Helanie:
"Gavin—," Lucy got up and steadily pinched the sleeve of her Gavin’s shirt, trying to remind him that they shouldn’t be going too far when confronting these bullies.
They had even snatched her plate away.
"Ah! That bitch is your mate?" I noticed the na tag on the guy’s shirt: Arlo Jas. His brown hair was styled so perfectly that one might confuse him with one of the good guys.
"She’s ugly as fuck, bro." The minute he said that, I watched Lucy’s confidence shake. She looked around, and strangely enough, her eyes fell directly on Jenny, who was sitting with so random students from our class. Jenny didn’t seem to be mocking her or anything, but Lucy’s fists clenched.
"How fucking dare you! She is not for you! So it doesn’t matter how you see her," Gavin yelled, grabbing the senior’s collar. That’s when whispering began, and gasps erupted in the air.
I guess no junior had ever responded to the top seniors this way before.
"Easy!" Arlo clenched his jaw but kept the fake smile on his lips.
"Nobody wants her ugly ass. You can have her all to yourself." Arlo licked his lips and turned to look at the other top seniors, who were busy laughing at his jokes, while Sage was engrossed in her phone. I looked around and saw all five of the top seniors. They seed just as bad, if not worse, than Arlo—except for Sage. She wasn’t part of the laughing ga; instead, she was so busy with her phone that she barely looked up.
But then, before Gavin could respond, Arlo grabbed him by the shirt and tossed him over the table. It all happened in such chaos that Lucy started screaming until a top senior with the na tag Riri jumped in. She pushed Lucy back into her seat, placed her foot between Lucy’s legs on the seat, and leaned over her, pointing a finger at her.
I looked around for help but found no one. Gavin tried to break free from Arlo’s grip but failed as Arlo kept pinning him down.
Now I felt like I needed to step up. Although I wasn’t going to be much help, I needed to stand up for my friends—or at least get beaten up alongside them.
"Fucking let him go," I got up, smashed the bottle, and held it up to Arlo’s neck. I did it so quickly that no one saw it coming.
Silence filled the air.
It was as if everyone was now excitedly anticipating what would happen next.
"You—," it wasn’t him getting riled up, but there was a strange excitent in his eyes as he leaned his body closer to the shard in my hand. He then hunched down until the broken glass was in contact with his neck and added, "Cut it through. Co on!"
There was no fear in his eyes. My hands were visibly shaking, and so were my knees.
"I will do it if you don’t let go of my friend," I tried to raise my voice, but it ca out a little shaken.
"Really?" he mocked, while others laughed behind him.
"Then do it, because I ain’t letting your friend go," he whispered the words, almost like mouthing them.
"Do it, do it," the cafeteria was filled with the seniors chanting those words. The juniors remained tight-lipped, not even uttering a word.
"Hey, that’s not very nice. If she does it now, you’ll accuse her of attacking you on the academy’s grounds," that was none other than Jenny, rushing toward us.
She ca and stepped between us, also trying to free Gavin from Arlo’s grasp.
"And look at another junior thinking she can fight us," Arlo turned to Jenny and then smirked. "And a very pretty one too. How is it that you got an ugly bitch and such gorgeous ones defending you?" Arlo asked Gavin, pointing at Lucy when ntioning the "ugly one" and then at and Jenny when ntioning the "pretty one."
I instantly felt my stomach tie into a knot, just the way Lucy’s mouth opened a little. I can only imagine the defeat she must have felt, being called lesser than the girl she was jealous of.
And that, too, in front of everyone.
"The ugly one must be after him, and he’s after the pretty one," the top senior yelled in the most annoying voice.
She was giggling a lot, and it angered .
"Says the one who look so rugged," I yelled back, causing everyone to gasp.
"Ohhh! Feisty!" Arlo let go of Gavin, who jumped off the table to check on Lucy. When Jenny was about to give him a hand to get up, he clearly ignored her to make a point that he would choose Lucy no matter what others said.
"What are you? A porcelain doll? An untouched beauty who thinks she can talk big to anyone and get away with it because she’s gorgeous?" I don’t know what it was, but his words made feel disgusted.
There was no pride in getting complints from such nasty creatures.
"How dare she—" The top senior rose from her chair and pouted angrily, but Arlo gestured for her to stay back, as he intended to handle it himself.
"How about—" He kept coming at , and I kept backing down when soone intervened.
"How about you leave them alone?" It was Penn. He ca with his friends, a junior, but he had many friends who would end up sticking up for him.
"Ahh! The alpha’s son and the most arrogant one," it seed Arlo already knew of him. As the two faced each other, I felt this weird twist in my stomach.
I wanted to throw up, but I refused to do it here. So, I started walking away when the top senior I had yelled at got in my way.
Her na tag said Riri. She was the one who was enjoying this fight the most. She ca in to push Lucy and then went back to sit in the audience, only to co back again to bother .
"Please step out of my way," I tried to be humble, but she shook her head.
"Not until I make you beg before for forgiveness," she pushed , standing broad before .
Shit!
I was not able to hold it in anymore.
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