Tainted by the Badboy

Chapter 1

AGNES

I couldn't forget spring out of all the seasons we have here.

Spring.

For everyone spring might means a time of a year that the weather will starts to change.

The in between season of Winter and Summer Season.

The days get longer and the night gets shorter.

The air is mild, not cool, not hot.

And the beautiful flowers will starts to bloom.

And most of all, there is always a mild wind that will hugs you everytime.

But for me?

This is not what spring means.

I graduated last month, it is still a spring season back then.

That would have been one of the many reasons why I should love spring, but it isn't.

It doesn't count to be the reason for me to love the season because what happened the next month, still spring, breaks me, so hard.

Because what had transpired the next month changes my life for ever.

You see, Spring should have just been a season. Nothing to it.

But that night of mid june, I feel so beautiful, I feel that I am one of those flowers that bloom along with the season.

That night, I can feel the humidity and warm wind hugging me as I am walking with my red stilletos, Black dress that perfectly hugs my curves, my hair wavy and down, and matched it with my red lipstick.

That night, was supposed to be the night that my love will be free.

Maybe if I didn't remember all the details and didn't savor the feelings I felt that night, I might not hate Spring after all.

But given that I am only an 18 year old, to point out that I am only a naive 18 year old, that only just graduated highschool a month ago, all of this is my first. All of this inoccence. All of this for me is like a fairytale.

The first time I bought a matured dress, a black dress with half sleeves that hides my chest but is bare in the back. It was the first time I bought red shoes that were too bold for my age. It's my first time to use my Mom's red lipstick. You see, that someone I'm supposed to go to is my First love too. So, that night. That one spring night, is nothing but all the first for me.

I decide to get off the taxi two blocks away to the Art Gallery. I wanted to walk and feel the excitement and joy that I felt for longer. Also, Spring is the perfect weather to walk alone at night, my naive self, thinking that this might be my last walk at night alone. Hoping that after this night, everything that we hide will be known to the whole world. It's no joke to hide feelings from someone for two years. When all you wanted to do was to show everyone how much I love him.

Ino Davenport.

I am going to him tonight.

I am going to hug and kiss my boyfriend for two years infront of anyone who attends his first ever art exhibit.

You might be wondering why we keep our relationship a secret?

For two years.

When I told you that I am far from being an innocent daughter of Jen Carmine, I am telling the truth, because I am really not.

I am in two years relationship with my Art professor in highschool. Ino Davenport.

I was just fifteen years old when I first saw him transferred in our school to teach.

Hearts cannot lie. I feel it almost instantly.

The problem is he is twenty-eight years old at that time. To make things worse, he is a professor in my highschool.

We didn't statt our relationship till I reached junior highschool, I was sixteen.

We solemnly swaer that we will keep this secret as much as we can.

And we did.

That is why we are here after two years, because we managed to keep our love a sacred secret.

After all the sneaking, after all the stolen kisses, after all our hands brushing when we passes each other in a crowded room, after all the strict calls and text, tonight we will be free from all the judgements we tried very hard to nudge.

So, this night is important.

I need everything to go perfectly.

While I was walking to the art gallery, I passed a flower shop, so I decided to buy a bouquet of white roses, a congratulatory gift for Ino.

When I was in front of the Art Gallery, and I saw the bright lights illuminating the inside of the building, my palms started to sweat, my heart is skipping a beat every now and then. I was suddenly nervous. And I don't know if it's excitement or fear.

I hope it is just excitement.

Every step I take, I can hear my heels clinking so loud in my ears along with the roaring of my heart.

When I opened the door, I instantly saw people, a lot of people.

I walks slowly, passing through them all aiming to see who I came for.

The place is all white, his arts were all black. It is mesmerizing to see his arts being recognized from hundreds of people who came.

A bright, hopeful smile spread across my face when I finally saw him.

He is standing in the middle of the huge room, and I wavedmy hands at him, but he looks at me with a very huges eyes.

My smile falters, I know him. He doesn't look happy, he looks afraid.

But why?

I collect myself and started to approached him, every step I took near him, the more he becomes so agitated.

What is happening to him seriously?

A loud slap.

A loud slap that is what I only heard at the moment. Suddenly all the people's voices were stopped and the place got so quiet. So eerily quiet.

But it wasn't just the loud slap that makes me halt and flinch from where I am standing.

Because the moment I looked at him, infront of him is the a very beautiful woman, sophisticated woman.

She is the one who slapped Ino.

My rage and my nerves get the best of me, no one should ever lay a hand to my man much worse this stranger.

I was about to walk closely on him, two more steps and I am infront of him, but my feet stopped working when I see what is the sculpture behind Ino's.

It is me.

A black sculpture of me lying in the air facing upwards, it is me naked. It is me trying to cover my breast and my p***y. It is me being shy and not confident of my own body. It is me, while having my first time. It is me giving all my trust to him by giving him my virginity.

And he sculped me. And he make everyone see me.

I read the platenamr of the Art 'Inocence of the Rain'

Rain. Was my f*****g second name.

But I am sure he has a deep explanation for this. I trust him. And I am sure no one might notice that it is me.

Not until..

"Guess who graced us her special appearance for tonight?" It is the beautiful, sophisticated woman in front of him who now walks infront of me.

"Ja--" Ino was trying to stop her from going near me to no avail.

She scoffed, looking straight at me. "Inoccence of Rain?" She laughs manically, I do not know what is happening and who is she.

All I can ever think of is, people is now staring at me then to Ino's sculpture. They will know.

A slap.

But this time, I didn't just heard it.

I feel it.

She slapped me.

Ino holds her while I see fuming woman trying to get close to me again. "Just remember this night!"

I hold my face in pain, I am literally shaking "Who are you?"

She laughed again sarcastically, gathering everyone's attention "Don't tell me you're having a relationship with someone you don't know very well?"

"Ino?" I called out to Ino, I am cold.

But Ino couldn't even looked at me straight in the eyes.

"What? You think he can do something for you?" She scoffed "--He won't, Honey. He cannot f*****g help you with this!!"

I flinched. Everyone's staring at us.

"You know why, huh? You know why?"

I am trying not to cry at the moment, My pride won't let me be. "Why?"

"Because this man right here, this man--" She points at Ino. "--is my f*****g husband for eight years!! And is a father of my six year old child!!"

I can hear everyone's murmurs aling with the bell in my ears.

This couldn't be right. This isn't real. This is just pure nightmare.

I shake my head repeatedly, that is when the tears fell from my eyes the first time that night. "--no, it can't be."

I don't know who I said that to. Is it me or the woman in front of me?

The woman scoffed and she reaches something from another man's behind and smashed Ino's sculpture. She smashed me.

Ino couldn't do anything. He's just standing there, motionless.

"Ino?" I called out to him. "--Ino, look at me, please?"

He does with tears in his deep brown eyes.

"It's not true, right?" I plead and hold Ino's hands.

Suddenly, his so called wife pushed me that mades me stumble on the floor and the white roses scattered all over the place along with the broken pieces of the sculpture.

"How can you stoop this low? Do you still want to be embarrassed more?" She shouts.

I shake my head repeatedly while trying to bury my face with my two hands, shaking and crying.

No one dared to help me.

I am left in the middle of that unfamiliar place.

Ino left me there while everyone is watching me getting humiliated.

That explains everything.

That explains why we couldn't see each other outside school.

That explains why I have to wait for him to call and text me before I do.

Apparently, not just being in highschool on what stopping him to love me right, but because he is a married man. A family man.

I feel like I'm going to vomit that I can't stand.

A pair of huge hands trying to make me stand me made me shook. I couldn't even look at him since I am very embarrased.

"Get yourself away from here."

That is all he can say while everyone still looking at me along with Ino and his wife.

I just nodded to that stranger and I looked down and starts to walk away from all of them. Feet shaking, eyes crying, heart breaking and soul dying.