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"Don't forget to submit your assignments first thing tomorrow morning. I think I've been lenient enough." Ms. Stan said as she dismissed the class.
Mondays were definitely not her happy day.
It was finally time for lunch break and saying I was hungry will be a terrible understatement.
I was moving hurriedly towards the cafeteria in order to avoid the queue but curse my luck, I just had to bump into someone.
I was about to utter an apology when I looked up to see who it was.
"Oh hey Kim." Cole said timidly.
What was up with him and the rest, they avoided me the whole of last week.
"Hey Cole." I said with a fake smile.
"Been a while, haven't seen you lately. I feel like you've been avoiding me." I said laughing lightly while giving him an accusing look.
"Come on Kim, it’s not how it looks like. There's just-"
"Oh thank goodness Kim, I've been looking everywhere for you." Maya half screamed.
"It's rude to cut people off you know." Cole said back in his 'bad boy don't mess with me' voice.
"Sorry but its really urgent." Maya said not even caring that he was one of the school's populars, another reason why she was closer to being my friend.
"Kim I think you should check the school's student body vlog." She said handing her phone over to me.
I was still a little confused, I mean there's nothing on the school's vlog that could interest me.
"Just play the video dammit." Maya said impatiently.
I pressed the play button and in less than a minute, my entire body was shaking. I stood there in pure shock and horror.
"When?" I asked no one in particular, from my outfit in the video, I clearly knew the answer.
I was trying my best to appear confident but I guess Maya was good with reading facial expressions and body language.
"Hold on. Didn't you tell her the next morning?" Maya asked glaring at Cole.
"We wanted to, but we didn't know how she'll take it." And just as he ended the sentence, Maya landed a firm punch to his chest.
"Why the hell won't you tell her something this important?" She sounded angry.
"You're just an asshole." She said shoving him hard in the chest.
"Kim I'm sorry." He said looking at me pleadingly.
I couldn't say anything. This was all too much. I can't believe just a week ago I almost got r***d. Maybe that was the actual trigger to my recent nightmare, not Dwayne.
I couldn't be here.
Gosh! I'm sure everyone in the cafeteria will be talking about this already.
Without a second thought, I walked out of the school building, might as well skip the remaining classes.
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I have been at the park for the past two hours and my phone has been buzzing for the past twenty minutes but I really didn't feel like talking to anyone.
The only person from my new school with my number is Maya and she's probably calling to check if I'm okay.
Another ten minutes of my phone buzzing and I gave up.
"I don't want to talk to anyone so just leave me the f**k alone." I said angrily as I picked the call without even looking at the caller ID.
"Just calm the hell down already." Someone said from the other side and it didn't sound like my mum or Maya. It kinda sounded like one of the last set of people I wanted to talk to.
"Damon?!" I blurted out a little unsure.
"No. Its your guardian angel from heaven. Where the hell are you?" He said and I could hear shuffling sounds.
We had a brief back and forth argument about me wanting to be alone, but I finally gave in and told him my current location.
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"I said I was sorry, what more do you want?" Damon screamed clearly losing his temper.
When he asked me for my location, I thought he was going to be here with Cole and Jeff but to my utter dismay he came alone. And for the past forty minutes we've been lashing out on each other.
He's the worst person Cole could have sent to apologize to me.
"What more do I want? Seriously? You guys hid something as important as this from me and you're asking me that kind of question. Do you even know how embarrassed I was when Maya came to show me that video? Or wait do you know how hard it's going to be for me to face the entire school while this video is still viral?" I asked him as the memories from what happened years ago flashed through my memory.
Wrong timing brain, very wrong timing.
"Look, we'll try our best to sort things out in school and I promise you that no one will say anything to you about it." He said coming closer to me.
"Have you ever asked yourself if I'd ever been through something like this? Its not just about people knowing, its also about me." I screamed at him, temporarily losing hold over my emotions.
"I...wait what do you mean?" Damon asked, tilting my chin so I was facing him squarely.
That exact moment was when the weight of my words dawned on me.
"I..I-" I was trying to come up with a good excuse when my phone started buzzing.
I took that as a good opportunity to dodge the question, I moved away from Damon to check my phone.
It was a message.
A message from Miller.
This definitely couldn't be good. I haven't spoken to him since the drama at Cole's party.
I clicked on the message to find an attachment alongside a short message.
Miller.
If you think that video of you almost getting r***d is embarrassing, wait till the entire school sees this.
We're not done until I say so dear girlfriend.
Its your choice, opt out of the relationship and let the entire school see this or come back to me and we'll be fine.
No one dumps Barry Miller.
I clicked on the attachment still wondering what on earth he was talking about but once it was opened, I understood exactly what he was talking about. It was an image of me naked in the shower.
He had sneaked into my house the day after the party.
***FLASHBACK.***
I entered the house and was welcomed by emptiness and a note from my mum. She had to travel to New York urgently for a business meeting.
I was used to her frequent absence by now. Ever since the sad occurrence towards years ago, she had been drowning herself in work to forget about it.
I couldn't blame her, I had been drowning myself in my 'mission' too.
I got to my room and decided to check my phone for messages and as expected, I had a text from Hope.
Hey little rascal.
How was your party yesterday? Please tell me you got laid by your hottie boyfriend. Anyway don't forget I'll be coming over next week Friday for your grande Halloween revenge. My love goes to your mum.
Much love,
Your fellow rascal.
Reading her message made me remember what Miller did yesterday and honestly, I didn't even want to think about it. But on the brighter side, Halloween was this coming week and Darcy was going to learn her lesson.
With this thought, I decided to go for a long hot shower before sleeping.
On my way to the bathroom, I noticed my room window was open, but didn't give much thought to it.
*** End of flashback.***
I knew there was something off with my window that night, but I was too exhausted to think along those lines.
"Kim are you okay?" Damon asked turning me to face him.
I've never really been an emotional person, but I felt my cheeks getting wet with tears. Today was just a horrible day for me.
"Hey, you'll be fine." Damon said pulling me in for a hug.
If only he knew.
"No one makes Kimora Martins cry and gets away with it." I said pulling away from the hug and picking up my belongings.
Get a pen and a paper kids.
One more thing to know about me, I'm always crazy, but when I'm provoked, I move from crazy to psycho.
Miller you have no idea what's coming for you.
- Writer
