fall for Predator

Chapter 1

70 years later

Hey! I am Aniya Sharma. I am 16 now, no 15, no 16. It doesn’t matter anyway. I used to live in Baglun with my dad. My mom left me when I was 6. Rude of her isn’t it? My dad is my whole world, he never let me go far from his sight not even once. The only thing I regret is I can’t be on his sight for too long. I have a hole in my heart, the doctor said I cannot live for more than 3 years from now. Since we heard the news he can’t even look at me straight on the eyes, I have seen him cry behind my back every night, being drunk to suppress pain. You can say since he had heard the news he is not him anymore.

The only aim in my life is to find a perfect soulmate for him before I die one who can take care of him as he took care of me. It’s been a week since we migrated here to Banepa. Where we used to live contained all of my childhood memories. It was hard to be there, it felt as if everyone there were looking at me with pity on their eyes. We wanted to forget about the hole but everyone there always reminded us how miserable we were. I wanted to spend my remaining life like a normal person so I insisted my dad to transfer here. This is a new place for me, no one here knows about my illness, and I hope no one will. From the next day, I was starting my journey to a new high school. I was kinda excited about that. Maybe I could find soulmate for my dad in this magical city.

First day of college, I had a comfy scooty, my dad was still not okay about being there leaving the home town behind. ‘I will be fine dad, don’t worry about me’, I hugged him however he was still insisting on coming with me. I don’t want the impression of my first day there as a daddy’s girl.

Telling you about me, I just wanted to live my remaining life to the fullest. Being shy, uncomfortable wasn’t my piece of cake. I was sure to make friends easily there too as I was kinda extrovert. Talking about my physical appearance I am too slim, many people thought I was dieting but in actual it was the medicine I was taking regularly to increase my life span. I rode my scooter to the high school. It wasn’t that far from my home but was different from the previous one. Huge ground, new people it was hard to differentiate between students and teachers. Parking my scooty on the parking spot I took a look all over the place. So that was going to be my new beginning near the end of my life.

I walked through the hallway alone. Seeing all the new faces increased my enthusiasm. My classroom was across the hallway according to the map. I was an early bird there. I seated myself on the front row, despite always being on the front row I was very bad at studies and I didn’t mind that at all. Going college was just to add some spice on my boring life otherwise why a dying person would need knowledge. Soon other classmates began coming there. I was hoping someone to sit next to me and become my friend, but even after all other seats were full no one was willing to share a bench with a new student. ‘How rude?’

Teacher was already there, he signed me to stand

‘Meet Aniya Sharma, she is a transfer student from Baglung. I hope you will create a welcome and friendly environment for her’. No one seemed to pay attention in his prattle they didn't even react. After a while, a girl nearly more than 200 pounds came inside the class.

‘Why late today?’ asked the teacher staring

‘The city bus which I took for college got into an accident’

It was sad news but everyone was laughing including the teacher.

‘How can it not suffer accident with you on it’, a boy from last row shouted. She was pretty upset, the mud in her shirt and scratch in her face clearly showed she was having harsh time. But the thing that was too upsetting was even the teacher also didn’t think it necessary to ask if she was okay. The girl came and sat next to me.

‘I am sorry for what happened’, I whispered

‘Don’t be, you are sorry today but after some days you will also become one of them and start bullying me’, said she aggressively

‘How can you be so confident about that’

‘It always happens like that. Newcomers come and act as a friend to me until other notices. And you are one with a great physique, you are beautiful too.’

‘Thanks for the compliment but give me a try. I will prove you I am not like others’

She became silent.

‘Hi I am Aniya Sharma and I just got here a week ago.’

she looked at me with a smile. Her black hair, grey eyes, she was beautiful despite some extra muscles.

‘It’s Barrby here’

‘You mean doll barbie’

‘No Barrby, doll barbie raised even more bully topic for other’

‘I am sorry’

‘I am already habitual, don’t worry’

Anyway, I got a friend. That was sufficient for the day. After two lectures boring lectures, our lunchtime gets started. Barrby took me to the cafeteria, it was a huge one and the menu there was also so different than my previous college.

We had to wait in line to receive the food. Four boys entered the cafeteria shouting and laughing at each other.

‘Why today’, Barrby cried wearily

‘Why what happened’

The boys came to us ‘Hey, Barbie doll, I knew you would reserve our place’, said one with red hair and pushed Barrby and wait on our place which was almost near to the food store.

‘Hey, Who do you think you are to take our place. We were there and will be there’, I said pulling Barrby in front of them but she was willing to come’

‘So our doll has got a friend too’, said the boy with red hair again, coming toward me

‘yes, do you have a problem with it’ Barrby was pulling me from behind signing to stop what I was doing.

‘No why should I have a problem but be careful you are going to have pretty much problem from now on’, all of them laughed. I was too annoyed but Barrby pulled me out of the cafeteria.

‘Are you crazy? Who told you to create a scene with them’

‘Why are you afraid of them? They are taking advantage of your simplicity. Why don’t you complain about them to principle’

‘No one can do that’

‘Why?’

‘The red-haired boy you saw on the group is Danny son of the principle, the grey-haired guy with blue eyes is Swarez his father is a full-time donation of this collage, the short one with black hair is d**k he is little well behaved but he never says no to any of his friend when it comes to bully and the last one Saurav his father is a renowned businessman in the town you can say the richest person here, so no one can touch them. Students here worship and teachers are afraid of them. They torture the ones who are against them and keep on torturing until they surrender or drop out of the college. They are beasts here and no one can do anything. I know you don’t want to surrender but please go to them and ask for an apology before this matter gets bigger’

‘How can their father’s post be their identity, it’s wrong, they are just using your fear to flourish themselves I am not becoming one of you. I am never going to surrender in front of them’

I was annoyed and disappointed. That was the whole new horrible truth of that high school and I was not ready to accept that.

Barrby denied entering the cafeteria until they were there so that day we didn’t even have lunch. We went to the class with an empty stomach. Those beasts were there already. They were in our class another horrible truth that day. I avoided their presence and sat on my seat. ‘Crap’ I sat on something a water balloon, filled with red-colored water. My whole jeans were wet and red, all of the students in the class were laughing at me mainly those beasts who kept that balloon there right before I sat. Barrby was standing next to me doing nothing hanging her head low. The whole environment was so sickening. Some guys were bullying new girl and everyone there were just watching and making fun of me. That was the first time I ever felt so humiliated. I was burning with anger inside there was red ink inside my bag. I pulled it outside opened its cap and threw all the ink on four of them. All the laughter changed to silence. Their face was red, now it was my turn to laugh. And I laughed, ‘this is how you feel when you humiliate others.’ I packed my bag and went to the washroom. Students outside seeing my red butt were laughing at me, ‘This is what happens when you argue with our princes’.

I hurried to the washroom, went to the mirror. Tears started running through my eyes. I never felt so low before. I came to that new town in the hope of finding happiness but on the very first day, I came face to face with the horrible truth of the highschool. I undid my jeans and tried to wash the color but that wasn’t getting off. I remained there for nearly an hour, that was my bad day, thinking of returning to the home I went for my scooter on the parking lot that wasn’t there. That scooter was so precious to me, that was a gift from my dad on my 15th birthday. I hurried and ran around the whole ground but my scooty was nowhere.

‘Are you searching for your scooter?’

Swarez came in front of me. He had unusual grey hair, with sharp penetrating blue eyes. There was a mark on his neck. Extending from his chin to his collar. He was handsome of all, looking at him it didn’t felt there was a beast inside him.

‘Where is my scooter?’, I screamed going toward him.

‘How can I know, okay I remember seeing it on the junkyard’

I was devastated and ran toward junkyard beside highschool

‘Wait, I remember now, was it your scooter. I feel bad for you I remember it catching fire’

It was too much for me I ran toward a junkyard. My scooter was on fire. I went toward it try to dab it with my hand bit all were futile. Tears were coming out of my eyes, I remembered getting that scooty from my dad. How happy I was then, that scooty contained all my memories from the hometown. What was I gonna explain to my father? Swarez, Danny, Saurav, and d**k were laughing looking at my misery. I was weak to defend myself, I was numb and crushing myself to make idiotic decision to come there.

‘Aniya’, Barrby came from behind

I was crying loudly my scream was heard some meter radius, it was so rude, no inhuman of them to crush someone like that

Barrby came and hugged me, ‘She was also shedding some tears for me, her heart was pure but filled with fear’. ‘Let’s go from here’, she said lifting me up

‘What am I gonna tell my father? The second he hears what happened he will take me back to Banepa’

‘We will sort it out, let me drop you’, The scooty was all ashes not a single part was distinguishable. Those four monsters were still there three of them were laughing at me except short one

Dick, his eyes reflected a sense of pity. But that didn’t make him less monster. My Jeans was red, Barrby lend me her huge jacket and I wrapped it on my waist. We had to take a city bus to reach home. It was very nice of Barrby she dropped me, thankfully dad wasn’t home then. I entered the washroom and wiped out every essence of the bully from me. I had to conceal the truth making some reason bringing scooty home. ‘Accident’ worst reason to mask bully, ‘traffic problem’, he was too skeptical to buy that. My brain wasn’t working, what could I tell him. Meanwhile, someone was continuously pressing the horn outside my home. I went to the window in aggression, d**k was there with scooty just like mine. I was amazed by his sudden arrival. I went downstairs, I was baffled about him knowing my whereabouts. Of course, the scooty wasn’t mine the color was the same, the model was the same just scooty number was different and at the top of that it was newer than mine.

‘How did you know where I lived?’

‘I followed you here’

‘Why did you follow me, after what your group did to me’

‘I am not here ask you to forgive, I am not the type to do that. I heard you saying about your father. So I brought you this for some days’

‘Why do you have to worry about me?’

‘I am not worried I just wanted to help. don’t prattle accept the help and go on with your life’

‘What if I don’t accept it’

‘It has nothing to do with me. If you wanna accept, accept and if you don’t then byee’, He turned his scooty around to return but I knew I needed that

‘Stop, I accept your help’

He was unaffected by what I did. There was no change in his expression since the beginning.

‘Can I offer you a suggestion?’

I nodded my head saying yes,

‘Stay away from our group, if possible ask for an apology. You seem to be a nice girl don’t call problems toward you. This is almost what I can do for you’, after that he went away. The thing that I hated most in life was being debted to someone and now I was debited to one of the monsters.

Dad came home in the evening, he was a forensic doctor, working for the government. After I persistently forced him to transfer here, he didn’t say no to me. He didn’t even realize my scooty was different. I was relieved and breathing calmly after he came inside.

‘I have taken the appointment of the famous heart doctor here’

‘Not again dad, I am exhausted from meeting doctors. We have already tried 10 renowned doctors before, did anything change?’

‘I don’t want to hear your lecture, you are going to Dr subham after 5 days’ He handled me the appointment ticket. I had consulted many doctors before but there was no positive response and my dad wasn’t giving up on that. At least there were no outsiders giving suggestions about what to do and what not to and that was enough.

My next day of college, I went in there in Scooty, Barrby was amazed at seeing me on a new one until I told her everything about d**k.

‘I knew he was different’

‘Everyone on the monster group have either famous father or relation with the principle, why is d**k with them’

‘d**k father left him when he was just 2 years old, his mom raised him being both his mother and father. She is a renowned social worker and has been awarded many times. d**k and Swarez know each other from childhood so Swarez treats him like his younger brother. No matter how rude they are with others but within them, they cannot see tears in each other’s eyes’

We reached the classroom, monsters were still not there and I also didn’t want to see their face. Everyone in the class was looking at me like I was a ghost there.

‘Don’t mind them, they aren’t used to see someone who defends gang monster’, said Barrby trying to calm me.

Everything was going well, until the monster group entered the classroom, All of them except d**k was looking at me laughing while they passed next to me.

‘It’s a miracle’, exclaimed Barrby looking at themselves

‘What?’

‘Since I have been enrolled here, I have never seen monsters attend their first class. It might be their first time’

‘Are you serious?, how come they pass the exams then’

‘They took extra class, when exams were near’

‘What the f**k, they are spoiled for real.’

The lecture went on and along with lecture them throwing spitball at me was also increasing. The teacher even after knowing what they were doing was pretending as if he hadn’t seen it.

It was going out of limit, I pulled a book from my bag and placed in behind my head to avoid their spits but a girl from behind pulled that too. How can someone be so shameless, I couldn’t resist anymore and jerked out of the class at once. But what else they were after me,

‘I guess I have a hearing problem, I can’t hear you apologizing did anyone heard it’, said Swarez

‘Nooooo’, everyone went after him. I pretend not to hear them, but they didn’t stop.

‘How dare she try to ignore us?’, said Danny coming in front of me

‘What should we do to her’, said Saurav

‘Let’s make her taste what exact bully means’, by then they all were around me including d**k, he didn’t happy as others but he didn’t even try to stop them. Danny grabbed my right hand and Saurav my other. They pulled me across the hall, due to my scream everyone in the class including Barrby were outside looking at me being tortured. They threw me inside the broom closet and locked me from outside. I was claustrophobic and the room that narrow space was dark and filled with dust. I constantly kept on crying, screaming asking for help but the only thing I could hear was other laughing. The lack of oxygen there was affecting my heart. It was paining a lot I clenched my hand at my chest and was crying of pain. My eyes and ear stopped working, it was blur and silent and my conscious was losing my faith. I remember my subconscious mind still hoping for d**k to come and help me, Barrby to show some courage in my favor, my breath was stuck on them and all null.

When I opened my eyes Barrby was there in front. My heart was still in pain, I was at a bed in the nursing room of collage. Sisters were looking at me from the door. I was devastated by the thought of them knowing my condition but seeing Barrby expression that must not have been a case.

‘How long was I unconscious’

‘Since last 2 hour’

‘Was I in the closet for this long’, even thought of being there for so long was giving me shock

‘After locking you up, monsters went ahead with the key, I tried to call you but you weren’t answering so I called for help but nobody came except d**k he came there with the key I don’t know how he managed but he saved you this time too’

‘Did he?’, I felt relieved thinking it wasn’t stupidity to expect help from him

‘Nurse has already called your father, I have told him you fainted’

‘What?’ that was the worst news that day, dad was so absorbed on me that even a small news of me can make him leave everything aside.

‘Why you have to tell him’

‘You were unconscious for 2 hours what do you want to me to’

I heard dad footsteps, he was already there running like a marathon player. When he reached me he was out of breathe. ‘How many times I have to tell you to have your medicine at time’, he said in exhaustion

‘Medicine ?’ Barrby exclaimed in surprise

Dad was ruining my normal life, ‘He is talking about vitamin. Doctor gave me one for being too thin’, ‘Am I, right Dad?’, I signed him to say yes

He nodded on my statement.

“It was nothing bad, I just felt a little dizzy, maybe because of changed environment’

‘You should take care of yourself’ worrisome was reflected on his face.

Dad took me home that day, my scooty d**k’s scooty was left in the parking spot. The idea of telling him that someone stole it the previous day hit me. I am smart, aren’t I?

The bully of those monster had crossed limit that day, but what could I do, nothing was in my hand and I wasn’t the person who apologizes for no mistakes.