Threatened

Damons POV

Thirty minutes later, I reached home to meet dad smoking his pipe

"Why did you come back home so late?" he asked, his back turned away staring at the space.

"Like you care," I scoffed before going to my room.

"Fool!" he muttered while I ignored him.

             IVORY POV

Rays of sunlight flooded the room, lighting up the daffodils Mom bought in the room yesterday. I lazily opened my eyes while holding the pillow tightly to my chest and stretching myself.

Then I remembered something.

"Oh no, the suits,"  muttered before dashing into the bathroom to take a shower.

Few minutes later, I slipped out of the shower before grabbing an ankle length gown.

 I comb my hair before grabbing a pair of ribbon before braiding it into pigtails.

"Perfect," I hummed before grabbing my backpack and glasses, I dashed downstairs.

Reaching there, I  could hear her humming some music while preparing breakfast.

"You are leaving already?" she asked with dismay.

"Yeah, I have class," I lied. "How could I tell her that her daughter is a freak who needs to get some suits washed.

"Ok hun, come here and have some apple fritters I have made for you," she gestured before following her and took a huge bite, grabbing a warmer and tossing the rest of it in my backpack.

"I've got to go mom," I announced before turning towards the door.

"Ok bye, careful," she sang out. Arrrgggh! the usual rhymes, like I was some kid or maybe I was.

I looked around for a taxi but found none so I decided to jog to school. Soon I found one of Stella minors driving in her new sliver porsche.

As soon as she sighted me, her face twisted into a hard scowl, she grabbed a bottle of water and flung it at me.

"Fuck, what the hell did that brat just did?" I asked myself.

I looked at her face, as expected, no feeling of remorse, instead she smirked at me before giving me a wink.

"Sorry dearie," she mocked before giving me a middle finger and sped off.

"That spoilt brat!" I fumed before I stared at her handiwork, did she just?" FUCK!!

Just as I stood in my pitiful state, obvious of what to do next, a black sports car parked beside me.

"GET IN!" a familiar voice boomed that made the hairs on my body stand.

Wait a moment, was that Daniel?.

"Get in," his deep husky voice resounding in my ears.

Did I just heard it right?

Wait why would he offer me a ride to school, why should he care, what if Stella sees us together, then I am doomed for it, jeez I need to act fast.

"No thanks, I'm grateful," I said meekly.

Will you get in or you need help in climbing in,he asked in a monotone voice.

Hesitating for a while before I entered, he reversed before speeding off to God knows where.

Some minutes later, he stopped in front of our house while I was wondering how he knew it. He jerked me off my thoughts by blaring the horn as if indicating for me to get down.

 I climbed down before slamming his door and walked towards the house.

Gosh, mom was still home, she hadn't left for work.

"What happened Ivory?" she asked in a worried voice.

"Nothing serious, someone splashed water on me," I said before walking towards the room.

"Where? how?" she started asking nonstop.

Mom please, I cried out before escaping to my room and slammed the door shut.

"You aren't going to tell me what happened right?" I heard her shouted but I ignored her before grabbing my favorite T-shirt which was now getting faded and a plaid green skirt.

I walked towards the door,balding my mom good bye but to my surprise, Daniel was still waiting for me, leaning against his car.

"It really took you hours to get changed," he chuckled before opening the drivers seat and entered.

Soon, we were in the school, and immediately I opened the door and climbed down I didn't want us to be seen together.

But his voice stopped me in my tracks, "I didn't know that Kitten doesn't like thanking others."

I turned and smiled before saying," thanks for the ride. I hastily walked away.

I entered the class, and scampered to the back seat, as soon as I settled down, a note flew in my direction and luckily I caught it in time.

I wondered who the note was meant for when I saw my name written in red ink. I opened it and read it.

"Bitch, you are so dead meat." I began to shiver uncontrollably, beads of sweat formed on my forehead, I started looking around to check who it was, then I saw one of Daniel friends coming towards me.

 Or were they responsible for it.

"Hey nerd!"  Blake called and the others laughed.

"Where are the suits?" he demanded, a deep scowl etched immediately on his face.

"Err….err…err….. I began to stammer uncontrollably, suddenly the whole class bursted into laughter.

"Err….err...Blake mimicked me while the rest laughed, some were even holding their tummies.

"Seems nerd lost her voice," Blake mocked.

"Ivory Walter, can I have your attention please," the teacher said in an high pitched voice that made me wonder if she was blind to see that I was the victim here.

Soon I saw Daniel entering the class wearing his usual stoic expression, he sat beside me but he didn't even glance at me, it was like I was non existent and that hurt me badly. No, I shouldn't care about those stuffs.

As soon as the teacher stepped outside,I followed, to escape from the bullies.

Sitting on a bench under a shade of frangipani trees, I opened my backpack, bought out my phone and warmer.

I dialed Alicia's number and it answered on the fourth ring.

"Hello Ivory," Alicia answered in a croaky voice that made me forget how angry I was with her.

"What happened?" I asked in a worried voice.

She stayed silent for a while and started crying.

"Alicia, could you please tell what's wrong?" I asked getting more worried.

She sniffed before replying, "He broke up with me last night after all what I done for him, after everything." 

"I'm so sorry ok, you don't have to cry over someone who's not worth it," I found myself saying.

"Oh, by the way, I forget, those suits are in the infirmary," she said and bade goodbye before hunging up.

I was about to eat the last piece of my apple fritters while when someone kicked it out of my hand and grabbed my glasses and I could see the pieces on the floor.

Geez, I was furious at the moment,why have they broken my glasses.

I Iooked up to see Stella. "You have really been a very bad girl wench, you failed to obey simple instructions."

"Yesterday, I caught going into a class with Daniel." A red haired girl whom I instantly recognized.

"And did you know what this bitch did this morning,"  she said as she grabbed a handful of my hair.

"This freaking bitch followed my boyfriend to school this morning, what a slut!" she remarked harshly.

Then she slapped me hard, her face twisted into a scowl that made her look devilish, her perfume was now starting to suffocate me.

She moved closer and whispered dangerously in my ears " If I dare see you near him, I will ruin what's left of your miserable life," she threatened before storming off with her minors.