CHAPTER 2
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TWO: "Sage."
WHO is this sturdy man and will he be the one to help Chanelle find her way out of this unfamiliar place?
She was waiting for him to speak but he just kept on staying still and staring at her eyes like scrutinizing her from the deepest of her soul.
She was hoping she could get an answer or at least a hint of what’s happening but he didn’t say a word, and what’s even worse was when there were two mean girls who seemed to intentionally bump her shoulders with force that it made her move.
“Opps!” said the first one.
“Sorry not sorry!” said the other one.
Both girls went straight in front of Chanelle with crossed arms and they were looking at her badly from head to toe, as if she has done something wrong to them when in fact, she doesn’t know any of them!
“So, you’re new here?” asked the girl on punky red-colored hair.
Though uncomfortable, Chanelle still managed to tell her story, hoping she could get an answer this time. At least, from these girls in front of him who both look like they are ready to eat or hurt her.
“Uhm, I don’t even know this place. All I could remember was I slept at home in my bedroom, safe and sound. And then the moment I opened my eyes, I just found myself on an unfamiliar place like this.”
“The new girl is clueless and seems to be innocent, huh!” teased by the girl who seriously looks like a Vampire or something not normal and scary. Her skin is just so white like a paper and isn’t really normal.
All of them, including the guy, actually look very different from normal guys she used to see at the school’s corridor every time she’s at the University. They all look rugged, strong, and rebel…
The paperwhite-skinned girl grinned to her friend. “Leigh, let’s unleash her innocence then!”
Chanelle was starting to feel afraid when they both flinch their hands as if ready to scatter her or so-what, and to toy her then get rid of her, afterwards.
The girl with red hair whose name is Leigh grinned back and then she positioned herself at Chanelle’s behind and started to bully the latter by pushing her. The paperwhite-skinned girl also pushed her so Leigh caught her again. It’s as if she’s a thing that these two hard girls are toying with.
She couldn’t say anything. She bounced back and forth from the hands of these mean girls. And she was like a paper just going with the flow without doing anything, not even defending or saving herself from their cruelness towards her. All she could still think of is the fact that she’s in a place she’s totally no hint of, and she has to find her way out of it.
One push on her front shoulders and she had fell at the arms of the man who was still nameless. He even pulled closer to him that she almost buried her head into his broad and hard rock-like chest. He smirked at her while they were staring at each other’s eyes, and his face was so close to her face.
Chanelle had more chances on gazing the man’s face closely, and he screamed perfection. He looked like an angel or something, but only with no wings. A bad angel, though.
“Nikitta, Leigh, give her to me. I’ll be one in-charged on this newbie girl here.” That was the first time she had ever heard him speak.
His voice was low but in baritone and violent. He was grinning at the two mean girls, assessing her and taking in-charged of her instead of them.
So, he will also bully her the way the two girls did, right?
“You sure, Sage?” Nikitta was teasing the man.
Sage is his name… she subconsciously whispered herself.
And that made him take a look at her again. She looked away and freed herself from his hold.
“Yes. Give her to me. I’m quite interested with a girl looking like she knows nothing, not even herself,” he said menacingly as he eyed her from head to foot and vice versa.
The way he looked at her scared Chanelle. It was as if she’s a prey ready to be devoured by this predator man!
“Well then. Gonna leave her to you. Teach her things she needs to know, okay?”
Leigh tapped his shoulder before she and Nikitta went to exit. Chanelle even felt the harsh looks given to her by the two trying to scare her more.
Now, they’re left alone again. She and the savage man named Sage.
“What exactly are you going to do to me? Are you going to hurt me? Kill me?!” she asked with higher voice to somehow intimidate him that she could also look and sound strong, and she can at least protect herself from any of them!
He only titled his head and smiled trying to challenge her!
“If you think I am afraid, then let me tell you I’m not! I’m not afraid of you if you are planning to do any bad at me!” She tried her very best to at least sound tough and look strong.
But she knows within her, in herself, that she’s only trying and couldn’t even try hard to convince him. He didn’t seem to be easily moved, not even a bit!
“Try harder you little rat. Are you even away that your hands and your legs are shaking?”
Chanelle looked at her hands and her legs, and was surprised to see that Sage was actually right! She was damn shaking all over her body and she didn’t realize that before he himself could notice it and tell it to her straightly just like what he did!
She sighed hard, trying to calm herself and contain her sweats. “So what if I was shaking? It doesn’t mean that I’m afraid, I can’t protect myself against you!”
He smiled. “So, you’re finally admitting you are afraid of me, huh?”
Oh, that was so wrong of her! Wrong choice of set of spoken words! But to heck of him she would admit, she’s afraid of someone as rebel as he looks like!
She was about to say something when suddenly, she was taken aback when some senior from behind her spoke. “Sage, what are you doing to her? Is that the way you treat the new scholar of this academy?”
She automatically turned to the middle-aged woman who wears rectangular eye glasses. “What? Academy? This haunted-looking place is an academy and… and I am a new scholar here?”
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