Patient Enough? (On Hold)

12

Monday (2 days later)

Ruby POV

Joyce and charlotte decided to get Y/N while she walks to school. I didn't agree with that or any other action against Y/N but I obviously knew better than to tell them that. You might think, why the hell I'm friends with them, well it's quite simple. Our Parents are close business partners and have known each other for almost 2 decades, so we kind of have to be friends, and also being friends with them keeps me out of harm's way. We weren't always this bad, we used to just bully people that deserved it, for example, there was a guy that always groped girls. Teachers didn't do anything besides just to tell him to stop but obviously, he didn't. So we roughed him up a couple of times and he finally did stop, though he transferred to another school shortly after. If Joyce wouldn't be such a crazy Blackpink fan we would have never even talked to Y/N, she would just be another unimportant person. Though not for me I kind of always admired her but not in a romantic way, more like I look up to her as a person. She was really kind and sweet, if you're on her good side that is and she doesn't let any rumor get to her. All the time when some person was talking badly about her or making jokes about the fact that she doesn't have a dad, she just straight-up ignored it. I wish I could be a little more like her maybe then I would be able to tell Joyce and charlotte to go fuck themselves. But oh well, here I am secretly texting Y/N again, to tell her that she needs to avoid her normal school route so that I don't have to help her get beat up.

Y/N POV

As I walk out of the house door, to go to school, I get a notification.

'Huh?' It was the number again, this time I did not have to think about whether to listen to it or not considering last time the message was actually helpful. So I obviously took a different route to school. As usual, I put on my headphones and listened to music as I walked.

(I am kind of obsessed with Arcane right now. It's literally the best series of 2021, so if you have not seen it yet, you really should.)

Don't know if it's because of the message but I'm still alive and already in school. The new route took me a bit longer than my normal one, so I have to hurry to class, wouldn't wanna be late.

Ruby POV

Right now Joyce is having one of her typical tantrum episodes, that she usually gets when something doesn't go her way.
' what a spoiled brat' 
I on the other hand couldn't be happier that Y/N took my advice from the message. Although I feel really nervous and anxious about this whole situation. I'm constantly thinking about what could possibly happen if Joyce and charlotte would find out that I'm helping Y/N. The things that come to my mind aren't great at all.

Joyce is still pacing around, "God damn it! today of all fucking days! she chooses to take a whole other way to school! we can be this unlucky right?" she looks at us and scoffs "You know what? we will just catch her after school"  'shit not good' 

Y/N POV

The school day is almost over. I'm in my last period and we have 10 minutes left, I'm impatiently counting down the seconds, I just wanna go home and sleep. Finally, the bell rings and I head out, I still take the different route home just in case. I'm halfway home when I'm suddenly being pushed onto the ground, luckily I fell onto the grass so it didn't hurt as much. I look up to see who pushed me, unsurprisingly I see Joyce and her groupies.

Ruby POV

Damn it, I really wanted to avoid this but it would have been suspicious if I warned her again. I hate doing this, I don't wanna hurt anyone. 

Y/N looked up at us in surprise, though that changed immediately to anger, once she realized who she was looking at.
" what. do. you. want?!" She didn't scream, she rather talked quietly but you could sense her anger clearly. Joyce laughed and kneeled down to face Y/N, she came really close to her face. 
"What do you think? We missed you of course Y/N, we need our cute, little,  punching bag" she begins to slap her face lightly and smile at her. Honestly, Joyce really freaks me out when she is like that. I think Y/N is slightly disturbed by her too right now.

Y/N POV

"what the hell is wrong with you?"
I push Joyce away from me and try to flee. Sadly the second part doesn't work, one of the girls gets me before I can run. Joyce laughs sarcastically while standing up.
"You really are annoying you know that?", she walks over to me slowly. I try to get out of the girl's grip but it's no use she is way stronger than me. Joyce suddenly takes a knife out of her pocket, panic rises through my whole body. There has to be a way out of this situation, think hard Y/N. I look around to find anything at all, something, there has to be something. My eyes land on the 3rd girl, the girl that didn't tell them when she saw me the other night. Would she help me? I look at her pleadingly for help. Her eyes widen and her face fills with, I think, guilt and worry. Her mouth opens like she wanted to say something but she immediately closes it again. She looks away from me.  I lost all my hope and turn my attention back to Joyce who is already in front of me. She raises her knife and points at my left hand with it.
"Which finger do you want to keep? your thumb or your pinkie?". I felt how my blood stopped flowing, my mouth went suddenly dry and I barely managed to speak " what..?"

A/N: oh wow Joyce is really going berserk mode huh. Anyway, this is it for chapter 12, hope you all like it. As always if you find any mistakes tell me in the comments.