Chapter 250
WILLA
A hand clamped down painfully on my shoulder and dragged me into the room. The door slammed closed.
I saw Lisa put her back to it. That was all I saw before Naomi filled my field of vision.
She looked so mad she was scarcely recognisable. There was a hard glitter in her eyes. She must have been crying because mascara was smeared all over her face.
"What-"
That was as far as I got before I was slammed into the wall by my bed hardy enough to momentarily knock the breath out of me. A sharp twinge of pain shot up my back. I doubled over with a gasp.
Lisa, seeing I didn't have a hope of escaping now began to advance with Carmen on her other side.
"What were you up to in that lab with my boyfriend?" Naomi hissed. "I knew you had just done something. I saw it in your eyes the minute I walked in so don't you dare try to deny it."
Of course I had known Naomi would confront me the moment she saw Lucian and I alone in that lab but I didn't think for a moment it would be like this. I didn't think I would actually get physically assaulted.
Lucian had looked like his normal self but I had felt a guilty flush creep up my cheeks when Naomi eyes fell on me. After murmuring something to Lucian she had gone.
I had gone with her just stopping long enough to snatch up my backpack. Only later had I remembered that I had forgotten to get my attendance sheet signed. Not that Lucian would even have signed it anyway considering the foul mood he had been in.
I tried to move. Naomi pulled me upright. She pressed my shoulder to the wall. Her long nails dug into the flesh painfully.
"I'll tell you what happened but at least let me go-"
"You'll talk standing right there," Carmen said. "Her hand's not on your mouth now, is it?"
Naomi's face worked and her grip on my shoulder tightened. Pain flared up and down my arm. But she glared at me with hatred that burned. If she could kill me, I was sure she would have done it already.
"I warned you, didn't I?" she said "I warned you to stay away from Lucian but you didn't listen. Stupid bitches like you never listen, not until it's too late for them." Suddenly she screamed so loudly Carmen and Lisa flinched, "FOR THE LAST TIME, WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THERE WITH MY BOYFRIEND?"
She jerked me forward, slammed me back against the wall.
I swallowed. I had just decided against yelling back at her and telling her to leave me the hell alone.
Firstly I was outnumbered in a place where no one would come to my aid. As though to illustrate how alone I was, loud rock and roll music, the kind that would make you clap your hands over your ears, started up in the next room.
Secondly and more importantly, Naomi looked like she was about to really slip off the edge. In that state she could hurt me really badly if I gave her an excuse to.
"I can explain-" I began.
"EXPLAIN!" she screamed in my face.
"It's the semester assignment for first years," I said quickly. "That's what we were doing in the lab. The dean said he is my supervisor."
"Out of all the students at Worchmount!" she shouted. "Do you expect me to fucking believe that crap?"
"But it's true," I said. "I wanted someone else. The dean said it wasn't possible. That's why I was at the lab with him, I swear. I didn't even pick botany as a project. I wanted to work with animals instead."
I realized I was rambling. I forced myself to stop. Suddenly inspiration struck.
I said, "I have proof." It took some effort to get the file out of my backpack with how tightly Naomi was holding me but I did it. "Look. At the second page. It shows I didn't even pick botany! Look! It's all there."
Naomi kept glaring at me so Carmen took the file. She glanced at it, handed it to to Lisa who gave it to Naomi who threw it on the floor, spilling papers everywhere. Lisa's boots came down on a few of them.
"Lies. All lies!" Naomi fairly shrieked. "You think waving a few papers in my face will save you? You must have rigged it somehow so you could get Lucian as your supervisor. I don't know how but you did it. Lying to me won't get you anywhere."
"I didn't cause this," I said.
Naomi wasn't listening. "You're not so confident now that prince Theron isn't here to save your ass, are you?"
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