Owned By Her Triplet Bullies
Chapter 33

Alexander's POV

"Emma, will you be our girlfriend?" We asked in words when she just stood staring at the banner without saying anything. She looked shocked. Girls were screaming and some literally fainted. We held our breath in anticipation. I have never felt this anxious because of someone before. Her response will either make or mar this moment. She glanced at the three of us one at a time with a smile.

I smiled back, happy she was going to agree. Her face suddenly fell, and she turned around and left. I felt my jaw drop out of shock.

"She just left, right?" Julian asked in disbelief.

"She's just playing with us, she's going to come back, she won't just leave us hanging," Philip smiled hopefully.

"Nope, she's not coming back," Julian said firmly, staring at her retreating back. All the students start whispering furiously among themselves.

"OMG,"

"That just happened, right?"

"The triplets just got stood up by Emma like the Emma Garcia,"

"Un-f*****g-believable. This is so embarrassing.

"But how dare that low life do this? Has she gone insane?"

"Alright party is over, everybody gets out," Philip said dejectedly, but they continued to whisper.

"Are you deaf? Scram!" Julian growled, tossing a chair towards the wall. The chair made a loud shattering noise which made some girls yelp while the rest scrambled to get through the door.

"You said that was going to work," I muttered through gritted teeth, sitting on a chair.

"It was supposed to," Julian replied.

"No, you said she was going to like it undoubtedly, and we would win a large part of her heart with this," I repeated the exact same words to him.

"I thought she would. I mean girls like this type of s**t," Julian replied, looking confused.

"Why didn't she say anything then?" Philip asked, standing on the rose-covered floor and sitting on a chair.

"I don't know. Maybe she doesn't like it. She might not be just like other girls after all," Julian sighed.

I have never been this embarrassed in my entire life. I didn't want to do something so cheesy, that was not me at all, but Julian and Philip managed to convince me. I had repeatedly asked Julian if this was going to work, and he responded positively, but things went completely negatively. What was Emma thinking? She just left without saying a word to us. But on second thought, we might have probably deserved every bit of what happened.

"Well, since this did not work, we will have to think of something else," Philip said, snapping me out of my thoughts. I sighed, running my hands through my hair, these boys and their plans that always fail.

Julian's eyes suddenly lit up and he chuckled excitedly.

"I have an idea,"

Here we go again. I mentally facepalm myself.

"You guys must have heard of the one-week trip Father planned for the school to go to in order to cover our dear Alex's scandal, right?" he said, glancing at the both of us. "Yes, so?" I asked.

"We get her to go, and we can slowly win her heart during the trip," he replied.

"That makes a lot of sense," Philip agreed. And I could not agree less.

"Where is Hailey?" Julian asked, looking around. I looked around too, but we were all alone.

"She must have left with the others," I replied when I could not replace her anywhere.

"We should get going if we want to convince her, the trip is the day after tomorrow," Julian said, grabbing his bag, we all grabbed ours and walked out when Philip suddenly stopped. "Uhmm, who's going to clean up all this?" he asked, pointing towards the designs we made in the hall. We looked around thoughtfully for a while before I muttered. "The janitor will take care of it,"

"Right," Philip agreed, and we continued walking.

We walked through the hallway, and students stared at us, but they didn't dare to utter a word.

"You look pretty happy for people who just got dumped," Hailey said sarcastically, leaning on our car.

"We didn't get dumped. There was just a situation that you would not understand even if we told you," Philip replied.

"You got your asses dumped. I don't know what you see in that rude girl anyway. She totally disrespected you guys in front of the entire school," she uttered.

"And we deserved that. If I were in her shoes I would have done the exact same thing, if not worse, not after everything we've done to her," Julian said with a smile, looking completely unbothered.

"Did you smoke something?" she asked Julian, sniffing his clothes. She couldn't believe her ears.

"Get in the car," Philip said. She stared at me in disbelief, and I shrugged at her and got into the car.

"Why are you guys rushing home today anyway?" she asked curiously.

"We need to pack for the trip, we also need to help Emma pack," Julian answered.

"No way you guys are bringing that girl on the trip," she said, shaking her head vigorously.

"Why not? Last time I checked, our dad is the sponsor of this trip, which automatically makes us the sponsors too, so we can bring whoever the hell we want besides, Emma is still a student of this school, which means she is entitled to also go with us," I said firmly. "But," she starts to protest.

I put on my sunglasses, plugged in my headphones, and closed my eyes. I was starting to get irritated. We arrived soon enough and we all headed toward Emma's room. We opened the doors without knocking.

It seems she also just got back from school because she looked like she had just taken a bath and only had her little towel wrapped around her body.

"What the hell," she screeched. "Get out," she yelled, throwing different things at us.

I managed to peel my wandering eyes off her body. The boys and I reluctantly left her room, and she shut the door with a bang after her.

*****

Emma's POV

Why are they here now? I hurriedly put on my clothes, flustered that they had actually seen me half-naked. I expected them to storm into my room filled with anger and slam my head on the wall for doing what I did.

Thinking back now, what I did was very disrespectful, no matter what, I should not have ignored them and walked out on them in front of everyone without saying a word. I had been so touched by the designs, the speech, the flowers, and everything else. I smiled for a moment and wanted to accept them, but I suddenly remembered some of the things they'd done to me.

The assaults, me begging for help, and their mean laughter. I just could not get them out of my head. And besides, what if them asking me to be their girlfriend was a prank too? All those thoughts rushed into my head and I ran out of the hall. At this moment, the only thing that matters is for me to take care of my already broken heart before it completely shatters into pieces.

"Are you dressed?" they asked from outside.

"I am," I simply answered and they all trooped into my room.

"Before we speak, we would like to apologize for everything we've done. I know you are probably traumatized, but we promise you we are sincere, and it's not a prank this time around," Julian said.

"We promise to treat you right and make you forget all the horrible memories of the past if only you will forgive us and let us into your heart again," Philip continues. Alexander came forward and took my hand.

"We want you and only you forever," he said, staring deep into my eyes and grazing my arm with his thumb. This little act clouds my mind. His hands felt so warm over mine, and I could feel the roughness of his palms. I stared at his hands, trying to get my brain to function properly before I could form a sentence.

I removed my hand from him, snapping back into the conversation.

I cleared my throat and ignored them. They paced around for a while, trying to get my attention. I sat on my bed and buried my face in my books trying to read, they kept distracting me, but I didn't mind, I kept staring at the book even though I was not reading it. Julian suddenly opens my little closet and starts bringing out my clothes.

"What do you think you are doing?" I asked when I could not bear to keep shut anymore.

"Packing your stuff" Philip replied joining Julian to fold my clothes.

"I can see that, why are you packing my stuff?" I asked confused.

"You need to pack for the trip," Julian replied.

"What trip?" I asked again.

"The school trip of course," Alexander said.

My face contorts into a frown.

"I'm not going anywhere.