Chapter 14: Not Intentional

Melissa's POV.

I was as shocked as Lex himself, who received the slap. I couldn't believe that I had just raised my hand to hit the one person who could make all of this nightmare go away. I was supposed to be making peace with him but here I was letting my hatred for him take control of me and making my situation even worse.

"Lex, I didn't mean to do that. I'm sorry," I apologised immediately as he straightened up, staring at me in the silence.

I couldn't look directly at his face; my hands shivered as I glanced around, hoping that he was going to accept my apology because I was acting out of anger; I wasn't really thinking things through.

" no one has ever slapped me, not even my father who makes my life miserable but you?"

The tone of shock in his voice was so obvious that I could have sworn that for a second I thought I saw him broken and in pain.

"It was an accident; I didn't mean to do that. "I swear, Lex, I wouldn't intentionally hit you like that."

I took a step closer to him as I pleaded, but he recoiled immediately.

He turned around to walk away, but I couldn't watch him leave.

"Lex, please say something."

"I've got nothing to say to you, Melissa. Do you want us to keep this up and going? Let's do that. And I don't care anymore who you tell about what happened. i'll only focus on making them never believe you. Between you and I, you know who they would always believe "

He said that with so much confidence, but then it was the truth. I already thought about it before; between the both of us, the school management would only believe him, and no one would want to listen to my side of the story, which was the reason I wanted to make peace with him all this time.

"I won't tell anyone. I haven't told anyone, and I won't tell anyone, so please let's drop this. I'm sorry about everything I said before; I didn't mean it. I can't fight you, and my scholarship is very important to me. If I go on this way, I'm going to lose everything."

It was already on the verge of tears as I said those words to him, my voice low and sad but he seemed to find amusements in it as he suddenly smiled so broadly.

"Scholarship? What the heck? You can't even afford your own tuition, and you want a challenge with me?" He asked in that kind of tone that made it obvious that he was mocking me, and he was, but there was nothing I could do at the moment; I needed to plead with him.

I couldn't believe I said all those things about not wanting to fix things with him the moments ago, it should have been easier if I just accepted to let everything go and be silent about it.

" look Lex I understand that we are from completely different worlds and in the world where I come from some of us cannot afford to pay for expensive schools like this and I earned this scholarship by working so hard, it's everything for me so please i don't want to lose it and fighting with you is going to make me lose it for sure so please let's stop"

"A few minutes ago you were talking about how you wanted the whole world to know that I tried to kill you, and now you want it to stop? What exactly do you want, Melissa?"

He began to take slow steps towards me which instinctively pushed me to recoil on the same pace.

"I didn't mean those words. I want it to stop, please," I begged him.

" do I really look like someone you can mess with and toss around?"

He was coming closer, and I could already feel myself hitting the wall behind me. It was only a few steps away and there was no where else to run.

" i am not trying to mess with you and I have no intention of tossing you around. I apologise for the way I acted before I just want all of this to stop please"

I pleaded, finally hitting my back to the wall as I pushed hard as if I could penetrate it while he stood right in front of me with a smirk on his face. Damn it, I couldn't help but notice his dimple and white set of teeth.

"You lie, Lisa."

"Don't call me Lisa; my name is Melissa," I instinctively fired back. I shouldn't have, but only Sussana calls me Lisa; he had no right to say my name like that.

"Wow, that's so harsh from someone who wants to make peace with me..." he retorted.

" what do you want me to do?"

I was ready to do anything he wanted me to do to earn his forgiveness at that moment, and even though a part of my mind told me that if he demanded anything from me, it was going to be outrageously crazy, I still needed all of this to end.

"You humiliated me before my friends. I want you to apologise to me before them as well, and maybe I'll consider letting this go."

He touched my face with the tip of his index finger, tracing a line down to my chin.

"Fine, I'll apologise," I quickly responded, stepping to the side, away from his touch.

"Of course you have to be there by 1pm; if you're even a second late, I'll kill you."

I nodded like a lizard, watching him leave the balcony with pride while I shrinked into dismay.

"Just this once, Lisa, just this once," I whispered to myself. My gaze moved slowly to the watch on my wrist, and I had 3 hours until 1pm, which gave me a kind of relief.

I had two classes that day, and the third was a history class which led us to the library at noon, and while checking out the maps, I saw a brochure on a shelf marked to be the Elite Students Data Collection.

I flipped the first page open and his face was what I saw, he was ranked as the top 1 elite student in the entire school. His family owned the biggest groups and were at the very top of the corporate ladder. The next two were his friends, Nick and Landon, and after them I was finally relieved to see a girl ranking 4th. Her name was Selena, and she looked really pretty.

"Alright guys, it's the end of our class today, have a beautiful day" The history teacher said as he left the library.

I checked my wrist watch again and it was 20 minutes to 1pm.

I quickly hurried out of the library to find Lex's classroom but no one would point me in direction. It took me the entire 20 minutes to find his classroom, which looked way bigger than the management offices and was exclusively for him and his friends.

"You're 5 minutes late; our deal is off."