"Where the hell do you think you're going?" Vanessa's voice growled behind me, making me immediately turn myself back at her.

"I saw it." I snapped, my eyes slicing through her angrily.

"Saw what?" She played dumb, her eyes staring back into mine.

"What is going on with you? I saw you spill that drink on her on purpose!" I exclaimed, looking at her in full distaste.

"Oh come on, you need to chill, you're being such a bitch." She replied, her breath smelling of alcohol, intensifying my anger towards her behavior.

"Are you drunk? What the hell is wrong with you? I thought you hated alcohol?" I queried furiously.

"Calm down, you're not my mom!" She murmured with her annoyingly intoxicated voice.

"I'm gonna be honest with you, you are being so pathetic right now, I'm gonna drop you off." I demanded, forcefully grabbing her arm as I catch sight of Xavier running out the hall with a worried look on his face, just until he saw me and Vanessa outside.

"Let go!" She exclaimed, pulling her arm back away from my grasp. "You know what, since we're being honest now, I'll be honest myself."

I stood quiet as my face remained a disgusted facial expression.

"I've never really told anyone this, but you know that rumor somebody started about you?" Her smile turned sinister as I didn't understand what she meant by rumor.

"What rumor?" I queried, my mind pulling off a blank.

"Amphitrite Whore." She whispered, then proceeding into cackling loudly.

"What about it?" My voice beginning to weaken as the memory came back into mind. Vanessa's head came closer to the side of my face, preparing to whisper something.

"I started it." Her voice let out with pride.

I felt my surroundings darken as I my heart tear into pieces. All that suffering, pain, and depression, all caused by someone that I called my sister.

"W-what?" I croaked, my face immediately turning away from her. "What do you mean?" My mood started to feel indescribable, as I tried to convince myself that what I just heard was just nothing but a cruel joke.

"Sorry." She laughed. "Not sorry." She laughed even louder.

I was so shocked that my eyes couldn't even process tears to let out.

My whole body stood so frozen. All the pain, humiliation, depression, and fear I went through over the years all coming back to me at once.

Vanessa looked down at her nails as she talked. "You know, watching everyone turn against someone who's so weak and pathetic was kinda entertaining. I mean like you're literally so weak that you couldn't even pull of your pathetic suicide attempt."

Her words took turns viciously stabbing every part of my body, my fists clenching tighter and tighter together.

My mood was a lot clearer now, and I knew what I was feeling, which was complete anger.

It felt as if something had completely taken over me, my eyes feeling as if they completely blacked out, my body being uncontrollable.

"You bitch!" I screamed loud enough for everyone even inside the banquet hall to hear.

My fist struck her face so fast that it even made me glad that I wasn't the one being punched like that.

"Arielle what the fu-" Her sentence that expressed intense pain was interrupted with multiple punches from me that seemed to never stop.

I would normally feel bad about beating someone up this bad at this point, but it felt as if I couldn't even stop my fists. She quickly tried to cover her face and quickly brought her face down to avoid the punches, but that didn't stop me.

My other hand snatched her hair back as my other hand continued hitting her. Instead of fighting back, she just tried her best in defending her face.

I hadn't even noticed that the people we're running towards us just until I heard loud screams from girls coming out of the hall to see the fight.

"Oh my god she's bleeding!"
"THIS GON' BE IN YOUTUBE!"
"YAS ARIELLE GET IT!"
"SOMEONE STOP HER!"
"ARIELLE NO!"

A pair of strong arms swiftly pulled me away from Vanessa. That's when my tears started to all let go non stop. I was so angry, and I felt like I was so betrayed. And the fact that it was started by the person I have been calling my sister for so long, just makes it worse.

"Fuck you! You evil bitch!" I screamed out, my lungs feeling like it was being clogged. I struggled to breathe as my anger only continued to grow. "How could you do that to me! Why would you do that! I trusted you! I had no one!" Distant murmurs appeared around me as I continued to scream.

"Shhh don't cry, it's okay, I'm here now ." Xavier repeated, stroking his hand over my head to calm my mixture of loud screams and cries at the same time. I couldn't even help to control my crying anymore, the people that surrounded around us just looked at me in pity.

I proceeded to sob loudly on Xavier's chest that somewhat comforted me as he hugged me tight, pulling me farther away from Vanessa, who looked all sorts of messed up as Levi came to comfort her too.

"How could she!" I cried into Xavier's chest. "I called her my sister!" My voice broke as I closed my eyes in complete pain.

My bones were weakened by emotions and my vision was blurred off by tears. I was completely devastated by what Vanessa said.

Xavier wiped some of my tears away as he looked down at me. "Arielle look at me." His hands gently went against my tear soaked cheeks as I still struggled to regain myself. "Look at me. I'm here, there's nothing to worry about anymore. I want you to breathe for me okay? Can you do that?" He whispered deeply.

It wasn't easy. My emotions were scattered. My heart was cut open. My mind was going to blow up.

Xavier continued to comfort me as muffled voices started to appear around us. "Come on Arielle, breathe." Xavier's arms continued to hold my trembling body, one of his hands gently rubbing against my head as I continued to cry louder.

I tried to see a better view of how bad I hit Vanessa and it was unbelievable. I myself didn't even know I had the ability to harm someone like that in anyway. She was also sobbing loudly from the pain as she tried her best not to touch her horribly swollen mouth as her nose didn't stop to bleed.

Me and Xavier remained still as Levi escorted Vanessa away from the dance, turning back to me to throw me a dirty look.

The rest of the people remained quiet and just all stared at me in shock, probably not being able to believe I can beat someone up like that.

I couldn't believe it either.

I began to hear the other guys get closer as I just wanted to leave.

Xavier abruptly screamed, temporarily silencing my cries as he continued to hold me. "You guys need to back the fuck up! She doesn't need you guys right now!" I felt Xavier pull me away as some of the guys just sighed and remained quiet.

Trevor's voice appeared out of nowhere as he spoke gently. "Quickly follow me, I can drive you guys home."

"Mhm." Xavier's deep and cracky voice responded to Trevor as I was still cocooned with the warmth of Xavier's arms.

I just wanted to disappear forever.

"Here, my grandma told me to give you this." Xavier handed me a warm cup of what smelled like hot chocolate which immediately just relaxed my tensed muscles.

I took a deep breath as I was thankful that I was able to regain myself.

"Did you think I hit her hard?" I queried in a very low and audible voice.

"Arielle there was a fucking puddle of blood. I think you hit her pretty lightly." He answered sarcastically, making me crack out a very small smile.

"I didn't even have to give it a second thought, I just did it. I was just so mad and I felt so betrayed. Like why her? It's just a lot harder to trust anyone now. You know?" I sighed, sipping off from the comforting cup of hot chocolate.

"I understand. Look I'm really sorry that happened to you." Xavier and I both intently looked at each other. "What she did to you was really twisted."

I sniffed as I drank out of the warm mug. "Thank you for being there." I spoke weakly. "I really appreciate it."

"Yea well don't mention it. Now why don't you get that pretty dress off before I rip it off of you." Xavier winked seductively as he joked, catching me off guard.

Me being so tired of today and pretty much everything, I just decided to ignore that some what pervy comment. "You're right. It's really uncomfortable anyway." I let out a tired laugh, standing up to walk myself to change.

"You need help taking it off?" Xavier's deep voice requested behind me.

"Uh yea, I can't reach the zipper." I looked at myself on the bathroom mirror, my hair slightly messy from what happened earlier.

I slightly tensed up as I felt Xavier's hand wrap around my waist. "Where's the zipper?" He questioned beside my ear, my eyes still couldn't process how good he looked in a suit and it drove me crazy.

My eyes anxiously looked at him in the mirror. "It's behind my neck.." My voice coming off soft as our eyes met on the mirror.

I felt his body brush up against me as I couldn't help but sharply breathe from how close we were to each other.

I felt his warm hands trail behind me as he slowly began to unzip my dress from the back, his visibly lustful eyes following the zipper as it went down before my waist.

I watched Xavier continue to help me as a strand of his hair perfectly fell onto his chiseled cheek, oddly making my cheeks heat up before him.

Feeling Xavier this close for the first time made me wanna melt. His hands continued to go down my body as our eyes were glued to each other on the mirror, his touch all of a sudden making my heart beat faster.

I felt his body slightly rub against mine as we kept our gaze on the mirror, our body heat melting together as our cheeks flushed.

After he finished unzipping my dress, his hands gestured besides my waist, his bright eyes looking at me in the mirror.

I quickly regained my composure. "T-thanks." His arms quickly latched off of my body as he proceeded to move back. "I can manage from here." I threw him an assuring nod as I tried to recollect my thoughts.

I quickly glanced at him on the mirror, his cheeks were flushed and his skin was glowing, his dilated eyes looking intently at me.

He then just threw me a devilish smirk as a response, which only made me wanna pass out.

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