Sorry this chapter is late!

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Chapter 2: The past

Zoe stood outside of her school all alone, no one dared to go near her, due to the fight they had saw Zoe won on the first day of High school in year nine. That fight brought her back many memories. It made her remember how she used to have no friends at all. But once Takuya saw how great she could fight, he fought for her to come on his team.

Zoe once used to belong to a team of older guys that had tricked her. They told her the usual stuff, like, she would be always spoiled underneath their eyes, or she would always be their baby, and loads of other things. So she went with them, but once she was in their group, there was no other way of getting out. After she had joined them, she found out that they had been cheating with other women on other women, did dirty things to her like almost gambling her away to another group, pushed her down to the ground, and at one stage, forced her to love them in a very bad way. All that made Zoe's life a misery.

But one night in a car park, the leader tried pushing Zoe to do one thing she really didn't want to do. He tried forcing her to kiss him in fact; Zoe was too afraid to kiss anyone and to everyone's surprise hasn't kissed anyone yet.

Flash Back………………….

Zoe got pushed against a hard brick wall as she cried. Hands grabbed her bare shoulders tightly and held her towards the wall. The older man kept yelling at her,

"You're going to kiss me like it or not shit head!" he shouted in to her face, he kept yelling at her and calling her dirty names.

This all made Zoe cry harder, she was trapped, there was no possible way of getting out of his grasp. He then forced his big heavy body on her, pulling her face closely to his in the process.

"You dirty slut! You're going to kiss me right now!" he kept yelling at her.

Takuya walked through the parking lot alone, he was pretty sure he had heard a familiar girl crying out for help. Takuya had never been interested in having girls in his group because they were all hopeless, but the fight he saw at his school in year nine was really entertaining, in fact, he had never seen a girl fight the way Zoe had, with both two girls and one boy. Coming to think of it, that girl fought them all alone, no one was on her team, yet she won.

As he kept walking, he turned around the corner and saw what was happening in the scene in front of him.

"Kiss me you dirty slut!" the older man yelled at Zoe, Takuya was breathless.

She wasn't dirty, in fact, he thought she looked quite beautiful, and she looked very innocent. Her hair was out, but was kind of messy. The black strappy top she was wearing was only just cut off above her belly button, and her tight Black jean skirt had a broken love heart dangling off of it. If there was only one person to call dirty, it was the guy in front of her.

"What the?" Takuya let out quietly as he started to approach them.

The older man kept holding Zoe in his grip and was just about to kiss her until………..

"Hey Cunt? What the Fuck are you doing to her?" he yelled.

Hearing Takuya, the older man looked towards his direction, pulling his face away from Zoe, Zoe started to calm down her crying.

"What did you jus' call me? And that girl I believe is none of your business!" he yelled at Takuya, Takuya didn't step back.

"Of course she's my business! She's my girlfriend!" he yelled at the now angry and jealous man.

"Girlfriend eh? She doesn't have a boyfriend at all! Cauz she cheats on em!" he replied giving Zoe a slap.

He then pushed himself off of her and stood his ground against the tall young fifteen year old. Zoe tried to grip on to the hard pale wall that she was pushed against as she started to slip uneasily.

"Sorry, I know that my girlfriend doesn't cheat, but she tells me you do!" Takuya defended her, Zoe watched him with wide eyes.

Why is he doing this? I don't even know him? He doesn't have any idea of what this guy can do to him if he keeps this up?

The older guy then looked at Zoe and started walking back up to her, at this Takuya walked in between them so he couldn't touch her.

"Alright, if that's how you wanna be, then heres the deal," the man replied, seeing that Takuya wouldn't let him pass.

"What's the deal," Takuya demanded him gritting his teeth.

"If I win, she's still mine, but if you win, she's yours to keep," he replied.

Takuya looked into the twenty one year olds eyes,

"Deal," he answered angrily.

Takuya let a whole lot of fists come at the guy and kept knocking him down to the ground until the Guy yelled out Stop! Takuya couldn't explain how he did it, but all he knew was that some new feeling came to him, which brought his spirits up and began to fight.

Could it be love? Can't be possibly, the girl doesn't even know me, Takuya thought to himself.

The man then got up and wiped his mouth, which was now bleeding from Takuya's hard punches.

"Alright, you win, take her," the twenty one year old man replied.

At this Zoe ran up to Takuya and hugged him tightly. She buried her head in his arms as he hugged her softly as she tightly held on to him. She was shivering with fear, she had never seen anyone beat her leader before, and now she was safe.

"C'mon girl, haven't you risked me a lot today already," Takuya told her, gesturing her to follow him.

"Zoe followed him shakily, as he opened the door of his car and told her to get in. He went to sit down in his seat as he started to drive. Zoe looked at Takuya, Takuya looked back at her.

"Are you alright?" he asked her.

She didn't answer him at first, until he looked down sadly at the steering wheel. He was just about to start the car till, he felt a warm set of arms hug him tightly again. Zoe buried her head in his arms, as he hugged her back.

"Thanks for saving me today, you helped me through a lot of things," she replied, looking into his eyes.

"It was only one guy," Takuya replied.

Zoe shook her head,

"He had a whole group, and….." she started telling him the story.

"And what?" he asked her.

Zoe shook her head, as she looked down.

"You seriously, don't want to know what happened," she continued.

Takuya looked back down at the steering wheel, as Zoe pulled away from him. Takuya started the car and started driving. There was a big break of silence between the two, till Zoe decided to tell him again.

"Alright I'll tell you, and you're the first and only person to listen to this, so don't tell anyone, promise?" she gave in.

"Promise," he replied.

Zoe told him everything that the guys had done to her. Takuya took in each word she had said, and each time she mentioned another bad thing that had happened to her, his heart would sink down in pain.

Poor girl, she's so young, and yet they take advantage of her. Bastards! If I ever see them again, their done for! Takuya thought to himself, as she continued.

Takuya then pulled up at a food store.

"Why are we here?" Zoe asked him.

"Hungry, c'mon lets get something to eat," he replied.

"But I'm not hungry," she lied.

"Look, I know you've had a tough life, but it's over now okay?" he replied.

Zoe glared at him coldly; she couldn't believe that her trick didn't work.

"Can't you trust me?" he asked, Zoe stopped glaring at him.

"After what you did, I suppose so," she replied.

"So, are you really hungry?" he asked her.

Zoe stared down at her feet, she hardly knew this guy, but he had saved her from her nightmares of her past. She looked back up at him,

"Fine," she gave in.

Takuya looked at her, as she opened the door, and got out of the car. He then got out himself, and started walking with her towards the little food store.

"Name's Takuya, yours?" Takuya asked, giving her his name.

"Zoe," she simply replied, as they walked.

Both went into the store, as they went to go get something to eat. It was now very dark, after the very strong red sunset ended.

End of flashback……………………………

Zoe sat there dreamily alone, that was the first time she had met Takuya. From then, he had never let her down, and her past never got in her way again. She was in fact the strongest fighter in the group, but because she was a girl, her opponents tried to take advantage of that. So for the group, she was really a great distraction.

"Hey Z, what's up?" someone greeted her happily, breaking her silence.

"Nothing Taki, just having flashbacks," she replied, Takuya's smiling face turned into a worried one.

"Flashbacks of what?" he asked.

"You, and that bastard," she replied.

Takuya had hoped that this would never happen, it was for own good. Takuya took her hands in his.

"That's the past, Zoe please don't say that again," he pleaded.

Zoe realized what she had done, she realized that every time she told him something from her past, it made him very worried.

"Sorry, I promise I won't remember a thing from the past," she promised him.

"Good, geez Z, you really had me lost there," he replied, hugging her, as she hugged him back.

A few boys walked passed them, each one of them stared at Zoe with huge eyes. Takuya and Zoe shook their heads from side to side as they left. Zoe looked back at Takuya,

He has never let me down, has he...

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End of chapter!

Sorry, no songs 4 this chapter, but maybe in the next!