Chapter 6

• Saved: Song by Khalid
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• "She said, get out and never come back." I replied.
• Nuelle raised her brows and scoffed.
• "Like I care, huh." She said and I shrugged.
• We were huddled on our table at the cafeteria. I had gone to my work place and was shocked when Mrs Houston wouldn't let me back after all my pleas to continue.
• I sipped my coffee and dropped the mug on the table. "We need the money, you know.." She shook her head.
• "I can always ask from my parents.." She responded..
• "Aren't you big for that?. Gosh!, you got to quit that gig and start a reasonable job." I said and she rolled her eyes at me.
• I huffed and looked up.
• Two cute guys walked into the cafe and my memory recoiled at the familiar brown hair and body built statue. My eyes widened when I remembered him, I gasped.
• "Are you okay?. Is everything fine?." Elle asked and looked back. She gasped and turned to look at me.
• "They're fucking handsome.." She squealed. I hit her on her arm and she jerked up. "Stop drooling, get up..I'm going." She looked at me as if I had gone crazy.
• "Are you mad?. What's it?. Do you know them?." She threw questions at me and I rolled my eyes. "I'll explain later, but right now I'm gonna walk through that door whether you like it or not." I almost yelled but breathed out so I could calm myself down.
• She hesitated, I sighed and grabbed her arm and started walking towards the door. She yelped and started shouting at me to let her go but I can't stand here and watch this man catch me. There's no way I'm doing that.
• Once outside the cafe, she pushed me away and I only staggered back, "What is it?. Why are you causing a scene?." She yelled. I looked around and found people looking at us. I cleared my throat, turned and started walking towards our car.
• "Come back here!. Young lady." Elle raced after me. I climbed into the car and jammed the door. I raked my hands over my hair and sighed. Elle opened the door and got in.
• "What did you do?," She gasped, "Did you steal?." She shouted. My hands clasped at her mouth instantly as she struggled and only muffled out words.."Shut up. Calm down.." I yelled angrily. She kept quiet and stared into my eyes. I removed my hand from her lips and breathed out.
• "I didn't steal from them, I don't know them." I simply said, not looking at her eyes.
• "Don't you dare lie to me, Kat. I know you enough to know when you're lying. Sometimes I wonder what you take me for, you not telling me things, not even about your private life. Kat, we've been friends for fucking 6 years, you know everything about me but what do I tell about you?, could only tell how your parents died in college." She yelled.
• My eyes furrowed when she finished her last statement.
• "Don't you ever mention my parents in our conversation." I warned strictly, ignited the car and drove off.
• ……
• It's been two days since my little fight with Nuelle. We've not been speaking to each other, none of us cared to apologize but at some point, we would be pushed to say something to one another but couldn't find the right way to say it.
• We were totally strangers at home. But today, I bought her a nice necklace and prayed she'd forgive me. Yeah, I needed her forgiveness. We've lived for years and yet, I couldn't tell her things about me, it's not like she'd snitch nor I didn't trust her but this is just me being me.
• As I walked through the dark road, after coming back from the part time job I got from Harry Smith, my boss at the bar downtown, I couldn't find a bus nor cab home, so I walked since I wasn't that far from my apartment.
• I looked up and noticed some guys walking towards me, with bottles of alcohol in their hands, I bent down and took my walk behind the pole, they laughed past me and I sighed.
• "Hey.." One of them called, my heart skipped and I started walking faster…
• "Hey, are you deaf?. I'm talking to you.."
• At that time I started running as fast as I could. I dived into another street and continued running, they were running after me.
• ….
• Right now, I know that I am going to be dead in a few minutes from now, because I am currently standing in the middle of nowhere. There was no escape route and I could hear running footsteps over here. I looked around, searching for a safer place to hide and my eyes met some bags stacked at the wall. I quickly went and squeezed myself in any space I could find.
• "Where's she?." I heard one of the men ask. I swallowed up a big lump of spit as my heart kept beating at a faster rate.
• "I saw her take this side. She must be hiding in one of those bags.." Another said and my heart jumped into my mouth.
• "Hey beautiful, come out!. We won't hurt you.." I heard footsteps approaching me and I almost screamed out in fear. My hand clasped to my mouth and heat was beginning to form on my forehead. I shut my eyes, anxiety and fear almost making me short of breath.
• "If I were you, I would leave immediately.." I listened..
• "What did you say?. Hey, who are you?." One of them asked.
• There was hope, someone was here to save me.
• "Leave immediately.." The voice was strong and bold. But how was he going to fight these boys?.
• "Are you her boyfriend?. And who the fuck are you to order me around?."
• There was no response. Then I heard a blow and a groan. They were beating him, I'm doomed.. Just when I tried to creep out, a human being was thrown across my eyes and towards the wall. I screamed and ran out.
• I stood and watched this man beat up six men right in front of me. My throat dried up, my head was beginning to tumble, I staggered back and fell. I could only see that handsome face of the stranger before I lost consciousness.