Pepper's sharp green eyes were darting at me, giving me a death stare, which made my whole body shiver.
"I'm just helping her, Pep." Kol answered, raising his steps towards her.
"She looks fine to me. Why did she need your help?" Her eyes were scanning me from top to bottom.
Kol interrupts her scanning. "Are you inquiring me? Again? What did we talk about your insecurities?"
"I'm not insecure."
"Yeah, she is not. It's normal for a girl to have some doubt when she finds her boyfriend with another girl in a dark, empty store room." I don't know why I said that. I'm an i***t, a f*****g prick.
"I don't need a stranger to testify for me." She looped her arm around Kol's arm. "You're right, babe. I'm sorry." Her eyes are still on me, giving a death stare. "I shouldn't doubt you."
They both walked away. Thank god! She didn't create any drama. The last thing I need in my dramatic life is one more drama and then I'm ready to lose my sanity.
10:45 AM, DURING LUNCH BREAK AT CAFETERIA
"Waahat?" She took a long sip through the pipe of a soda cup, making a rough sound that comes when there is little or no soda left in the cup. "Pepper caught you and Kol in an empty store room?" Thea asked.
"Yeah." I replied. There was a plate full of my favourite french fries and nachos but I didn't wanna have any because my body is still recovering from Pepper's cold and creepy death stare at the end of our last conversation.
"If you don't want them, then I'm gonna take some." She took some fries and shoved it in her mouth like a hungry bear. "You better go underground for some days." Thea mumbled through her mouth full of fries.
"I can't." I shook my head. "I need to clean the whole building twice a day. SUBA is our biggest client. It didn't just give us employment, but also an employee quarters to live in. Thanks to SUBA, we don't have to pay for our accommodation."
"I know." She took some nachos from my plate. "But, if there is life, then there is light." With a deep gulp, she added, "What if she kills you tonight?"
"Come on! She is a spoiled brat but she isn't a killer." I transferred all my fries and nachos to her plate. "But, I'm scared for today. Will you please stay with me?"
"I wish I could—"
"Pleaseeee."
"I want to, but I can't. My mom is not feeling well. I need to look after her."
I sighed. "It's okay. Take care of Aunt Joyce."
Thea has been my best friend since childhood, but sometimes I don't feel like she really cares for me. I know, I'm being selfish to hate her for not staying with me because of her mom's health. But I can't help it. It's just some kinda weird selfish vibes that I get in the case of Thea.
"Can you pay for me?" She dusted off her fingers covered with spices. "I forgot to bring my purse with me."
"Of course, it's not a new thing." I murmured, "After all, it's me who has been paying for your lunch since eternity."
"What?" she retorted.
"Nothing, just enjoy your fries."
9:37 PM, FEMALE'S RESTROOM
I was mopping the passage. My heart was beating faster than a bullet train. Not literally faster a bullet train, but that's what I'm feeling right now. I just wanna complete my work ASAP and leave this creepy place. College has never been creepy for me until today. I prayed and prayed for all the creepy rumors about Pepper to be just a rumor. I hope it doesn't have anything to do with reality.
Oh, god! Even remembering those stories is getting me a goosebumps.
One day, a girl named "Naomi" penned a love letter to Kol. I understand that writing a love letter to someone else's boyfriend is unethical, but what Pepper did to Naomi was cruel. She texted Naomi through Kol's cell and called her to an empty classroom. Following that, Lily and Diana, Pepper's two best friends-c*m-sidekick used chloroform to render Naomi unconscious and Travis, another member of Pepper's bully team, waited for everyone in the college to go home so there would be no one to save Naomi before transporting her unconscious body into the trunk of Pepper's car. They took her to a mortuary and left her in the middle of dead bodies, her hands cuffed in the stretcher. It was the most heinous and vicious college bully incident I'd ever heard in my entire life.
"Beccaaaahhhh.." I heard someone whispering my name like the ghost from horror movies.
That creepy whisper took the s**t out of me. I was so scared that I ran into one of the toilet compartments and locked the door.
I tried to call Thea, but she didn't pick up my calls, so I tried calling Garry. I needed someone. I really really needed someone to help me out of this creepy restroom. I can't call Mom because she will worry for me and I can't call Inderjit because he is suffering from the flu. Thea isn't picking up my call, so Garry is the only option I have. I know he has a night duty. But once in a lifetime, I wanna be selfish and want Garry to leave everything and run for me.
"Hello? Becca? What happened? Don't you know I have a night duty?" Garry shooted an angry tone as he received my call.
"Hello, Garry. Can you please help me? I'm at the restroom—"
"Oh! for god's sake, please don't tell me that you got your periods and you want me to bring you a tampo—"
"NO, it's not that. Actually—"
"Whatever, Becca. You know I'm busy. Please, I don't have time for your little talk."
"But, Garry. I really— Hello? Hello? Garry?" He hung up on me.
"Thud! Thud! Thud!" Suddenly, someone started banging at the door of the toilet compartment where I locked myself.
"You can't save yourself from me, little bee." I heard a maniac man's voice.
"Shut up, Travis! Stop scaring her." I don't know who is the female behind this voice, but her voice calmed me down for a second until she added, "The only one who will scare her is Pepper."
"Daina, can you stop kissing Pepper's ass?" Another voice made a statement.
"f**k you, Lily." Diana growled.
Oh! Now I understand. Those voices behind the door were Lily, Diana and Travis. f**k! The members of SUBA Bullies.
"Travis, can't we just break the door?"
"NO! Didn't you hear Pepper? No violence."
"You're no fun, Diana."
"But we can break the lock, you know. Sometimes locks can malfunction which is why we need to break them and no one will take it as violence."
"That's the Diana I love."
"Really, Travis? I thought the person you love like a maniac was Pepper."
"Did someone just mention my name?" Omg! It's Pepper. I don't know why she had a late entrance but her entrance doesn't feel so good.
"Break the lock, Travis." Pepper commanded.
"Okay, my princess." I don't know how, but Travis broke the lock and opened the door.
"BANG! I gotcha, lil bee." Travis gave a hideous creepy smile. He was half naked revealing his linked upper body. He had a demon nun tattoo on his right arm and Aztecs demon tattoo on his left. He also got a tattoo of a demon brutally killing another demon covering his whole chest. But his golden spiky mullet hairstyle, piercing on his nose, ears and lips, his filthy lustful eyes made him look more scary than any of the demons in his tattoo.
"Thank-you, Travis. Now you can wait outside." Pepper commanded again, this time her eyes were staring at me, cold and scary.
"Outside? No! I wanna see it. I'm gonna stay." He huffed.
"The things we are gonna do to her, it won't be appropriate if a boy sees it. I want it to be cruel but not a crime." Cruel but not crime? What the hell will she do to me? My whole body was shivering due to fear but still I managed to stand up and speak. "Listen, whatever the hell you guys are doing, this isn't right. Please. Leave me. I promise I won't tell a soul."
Lily grabbed my arms tightly. "Oh! darling, we don't care about anyone's soul. We just want you to know that—" She grinned. "No one puts eye on Pepper's boyfriend."
Adding a devilish grin, Pepper approached me. "Nobody dares to flirt with Pepper's boyfriend. Kol James Morgan belongs to me and only me."
I used all my force and pushed Lily "I swear, Pepper. I wasn't flirting with him. He was just helping me."
"You could have denied his help." She took the scissor out of her lavish handbag. "Travis, I said get out."
"Are you ripping off her clothes? Oh no! I'm not going out. I wanna see this too. I wanna see her naked."
Pepper aggressively turned back and pointed the scissor at his neck, right below his chin. "Get the hell out or the next thing I'll rip is your vocal chords."
"Okay, Okay." Travis raised his hands up, surrendering. "I'll leave. Don't get hyper, my little—" He lustfully bit his lower lip, "devil's mistress."
He then left the room. "But if she creates any kind of fuss, just call me. I'll be right here." He screamed from outside.
Pepper is strange. She wants to hurt me with her cruelty but she also wants to protect me from Travis' filthy eyes, filled with lust and devilish desire.
"Diana. Lily. Grab her hands, tightly." She ordered and both her sidekicks did the same as she told them. I tried to struggle to free myself but my every try failed in front of their devilish intentions and my innocent nature.
Pepper slowly started to cut my t-shirt and ripped it off. She then did same with my jeans. I thought, now they will stop after this. But, NO! They weren't not humans. They were demons. They also ripped my inners, leaving me completely naked on the toilet floor.
"Let's go, guys." Pepper shamelessly left, leaving me completely naked. I can't even spot a little amount of guilt in her poisonous green eyes. Her eyes were filled with insane cruelty.
After Pepper left the restroom, Lily picked up my ripped clothes and gave a devilish grin. "Never mess with SUBA Bullies."
"What are you doing, Lily? Leave her clothes. If you will take them then how's she gonna cover her bare body." Diana complained.
"That's not your problem, Diana. So stay away from this." She growled.
Diana scowled but didn't argue. I looked at her with my eyes filled with hope of mercy because, among all those bullies, only she was the one who felt guilty for me. But before she could do anything, Lily grabbed her hand, "Let's go, you dumbo!" And all of them left, leaving me there alone, helpless and vulnerable.
My mind stopped working. I was in trauma but I still managed to move my body which was bleeding and tingling due to some cuts and scratches that I might have gotten while fighting back when they were scissoring my clothes. Shivering tremendously, I managed to go to the other compartment and locked myself in.
Only a few minutes have passed, but it feels like eternity to me. I don't have watch or my phone. They took everything with them. I am still in shock. I wrapped my arms around my knees and cried.
I was crying, breathing heavily, shivering due to fear and cold when I heard another thud.
Someone was here in the female restroom and he wasn't female. It's a man. A drunk man. Oh god! No! I hope it's not Travis.
To be continued…