Chapter 67
Unknown: You’re not going to get away so easily this time.
His black eyes closed a circuit with mine and I felt myself shudder as a cruel amused smirk slid across his handsome face. I was frozen in panic as Noah carefully set the phone down on the desk and leaned forward in his seat, his eyes never leaving me.
“You might want to look at those photos before someone else does.” He spoke low enough that I could hear him but no one else could. “I’m giving you fifteen minutes and then I’m sending them to the whole school.”
The ominous warning was enough to make me open my phone quickly, scrolling through the messages and photos until I was right at the beginning. The first photo wasn’t particularly alarming. If this had been any other situation, the photo might have been innocent but I knew better. In the photo, Kyle and I were walking through the school gates. I couldn’t remember anything about the day the photo was taken but I guessed it must have been just after my birthday because I couldn’t see any bruises on my neck.
The following few photos were similar although eventually they were of just me in variot classes or in the hallway. Then the photos changed, one of me at work, one of me walking up to my house, one of me in my bedroom sleeping, another one where I am at my desk, several of me in various stages of undress…
I looked up at Noah, my eyes wide in horror.
“Keep scrolling, they get better.” He sneered.
He says they get better but I’d argue they got so much worse. The photos of my room bleed into me at the party. In the first few I was with Jesse and Bianca, then I was in the garden alone. The photos then show what looks like a hallway in a house. It’s dark in the photo so it was difficult to make out anything specific but I can make out the form of someone slumped on the floor. The photos seemed to act like action stills, the camera getting closer and closer to the form until I can make out my long brown hair and my eyes that look unfocused and glazed as if I’m in some type of trance.
It’s the night I was drugged and attacked. Noah was behind it. He was behind everything.
I felt sick. I couldn’t breathe, Noah had been in my house. He had been following me. He had drugged me and nearly gotten me killed. 1
I shoved my seat back, forcing myself onto shaking legs as my breath became staccatoed. I could hear Noah chuckling in amusement, feeling his empty eyes mocking me as I stumbled
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from my desk and ran for the door. I wanted to scream. I wanted to run. I wanted the ground to swallow me whole. Those photos were of me in a vulnerable position while others were of me in the privacy of my own home. Two of them were of me naked! D
“Ellie!” Kyle’s worried voice broke through the panic, his arm grabbing my arm and pulling to look at me. “Ellie? What’s wrong? What happened?”
“It was him…” I gasped. “He was behind what happened to me at the party. He’s been following
me…”
Kyle’s eyes darkened and I could see my own terrified image reflecting in them. “Who?”
“He has photos and he’s going to share them.” I only realised now that I was crying as a sob wracked my ribcage, my fingers trembling as Kyle snatched my phone from to scroll the photos. “He’s going to send them to the whole school…”
Kyle cursed, his jaw clenching and the muscle ticking. “Noah.” He gritted out. “I’m going to kill him.” (2
In a split second, he spun on his heel and was storming back towards the classroom.
“Kyle! No!” Like an idiot I followed him, worried he was going to do something stupid. “Stop!”
Somehow Kyle was moving much quicker than me and despite my attempts to slow him down, he wasn’t hearing me. It was like he was possessed or seeing red. I had only made it to the door of the classroom but Kyle already made it to Noah.
Time seemed to slow down at that moment. I could only watch in horror as Noah’s dark eyes landed on me while Kyle approached him with hands curling into fists. I saw it then, the look in Noah’s cold eyes and the small smirk that tugged his lips. It was all I needed to see to realise Noah had played us. He had purposely sent the pictures knowing I’d get upset and Kyle would react and we had fallen for it.
“Kyle! Stop!” I yelled, my heart jumping into my throat as my friend sent his fist slamming into Noah’s cheek with enough force to send him flying out of his seat to the floor. “No!”
It felt like all hell broke loose with that one act. Other students were jumping up to get a better look as Kyle let his wrath rain down Noah. Noah didn’t even try to stop him. He simply glared up at Kyle, daring him to do his worst and Kyle was only too happy to comply. Not a single person in this room except for Noah, Kyle or I knew what this was about which made this look like a completely unprovoked attack.
Noah couldn’t have set this up in his favour better if he tried.
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My legs finally moved again when one of Noah’s friends grabbed Kyle to try and pull him off. 1 forced as much of my terror down as possible to run over.
“Stop it!” I pleaded, trying to get between Noah and Kyle. “Kyle! Stop! This is what he wants!”
“Then he can have it because I’m going to destroy him!” Kyle seethed, pushing Noah’s friend off of him, the boy stumbling into some abandoned chairs.
“Aw, what’s wrong, Kyle?” Noah taunted, pushing himself to his feet, blood dribbling from his lip. “Jealous that I got to see her tits first? Got to admit, they’re fucking hot. You should see the ones I have of her ass. You’d be creaming for days bro‘.”
I screamed as Kyle bit the bait once more, pushing me out of the way to lunge at Noah, fists flying while I landed ungracefully on the floor, pain shooting up my spine and sprained wrist. Kyle had Noah on the ground in seconds.
“What’s going on here!?”
The outraged voice of our teacher pierced through the shouting and chanting. Byst quickly sank back into their seats with sheepish looks, leaving us three to suffer the wI
our teacher.
“Mr. Anderson, remove yourself from Mr. Winters this instant!” Mrs Bradley barked. “What possessed you to fight like animals in school?“.
“Miss, please. It’s not what it looks like.” I spoke up, pushing myself to my feet.
“And what does it look like Miss Ramirez? The teacher turned her sharp gaze on me. “Because from here it looks like two students fighting!”
I opened my mouth, wanting to say something but nothing came out and I quickly shut my mouth when Mrs. Bradley shot me a warning glare.
“You three with me.” Mrs Bradley snapped. “Now.”
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Bruh like you literally don’t have to be there. You can graduate. I’d rather be bored than dead. I get now she’s not safe at home but this Kyle getting probably expelled could b…
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