Emily’s POV: My eyes swung wide open and I knew I was going to get late that day to school but I wasn’t worried because luckily our class was going to start at 10 that day. It was 9 am when I woke up because of the late night chit chats at Aria’s house. Last night was fun. I thought and smiled. It was after a long time when we sat like that and gossiped and told Aria everything about our school. We filled her up on everything, on every detail and on every guy and girl who were dating while eating more mac and cheese as her mother baked some more for us. It was a lovely night full of gossips and laughter and not even for a second I remembered Aiden or any of the things he did to me. I smiled while thinking about the night before and stretched out my legs and hands fully. It was a lovely morning not because of the sun shining brightly and the light getting in through my window along with a slightly cool breeze but because there was nothing to stress about that morning. It was all peace

Emily’s POV: “See, I told you guys, see” I said frantically while looking at my phone. “What happened? Who is it?” Melissa asked anxiously as the phone kept ringing. “Aiden…” I said anxiously. “Why is he calling?” Aria asked. “For the plan of his” I said to them. “Em…” Melissa said to me and widened her eyes. “I am telling you…” I said and the phone stopped ringing. “Oh my God, it stopped ringing” I added anxiously. “So what? Let it be” Melissa said. “No I can’t…” I said and got restless. “What if he gets angry about it?” I asked her. “He won’t…” Aria said. “No, but…” I was getting scared. “Em, just calm down and leave it… Let him call you. Don’t pick up” Melissa suggested and I shook my head after which she added, “I am telling you… Now eat something” She said and stood up to bring something to eat while Aria and I sat behind waiting for her. As she brought a tray of pancakes and sandwich, I felt nauseous because I didn’t feel like eating something as the fear of Aiden pl

Emily’s POV: I looked at him and gulped after which I started, “Lis – listen Aiden… I didn’t mean to say that” He was still leaning back to the table behind him with his hands crossed against his chest listening to me so I continued, “What I meant before was that I wanted to go to my friend’s house no matter what the consequences are… at that time… That means that I was talking about those animals that even if they would try to attack me I would still want to go… So…” “I…” He said and walked forward towards me to add, “Don’t… care” “When people don’t do things my way, I tend to punish them” He said and leaned forward causing me to lean backward and he added, “Very badly…” I skipped a beat again and couldn’t move my jaw up to close my mouth. I was shocked and terrified wondering what he would do to me. “So let’s begin” He said and moved back. I immediately got restless and taking a step back started, “Be – begin with what?” “With the thing I am just now going to ask you” He repl

Emily’s POV: I kept walking towards the guy with utmost confident and attitude. I turned around to look at Aiden and noticed him face palming. I ignored him and continued to walk towards the guy. As I reached him, I started, “Hello…” He looked up at me and immediately stood up with a wide smile on his face. “Hello, miss” He said. Miss? How noble! I thought and smiled at him. “Hi… I noticed you look quite alone…” I said to him politely. He smiled widely again and started, “Yes, yes, I am very lonely” “Yeah… You can talk to me…” I said to him with a smile. “Really…?” He said and moved a little forward in excitement while I took a step back and laugh nervously while nodding. “Yeah, give me your phone number” I got to the point. “Sure, sure…” He said and immediately, wrote down his phone number on a small notepad and gave it to me. “Thanks… What’s your name? You haven’t written it” I said while looking at his number. “My name is Arlo” He said excitedly. I could see his excite

Emily’s POV: “What are you saying?” Melissa asked in shock. “Yes…” I said distressfully and began walking while adding, “Let’s walk to home and I’ll tell you everything” As we walked towards our place, I told Melissa everything that happened in the classroom back then. “I will kill that bastard…” Melissa said out loud angrily. “How dared he touch you?” She added in rage. “Mel, calm down…” I started as we stopped in the middle of the road. “No, Em… You should have told me there only that Arlo bastard sexually harassed you… I want to go back and beat him up real hard…” Melissa said angrily. “Mel… Calm down… I told you Aiden came to my rescue so it’s okay…” I said and tried to calm her down. “Em, I know he was there… But I should have been there actually. I should have been the one to protect you. What if Aiden wasn’t there for you…? Then what, Em… I feel so guilty right now” Melissa said regretfully. “Mel…” I held her arms and started, “You don’t have to… You are not obliged to