BitterSweet

CHAPTER TEN

AURELIA FARIS BLACK

A week later..

School has been particularly good so far, despite Blaze's uncomfortable stares. Its been a week and everything has been perfect. I settled in this school nicely and made many friends, Rose and I have gotten a lot closer and I count her as my best friend and I'm sure she counts me as hers too. 

" Brb, I need to use the bathroom." Rose suddenly says raising up from her chair giving me a wink. Rose and I are in a group project with Blaze. Blaze has been suspicious of me since last week and he has been eyeing my every move. Rose has taken this as he likes me. Crazy right? She reads too much romance books. It has been rumored that Blaze is related to gang activity. It's true since I have literally seen it first hand myself.

" Tell me," Blaze states cocking his head to the side " Who the fuck are you?" Blaze has been irritated that he still doesn't know who I am and it doesn't help that he had a bad day today so now it is added on to the aggression. He is trying to intimidate me right now and it isn't working.

" Literally Aurelia, just Aurelia"  I spit out, sick of his repetitive question. I don't make eye contact with him as I continue doing my portion of the group project.

He doesn't reply but continues staring at me, his eyes narrow at me. " I'll figure it out soon enough." A shiver goes down my spine but I don't let it show.

I let out a sigh of relief when the bell rings. I grab my stuff and walk out as fast as I can. Crap, Rose is still in the bathroom. I will just have to wait for her in the cafeteria.

I buy lunch and go sit down. Hera tried to convince me not to buy school food saying it was nasty but I thought it was okay so I decided to buy anyways.

I go on my phone checking my grades. My heart pumps as I sign in. I hope I did good on the test today. Oh. It's not even in. I'll check later. 

Trinity and Valerie appears. " Hi Aurelia!" Trinity greets me. I smile and greet her back. We engage in small talk until Rose takes the seat between me and Valerie. 

" What's up?" I say turning to Rose.

" Not much, other than my cross country coach SUCKS." she exclaims " Bro I just found out we are running THREE MILES for warm up! WARM UP!!" 

The corners of my lips lift up. " It can't be that badddd, you're a good runner." I tease her and she frowns.

" Okay but for warm up? I'm not that good!" She groans, slapping my finger away when I poke her.

Suddenly the chair beside me gets pulled out and there is Blaze,again. 

" I know." 

I choke on my saliva. He knows? Crap. Crap Crap. He knows.

" What." I force out between my nervous giggles. Valerie and Trinity are clearly confused as they stare at me and Rose is just looking at me funky.

" Mood killer for real." Rose says, breaking the silence. I clear my throat and look at Blaze. " Can you like, just go away?"

" I- I, let's have this conversation.. more privately." I suggest with a forced smile.

" No need." Blaze says with a smug face and just simply walks off.

Fucking asshole.

" Uhm, Aurelia what was that about?" Valerie asks, waving her hand over my face to gain my attention.

I don't get a chance to respond when I suddenly get pulled out of my seat. I stumble before I get lifted up to my feet.

" Oh my god Aurelia!" Hera's face appears " Was he bothering you? What did he say?" 

" Oh. Oh! No no, I'm okay." I blurted out, stumbling over my words.

Hera's eyebrows shoot up and backs away. " Oh.. Phew I thought something bad happened. Well stay away from him. He doesn't have the best reputation." 

My eyes slightly narrow at her. She seems odd. I walk away.

" Where are you going?" She shouts after me.

" Vending machine." I yell back without turning.

I hear Roses foot steps, " Okay okay. What the hell just happened?"

I cringe. " Maybe a story for another time." I say, hoping for her to catch the hint. She lets it go. We spend the rest of lunch in the bathroom with snacks from the vending machine. What happened at lunch doesn't come up. 

The bell rings and we split up. I turn to the right while she goes left. I quickly bite off the lollipop and throw the stick into the trash and head to my locker. 

Suddenly I feel myself unbalanced and I feel myself land on the floor, pain rushing up my hands after catching myself, preventing any injuries. I look up and it is pitch black.

I feel my heart race. I am in a dark closet. Someone must've pushed me here. I wave my arm crazily against the wall, looking for a switch to turn on the lights. My breaths are getting more and more shallow. I slump down the wall and crumble into a ball. 

I feel like I am taken back to Lara. I remember being locked in closets so her boyfriends wouldn't know she had a daughter. She was ashamed of me and lied that I didn't exist. 

A scream seeps in from under the crack of the door Hera. It was Hera's voice. What happened? Is Hera in trouble?

In an instant I am up on my feet and running to where I believe the door was at. I start banging on it. As hard as I can. I bang and bang. I don't stop banging even after my hands go numb.

Hera. Hera. Hera. Her name rings in my ears.

I hope she's okay.

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A/N- Cliff hanger? Short chapter!

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