The new girl

Chapter 5: Revenge Tactics

*bell rings*

I wake up with a shock. Looking at the bell ringing with someone by the window trying to get in.

Overtaken by shock, I panic in fear. I reach for the baseball I kept under my bed and back away slowly in to the bathroom which is directly next to my bed.

I pray and cry.

Suddenly, I hear the door of my house get kicked and in barges a few men. Too panicked to realise how many. I scream.

One guy grabs me a slaps me across the face. I immediately start bleeding.

Hearing the commotion inside, the guy trying to get in through the window cracks the window open. He holds 2 swords in his hands and one is still on his belt.

He directly commands them "Leave her alone or this will be the last day you see".

The men burst out into laughter, and then the rest of the guys excluding the one holding me rushes over to him to beat him up.

I look closer at the guy who has a Hoodie covering his head with a mask covering his face till his nose.

He looks so familiar i think.

Could it be?

Could it actually be Zain.

I wonder. While continuing to get helplessly beat up by the guy infront of me.

"Stop, you're hurting me so much" I scream in pain as I try to push him off me and hit him with the baseball bat I was holding.

The man laughs at my pathetic attempt at escaping and demonstrates his strength by taking the baseball bat and breaking it with his bare hands.

Meanwhile the mystery guy fighting in the back to protect me, stabs every last one of them with his swords and mocks "You're no match for me" .

When the guy holding me finally realizes he is the only one left. He uses me as a shield and bargaining chip.

"Come any closer and she dies" he says while holding a knife to my throat.

"Coward, leave her and fight me if you're a man, act like it" he commands in a deep harsh manly voice.

I know that voice I think.

I know I looked a pathetic sight to see, torn pjs, blood all over me because I was a weakling. It felt as though all my bones were broken. Non stop tears flowed down my cheeks, with my ugly cry and scared face reflective on the surface.

Nevertheless I softly and quietly ask "Zain is that you?"

I saw his eyes react to my comment, but there was no response.

He walked closer to me and the guy who held a knife to my throat began pressing the knife deeper and deeper into my throat the closer he got.

When he saw blood coming out of my neck he stops, seeing as the pain might be too unbearable for a scaredy cat like myself.

"Let her go" He says again.

Now furious with seeing the sight of blood flowing from me and turning a bit unconscious. He makes a move so fast neither me nor the guy holding the knife to my throat sees him move.

All I see after that is the guy with the knife laying on the floor with full blood everywhere.

Extremely scared of the sight infront of my eyes. There were dead guys laying everywhere on my floor.

"Do you recognize them?" He asks me.

"No" I said.

"They are the same guys who tried to.." he pauses for a second before continuing.

"They are the same guys who tried to hurt you and have their own way with you a few weeks ago" he spits out, while saying it in disgust as though he felt disappointed in himself. As though I was his responsibility

"They, th, they are the same guh..guh..guys???" I managed to say.

"Yes, ever since that night I overheard them speaking about taking revenge on you and completing what they stated with you, I saw them follow you home to know where you live. They laid low until it was the right time to strike" he said.

This frightened me even more and I began to cry a little more tears.

He noticed and added "I helped you escape that night, there's no need to fear me, I will not hurt you. You can trust me, I want to help by protecting you and keeping you safe".

"Are you the person I kept seeing for the last few weeks outside my window at night?" I asked

"Yes, I had to look out incase they attacked" He said.

How did he get up there, I live on the 4th floor which is quite high. So how would he get up here? Why does he want to protect me.

I walk up to him trying to hide the fear I feel.

"Please show me who you are?" I ask politely.

"In time baby girl you will know who I am" he smirks.

Just as he said that I squeal in pain, it seems my shoulder has been dislocated.

"I'll take you to a hospital right away" he seriously says.

He grabs me off the floor and hurries me to the hospital.

He leaves me in the hospital. "I will be back sweet Daphne, there's a few things I need to take care off" he says to me as he rushes away.

A few hours pass and im finally released from hospital. I see the sunrise with the birds chirping.

Standing infront of me I see him waiting to take me home.

As we get home, "You should rest, you shouldn't attend campus today" he says to me.

"Wait, I have something that belongs to you."

I quickly look into my cupboard and pick out the earring, which i then pass to him.

"I know you're Zain, I saw you with these earrings at campus yesterday when you spoke to me with Naomi, I wanted to approach you about it and say thank you, but I was afraid, the trauma keeps coming back". I timidly say.

He takes off the hoodie and mask.

"It is you!" I say as I take a few steps backwards from him.

"I'll check on you after campus today, please eat something" he says as he walks out of my house and closes the door behind him.