Chapter 6 The Past

MARCO

"We found her Sir."

"Good"

"What are we going to do now Sir?"

"Know her background and where she s now living," I said as I put down the phone.

FLASHBACK

I was looking for a book in the library when someone called me by my nickname.

"Hey, kid!"

I turned my heel to see who was calling me and my heartbeat quickened. It was her, the one I admire here on campus.

"Y-yes?" I stammered, I wanted to beat myself up because of acting stupid again..

"I need your help, if it is possible but I hope it is possible, please!" she bit her lower lip.

I gulp as I see her bit her lip and I admit it was very sexy when she does it. She snaps her finger at me.

"Can you help me?" she asked enthusiastically, and my world seemed to stop when I stared into her eyes.

"Y-yeah of-of course. What c-can I help?" I really want to beat myself up because of the nervousness I feel I look like a fool in front of her.

"It s Calculus and I don t understand other problem solving. I have my homework with me and maybe can you answer this for me?"

"Wh-when do you exactly need it ?" I stammered again.

"Tomorrow I hope," she answered and smiled at me.

"O-okay," I absentmindedly replied.

"Yey! so where can I find you tomorrow?"

"Library"

"Hey, Vaughn! Let s go! We re running late for our practice! Ohhh, look who s with Vaughn,the nerd boy haha, hey! nerdy nerd. Can you also help us with our assignments?" shouts a woman in a ponytail and all her companions laugh at the same time.

"Please be patient with my colleagues, don t worry I will sue them right away," she apologized, and that s why I fell for her. She's not like the other girls that you will only be friends because they need you, she is different.

"It s okay, I m used to it."

She immediately smiled and said goodbye and ran to her colleagues.

"Oh, girl! You nailed it!" they shouted.

She waves me for the last time and I wave her my goodbye too. I can t stop myself smiling for no reason, reason for the people I meet to look at me and stare at me but even so I don t care.

"How s your day going Nero?" Rosso suddenly appeared, I don t know if it was a potato or what his face is some kind of joke right now maybe he had a random girl gripping his hair looking this mess. Where else did it come from?

Rosso is my best friend. We just made our names, Nero stands for black and Rosso stands for red. We understand our ways. Rosso is one of the wealthy people on this campus because at a young age he is already handling their company but he chooses to study first before going to a complicated life. We were both the same stand in our life. Soon, I will be handling our company but only Rosso knows that I am the grandchild of this school and have a powerful family. I don t want to say who I am. That's why I kept it a secret and asked my grandpa to keep this a secret 'till I m ready and even though he is not in favor with, he finally agreed.

"Great!" I said as I opened my locker while smiling.

"What s with the smile Bro? It s kinda gay," he laughs slamming the side of my locker reason for the students to look at us and say hello to Rosso except me.

"Well hello girls," he says and gives them a wink and they all giggled.

After I arranged the books and things in my locker, I immediately closed them and was ready to walk towards my next class schedule when we both saw Mirana and Rosso whistled. I immediately punched Rosso because of his gesture. He just gives me his sheepish smile. I was about to walk because I thought she did not see me and she did not hear Rosso whistling when she suddenly turned in my direction and called me by my nickname again.

"Kid!" she shouted for the third time.I didn t bother to look at him anymore, instead I just ran and left Rosso stunned, nor can I explain why I am running now, I look like a gay condensed milk. Condensed milk where the hell that word came from?

"Damn! What s wrong with me!" I shouted when I got to the top of the building.

"Hey," I jumped when someone opened the door.

"I m sorry if I surprised you, why did you run?" she asked breathlessly, she followed me?

"I don t know either," I said sounding like a jerk that s why I hated myself for looking like dumb in front of her.

We stayed silent for a moment and just sat on the floor.

"Kid," breaking the silence.

"Call me Nero," I said.

"But I like to call you Kid rather than Nero," she said as she gets a pebble and throws it in the wall.

"Why did you call me?" I asked.

"Bec-"

"Your homework? It s not done yet. I ll give it to you tomorrow morning if you-" I said that she immediately cut me off from speaking.

"I like you," she whispered, but I heard it clearly but I just can t believe she s saying those words. How can a girl like her, like me, Is it true that this is happening or am I still dreaming? What is happening to me right now is so beautiful and just a dream call something good is happening to me at this school. If it was a dream I would just wake up. I do not want to be hurt when I wake up.

"You re mistaken," I said.

"No, I do like you," she repeated.

"I don t know either where it started but the day I look at your eyes there is something that makes me feel safe," she added.

"Why me? Is this kind of prank?"

"Believe it or not Kid, I like you," she said, and she slowly got up from our seat.

I did not answer for a few minutes and just looked at the emptiness. She gives a deep sigh and takes a deep breath.

"It seems like I disturb you, sorry for disturbing you, I ll get my homework tomorrow morning, thank you for your time," she said as she walked in the door.

"I like you too," I said but I don t know if she heard it but she suddenly stopped and turned to face me. I was already in front of her, causing her to outbalance herself.

"Careful," I said as I grip her waist, she immediately blushed and shook her head in the other direction.

"Thank you," she shyly said.

That day we started dating and I asked her if I even got a chance if I court her. My hope didn t fail me. Every day I m courting her even at school, yes the whole campus knows that. Everyone adores and knows her but when they know that she and I got linked, many of the rumors spread that the case was charmed and I just forced her to like me back but all of that she ignored.

After how many weeks she finally said her yes and we got official. I was the happiest man that day, I promised her that I would do everything for her, I would make her happy and every day I ll court her. I give my full trust to her and my love and she does the same too. When our second anniversary comes, I rented an expensive restaurant just for the both of us, I ve decided that I can finally tell her the truth about my life but after 3 hours she did not come nor her shadow I just thought at that time he might be stocked or stranded in traffic but I was making a fool of myself.

My phone vibrates, and I immediately answered it hoping that it was her who was calling but it was Rosso.

"Where are you?" he asked straightly in the second line.

"Why do you care," I answered aloud on the other line, I don t care if he gets angry, maybe it s because of the alcohol and it's kicking me already.

"Where are you?" he repeated.

"Heith Restaurante."

"Just be there and wait for me to get there," he ended the call.

A few minutes later Rosso was here, there was no traffic, this is how Mirana should arrive quickly.

"Nero," he said as he walked in my direction.

I did not reply, instead I just played the shot glass. He slammed his fist causing me to stare at him badly. He is mad and I don t know what he is mad with.

"Fuck!" I hissed.

"You don t even know?" he shouted as if he was going crazy and there was sadness in his eyes.

"Know what?!" I frowned.

"That Vaughn was just playing you around!" he shouted.

"You don t have the right to accuse her like that in my face, you have no right to discredit her Ross," I stated firmly.

"Don t blame me if I did not warn you," he said and walked away, not even glancing back at me.

This Monday I was intrigued when the whole student suddenly rushed to the gymnasium. Everyone was staring at me until I was in the gym and they all backed away as I walked towards them, they were all staring at me with disgust on their faces and some suppressed laughter. Until I was stuck in the middle and they all seemed to be around me, they were all whispering and laughing.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, here in front of us the ambitious, geek, freak and a feeler to have Mirana Vaughn Welch to be his so-called girlfriend," a woman holding a microphone said, she was one of Mirana s colleagues then.

"And here is the video and pictures waiting patiently for his so called girlfriend, look at how he looks, right? Apart from being disgusting and nerd, he is really pathetic. "

"Yeah!" they all agreed.

"I know right," she laughs.

"And now to complete this romantic show let us welcome Mirana Vaughn Welch! The best actress!" they all screamed, whistled, and clapped their hands, they all did not shout at her name until she came out with smiles on her lips.

I cannot believe that she is just playing and fooling me, I got played in her game. My heart squirms in pain seeing her smirking at me. I don t care about the people around us, they are all screaming and I seem to dump garbage on me but I don t care.

"You! You waited for me, did you really wait patiently for me? " she laughed wickedly.

"Well dream on Kid!" she added and all people screamed.

I stoop down my knees and tears are falling fluently in my face. I don t care if they all see me in this image. I feel like she is slowly killing me, I remember the night Rosso told me but I just ignored that.

"You re joking, right? Is this kind of prank?"

"No. I m. Not. Mister," she said and left leaving me in that scene. They all throw me whatever they want and some other punch and kick me. I just voluntarily let them down with what they were doing to me, I no longer feel the pain of the kicks and they beat me, I feel more pain now in my heart.