ஃ✿ Chapter 10 ✿ஃ

ஃ✿ Chapter 10 ✿ஃ

This morning, I glimpsed from a distance, a guy standing near the school gates. As I approached slowly, I realized that it was Angel. He had some sorta long bat in his hand. I quickly rushed the other way, escaping the demon’s frightening punishment… and its solid bat. I couldn’t resist looking back to see if he notices me, unfortunately he did see my great escape, and decided to run after me.

He began chasing me, so I got more terrified. “Come back here, Peasant!!!” he yelled as he increased his speed, and I increased mine. “You can’t escape me!!!”

I began yelling in terror, I could see the neighbors complaining from their windows and shouting “Keep it down, you kids” but I couldn’t stop myself from yelling in fear. He chased me all the way backwards, I even passed my house. I was too scared to get tired, I kept turning my head back to see if he’d given up the chase already, but he looked all fired up, making me fear for my life even more. “I’m gonna kill you” he yelled at me, almost catching my backpack.

On the way, I was surprised when I saw Cedrick cluelessly walking to school, “Cedrick, HELP ME!” I yelped as I went pass him, he certainly got confused when he saw Angel running after me. I proceeded with my yelling and running, hoping that Cedrick would come to my rescue. We went so far with the running and chasing, that I tripped on what seemed to be a small anthill. My face reached the ground first, and so, I was flat on the ground. My right knee was scratched, though it didn’t hurt much… but I decided to freeze on the ground, hoping that Angel would take pity on me, and eventually… won’t harm me.

He approached me. “What are you doing?” he said while catching his breath, sounding exhausted.

“Pretending to be dead so that you’d leave me alone…” I murmured in hesitation, really hoping that he’d leave me alone.

“Pretending to be dead…?” he laughed. “I’m not a bear, you know”

I was surprised by his intelligence, he must be familiar with bears. He continued to laugh at me, I still didn’t dare to budge. “Come on, hit me already… get it over with” I depressingly said, hiding most of my face between my arms.

I heard his footsteps approaching… and my heartbeats racing. “I can take the pain…” I squeaked as I curved up, I shifted my body and hugged my knees… getting ready to bear the pain. I waited for a fist or a kick… at least something painful… but he didn’t give it to me. He just stood next to my curved up body without making a single move, for a couple of minutes. I was beginning to think he left or something… but I could hear his exhausted breathing. I thought about checking up on him to see if he was Ok or something.

“You Ok?” he softly kicked my backpack, probably feeling responsible for my injuries. “Get up, you’re beginning to look pathetic…”

“I’ll get up when you leave” I said, my head was still hidden between my two great towers… my arms. I was afraid he’d get more angry and step on me, but I thought I’d be more stubborn with him. He’s not the boss of me… is he?

“I’m not leaving till you get up” he insisted, sounding all impatient.

“You leave, I get up” I insisted, making him super furious.

“You’re gonna get up right now, or I’ll kill you” he roared furiously and impatiently, he started pulling me up by grabbing my wobbly thin arms and causing me pain. “ON YOUR FEET, COME ON” he continued to bellow.

“Ow! You're hurting me, let go” I whined in pain, struggling and refusing to stand on my feet. He soon got tired and released my arms, causing me to fall again flat on the ground, back to my old position. He, on the other hand, fell backwards and landed on his butt.

“You are freakishly stubborn” he hissed angrily at me. “Fine, you won’t get up… I’ll sit on you” he sat comfortably on my back, all his weight was painfully heavy for a skinny freshman.

“Ow ow ow…” I cried out in pain. “Get off me, your weight is crushing me”

He let out his evil victory laugh and made himself comfortable, “Sorry peasant, I tried dieting…” he smirked. I pushed him off to the side and he fell on his back, I took deep breaths and was relieved from the pain. “OUCH, you loser” he yelled at me. “Look at my shirt, it’s ruined!”

“Get your legs off me, I’m late for school” I pushed away his legs and got up on my feet, at last. “You crazy mad man, you shouldn’t have chased me all the way here, now we’re both late for school”

“HA, you’re the crazy lunatic… you left me with an empty stomach yesterday, after I specifically told you that I was broke and needed your money” he pointed his finger angrily at me. “You’re lucky I lost my bat on the way, I would’ve skinned you alive”

“Is that all you do…? Think about your personal benefits and completely ignoring the fact that I’m a human being and I have a life too?” I gave him a pitiful look. “Do you even know my name?”

“Your name…?” he looked confused and shocked. “Your name…?” he repeated his phrase while scratching his head. “That’s weird… I thought I knew your name since I’ve been bullying you for a week now… Fatima? no, no that’s not it…”

“See… because you’re not treating me like a person” I raised my eyebrow at him and crossed my arms. “Being the heir of the school and having all that power must really got into your head, I don’t mind if you’re gonna keep making my life miserable… but you could at least spare the humiliation and remember your victim’s name”

“Shut up and give me your stinking name” he angrily blushed. I bent down and picked up his customary white cap, it got a bit dirty so I patted it gently to get rid of the dust. I looked at his unfairly handsome face, his cheeks were strawberry pink and his eyes were golden. He was looking directly at me, exploring every inch of my face. I don’t think I ever got a better view of his face… than that moment. Same thing goes to him, he looked like he was looking at me for the first time.

“Leela” I said as I gave him a friendly smile.

“What did you call me?” he said in a little temper.

“Leela… that’s my name” I gave him another friendly smile. He was in mute mode, he didn’t reply and was looking deeply in my eyes. He started to make me feel utterly uncomfortable… We both paused, looking at each other…

“You have big green eyes… like a frog” he muttered in amazement, I was shockingly insulted. He immediately added “Take it as a compliment”. To tell you the truth, his compliment totally insulted me, but I thought it was nice of him that he noticed.

“Thank you, Angel…” I faked a smile.

I got over his annoying comment about my eyes when we ended walking to school in silence. I earned a great complimentary and angry long lecture from the head teacher, but Angel told him to let me off the hook this time. I was grateful… yet surprised. Is it me… or is Angel beginning to act like an angel…?

… Does that mean I’m off Angel’s hook too…?

“Bring me a sandwich tomorrow” he said, before he left the head teacher’s room. I guess he’s not an ‘angel’ after all…