18

Keira's pov
The ride to school was awkward, and I just wanted to bury myself in a ditch and die silently or wished the ground could swallow me from below, but I knew wishes didn't come that easy.
And the fact that each time I was looking put the window or playing with my nails, I would catch him staring at me from the rear view mirror, and the minute our eyes lock, I would feel that familiar surge of emotions and wanting desire spreading through my body, and an incomprehensible desire to throw myself around him and just….
He just didn't know what his eyes did to me when he stared so intensely at me with it with a hungry seething gaze that made my blood boil.
I didn't understand why I was having this kind of reaction towards him, but Sasha on the other hand didn't even seem to like the idea of me staying in the car.
It was like I was garbage, and the glares she shot me when she noticed my eyes on Raiden made it clear.
"I thought I'd have to move to the back while she stayed in front…" I heard Sasha mutter and even though he glared at her, he couldn't stop her words from crushing a sensitive part of my heart, knowing what her words actually portrayed.
I had heard the news on my own on the phone yesterday, and Raiden and I had gone viral. But the thing was, people thought there was more between us than just sitting together for coffee.
And the fact that all the blame was all on me was what broke my heart the most. I got dms from people asking if we've fucked, why I had to seduce Raiden, and some just called me a boyfriend snatcher.
Not one person criticized or back lashed Raiden. That was exactly as expected of the century we lived in today. Why blame the popular influential future Alpha of the pack when you could just put all of the blame on the unpopular girl who wears glasses and couldn't shift.
I could feel Raiden's eyes on me again, and I tried as hard as possible to avoid staring back, but I found myself locking eyes with him for more than five seconds before I feel that suddenly sensational rush as I quickly glanced away with redenned cheeks, feeling as though I had done something dirty.
"I heard today was your finals… how prepared are you for the exam." I could hear Raiden clear his throat awkwardly as he tries to start up a conversation, and when I see Sasha drop her phone to glare at him from the corner of her eyes.
I was reluctant about replying, but I couldn't just ignore him straight up could I?
Feeling Sasha's cold, piercing gaze on me like she wanted to burn a whole through my skin, I replied slowly, stuttering the entire half of my sentence.
"Um… uh… yeah. We just have physics.. but I'm ready for it… I literally studied all night for this."
"Great," Sasha suddenly smiled the fakest, widest smile I had ever seen and clapped her hands and I quickly blinked the u shed tears of but in my eyes immediately. "How about we talk about how you read all night. Does that even fucking matter? Like, does it really." She glares at me and I just silently turned away and made no move to say anything anymore.
I wasn't sure of why Sasha hated me even till this day, but she never told me the reason.
I could remember in middle school, I was staring at a bunch of my week's worth homework in a trash can.
I was screaming, being held back by her two friends as she poured some diesel into the trash can.
"No .. no please… that's a week worth of homework.. you can't just burn it." I screamed and struggled harder but they were stronger than me so I couldn't even budge from their tight grip, feeling their nails press further down into my skin.
"I can burn it and you'll do nothing but watch me." Saying that, she turned the lighter on and threw it in the trash can, stepping back as it litted up in flames.
Her friends finally let go of me, but what was the use.. it was all burnt into a crisp so there was no use going to save them any sooner.
As I sat there on my knees, hearing Sasha and her minions chuckle deviously over my head, I finally raise my head and my eyes lock with Sasha.
"Why… why do you hate me so much?" I finally got up and the tears which had been pooling in my eyes finally ran down my cheeks. "Why do you love bullying me so much… why?"
For a brief second, just for a very brief one, I swear I thought I saw realization and sadness in her eyes before she suddenly turned to her friends, acting like she hadn't heard me.
"Come on guys, let's go." She had said mischievously and they had left me there staring at my bunrnt homework, me having no idea of what I was going to do with them.
And till then, I never got a reason out of her for why she was bullying me. I mean, it couldn't be because I was prettier. Sasha was a drop dead gorgeous and had more than half the population of guys on their knees begging for her attention. She has the body shape.. everything was just on point.
I should be the one envious of her and not the other round. So what is it that she hated about me that always wanted her seeing me cry or stay hurt everyday.
"Why couldn't your dad drop you off at school anyways.. " Sasha's words pulled me back into the present, and my heart finally drop to the pit of my stomach as her words reminds me of my sick father at home.
"Sasha that's enough.. " I could te Raiden was trying to be patient with her, and I knew I had to do some explaining before she pushes the situation further and cause Raiden to snap at her. At then what? Everyone would know she and Raiden had a quarrel because of me?
"He was sick so I had to.. walk to school." I explained in a small voice. I didn't like self pity and certainly didn't want anyone doing that for me, but at least I got Sasha to stop talking for the moment, but I kind of felt embarrassed having to say it outloud.
And once we arrived close to the school premises, I got down, shut the door, and my eyes locks briefly with Raiden's before I thanked him briefly and runs in, hearing Sasha banter with him before I finally run into the school.
Once I stepped in, I could see almost all the students staring into their phones in the hallways and classrooms, and as I shyly walk down to my locker, finding the silence very awkward, the situation has to get worse as more than half the students raise their heads to look at me.
"It's you huh?" A boy suddenly approached me and I swallowed in horror when I realized it was Stephen who had attempted to take advantage of me one time when we were alone in the library.
He arrives with his friends, and I could see everyone had gathered around, staring at me like their eyes couldn't even stand the sight of watching my entire being standing there and existing all on my own.
"Keira… the innocent girl who wears those dumb glasses and pretend that she's all innocent when she's actually a two faced bitch… " as he said that, someone takes my glasses from behind abruptly.
"Hey!" I turn with a small glarenon my face as I see David, a friend of his holding my glasses above his head tauntingly.
To my horror, I felt someone spank my ass and the entire crowd of students roared with laughter, snickering as I turned to see Stephen staring at me with his hand still on my ass before he gripped it hard.
Tears fill my eyes and the next second I move and slapped him so hard with all my might that a chilling silence settled in the hallways as his face was turned to the side as he held his stinging cheek like he couldn't believe what had happened.
"I can take all the amount of bullying you can throw at me… " I turn and yank my glasses from David's grip and he didn't even look like he wanted to argue with me. I turn to Stephen to see the murderous look in his eyes which made my stomach twist in uncomfortable knots, but I held myself to stand up to him. "But you will never touch me however you want… "
"But Raiden can right?" A girl suddenly said, and I stared around to see girls and boys coming forward with Snickers on their faces.
"So is it true? Did you guys fuck last night?" One asked and I Didn't even get a chance to see who had spoken, because the next second, another person spike up from my other side .
"Have you two been fucking? For how long? Is it true you seduced him?"
"Why would you do such a horrible thing? He's Sasha's boyfriend!!"
"She was probably jealous of how Sasha had everything so she moved in to steal Raiden… "
"I always thought her innocent demeanor was just how she was.. who knew how cunning and devious she was.."