Falling For The Girl I Bullied
Chapter 110

Pearl’s P.O.V.

“David… David… where are you?” I called David in a shaky voice while looking around. The place was giving me a creepy feeling. The ghosts liked to stay the places like this. It was the old part of the place and I wondered if anyone came here or not. “David… you know that I am scared of the places like this. “Come out or I’m going back,” I said once more, fearfully looking around. I flinched and looked back when I heard footsteps behind me. I was standing at the entrance of the corridor. I didn’t go inside because I could run away at any time. “You… wh.. what are you doing here?” I asked Augustus in a startled voice when he suddenly appeared in front of me. He smiled and moved closer to me.

“David is not here, princess. This is me who you were going to meet here”, he told me, and my heart skipped a beat. It meant that someone used David’s phone to text me. “I don’t have anything to talk about with you, Augustus,” I replied and started walking away. I immediately pulled my phone out of my pocket to call anyone. I was really stupid. They always said that I was stupid, and I once again proved that I was stupid. David could talk to me anywhere if he wanted to. He could talk to me because we were both in the same room. I was sure that someone else had sent this message to me from his phone. Whoever was helping Augustus must be from our school. That was why he or she managed to send me the message from his phone. Kyle’s phone number is on speed dial. He put his number on speed dial after the incident in the school.

“Hey”, I was about to make the call when Augustus snatched my phone from my hands and then grabbed my arm tightly. “Augustus…. You are hurting me,” I yelled when he forcefully dragged me inside the corridor. The place was already giving me a creepy feeling, and now his behavior made me panic to death. “Augustus… stop… where are you taking me?” I yelled once again in panic while trying to remove his hand from my arm, but he tightened his grip more. It was a sunny day, but it was dark here. He pushed me inside a room, and I almost fell to the ground but steadied myself. I was now scared to death.

Before I could catch my breath, he grabbed my arm again, and the next second, my back hit the wall behind me, but he put his hand behind my head, saving the collision of my head with the wall. He put his other hand on the wall beside my face, caging me between him and the wall. “You were calling him,” he grumbled, and I looked around. It must be an old classroom. There were broken chairs and tables inside the room, and there was no light. “Augustus…. I am not having a good feeling here…. Please let’s go from here… I promise that I will talk to you”, I pleaded to him while breathing heavily in fear. “No… we will talk here… tell me why you were calling him?” he demanded in an angry tone and I looked at him this time. “Because I am scared of places like this”, I replied truthfully. I only wanted to go away from here now.

“I am also here with you. Then why did you need him here? What’s your problem with me?” he yelled again and I flinched hard. My heart was now beating furiously against my ribcage. “I… I don’t have a problem with you, Augustus,” I stuttered while looking around. He suddenly grabbed my face and forced me to look at him. “Look at me… not here and there”, he gritted his teeth once again and I just blinked in fear. The boys bullied me so many times but none of them manhandled me like this. This was the first time a stranger was so close to me in this type of creepy place. “Augustus… you are hurting me,” I winced in pain once again and tried to remove his grip from my jaw. He removed his hand and closed his eyes while taking deep breaths.

“I.. I don’t have any problem with you, Augustus… I have a problem with everyone. I … I am sure that you also know the stories about me and …. My parents”, I paused and looked at him to confirm. He opened his eyes and stared at me blankly. He knew. That was good because I didn’t need to explain everything to him now. “I have trust issues, Augustus. I can’t trust anyone like this. That’s why I don’t have friends. I don’t want to be in a relationship because a relationship only breaks hearts in the end. “I have no faith in relationships, which is why I prefer to be alone,” I replied calmly, my gaze fixed on his face.

“This is not you, but me. I have my own baggage and they are enough for me in this life span. There is no personal grudge against you or someone else. This is me who has a problem here. So don’t waste your time on me”, I spoke further when he didn’t say a word again but stared at me. “Then why are you with him? What’s great about him that you trust him but not anyone else?” he asked me in a bitter tone. “He earned that trust, Augustus”, I also yelled in panic. He didn’t know that I had an anxiety problem and that it could get worse in the places like this. “He never manhandled a girl like you. He is a bully but he never tried to hurt me or anyone else. He knows how to comfort me when I need someone. He may be arrogant, and cold-hearted to others, but for me, he did everything to earn that trust,” I yelled again while telling him why Kyle was better than him.

“So you want to be his girlfriend, huh?” he taunted me while closing the distance between us and now it was really scary. “I don’t want to be anyone’s girlfriend, Augustus. Why don’t you understand this? I.. I told you th.. that I don’t have faith in a relationship; then.. then how can I be in a relationship with him? I … I have my own dreams… and I .. I want to pursue them. This is not only for you or him… this is for everyone. Now, please let’s go from here”, I once again tried to make him understand my point. I was shaking badly due to fear but it seemed that he was not getting my point. “No girl has refused me, Violet. You are the first girl who refused me. Be my girlfriend and I assure you that… that I will prove myself better than him”, he once again persuaded me in a calm tone this time.

“Please try to understand, Augustus.. this is not about you… I can’t trust any boy to be his girlfriend. I have had enough pain and hurt in my life, and I don’t want more. Please… don’t make things difficult for both of us, and let’s go from here”, I put my hand on his arm this time while trying to make him understand me once again. “Aaahhh,” I screamed in horror while crossing my hands over my chest when he suddenly pressed his body to mine. My anxiety shot up immediately. I looked at him with wide eyes in horror filled with tears now. Would he try to rape me here because I refused to be his girlfriend? I could feel his hot breaths on my face now. His breath was ragging now and I felt suffocated due to our close proximity.

“Damn it”, he suddenly cursed while banging his palm on the wall. “Aaahh,” I screamed in horror again and closed my eyes. Kyle was far better than him. He also had short-tempered but he never tried to molest me like this. Augustus pressed himself more on me, and I trembled hard due to fear. Suddenly, he lifted his body up from me and I took a long breath that I was holding till now. I flinched once again when I heard a bang. I opened my eyes and found myself alone in the room. I took a few deep breaths and then ran towards the door. My eyes widened in shock when the door didn’t open. I started beating the door while calling Augustus’s name. I immediately put my hand in my pocket to take my phone out but panicked when I remembered that Augustus had my phone.

“Help….. somebody open the door please,” I cried aloud while beating the door. I guess the door was stuck. My voice echoed in the room, and the memories of the incident where Sia, and her friends locked me in a closet last year flooded my brain. I started breathing heavily as my anxiety was now at its peak. “Please…. Help me… somebody… anyone…. Please open the door”, I beat the door once again with all my strength but I felt dizzy. I saw stars in front of my eyes and gradually fell to the ground. “Please help me”, I cried while beating the door slowly before I lost consciousness.

Augustus’s P.O.V.

“What took you so long?” Hunter asked me as soon as I reached the court. Our match was about to start. “Nothing… let’s win this match”, I answered him in a pissed tone and walked towards the court. I was trying to keep myself calm, but it was really hard now. I saw Kyle and his teammates on the other side of the net. Kyle was instructing some outside the court. I balled up my fists tightly digging my nails inside my palm. I knew what they were talking about right now. Their worried expressions told me they were worried about something, or should I say, about someone. I scoffed and then took my position. She was a growing teenager, not a child who would forget her way here.

Soon the match started, and I poured all my anger into my game. She refused me again. How dare she say that Kyle was far better than me? The girls threw themselves on me. I could have any girl at any time. She thought so highly of Kyle, and now I was hell bound to show him who was the best. Now only defeating him could prove that I was the best. I wanted to see what she would do if Kyle loses this match to me. “Augustus… what are you doing man?” Hunter yelled at me when I hit the ball so aggressively that he almost hit Ethan in the front row. “Sorry”, I yelled while raising my hand to Ethan, but I was not sorry. I looked around to see her but raised my brows when I didn’t see her. She should be here by now. Then where the hell she was now?

I was really surprised to see that they were still playing well. It meant that she was not so important to them, or else they would be distracted because she was still not here. My anger rose again when they managed to score more than us. This was the first qualifying match for the semi-finals, and I needed to win this match, but it seemed almost impossible with their game plan. I threw daggers at Kyle through my eyes from time to time, because he was using his players so wisely, not giving us time to understand their strategy. I cursed aloud when we lost the first half to them. Nothing was right today and it was making me crazy.

“Augustus.. what’s wrong with you, man?” Hunter confronted me right after the referee blew the whistle for half-time. “Violet Carter is wrong with me”, I yelled at him while throwing my hands in the air. “She… she thinks that …. That he is better than me(I pointed a finger towards their team first and then pointed at me)…me???? Can you imagine?” I blurted out in front of him in anger His eyes widened in disbelief. “You met her?” he asked me, and I looked in the other direction while drinking water from my bottle. We were near the benches where we had our bags and other accessories.

“Augustus”, I g*****d internally when our coach called my name. “Yes, Mr. Hanson”, I replied to him in a bitter tone because I knew what he was going to say. “Keep your mind calm, Graham. “We need to win this match, and the way you were attacking them, you almost got a yellow card there,” he said calmly, but I knew he was irritated with me. “I am sorry, Mr. Hanson. I will stay calm”, I replied to him and then looked at their team. I raised my brows when I didn’t see her there. Where was she? I saw Kyle and their coach talking with someone from the organizers. “Augustus… where is she?” Hunter asked me in whispers and I looked at him in confusion.

“I talked to her and then left her alone there. I don’t know where she is”, I replied to him truthfully because I was also confused now. She must come back by now. “We will be in great trouble if she is in any problem because of you, Augustus”, Hunter said in a warning tone and I raised my brows at him. He looked at them too and then looked back at me. “She was attacked by their football team and got badly injured more than a month ago. They were suspended for more than a month. She requested the school authority to call them back, and that’s why the boys are protective over her so much. She is with them here because Sia Bishop was behind that attack, and authorities from both schools didn’t want anything to happen to her again because she was now in Parker’s custody. ”, he told me and my heart skipped a beat.

Suddenly, I noticed the football team captain and two other players approaching them. My heart was now beating furiously. I left her alone there. Sia was right about that place. No one came there when I was there and I saw no one coming or going out of that place when I left her inside that classroom. “Hunter… come with me”, I asked Hunter when I saw David showing something to them on his phone. He had a worried look on his face and he was looking baffled. “What happened? Where are you going?” he yelled when I started running. I needed to check on her before the match started again.

“Where are you going, Augustus? The match is about to start”, Hunter yelled while running beside me. “Give me your phone… quick”, I immediately asked him for his phone while running with all my strength. He immediately gave me his phone and I dialed her number while running. I could manage school authority, but the problem with Parker’s was a big no for me. Sia played a game and I was her pawn in this game. “Who told you about that incident?” I asked him while listening to the ringing on the other side. I g*****d when I felt a vibration in my pocket. “s**t,” I cursed internally when I remembered that I had her phone. She couldn’t call anyone if she was in trouble. “One of the girls from their cheerleading squad told this to Dan. What happened? Where is she, Augustus?” he asked me in a panicked tone.

“Don’t tell me that you locked her somewhere,” suddenly Hunter said in a panicked tone, and I looked at him anxiously. “She… she is claustrophobic,” he said in a panic tone and I felt that my heart would come out of my mouth. “What?” I yelled and increased my speed. We were inside a classroom and I closed the door with a bang behind me when I left her there. What if she was still inside that creepy room? “Augustus”, Hunter yelled my name but I didn’t pay attention to him.

I reached there where I left her. My heart almost stopped beating when I saw the door close. I pushed the door hard but it didn’t open. “Is she inside?” Hunter asked me in a panic tone again. “It is stuck… help me… push it”, I immediately asked him to help me when I realized that the door was stuck. This place was in the old part of the school premises and the door was rusty. I banged the door hard when it didn’t open. “Violet…. Violet”, I yelled while beating the door. “Come on, Violet… tell me that you are here… please… please”, I murmured while trying to open the door. “What the hell you did do, Augustus?” Hunter yelled at me while pushing the door hard with me. She was inside the room for more than forty minutes. What if she fainted?

“Hunter… don’t push so hard… what if she is near the door?” I immediately stopped him when I thought about that. We both looked at each other helplessly. “Okay… we need to open the door immediately. People often get panic attacks in these kinds of situations, Augustus and I don’t want any problems for us here,” Hunter said in a calm but nervous tone. “OK,” I said quickly, and we began pushing the door with all our might once more.