendly but secretly ruins and backstab everyone. Only one way to find out is to see what's her deal.

I get up and head to the bathroom-even though I'm new to the school I know where the restroom is, Since Stanley works for here for a while now and he let me memorize every corner of the school so I don't have to 'ask for help'.

I see the football team pushing each other to the lockers, I turn around quickly and see Casey following-Well that's a stalker level.

Bunch of girls are whispering and giggling.

As I enter the restroom, I see one blonde girl talking to her friends-I think, about how each one of her boyfriends has a different d**k size. This conversation is sickening, I quickly go into the middle bathroom stall, shut the door and sit on the floor. I need to smoke or a drink, I just want a break, the first day I already have a stalker and already girl talking about d***s? Why not talk about p*****s? They taste better anyways.

"You have been avoiding me almost the whole day" a voice speak up, I half open the door and peep out Casey's back, her hands are placing to the sink "I dont want to talk, okay? Nothing personal. I just wanna be alone, please"

I raise my left eyebrow, I feel like I missed something. Are they gay? Or a friendship breakup? Both sucks anyways.

"okay, I understand" a familiar voice says sadly, I think she's a classmate. Then she continues "if that's what you want, then I understand" and the door slams.

Time to shine, I'm certain that Casey followed me here but her ex or whatever interrupted. At least if she wanna stalk, do it properly.

I decide to open the door and see her jumping when she meets my reflection "Jeez you f*****g scared me" Guess she forgot why she came here in the first place.

Time to interrogate her. I walk closer to her, looking down on her,Her breath smells like mint.

"What do you want?" I question her with a deep voice, still maintaining eye contact with her. I have to pick up what kind of person she is.

"What do you mean?" Casey asks me, without looking away.

I give her a serious look "Don't answer a question with a question. You better answer me"

"What's in it for me?" Casey give me a smirk.

I back down and pace around the restroom. Shes testing me

"You think this is a f*****g joke huh?" I spat

Casey shurgs and continue to stare at me with a smug on my face. "Soooo you think this is a joke?" i laughs while covering my mouth. "Damn, you're really strange. But..." i clap my hands "Well, I think we got off in th wrong foot, I'm Nina" i offer my hand.

She shakes it "Casey"

I watch her closely,

Casey speaks up"Anyways, since Stan assigned me to teach you this school year. You better have it in my own way"

I pull my hand "Why did you have to mention him?"

"Did you say something?" Casey looks at me in confusion.

I shake my head "ill see you after classes ends in the school library" and exit the bathroom.

Behind the school, no one is there,

Its quite and empty. There are rusted broken swings and the ground is dusty but I sit on it.

It's hot outside, I feel like my head is going to melt.

Inside my pockets I take out a lighter and a cigarette. I put the cigarette between my lips and light it up.

I inhale it to my throat and once it starts burning, I blow it.

I hear loud footsteps so I quickly put the cigarette under my right shoe.

A boy with navy jeans and a purple Lakers shirt. He has a hooked nose and thin lips. His eyes are round brown eyes. He glances at me "Sorry,I didnt know anyone was here"

I shrug "it happens. What you doing here"

He looks around and come closer to me. He smells like sweat-it's digusting. "nothing"

Well isn't that a bit suspicious. He either wanted to smoke or to do something else.

He sits few inches away from me, "What are you doing here?"

I stretch my hands and glance at him "Just chilling" keeping the conversation dry

We stay quiet for some time. I can hear his loud breathing, in the corner of my eye I see him staring at me;I ignore him. I dont trust men around me, or around anyone to be honest.

"I didn't catch your name" He smirks, as if he said something hot.

"Alex" I reply with a dry tone, Can't he pick up the hint that I want to be alone?

"Nice to meet you, Alex" He gets closer to me, his right fingers reach my left one slowly. "So what do you want to do?"

I remove my fingers away from him, feeling so dirty.

I stand up and leave him, not making a single eye contact with him.

I didn't even talk to him properly and he's already horny. I shouldn't have used gave him a name anyways, Just because I thought I'm going to be in a private school, thinks would be different. Turns out, private or not;Men will still find a way to harass you or even worse.

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Its 3:00pm, the classes are over and its time for me to meet Casey. I tried to pressure her into telling me her real intentions but I don't think my methods are going to work on her, she seems really smart and capable. It will probably be hard for me to know soon, so I guess I have to manipulate her into thinking I'm a good friend and see if she actually has pure intentions or not.

The hallways are full of people, someone stepped me on shoe, while some people pushed me. Here I thought, this school is all about 'strictness'

Someone holds my left shoulder, I defensively turn around. I see Stanley looking at me, frowning. "We need to talk" and pulled my left arm roughly.

He lead me to the teacher's restroom, Stanley checks out if someone is watching us, then he opens the bathroom door while pulling me with him-locking the door behind him.

It smells like lemon, there are 4 stalls and has a clean sink and floor as well, There's a small window on the wall too. He pushes me against the wall, my vision gets a blurry while the back of my head feels its bleeding internally.

"Nina, Nina, Nina" he repeats it while his eyes widening to me. His left hand on the wall away from my head and his right hand be on my right leg. Stop touching me

"I told you, DO not get into trouble" he whispers to me "Why can't you listen to me for once"

I open my mouth to speak, but he puts his left fingers to my lips "Shhh, I handled it don't worry about it"

I feel there's a huge lump on my throat, finding myself hard to speak up. "I didn't... Do anything" my voice is shaking "I... Swear, I didnt do anything"

"oh yeah?" He puts his hands on my neck and starts squeezing it. "You were behind the school building today at lunch time, It's a restricted place"

"i.. Didnt...." i try to find my voice, but he starts to choke me even harder. My heartbeat feels like it's going to burst, my face getting heated.

Tears begin to fall down my cheeks, I don't want to die, I don't want to be found in a restroom.

Stanley finally let go both of his hands and spits on my face "Next time I wont hold back"

My body drops to the floor, I start gasping for air. He kicks my stomach, causing more pain. My blood vibrating inside of me

"You're pathetic, I wasn't hard on you" he smiles and looks at the mirror, cleaning his face. "Get the f**k up otherwise I'm going to punish you right here and now, do you want that? Hmm?"

I shake my head side ways.

"Then get up if you don't want that"

I stand up and my body begins trembling. I gulp and stare at Stanley.

"Clean your face then meet Casey" He demands and unlocks the door.

Casey? How did he know I'm meeting her? I put my hand on the wall to maintain some balance

He glares at me "Nina... Pretend everything is normal or else"

I nod, everything will be alright, I just have to wait for February till I finally turn 18 and i can get rid of him for good. But all I can do right now meet casey once I feel alright and normal.

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After Casey leaves the school library, I sit there alone in silence. I feel bad that Casey waited for me, despite us meeting, I didn't exactly make a good impression. What if now she starts spreading rumours, no one can be trusted at this point.

I open the book and see a paper falls to the table

Meet me tomorrow behind the school building... Again.

-Nathan.

Great, now I have two stalkers. This can't be good at all