Chapter 9
**•ADRIAN•**
"That little-!"
Amir's head immediately snapped up when I stormed in through the room, after slamming the door behind me.
"You're going viral again." He said from the couch while smiling.
"What? Where?" He flipped the screen of his phone towards me.
"TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Threads."
I walked over towards him and snatched the phone from his hand. My brows knitting together in annoyance when I saw the video playing on an Instagram reel. It clearly showed the perfect angle of me and Kaia standing in the library.
The words she said to me earlier today, replayed in the audio, loud and clear and I could hear someone laughing in the background.
"Fuck." I swore under my breath and handed Amir's phone back to him.
"STDs was very creative of her." He commented while laughing and I glared down at him.
"Shut up."
"The worst she could say was 'get lost'." He added with a chuckle.
I sank on the armchair opposite him and clutched the armrest with firm hands.
Why the fuck would she go that far and announced that I have STDs? I do not fucking have STDs! I'm clean, dammit.
"Damn, all these girls commenting are brutal bro. They all seem like girls you've messed up around with in the past. They're planning your funeral already if they find out they've got STDs from you after getting tested." Amir said.
I closed my eyes and pinched the bridge of my nose, sighing in frustration.
Kaia fucking Lilian just tainted my whole reputation with that lie and now I've got to face the consequences of trying to convince everyone that it wasn't true.
This makes me feel more than upset that I feel like punching the wall or something very hard.
Alright, that's it.
She just declared war and I'm going to give her a taste of her own medicine.
"Wow, even some guys from the team are making fun of you here in the comments." Amir suddenly says and my eyes immediately snap in his direction.
"What? What are they saying?"
Amir looked at me and gave me a blank look before passing his phone towards me.
"Take a look for yourself."
I grabbed the phone and scrolled down the screen to read the newest comments. My anger flared up after reading the jokes the guys had started in the comment section which I know was never going to go away and it would probably stick with me for the rest of my life.
This is all her fault! That bitch was responsible for this.
"We need to do something about this," I said to Amir while giving his phone back.
An idea was already starting to form in my head but he gave me a confused stare.
"What do you mean 'we'?" He asked while staring suspiciously at me.
"We need to get back at her, and we need to do it now."
"No no no no, Adrian stop. Do not include me in your wild ideas. I'm trying to protect my own reputation by staying out of trouble. So, leave me out of this."
I ignored his statement and stood up while pulling my phone out from my pocket and scrolling through my contacts to call the annoying brat who lives with Kaia.
"Adrian, are you listening to me?" Amir asked and I held up a finger for him to be quiet while calling Amy.
A minute later, she finally picked up the phone.
"Hey sis, um, do you happen to know where Kaia is at the moment? Is she in class or something?"
"No, not right now. She has a class at one this afternoon but she's probably at the study lounge right now, working on her class presentation. Why?" She replied lazily.
"Oh, nothing. Professor Kimberly just asked me to talk to her about that tutoring session that she canceled the other day. She was just wondering if Kaia wanted to give it another shot." I answered while smiling, the lie rolling smoothly off my tongue.
"Okay? Then check the study lounge or the library. I'm going back to sleep, bye."
She ended the call before I could say anything else. To my surprise, she didn't mention anything about the STD video going around school right now, which can only mean that she hasn't seen it yet.
Which is a relief at the moment. She would've given me a hard time over the phone by annoying the fuck out of me.
"Let's go to the study lounge," I told Amir and he slowly got up from the couch.
"Why? What are you planning to do?"
I smirked while pocketing my phone.
"You'll see when we get there."
"C'mon Adrian, can't you just let it go and leave the poor girl alone? She probably didn't mean it." I quickly scoffed.
"Fuck no, she did that on purpose and now I'm the laughingstock of the school. That little bitch will get what she deserves for messing with the wrong person today."
He groaned and bowed his head down. Then, he looked up at me again with a sigh.
"How are you planning on getting back at her? It better not be anything illegal, because if I get into trouble, my parents are shipping my ass back to Dubai."
I smirked back at him. "Don't worry, we're just going to check out what kind of class presentation she's working on. Your job is the easy one, so relax."
He slowly shook his head at me and followed me out of the room.
**OoO**
Turns out Amy was right. Kaia Lilian was definitely in the study lounge area and was running all over the place, looking agitated.
Guess she's freaking out about the class presentation she'll be doing in class this afternoon. My plan was set but all we needed was a chance for Amir to steal the blue USB drive, attached to the side of her laptop.
Amir and I both braced ourselves against the wall, outside the study lounge, while looking in through the glass double doors.
The table next to the door was empty and I signaled to Amir and counted down to three with my fingers before we walked inside and immediately made a beeline towards the empty table.
I sat down with my back facing towards her so that she couldn't see me. I pulled up the hood of my jacket to cover my head and then nodded at Amir.
He nodded once before leaving the table and I glanced over my shoulder, watching him casually stroll towards the bookshelf near where Kaia was sitting.
Once Kaia stood up and disappeared down the bookshelf aisle, leaving her stuff unattended on her table, Amir made his move swiped off the USB drive, and quickly walked back towards where I was sitting.
I turned around and opened Amir's laptop in front of me which we had brought with us. He passed me the drive and I quickly plugged it in while he kept watch.
"Twenty seconds, Adrian," Amir warned.
"I'm on it."
I clicked on the file which she had labeled 'class presentation 1o1' and exchanged the file with the one I had prepared specially for her, from Amir's computer.
The file was immediately transferred to her drive within seconds and after it was done, I casually passed the drive back to Amir and he quickly walked back to Kaia's table and plugged the drive back into her laptop.
I almost burst out laughing when he almost got caught by her when she suddenly came back and Amir pretended to look for something he had dropped under her table.
I narrowed my eyes when I caught her smiling at him and then Amir scratched the back of his neck awkwardly before leaving the study lounge.
I stood up and shoved my hands in my pockets before following him out two minutes later, but not before glaring at Kaia who was packing her things on the table, ready to head to class.
We'll see who's got STDs now
**•KAIA•**
After Elle finished with her presentation, it was finally my turn. I had been working on mine since two weeks ago and just rechecked everything a few minutes before class today, and everything was perfect and ready.
I walked up to the stage and plugged my USB drive in and clicked on my presentation file. The lecture hall was full with everyone from class attending to see the presentations happening today.
So, I was a little nervous and anxious with everyone waiting and staring at me right now.
I adjusted the mic on the podium stand and smiled at my professor sitting in the front row along with a few other students who had already presented.
"Good afternoon, everyone. My name is-"
"What the hell is that?!" Someone yelled from the audience, pausing me midsentence.
A few loud gasps and laughs erupted in the crowd and I started to panic.
But then, as soon as I turned around to see the projector's screen behind me, I immediately found out what they were all laughing at.
Pictures of STD symptoms on human genitals were presented all over the screen and the worst part was, that it was under my name and presentation title at the top.
Terror immediately overwhelmed me and more laughter and disgusted sounds erupted from the students.
I panicked and clicked to the next slide, but shock hit me when I saw more explicit pictures there too it was everywhere in the entire slides, and my original content was gone.
"Miss Lilian, can you please take down your presentation right now?" Professor Weber asked while standing up from her seat.
"I'm sorry professor, but this isn't my presentation. I don't know what went wrong with my-"
The rest of the words died in my mouth went I caught a familiar face, sitting right in the back row near the door, smirking at me.
My blood immediately boiled after seeing Adrian and when he waved mockingly back at me, I grew angrier.
Realization suddenly dawned on me upon seeing him and after unplugging my drive from the computer and shutting it down.
It all makes sense now...
Him being here to witness my presentation being ruined and enjoy with everyone in the lecture hall laughing and giving me disgusted looks right now.
That son of a bitch
He was behind all this.