Ethereal Pleasure | Venable vs Winters

Chapter 11 | Blinding Lights

A random Thursday and the intercollegiate is next week. You don't feel excitement or nerves as you only feel emptiness from being alone. Furthermore, whenever you're looking at your fellow college students you feel like they know something about your video as you can see them laugh when you catch them looking at you.

Loneliness makes you feel anxious about what people think when they lay their eyes on you. Do they know about your secret? Are they disgusted by what you did? All questions and no single answer have run around your head all day and from the past few days.

You feel peace as Miss Hariss doesn't bother you from your daily routine yet in this peace you feel isolated from everyone. You're still tired from the sleepless nights you spend overthinking how can you survive till graduation and if Wilhemina did leak your video.

You're currently at the library, pretending to read textbooks but you just put on your old headset as you surf the internet on your laptop. You're checking emails and messages, seeing an important-labeled email from an unknown account.

Clicking it to check and it's your video. You shut your laptop close and spring off of the armchair you're sitting at as you are alarmed by what you saw. Thrilled and enrage you are while you think of the only person who could have done it.

Some students' phones dings and you pull out yours from your pants pocket to check what's the sudden notification that almost everyone receives. It's an email from an unknown sender. Students started to laugh but the librarian shushes them off.

You're too anxious to see what's inside of the email and some students' eyes are darted on you as they silently chuckle to themselves. You're afraid that it's the CCTV footage of you and Miss Gerhard.

You rush out of the library, hearing students laughing and chatting about what they are seeing "Ew, they should have rented a room somewhere else." A student was disgusted as she utters her opinion.

Your head is angled down to avoid everyone's gazes, feeling ashamed of your scandal. Your hands and feet are cold as you feel embarrassed with rage.

Someone harshly grabs your forearm while you walk down to an empty hallway. Your head tilts up to look at the person. It's Andrea, her furious eyes met yours as you tried to pull your arm away. "Was it you?" Her jaws are clench as she stressed each word.

"Huh? What do you mean?" You turn your gaze somewhere as you think she knows about the email. However, Andrea pulls her phone up and shows a video.

It's her and her girlfriend, Caitlyn, having sex inside the female locker room. Your eyes widen and see the same sender. "Did you spread it? I know it's you! Why the hell is there a camera in the locker room?" She pulls the collar of your jacket to bring you up closer to her face

"Of course not, why would I do that?" Your eyes are afraid and about to burst as you feel relief that it's not your video. "It's not me, Andrea. I swear." You hold her wrist while you tiptoe, slightly prying her hands.

She groans as she lets you go "I'll find out if you're lying and if you do, say goodnight." Andrea walks to the emergency exit of the school to avoid people on her way out.

Your phone dings and you got a message. You read it and it's from an unsaved contact.

"I hope you don't want the same thing to happen to you."

You see Miss Hariss is walking upstairs as you're going down. You stop and slowly turn around, hoping she didn't see you. "Miss (l/n)?" She rushes up next to you and hands you a letter "This is from the university's office. I'll go ahead." You get the letter before she went down to leave.