Disclaimer- I've already gone over this its not mine.
This is chapter four, ch3 was pretty much just for fun exept setting up some stuff with Varice for later. Now lets get back to the main story.
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Daine
was walking home after working at Dimmillo's late on Thursday when
she was pushed into an alleyway and heard a voice she had come to
know only too well since she was thirteen.
"You have the
money?"
"Yes" Daine handed the man a wad of
money.
"You've been cutting it close lately"
"Well
I'll work harder"
"I think I need to leave a lasting
impression so you won't forget" He said closing in on her. It
was late, they were in a deserted alleyway, and nobody would see
anything he did to her.
Daine
walked into class the Friday feeling rather sore. A couple people
asked if she was okay but she said she was fine and took a seat and
opened her textbook to follow along on the lecture about fruit bats.
After class she was again called to professor Salmalin's desk.
"Are
you all right? Is anything happening at home?" He asked a
worried expression on his face.
Daine touched the blackened skin
around her eye. For a moment she considered telling him everything,
her living conditions, the trouble she was in. He seemed trust
worthy, and genuinely concerned about her. Maybe she could tell
him.
"Everything's fine I just, um, I fell down"
"You
fell down?"
"Yes"
"Well how did you get a
black eye?"
"I told you I fell down"
"Look
you can tell me anything you need too, I'm going to need a better
answer than 'I fell down' okay?"
"When I fell I hit my
eye on the doorknob" She said shortly.
He sighed looking
disappointed with her answer.
"Okay then have a good
weekend"
"Thanks"
That night daine went home happy to have a night with no work. The only problem was she got dragged into going to a pool party Saturday, she didn't really like the other students but she didn't want to be a complete reject so she showed up at some of these things. Daine put her stuff away had dinner and filled the old leaky tub of the apartment for a bath. When the bath was full she took of her shirt revealing a number of bruises. Daine took off the rest of her clothes and winced at he bite of her bruises as she got in the tub. She leaned back in the tub and started to think about the other night. Luckily he hadn't raped her but he had given her a thorough beating and who knows what he would do next time. She needed something to protect herself, she had some money saved up she could get some lessons or something to arm herself. She closed her eyes, she didn't want to think about it tonight, she didn't want to think about her life at all she jus wanted to pretend she was someone else. Just for a night.
Numair sat in a park, watching people walk by. The bruise Daine had worried him; did she have family trouble? Was it some random event? Was she in a bad relationship? The more he thought about her the more he wondered why he did. She was only his student, just another high-class preppy snobbish, that's just it. He didn't think she was like the others, why would she be working? He sighed he would have to figure out what was going on; he was being unfair to her. She could be in a lot of trouble. Numair would just have to get her to talk, tell him what was going on. He sighed and stood up to go home, Numair decided he would figure out the rest tomorrow. Numair got home to his house, it was a little out of the main city and a rather big house, a kitchen, living room, study, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms though three of the bedrooms were very small, three of the bathrooms were hooked up to the rooms and one of those only had a shower. It was a very nice house though there was a lot of white Numair never really decorated. Numair checked the messages on his machine and only got an extremely flirty one from Varice. Thoughts about Daine still on his mind he decided to go to bed early.
SATURDAY
Daine
sat in a group of girls at a public pool one of the kids' parents
had rented. She had on a small blue bikini, the only bathing suit she
had, and she felt very out of place. The others were chatting vapidly
and a few people were playing chicken in the pool.
"Oh you
know, I got some cute little shoes the other day and they were only
two-hundred dollars it was such a bargain"
"Ugh daddy
took away my visa now I only have four credit cards left"
"Parents
can be such a drag, I mean I only get two credit cards and
five-hundred dollars a week"
"Speaking of money Daine I
saw you working at Dimmillo's the other night"
the others
looked at her, one very bubbly blonde added.
"Ooh me too and
you'll never guess who she was serving professor
Salmalin and Ms. Kingsford'
Numair
was walking by the public pool when he heard voices he definitely
knew.
"Speaking of money Daine I saw you working at
Dimmillo's the other night"
"Ooh me too and you'll never
guess who she was serving professor
Salmalin and Ms. Kingsford'
Then
Daines voice came to earshot.
"Oh well daddy said I needed to
learn values or something like that anyway I had to work to get this
bag I wanted, it was so gross"
Numair had heard enough he
started to walk swiftly so he was wrong, she was just one of them.
Well at least this way he knew what was going on she was just another
drone. Though he couldn't deny he was rather disappointed, at that
point he realized he had dropped his keys. He back tracked and found
them in font of the pool where he heard one more part of the
conversation.
"Salmalin and Kingsford?" one girl
squealed.
"I know Salmalin's okay but he's just so
scatter-brained and I mean doesn't he get that Kingsford is just
after him for his money?" came none other than Daine Sarrasri's
voice.
MONDAY
Daine
decided she would talk to Salmalin about, well, everything. He was
nice and she felt she could trust him Daine was just glad he hadn't
heard the things she said about him on Saturday. After class she
walked up to his desk.
"Professor? Could I talk to you?"
"Not
now miss Sarrasri, I have a meeting to attend if you need to talk to
someone i suggest a friend or the school counselor there are other
people I know of but I wouldn't want too bore you"
That was the next chapter. There should be another one tomorrow!