Fallen in deep

Chapter 2 - The encounter

I turned and stared in the same direction as almost every student was looking, the hallway went deathly silent, walking up was a tall, dark, well built figure wearing black skinny ripped jeans, biker style boots with spikes on the ankles, black t shirt with a grey shirt over his chunky arms. His light brown hair was short on the sides and thick and wavy on top covering his forehead, I couldn't see the colour of his eyes from far away but they looked too dark anyway.

As he approached I could see his wrists were draped in chains and almost every finger had a silver ring. He had a frightening aura about him.

Bethany and I both let out a long breath we had been holding when he walked past- as did most of the people in the hallway who was in close proximity to him.

“what was all that about?..” I ask

“That was Zane Hardy” Bethany starts. “Apparently he is BIG Trouble and part of a rough gang”

“The rumour mill must be going into overtime, Oh well the girls have a new bad boy to swoon over” I say bluntly

Bethany grabs my hand and turns me round to face her.

“Ella seriously he is bad news, don't even make eye contact with him, I heard he was the biggest bully at his last school, students would even go missing and he hurts animals and people just for fun”

“Bethany come on.. that's sounds too extreme, you know what rumours are like here and anyway he's only been here for 5 minutes and hasn't been to this school before so how do people know this ?”

Bethany explains “Well he was here for an induction day on the last week before the holidays, although most people weren't in because it was a half day,. Apparently he ruled the roost and boasted about how he got kicked out of his last school and even slept with a teacher to secure good grades and when I asked my Mum if any of this was true she just said that he was  expelled from his last school so there must be some truth behind It all”

The bell rang and we both headed to our first class, mine was Chemistry, oh well might as well get this over and done with I say to myself.

Mr Bain isn't the tech genius he pretends to be, Bill gates certainty won't be calling him up anytime soon with a job.

“Awk silly computer, it must just be slow because it is the first day back” he says groans while fiddling with wires and buttons.

“Here Ella take a paper copy of the register to the office for me please and explain it's because of the stupid computer” A workman always blames his tools huh?

I don't mind always being the messenger for the teachers they know am not going to do a runner, Mr Bain learned that the hard way last year when he asked Christopher to deliver a message, 45 minutes later at the end of the lesson Christopher appeared claiming he “got lost”.

“Morning Ella, are you excited for your first day back?” a familiar voice asked from the office window

“Morning Sheila, no unfortunately I don't share your daughters enthusiasm” I reply passing her the class register

Sheila is Bethany's Mother and is one of the admin staff in the school office, this is the source of most of Bethany's gossip – eavesdropping on her Mother's conversations.

“Ah Mr Bains class register, let me guess computer problems again?” she said rolling her eyes

I couldn't help but chuckle “well yes something like that”

I tuned to go back when SMACK, I walked straight into something that closely resembled a brick wall. The wall didn't even flinch. I opened my eyes and was greeted with a hard muscular chest in a fitting black top and dangling chain. I slowly looked up to see a dark face glaring down at me , suddenly the office door opened and the principle walked out .

“Ah Ella perfect timing, your a sensible student, can you do me a favour and show our new student to his class? I am due in an important meeting so I can't”

“What!!” I blurted out, The principle raised an unimpressed eyebrow.

“I mean..it's just am supposed to be in chemistry and Mr Bain doesn't like it when people are late”

“Oh that's perfect, Zane that's your class is'nt it ? Well Ella can show you where to go...go on then you said Mr Bain doesn't like people being late” he ushered us out.

Although the class was only a short walk away it felt like the longest walk ever and Bethany's prior warnings circulating around my head weren't helping the situation – “Don't Make eye contact.” We walked in complete silence not saying a word with me staring at the ground wishing it would open up and swallow me here and now. Now and again I felt like I could feel eyes burning on me but I was too scared to look up incase I provoked a reaction.

When we entered the classroom the whole room went silent, you could hear a pin drop , with everyone's eyes widened Mr Bain broke the silence “ Oh nice of you to join us again Ella and I see you've returned with company” . I felt the blood rush straight to my cheeks what was that about the ground swallowing me up? Now would be a good time. I hurried over to my seat making sure to keep my face down.

Every year Mr bain had this rule where he would choose peoples seats and this year was no different. I was sure this was his way of tormenting us however according to him it was “adverse team building”, Bethany was right, why did I choose chemistry again?. I was sat opposite Andrew with Ivy beside him, she was nice and we got along well she had a gothic look which really suited her, although I couldn't sit beside her I was grateful she was at the same table as me. Sadly I had Daniel to my left. Him and his muttley crew friends used to tease me now and again in my first years, probably because of my size or shyness, I used to be scared of them but now I had more confidence I wasn't afraid and I realized that they weren't that brave to pick on one of the smallest girls in the school.

Zane took a seat on the other table opposite me which meant he was directly in my eyesight, not that I was stupid enough to look over, he was probably busy eyeing up his next pray. The chair next to him was free, I guess no one would be volunteering to fill that space anytime soon unless it was one of the many girls swooning behind him.

In no time it was the end of the lesson and the bell rang for the next class, I had art with Bethany so myself and Ivy walked up to the second floor together, Bethany was outside the class waiting for me, as I said a goodbye to Ivy we were just about to go in when HE walked past. I turned my head catching his eyes for a split second before turning back, it sent a chill down my spine making me shudder.

“Wait...Did he just look at you?” Bethany questioned with wide eyes

“We have chemistry class together, I had to walk him to class, it was so akwar-”

Before I could finish Bethany cut me off “Whoah! … are you saying you were actually alone with him? Are you okay?”

I chuckled at her over reaction “Yes don't worry I came our unscathed”

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