02
"Ren will come later, you better come in first!" said one of Tiara's friends then turned Claia's body and pushed her into the warehouse whose door was already open. Tiara's other friends also come in. Then the warehouse door was locked.
Claia immediately became alert. "Why is it locked?"
Tiara and some of her friends looked at Claia then looked at each other and laughed. Tiara suddenly extended her right hand to one of Claia's shoulders and pushed the girl down so that Claia reflexively screamed.
"It's true what I said, she likes Ren. There are lots of people who like him, so this girl likes him too," said one of Tiara's friends.
"Hahaha. That's true. Hey Claia, I still don't accept that my makeup mirror is broken by you. You want to pull up a chair, you might not see first!" said Tiara.
Claia was taken aback. When she was about to stand up to reply to Tiara and her friends, Tiara's friends moved first. One of them had a rope, the other had duct tape. They tied Claia's hands behind her back and covered Claia's mouth with duct tape so she couldn't scream. Claia revolted half to death. She never thought she would experience this. All her life, she had never thought about it, never even imagined it. She thought that as evil as Tiara was, that girl would never dare to do something like this to him. However, she was very brave.
"Hmmm! Hmmm!" Claia screamed with tears in her eyes, asking Tiara to let her go.
After she was bound and taped on her mouth, Tiara's friends began to take off her clothes. Claia immediately panicked. She rebelled again. But two of Tiara's friends instead slapped her cheeks and kicked her feet. While the other one was pulling her hair.
Tiara took out her cell phone and started taking pictures of Claia. "Claia, you can't move. If you don't want your photo to be shared, you have to follow me in the future," she said, satisfied.
One week has finally passed.
From the first day she was abused by Tiara and her three friends, Claia became very withdrawn and didn't even want to talk to her parents. She kept shutting himself in her room, refusing to eat, and even taking a bath.
Claia's parents thought, maybe their child is having problems tomorrow and will be back to normal. But the next day, nothing changed. Claia was still silent, when asked the answer was nothing happened, and even refused to go to school. But she was contacted by Tiara to come to school otherwise his photos would be shared.
The following days became even more difficult for Claia. While she had decided to delete her photos on Tiara's cellphone at any cost, Tiara only tormented him even more. The girl with long, wavy hair invited almost all of her friends at school to bully Claia. Her friends are not only his classmates and children from other classes in his contemporaries but also from upperclassmen. Especially boys.
When the holidays arrived, Claia was told to go somewhere, she had no choice but to be forced to follow Tiara's wishes. All because of the pictures on the girl's cell phone. And in that place, she even lost his honor.
Since then, Claia has often had thoughts of suicide.
Since then, Claia looked strange in the eyes of her parents. They thought something had happened to their child. To the extent that they come to school to find out the cause of their child's change in attitude. Claia's homeroom teacher instead informed Claia about her parents' arrival and asked her directly in the classroom in front of the other children in the class what had happened to her. Of course, Tiara heard it.
In the end, Tiara and her friends bullied Claia more and more.
Until this second.
Claia took a deep breath as the laughter of the teenagers around her still resounded. She was also enduring pain to death.
"Claia, you must be expecting Ren to come here to save you right?" asked one of Tiara's friends.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"Until now, Ren hasn't helped you at all, Claia," said one of Tiara's friends.
"Hahaha! It's clear there's no way he'll be here" said Tiara.
Claia wasn't devoid of courage. She had several times tried to fight against Tiara and her accomplice, although in the end she was always tortured even more.
Claia wiped away her tears.
"Why are you being mean to me like this, Tiara? It's only your makeup mirror business that has become like this to me. You're a coward because you brought friends with you! Here, I'll pay for your makeup mirror!"
Almost everyone was shocked to hear Claia's scream with both eyes staring intently at Tiara.
"Wow, you're really brave, Claia," said one of the male seniors.
"Oh, do you want to pay? Even if you sell yourself, it's not enough to pay for my makeup mirror. Seriously, you pretend to pay! It's like you can't afford it. You think I don't know how poor you are!" snapped Tiara.
"Tiara, earlier she said you were a coward, how can you just accept it? Beat it up again? We need to have something to make him continue to obey us."
"Whack again or not huh?" asked one of the male upperclassmen.
"Of course. Beat him until she trembles!"
They started to beat Claia again. Some grabbed her hair, kicked her body, and even spat on her. Even though several parts of Claia's body were badly bruised and bleeding, still, as if they had no conscience, they continued to beat Claia without mercy.
Claia tried to block those who were hurting her with her hands which were also injured, but it was useless. Her hands were pushed aside and stepped on by several of Tiara's classmates who were also her classmates.
“They….psychopaths,” Claia thought sadly. Claia thought Tiara and her friends were hurting her like this just for fun so she thought they were psychopaths. She glanced at Tiara who was looking at him with a satisfied smile and a condescending look.
"Stop!" Tiara ordered. Finally, those who were bullying Claia stopped doing it and turned to Tiara.
Tiara said, "How come I see that if we torture him even more, she will die? Let's just pull him out now. The problem is her body is already like that. If she comes out and someone sees him, she's suspicious."
"Dear Tiara, you don't have to be afraid that you'll get caught. Even if you want, I can finish her off," said one of the boys who had liked Tiara for a long time.
"No need. It's no longer fun if he's not around," Tiara replied.
"Okay, let's all disperse!" invite one of Tiara's friends.
"Bye-bye Claia. Enjoy your usual days," Tiara snapped.
"Hahahahaha!"
"Hey, you don't need to lock the door. If you keep locking it, you'll be found by the school guard, and we're more likely to get caught," said Tiara.
"Okay."
And Claia was finally left alone.
The girl winced in pain a few times and started crying again. The sound of crying was quite loud. As she mustered up the strength and resolve to get up, she first looked at the wounds on her body, then she used her tie to wipe the blood off. After that, she tried to stand up. This pain made it difficult for her to keep her body balanced and the sound of her crying became messier and messier. Even so, she was desperately trying to keep going.
"Why…"
"Why me?"
Her feet finally made it out of the school shed which was dark, dirty, cramped, and smelled of cigarettes. Claia looked around. The past few days after she had been left alone, she had come out of the warehouse and immediately looked for someone else using her two eyes for help. But if he didn't find it, she preferred to keep walking out of this school. But this time not anymore. She had no intention of asking others for help, looking for other people, or treating his wounds. Deep inside his heart, she already had a plan.
Claia finally made it to the edge of the field which was still very crowded. There was a basketball match between this school's team against another school's team.
Claia immediately became the center of attention of the kids playing basketball and the audience. Including Ren. Ren narrowed his eyes as he watched Claia. He stopped playing for a moment so that his friends and some of his opponents also stared in the direction he was staring at. Claia seemed to walk with a limp and there seemed to be something different about her body. Her clothes look messy too.
One of Ren's friends approached the boy, embraced him, then said in a half whisper while his eyes occasionally glanced at Claia.
"Have you heard the news yet? If Tiara and the others hurt her again. It's a pity, isn't it? She walks so lamely."
Ren had heard many rumors about Claia. No matter how tightly Tiara and her gang hide their behavior, someone still leaks it. And, there have been a lot of talks here and there so he knows. Even so, it seemed that they were all oblivious to it. Or maybe they didn't care, they kept bothering Claia. He hoped that someone would help the girl or report the cruel acts of Tiara and her friends to the teacher. But apparently, still not there. And until now, the girl is still being bullied.
Ren went back to playing and ignored Claia.
On the other hand, Claia didn't want to stare at Ren any longer. Her heart gradually grew colder as she walked towards the house. She started not caring about anything anymore.
Arriving at the parking lot, Claia again had to freeze seeing that her bicycle was damaged. She was sure that this was what Tiara and her friend were doing. Finally, she decided to go home on foot without bringing the pieces of her bicycle.