My bully

CHAPTER TWO

Paige’s POV

That voice,

“Hello Midget” I froze in place as soon as I met his gaze.

Knox Tatum, AKA my best friend's brother and the one person I hated.

He had changed a lot. Knox looked like a walking Greek god. I drank the whole sight in. He was over 6’3, towering over my 5’6 frame, his thick black hair always perfectly styled. His button-down top did little to hide just how muscular he was. Years of playing hockey had definitely sculpted his build. I couldn't help but notice he now has full-sleeve tattoos disappearing into his top. Everything about him screamed wealth and power.

I quickly wiped at my cheeks but it was too late. He'd already noticed.

What are you doing here?” The question slipped out before I could think of what to say, and his lip suddenly curled into a smile.

“Is that a way to say hi, you haven’t seen me in a long time, Midget” He smirks, looking at me like he was taking inventory of every detail I’d tried to hide. My eyes were watery, and my lashes felt all clumped together. My stomach twisted under the weight of that stare.

“Leave me alone, Knox” I turned around to make my way out of the restaurant, I needed to go to the club and talk to Mike.

He grabs hold of my arm stopping me, while I try to swipe my palm down my face again to get rid of any evidence that I have been crying.. .

“Have you been crying, midget?” Knox asked with his eyes, studying my face. He hadn't forgotten that silly nickname he gave me.

“What? No! Of course not! Why- why would I be crying?” I laugh, swiping my hands all over my face again.

“I'm not, it's just your imagination” I felt bewildered that he was even asking. Knox

had always been the type to mock and bully me.

He raises an eyebrow at me before shaking his head.

“Were you just dumped?” he asks, glancing at the empty chair “Because it seems like your date didn't show up” His words settle in my chest like something cold and heavy. So this was the Knox I remembered.

“You don’t know anything” I told him, fighting back tears. My throat burned. I hated him

His mouth curved faintly.

“I’m just joking, midget”

You can make other friends, Leah. She’s bad news. You don’t need someone like that in your life, her mom’s an alcoholic, and she would only steer you in the wrong direction

It’d been four years since I overheard Knox talking to Leah about me. He wasn’t the first person to think I wasn’t good enough, and all my life I have been trying to be good enough, have the perfect grades, be the perfect friend, the perfect girlfriend, the best I could, and still, it wasn’t enough, my boyfriend had still dumped me. .

“You know what Knox” I said after some moments, taking a step forward to meet him condescending look

“Fuck you” I raised my middle finger, thrusting it in his face. Men, they were all the same. I stepped back before he could see the tears spill out of my face.

And I walked away —I had just one plan.

Find Mike, try to figure out what went wrong, and who was the girl in the video? Why wasn’t I enough for him?.

30 minutes later

I had gotten to the destination already and I paid the cab man his money and I stepped out of the car.

I stared at the sight of the club building, Halo. It hadn’t been hard locating it because it was one of the biggest clubs in New York and most of the students from my college came here.

I never thought Mike was the club type though, at least not anymore, he was one of the most handsome and popular guys on campus but he changed when he met me- or so I thought.

I pulled out a small mirror from my bag to check my hair and face. I still needed to look good.

“Fuck” I cursed I needed to locate the club's restroom, I needed to fix my makeup before going to search for MikeI entered the building, it was very luxurious, felt like another world.

After my findings, I located the restroom and breathed a sigh of relief.

I reached the door handle and twisted it open.

The sight that greeted me was like a punch to the gut. I staggered backwards, my mind unable to process what I was seeing.

There he was, my Mike, my boyfriend with his hands all over Avery, the same girl he always said was his childhood friend. It clicked now, she was the girl in the video. Their bodies were fused together, I could see his cock as he was thrusting into her from the back, her front was to the sink and his pants were halfway down. It felt like I was watching a p**n film.

“Mike! Don’t stop! Fuck me harder!”Avery panted

I had to hold my hands to my mouth to stop myself from screaming, no, no, no.

“Fuck….. Avery, your pussy is so good”. My chest felt tight, like someone had wrapped a wire around it.

How could he do this? How long had this been going on? How was I so blind and stupid?

This had to be a nightmare, I pinched myself to check, and the sting registered immediately.

Mike had said that Avery was his childhood friend, that they had grown up together, he was always close to her, ghosting me sometimes to go to events with her, but I never thought anything of it because I trusted him. Even when she made snide remarks about me to my face, he would always support her, it all made sense now.

They were so engrossed in the moment that they hadn’t noticed me or the open door.

Tears pricked the corner of my eyes as Mike's eyes finally met mine. His eyes widened. He looked like a thief who had been caught red-handed. He pulled out and stepped back, shuffling with his pants, his dick that was hard already flaccid.

“Why did you pull out, I’m almost there Mike” Avery turned her gaze back and then she saw me.

“Paige, what are you doing here?” He said, shuffling his dick into his pants..

Avery doesn’t say anything, only stares at Mike, whose gaze never leaves mine.

“I’ll leave you guys to sort your shit out” Avery gives me a mocking look, before walking out the door.

I felt numb, angry, I wanted to scream at him. How stupid could I have been?

“Paige, I…..”

“Whatever you have to say, keep it to yourself, I don’t want to listen and I don’t want to know.”

Guilt crosses his features and he moves his gaze away from me. “How could you, Mike? How…?” My heart felt like it was crushed. With a broken heart, I turned

around. I need to go back home before breaking down here.

My legs carried me on autopilot, weaving through the students at the club, and the noise in the room only deepened the hollow in my chest. I felt like I couldn’t breathe, I needed to get to the door.

“Paige. Paige” Mike was at my heel, following me through the crowd, screaming my name.

“Just give me a moment to explain, Paige” At that I turned, I wanted to hear what the bastard had to say. He reached for me, and I slapped his hands before he could make contact. He will never touch me again.

“I’m sorry Paige, I never meant for you to find out like this, but think about it, for the past year you refused to have sex with me, Avery was just helping me satisfy my urges and she was helping you too you know ” I can’t believe my ears. He’s a cheater, but somehow I’m responsible for it.

“Your urges? Are you an animal?” I can sense fury building inside my body “Why can’t you keep uyour thing inside your pants?” His forehead twisted into a frown.

“Come on Paige” he sneered “Don’t be a baby”

That spikes something and before I could stop myself, my palm collided with his cheek, and I watched as his eyes widened, he didn’t expect me to do that.

I can feel people staring. And quiet whispering drowned the music in the room.

“I wonder how Mike could even date her?” “Good girls really always think they can tame bad boys, I feel so sorry for her” Other students looked at me with pity, nobody was focused on the music anymore, all eyes were on us.

His eyes snapped back to mine and the fire that was blazing in those eyes had me backing up away.

“You are pathetic, Paige. You are nowhere near my standards of a girl, Paige. There are way too many hotter girls around, you should be happy I picked you. You really think I gave two shits about you, I just wanted to sleep with you” He laughs, and each word that he lets out is a stab to my already bleeding heart.

I felt Small. Exposed. Stupid.

Then amidst whispering and music I hear footsteps approaching me from behind. I winced in

fear that it might be a bouncer, but suddenly I’m pulled to a sculpted muscled chest and immersed in that wonderful smell of pine and damp earth.

I look up and find Knox standing by my side. Dressed as he was before, everything about him

screamed superiority. I can sense all the ladies in the club checking him out.

“Hey there” he gives a friendly smile and offers his hand “Paige’s boyfriend, right? I don’t think

We have met, I’m Knox”

Mike was confused but leaned in anyway to shake hands with Knox.

The next second, Knox's hand drops, Knox yanks him forward, and drives his fist straight into Mike’s face.