Mated To Her Alpha Bullies

THREE: What Have You Done?

LUSTRE

We were on our way back to the class after my dress was dry and I talked more with Amelia and I realized that we were in the same class.

I was still shaking from the aftermath of what happened in the morning but I wasn't going to allow that to affect me, I was going to push it behind me and let it stay there.

"Alvin aside, you'd really enjoy Haling Prep," Amelia was telling me as we rounded a corner and I stumbled into a hard rock. The force drove me back and I'd have fallen to the floor if strong hands didn't grab me by my shoulders and holstered me right up.

An involuntary gasp of surprise left my mouth when I looked up and I met the eyes of the guy I bumped into.

He looked like something unreal, like a masterpiece that should be reserved for a museum. He looked surreal and just from looking at him, I could tell he had a bit of Asian blood in him because he looked like the exact replica of Taehyung.

I could actually feel myself swooning and feeling a bout of attraction to a guy for the first time.

"Are you alright, sweetheart?" his voice broke me out of my reverie and as if his face wasn't alluring enough, his voice was just everything and it was hard for me not to turn into a muddle and melt to the floor.

"Yes, of course," I told him and when he removed his hands from my shoulders, I felt a bizarre sense of loss.

"Alright Love, be safe," he punctuated his words with a wink before walking away and my heart actually skipped a beat as I turned back to look at his retreating back.

"That's Ha Joon," Amelia explained as we resumed our walk, "he's best friends with Alvin."

That made me stop.

"Really? How's someone so angelic friends with someone that demonic?"

"I know right but I did they're just friends by status, you know, they're all Alpha Princes from the five Council families and all of them are the top students of Haling Prep. They rule the school."

Wow.

"So you're telling me that the five heirs of the Council Members are all future Alphas and they're friends?"

"Not all of them, the fifth guy is not... I don't think you need to know about him because he hardly exists in this school anyways and they're not all boys, there's a girl among them, Olivia Parker, she's the only child of the Alpha General and she has this whole of this school in her palms," she turned to me, concern written all over her face,-

Listen, dealing with Alvin, as demonic and horrible as he is is actually the tip of the iceberg compared to dealing with Olivia, she's the devil incarnate herself and I'm just going to beg you, stay away from her. She has done lots of terrible things to people and people have died because of her, it's that bad. She's untouchable because her father is really the owner of the Veeralh Dynasty.

"What? How's that..." but I couldn't ask more because we were already in front of our class and we had to enter.

***

The rest of the day passed away in a blur, there was nothing eventful, no sign of Alvin or anything and I could only hope that he had forgotten about me. The only thing that could be described as eventful was the snide remarks and whispers I got from the students. I expected to meet with Amelia's friends especially during lunch when everyone was paired up in circles and cliques but no one waved to Amelia or called her name or smiled at her so I had no option but to ask when we sat down to eat.

"Well, you can call me a loner by choice," she answered with a casual shrug, "All those people that you see smiling and laughing at each other don't even like each other, so-called best friends are just enemies in disguise, most of the relationships you see in Haling Prep are just facades, just transactions, people are not friends because they like each other but because they have something to gain from each other because they have something to use each other for. That's the kind of place Haling is, it's a jungle, a very terrible jungle.-

And I'd rather not be a party to things like that, I'd rather be a loner than become friends with people that don't even like me."

"Yeah, right? I agree with your reasoning."

I looked around at the laughing and excited faces of friends and I couldn't help but really fear how much they can really hate each other but pretend to like each other that much.

I was about to look back at my food when my eyes caught a movement at the entrance of the dining room at the same time the whole room fell silent.

I'm not even joking. Like the earlier loud and boisterous energy just now disappeared completely as some people entered the dining and even though we were sitting in the furthest corridor, I could distinctly make out the four people that were entering, That was the cause of the new silence, and students running and practically falling on each other to make way for the four of them.

I saw Alvin among them and my heart jumped, like the bad kind and my hands literally started shaking as I relieved the terrible thing that happened this morning.

Looking at him now, he didn't look like he was capable of that much venom and meanness because his face looked like that of an angel and it made me wonder how someone that looked that angelic could be so brutal.

They walked further into the dining and I caught sight of Ha Joon with a charming smile on his face and my heart swooned again, a complete contrast to what I felt when I saw Alvin.

Then I saw the girl in their middle and my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when I saw her. She looked like Art, like the most gorgeous masterpiece, like someone that just stepped out of the cover of Vogue. She was that pretty, with shiny gold hair that reached her butt, skin that looked like glass, and a baby face that could pass for...

"Don't be deceived by her looks," Amelia's voice brought me out of my reverie, "That's Olivia Parker and she'd actually school the devil when it comes to wickedness."

"But she looks like she can't even hurt a fly," I protested.

"Yes, that's exactly what the girl she stabbed in the neck must have thought too."

The cutlery dropped out of my hands, "what? She stabbed a girl?"

"Yeah, that's small compared to the other maniacal things she has done."

My mouth dropped open and I found myself turning back to look at them. They've left the servers now and were making their way towards the table right at the middle of the dining, A table that I just noticed must have been left intentionally empty by the other students because it belonged to the Alpha Clique.

They all took their seats and the last guy that I hadn't seen before sat with his back to us, incinerating any possibility of seeing his face.

The Olivia sat beside Alvin and just when Alvin took his seat, he looked up and his eyes met mine.

My heart dropped as terror overtook my being and as if his dark eyes, full of anger were holding mine captive, I couldn't look away until the corners of his lips curved into a smirk.

A smirk full of a thousand dark promises.

I looked away and when I tried to grab my spoon, my hands wouldn't stop shaking.

"Olivia and Alvin are engaged by the way."

"Not surprised about that," I answered through the hoarseness in my voice, "they fit perfectly."

I started eating my food but my mind wouldn't stop going to them no matter how hard I tried and before I knew it, I was turning back to look at them.

I instantly looked away when Alvin's eyes met mine again and as I got busy with eating, I noticed Amelia occasionally stealing glances at their table and I couldn't tell if she was looking at them in awe or anger.

Or envy.

***

The last class for the day was Mathematics.

And as expected of a Mathematics class, a lot of students were bored and had busy themselves with other things like sleeping, pressing their phones, whispering and some females were even painting their nails.

Not me though because I've always loved calculations and it just had to be my favorite subject.

"Can anyone come and solve this equation on the board?"

The teacher asked after writing an equation on the board and he turned back to the class. I was about to volunteer when the teacher called someone else.

"Yes, Olivia, come and solve it.

I looked back at where the teacher was looking at to see the same Olivia had talked to me about standing up from a seat in the middle of the class. I've not seen her all day in class so I had no idea she was my classmate.

She walked to the board with unhurried steps as if the world would wait for her. She was soon done with solving it and the minute she stepped away from the board for the teacher to appraise what she had done, I instantly saw that she had it wrong.

"Hmm, Miss Parker, you used the wrong formula so you got the wrong answer."

Olivia huffed loudly and the disdain was plastered on her face as she walked back to her seat.

"Anyone else wants to try?" the teacher asked and I expected more students to volunteer but nobody raised their hands which was bizarre because the equation was a very simple one.

"Yes, Miss Bell, right?"

That was me and I looked at the teacher to see him looking at me.

"You looked like you want to give it a trial, Come on, come and solve the equation."

I stood up quietly and the silence in the class became deafening, it was so thick that it seemed like the beginning of doom.

I walked to the board and solved the equation.

"Yeah, that's correct," the teacher told me when I was done, "Can the whole class clap her and Miss Parker, I hope you've seen the correct formula now?"

The silence in the room grew even more as I walked back to my seat. Amelia was looking at me as if I just walked into a dead trap, and the whole class was looking at me as if they pitied me.

My eyes mistakenly met that of Olivia's and she was just staring at me with a calmness so eerie it made goosebumps, the bad kind to break out on my body.

I took my seat and the class continued but there was an obvious change in the air, a change that I had no idea what caused it.

The bell rang not long after then and everybody started squirreling out of the class. I was still trying to pack my books when Amelia came to my seat, dread written all over her body.

"For the love of God, Lustre, what have you done?"

Now, I was more than confused.

"I did nothing, I just solved a question."

"You solved a question that Olivia couldn't get right, that's like walking into a death trap."

She must have seen the question and confusion on my face because she continued, "There's an unspoken rule in this school that no one, absolutely no one should solve a question that Olivia got wrong. That's mocking her, calling her dumb and stupid and she doesn't take it lightly."

"What the f**k? What kind of stupid unspoken rule is..."

I didn't get to finish that statement because someone pulled me by my ponytail with so much force that it dragged me off the chair, flung me harshly to the floor and pain erupted in all parts of my body.