Chapter 1: Don't humiliate me
Ved Wright walked through the empty halls, he was late for class again, but he never really cared. He could afford it with his grades that were one of the highest in his year. But there was only one person that kept him from being the best: Cloe Mills. God, how he had hated that girl for years now, she would always have just a higher grate and then that stupid smile of her which made his stomach turn. How his father thought low of him because he was beaten by a girl while he should be the best.
He hated his own father, his father was a big businessman who invented an anti-virus programme for the computer, and expected Ved to become as big as him. His parents divorced when he was 8 and his mother re-married when he was 10 years old. He never saw his mother anymore, a part because he hated his mother's new husband and a part because he also couldn't stand her.
He pushed the door open to the classroom without knocking and slumped to his desk and threw his bag on the table, feeling eyes all over him.
He sunk back in his stool and his eyes narrowed to the person next to him, that's when he saw that he was sitting right next to her. She stared at him with her big brown eyes but quickly looked away when he noticed her staring.
"Just great." He murmured to himself and opened his bag and searched for his book.
Cloe rolled her eyes and scribbled something in a book, something which Ved couldn't see. He leaned a bit forward but Cloe noticed it and shoved the book away from him.
He mumbled something to himself and she just glared at him.
"We are going to do a project where you have to work in pairs. The meaning of this project is that you have to make an essay about your partner, find out what they like, what they don't like, what they feel, just anything. Observe them, and how can you do that the easiest way? Exactly, spend time with them, make homework together and lunch together. I want you to write an essay about your partner. How do you see him and what is he really like?" The teacher went on and on, while Cloe just sunk lower in her chair not wanting to do this project at all, she already knew that it was going to be hard for her and her so called partner.
"Your partner will be the person who is sitting right next to you." The teacher went on.
Ved's head shot up by the words of the teacher and Cloe just stared in front of her. He sighed and looked angry at his teacher for doing this to him.
After class Ved quickly left the classroom in a hurry, not wanting to speak to psycho Cloe girl.
But she followed him all through the hall and he couldn't even shake her off when he started to walk even faster.
He turned a corner and waited for her…
Cloe suddenly felt herself being pushed against a wall when she rounded the corner that she had seen him taken. Her eyes shot open and they met Ved's who was looking angry at her.
"God! What do you want?" He said angry and Cloe could feel his warm breath on her face.
Her face turned red and she struggled to get out of his grip but couldn't because he was too strong for her.
"Didn't you hear me? What. Do. You. Want?" he repeated again like she was stupid.
Cloe sighed and tried to look him in the eyes but he had already let her go and was now standing in front of her looking like she was some piece of filth.
"W-w…" She sighed again. "We have to do this project together." Ved rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders.
"It's not like I can help that. Alright…so, what now?" he spoke softly afraid that someone might hear him talking to her.
Cloe was used to people doing that when they were talking to her and adjusted her voice also.
"Well, that means that we have to get to know each other a little bit better. We have to meet each other everyday at some place where we can...I don't know…talk or something." She tried.
Ved rolled his eyes again and sighed. "Fine, because we have to. Meet me every day after dinner in the English classroom; I'll make sure the teacher will leave the classroom open, so we won't be disturbed."
Well, that wasn't the honest truth, Cloe knew what he had meant though, he didn't want anybody to see him with her, she could understand so she nodded. "Ok, see you tonight." And she stalked off.
Ved shook his head and mumbled something like 'I'm screwed'
Sitting in the corner of the canteen Cloe was writing in her diary, nobody knew that she kept one. And she knew that they would find it stupid, but Cloe didn't care, her diary was her own personal friend where she could write her feelings in without being embarrassed.
She looked up when she noticed a figure standing right in front of her; she closed her diary and met the eyes of Patsy, the queen of humiliating her.
"Whatcha doing there Clo?" She asked with her sweetest voice.
"Nothing." Cloe mumbled and tried to walk away, but Patsy grabbed her forcefully at her arm and made her stay there.
"Let me see it Clo" She said harsh but not loud. Without having permission she snapped her fingers and one of her friends took the diary out of her hands. Cloe's eyes were now wide open and feared for the thing that was going to happen next.
"No, please don't." She whispered softly.
"What did you say Clo? You've got to speak up girl, we can't hear you," Patsy held her even tighter and Cloe's arm began to tingle.
"Don't!" Cloe said harder. "Give it back to me!"
"Shush now Clo, I just want to help you. Now let me read this." Patsy opened it and her eyes scanned the first lines of her diary. Her eyes shot up at Cloe but as soon as she looked at her, her eyes lingered back on the words that were written right in front of her.
"Well, that's interesting."
Cloe just stood there, Patsy's friends were now holding her so Patsy could read it and no matter how hard she tried to struggle she couldn't get free. Out of the corner of her eyes she saw Ved looking, his expression blank. Cloe shut her eyes and waited for it to end. But when she opened it a minute later she saw Patsy standing on a table.
"Listen…Listen. Cloe wanted me to read this aloud to you." She said smirking. First day of this school year is just begun, I saw Ved looking at me today, although I don't know why. I don't think he likes me, he loathes me, I just wish he would notice me…
"Dear Diary,
Patsy threatened me again today that she would get me one of those days, but I don't think that she will go through with it, she doesn't dare it.
I couldn't help but cut myself again, my arm is now full of scars but I don't mind, I just want this pain to be over…."
Patsy looked up at her and stepped off of the table, walking to Cloe. Cloe just stood there frozen, wishing that she was in her room. Patsy roughly grabbed her arm and shoved her sleeve up, revealing her scarred arm. Cloe closed her eyes again, feeling tears starting to flow and tried to pull her arm back but she couldn't.
"Well, well, you really are a freak aren't you?" Patsy hissed. She pushed Cloe's arm away in disgust and threw Cloe's diary in front of her feet.
"Like I want to read something pathetic like that." She raised her head up high and pushed Cloe away and she walked off.
Cloe opened her eyes and wiped the tears from her eyes, she saw Ved still looking at her, shocked, angry and embarrassed. Cloe quickly looked away from him and grabbed her book from the ground then she run off.
