Chapter 2

• Simone's pov
• I looked side by side to see James and Jason, the Franklin twins, holding me on either side of my arms, and I winced as their grip tightened when they held me back from moving.
• "Let go of me! Let me go now!" I yelled, kicked and trashed about violently, and I trashed about more furiously when I watched Dave open a rest room cubicle and upturned my backpack.
• Tears filled my eyes. I wasn't sure if it was from the fact that my hands were aching from being held too tightly by the JERKlin twins or from seeing my own books, weeks of homework and years of work, falling into the toilet.
• And to make things worse he threw my backpack in there too and stepped on it, ensuring all my works and reports got ruined.
• My heart ached in anger and my eyes was filled with tears which began running down my cheeks as I stood there and watched him step out of the cubicle towards me, wiping the side of his mouth before giving me a dark challenging look which he invited me to challenge if I had the guts.
• "If something like this happens again, I'll ensure its not just your entire backpack that's fitting into the toilet… " with that, as if on cue, the twins let go of me and I drop to my knees.
• My head is bowed to the ground, and my hands fist around the fabric of my skirt while I watch my tears drop to the ground before me.
• I could hear them chuckling as they walked off before I whispered.
• "I hate you Dave…"
• The chuckles stopped, and the place went still and quiet for a few seconds before I got up and slowly turned to them, seeing as Dave still had that snarky smirk on his face.
• More tears ran down my eyes as I stared hard at him like I could rip him apart If I had the power to.
• "With every blood running in my veins- I swear to God, I hate you. You have never made me feel human since middle school. You've bullied me more than I could imagine and the only time you ever considered me useful is when I have to do your homework.."
• "And you've proven to also be useless In that aspect." Dave cut in and his friends laughed, staring mockingly at me.
• "Your Academic records says otherwise." I snap, and suddenly, his eyes grew cold and with one step towards me, I stepped back in fear, lost control of my footing and landed on the floor again.
• And even on the floor, I still had my eyes back on him in fear that he was going to hurt me, but this time, the Franklin twins were laughing and Dave had that snarky smirk on his face again.
• "That's what I thought. You would never be anything more than a useless nerd If you act like this all the time."
• With that, he turned away and left, and I sat there and watched with tears in my eyes pooling again as they left me sitting there.
• As I adjusted my glasses over my eyes, the Janitor passed by with her cleaning materials, but when she saw me, she dropped her mop and ran towards me immediately, her eyes filled with worry.
• "Miss Donaldson, what's wrong? Why are you on the floor? Why are you crying?" Her voice was filled with panic, and my heart grew heavy seeing someone asides my dad who was genuinely worried for me.
• She knew about my bullying, and though she couldn't do anything but comfort me after, I knew she wished she did more but who was she to challenge Dave when she was just a janitor in school?
• "I'm not crying." I sniffed and rubbed my eyes, but as I tried to get up, she still grabbed a hold of me and helped me get up, and at that moment, our eyes simultaneously locked on the toilet which was the first thing you'd see of course.
• There was confusion in her eyes when she stared at the mess, but then she looked at me, and when saw the new, fresh tears which sprang into my eyes, she curled her arms over my head immediately and pulled me close for a tight hug.
• And then, I exploded. My sobs were more louder and it was like my heart was going to rip off my chest any minute now.
• Everything, my books, were homework, even my transport fee was in that bag, and it was ruined because of him.
• Sometimes I wished I had never met him, I wish we didn't have to go to the same school, but I couldn't stop fate from making me meet someone like Dave.
• The only thing I could use to keep myself sane was the fact that once we write the college entrance examinations next year, we would go our different ways.
• I was going to A.S.K, but just like how I got into high school, I was hoping I could get full scholarship into the school.
• Since the Jerk was going to PROM and his jerk ass friends were probably going to trail after him like lost puppies that they were, I wouldn't have to see his face again.
• ASK and PROM were literally miles away from each other.
• Six months left and I wouldn't have to see his face again, smell his stupid but incredibly expensive Cologne, see his stupid snarky smirk hovering over my face again.
• Just Six months.
• *
• I sat there, cradling a cup of orange juice while I watched the Janitor, Mrs. Gua A.K.A, a family friend, A.K.A, the mother of my best friend, Thomas.
• Mrs Gua happened to be a friend of my dad ever since she began giving me rides to her house so that my dad could pick me up from work each time I 'lost' my transport fee.
• She was nice, and sometimes I wished she and my dad would get married. My mum died immediately I was born, so I never really bonded with her.
• Dad had tried getting married to a woman called Ruthanne when I was still middle school and had been pressurized into wanting a mum from my classmates.
• In two weeks since they were dating, I swore I wouldn't let any woman come close to Dad again. Ruthanne was a witch.