Chapter 8 — Billionaire's Son
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I buried my face into the pillow and let out a loud scream, but it came out all muffled and silent. My throat ached as I turned around to stare at the ceiling of my room.
The worst day ever.
My heart was heavy. I could still feel the embarrassment from the assignment stunt that Cain played. The lecture hall was silent and everyone was staring at me. It felt horrible and I didn't even know what to say.
I tried to explain to Professor Blaire, and she believed me when I told her that I didn't write it. But, still, it was so humiliating and I couldn't even start to think who it was who did this for Cain. How would he know anyone in my class? How would he even know when I going to the campus? Or what was going to happen?
Was he planning more?
"f**k," I groaned, gritting my teeth. I had spent the rest of the day in my room, locked away because I didn't want to face anyone. I just didn't want to think about all of this. It was bad enough that he was already torturing me in his own ways at the apartment, but I never expected he'd go this far.
He just ruined my entire college experience.
I took a deep breath, and that's when my phone started ringing and wiped my tears before sitting up straight.
"Eloise?" I said, picking up her call.
"Hey, what's up? I've been calling you since the past hour."
"My phone was on silent." I lied, not knowing what else to say. I didn't want to talk to anyone, I didn't want to see anyone, I didn't even want to step out of the room. My day had been crap and I didn't want it to get any worse. I just wanted to be left alone.
"How was your first day?" She asked in a rather excited voice.
"It was fine." The lies just continued to spew out of me.
"Oh, come on. Tell me the details, Ivy. I want to know if you have a boyfriend already," Eloise laughed. "You never know. There's plenty of rich guys at college."
"No. No. Nothing happened." I shook my head.
"Ivy?"
"Yeah?"
"Are you fine? I can tense some tension in your voice." Eloise was silent for a moment, before continuing. "You can tell me if something happened today."
I hesitated for a moment and then said, "I—I didn't get a good start."
"Why not?" She asked, concern dripping from her tone.
"My class—" My words got stuck in my throat.
I could still feel the stares on me when my introduction was read. It felt so awful that I felt my eyes tear up again. "Something just happened."
"What?" She encouraged me to continue and even if I didn't want to say it, I had to.
By the time I finished telling her what had happened, I felt more frustrated, but some weigh had been lifted off my shoulders. There was no one here I could tell what happened, especially Mom. She'd go straight to Richard who'd snap at Cain again and he'd come after me.
"Oh, that's so terrible! How dare he do that?" Eloise spoke, her voice rising with each word she spoke. "What the f**k is wrong with him? How would he even do that? Like so what you told your mother something. He needs to be put in his place, Ivy," She raged on the other end, "That's so low, so dirty. What a psycho. Why the f**k is he targeting you? Why did you have to get that shitty stepbrother? This sucks so badly."
I leaned against the bed's headboard, staring out of the window at the busy city below. "I don't even know, Eloise. I don't know what to do. I don't know what he's going to do next. I was so embarrassed today and I don't even feel like going back."
"What do you mean? You've to go back."
"How can I go there?"
"What, are you going to drop out because of that jerk? What about college?"
I bit the insides of my cheeks, "I don't know, maybe?"
Eloise went silent for a moment and then said, "No way, Ivy. You're going back and you're going to deal with this jerk. If he's f*****g around, you start f*****g around as well. I don't know how, but you've to find a way to mess with him. There's a million and one ways to f**k up with someone, trust me."
"Eloise."
"You need to get him back, Ivy." Her tone was firm. "And don't even say no to me."
"What can I even do?"
"Make his life miserable as well."
I leaned my head back and closed my eyes for a moment. I didn't know anything about making people's lives miserable. No one really did anything to me, ever. I was never bullied in high-school, or anywhere infact. This was the first time someone was picking on me and it wasn't just a person, but the only son of one of the wealthiest families in the entire country.
It was going to be difficult, especially since we lived under the same roof. I didn't even know what Cain was going to do next, if he was planning more. He was unpredictable. He wasn't anything like the rest of the people.
"And what would you want me to do?"
"Just something to piss him off or just embarrass him like he did to you in front of everyone. You should get him back. If I was there, I would have given him a punch. Maybe more. He deserves a beating, the jerk. And how did he get someone from your class to help him, that's a mystery."
Eloise ranted on the phone for a while, with me not even replying to her. I couldn't think straight. I did want to get back at Cain.
She was absolutely right. If I didn't do anything, he'd do more, but if I did something, he'd stop. Eventually.
Once I ended the call, I started looking through the internet about Cain Grayson and what I found wasn't pleasing. The news reports, the paparazzi, the magazines, everything was about him, but the things written were so terrible, so wrong, and so terrible.
A spoiled brat.
A troublemaker.
The devil.
This was interesting.
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