My heart was pacing fast while going out from the town. I curled my toes and was literally shaking inside.
“H-Harry! I thought you would take me to the party place.” I said in a low voice.
“Yes Stella! I’m taking you to the party place and the party is in outskirts.” He made an irritated face.
“Harry…” Before anything came out from my mouth, he yelled “Stella! If you act like you don’t want to spend your time with me then it won’t be good for you.”
I became silent listening to him. I didn’t dare to talk back anything. A part of me was dreading about it but I kept calming myself repeating the words Jennie and Jessie would be there too.
We reached the place and I saw three tents were arranged. There were few lights hanging from the branch of tree that were giving enough light to see the things. Jessie, Jennie and their boyfriends were already there.
Harry leaned a bit and whispered into my ear. “Stella! I repeat, do not do anything wrong.”
I simply nodded my head and he put his palm on my back gesturing me to walk forward. We then walked to them who seemed waiting for us for the past many minutes. I smiled looking at them and wished Jessie “Happy birthday.”
She hugged me saying “Thank you.”
Harry stood beside me placing his hand on my waist. Everyone was looking at us with many emotions gleaming on their faces.
“When I first met you I was really excited to know who could be your boyfriend. But I never expected it would be this rogue.” Jessie said laughing.
Even I didn’t expect Jessie. I rolled my eyes.
“How did you make this little girl fall for you?” Jennie asked looking at Harry.
“Who wouldn’t fall for me?” Harry smirked.
Everyone started laughing and I felt like banging his head with one of the tree branches.
“Yeah! After you begged me to accept you else who would accept a guy like you?” I smirked. I started giving counters to his sentences that made him furious but he didn’t show it. He forced a smile hearing me and whispered in a low voice. “What are you doing, Stella?”
“Being your girlfriend.” I replied.
“Okay now it’s time for cake cutting.” Jaden said excitedly. Remember Jaden? Jessie’s boyfriend.
She blew the candles and cut the cake. Jessie and Jaden started kissing eachother hungrily. They even forgot we were all there. They broke their kiss and Harry along with Oliver popped champagne. Everyone was enjoying while drinking. I sat on the chair that was arranged there. I kept seeing their silly behaviour, their laughs, their enjoyment. I was never used to enjoy like them. After many minutes of enjoying, Harry strolled to me taking off his leather jacket. I averted my eyes and kept scrolling my cell phone. He sat on the chair beside me and I could feel his alcoholic breath which was really disgusting.
“I never thought you would accept me as your boyfriend.” He said looking at me.
I stopped using my cell phone and looked at him. “I didn’t accept you. I was acting.”
He kept quiet hearing me. He continued his drink and everyone accompanied us. They all sat on chairs and started talking.
Jennie was always kissing Oliver. Though there were enough chairs to sit, she sat on his lap, running her palm beneath his shirt and doing weird things. Can’t she be normal just for a minute?
Looking at Jennie, Jessie too started kissing her boyfriend. She was doing the same and it looked like they were competing who would kiss harder. I wonder what they’ll do if the chairs break because of the double weight.
I noticed Harry was staring at me but I ignored him. He caught my arm and dragged me to him suddenly that made my chair fell down. He made me sit on his lap and wrapped my waist tightly with his arm. I wriggled out and tried to free myself from his grip but he was so strong.
“Harry! What are you doing?” I yelled but in a low voice.
He brought his face close to mine and whispered into my ear huskily. “Being your boyfriend.”
“Leave me.”
“Shhhh! Stella calm down. Don’t make a scene here. You are my girlfriend now.” He said in an utmost serious voice.
The entire situation was giving me goose bumps and I was irritated. I hated the moment, me on his lap. It’s disgusting.
“Stella! I warn you. Be a good girlfriend to me.” He warned in a low voice that made me gulp.
Jennie broke her kiss and looked at us. “Oh! The good girl is not good now.” She laughed.
I didn’t reply anything. I kept silent to whatever the shit she said.
“Harry don’t tell me she is a virgin still.” Jessie laughed.
That moment I was so furious but I couldn’t do anything. I looked at Harry angrily after hearing her sentence. He looked at me and smirked. I hoped he wouldn’t speak anything but his sentence made me froze. “No. She is not. She lost to me.”
I gasped and without even blinking I kept looking at him, shocked. His friends were shouting looking at us. I thought he respected me but no. His sentence made me feel like I was not any special girl to him. I was just a girl with whom he plays and enjoys. Tears started forming my eyes but I controlled them.
“Enjoy man.” Oliver shouted and started squeezing Jennie’s thigh.
Harry said chuckling “My girlfriend.” He placed a kiss on my arm suddenly that made me flinch. I gulped at his actions and fear ran across my spine. He wrapped his both of the arms around my waist tightly pulling me closer to him. It was like he was crushing me. I was so uncomfortable but he was not noticing anything. He continued sipping his drink while looking at me. He was not releasing his grip so I was not getting any chance to escape from him.
I hoped he would understand me but he didn’t. He was enjoying. He then brought his palm to my throat while his other arm kept circling my waist. He then brought his palm down touching everywhere while kissing my arm. My eyes got wet but it was unnoticed by him. He then started touching my knee and started lifting up my dress slowly. I pushed his hand away while looking at him angrily though my eyes were wet. He gave me a similar look and caught both of my hands with his one hand. He kept touching my knee and slipped his hand inside the dress. He began touching my thigh and massaging it.
“If you shout I’ll do the things to you and your friend which you couldn’t even imagine.” He whispered.
Oliver and Jennie stood from there saying “It’s our time.”
I didn’t understand what they meant. They both strolled to a tent and closed it. Jessie and Jaden too did the same telling “Enjoy with your good girl.”
They went to another tent. What does they mean? Should I spent my night with him? I thought I would share the tent with girls but what the hell!
“Now it’s our time.” He smirked.
As soon as he said that I pushed him and stood from his lap. I started running away crying while he was running after me calling my name.
“Wait.” He held my wrist and made me turn to him.
I started hitting his chest with my palms shouting “How could you do that? I thought you won’t see me as all other girls with whom you enjoy. I was wrong.”
He didn’t speak anything. He was looking at me with his furrowed brow.
I continued yelling “I didn’t expect this. I started considering you as my friend but you are not worth of it. No one ever behaved with me the way you behaved. I hate you, Harry. I really hate you.”
“Stop.” He shouted and I flinched hearing him. “I didn’t do anything. Don’t make a scene.” He growled. He then continued yelling “Now be a good girl and come with me inside the tent.”
“No.” I shouted.
He stepped forward and caught my hands then pinned me to the tree trunk.
“Let me go.” I shouted
“Stop shouting. If I want I can do anything and I warn you to not make me angry so that I would go to that stage. I’m asking you to come inside because you couldn’t stay out the entire night and we are not leaving anytime soon.”
He stood straight leaving my hands. He then said “I’ll behave. I promise.”
He motioned his hand to walk forward and I silently walked behind him. We went inside the tent and he lay down. I sat at the corner watching him. He fell asleep within few minutes. While looking at him, the disgusting moments kept revolving in my head. I walked out and sat on the chair looking at the moon.
Suddenly I felt a palm on my mouth. I tried to shout but I couldn’t. Someone dragged me from there without releasing the palm from my mouth. I was dragged away from the place by someone.
“Got you, Stella.” I heard Ben’s voice. Tears started rolling down my cheek.
I was trying to get away from his grip but I couldn’t match his strength. He was dragging me away from the place and my legs started trembling. He took me away from the tents, still in the forest and he removed his palm from my mouth.
He pushed me and I fell down. He was so drunk. He looked like a hungry animal. Immediately I stood and tried to run away but I was hindered by his two friends. They all were so drunk and not in their senses.
Ben pulled me to him and rested his chin at the crook of my neck. He sniffed and placed a kiss there. I pushed him so hard shouting “What the hell Ben! Leave me.”
“I’ve been waiting for this for many days. How can I miss this chance?” Saying that he pushed me to the tree and started kissing my collarbone.
“Harry!” I shouted hoping he would hear my scream and come to save me from this animal.
“You should scream my name not his.” Ben said without stopping kissing me.
I kept crying and pleading him to let me go but they fell on deaf ears.
He brought his face closer to kiss me on my lips and as a reflex I shut my eyes crying. But to my surprise nothing like that happened. I felt his weight on me was fading. I opened my eyes and saw a pair of angry emerald eyes. Harry caught the back of Ben’s neck and was dragging him away from me.
Harry kicked Ben in his stomach so hard that made him growl in pain. His friends attacked Harry but he was giving them a tough fight.
“How many times I should beat you? I’m getting bored Ben.” Saying that Harry hit Ben’s head to the ground and I gasped looking at it.
Ben’s friend hit Harry with a wooden stick but he didn’t show any kind of pain. He turned to that guy and hit him in his stomach that made him cough out blood. The two of Ben’s friends fell to the ground and were screaming in pain. Harry and Ben continued fighting. Harry was giving him hard punches that made him scream out loud.
Ben couldn’t take the pain anymore and started pleading “No. No. Stop.”
Harry stood beside me wrapping his arm around my shoulder, pulling me close. “She is my girlfriend. My princess. My Stella. I won’t regret killing a person for her.” He shouted.
My mouth dropped wide open hearing him. The moment he wrapped his arm around me and shouting at Ben, it felt like he would never leave my side. I felt care, warmth and above all love in his words and it’s the first time I ever felt the way. Many minutes before I was disgusted with his presence but now I was feeling protected in his arms. The way he said ‘My stella’ was really deep and felt like hearing it again and again from his mouth. A sudden thought of how it would be if I really become his girlfriend, streaked my head.
Harry pointed his finger at Ben and shouted “If I ever see even your shadow approaching her, I will never spare you again. Got it?”
Ben nodded his head while coughing out blood. Harry and I strolled to the tents. I pry off his hand from my shoulder and started crying. He again wrapped his arm around my shoulder but I again pushed his hand. He kept doing it and I kept removing it. He cupped my face and looked at me deeply with his soul piercing eyes. He then pulled me to his chest, hugging me. I kept crying and he hugged me so tightly consoling.
We entered in the tent and sat. He kept looking at me with apologetic eyes.
“Take me home.” I said.
“It’s late night. Your parents will be afraid seeing us like this. Trust me. I’ll drop you safely tomorrow.”
“I’m scared.” I said looking at him.
He held my hand saying “As long as I take my breath, I won’t let anything happen to you.”
I bent my head down not giving him an eye contact.
He said “Take rest.” And strolled out of the tent. He washed his face with water and stood in front of the tent in a guarding position. It looked like he was even ready to kill if someone tries to harm me. Looking at him I shut my eyes. Unknowingly I drifted into sleep.