As Anthony jumped over the benches and rounded the lockers, he looked behind him at the pissed Stephen Halls and smirked. He can tell that Stephen's idiot of a friend wouldn't get near Anthony any time soon either. Anthony was fast. And because of that, he was very good at hiding out of the blue.
When he noticed that he was out of their sights, in a blink, he slipped inside the shower room and pressed his back against the cold tiled wall, breathing silently.
And waited for them to pass.
When they did, Anthony smirked. Yet, something caught his eyes. He looked over at the running shower head, the yellow mixture barely going inside the drain. Then looked around to see who else was in the shower room.
And when he saw the person standing to his left, he froze with confusion.
They stared at each other for a long moment before Anthony's whole face changed and he exclaimed. "Its you!"
His heart began beating with undeniable happiness as he looked at the girl, for days now, he'd been searching for.
"Did you hear that?" Stephen said from somewhere out in the open gym room.
"Yeah. It came from the showers."
"You go look in this direction, I'll search the showers."
Anthony quickly took cover behind Rihanna.
She instantly turned and glared at him. "This is my hiding spot!" She insisted.
The little kid's smirk was too familiar. She sighed and wished she could simply push him out and give him to the wolves.
"Hey babe," He said, his voice purring. "long time no see." Looking her up and down he added, "Do you want to shower together?"
Gritting her teeth, she sighed in irritation and decided that, yes, she will give him to the wolves after all.
"Found you." A breathless guy said from behind her. She turned and looked at the sturdy and good looking guy. He was leaning against the doors edge, exhausted from chasing around the little kid. "I'm going to beat the shit out of your little ass."
Anyone would have looked at the guy with judgmental eyes, wondering how he could say such a cruel and inappropriate thing to a cute little boy. Rihanna, however, could only look at him understandingly, shaking her head while wondering what the little devil had done to the poor, poor guy.
Here, Rihanna thought in her head, have him and do whatever it is you'd like to teach him a lesson.
The quick grip of the little boy's hand on Rihanna's shirt didn't help. She suddenly felt the responsibility of protecting him. Which was exactly the thing she didn't want to do.
"And what the hell are you?" The guy added, his face showing disgust as he looked Rihanna over. "Are you even from the Academy?"
He didn't recognize her...?
"Anyway, move aside."
Rihanna kept quiet. The little boy's grip on her shirt tightened.
"I said move aside. Come out Anthony. I'm going to crush you and make some damn cocktail out of you tonight. Teach you to do right next time."
Rihanna's body shivered with goosebumps at what he said. Now, the urge of pushing Anthony and giving him away became stronger, just so she could get out of the whole problem unscathed.
Anthony peeked from around Rihanna. "Dude. Just zip your pants up first. You can't be an idiot plus one."
Rihanna wanted to take Stephen's idea and crush Anthony's face now instead. She covered his small face with the palm of her hand and shoved him back behind her.
The guy looked down at his zipper instantly, which, as Rihanna shamelessly checked, was zipped up.
Anthony chuckled from behind her. "Plus two."
The guy growled and attacked, stomping over with a buffed chest and flexing forearms, and as he sidestepped Rihanna to get to Anthony, she sidestepped too and stood in front of him.
"Move."
"I so would. I'd give up the brat to you any day. I totally get where you're coming from." She quickly said, a nervous smile playing on her lips. "But he's a little boy." She defended, weighing an imaginary scale in her hands.
"He's a replica devil of his older brother. Move."
Ah, so that's why this kid was in the Academy. He had an older brother who attended here.
"Oh," She faked a laugh, swatting something invisible in the air. "just leave him alone. He's an idiot. He doesn't know his limits. He probably sleeps with a teddy bear at night." Rihanna tried to defend again.
"Action figures." Anthony argued.
"Shut up." She retorted.
Stephen seemed to be fed up. Anthony knew he'll start to use his fists soon. Which will put his beloved in danger. He had to help her. He had to protect someone so delicate and fun. Someone so vexed yet cool. Look at her body, how can she possibly go against a fat blob of stupid like Stephen? Anthony had to protect her. He shouldn't be standing behind the girl, putting her at such high risk...
He took a step from around Rihanna, his chest buffed out and a serious 'come at me bro' expression on his face...
And right away Stephen took the chance and attacked, this time with his fist.
Anthony regretted his actions right away. He should have stayed behind her, and let her degrade him until she solved the problem. But now–
What the–
He watched with wide eyes as Rihanna caught Stephen's quick fist. With swift fast movements, she twisted his arm and turned his entire body around. Then flexed his shoulder with her other hand, and promptly, he began calling out in pain. She pushed him until he was under the running water, and Stephen's head thrashed around while his breathing constantly got blocked with running stream.
"Whoa." Anthony breathed.
Another guy ran over to the door. "Hey Stephen, did you find–"
He paused in shock at the sight in front of him, then quickly made his way towards Rihanna.
With Stephen's head still under the running water, she kicked the other guy's face with the heel of her shoe, making his neck crack, then slipped her leg under his two feet, making him slip and drop like a heavy overstocked sack.
"Run." She told Anthony, who was staring at her with a very strange expression. "Run!" She yelled again.
However, he stood there, frozen in place and deaf with awe.
She let go of the guy she was holding and pushed him on top of the other one on the floor, then hurried over to Anthony, grabbed his hand and dashed out of the room.
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