~Adelina~

We're back at the bookstore for Adelina's part

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What the fuck just happened.

I mean, what the actual fuck.

I never swear, it's not really something I do, but what the actual fuck just happened.

I don't know what I did to piss Zane off, but whatever it was, this whole calling names thing, or completely invading my privacy is something I did not deserve.

I have been nothing but kind to him, yet here he is screaming in MY face telling me I'm a slut and calling me other slurs. I did nothing to get that kind of reaction from him. Yea maybe here and there I might have been rude, but I know for a fact I did nothing to deserve the harshness Zane just put me through.

All I've done to him was not tell him what papa has been doing to me, since I know for a fact that he knows something is happening in my life that is making me unsafe. I know he knows since he's asked what has happened to me and why I've flinched or why I've been in pain is so he can help me, but honestly, there is no way for someone the help me. I'll be dead long before I can be saved.

but honestly, Zane doesn't deserve to know what's been happening in my life. Not after the shit show, he put on for me. He yelled at me, pushed me onto a bookshelf with knife-like books that made my back ache in pain and gave me a migraine that won't go away till I take some sort of medicine, AND on top of that, humiliated Ash and Will. His best friends.

Yea maybe he's trying to help, but the actions he's been taking are causing more pain than any saving. So no, I'm not taking his help any time soon. Not after today.

It's no contact with Zane Anderson for the rest of my life.

He's a bad boy, nothing but trouble, and I don't need him in my life.

All of a sudden, a hand is waving in my vision and I refocus my eyes to whats in front of me.

"I'm sorry are you okay baby girl," William asks while scanning me from head to toe making sure nothing happened to me

"yea I'm fine," I say looking anywhere but them

"Really, I'm super sorry for Zane, there is no way to justify his actions-" William says with a sorry look on his face

"its fine really, it doesn't matter...just drop it" I say

"okay, okay sure." Both of the boys say

"now let me get one more book" I say making a happy face to make sure they don't suspect the pain lingering underneath.

"Oh hell yea" Will says with a mischievous face while walking away to another bookshelf isle. Me and Ash follow slowly behind, making small talk and when we arrive to where Will is, he already has a handful of books in his hand.

"Alright I'm done" Will says breathing heavy like he was really freaking excited to get these books.

So cute

"You're done?" Ash asks raising a eyebrow and having a surprised facial expression.

"Clearly dumbass" Will says nudging his head towards his handful of books.

"Alright we should checkout-"Ash says but gets cut off by me

"Wait, you're not buying any books?" I question. We're in a bookstore, you cannot come here and leave without a book, thats a rule.

"Lina, I own this store, I can get anything I want, whenever I want" Ash says with a smirk plastered on his face.

"Right, I forgot" I say. God i'm so stupid, how can I forget that. We're literally in his store, his last name is printed everywhere and I still forgot. Actual piece of poop.

"Yea you go, go checkout, I'll see you guys soon." I say while moving backwards towards another isle I wanted to go to.

"Yea see you soon" Ash says backing away to go to the checkout line

"See you soon Sherlock" Will says with a smirk on his face.

Bastard

He's never going to let that nickname go. I don't even know where he got it from.

I walk into the isle that I wanted books from and pick up the Inheritance Games book. The first and second book. In total, my book shopping has come to four books, "Spanish Love Deception, The Sweet Oblivion, The Inheritance Games, And the Hawthorne Legacy".

After getting the books I want, I head to the checkout line and purchase my books. I walk out the cash register with a tote bag with the name WATSON on it in the middle and has books all around as decoration.

So flipping cute

I open the doors to leave the store and  start walking to a bus stop, until I realize I have no clue which bus or bus stop I'm suppose to take. I take my phone out and open the bus app, and look in the app to see what buses come and go to where I'm am to where home is.

I see a bus with the bus number #77 on it that comes in 5 minutes to take me close to home, so I look for the bus stop with that number. I look back on my phone to see if I saw the number correctly. Then I look up to find the stop again.

I'm looking and looking till I lock eyes with a set of grey ones.

My heart stops beating

My insides are filling up with so much emotion that I can't even begin to decipher which ones are from hatred or from love, or from pain

I'm staring at him, not even blinking

And he's doing the same

Staring and not blinking

My body starts stiffening up with the fear that he might come back and say even more words that will hurt me. I always felt comfortable around him, but now, now i'm so uncomfortable around him because of the words he said that I can't unhear.

My mind is running back to the bookstore, in that isle where he wasn't Zane Anderson. He was someone else entirely. My mind is replaying the incident over and over again, but what breaks my heart is that I can see how affected Zane is by the situation.

He looks like he was crying moments before I made eye contact with him. He looks like he wants to jump out of the car and say sorry over and over again, but fears I won't forgive him

There are so many words I wanna say to him. So many words of hate that I want to give him so he knows how much hurt he put in me. I wanna yell, hit, punch him, and scream in his face about all the things he said that hurt me.

But the worst part is that I wanna hurt him back. Make him feel the pain he put me through.

But I won't get the chance to do that because Ash is turning around to look at what Zane is staring at. When he sees my face, he immediately turns around and blocks Zane from my vision.

I internally curse him because I would've loved to go off on Zane, but the sane part of me is relived he came to hide Zane from my site because then I can leave this situation and not hurt him back.

I don't wanna be a bad person, and me going on off Zane wouldn't be any different on how he went off on me. It would make us both bad people, and I don't want to be bad

I look back on my phone to see where #77 bus stop is and I find it across the street, so I make my way over there. Right when I get on the platform, my bus arrives.

Lucky me.

I make one last glance at Zane and see he's getting harassed by Ash and Will.

That makes me smile a little

just a little

Okay maybe a lot

I shake my head and get on the bus. I make my way over to the back, and find a seat by the window. I sit down and wince in pain when my back hits the seat. I shake the feeling off and take my phone out and start calling Sofia.

Yes, yes, I still haven't forgotten that SHE gave MY number to Will. And yes I know it was only Will but man, this women could be giving my number out to anyone which is not good at all.

So I have to go mother on her and call her out

"Hey Bitch!" Sofia says. I swear she took an energy drink from the amount of energy she is showing through this call. One day she will die from drinking to much energy drinks

"Why in the hell would you give my number to William?" I whisper shout into the phone because I'm in a bus with people and I don't think they would be happy if I was actually shouting into a phone.

"Ohhhh, yea he asked for it so I gave it" She says nonchalantly

He asked for it so she gave it- I swear she will do anything to get me killed huh

"do you want me dead?" I question her

"How the hell did we get here?" Sofia says in a shocked tone

"answer the question" I say getting bored

"no of course not why would you say that?" Sofia says with a worry some tone in her voice

"You dumb dumb, you cannot be giving my number out like that. You could've given it to-" I say whisper-yelling into the phone but get cut off

"to someone else I know but I didn't give it to anyone else besides Will." Sofia says nonchalantly.

"Yea right, you've definitely given it to someone else since I get so many scammer calls." I say getting my voice neutral and looking out the window, watching everything pass by.

"I haven't given it to anyone else" She says, calming her voice

"Beside Will, Ash, and Zane but-" Sofia says but I cut her off by screaming into my phone

"You gave it to Zane!" I full on yell now, not caring where I am. I look around since I feel pairs of eyes on me, and before I know it, like six pairs of eyes are on me

"Sorry everyone" I say turning my shoulders up and then starting back on the call

"Why in the hell would you give it to Zane, AND when did you even have the time!" I say getting annoyed at the fact that ZANE has my number. Why on earth would she give it to ZANE. out of all the people she could give it, she gave it to Zane.

"I gave it because he asked for it when you didn't come to school for like 10 years. He got super worried, and not just like worried, Ash was saying how he couldn't even focus at anything in the classes you too share. He was just staring at your seat, so at the end of the day he asked for it, and I gave it. " Sofia says yelling back into the phone clearly getting annoyed at the fact I'm getting mad over giving my phone number

But what surprised me was that Zane was super worried, at least from what Sofia said. He had noticed that I didn't show up and that something was up. He asked for my number to make sure I was okay. He didn't use it though...He didn't use it, he didn't use my number-

Why am I bummed out that he didn't use it, call me to make sure I WAS okay.

I don't even get this guy. One minute he's screaming in my face, then the next he's worried sick about me.

Bipolar bitch

"Anyways, where are you since it sounds like your moving around a lot." Sofia says her voice softening to normal conversation

"I'm on the bus coming home from the bookstore" I say turning my gaze back to he window, looking at everything that is passing by.

"Wait so you're coming home?" Sofia says

"Yea" I say

"Wait can I come over, I'm bored" She says

Oh shoot.

Yea that can't happen. Not at all. Papa will do something really bad to me, or even worse to my best friends, and that cannot happen.

I cannot, and will not let papa hurt my best friends. I will much rather die than have something happen to them. Just thinking about what papa might do to Sofia and Reese while being drunk is- not pleasent at all.

Just thinking about him pinning them to the wall-

no don't think like that. It won't happen so don't think like that.

"Actually, can I come to your's cause papa is working from home now and he wouldn't want to be disturbed." What a smooth lie I can come up with

There's silence on Sofia's end of the phone and then she says

"ummm sure, yea, sure come to my house, I'll just call Reese to let her know." She says.

"Yea okay, I'll see you soon" I say gathering my stuff to get off the bus since I'm home

"Yea bye" Sofia says and ends the phone

That was one rushed "bye" I've ever heard one. Something is up with her after I said that. Maybe my lie wasn't as good as I thought it was

I stand up and walk out of the bus but don't walk home. I just get off the bus and walk a little away but not home. There is no reason the go home besides if I want more cuts and bruises so I just wait for the next bus to get to Sofia's House

As i'm waiting, my mind keeps going to the place where Zane was so worried he got my number from Sofia. but what doesn't make sense is that he got it but didn't call me to see what happened. He just got it and kept it.

I wanna know why he did that. I also wanna know why he went off on me but at the same time I don't want to know cause his response can be harsher than his fight at the bookstore.

The next bus comes and I get on the bus and head to Sofia's house

Little did Adelina know, that night, her whole world changed.

Either for better

Or for worse

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