(Nikki P. O. V)
I wake up the next morning to find the spots next to me empty. Then, I remembered that he left yesterday’s night without even saying goodbye to me and it broke my heart. I turn to my side to find a letter on the nightstand. I sat up and start reading the letter.
*My love, I am sorry to leave you without saying goodbye to you but when we reach home you have already fallen asleep by then and I don’t want to wake you up just to say goodbye to you but, I promise, I will try to return home as soon as possible. I am going to miss you.
I love you.
Don’t miss me too much.
– Love Cole,* I read the letter, and a smile automatically forms on my face. I turned to see it was 8:00 am so I decided to get ready for the day and call him.
After talking with Cole I feel a little bit better. I arrange my things in the school bag and walk downstairs to have breakfast with others. After breakfast, Trevor drops me at the school. I say goodbye to Trevor and walk inside the school.
“Hey, Nikki,” I heard my friend Alisha call me while I was about to open my locker.
“Hey, Alisha, did you do Mr. James’s homework?” I ask her while opening my locker.
“What homework?” she asks me.
“The assignments he has given to us to make the list of all the formulas of Chapter Seven?” I ask her.
“When?” she asks.
“Three days ago on Friday, don’t tell me you forgot it,” I said glaring at her.
“Yes, I forgot it,” she said looking down at her shoes like, it is the most interesting thing in the world.
“It is the important chapter of our syllabus you know, if you don’t submit it on time, Mr. James will cut you internal marks, how could you forget about it, Alisha? ” I ask while glaring at her.
“I am sorry, Can you help me by giving your assignment to me, so that I can copy it down in my book,” she asks me.
“But, we don’t have enough time to copy it down because we have Mr. James’ class right after Miss. Broad class,” I said to her while searching for the homework in my bag.
“Don’t worry about it, I will handle it,” she said smiling at me and I narrowed my eyes at her. The bell rang signaling that its time to go to our class. I hurriedly find it and give it to her, then we walk to our class.
The school went as usual and, I felt relieved when my friend gave my homework back to me. I close my locker and walk outside of the school, where Trevor was standing beside the car waiting for me while talking to someone on the phone. I walked towards him and stood beside him, waiting for him to finish his call and take me home when I heard someone call me.
I turned my head to see it was one of my classmates Riyo.
“Hey, Riyo, do you need something?” I ask her.
“Yes, can you give me, Mr. Joy’s notes, actually he was dictating it so fast, that I missed some points in it,” she asks shyly.
“Sure, wait a minute, please,” I said to her and she nodded her head at me.
“Trevor,” I call him and he looks at me.
“What is it?” he asks taking his phone away from his ear.
“I am going inside the school, I will be back in no time, okay?” I asked him and he nodded his head at me. I grab Riyos hand and walk inside the school with her. After giving her notes, I was going back to Trevor, I felt the sudden urge to go to the toilet. So, I walked inside the washroom, put my bag in the sink, and, walk inside the stall. After finishing my business, I wash my hands and am about to walk out of the washroom when I feel someone breathing on my neck.
“Damn, with every passing day your smell is getting stronger and stronger,” I heard someone say to me while putting his head in my hair and smelling it. I open my mouth to scream for Trevor but before I can do that, he shuts my mouth with his hand.
“Shh, I would not do that, if I was you, princess,” the man said chuckling evilly.
“I wonder, what would you taste like if you smelled so wonderful,” he said licking my neck and making me shiver in disgust and fear.
“Stop wasting time your time while playing with her, Alok, and let’s get out of here before, someone finds us, ” another unfamiliar voice said to the person who is holding me, whose name I guess is Alok.
“What a party proper, you are mutt,” Alok said to another person with a sigh of annoyance.
“Guess, we have to go, princess, good night,” Alok said to me and I felt a sting in my neck then, I blacked out on him.