Chapter 6: Red Card

Melissa's POV.

I moved my gaze from him to the red card and then back to him. I was as confused as a lost sheep.

"I don't know what you're talking about. How have I gone against you?"

I couldn't look at his face as I spoke; I was too ashamed to look him in the eye and ask him that question even though it was what I wanted to do.

"Don't play smart with me, little thing."

What did he just call me? A little thing?

Slowly I raised my gaze to meet his eyes. "My name is Melissa, not a 'little thing'," I disgustedly corrected.

"Do I look like I want to know? You can be whatever you want to be, but to me you are nothing but a stinky little thing."

My eyes began to feel wet and clouded. There was no way I was going to let myself drop tears in front of this bastard again.

I turned my gaze to the red card still lying on my desk as I grabbed it and threw it at him.

"Take this and get out. I am not going to let you hurt me the second time."

My warnings were clear this time, except that I shouldn't have done that.

"You already have the card, and I sincerely hope for your sake that you enjoy the game. This is going to be the beginning of a painful experience, and I promise you, it's going to be back-to-back."

He lowered his voice and whispered those last words, making a cold run down my spine. I wasn't ready for that; I knew it, but if I began to beg, it was only going to make me look weak and unable to help myself.

"Whatever it is you're planning, I am going to make you regret it, Lex. "I am not your regular type; I will definitely fight back even though it is the last thing that I do," I said to him, maintaining my ground and not giving up.

I had already noticed the way the whole class were staring at us, looking so interested in what we were saying, and somehow it felt like he enjoyed the attention and loved how he was trying to make me look like a fool in front of them.

"Good for you then; I hope you are strong enough to fight this," he said and turned around to walk away, but something in me just couldn't let him walk away like that.

I picked up the red car that had fallen off to the ground when I threw it at him and began following him out of the classroom.

"Look, Lex, if this is about how I walked away, I want you to know that I have no intention of talking to anybody. I hate you for what you did. I am definitely going to make you pay, but I have not spoken to anybody about it yet. Why are you doing this?"

I said all of these things while following some steps behind him, but he wouldn't stop for a second to listen to me. I tried to catch up with him, but he intentionally seemed to be making the gap between us, and the way students started rushing out of their classes to watch us, I felt totally embarrassed.

" Can you please stop and listen to me?"

My voice was loud this time as I called out to him out of anger, hoping he would stop for a second and let me explain, but my yelling was met with laughter from the students.

I glanced around for a second and straightened my face again, trying to follow after him. I needed to make him understand that I was not ready for whatever kind of game he wanted to play with me. If only he would just stop and listen.

"Lex, wait!"

My voice was louder when I saw him walking down the stairs ahead of me. I hastened my pace, almost running to him with the card in my hand, but like a flash, a desk blocked my way, and before I could take a second to halt, I went crashing into it, and we both went tumbling down the stairs.

By the time I stopped rolling, the pains in my body were unbearable. I touched my knee where I felt a sharp pain, and there was a bruise on both my knees.

Students were already out of their classrooms staring at me from different angles, and the devil I was trying to catch up with now stood some steps away staring at me with a smirk on his face.

"Who did that?" I yelled, moving my gaze around to the so many eyes who were now staring at me.

"Who threw that desk in my way?"

I was more angry this time. I couldn't stand the humiliation; it was too much.

"And what are you going to do to the person? Beat them? You know laying a hand on a student is a punishable offence."

For a second, I thought it was someone else speaking, but as I turned to the voice, it was the same devil who started this.

"Are you kidding me? And all of this you're doing to me is not a punishable offence?"

"Well, it would have been, except that no one has laid a hand on you yet, right?"

His voice was so loud that the students began to applaud him.

"But you have; you tried to kill me!"

The moment I said that, everyone went silent. It was as if they all froze at my accusation of Lex, but I didn't care. I began to walk close to Lex to negotiate at least; as I took the third step, a shoe came flying from nowhere. It hits me on my head, almost knocking me out.

I staggered, trying to gain balance, but they wouldn't allow me, as they all came at me with different materials, throwing them at me until I fell to the floor in pain.