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Chapter 34

“Sometimes you need to attach your heart to the things that make you happy, so you may realize that everything that makes you happy isn’t good for you.” [Jacqueline]

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[Jacqueline’s Pov]

Or I was getting controlled by someone else’s soul. I didn’t understand how he could always bring out the revengeful side in me. But it wasn’t the time to think about it because Rohan’s eyes had started to fill with killing intent. Everything around us has turned quiet. So quiet that even I could hear his harsh breathing. A pin-drop silence ensued. I kept my eyes glued to his pale cheeks that were now stained with white vanilla ice cream. I would have laughed at it if I wasn’t the one who had rubbed his face with it.

I knew he would not leave me after what I have done. His face contorted into a distortion. His black eyes seemed to be lit up in the fire of fury. His tongue slowly licked his lips.

“I. Rohan.” Scared by his silence I dropped the tissue on the ground. I tried to move back but a slap landed on my face. I was pushed back with brutal force and my b*** landed on the ground with a thud. It hurt. I stayed quiet looking up from the ground. It was Naina Raichand, a new student. The crowd around us started murmuring but nobody decided to intervene. Not even one dared to intervene. My eyes took a moment to see everyone around me. And then settled on her

I really should have seen it coming, between the last week I came to know about the new student Naina Raichand’s secret obsession with Rohan. And from the day she arrived at school, she was around him a lot. At least more than a new student and an arrogant boy would hang out. But why would she slap me?

Her black eyes narrowed at me, her lean body straightened. She grinned at me, her darker skin than most Asians glowed under the sunlight and it made her look scary. My skin crawled in fear. stepping near my pathetic body she stopped grinning. I wanted to stand up but my exhausted body didn’t support me and for the first time in my life, I understood the reason for eating. I had barely managed to exhale when a series of sharp kicks came down at my legs.

“How dare you touch my best friend from your filthy tissue.”

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Guess now I knew why she had slapped me and why Rohan let her hang around him so much.

She stepped away from me, her hair that we’re set in a ponytail swung with air as she walked around me in a circle. “You b****. Let me teach you a lesson.”

Heat flooded my face as I noticed Rohan standing behind her without any intention of stopping her. But then I questioned myself the next second why would he stop his best friend when I had insulted him?

She grabbed a fistful of my hair and made me stand up by force. I didn’t wince neither I looked up at her.

Looked up, because she was three inches taller than me. My gaze remained settled in Rohan’s coal- black eyes who seemed too unresponsive to react. Her hold upon my hair tightened as she urged me to pay attention to her.

Dang, She is good with hurting people because the next moment my head was tilted in such a way that I was looking into her black eyes. They weren’t particularly black, her eyes were brown from the center but had blackened towards the end of the periphery. An oval face with a straight nose and thick lips, she seemed beautiful. I must have been turning into a crazy girl that I was observing her, admiring her, instead of thinking of a way to get away from her. But then again, how the day turned out for me had

made me numb to realization. Or to feel bad about it. From Jaan’s weird words to Mrs. Natasha seeing through me to Rohan turning from a caring guy to a bad boy. It was too much to take in a single day.

Her glare sent shivers down my spine and I cast my eyes to her behind, on Rohan. I didn’t know why my eyes were settling on him again and again. Maybe because I was in this situation because of him, or maybe because I never wanted to eat ice cream and he was the one who had forced me to follow him resulting in the situation I was in. Perhaps he was responsible, for pretending to be something else. In any way, I hadn’t asked him to help me.

“You had the nerve to glare at Rohan in front of my face. Huh?” I looked up at her disbelieving face.

“He humiliated me first.” My voice was bland. Devoid of any quiver of emotion. I didn’t understand where that courage came from, that I was able to speak to a woman who had already slapped me kicked me in the gut, and was now holding me like she might kill me the next second.

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“You threw your ice cream on his shoes. You humiliated him first.” She held my hair tighter and this time I did wince. My scalp was hurting with the amount of force she was applying.

I grounded my teeth as I held my tears back. ‘Don’t cry Jacky. He doesn’t deserve it. Think of something that makes you smile.’ I tried to think of something and immediately Remo’s face flashed through my memories. His teasing words proved beneficial and I was able to hold my tears back.

“It was an accident.”

“But you rubbing his cheeks with the tissue you cleaned his shoes wasn’t an accident.”

I let out a breath, “Consider this from my perspective, what do you expect a 17-year-old girl to do after a boy forces her to eat ice cream with him and then forces the same girl to wipe his shoes clean that

we’re stained in the first place because of a small mistake. What do you think is more humiliating? Huh? Icecream stained shoes or asking a girl to wipe his shoes in front of the half school. You’ve got to cut me some slack.” She had been looking down at me but the last phrase snapped her neck towards Rohan who chose to shrug.

“He forced you to eat ice cream with him?” She asked incredulously.

She knew she was wrong. I could see it in her eyes.

“Can you imagine a bullied teenager to go with a guy happily who looks like Rohan?” She left my head and I rubbed my scalp to smooth my hurting scalp.

“Can you imagine having no one there for you when he asked you to wipe his shoes? Can you imagine being slapped by a girl who knew nothing about what happened? Can you imagine kicked by her too? Can you imagine being humiliated by four people on the same day?”

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“I. I.”

“No.” I was upright glaring up at her.

“I didn’t beg to eat ice cream with him. You can ask him.”

“Forgive me, Jacqueline.” She said holding out her hand, “I didn’t know.”

“Well, now you know. But I don’t think you need my forgiveness.” Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

I gathered my phone and things and started walking towards the door, but stopped and slowly half- turned to look over my shoulder.

“If you think Rohan of forcing me again for anything. Think again.” I told him emotionlessly.

“I intend to take it as a challenge Jacqueline. Don’t tempt me, because I will only focus on you from now onwards.”