Tolerating The Player

ZACH’S POV

I felt my world crumbling down the moment she looked at me in the middle of the school students and walked out. I didn’t feel any humiliation neither was I embarrassed but I felt a sharp pain in my chest like the one I felt when I saw my mother lying dead on the hospital bed.

I brought out my phone and immediately dialed Devin’s number, I can’t stay in this school anymore. He picked the call after some while but it seemed like he was still busy. I almost cancelled on him and thought of taking a cab but he wouldn’t trust me to be alone. He thinks I’m suicidal.

“Okay I’ll wait” I finally replied and ended the call when he said I should wait outside the school and he will be here shortly.

I stood outside the school waiting patiently for him, he arrived shortly and as soon as I entered the car he received a call on his phone.

“I’ll be back, excuse me” he picked the call and left the car, I was alone with my thoughts again. I heard footsteps coming outside and I looked up to see Maya and Isabella leaving the school. She didn’t look happy and you can easily tell she was sad and lost in her thoughts.

She turned her head and her face met mine but I turned my face from hers and rather stared outside the window. For a reason unknown to me, I almost cried but hell I can’t be seen crying over someone who doesn’t acknowledge me but at the same time it hurt that she didn’t acknowledge me.

Their car shortly zoomed off while Devin was still on a call and I suspected him to be on a call with his girlfriend. The school’s closing bell rang and students trooped out.

“Shit!” I cussed aloud. I didn’t want them to meet me outside but now I have nowhere to run to and avoid questions.

“OMG Zach is still here” a girl squealed and I almost pretended to be asleep before Devin came in with a smile on his face. He was definitely talking to his girlfriend.

“Can we go now?” I scoffed and he nodded his head before turning on the car.

We got to my house and I could feel the emptiness building in me. I don’t know why but I was picturing her in every place she used to stand while she was still living with me.

I decided to take a shower and maybe a long nap afterwards to relieve me of the tension and stress. After the shower I laid flat on the bed facing the ceiling as I soon slept off.

The vibration of my phone woke me up and I had four missed calls already. I waited for the caller to call again since it was an unknown number.

The number called back in less than a minute. “Are you coming to Frank’s party?” A voice said over the phone immediately I answered the call and it took me a while to notice that it was Lam’s voice.

“Who the hell is Frank?” I asked not caring if it might sound off or come out rude.

“A human Zach and he’s hosting a very dope party, you should come-” I cut him off his sentence.

“I’m uninterested” I replied and he sighed deeply.

“Alright I’ll text you the address in case you changed your mind” he replied right before I ended the call. The bastard was really serious about the party and I received a text containing the address in less than a minute.

If I was in a better mood then I would have surely gone to the party but I wasn’t having any bit of party spirit in me. I would also go if Bella is in the party and If she would talk to me but since I very well know she hates parties there’s no way in hell she’ll be in a “Frank’s party”.

I crashed back on the bed and decided to go back to sleep but the moment I closed my eyes Devin barged into my room like a mad man.

“What the hell do you want?” I asked and he shook his head.

“Uhm do you have scissors?” He asked while scanning through the room.

I stood up from my bed to give it to him and he thanked me before leaving my room but the moment I closed my eyes again the door of my room opened.

“What the fuck are you up to and what the hell do you need this time?” I yelled, already losing my temper.

“Uhm do you have a knife, blade, screwdriver that I can borrow?” He asked and I stared at him in dismay.

“What the fuck do you need them for?” I asked and he tucked his hands into his jean pocket as he shoved his tongue to the side of his mouth. Dammit!

He thinks I’m suicidal and doesn’t want me to hurt myself while alone in my room.

“Get a life Devin, I’m not suicidal” I said but he doesn’t seem to want to believe me.Copyright by Nôv/elDrama.Org.

“Okay let’s go to the salon, we both look like bears” I said and a smile tucked at the corner of his lips.

*******

I woke up and the memories from yesterday flashed through my head making me instantly sad but today wasn’t meant for me to be sad like I was yesterday rather I would try to make it up to her today.

Devin drove me to school before he drove himself to the mechanic. I really caused a lot of damage to his car but he didn’t seem to mind.

I entered the school with a rose flower tucked in my bag pack. I hope to be able to meet her today so as to tell her I can’t do without her around me. I searched her classroom but she wasn’t there and I was left wondering where she could have been. Maya was also not in school and Xavier included. I wondered why the three of them were not in school and in no time I started to get worried.

I was walking past the hallway when an abandoned classroom door opened and Aurora perked her head out and gestured for me to come in.

I didn’t have time for her games so I ignored her and continued to walk.

“It’s about your precious Isabella” her voice rang in my ear and at the mention of Isabella i walked back and followed her into the room.

“I have something to show you, so you don’t go around thinking quiet girls are angels” she said with a smirk on her face and played a video before giving the phone to me.

I stared at the video for some while before I finally saw Isabella’s face, a dude was naked on her and he was touching her naked body. My Bella’s body.

I immediately felt anger in me as my eyes turned red In seconds. I didn’t bother to watch the rest of the video as I smashed the phone on the floor and stomped on it repeatedly till it broke into pieces. Aurora’s face fell at the sight of it but I was just getting started.

“Where is she?” I demanded as I held her tight in her throat. I’ve never physically abused a girl but Aurora wasn’t a girl anymore, she was a beast.

“Where is she?!” I roared as my hands got tighter around her throat, tears started to flow from her eyes but I wasn’t going to pity a bitch who stooped so low.

“What does she have that I do not have?” She cried and I released my grip on her neck but tightly held her chin and brought her face to look up to me.

“For the last time Aurora, where is my Bella?” I roared and she scoffed before cleaning off the tears in her eyes.

“I don’t know, Xavier picked her up” she replied while sniffing her nose and my hand left her chin, fucking bullshit! Xavier was there for her and I wasn’t.

“Do this next time and you won’t be dead alone” I warned and she stared at me in awe. She probably didn’t realize that I would know she set everything up, it was obvious that my Bella was unconscious because she wasn’t moving her body.

I really did hope that she had no other videos and the one on her phone should be the last one, after I figure out where and how Bella is I’ll make sure to pay the bastard on her a visit.

Only if I had listened to Lam and have gone to the freaking fucking party then she wouldn’t need to face this humiliation and I would have saved her rather than it being Xavier.

The thought of Xavier seeing her naked body made me cringe in annoyance. Fuck it! Other boys have seen her naked body. I felt anger in me as I punched the wall beside me not minding the profusely bleeding wound from my hand.

I went outside the school building forgetting that my car was with Devin, I called him immediately and tagged it as an emergency, there was no way he wouldn’t be here with my shaky voice filled with rage.

He parked the car in front of me and as I was about to get into the driver’s seat he noticed my hand bleeding and stopped me.

“I can’t let you go, you’re not in the right state of mind” he slightly pushed me backward.

“I promise I won’t die, if I die then erase me from your memory” I said and started the car. All that mattered was for me to get to Bella and see the way she was doing, she must really be devastated.

I was about to hit the accelerator when the door opened and Devin sat down in the seat tucking in his seat belt.

“Where are we going?” He asked as he stared straight at the road.

“To find Bella, she was almost raped” I replied but my voice cracked almost at the end of my sentence. It was really hard for me to say the word “rape”.