A Tough Day!

"What are you doing in front of girls' restroom, Mr Spence. "

One of the teachers came restrooms' way and saw Adam standing near the door. She knew about Adam's nature, so she had to make sure that he wasn't up to anything bad . 

"Actually I was waiting for a friend, Miss Marple. "

Adam said with a smile, trying to charm his teacher. But Miss  Marple was better aware of his tricks. 

"Which friend? "

She asked raising an eyebrow. 

"Alizah... Actually, she wasn't feeling very well and I had to check up on her, so I was waiting for her. "

Adam told her. 

"Since, when did you start taking care of your classmates' wellness? I'll look at her, you can go and mind your own business. "

Miss Marple told him and Adam knew he didn't had any chance of winning argument with her. She was the teacher, who grated on his nerves the most. That was because Miss Marple was a truth speaking and genuine lady who wasn't partial with her judgements. Adam left without saying any other word, not because he was afraid of Miss Marple but because he found no joy in arguing with her. Miss Marple herself left the spot because she didn't believe whatever Adam said. She thought, he might have made up things about Alizah, just in front of her. 

Alizah splashed water on her face to wash off the traces of tears. She pulled out a handkerchief from her bag but before she can wipe off her face,  it fell off on the wet basin and soon got drenched by water. Alizah sighed, her face was damp and now she had nothing to wipe water off her face and even the front section of her hair was wet. 

She got out from the restroom, not sure what else she could have done. 

"Why are you looking like that ? "

Ronan bent down to catch Alizah's eyes as she was staring at the floor while walking out of the washroom, in a way to hide her face. 

"I dropped my napkin in water by mistake before wiping my face. "

She said in a low voice, Ronan wasn't the kind of person who would need to know the actual reason of why she looked like that. He wasn't someone, Alizah could seek comfort from. 

"Not that, I'm talking about your swollen eyes and red nose. You cried. "

He said with a chuckle trying to imagine of the reason, why she must have cried. 

"You don't have anything to do with that so just leave my way. "

Alizah knew Ronan was only there to laugh at her situation. And after speaking the affirmations to herself, she wasn't gonna let Ronan let her down again. 

"Sure thing. But it would have been interesting if you told me the reason why you cried ."

He said with a smirk and Alizah raised her eyes at him. She was pissed and this time she didn't care about hiding her anger for some assignment's sake. 

"Get off my way, Ronan. "

She warned. But Ronan took it challengingly. He was sadistic, who found fun in suppressing the people further that got menaced by him easily. 

"What if I don't? Don't talk to me in that tone, you should know your place better, which so lower in front of me. "

Ronan threatened and his tone rose small hairs  behind Alizah's neck. Alizah knew, she was no-one in front of Ronan. He had everything in his life whereas she was barely surviving her life. But that didn't put her in any lower position than Ronan. He wasn't anything on his own, it was all provided to him by his parents. Everything he had was because of their hard work and Ronan himself wasn't anything . Alizah was a better human being than him who didn't try to threaten or menace someone. She wasn't even rude to anyone like, Ronan was to everyone. 

Alizah pushed Ronan and walked past him. She didn't know from where this courage of pushing someone came in her but she was proud that she took an action for herself. Ronan stood frozen there, no-one has ever dared to touch him, let go of pushing him. He was shocked for a moment but then turned back to see Alizah's figure getting farther and faster away from the place. 

'This girl doesn't knows me for sure. ' he thought and deepened his breathing to control his anger. 

In the classroom, Ronan was continuously staring at Alizah, expecting her to come to him and apologize for her act. Alizah had no idea about it as she was busy in listening to the teacher and making notes. She had no reason for which she would have wanted to apologize. She already asked Ronan to move twice before but when he didn't, she decided to push him and move on. Ronan didn't even budge because he wanted to make fun of Alizah, who grated on his nerves. 

After last class was over Alizah had one and a half hours left to leave for her work at cafe. She thought she would go back home early and work on the assignment so that she don't have to stay up late till night. She packed up her bag and was about to leave when someone gripped her hand and she flinched for a second. The grip was tight. 

"Let go of me, Ronan. "

She turned back to find it was Ronan who was holding her. 

"We need to talk. "

He said. 

"About what? "

Why would Ronan want to talk to her? That's what Alizah thought, at that moment. 

"Umm ....assignment. "

When Ronan couldn't think of any other reason, he decided to go with assignment because that was the topic that convinced Alizah easily. By now, Ronan had figured out , how desperate she was for her grades. 

"But I haven't finished first portion yet. I'll let you know when I'm done, it'll be probably done by tomorrow. "

She said and tried to move but Ronan didn't loosen his grip on her hand. 

"Let go, Ronan or I'll shout to call teachers. "

She warned but Ronan was trying to torture her with the menacing power he held. By the time, Alizah had stared panicking in his grip. There was no stopping of Ronan.

"What do you want, Ronan? "

She asked trying to figure out, why he was acting that way. 

"I want you to apologize. "

"For what? "

"For pushing me in front of restroom, when I wasn't even done talking. "

Ronan said as if Alizah was the one who was to be held guilty. 

"You were being a jerk and adding to my worries. What's your problem? Why do you look at me so lowly? "

Alizah asked the question, she has been trying to ask since first day. 

"Because you deserve it. Tell me a single thing that you've done is worth praising? "

Ronan challenged. 

"If I haven't done anything for your praises yet, then I haven't even done anything worth your criticizing. You're no-one to judge me, so stop telling me, how I need to be. "

Alizah jerked her hand off Ronan's grip with such force that it hurt both of their hands. She massaged the area where Ronan had held her tightly and his grip had  left a mark on her arm. She walked past Ronan and didn't look back at him when he was shouting her name to come back to him. She moved unstoppable until she was out of the school campus and by the time she has started crying. She cried to let go of the memory of this tough day at school, while waiting for her bus and when it arrived, she wiped her tears and with a deep breath she went in it and only got out at her bus stop near her home. 

"Alizah! I didn't get to see you whole day, yesterday. "

His dad complained but it wasn't Alizah's fault. She was too busy completing the first portion of assignment that she even skipped dinner and her father didn't even disturb her.

"I'm sorry dad. Because of joining school late, I'm lagging behind in many things and we even have a group assignment to complete. "

She told him. 

"Okay, come have a seat. "

His father said and she sat on a sofa beside him and his father put a hand on her head and smiled. 

"Tell me, how you like your new school? "

He asked. 

"It's good, dad. Everything is so good there. "

"And how are the students? How many friends have you made ? "

Her father's excitement was evident in his voice. Like every other teenager's father, he also wanted her daughter to have a good life with equal proportion of love and happiness. 

"I haven't yet, but I'm trying to spend time with few girls in school. "

Alizah admitted.