Threatened Love

~ Chapter Five ~

The next day I woke up early in bed to prepare myself to school. I expected Pierce must be sleeping still, so I thought that getting up early could lead me to avoiding him, but to my surprise, he has already left first before I did.

Well, that's a good thing though, because that simply means I will have to use the bathroom only for myself without getting worried that I'm living with a boy. Not that I fear him I just find him very intimidating for no reason, he's cold, very secretive and very boring for me to handle. So it'll be good that I leave him alone and do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't cross the line between us.

The first thing I did was to take a shower and brought my phone and speaker with me inside the bathroom. I turned my speaker on and hit the only playlist I really like and danced my way into the cold icy water. I thought I could withstand it but it only gave me shivers so I turned and looked for the heater. There were actually two colors showed on the faucet; one red, and one blue, and I believe that the 'red' color means "HOT" then I twisted it open and immediately saw the water rushed down.

"When my time comes

Forget the wrong that I've done

Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed

And don't resent me And when you're feeling empty Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest

Leave out all the rest!"

I sang the chorus and then drenched myself into what I thought was the 'Hot Water' when it only worsen things out. If the last one was an icy cold water this is beyond what I expect because it's freaking frozen!

"DANGER!!!!!!" I screamed his last name with anger evident in my tone.

So he's pulling pranks now? I can't believe he'd mess up with me by doing this? What a childish thing!

Since there was no hot water I literally forced myself to take a shower. I had no choice because I'm already wet and frozen, and time is very precious for me to waste it for nothing! I'll get my revenge later I will make sure of that.

Right after I finished showering I put my uniform on and stared at myself in the mirror. I looked completely different from before because for the first time in history, I'm wearing a skirt. It's very uncomfortable though and if I ever encounter any dangerous kids around the campus this will only prevent me from kicking their bully asses off.

I hesitated for a moment and thought of an alternative. Maybe I should wear a short or something? Just to cover my precious one and of course my perfectly pale legs. Then I thought it would just feel the same since it's very short and revealing as well so I turned to come up with an idea instead.

And that is....

Wearing my black jogging pants underneath my tennis skirt.

"There perfect!" I said smiling when I saw myself in the mirror.

I literally skipped eating breakfast after and instead drank a cup of milk because I was running out of time. I pulled my bag with me when I finished and headed out of our dormitory soon.

According to my class schedule we are having History and it's kinda weird because I only had one subject posted.

Aren't we going to have other classes?

This school is beginning to give me weirdo practices.

I arrived in class exactly the time I wanted. I was fifteen minutes early before the teacher came in and began introducing himself to us.

"Good morning class five, I'm Raven and I will be your adviser for your whole years here in Imperial High." He said and cheerfully the girls around me began squeaking and giggling with each other.

Well he's alright not too old and not too young, he's very mature yet charming and I'm sure a lot of my female classmates here, loves the idea of fantasizing romance with him.

Soon after he explained some class rules and regulations. I almost forgot my role in this class when he called my name and I absent mindedly stood up, clearly pre- occupied of something.

"Miss Midnight?" He called for the second time.

"Y-Yes Raven? Ah! No! I-I mean sir." I almost bit my lip in frustration for how stupidly I looked.

Then I heard my classmates laugh silently. I must have sounded awful!

But wait?

Why would I care about that?

It's not my fault anyway that Harris appointed me as their class leader.

I don't have any obligations for them. This role is just as pathetic as this school rules and procedures.

I might as well backoff from this position if I would?

But then my future is on the line. I can't just go back to that depressing life I had back home. I couldn't just disappear and return with an empty handed.

I tooked a deep breath and fisted my hands.

"At least have some pride Violet." I silently convinced myself and secretly gritted my teeth, which is the reason as to why I'm tasting my own blood now.

I'm annoyed.

I hate attention.

"Is she really suited to be our leader? I mean look at her now? She's completely different from yesterday. She's probably just showing off." I heard one of my classmates commented.

I have to ignore their comments anyway, and proceeded to meet our adviser's gaze.

"Here's the list of names of your classmates. From now on I want you to take everyone's attendance in advance before I arrive here in class. Also, please take note of ones behaviours, since I need to keep tract of their records so I could grade all of you accordingly. This means your grades are the result of how a class behave and how it's organized, the cleaner, the higher grade and the better the more chances of getting to the top lists of students. I'm pretty sure you know what it means if you're included to the top list right?" He asked and I nodded in response.

"We get to receive higher points and high chances of becoming one of the top grade agents for VIP's"

"And you know what that means right?"

"Yes."

"Can you tell me?" He asked curiously and I confidently answered.

"It means we get high salary sir." I said.

Mr. Raven then smiled.

"Wrong, and for that all of you will be punished. Follow me to the gymnasium now!" Mr. Raven said suddenly sounding stricter than he seems and I heard my classmates groan in frustration.

"Seriously?" They hissed at me clearly blaming me for answering the question wrong.

I sighed.

Can this day be any worse?

Then I saw Peirce who I didn't notice earlier until he approached me now.

"Didn't you know that when a leader arrives late than everyone will make the group at risk? You standing there won't be any help for us." He said and all I could do was to glare at him.

"So you're suggesting?"

"I'm saying that if neither the two of us arrives late from the rest, we will have another worst punishment aside from cleaning the gym." He explained then left me there so confused and tired.

But it all went away when I understood his statement.

"What?!" I exclamed and immediately dashed out from the classroom, and ran as fast as I could, but to my disappointment, I still arrived late.

Pierce smirked.

Did he planned this?!

"Everyone! Down!" Mr. Raven shouts leaving us to no choice.

He's way scarier than an army situated at camp.

Then he stood in front of me as we're currently in push-up positions and I felt pressure placed on top of my head.

It was a pile of books, and it's clearly consuming my strength because I'm not built for endurance and upper body strength. I never thought I'd feel this guilt inside for the first time because it was not only me who has a book placed on top of my head but also everyone, and I felt bad because it definitely hurts.

"You see a leader is made to bring his or her group to success, security and safety. Without a leader the group will have no clarity, peace and goal to success. A leader is present to organize a group's decision with pure intentions."

"The books placed on top of your heads is a one example of your friends, family, or loved ones and specially think of it as your classmate or a group you truly care for. If your body collapses in an instant that means you're weak to be their leader, because if a leader falls the group will also follow, so to become a strong leader you must know the definition of hard work, guilt and pain." He explained and I admit I was far from what he mentioned because I ain't leader at all.

I'm weak, and self centered. I had no guilt but I'm reckless, foolish and thoughtful even if it means to encounter danger. That's who I am and to be a full leader I must now learn the word "Hard work".

I'm now guilty for my reckless actions that I even let Peirce come through me. I almost forgot that I have a revenge to accomplish later on but I must not stress myself for that now. First, I must regret and take action of my mistakes, should I write a letter of apology? Or should I memorize the pledge of Imperial High? I barely could remember a few lines, so maybe that will help.

"Stay still for about an hour till our session last, if anyone of you shows weakness I will double the time I gave you." Mr. Raven said and I could hear everyone groan tiresomely.

I kept my body still and barely took few deep breaths to avoid my muscles from contracting and pressure. If I constantly breathe it will make my bones tingly at the moment and soon my body will colapse. Although, I'm feeling itchy to stand up and stretch my body to relieve it from aching, I endured it even if it's slowly consuming my whole body.

The first stage of pain will probably take place on my shoulders first, second would be on my back, third on my legs and lastly to my feet. Thankfully my weight is proportional to my height so my legs will not be a problem at all but it's my shoulder that's taking all the support so it's very tempting to kneel my toes for me to have a rest.

"No violet, you can't give up." I whispered some encouragement to myself when I turned to see Peirce effortlessly doing the punishment with no strain of pain.

It's as if he's trained exactly this way and he's now gotten used to it like it was an every morning excercise. Compared to me his body is not stiff at all. His endurance is very good and his physical strength as well. It slightly pissed me off because it appears that he's taking advantage of his strength while punishing me for taking his dormitory instead of others.

We'll that's not any of my fault at all!

How could he punish me for such a nonsense reason when in fact it's Harris' fault.

I swear he's really going to regret pulling pranks on me later. I will make sure to double the sufferings I felt today, just wait and see Peirce.

I won't back down.

Finally after our session ended Mr. Raven called me then, he made me apologize to my classmates which I did and it didn't really convinced them at all.

Well I'll have to make sure I won't disappoint them in the following days of course, so I offered everyone a treat after this which they all has agreed and took my apology after.

However, Mr. Raven didn't let go of me that easily and gave me a task. He made me wrote the Imperial High's pledge and asked to explain it's meaning in detail. I have to pass them the next day or else I will be recieving another task.

It's exhausting but it's unbelievable that I'm making a progress here, although it's not a really friendly environment, it still made me realize one thing.

That it's good to correct your mistakes after risking everyone earlier. I could still feel my shoulders aching even after I drank a pain reliever. What more the others were feeling for my one simple mistake?

Then I thought of one thing that came across my mind. I'm pretty sure it was part of Peirce's ideas to put me on trouble but isn't he feeling any guilt at all? I bet he isn't because from I saw earlier he's very selfish and cold hearted.

He didn't care if any of us could handle it and instead literally left without notice when the bell rang.

I shake my head from left to right after I saw him swiftly escape from responsibility.

"He's not gonna help me at all isn't he? What a useless president." I hitched under my breath when Marissa, the girl from yesterday approached me.

"He's quite good looking right?" She asked and I was literally making that 'are you serious' look now.

Well he's not bad at all but he's a total zero for me.

"I don't think so plus his behaviour and personality is a turn off." I commented with disgrace.

She giggled though as if she's amused by my words.

"Well that's Peirce Danger for you, he's really been like that ever since he came here. Only one girl could actually take him though, while the rest is history, he never likes sweet talks or gestures." Marissa told me and I wasn't surprised at all.

"Is that so? I feel bad for the girl. She's dealing with a mental man whose nothing but a jerk." I said and laughed.

"Take it easy. I'm sure he'll cooperate after, if there's one thing you could make him agree that's academics."

"That's it? What about the others?" I asked.

"You would never want to know." She refused to tell but of course my curiosity isn't helping at all so I pursued her to tell me about it.

"Okay but please don't tell anyone that I told you about this."

"I promise."

She then lowered her voice and whispered to me the details.

"It's said that Peirce Danger killed a lot of people before, and the reason why he's here is because one of the VIP's needs his help, also Peirce is a magnet for dangerous things, no wonder his last name makes all the sense."

"It's also the reason why no one here in Imperial High wants to befriend him it's because of his history. But still he's good looking though and many girls would die for his attention still." Marissa said and it made me confused for a moment because our first encounter doesn't look like he's willing to kill? It's more like he's defending his self.

Then it all hit me.

He wasn't defending....

He was controlling himself from killing them, and that's why he took that knife instead of me getting stabbed.

I really didn't saved him.

I only made it worse for him.

"Anyway that's were just rumors going around the campus, it doesn't necessarily mean a hundred percent true so don't worry about it." Marissa said and I smiled in response like I fully agreed to what she meant.

After the talk it appears that we don't have any class after history. So it basically means that we're only taking one subject per month and the rest of our time depends on the other activities like our clubs, and advisers further subject requirements.

Speaking of clubs it will take place in the

school grounds later, and honestly I don't have anything that interests me in particular. So I guess I'd skip joining later

and get a good rest so I could watch some great movies after.

Just thinking of it gives me the idea of excitement and was really making me happy not until I saw a group of kids harrasing one student in corner.

I fisted my hand.

I must not get involved but why is my heart keep telling me so?

I swear this is the most annoying part of me because I can't help it. I tried ignoring the scenario that's in front of me but my legs aren't cooperating that I have to turn back and watch them closely.

"Come on Duke, you're not scared of us are you?" The group threatens one student that's familiar to me. I then recalled he was that one student who opened the door for me. The one with halo and angelic face.

Caleb Duke, Student Vice President of Imperial High.

I sighed.

I'm not helping another officer am I? Seriously?! What's wrong with them getting into troubles? And why are they always alone?

Right before one punches this angelic's precious face. I grabbed this moron from his hair and turned his face to me.

"Who are you?!" He snapped.

"Me? Just call me Midnight." I smirked and kicked his ass off.