Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Square One ❯ Chapter 1 ( Chapter 1 )

 

SQUARE ONE

~Zhao Dee ~

 

 

As the nurse pushed the plunger she felt the painful tingling sensation on her arm as the medication was being given to her. The pain she felt from the shot was already enough to take her attention away from the throbbing on her left side.

 

Thank goodness. She thought she was going to die the moment the car hit her. Well the Almighty One above sure knows mercy.

 

“You should not be doing a lot of strenuous activities until you've recuperated.” The nurse instructed as she covered the used syringe with its cap. “You almost broke three ribs, we don't want that to really happen, right?”

 

She gave a light nod and said some quick thanks to the nurse who attended to her, and then turned to her companion-who was scared shitless.

 

“I did not die Buster, loosen up.”

 

The boy with a red mohawk glared at her. He was obviously not taking well to her joke.

 

“You're not the one candidate for castration here Stelix” He muttered to her, then gulped at the thought.

 

The girl sitting on the bed rolled her blue eyes “I almost got myself killed Busty, lucky for you I'm still joking here to lighten up the mood.”

 

“Shit! I swear if Dae-“ But he wasn't able to continue because the door opened with a slam, revealing two equally handsome young men wearing muscle shirts, clenching and unclenching their fists.

 

As she watched two of her closest friends step inside, she instantly knew that Buster wasn't leaving without breaking a finger or two.

 

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The very moment Daemon stepped inside the halls of his school, he already felt the prying eyes of the people around. He did not like it at all, but over the years he'd learned to ignore it.

 

There is only one goal as of the moment: to take his best friend to her classroom without anybody coming over and asking her what happened. It wasn't like anyone really deserved to know, like they needed to waste their time on curious and intrusive questions.

 

When he saw Kenya McEmily Berrington he knew that it was impossible to reach that goal now.

 

Kenya isn't the school's biggest gossip, she's just one of the concerned few who want to learn details to try to improve the situation. She's also the Student Council President after all. When she heard what happened to Stelix earlier today, she immediately went to find her.

 

“Are you alright?” she asked politely. The frown on Stelix face answered her question.

 

Rex is your I-don't-care-about-the-world type of guy and his poker face proves the point. He doesn't care about anything at all, but the situation at hand amused him so much that it almost made him lose the disinterested expression on his face. Almost.

 

“Look Berrington, what happened to me earlier is none of your f-ing business” Stelix said coldly. “And it was an accident, so don't try to scoop up the details, coz no matter what it ain't gonna change anything.”

 

Kenya swallowed hard. Clearly she just got herself humiliated by Stelix, again. But then she nodded in understanding “If there is anything I can do to help just tell me”

 

Stelix scoffed “Then do me a favor, and wipe yourself off the face of the earth coz people like you are sore to my eyes”

 

Someone cleared his throat from behind and the crowd gave way to another Reeve Grahn Academy star. Sloan Pettischuter. Great, just great.

 

“She was just trying to help Ms. Stella” Sloan said as he stopped by Kenya's side and held her hand.

 

Daemon rolled his eyes at another of Sloan's common “grand entrances”. The idiot sure knows how to run a show. Daemon glanced at Stelix, who'd gone rigid as she heard Sloan call her by her true name. Buster, Rex and he knew all too well how Stelix hated to be called by that name. Daemon did expect his best friend to throw a punch like she usually does like when Buster teases her with that name, but instead she just smirked and walked away.

 

 

 

 

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Buster did break two fingers at the hospital a few hours ago but damn he sure still was annoying, and Rex was starting lose his cool.

 

“Why didn't cha throw a punch at him Stelix? He called you by your real name.” He pouted “And when I say Stella I always get an upper cut.”

 

Rex watched as Stelix stopped walking, turned to Buster and punched his jaw. She winced and touched the sore side of her body before going back near Daemon, who gave her a reprimanding look.

 

Buster touched the spot in his jaw and turned to Rex “Why did you guys befriend me again?”

 

Rex thought for a moment before answering “Because you're useless and you're uselessness makes you totally useful.”, then gave him an upper cut of his own.

 

“Didn't I tell you before to be careful.” Daemon hissed as he watched Stelix walking while still holding her side.

 

“Oh! Shut up, this is nothing.“ She waved her free hand and walked faster.

 

“I'm taking you to the hospital” He declared.

 

Stelix frowned “My calculus report is today.”

 

“You can always approach the teacher-“

 

“No!”

“Then I'll just have to accompany you wherever you go.” Daemon said.

 

Stelix scowled. “Fine after class you can take me to the hospital.”

 

Daemon became quiet, but he still did not move himself away from her.

 

“And stop following me!” she added with a scream

 

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Stelix owns her body and she knew that she was absolutely fine, that Daemon was just being paranoid. As she stepped out of the hospital, a small smile graced her lips.

 

She saw the person she was waiting for. She slightly waved her good hand and jogged to where his car was parked. He immediately embraced her and kissed the top of her head.

 

“You scared me there Stella.”

 

She looked up and grinned “I didn't know I was capable of letting you feel that Sloan.”

He pinched her cheek and opened the car's door for her.

 

Sloan was anxious upon hearing the news about Stella's accident. When he'd heard, he felt like jumping right off of his speeding car to find her himself and make sure that she's okay- and now, he is glad that she really is fine.

 

“What really happened?” he asked

 

Stelix thought for awhile and narrated the story about how Buster got drunk and decided to drive even if he was seeing everything in sixes.

 

“I ran towards the driver's seat to pull him out there but he stepped on the accelerator and I was in front of his freaking car, so I ended up being hit.”

 

He held her hand tightly “You shouldn't do hero stuff, you're not made for that.” She rolled her eyes at his lack of confidence in her.

 

There was a moment of silence and the two of them didn't exactly know what next to converse about. It is very rare for them to meet like this. Seeing as this relationship is both socially unacceptable and very sinful. (At least, it was, to the eyes of the people at Reeve Grahn)

 

Stelix began tapping her lap and whistling lowly. Sloan kept glancing at his side mirror and he started tightening and loosening his grip on the steering wheel.

 

“Hey!” the two of them started in chorus, which made both of them smile.

 

“You go first” Sloan allowed.

 

Stelix nodded “Why did you want to meet me?”

 

Sloan thought for awhile and shifted in his seat so he was facing her. “I came here to talk about what happened between you and Kenya.”

 

Stelix's smile fell and Sloan knew that it was a sign that she is all attentive “Go easy on her Stella, you know how she cares about the school”

 

Stelix frowned “As if. She doesn't even own the school, why care about it too much, and enough to pry on other people's business?”

 

Sloan sighed. One thing that's hard about Stelix is that she doesn't listen. She's stubborn. “Stella, please understand that-“

 

“That you're taking her side now!” she interjected angrily.

 

“I'm not taking sides. You're being unfair to her, she doesn't know what's made you so angry at her. She keeps thinking about it and it makes her frustrated.” Sloan snapped

 

Stelix scoffed “If there is someone who is being treated unfairly here, it's me”

 

Sloan turned away but Stelix did not stop there “Why should I go easy on her when I know she's the reason why we can't be what we used to be”

 

He turned to face her immediately, his eyes wide. She knew that he was about to say something but she decided not to hear any of it. It's the same as before and she was tired of hearing it.

 

“All you have to do is choose Sloan” Tears fell from her eyes, he tried to hold her hand but she withdrew it. “Coz you know what? I'm tired of being treated second when I know I'm first”

 

She did not bother to wait for his reaction and she didn't want to see it either. Quickly she opened the car's door and went out, making sure she closed it with a slam.

 

 

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Kenya bit her lip. Sloan refused to answer her calls since an hour ago and it was making her uneasy. He doesn't usually leave without her or without telling her where he would be going. This was the third time this has happened.

 

“Want some?” someone said and offered her a stick of cigarette. Kenya glared at that person and threw the stick into the nearest trash bin.

 

“You sure haven't changed” the person said sarcastically.

 

“Neither have you.” she replied in annoyance.

 

“I can tell that your boyfriend left you in here without giving you any clue where he is.” The person smirked.

 

Kenya tried to smile and leave but her unwanted companion's dark chuckle made her stay in place. “Are you trying to insult me? If you are, then please stop, I can't take two insults in a day.”

 

He smirked “But you deserve it”

 

Kenya stared at him coldly “Shut up Daemon.”

 

He rolled his almond eyes “See why you deserve it?”

 

She took a brave step forward and stomped on his foot, but he just laughed at her.

 

Sometimes, even the smartest person can act dumb. He bent towards her and whispered in her ear “You know that won't hurt me.”

 

She stiffened and that satisfied him. She tried to take a step backwards but he held her tightly in place.

 

“W-w-what are you doing?” Kenya asked in a stutter.

 

He bent closer to her lips. He stared at them for a moment before he pushed her lightly and laughed.

 

“You're scared.” he let out in between laughs. She narrowed her eyes and threw useless punches at his hard abdomen.

 

“That won't do anything, you know that” He just watched amusingly as she continued to throw, what was supposed to be her strong punches, at him. “C'mon that won't work, you've seen them before, a lot of times I might recall, so you know…” He spoke slowly, saying the last words in a tease, trying to pull at her strings.

 

She stopped abruptly and stared at him in disbelief. Kenya blushed tomato red. Seeing her reaction made him confident to tease her more “Oh! Not just before but,” He'd completely invaded her space by now, “the last time was around two weeks ago, at Pentraust's birthday party remember?”

 

Guilt spread over her face but she recovered immediately. Suddenly an animalistic grin appeared on her lips. “Stop teasing me Daemon, I hate it” she growled. She thought it was going to drive him away, but it didn't work. Instead his lips descended on hers with an intensity driven by hunger and lust.

 

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When Stelix was sure that she was a safe distance from Sloan, she cried harder. She put her hood on so people would stop staring at her.

 

She loves him so much that she abided him defending Kenya, but that was the last straw. Because of the choices he refused to make before, both of them are suffering.
Whether Sloan may like it or not, he has to decide which one he should let go. For the heart is only one and it can never accommodate two, and it can't function in halves coz it's meant to be intact and be given fully to the one it truly desires.

 

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Daemon was in the middle of buckling his pants when his phone rang. Kenya stared at him as he read his text message. Damien “Daemon” Monraegon was the first and the longest boyfriend she'd ever had. And she did love him with all her heart. But certain circumstances did not allow them to be together. Her ambition to surpass Stella Alexandra's popularity to get the student council's presidency, and Daemon's firm decision to remain a loser and be uncorrupted by the disease he calls fame were the contributing factors.

 

Oh! She did surpass Stella “Stelix” Alexandra, but on that same day she and Daemon also broke up. She had a hard time getting over him. Good thing Sloan came along and rescued her.

 

Sloan… He is the one she loves now. The on and off sex with Daemon meant nothing. She just did it to satisfy her needs that Sloan cannot seem to give, no matter how desperately she asked for it. Her heart now beats for Sloan and not for Daemon. And she also wonders if it was the same for Sloan as well.

 

“I gotta go, I need to pick up Stelix” Daemon said, and put his muscle shirt back on. Kenya hated it when he went back on his guarded mode.

 

Her lids lowered, and from under her lashes she spoke. “Daemon, can I ask you something?”

 

He nodded and waited for the question.

 

“Do you still love me?”

 

Daemon's face hardened. It was obvious he wasn't really comfortable with answering it. She could tell by the look on his black eyes that implicated what he was thinking.

 

He sighed and stared at her. His eyes, this time, did not reveal the answer, though he spoke them aloud instead. “I still love you.”

 

Kenya could feel her heart pounding hard “but, I already love somebody else more than you” He finished.

 

A smile of understanding appeared on Kenya's lips. “I'm glad, because I really hate the idea of hurting you.”

 

“Are you ending this?” Daemon asked bluntly.

 

Kenya need not to ask what he meant by “this”. She knew he meant their secret meetings with the sex that ensued. She shook her head “no”.

 

“You already have a boyfriend” he pointed out.

 

Kenya rolled her eyes “He isn't satisfying me at all.” Then she glared at him “But don't misunderstand what I said, I still love Sloan no matter what.”

 

Daemon raised a brow. “Even if he is a virgin?”

 

Kenya laughed really hard “Yep, even if he's a virgin”. They shared high five. That was enough to lighten up the mood.

 

 

 

 

TBC