Sarah’s POV: “What the hell is happening?” Eloise started in shock while I kept looking at Zayn walking away towards the building when suddenly a guy placed his hand over his shoulder and walked along with him. “Who is he?” I whispered. “Eric…” Gene answered and I looked at her in shock. “He is Eric Bale… Don’t you remember? He is in our class” She added and I looked at her in confusion after which I turned to look at Zayn. “He already made a friend…” I said in shock. “It looks like he did, yes…” Eloise said sharply and then added, “Is this Zayn, as in your step brother, Zayn?” “Yes… Unfortunately yes…” I told them. “Oh, my God…” Gene started and then added further, “He is so gorgeous, Sarah… How are you even resisting him?” “Shut up, G…” Eloise said to her and then turned to me to add, “What is happening? Why is he here? And was he threatening you?” I took a deep breath and started, “First of all, a bad news… He is going to complete his senior year in our school…” “What?” E

Sarah’s POV: He was looking at me with his eyes full of rage while I gulped and breathed heavily. I was scared and my hands were shaking after slapping his face but the anger growing inside of me made me do that. I was never violent in my life. I never hit someone ever before and it was the first time when I hit someone and that too, the first crush of my life. I gathered all the courage to do that but still there was fear and I was being timorous as he glared at me while touching his cheek. “How dare you…?” He started bitterly and I could see eyes getting red and his veins moving a little on the corners of his forehead. I breathed heavily and started, “You started it…” “You are dead…” He said and walked towards me immediately. He held my arms and dragged me backwards until I the pillar behind me and grunted. “How dare you…?” He shouted at me and I quivered. He tightened his grip on my arm while I grunted in pain again and tried to remove his hand from my arm. “Leave me…” I cried

*****Five Hours Ago***** Sarah’s POV: After a few minutes since we got to the class, Mr. Morris, our history teacher, entered the class and so did Zayn with Eric and some other guys. “Get seated everyone…” Mr. Morris said and added, “I have to give you all an assignment” As the class began to groan, one of the students started, “It’s only the second day…” “Yes… Pete. But you guys aren’t new in school, right? You are seniors. So there is no leniency for you all… And after everything that I heard happened with the new students, yesterday…? I think you all deserve this” Mr. Morris said. “So… I want you all to write an essay” He added. “No essays, please…” Eloise cried out. I smirked at her while Mr. Morris started, “Eloise…” “Sorry…” Eloise said and bent her face down while I wanted to laugh out loud. “So, I was saying…” Mr. Morris started and continued, “I want you all to write an essay on any topic from Roman history. It can be anything. But the deadline of the essay is after

Zayn’s POV: I couldn’t find her anywhere and my heart raced a bit. “Sarah…” I called her name out but there was no reply. “Sarah, where are you?” I said out loud again but still got no response and I began to panic. “Where the hell did she go?” I asked myself while thinking deep about how she could escape from there because I had the keys to the door and so no one else could have helped her out. I walked forward to find a window thinking that she might have jumped out of it but I couldn’t find any window in there. While walking around the library, I saw a bag behind a shelf which looked quite familiar to me. “That bag… I have seen it somewhere” I said to myself, trying to recall where I saw it when suddenly it hit my mind and I realized that it was Sarah’s bag. I immediately ran towards it and to my surprise, I found Sarah lying on the floor with her eyes shut. “Did she sleep?” I asked myself in frustration and then sat down on my knees next to her. “Hey, you… Wake up” I said o

Sarah's POV: “What do you think he is going to do?” Gene asked me as he walked away from there. “I don’t know Gene… I guess I just have to wait and let it come…” I said distressfully. “Come on… He was bluffing…” Eloise said to me. “No, El… He doesn’t bluff…” I said and gulped. “Fine…” Eloise started and took a deep breath to add, “Let’s just not ruin this party over your crush and…” “He’s not my crush… Not anymore…” I said in frustration. “Fine, then your stepbrother…” Eloise said and they dragged me towards the dance floor to enjoy. We danced for some time forgetting every problem and I didn’t even think once about Zayn or wondered what he was going to do. For once, I wanted to have a normal high school experience and so I did. While we were dancing, a waiter came up with the juices and we took it immediately. As I took a sip of that juice, I felt a little weird and glanced at the glass for once to see what it had. “Don’t you guys think the juice tastes something different?