"You're a backstabbing deceitful person, just like your father." Those words rang in her head over and over.
Hurt. Pain. Confusion. Betrayal. Emma felt all these emotions wash over her at the same time. She felt pain from the sudden "bomb" Troy had dropped. Out of nowhere, he had unexpectedly lashed out on her. She felt hurt at the way Troy had treated her. He ignored her for weeks, roughly brushing her aside as if she wasn't there to begin with. A sense of extreme confusion often overwhelmed Emma, resulting her in being wide awake every single night. Even now, Emma could clearly remember the several nights of silently crying herself to sleep. He had accused her of being a distrustful, deceiving, liar. In a way, she felt like it was true due to her risky plan, but at the same time, she knew that needed to do it. What kind of friend and teammate would she be if she left her friends in the enemy's hands? After thinking about it for awhile, Emma understood a few of Troy's points; however, that didn't give him the right to act the way he did.
"You're a backstabbing deceitful person, just like your father."
Now, the emotion Emma felt strongest for was betrayal. He didn't even try to understand Emma's reasons for her actions. She had tried desperately to try and talk to him, but he would refuse every time. Troy used to be the only other person that she fully trusted, the other person being Gia of course. But now, she didn't even know what to think. All she felt was hurt.
"Hey girl." Emma was snapped out of her thoughts by a mysterious gruff voice. She turned around and saw Niko. Emma recognized him from her English class, but she also knew that he had at least hundreds of detentions, and remembered him being suspended a few times too. Before things got too far, Emma closed her locker and darted to the other side of the hall. She thought if she walked fast enough, she could somehow find Gia and go home. The school day was finally over and she just wanted to go home.
Emma was only able to walk a few steps away until Niko stepped in front of her.
"C'mon Em, you and I could really hit it off. I mean look at me, I'm a pretty good looking guy. Who wouldn't want all of this? He gestured to himself and winked
"No." Emma said flatly as she attempted to walk away.
Niko growled in anger. No one should have dared to turn down Niko, the hotshot. He always got what he wanted, no matter how he got it. He stomped over to Emma and roughly grabbed her arm.
He smirked and whispered into her ear "Maybe you just need a trial run."
Niko dragged Emma to the corner of the hall where hardly any students passed by. Emma tried pulling free, but she was still recovering from the mini nuclear explosion. Ever since the explosion, Emma had felt moments of weakness come and go. Gia had complained about the same thing, so Emma never thought much about it. She thought that it was nothing serious, so she would let it pass by. But, it proved to bite her in the butt as it started to mess with her physical capabilities.
Niko held Emma tight with one arm and started wandering down her back with the other. Emma's eyes widened in as she realized what he was going to do, but couldn't bring herself to move; she felt paralyzed in fear. His hand slowly breached her pants and that's when Emma had enough. There was no way she was going to let some guy take advantage of her like this. If Emma couldn't fight back, then she would at least try whatever she could to get herself out of this mess.
"Help!" Emma screamed to the top of her lungs. Next thing she knew, she was aggressively pushed down to the ground.
"You weren't supposed to do that you bitch! That's it, you're so…" Niko didn't get a chance to finish his sentence before he sent sprawling onto the floor.
Emma looked up to her savior, expecting it to be one of the guys, or Gia. To her surprise, it was actually an unfamiliar face. He was wearing a black V-neck under his open leather jacket, black skinny jeans, and topped it off with a pair of black and white converse. He had dark brown hair that was styled up in the front along with a pair of light brown eyes. When she looked closer at his face, she saw a mystery in his eyes. She couldn't describe why, but she wanted to solve that mystery.
On the other side of the school, Gia had heard her friend's scream for help and had rushed to the sound of her voice. By the time she got there, a wave of students had already crowded the area to find out what was happening. Gia pushed through the crowd and found her best friend on the ground, Niko cradling his jaw, and some random guy helping Emma up.
"Emma, are you okay?" She took her friend from the random man and checked her for any serious injuries.
"Yeah, I'm good." Emma brushed past Gia and looked for the guy who saved her. She furrowed her brow when there was no sight of him anywhere. He deserved a proper thanks, but Emma couldn't do that if she couldn't find him. Suddenly, a loud voice echoed through the halls.
"Clear the halls!" A voice boomed. Everyone immediately scattered at the sound of Mr. Anderson, the school's strict principal. He was known for his extreme intolerance towards idiotic misbehavior. If he saw someone acting out, that student would have to face his wrath.
"Mr. Palmer, I would like to see you in my office."
"But sir…"
"NOW!" Mr. Anderson yelled while pointing to his office door. He watched Niko drag himself to his office before walking up to Emma and Gia. He specifically looked at Emma with a stern, yet gentle face.
"Are you alright Miss Goodall?" Emma nodded nervously.
"I saw everything through the security cameras and I assure you that Mr. Palmer's actions will not be tolerated. You will be getting an from him apology later." He gave Emma a gentle pat and walked to his office to deal with Niko's punishment. A few moments later, Gia saw the boys walking towards them.
"What just happened?" Noah asked. Him, Jake, and Troy were just coming out of Chemistry when they heard Emma's plea. It took them a while to find her, but at least they found her. However, Troy obviously looked like he didn't want to be there. His body language spoke volumes. His back was turned, his muscles were tense, and his facial expression screamed annoyance.
"I don't even know." Emma ignored Troy's actions and shrugged her shoulders. "One moment I'm at my lockers, the next moment Niko is trying to get his hands in my pants. I screamed for help and then Niko decided to test how hard the floor was with my body."
"And you're not freaking out about this because…" Gia trailed.
"It's high school, what do you expect? He's just some boy that I'll probably never see again anyways. Plus, I don't really feel like dealing with it, so I might as well just leave it. What happened, happened, so I'm just gonna move on."
"Did you at least beat the crap out of him?" Jake asked.
"Actually, no." Emma frowned, remembering the mysterious guy who had saved her. "I don't know who the guy was, but he technically saved me."
"Do you know what he looked like?"
"Um.." Emma closed her eyes in an attempt to try to remember her savior. "He had a black shirt under an open leather jacket along with brown hair that's styled up in the front."
"Well that only narrows it to a few hundred guys at this school." Noah frowned.
"Whatever dude," Jake smiled. "Let's just be glad that Emma's okay."
"Really Emma?" Troy scoffed. "That's the best that you could come up with?"
"You better stop there Troy." Gia warned. Even though weeks had passed by, Troy was still acting out. He purposefully avoided Emma as much as possible and when he did see her, he did nothing but belittle her.
"I mean really Emma, we had our fight a couple of weeks ago. You obviously came up with this sob story to make me feel bad for you." Troy rolled his eyes. "Then you made up some story about a pretend guy that saved you just to make me jealous."
"I didn't! It was all true!" Emma was starting to get fed up with his attitude and glared at him. "If I made it up, then explain why Niko is in the office getting punished."
"Niko always gets in trouble, he practically lives in the office."
"Why would I scream for help then?"
"To get our attention." Troy shrugged his shoulders.
"Gia saw most of it happen." Emma turned to her friend. "Can you explain what…"
"No need to." Troy cut her off. "She's your best friend, she'll just probably agree with anything you say, no matter if it's true or not. Just admit it Emma, you're just lying to yourself now. There's no need to make up any more lies. You already proved what you are."
Emma had enough of his crap and stormed out of the school. Troy watched her leave and shrugged his shoulders. "What?" He looked around and saw three pairs of angry eyes watching him. All he did was say what was on his mind.
"Dude, that was totally uncalled for." Jake frowned. He remembered his talk with Troy from a while back and knew where his anger came from, but that didn't justify Troy's actions. Once again, he was taking things way too far.
Gia watched her friend go and looked back at Troy. She desperately wanted to help Emma, but she knew she had to do something about Troy's attitude first. This whole thing wasn't going to get solved until she got into the root of the problem.
Gia looked at Jake and Noah and asked, "Can you follow her please? Don't ask her any questions, or even say anything, just please make sure that she gets back to my house safely. I'll catch up later."
The boys gave her a soft smile and nodded. They would ask questions later, but for now, they would make sure that their pink friend was alright.
Once they were gone, Gia faced Troy with a look to kill. Even the might red ranger shivered at the sight of her glare."You're coming with me red boy." Gia growled and dragged Troy outside of the school building.