Clashing Hearts (Now Available On Radish)

Chapter 5 Lost

While recording him, the two girls stated, "This video will definitely go viral today."

Jason gets on his bike and removes the stand, nearly ready to execute his special stunt for his girlfriend.

"Now let's get started! Congratulations, Jason." Ned yelled and clapped for Jason as he prepared to begin his stunt.

Only for his girlfriend, Lexi, Jason circled his bike at full speed around the heart formed of red rose petals on the ground!

The berry, on the other hand, was pouting as she gazed around for the principal's office, when she observed two girls snapping selfies around the specially adorned V-day special selfie point.

"Please pardon me. Do you have any idea where the principal's office was?" Berry requested at them.

They first ignored her since they were too preoccupied with their own bubbles, but when Berry accidentally clicked on their group photo, the other one scowled at her.

"I don't know," she snarled at Berry, motioning her to leave their zone.

"I've never seen a sadder person," one of the girls said, pointing to Berry, who was heading in the opposite way, her face pale from not being able to locate the principal's office.

"Is it Valentine's Day or World Food Day today?" a guy said to his companion as he sat on his bike, smiling at Berry, laughing as they both shared a hi-fi, enjoying mocking her.

Berry, who clearly heard everything going on around her, kept her head down and continued walking as another guy laughed and looked at her, and then she fell because the other guy purposefully poked his leg in front of her, causing her to fall hard to the ground.

Looking at her, the other two guys burst out laughing.

She winced as she felt a sharp ache in her elbow.

"Oh, my my," he replied to his pal, mockingly laughing at her.

"OK, tell me one thing: on a richer scale, what is the magnitude of an earthquake?" Looking at her, his pal grinned.

Now Berry felt like her blood turned cold in her veins, she glared at them and charged toward them

Berry's blood was cold in her veins now, so she stared at them and stormed at them.

She had had enough of everyone here tormenting her unnecessarily out of envy, making fun of her figure, and body shaming her.

"There's going to be damages during an earthquake," she smirked as she grabbed one of the boys' collars.

"Hope you don't get crushed! You look dead anyway," She shoved him away with all her might, causing him to fall, but his companion caught him.

"You have no Valentine, and you're idling away here with your FFFs Frustrated, foolish, friend! Oh, God, you guys are! Please, save the world." She mimicked them about their earthquake remark for her.

"Worry about yourselves, got it?"  With her head held high, she muttered this to them.

"What if this bike comes crashing down on you?" She said to his approaching companion, and he gulped as he listened to her words and collided with his bike.

She went around and grabbed the collar of the person who had purposefully poked his leg before to make her fall. "And I'll save you money at the dentist by knocking out your teeth with one punch, but you'll need replacements," she said, her head lifted higher as she glanced at a group of them.

"Got it?" She said to them

"Sorry sis, please forgive us," the guy who had made a remark about her before murmured to her, and his pal nodded to her.

"Join your hands!" She demanded looking at them.

"Sorry! All of them yearned for her forgiveness.

Berry looked at them and felt her hand getting dirty from the raw mud on the ground; she was still on the ground; she then looked at those guys, who were still mocking and laughing at her; that's all savage comeback was her imagination; she really wanted to give each of them peace of mind, but she still did lack the guts to do so.

"Should I help her up?" the guy who made a sneering remark about her asked his buddies, gesturing at her.

"No....guys! Jason's stunt is about to start let's go," a guy in a red t-shirt approached them.

"Ya ya, let's go!" they all went in another direction still laughing at her.

She was able to get to her feet, but she noticed a girl walking by and said,
"Excuse me, where's the principal's office?" She asked her and that girl came to a complete halt and gazed at Berry from all sides. Berry moved back and rubbed her arm, not liking it when others stared at her.

"The first office on the left up ahead," she said, directing Berry's gaze in that direction.

"Left?" Berry inquired.

That girl nodded and walked away.

Berry snatched her backpack off the ground as swiftly as she could.

While Jason accelerates the speed of his bike, he circles the rose petals-covered heart on the ground.

"Come on, Jason!" Ned yelled.  The entire campus was gawking at Jason and his charisma; almost everyone was filming his video, and girls were too surprised to talk since they were just immersed in Jason's charm.

Jason flipped his bike over, creating a 'I' and 'U' sign in the ground dust beside both sides of a pink rose petal-shaped heart in the center.

Berry moved into the throng, where everyone was whooping and yelling Jason's name; she couldn't see what was going on but kept walking past the other students.

"Does this look like an amphitheater?" She whispered as she walked through the crowds.

She came to a halt next to a young lady who was applauding and yelling Jason's name.

She saw a guy on a bike encircling it, and she saw Jason, but his back was to her and she couldn't see his face. A strange emotion arose in her heart to go towards that guy who was performing the stunt to see his face, and she even felt a flutter in her stomach hearing Jason's name, but she quickly shook her head to avoid strange thoughts.

"Excuse me, do you know where the principal's office is?" she said of a woman cheering up Jason. The atmosphere was incredibly noisy owing to all the yelling and applauding, but the woman avoided her and continued to cheer Jason.

Lexi's friend Nasya screamed at the door from outside the washroom. Lexi

She shouted at Berry, "hurry up or we'll miss the performance," as Amira smiled and typed something on her phone.

Lexi rushes out of the bathroom and straightens her hair.

"It's selfie time, girls! please come "she murmured as she took Nasya's arm in hers.

"Don't worry, Jason won't stop until I get there," she smugly stated as they posed for a photo with a pout.

"Another," she chuckled as she took another selfie.

Berry glanced around for the principal's office and began walking ahead. She came to a halt next to a girl who was applauding for Jason and chanting his name constantly. "Excuse me, do you know where the principal's office is?" she said.

"Watch the show." that girl said to Berry without even glancing at her, while desperately staring at Jason, hoping for a sidelong glance.

"Show? What's on, what's on." Berry bit her lower lip as she looked around and saw that everyone was either filming Jason or cheering him on.

Berry pushes through the crowd of students to the spot where Jason has inscribed a special valentine's note for Lexi.

Two guys who made fun of Berry's body humiliated her before spotted her while cheering on Jason and smirked at each other. They're obviously plotting something.