Chapter 4: Conceited girl

"Look strawberry, I hope this is the last time you talk to me and treat me like this, because if not..."

"If not, what?" I interrupt him in a defiant tone.

We are very close. His anger is palpable, and he has a tight grip on me. But I'm not afraid of him. As much as he has more strength and is taller than me, I don't let him intimidate me.

"You will meet my dark side" Esteban says in a defiant tone.

"I'm dying to meet him" I reply in the same tone.

I give him a punch in the tibia bone, which makes him duck and I leave.

I change and go straight to the gym room.

The girls were ready to play volleyball and the boys’ basketball, I didn't really care if I played or not, but in the end it was my turn to play. Since it was the right thing to do, it was a big part of the note.

It is stressful to play with the girls in my class, they don't even play, since they are drooling 'Literally' to see Esteban and his friend’s playing basketball, imagining, wiping their sweat and who knows what other disgusting fantasy.

Suddenly I feel a loud thump on my arm that knocks me to the ground, and I notice a basketball pass by me.

"I'm sorry" Esteban says with a "you deserved it" look on his face.

I slowly get up and he takes the ball. Then I walk in his direction and when I'm already very close to him I stop.

"No problem. Anyone can make a mistake" I say with a fake smile.

He looks up at the ceiling as if in some kind of indignation because according to him I didn't get mad at what he did since I didn't make some drama, or satisfaction because he thought I had surrendered to him.

Anyway, what I did know is that in his mind he didn't think this was war and it was just beginning.

I took advantage of that moment in which he was distracted and threw the ball with the strength that my injured arm gave me, but of course I threw it to his stomach. So a basketball and some force, throwing it to the stomach would leave anyone out of breath.

"Oops, my bad, my mistake" I say in mock astonishment when I see Esteban lying on the ground in pain.

I turn around and slowly back away.

"Hey, crazy! What's wrong with you, what ridiculous thing have you done?" says Camilo walking angrily in my direction, he stops instantly when someone steps in front of me.

"You're crazy if you think to lay a hand on her and think I'll stay as if nothing" Daniel says, while covering me with his body.

Where did he come from?

Camilo as well as I, are shocked, no one had noticed Daniel was around.

"Look who's talking! The hypocrite, little man, and bad friend. Tell me now are you trying to do your good deed for the day? Or is it that you have nothing to do and that's why you're doing this ridiculous thing?" asks Camilo angrily.

"Defending her from imbeciles like you, is doing something." Daniel replies.

We were all shocked at so many malicious words. Especially me, I knew Daniel jumped in to defend me, but I could tell his insults had a different motive.

Thank God the teacher arrived on time and although he punished all of us by making cleanliness to some part of the institution for a week, I felt calmer to see that these two did not beat each other to death. At least not now.

But I had a doubt, why such personal hatred? It was not logical that it was only a rivalry between them to win the championships, which they could not play because of the punishment. The question is that she felt that there was something else and as she was new she didn't know what it was, but she knew who she could ask; Aninka.

The next day.

"Well, my dear students, in view of the fact that you have a lot of free time and energy" Says the teacher in charge of our punishment "I will put you to clean the gym."

"T-the gym?"

The teacher nodded.

"B-but" I tried to articulate "It's too big for us."

"You guys may, in the end you're four very energetic kids" He replied.

"But this girl has no energy at all" Try to look weak.

"Oh no, I don't think you are student, your strength to throw the ball to Esteban still amazes me. It was a move with a lot of power. That was definitely my favorite part of the video." The teacher comments.

Damn, I had no way out, I would be with these fighting cocks and that worries me.

With Esteban and Daniel in the same place for six hours cleaning, it's dangerous and I wasn't interested in being present, but it was my turn.

Meanwhile Michael, Viktor and my stupid brother were making fun of our misfortune knowing that we would be punished by cleaning.

During the cleaning it was a spectacle with these fighting animals, even to take the broom was a dispute. I'm already about to think that they love each other very much and their arguments are their way of expressing themselves, because this is a lot.

"Hey idiot, watch where you step" Esteban said to Daniel as he stepped where he had just mopped.

"Oops! Sorry, I didn't see you, how for me you're so invisible."

And here we go again....

"Look you pair of idiots, if you want to talk to each other, kiss or hit each other at every nothing, because you love each other so much, find a hotel and there you can tell each other and do whatever dirty shit comes into your heads!" Take air "But now, do the fucking punishment or I'm going to beat you to silence!"

Everyone was shocked.

"Hey..."

"Well, well, well I guess they are getting along better than before" Ironized the teacher "At least now they are not hitting each other" I continued "They understand each other so much that I think they are going to miss each other a lot after the punishment is over, therefore I plan to increase the time more for you three" he said pointing to Esteban, Daniel and me.

My life can't get any worse.