Chapter 1
She slowly moved her fragile legs over to the school cafeteria counter. Her hair was dry and her skin ran pale under the deadly cold weather. She looked lifeless as her eyeballs had almost popped out of their socket, leaving her lips cracked.
"Can I have two burgers and stirred fries?" She placed her order as she the food attendant packed her order. She muttered a thank you as she collected it from the food attendant and headed back to her class. She took a deep sigh before entering the class.
"Hey, what took you so long dumpling?" A girl just around her age stood up to her and went to her hair, gripping it so hard. "Do you know I was starving?"
"There were many students on the row." Nayon begged as Lexi grabbed her hair making her to whimper in pain.
"You look pathetic." Lexi muttered and pushed her back with a huge force , landing her on the floor which made the whole class to erupted into a mockery laughter. Nayon left out a few tears as she stood up and dusted her skirts.
She was Nayon, the class victim and block head who was often bullied by Lexi, the principal's daughter. She was so invisible, worthless and insignificant to everyone around her. She was about to move to her seat when Lexi pulled her back. "Do you have a death wish? What is this?" Lexi shouted as she emptied the whole content on her uniform.
"I order what you asked me." Nayon stammered in fear as she moved backwards. One of Lexi's g**g tripped her and she fell on the floor and flat to Lexi's face. Lexi picked up a bottle water, twisted the cap and slowly emptied it on Nayon. The rest of the class already took out their phone and recording the scenery.
"Don't you know I don't like onions? You really sure have a death wish." Lexi said giving her few kicks on her leg. "Oops, everyone I have a secret to share with you. Nayon asked a guy out and she got rejected." This caused a roar laughter in class as they all mocked Nayon. Lexi signaled to one of her g**g to play the video on the class TV.
Nayon seems to like guy working at the school cafeteria, so she made many cakes and cookies in hope to confess to him and unfortunately Lexi sent her to get her textbooks. She saw the box of cookies and went to threaten the guy to reject her offer saying her Dad was telling school principal and he'd lose his job.
Nayon was bluntly and cruelly rejected while Lexi and her g**g had been recording the scene to share her and today Nayon couldn't believe they would be playing it for the whole school. She watched the face of all her classmates as they threw her random stuffs like erasers, pencils, plastic cups, leftovers.
It was such a school disgrace. Nayon couldn't take it anymore and shifted into tears. She stood up and ran out of the class and as she worked in the hallway, all eyes seems to be their phones and then her. Lexi had already posted it to the school online community and the whole school is seeing her shame. She ran into the school toilet and helped herself in on of the closet.
She let her emotions down and cried bitterly. She couldn't fight Lexi obviously, Lexi had more physical strength than her and her Dad was the school's principal. Moreover, she had always lived a life of fear, always living in her shadows and shell.
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It was already 7pm yet so refused to go home as she wandered around the streets. She had already made up her mind, she was ready to kill herself. She was ready to die, she'd rather face death than a lifetime disgrace but before she goes, she wanted to call her mom. She dialed her number and her younger brother turned out to pick it.
"Sister. Where have have you been, it's getting late." Her younger brother scolded which made Nayon heart ached. Her brother was the best thing she would miss.
"Ethan, remember I always love you." She cried. "Give the phone to Mom." Nayon waited for her Mom to pick up and the festival thing she heard was her scolding. She was never so inconsiderate and always scold Nayon for everything.
"Hey, you better get yourself back here right now!" She shouted she made Nayon more pathetic as he quickly cut off the call.