Chapter 5

Nothing could have been daunting then me standing in front of my locker watching a huge ass poster sticking to it , it wasn't a poster ofcourse ; it was a photo taken from a rather misleading angle .

People were crowding around me ; laughing ; giggling and not giving a fuck about the truth and why will they ? People don't care about what the truth is , they only care about what they believe it to be.

" Hey ; teacher's whore !" someone , maybe a Knight ass licker calls out to me but I ignore him ; instead I rip off the poster sticking on my locker ; crumpling and throwing it in dustbin .

More laughter .

My agony fuels their laughter ;I knew that much but never did I thought that they will go so low one-day .Maybe I should have known , people like Knight have no such thing as sense of propriety. I turn around wanting to find Jacob and give him another taste of my slap but before I could someone grab my hand and pull me out of the school entrance .

" Selina!" I cry out for my best friend to stop dragging me away from them but she doesn't stop instead she increases her force.

" What were you going to do ?" she demands at once we reach the parking lot out of earshot from people .

" To teach Knight a lesson ! what else !"

" Bella, listen you can't fight them , listen to me I know, you will hate me for this but do whatever Knight asked you to "

" No; no , no , after everything he has put me through ? you want me to apologise to him? of all people ???" I look at Selina , as if seeing her for the first time . She looks the same with her caramel hair and brown eyes, but something tells me she wasn't the same, the Selina I know will never back down without a fight , not when she did nothing wrong.

" I know but just think about it ; this entire things has been spread over the school forum ; Bella use your brains; you're off to California, unlike them you've worked your ass off for this shot , and this - this will certainly harm your chances to get in yoyr dream college" rubbing her face with her hands Selina wheedled .

" You want me to back down ?" I knew where she was from coming from and she was correct but bowing my head down to knight and apologising to him , didn't sit all to well with me .

" Bella, your future or your pride , what matters you the most ? " steeling herself as if she was getting ready to do something really desperate Selina asked me .

" My future !" I answer without much thought

" Exactly ! so what if you have to apologise to him ? as long as he stops , let me tell you something Bella ; you don't want to make an enemy out of those four assholes, you - they can be much worse then this and if you think they did their worse to you, you're wrong they haven't, not yet . Until now it was only their minions but they can seriously make your life hell if they themselves walked in, whatever is going on between you and knight " said Selina quite belligerently .

" You talk as if you know everything about them !" I love my best friend, I really do but from a couple of days I just can no longer comprehend her anymore ; she was acting scared as if something or someone was out for her blood .

Selina opened her mouth violently as if she wished to throw a hurl of diatribe at me but maybe she thought better of it and stopped.

" Look" she holds up her hand in an attempt to explain " I was with then in junior high and I can assure this is not their worst, truthfully, They are just playing around with you right now , Bella - i - I won't hurt you , will I ? Please just please end this "

I open my mouth once then twice but I wasn't able to think of anything to counter what Selina has said, she was right , rather than getting involved in this childish games with Knight, it was better for me to focus on what lays ahead of me . Knight didn't had to work his ass off for a scholarship in California , I had to and I knew that my seat will be at stake if this rumour were to drag on .

" Alright, I get it " It kills me ; I haven't done a damn thing wrong but for the better good , I had to bow down .

For the millionth time in my life , I realised how unfair life was . People with either power or money can do whatever they wanted to and in my case; My bully had both of these and Me? I was a nobody .

The next thing I knew , it was half past ten and the bell to lunch has rang , I couldn't understand where did my entire morning go? The thought of apologising to Jacob knight was dreadful enough but to make things worse my anxiety was high on rollercoaster . Hands shaking , legs trembling and my entire body was quivering .

I hated when it happened but there was no other choice , Knight only gave me time till lunch was over and I was damn near sure that , That bastard will revoke the deal even if I was a second late , if possible, he might be thinking of what to do tomorrow, so he can make my life even more hellish than it already was .

Finding Jacob wasn't difficult even without my lack of arrival at the cafeteria for the past two years , their table was right at the centre, where all the popular jocks belonged.

" Go on" Selina pushed me from behind in a fail attempt to boast my morale but I ignore her ,I love her but I was feeling a little more resentful towards her for stating the fact as off they were and pushing me to my apparent doom . I trudge towards their table a rather too reluctantly .

And he caught my eye , before anyone else , was it only my imagination or his stormy gray eyes just turned a shade darker ? cocking an eyebrow he smirks, dipping down he locks his lips with the school queen bee and my half sister Anna Parsons .

small world ? Nah .My mother deliberately put me in this school knowing my father new daughter went in this school . She wished me to put this girl down with my academic performance but what my mother didn't know that ; Anna cares about her studies as much as Jacob knight cares about his visit to church , which means none .

I wanted to turn around and leave but I speed up instead ; the sooner i get this done with the better .

Surprisingly ; none of the members of football team cat calls my new found name, instead they totally ignore me , which was completely fine by me . I stood in front of Jacob but apparently the latter was too busy sucking my half sister's face off that he missed my arrival, standing there I felt my face burning not because of anger but shame., never have I ever seen two people kissing like that .

Not wanting to enjoy the 'show ' Jacob was putting on , I let my eyes wander to Conan Salvador, the only person in the team, I considered as a little sane . Conan must have felt my gaze but he didn't look up from the book he was currently reading . I let my mind wander as I take in his brown hair, chiseled jaw line and dark chocolate eyes .

" Ahem " I jump at the loud cough only to notice a tad belatedly that Jacob was done putting on the PDA and was glaring at me .

" You want anything ; Waddington ?"

'Yeah ; I want you dead ' knowing I couldn't speak out my inner thoughts , I take a deep breath and force out the apology that I have practised as a monologue , for the rest of the morning .

" I want to apologise to you , what happened two years ago was my fault; It was only a dare I shouldn't have reacted in such an over ' exaggerated 'manner ; I hope you will be the bigger person and forgive the lowly me " The apology wasn't sincere at all , It was barely forced out through the gap between my teeth and I was damn near certain that my expression was none other than my poker face .

" Hey Waddington ; that apology is a bit insincere , why don't you get down on your knees just like you did for professor Brown , maybe we can make do with it ?" a member of the football team shrieks in delight and I ignore him , my focus is on my tormentor who looks a little too pleased with himself .

Which only proves my theory of him being a sadist .

" Shut up , Shutton . Jake doesn't need a teacher's whore to suck him off ; do you honey?" batting her eyelid Anna speaks in a soft simpering voice .

Now I have nothing against blonde , My elder sister is blonde , my brother is one too but I totally do not understand why , just why , a pretty blonde is always titled as Queen bee .

" Am I forgiven ?" I ask again . Jacob flashes me a smile ; the one he uses to charm everyone but I wasn't fooled . I know who he was and my thoughts weren't going to change .

" You know what Waddington , I agree with Shutton, your apology is a tab bit insincere " still grinning he says .

My grip on the strap of my bag tighten a bit , I was afraid that I will end up throwing it on his face .

" I sincerely apologise to you , Knight" this time I spoke a lot more clearly , I wasn't stupid and I wasn't going to answer with 'what do you want ' , it will only make me get entangled with him and I did not want that .

" Fine " shrugging a bit he agrees " but i hope you keep away from my sight , its a big turn off for me "

" Sure " I knew it , he wouldn't agree to it without putting my self respect down , without letting his team mates laugh at my expense but I wasn't hurt , not anymore .

I hate Jacob Knight and he can go to hell for all I care .